Episodes
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Guess what folks? The season of spookiness is upon us, and your spooky queen PushingUpRoses reins it in with Matt Aukamp, the real-life inspiration for Jack Skellington and their terrifying guest, Paul Korman – The Phantom Fellow himself.
Paul talks to us about his newly-released game The Phantom Fellows (available on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1581490/The_Phantom_Fellows/and GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_phantom_fellows) and other various things about adventure games in general.
Then, we dive into the spooky-adjacent classic Sierra adventure Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Plus, PlayDate with Matt and ranking every adventure game ever!
Absconded.
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Games Mentioned:
Uno Devil’s Hideout The Heist of the Argonaut Limited Post Hero Bloom SIMULACRA Tender: Creature Comforts Fields of Mistria The Phantom Fellows Strange Horticulture King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella Miasmata Violett Free D.C.! And Then There Were None Clam Man -
Paris in the fall holds many memories for Matt and Roses. Memories of pushing their “woke” propaganda. Memories of pickles and olives.
Before we do our DEEP DIVE into the classic GRAND ADVENTURE from Revolution Software, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, we talk about our new Stardew-like obsession with Fields of Mistria. Who is your new romance? Marsh? Celine? Well don’t touch!! Because they’re ours. And then, go f*** your selfie, because Matt has some more to say about Life is Strange.
Then, we add 5 games to the ranked list of every adventure game ever.
(Also, we learn some important and not at all silly things about Dark Grim Mariupolis. If anyone has any info, btw, let us know. https://donate.khpg.org/en/ )
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Games Mentioned:
Fields of Mistria Life is Strange Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (Circle of Blood) Beneath a Steel Sky Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Cube Escape: The Lake Midnight Girl The 7th Guest (ew) Dark Grim Mariupolis Randal’s Monday The Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit’s Eye -
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Welcome in!
PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp take your recommendations seriously! And they prove it by playing four of them and reviewing them in this episode: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, The Journey Down, Voodoo Detective, and Life is Strange.
We also bring back some SPECIAL GUESTS for our RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment.
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Games Mentioned:
Muppets: Chaos at the Carnival or something Fallout: New Vegas The Abandoned Planet Myst Mars After Midnight Pulpergeist There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension The Journey Down The Dream Machine Grim Fandango Voodoo Detective Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father Curse of Monkey Island Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars The Slaughter: Act One Life is Strange Codename: ICEMAN Deponia: Doomsday Wavetale A Whisper in the Twilight: Ch. 1 Ben There Dan That Astronomica: The Quest for the Edge of the Universe -
We're not here to fuck spiders, we're here to talk about Adventure Games with our brilliant and charming friends Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and the upcoming Rise of the Golden Idol!
We talk about nostalgia and the way it colors – or does not color – our views of games, and just goof the hell around.
So, I guess we were here to fuck spiders, after all.
Find Escape This Podcast and Solve This Murder at https://www.consumethismedia.com/
The episode with Roses and Matt is here: https://www.escapethispodcast.com/e/big-top-trouble-ft-save-your-game/
Wishlist Rise of the Golden Idol on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/The_Rise_of_the_Golden_Idol/
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Games Mentioned:
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Horizon Forbidden West Crusader Kings Tunic Death’s Door Animal Well Nancy Drew series Rise of the Golden Idol Case of the Golden Idol A Case of Mistrust Little Witch in the Woods Final Fantasy VIII, VI, VII, X Fields of Mistria Stardew Valley Myst Riven Grim Fandango Sam & Max Hit the Road Kings Quest VII The Realm Online Quest 64 Quest for Glory I Granny’s Garden Tex Murphy: Mean Streets Pokemon Gold & Silver 7th Guest VR 11th Hour The 13th Doll Kessen II CLUE Murderous Muses Telling Lies The Infections Madness of Doctor Dekker Science Sleuths Vol. 1 Déjà Vu Normality -
This week we talk about a spooky cozy casual mystery plant game called Strange Horticulture that rules. Also, Matt raves about Fallout: New Vegas, Roses has a stylish mystery game to talk about and we rank a bunch of adventure games, ridiculously.
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Games Mentioned:
A Case of Mistrust Fallout: New Vegas Zelda: Breath of the Wild Strange Horticulture Botany Manor Assemble With Care Unpacking Return to the Obra Dinn Case of the Golden Idol Papers, Please In Other Waters Dredge Strange Antiquities Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7: The Cardinal Sins Batman: Partners in Peril Amnesia: Rebirth Portal Again -
PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk about dialogue trees in adventure games; What makes them good? What makes them bad? Do you skip them? Matt says some stuff that's likely to get him cancelled by Sierra-heads. Plus, PlayDate with Matt and RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME EVER.
We don't know. Whatever makes sense.
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Games Mentioned:
The Crimson Diamond King’s Quest IV Fallout: New Vegas The Keyper Mars After Midnight Papers, Please Grim Fandango Disco Elysium The Curse of Monkey Island Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack The Dagger of Amon Ra Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town The Adventures of the Black Hawk Legend of Skye King’s Quest V and VI Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Danganronpa series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series Hatoful Boyfriend HuniePop Murder, She Wrote (The Game!) Dark Grim Mariupolis Byzantine: The Betrayal Minecraft: Story Mode -
Stay hydrated, everyone! No matter the cost.
