Both Toms join Chris to discuss Recursed, Bridge Constructor Portal, Gorogoa, GTA Online, PUBG, and the games we’re looking forward to in 2018.
Plus: a games-from-books jam idea that actually works, things horses don’t do, a bit of Mad Max, a whole lot of boats, and more. Boats.
- Here’s the IGF shortlist! Congrats, Tom!
- Baba Is You has a good trailer.
- Tom F has been playing the mind-bending Recursed.
- Chris has been playing Bridge Constructor Portal. He calls it ‘Bridge Simulator Portal’ for the duration of this episode, because he’s an idiot.
- Awesome Games Done Quick starts this weekend!
- Tom F and Chris have played Gorogoa.
- Tom S has been enjoying Mad Max, which is inexplicably a fiver.
- He’s also been working through GTA Online‘s excellent new heist.
- Chris has, like apparently everybody, been spending time in now-actually-out Plunkbag.
- Here are the games we discuss in our look forward to 2018:
- Into The Breach
- Spelunky 2
- Death Stranding (maybe)
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
- BattleTech
- Frozen Synapse 2
- Wandersong
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
- Nimbatus
- Untitled Goose Game
- Sea of Thieves
- HK (Untitled Cyberpunk Cat Game)
- Ooblets
- Skull & Bones
- Abandon Ship
- Pillars of Eternity II: D(r)eadfire
- Sunless Skies
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Project Tingler
- Museum of Simulation Technology
- #Wargames
- Far Cry 5 (and the associated owning of James Davenport)
- A Place for the Unwilling
- A Way Out
- No Truce With The Furies
- Hunt: Showdown
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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.