Video Gamers Podcast - Brain Worm Games [REMASTERED] - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan, and Ace are back with another awesome gaming filled episode. Ever have those weird random games you think about for no reason at all? The video games that just pop into your head over and over again? They may not even be good, but there’s something about those video games that just makes you think of them over and over again? Like bad song lyrics or a catchy tune? Well in this gaming packed episode, we’re discussing our biggest Brain Worm video games, why they stay stuck in our head and what makes them stand out.    Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf, Phelps and NorwegianGreaser, and Dettmarp   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, PeopleWonder, Bobby S.   Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/h2cHKAvSmu Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠  Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠  Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠    Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast. You ever had a game that just randomly pops into your head? Maybe it's an old game you remember from childhood. Maybe it's that forgotten game that you've been meaning to play forever. Or maybe it's simply because it's just got a weird name. Whatever the reason, we all have those random games that come to mind from time to time. And on this episode, that's what we're going to be covering. Get ready for the weird, the out there, and the,

What the heck is this game? But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh. And joining me, he may have a one-track mind because when we ask for his list, he said, it's the battlefield closed beta, the battlefield technical test, the battlefield open beta, and the battlefield six full release. It's Ryan. You know, that may not be far from the truth.

It was very hard. I'm like, I can't think of any. other games I've been thinking about. This is like, this is it, dude. This is all that my brain is that. We have one track minds right now. Our minds are absolutely one track minds. My wife's probably listening in the other room going, what's your one track mind?

Battlefield 6, baby. Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. Oh, man. And joining us, he thinks he's so edgy because he gave us his list and then asked if we had ever heard of any of them. He thinks he's so,

cool with his indie games and his niche games list. Oh, and I did know two of them, so eat it. It's ace. Okay, to be fair to me, once again, I have brought lists before you guys before, and every single one of you were like, I have never heard of a single one of these, and I have to just, like, lead y'all through the mud blindfolded.

Because that's what those games usually are, is they're mud. Oh, don't you dismiss. my child. Oh, that's so good. Boom. You don't get to talk about mud

when I looked at one of your games and we'll get to that. Chalice. Oh, Aces firing shots back. jealous.

I knew one of Aces games. I will say, I knew one. Did you? Yeah. Okay. I was curious.

I knew two of them. Maybe three actually. You knew three. I've heard of the name of another one, but like I never really like. Right. Yeah.

So two. That counts. If you've heard the name, that's enough. pick it out of a crowd it doesn't count pick it out at the grocery store all right guys before we get into our random weird crazy

games that just come to mind of I'd like to equate this episode to the great Roman Empire right like people ask there was this big thing that came up when's the last time you thought about the Great Roman Empire and it's like most men say like yeah almost every day what are you talking about and pit that just shocked people

but that's what this that's these games it's like they just randomly pop in your head doesn't mean they're good doesn't mean they're bad, but for some reason, they just occupy space from time to time in our brains. We don't know why, but we're going to put them in front of you all out there so that you can, you know, maybe, maybe have them take space in your brain too. But before we get to that, guys, we got some people to thank, man. We had a, guys, we had a few people sign up to support the podcast.

We had Jacob Witt who signed up. We had Jay who signed up. And we had a guy by the name of Ace. So there's more than one of you now who signed up all of them for rare. Ace is like, I didn't authorize this. I was like, way, way, way, way, way. For rare status. So Jacob Witt, Ace, and Jay, thank you all so much.