Matt and Roses talk about their favorite non-adventure games, plus PlayDate with Matt!, ranking every adventure game ever, and other silliness. Matt also pitches a weird game idea he had about Machiavelli and he's sorry (but also don't steal it!)
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Games Mentioned:
The Crimson Diamond Lamplight City ToeJam & Earl Life's Too Short Life's Too Short: On Reflection Tetris Banjo Kazooey Dr. Mario Wave Race Jet Moto Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Warcraft 2 Stardew Valley Civilization (V & II) Lords of the Realm II Final Fantasy (V, VI, VII & VIII) Pokemon (entire series) Clock Tower Skyrim Morrowind Hollow Knight Ori & the Will o' the Wisps and the Blind Forest, too Yoku's Island Express Lone Fungus Unbound: Worlds Apart Monster Sanctuary Graveyard Keeper Animal Crossing: New Horizons Terraria Dreams in the Witch House Quest for Glory (entire series) Mortal Kombat Fallout: New Vegas Legend of Hand Scratches Blue Force Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller Elena: Displaced Reality -
Hey everyone, we're so sorry about the two-week break, but we're back with ENERGY! Matt has two new segments to present. One that's very normal, and one that's utterly bizarre. Roses went to England and played some arcade games. Matt went to the Adventure Game Fan Fair and we talk about a bunch of demos.
The rest, you're just gonna have to hear for yourself.
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Games Mentioned:
Die Hard: The Arcade Game “Dynamo Cops or something” Mario Kart House of the Dead Typing of the Dead Track and Field ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron Mortal Kombat II Tapper Baby Pac-Man Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures Mario Party Super Mario World Lamplight City Casual Birder Resonant Tale The Crimson Diamond Heir of the Dog Home: A Story of Light Phantom Fellows War of the Western Deep President Rocket Fogtown Quest for Glory V Liesure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards Freddy Pharkus: Frontier Pharmacist The Fan Carol Reed: Amos Green’s Final Repose Fran Bow Weird: Truth is Stranger than Fiction Krabat and the Sorbian King Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin Dust: A Tale of the Wired West -
IT'S BAKING TIME! Matt makes bad cookies and then Roses and Matt plan some really cool Stardew-themed Macarons. We briefly revisit the Detective Grimoire series and talk about Rise of the Golden Idol. Then we do a deep-dive into a game that captured the hell out of our imaginations: Dreams in the Witch House!
PLUS A RETURN OF A BELOVED SEGMENT!!!
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Games Mentioned:
Tangle Tower Detective Grimoire (THE ORIGINAL FLASH GAME) Rise of the Golden Idol Quest For Glory Dreams in the Witch House The Dunwich Horror (Upcoming Sequel) -
Lets talk about guinea pigs for a while then too many Lorelais before we DEEP DIVE into TANGLE TOWER - a fun mystery game! And we talk about its predecessor Detective Grimoire and the demo for the third game in the series, The Mermaid Mask. It's, honestly?, just a good episode.
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Games Mentioned:
Lorelai Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Detective Grimoire The Mermaid Mask Tangle Tower The Dagger of Amon Ra Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon The Duck Detective -
Roses has new teeth and can't eat no potatoes, but she DID learn about a lot of games with an overwhelming number of cats. We take your questions about achievements, non-adventure game mechanics, console gaming, genre distinctions, Andrew Plotkin's Cruelty Scale, and much more!
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Games Mentioned:
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes A Castle Full of Cats (and the others in the series) The Blue Cat Tunic Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers/The Beast Within Dropsy Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra Riven Warcraft Adventure Game Hive Swap The Tex Murphy Series Arcane: Online Mystery Serial Disco Elysium Monkey Island II Harvester A Space for the Unbound Zelda (just a bunch of em) Brok the Invesigator Lair of the Clockwork God Bulb Boy Clock Tower The Neverhood Soma Banjo Kazooie Mario 64 Scooby Doo (Genesis) Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom Deja Vu Cosmic Spacehead A Boy and his Blob ToeJam & Earl Quest For Glory Space Quest III -
Healthcare! World Hunger! Capitalism! Unfinished Games! Get ready for some R-A-N-T-S!
"Aw, Man..." coming soon to NBC
Also, we talk about Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra for an hour.
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Games Mentioned:
A Space for the Unbound Stardew Valley The Haunted Chocolatier Lorelai Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Journeyman Project The Sexy Brutale Mystery House The Colonel’s Bequest The Dagger of Amon Ra -
After a week off, Matt and Roses are back fresh as... roses, I guess. After the contractually obligated Stardew Valley talk, we discuss four of YOUR AUDIENCE RECCOMENDATIONS! A Space for the Unbound, The Invincible, The Journeyman Project, and The Cat Lady! This leads to a deep discussion of the entire Harvester Games catalogue.
