The Crate and Crowbar

By The Crate and Crowbar

A group of friends who work in the games industry meet up once a week to talk about PC games over a drink. “Off-the-cuff” is a polite way to say “unprofessional”, right?... more

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November 15, 2025Episode 453: A Formula One Car with Fists
Jamie and Marsh throw themselves into the depths of Ball X Pit, launch themselves into toilets in Bloodlines 2, and dive cinematically from exploding balconies in Battlefield 6.
Show notes:
Join Jamie in person on Saturday 29th November at Birmingham Comicon for a chat about getting into games.
Ball X Pit
Into the Breach
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Battlefield 6
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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1h 8min
October 10, 2025Episode 452: Bog-Muppet Territory
Chris, Jamie and Marsh discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, get systemic in Sword Hero, jump ship in Jump Space, try to pronounce “photogrammetry” correctly while discussing Mind Diver AND take a cathartically large dump on Alien: Earth.
Silent Hill f
Big-time ambiguity intertext: Henry James’ Turn of the Screw
I’ve always wanted to make something with a rainy montage sequence in it, inspired by Ghost in the Shell’s. And Silent Hill f goes and does it out of the gate!
The Whale God: film in which a Japanese fishing village eats itself
Sword Hero: pocket-sized Skyrim-sim with loppable limbs and good meat
Skin Deep: pocket-sized imsim that we may come back to!
Jump Space, formerly Jump Ship
Iron Pineapple plays games on the internet telly
Chained Beasts
Sunderfolk: tactical turnbased Dungeons & Dragons stuff
Mind Diver
Alien Earth
Noah Hawley is Alien Earth’s showrunner
Fargo and Legion are other shows he’s worked on
Our Fargo/True Detective Lock-in
John Carpenter’s The Thing
Gale Ann Hurd: co-writer of Terminator and producer on Aliens, The Abyss and many other films
Possessor, directed by Brandon Cronenberg
Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson and Sydney Chandler are all doing acting good
Severance is a TV show also guilty of sweeping problems into future seasons
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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2h 18min
August 29, 2025Episode 451: Weston-super-Nightmare
Marsh and Jamie dishonour their families in the oddly quaint Mafia: The Old Country, soak sands in Sword of the Sea, and synergise to the max in Merge Maestro, Kill the Brickman and Raccoin.
Show notes:
Mafia: The Old Country
Sword of the Sea
Merge Maestro
Raccoin
Kill the Brickman
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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1h 13min
August 08, 2025Episode 450: A Certain Number Of Flaps
Jamie and Marsh join together to talk sad boys, roguelike birds and frenzied bananas.
Birdigo
Donkey Kong: Bananza
Marsh is making Gold Teeth.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandi
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42min
July 25, 2025Episode 449: The Helicopter in Your Trousers
Chris and Marsh are joined by Paul Canavan to talk about draining men (halleluja), the not-so-shy huluds and space-nun zoomies of Dune: Awakening. We do not talk about Donkey Kong Bananza.
Dune: Awakening
Paul is making Pale Tides.
Marsh is making Gold Teeth.
Chris is one of the most extraordinarily talented and versatile people I’ve worked with, and he’s currently available to hire for creative direction, narrative design, birthdays and bar mitvahs. You can also read his novels.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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1h 11min
June 13, 2025Episode 448: Découpage That Worm!
Jamie and Marsh get pumped, pepped and revved up for the summer games marketing onslaught, and then enjoy the more tangible pleasures of demos in the Steam Next Fest, including: Ball X Pit, Morsels, Bits & Bops, Consume Me, Dispatch and Baby Steps.
In this episode, I, Marsh, misremember Peggle’s mascot as Bookworm Adventures’ mascot, which is a bookworm, despite the fact that only one of these titles has “bookworm” in the name. This is an error for which I do not deserve, and will never earn, your forgiveness—but I acknowledge it now to prepare you for the boiling rage my failure will induce.
Lies of P and The Last Berserker – the best off-brand Soulslikes?
Shout out to Ollie
The games of Summer Game Fest:
Mortal Shell 2
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Chronicles: Medieval
End of Abyss
Mouse: P.I. for Hire
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros
Atomic Heart 2 & The Cube
Felt That: Boxing
Out of Words
Mafia: The Old Country
Resident Evil Requiem
LEGO Voyagers (LEGO Builders, from the same team, and LEGO 2K Drive, by not the same team, suggest that the LEGO brand has a stable of solid talent at their disposal.)
Deadpool VR. So much great work going on in VR. This isn’t it. (Ghost Town, a VR puzzle game by Fireproof Games, developers of The Room series, might be brilliant, though.)
Dying Light: The Beast
Mixtape (the studio’s previous game was The Artful Escape)
Acts of Blood
MindsEye
ILL
Splitgate 2
Games not from Summer Game Fest:
Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
Lumines Arise (by the developers of people-herding puzzle game Humanity)
Silent Hill F
Militsioner
Sleep Awake
Mewgenics (the Other One Who Isn’t Edmund McMillen is in fact called Tommy Refenes, and is making Super Meatboy 3D)
Games from Steam Next Fest:
Ball X Pit
Morsels
Dispatch
Bits & Bops
Consume Me
Baby Steps
Mina The Hollower
All Living Things
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Absolum (the Streets Of Rage 4 people doing fantasy)
Jupiter Hell Classic
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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1h 10min
May 30, 2025Episode 447: Snoop Dogg’s Degenerate Bush
Jamie and Marsh whoosh blueily through Doom: The Dark Ages, find real big fish in South of Midnight, experience the fraying bonds of marriage in It Takes Two, and feed children to a giant worm in Nidhogg.
Doom: The Dark Ages
South of Midnight
It Takes Two
Nidhogg
Kirby’s Air Ride
Rhythm Heaven Fever
“You go, big guy!”
Counterfeit Monkey
Hadean Lands
Enter the Matrix
Type Help
Sorcery
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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57min
May 16, 2025Episode 446: Baby’s First Cosmic Horror
Click ‘Use’, then click ‘Pod’. Success! You have unlocked access to an episode of adventure game discussion from the steamy podding lairs of Jamie and Tom!
First we turn our attentions to the fine timeline-twisting futuristic adventure game, Old Skies. We’re enjoying it greatly, along with Unavowed and the rest of Wadjet Eye Games collection.
Also Tom brought along a rough top five adventure games list (that he wishes he’d put Last Express on, or Siberia, or a dozen others). With the addition of Jamie’s suggestions we embark on a bit of time travel ourselves, remembering why these games captured our imaginations in spite of some abslutely honking puzzles.
Games discussed!
The Monkey Island series
The Dig
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
Grim Fandandgo
Dune (1992)
Lost Eden
Rama
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Beneath A Steel Sky
Blade Runner
Kentucky Route Zero
Monkey Island 2
Thimbleweed Park
Ben There, Dan That
Time Gentlemen, Please!
Simon The Sorcerer 2
And More Grim Fandango why not
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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1h 16min
April 14, 2025Episode 445: 2 King 2 Come
Jamie, Tom and Marsh head out into the wild blue yonder (without headphones on like some kind of smug Japanese writer) and talk about 3 open world games, somewhat alike in dignity.
Assassin’s Creed: Shadows is the brand new tiny-sword-up-my-sleeve ’em up, has peerless breezes, great killings, but boy is there a lot of it!
Atomfall is a game that Jamie loves more than just about anyone else he can find, listen to him incoherently try and explain why.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a game in which you play a smelly man who wants to be less smelly and is prepared to save and quit in order to do it.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
...more
1h 11min
March 28, 2025Episode 444: Sneers for Tears
The distant troglodyte descendants of Jamie and Marsh relive memories of the before-times and the joyous videogames that were once played, namely: 1000xResist, Type Help and Pathologic 3: Quarantine.
Pathologic 3: Quarantine is the demo for a larger forthcoming game, and is harrowing in about every way it can be.
1000xResist is a brilliant game about many things, including generational trauma and big pigeons. Contains mild jumping.
This is a good video deep dive into the game.
Type Help is an information game with a killer discovery mechanic and a wicked mystery. Bloody devil!
Tom Francis, who has the best sheets, and now an IGF Award for Excellence in Design, did a video review of Type Help, here.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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1h 2min

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