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Happy American Thanksgiving, everyone! This is absolutely our yuckiest, most disturbing intro ever. And in the last episode, we talked about piss-proof toilet decals! And we are thankful you let us into your lives with this filth.
This week Matt and Roses talk about two of the best Storiented™ mystery-puzzle games ever made, Case of the Golden Idol and Rise of the Golden Idol, by Color Gray Games. We use our ancient, magical artifacts (microphones) to find all the words and put them in the exact right order and make this podcast for your ears to listen to.
Then we continue ranking every adventure game ever and try very hard to forget that we ever came up with a movie called Yucky Princess Swap.
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Games Mentioned (*BRIEFLY):
Case of the Golden Idol Rise of the Golden Idol Crypt Custodian* Tactical Breach Wizard* Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus* Chicken Police: Into the Hive* Crow Country* Arco* Nine Sols* Loco Motive* The Journey Down Grim Fandango The Sexy Brutale Myst Return of the Obra Dinn Duck Detective: The Secret Salami The Slaughter: Act One SSTR Dallas Quest The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles Long Count Missing Since January Chants of Sennaar -
So. We had already decided we were going to spend the entire episode ranking Adventure Games – many of which, we've never played – but then, we decided to start out by talking about piss for 15 minutes.
Matt and Roses bring a bizarre, chaotic energy and a true EXPERTISE on Adventure Games to this ALL-RANKING episode! Plus, we talk about some games we've been playing and some newly released games!
Please don't give this one The Flush ™
TOILET DECALS COMING SOON (or not. idfk)
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Games Mentioned:
Death of the Reprobate Chicken Police: Into the Hive Rise of the Golden Idol Mythargia The Abandoned Planet Another World Myst Blasphemous 2: Mea Culpa DLC Case of the Golden Idol Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening We Were Here Forever Cosmonavtes: Escape Reality Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne The Crystal Key Embracelet To The Moon Baker Street Breakout: A Sherlockian Escape Adventure Ankh: Heart of Osiris The Slaughter Mission: Critical The Pawn Five Magical Amulets James Peris: The Fountain of Eternal Drunkenness Lily Looking Through Limbo of the Lost Doctor DuMont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. Portal 2 -
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This episode was recorded on November 5th… Yeah.
There’s a manic, ignoring-the-news energy to this episode where we take your listener questions! We also talk about Joe Richardson’s new game Death of the Reprobate and talk to our guest expert Joshua Cleveland of Adventure Game Hotspot about the requirements for “adventure game” status.
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Games Mentioned:
Death of the Reprobate Eyeland Blackwell series Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Eagle Eye Mysteries Eagle Eye Mysteries in London Math Blaster Grim Fandango Dagger of Amon Ra Return of the Obra Dinn The Room VR Mechanica Museum The Adventures of Fatman The Excavation of Hobb’s Barrow The Plague Doctor of Wippra Mystery House Kings Quest I Doom Duke Nukem Wolfenstein 3D Uncharted series Legend of Zelda Portal L.A. Noire Deponia series Root Bear Stardew Valley Lorelei and the Laser Eyes The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo The Darkside Detective Lydia Isles of Sea and Sky Box Boy Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure Tactical Breach Wizards Silent Hill 2 remake Cat Café Manager Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge The Demon’s Forge Normality Muppet Treasure Island Discworld Noir The Hex Inscryption Pony Island Heroine's Quest Quest for Infamy A Tale of Two Kingdoms Murders on the Yangtze River Ripper Panic in the Park Blasphemous Toejam & Earl - Back in the Groove Gobliiins The Prophecy (aka Ween: The Prophecy) Capsule Silence XXIV Bad Day on the Midway Ghost Trick The Dark Eye - Chains of Satinav The Dark Eye - Memoria -
IT'S THE LAST EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH!
We hope you all have a great Halloween.
To help you one last time with your spooky mood, we talk about the SCARIEST GAMES WE'VE EVER PLAYED. WOOOOOO. And we talk about the new gothic point-and-click adventure game Prim. We love Deep Plots(TM).
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Games mentioned (some of them for only like a second, though):
Case of the Golden Idol Rise of the Golden Idol AI: The Somnium Files Huniepop Prim Curse of Monkey Island Chzos Mythos (Trilby Series) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth The Last Door Sanitarium Phantasmagoria Gabriel Knight and the Sins of the Father Scratches Phantom of the Opera Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo At Dead of Night Slender: All Eight Pages Dreams in the Witch House 7th Guest/11th Hour Myst Dagger of Amon Ra Indika Nightmare Frames An English Haunting Burnhouse Lane Lorelei The Cat Lady A Hand With Many Fingers Hans Christian Anderson: The Ugly Prince Duckling Mazovian Adventures Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Related: Chapter One – Everything is back Lamplight City -
TEETH UPDATE! For the teeth enthusiasts and teeth curious, we unveil a brand new chapter in the PushingUpRoses Teeth Saga ™. Roses discovered a detective game that Matt’s been telling her about since day one and Matt played some demos!
Then, we dig deep into a world of horror, mystery, intrigue, and Japanese folklore in the Japanese ADV game Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. We have A LOT to say about this one, folks. So much in fact, that we skip our ranking segment this ep. Sorry everyone, but this game left us feeling inspired, frustrated, enamored, curious, and ready to pontificate like mad.
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Bowl of Lentils - The Origins of Visual Novels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wOtv-J7tOI
The Seven Wonders of Honjo: https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/01/02/the-seven-wonders-of-honjo/
Games Mentioned:
Rise of the Golden Idol Loco Motive Proverbs The Haunting of Joni Evers The Suicide of Rachel Foster The Fading of Nicole Wilson What Remains of Edith Finch The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector Disco Elysium Cabernet Fields of Mistria Hatoful Boyfriend Huniepop Danganronpa Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Mystery House Deja Vu Final Fantasy Paranormansight: The 13 Ghosts of Florida State University (Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo) -
The first episode of the brand-new medical/dental advice podcast: Save Your Teeth! Call your Endodontist. Eat your allergy medicine. And don’t tell anyone we exist!
The spookiest thing about this installment of spooky month is that we played these games at all. Matt and Roses review the Hugo’s House of Horror trilogy and a 1990’s 3D shoot ‘em up??? Also we talk about Phantom Fellows, some random 1990’s platform games, have a quick PlayDate with Matt, and some cool games pop up on our REVIEW EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment!
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Games Mentioned:
The Phantom Fellows Mythargia Death’s Door Tunic The Simorgh The Hugo’s House of Horrors Trilogy Skunny: Save Our Pizzas (????) Jazz Jackrabbit Halloween Harry Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures Commander Keen Maniac Mansion Nitemare 3D Blakestone 3-D Castle Wolfenstein 3-D The Will of Arthur Flabbington Blackwell Chronicles Of Light and Darkness: The Prophecy Lost Forest The Last Door: Season One Sentient Ann Achronist: Many Happy Returns -
Spooky Month takes a turn for the sad as we tackle a game about trauma, growing up, mental illness, and murder. Matt and Roses do a deep dive into Fran Bow. We also talk about some upcoming episodes and... a BOOK?! What are we, frickin nerds?
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Games Mentioned:
Phantom Fellows Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo The Ghost Stories of M.R. James (A BOOK, NOT A GAME) Fran Bow Banjo Kazooey Moons of Madness Dreamfall Chapters The Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny Mystery of the Nautilus Phantasmagoria -
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 -
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 - Se mer