YOUR TAKEAWAYS: 1) If you recommend us a game, guess which one of us it will appeal to more! 2) Email us your opinions on Harvester Games games. 3) Games: They're not just Pac-Man anymore.
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Games Mentioned:
Stardew Valley Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney The Excavation of Hob's Barrow A Space for the Unbound Persona series The Invincible Firewatch The Journeyman Project: Legacy of Time The Journeyman Project: Project Pegasus The Cat Lady Downfall Burnhouse Lane Lorelai The Dagger of Amon Ra Pac-Man -
Hey everyone, we're not doing an episode this week, so we just thought we'd throw you a quick episode to tell you how we're not doing an episode. So, sorry there is no episode, but here's an episode about that.
And, while we were here, we thought, to apologize for not having an episode, we'd answer a few listener questions.
In conclusion, there is no episode. So here is your episode about how there is, in fact, not an episode this week.
Episode.
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First, you should know: It's not Matt's fault. Second, you should know: PushingUpRoses is a chaotic force. Third, you should listen to us talk about video games. We talk a lot about games we WANT to play, but haven't, then we DEEP DIVE into both of the major releases from Postmodern Adventures.
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Games Mentioned:
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami Strange Horticulture Strange Antiquities Billy Masters was Right Urban Witch Story Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Animal Well The Witness Nightmare Frames An English Haunting Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers A Thousand Clowns (this is a movie, but Matt describes it for a solid 2 minutes, so it goes on the list) -
We all knew it was coming eventually. THE BIG TWO! Such a natural pairing of two pieces of media we probably don't even need to mention it. But we will. Matt and Roses play and talk about Duck Detective: The Secret Salami and Harvester. The 1996 FMV video game Harvester. The episode basically records itself.
We also say goodbye to a dear, dear, dear, dear friend.
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Games Mentioned:
Kings Quest V (R.I.P.) Duck Detective: The Secret Salami An English Haunting Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Nightmare Frames The Last Door Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Resident Evil Silent Hill Case of the Golden Idol Harvester Night Trap -
PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk to Stuart Ashen (Ashens, of YouTube fame,) about moon logic and weird, unfair, bizarre, beautiful adventure game puzzles. Also, Matt played Lil' Guardsman.
Ashens' talk on moon logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7nk_Apf35A
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Games Mentioned:
The Adventures of Mad Dog Williams in the Dungeons of Diridion Kings Quest 6 Heaven's Dawn Baldur's Gate 3 Aladdin Lil' Guardsman Papers Please Disco Elysium Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh Monkey Island II Operation: Stealth Chrono Quest II Police Quest 1 Runaway: A Road AdventureA Discworld Codename: ICEMAN Lone Eagle: Columbian Encounter Police Quest IV: Open Season Kings Quest 5 Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards -
We went into this one with NO PLAN, folks. It's free-style nerding today on the old podcast. Matt played some cool games and finally hit up that Stardew Valley update. Roses talks about Home of the Underdogs and some of retro games we really didn't enjoy. Plus, some ranting about game preservation.
Flashpoint: Infinity: https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads/
ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/
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Games Discussed:
Norco Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Eagle Eye Mysteries Citizen Sleeper Stardew Valley The Quarry Animal Well King's Quest Monkey Island Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer The Gene Machine Orion Burger Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb Runaway Vortex Point The Room: Tribute Jurassic Park: The Ride - Online Adventure -
Special guest Francisco González stops by and tells us a wild story about his new role playing hobby. Matt thinks Indika is weird and incredible. We talk for over an hour about how great Disco Elysium is, and then like 15 minutes about The Thaumaturge.
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Games Mentioned:
Rosewater Grand Theft Auto Online Indika Disco Elysium Planescape: Torment The Thaumaturge Lamplight City -
Roses falls in love with Disco Elysium and Matt goes frickin' ham discussing Marvel Midnight Suns. We take a ton of audience questions and discuss a variety of topics. Text Adventures, games that we hated after we loved but thought we'd hate, "That doesn't work!", genre distinctions in games, "The Power of Cheese", and an EXHAUSTIVE dissection of Detective Games.
Michael's amazing fan art: https://imgur.com/a/KnLj7Wg
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Games Mentioned:
Disco Elysium Midnight Marvel Suns Breath of the Wild Majora’s Mask Siberia A Space for the Unbound The Last Door The Legend of Skye Contradiction Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus The Cat Lady Burnhouse Lane Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Softporn Adventure Portal & Portal II Sanitarium The Monkey Island Games The Dig The Invincible Chants of Sennaar Strange Horticulture Papers, Please What Remains of Edith Finch Kathy Rain Mixed Up Fairy Tales Journey Man Project 3 The Laura Bow Games Return of the Obra Dinn Case of the Golden Idol Paradise Killer The Sexy Brutale LA Noir The D'avekki Studios Games(btw these are relatively in order, but it's unlikely we'll ever go through the exhaustive work of putting timestamps on our YouTube videos, so... sorry about that. BUT if ya'll wanna do it in the comments, we'll shout you out on the show)
Thanks for listening!
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