With just a few days left in 2015 we round up our favorite short games of the year.

3) Her Story

2) Tie between Rocket League and The Magic Circle

The Short Game Game of the Year 2015

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We finally catch up on a game we’ve meant to play since March. Ori and the Blind Forest is a beautiful Miyazaki inspired Metroidvania style romp through a lush forest landscape full of bright characters and fluid animation. We discuss the game’s beautiful art style, its “story” (such as it is,) and compare it with some other high-profile indie Metroidvania style games like Axiom Verge.

Ori and the Blind Forest is available for Xbox One and Windows (Steam) for $19.99. Expect it to take about 7.5 to 9 hours to complete.

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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is a 15 minute free heist game from Crows Crows Crows, a new development studio headed by William Pugh, one of the creators of The Stanley Parable. It’s totally free, and absolutely certain to put a huge smile on your face.

Saying more would almost spoil it. So naturally, we talk about it for over half an hour.

We start by catching up on what your hosts have been up to since our last episode, including Laura’s new PS4 and Raygan’s trip to Playstation Experience. After the spoiler break at about 23 minutes in we discuss the game in depth.

If you haven’t already, go grab Dr. Langeskov on itch.io or Steam.

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes has more in common with party games played with boards or cards than with most video games. You play it in person with friends, one of whom is the bomb-defuser, looking at a simulated bomb on their laptop (or VR headset) with the others trying to talk them through the complex defusing process with the help of a hilariously complex bomb defusal manual. It’s a game designed to facilitate fun communication, minor panics, and hilarious mistakes.

Each round/bomb takes about 5 minutes to play/defuse. The game is available on Steam for Windows PC, as well as for Samsung Gear VR in the Oculus Store.

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We’re back with more discussion of Undertale, but this time we’re talking about the story, characters, and endings! This all-spoiler episode follows up on our spoiler free discussion of the game, so if you haven’t played the game, start there!

Thanks for nerding out about Undertale with us some more. Next week we will be back with a quick episode on bomb-defusing pseudo-party-game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes! We’ll also be discussing the results of the 2015 IFComp interactive fiction competition.

Undertale Review – Giant Bomb

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