Thank you. Thank you. Never met a bad ace. appreciate it. And it means the world to us. It keeps this podcast going. So if anybody else out there wants to be like Jacob, Ace, and Jay, there's a link in the episode description. It takes about two minutes to sign up. You will be a supporter of the show and knowing that you are bringing some of the best gaming content in the world to everybody out there. So thank you guys. All right, guys. So we put a list together. This was kind of a fun list because I just went, bro. These games

live in my head. I don't need, this is not a hard list to come up with at all for me. Ryan, I just want to start with you, man. Because at first Ryan was like, guys, I don't, I'm having a hard time with my list. And then we were like, bro, what like games just occupy space in your head for no reason? And then he was like, oh, okay, I got it. Yeah. Well, I do want to preface this too is we, when we talked about this, we, we said that we weren't going to do games that were like big mainstays, like, really. kind of AAA mega titles, you know, then it just, those things are always there, you know, so

we try to. Yes, we're trying to stay away from the AAAs, the God of Wars, the Grand Theft Autos, the cyberpunks, you know, those types of games because, let's be honest, they occupy space and everybody's head out there. There's no reason for us to cover those. So we are, we did try to say, be a little bit more vague or, you know, niche as far as some of these options. So yes, if you don't think we're crazy is what we're saying just because of these games that we're bringing up. You probably still will, but here we are. Yeah, I mean, that's fair. Here we are. Guys, it was really hard for me to find games that weren't AAA. I got to be really. Oh, yeah. Whatever. I know. Ace is struggling, man. Whatever. That's what we do, like, do a AAA one. And then Ace would be like, guys, I can't do it. I need help.

It's like I played Red Dead this year. Does that kill? Battlefield 6. Yeah, Battlefield 6. Yeah, Battlefield 6 will be Ace's second AAA game. Yeah, ever. Of all times? Yeah. He's ever played? All right.

All right. I'm going to start. So this game is one that I definitely, I think about often, not only because it is one that was, in my opinion, influential to kind of this genre or this type of game, but also it's just genuinely enjoyable. And then it created a setting like that you could always picture it happening. I'm going with VR super hot. Oh, yeah. Super Hot is such a good game This one and it is

And people have messaged us about it on our Discord If you haven't joined check it out It's an amazing Discord But people have messaged me and talked about Oh I love Super Hot But I haven't checked it out in VR I could not imagine Playing this in any other platform

Other than virtual reality It is one of the coolest Most immersive Style games that I think about constantly Because you can just like move and shift and every time you do that like time moves so the bullets are coming at you enemies are coming

at you there's just so much there that lends itself to be a really really unique experience every time you play so yeah that's that's one of mine for sure it is a top that is always in my cranium here for sure is it significantly better in VR

compared to just playing it on PC I've never played it on any other platform but I could not I could not imagine not because you're you're sitting there and people who are watching on video. If you're not, you should be. You're seeing bullets coming at this way or that way and you can lean slightly and then you know it's going to miss you. And then you can pick up like a coffee cup and throw it at the guy. Or you can set your gun in front of the bullet coming and it'll block it and then you can shoot the other guy.

So there's there's a million different ways to like get through these levels. But I couldn't imagine playing it. anything other than VR. But yeah, the VR mode is what just lives in my head rent-free, man, for sure. It's the only way I can see playing Super Hot, honestly. And it really, really thrives in the VR environment. And there's no motion sickness because you are not moving. It's just the things around you that are moving.

Yep. So I, Super Hot's one of those games that's like Beat Sabre. If you have a VR headset and you haven't played those two games, like you're missing out. Yeah, like you're missing out on like what makes VR really neat. And it's like the beginning levels of VR for people where you can really kind of go like, whoa, this is really cool. And then you can kind of start branching out. But those two are like the staple games for any VR system, man. Yep, yep.

I've almost bought. I've almost bought a VR just for super hot, honestly. Yeah. It's really that good. And like you said, Ryan, when you start to realize like, oh, I can do all these different things and you're kind of, you're only held back by like your imagination to a certain degree. Yes. Yeah. You have stuff around you.

like grab it and toss it that way and try to time it to like hit that bullet so it doesn't hit you and then yeah there's just there's so much there so yeah that one I think about all the time yeah all right Ace what you got man all right I'm gonna start this off this is a

Nintendo Switch exclusive game which is the only reason I don't still play it constantly is Astral Chain it is developed by the same people who did like Bayanetta so it's a hack and slash but it takes place in a cyberpunk city where you play as cops who control these chimeras on chains.

