"This week it's time for something sorta kinda different"

- Zoe

This week we answer your questions! What a wild world we live in. Thank you all so much for submitting questions and for the kind words.

(Also thanks for tolerating some tech issues that really got at our mentals this week. Your patience and kindness is always appreciated.)

This week, in what almost certainly could have been an email (but you know this ain't how we roll), we put a quick message about our plans for the new year, ask for your listener questions, and give our game forecast so people can actually know what's going on and get their game related emails in before we've already recorded!

• Submit your questions

• Deadly Premonition

Day 3

Personal Award: McCoy’s personal award & top episodes

Shoutouts from 2022

• Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

Best Game (Top 5)

• Burnhouse Lane

Day 2

Personal Award: Zoe’s personal award & top episodes

Best Visuals: Games we couldn’t help but marvel at

• Burnhouse Lane

Best Atmosphere: Games that give off good (or not so good) “feels”

• Burnhouse Lane

Personal Award: Elena’s personal award & top episodes

Biggest Surprise: Games that exceeded or subverted our expectations

• Burnhouse Lane

Biggest Disappointment: Games that missed the mark despite the hype

• Burnhouse Lane

Day 1

Best Narrative: Games that tell a great story

• Burnhouse Lane

Personal Award: James’ personal award & top episodes

Best Collective & Multiplayer Experience: The best of the ToT Group Playthroughs

• Burnhouse Lane

Best Game We’re Still Playing: The games that got us into the Discord

• Elden Ring Seamless Co-op

DAVE THE....

.... DIVER

Starting the new year off strong! Thank you everyone for being so kind. May you start the New Year as strong as we hope to.

For the next couple weeks we are going to be releasing GOTY in place of normal podcasts to give us some breathing room to finish Deadly Premonition.

We. Out. Here.

This week we finally get around to talking about Dredge and it's lovely. We've definitely all been vibing on it for the past couple of weeks, in our own way, and it's been exactly what we needed. No doubt about that.

Happy Holidays everyone. Thank you all so much.

Also, hey, Gabe shared with us this FIRE mashup... So, I gotchu dog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feJ7PWlVms8

"Ultimately in this game. You play as a moth" - James

"The existential dread of being human, that’s the real horror." - Gabe

A Story Analysis of Soma (By YouTuber Gingy)

This week it's first impressions of Soma, a game so scary it's basically taking us 3 weeks to bring ourselves to play it through. Who knew Spooky Games Month was just going to be us afraid of turning on the videogame?

We are very light on spoilers but more so we talk vibes and the "Safe" mode.

The playlist:

Chill Beats to Freeze To - The Pale Beyond Ambient Mix

We returned from a trek on the ice with James... Still no sign of Gabe though. Last time we saw him he was drunk in a bathroom just muttering to himself that "he was the captain now" and laughing to himself.