And you use the chain not only in combat while you're controlling both yourself and the chimera, but use it in like puzzle solving as well. Because the chain is the main mechanic and it's just so freaking cool. I think about it all the time, like how cool it was that they worked this chain into just regular gameplay and as well as the combat where you're, you send the chimera out, it wraps around whatever you're trying to fight, and then they're chained in place while you're fighting them. and you can let off a counterattack.

But aside from the actual combat, there's also puzzles and investigations because you're a cop. Like, what else are you going to do? I watched the trailer for this because I've heard of this game before. And I was like, I know this name. Like, I feel like I've heard of this title, but I don't know that I ever saw gameplay on this one at all.

But this one actually looks pretty good, man. It's so good, dude. I love it. You can tell the kind of button mashy combat, like you said, like with Bayonetta, there is definitely like an artistic. flare to it. It looks a little older because you can also tell

like the polygon counts a little bit lower kind of thing. I didn't realize this was a switch exclusive which is kind of crazy. But the game overall to me I was like okay I'm kind of in on this man I think there's a reason it was only on the switch. It was very all right buddy. What do you think the reason was? What was the reason? It already? Oh wait just save it a

save it for Ryan's next one. You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a Nintendo exclusive. Yeah, for a reason. But yeah, when we talk about, like, chaos games and games that just pop into our head, this is one of them. Yeah. Is it just because the chain?

Is that like the, like, the neat mechanic that your brain just keeps remembering? Yeah, it's like such a unique mechanic that I don't, you haven't seen it anywhere else. That's something when, yeah, when you have like some sort of unique attack ability or something that always kind of sticks in your head because you don't see it often in a lot. lot of other games. Yeah, that totally makes sense of why that's one that just kind of sticks there. I mean, it does. I was giving you hard time.

It looks pretty neat. And I'm sure playing something unique that way, like with a different mechanic that is not common, you know, is enjoyable. And it will stick with you. So my first game is a game that I actually haven't played since we're just kind of going with, you know, games that pop into mind here. And I haven't played it. And I'll be honest, I freaking love.

loved the first game in this one. So I don't know how somehow I have not freaking played the sequel to this, but Dishonored 2. Dude, Dishonored is amazing. It is such a good game. If you haven't played Dishonored, you're missing out on a really,

really memorable game. I remember when they announced Dishonored 2 and you could play, see, you're missing out, Ryan. Dishonored is fantastic. I'll get all these powers. Like, think like, think Bioshock in a sense

with the different abilities that you can get. Okay. But then they have this really awesome, like, traversal teleport function. You get to unlock these different abilities. It's in this kind of like, what, I don't know, like a steampunk-ish kind of universe. It's a steampunk-ish world. Yeah.

You're an assassin, like, stealthy dude named, is it Corso? Corvo. Corvo, there you go. Corvo. Dishonor two comes to mind all the time for me because it is, like, the one game where I go, bro, why haven't I played this yet? Like, dis-on-I think the issue is that most people say dishonored 2 was not as good as dishonored. But, like, that's okay because dishonored's so freaking good that it's hard to top that.

If I want more dishonored, why not go to Dishonored 2? Why haven't I played this game? Like, this is, it just, it drives me crazy. And when we did our Zones Levels episode where we did the most memorable, bro, if you Google search, I mean like 70% of the responses were a level that is in Dishonored 2, which I was like, I'm missing out. Yeah, apparently there's some insane level in Dishonor 2 where it's like really incredibly memorable. Over Halo 3 Wordhog? Yeah, dude.

Like look it up. Just do a Google search. And like so many people are like Dishonor 2. It's like, is it the clockwork? I don't know. Anyway. The point being that every now and then my brain just goes, dude. Are we ever going to play Dishonored 2?

And then I go, oh, yeah, we should. And then we just don't. I don't know why it keeps coming up. But like, just randomly this happens. So at some point, I need to play Dishonored 2. It's supposed to be great. Like, it's not like this is a terrible sequel. I think it just was not as good as the first.

But there you go, man. That's one of those games that just lives in my head because I go, I need to just, if nothing else, just get it. Play it for like an hour and then be like, there, brain. There you go. Check it out. There you go. We did it.

Listen, if anybody out there has played dishonored to and you want to convince me to play it, it won't take much, but I need somebody to just be like, bro, you should play this game. And then, you know, it's like, okay, twist my arm kind of thing. But yeah, that's my first one. Guys, we're going to take a quick break. And then we'll come back with some more kind of random, random brain games. We'll be right back. All right, we're back.

Guys, it just had another game pop in my head during the break there. So it's like, this is why. This is why, man. It's like you don't even have to think about these. All right, Ryan, what's the next game on your list? The next one I got is one that we actually just recently played in a beta. And I, you know, it just keeps popping up over and over and over in my head. And I'm not sure why.

Maybe it's because of frustration or anticipation of what I expected or what I want to happen with it. But I'm going with a wild gate. Oh, yeah. I get that, dude. I get that, dude. I get that. I get that. I had a lot of confused fun.

Like, I was, I was, it's hard to describe. We played it. We weren't exactly sure how to do this or what to do or how to battle and ship to ship battle and then how the best strategory for the level. But all I know is every time we hopped in, we had a blast. It was confusing. It was crazy. But it was, it was good.

Every time we hopped in, it was fun and enjoyable. We played with Paul, Ace. played, you know, me and Josh, you know, everybody played. So, man, it was one of those that, uh, it stuck with me and I keep thinking about it. Like, I wonder where that's at, what's going on with it. And it just pops up kind of almost daily in my head. Dude, I get this, Ryan. I get this. I think I know the answer. Like, at least, in my brain at least, it's like, we had a ton of fun. This was not the full release, but it was basically the, I mean, it was so close to release. They're not changing very much. You know. I think the issue.

with Wildgate is, is that it is very, very fun with friends and in a short dose. You know, like we could play two, three, four matches. But I worry about the longevity of Wildgate where it's like, I don't know that this game, I would play it for more than like two weeks kind of thing. Yeah. And it's weird because there were a lot of people in our community that were all on that open beta for Wildgate and we're really hyping it up and saying, guys, this is a ton of fun. And I have not heard a whisper, a whisper of this game since it released either. So it makes me worry that it's like really fun for the short term, but not the long term.

And I had a $40 price tag, you know, at the same time, which I think a lot of people said this feels like it should be a free to play game. Yes. You know, and then I can pay for cosmetics and upgrades and things like that. But I think that's why it honestly. But I'm with you and that it's like, I do get the itch to be like, man, it'd be fun if we could jump in. Yeah, exactly. But I don't want to, I don't want to pay the four.

$40 and I really don't think I would play it for very long either. So I don't know. It's a, it is, it is a catchy. Like, there is something about like the playtime that like draws you in. Like, I'm like, I don't really, I don't really want to play this game a lot. But like, I also kind of want to play this game a lot, you know? So it's, yeah, it's that weird kind of juxtaposition like where you're just like kind of in the middle zone. So.

Yeah. All right. Ace, what's the next one up for you, buddy? All right. Next one for me, when we're talking about games that just pop into my head every now and then, it's got to be odd world Stranger's Rath. And it's for a very specific reason. It's because when I was first being introduced to video games,

my uncle would pop this into his Xbox and play it all the time. And I was just so enraptured by it every time I saw it. In Stranger's Rath, you play as the stranger, as you capture bounties in order to pay for a surgery. And the unique thing is you can capture the bounties alive for more money, which is way harder, way harder. Or you can just kill them dead.

But your ammo is live ammo that you gather from the environments. So you'll gather these like rabid fuzzy teeth monster things called fuzzles or you'll grab these shock scorpions or things like that and you'll just fire them at enemies. You can set traps. Is this why I saw animals

riding on the gun all that time? Yeah, it's a crossbow that fires live ammo. Okay. That makes way more sense to me now because I was like, why is there like a spider riding on this gun and then it was a different animal at another point and then I was like what I'm not gonna lie this game looks super weird to me ace it's super weird I don't know when this game came out it looked weird and I was like why is this coming into ace's mind randomly and you'll

swap between a third person view for platforming and the first person view for you know fighting but like the best part is just the voice acting for me because the stranger has the deepest western voice he's like Gotta get to town and get that pack rat paluca. Like, I remember. Oh, this game has rats. That's right. Oh, there's just his name. It was just the name, all right?

It does have rats. It does have squirrels. The squirrels are really old. Can you? I was going to say, I'm pretty sure I saw part of the trailer where there was a squirrel riding on the gun and then I was like, okay. It all makes sense. It all makes sense.

I love this game, man. This game is just like always on my mind. So this is like a bounty game? Yeah. Like you're, yeah. See, that to me, like I always, for whatever reason, I remember playing so many, having, you know, that bounty aspect always draws me in. You know, so like, you know, whatever kind of the world you're in having that, you got to go get this guy. And then if you can capture my life, it's worth double the money, you know, I'm, I'm in every time.

So something like this definitely piques my interest. When did this thing come out? Oh, it's old. Oh, 2010. It's old. It's old. It's 15 years old. And it looks old.

Yeah. No, it looks old. And it plays old, but I still love it. You can't also visit live bounties in the jail, which is cool. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. It's a cool game. All right.

Next up for me, guys, this is, I'll be amazed if anybody has heard of this game. It's a game called Vaporum. I found this game because I love the Legend of Grimrock games, Legend of Grim Rock 1 and 2. These are the old dungeon crawler style first person grid-based type games a la I have the beholder way back in the day. And so I found this game called Vaporum that looked very, very similar. It is a steampunk dungeon crawler. So there's technology in these, which normally these are like fantasy kind of based games.

But there is something about the grid-based dungeon crawlers that I absolutely love. I don't know if it's just nostalgia because it's like this is kind of. of what I grew up on. There are strategy elements. There are puzzles. There are like observation stuff. Like you're kind of going to a dead end and you're like, something looks weird.

I can't. Oh, wait. This brick has a different highlight color. And then you click it and it's a button that opens up a secret door. And then there's like a treasure room behind it kind of thing. So you're always like paying attention to your environment. The combat is like live. So Ryan, you would like these because they're not turn-based combat.

But they are slow where you. you actually have to activate your abilities, but then using movement, because everything's on a grid, you're trying to position to where they can't shoot you because this one mob only shoots forward or something like that. So there's some, like, tacticalness to it, too. Guys, I love these kind of games.

They're super fun to just get lost in for a little while. And the best part about this is Vaporum is $1.99 on Steam right now. So if you want to spend two bucks to get some really good entertainment, and maybe try a different style of game. It's a good right. Honestly, Legend of Grim Rock is better. So if you're going to pick up one, pick up Legend of Grim Rock one or two.

But Vaporum caught me off guard because it was a very well done entry into this genre that doesn't really exist anymore. So I can't recommend it enough. It is different enough that for anybody that has not played a game like this in a while, it will feel very unique to you,

which is hard to do nowadays as well. And for a buck 99, you can't go wrong. And it holds up, man. The graphics are decent. The puzzles are fun. The combat's good. Ryan's laughing at me because he's like, this game looks so old, and I've never seen a game like this in my life, Josh. Coming from

the graphics snob, which is ridiculous. Well, those graphics are fine. No, those are, no, dude, okay. Listen, it's $1.99 because it's 90% off. Like, what? Okay. Yeah, 90% What have you ever bought that was of quality? That was

90% off. That's what I want to know. Well, I mean, this game's been out for a while, man. Yeah. Those $2.00. Don't forget, Steam takes 30% of that two bucks. That's awful.

Oh, man. Oh, man. We got to move on. What's the next one? Ryan, if you don't talk about war gods on this next one before we run out of time, I'm bringing it up for you. Ryan, tell us why War Gods is your next game. Okay.

War gods is a game that's... My eyes! Yeah, listen, I get it. I get it. It is 1990s, like mid-90s development, Nintendo 64. But man, this game has stuck with me forever. Much like, I mean, it looks like Aces, Aces, uh, pixelation we got going on right now with his screen.

Um, so this one for me was something that stuck with me ever since I was a little kid. this came out like I said in the mid-90s you can be a bunch of like gods that you can fight and battle again these are these are just games that stick in our heads and this is one of those anubis I've always been an ancient egyptologist type kind of guy I love I'm fascinated with that world and that uh history this one stuck with me because you could be anubis and you could play as a newbis and the attacks and the way you could you know, do everything. And it was like the kind of street fighter, all these other ones. So yeah, anyways, I loved it. It was great. It's stuck in my head.

These guys are going to roast me now. So go ahead. How could you tell it was the Nubis at 480P? Yeah, dude, when the game play video plays on YouTube, you're lucky if it's 480. Yeah, at 4. There was one stage where the background of the stage was so blurry that I could not make out where the characters were and the background stopped.

I couldn't tell. And I was like, okay, this might be one of the worst visually represented games I've ever seen. And now, I know you love Anubis, Ryan, but the thing that killed me the most, and I even message Eunice and bro cracking up at this trailer is because, like, they went, look, it's Egypt. We got to have something for these moves. We don't know what to do. So one of his special moves is he fires out a triangle because it looks like a pyramid. Is this like, this was like, that is where I lost my stuff, man.

and it's just this blue triangle that shoots out from the guy and starts spinning around the other character and I'm like do you not know Egypt stuff where this is the only thing you could think of? It's like what does Egypt have? Well they have pyramids yeah we can't use those guys what about a triangle like yeah triangle

send it it's a triangle all I know is at the end of the day Anubis wins I never heard of this fighting game in my life that's what's crazy of cracking me up this is what this is what this is too for um like there's so many games and and please if you're in our discord or on socials or anything let us know yours because there's a million that people have never heard of

especially on old systems like old n64 PlayStation there's tons of games that nobody even knows about but but you remember like vividly so if you do please let us know because like this is one of those for me i know it's horrible i know it's bad and it was just like a super off market fighting game, but I love it and I think about it all the time. I love that I'd never heard of this and then I got to watch this trailer and just laugh because it was so bad. It's so bad. The moves look terrible.

The voice acting is horrible. And then they had cheesy moves like shooting up triangle because the guys from Egypt. So, you know, and that wasn't the only one. Some of the other characters, I was just like, oh my gosh, man. This is. The voodoo guy shit's a bath. This looked like it was like a middle school project for like developing a game or something. All right.

We're running out of time, guys. Last one for me is, uh, wait, Ace. Yeah, let me just go real quick. Kiwi is the last one I had on here, which is a cute game. It's an adorable. It's adorable. It's a door. I remember this game.

It looks a freaking adorable, dude. It is a great little co-op puzzle game that you could play with your friends or partner, where you play as Kiwis in New Zealand who run a post office. and every now and then I just think about how much fun I had playing this with my spouse, and I want to go back, even though we finished all the content. I remember seeing this game. It looks like a really fun co-op game. There's a part of me that it's like, is this like overcooked where you're going to wind up just like yelling at each other?

Because, you know, you're not typing fast enough. Yeah. Overcooked is like a marriage just ruiner, man. You can't play that with like your spouse. sir. As cute as it is, as cute as it is, I was like, is this just going to ruin relationships here? Why are you cutting the onions over here? I'm trying to cut the onions.

Dishes. I need dishes. I need dishes. All right. Last one for me. This is an obscure one. I'll be surprised if people have heard this, but this is a game called Kings Bounty, the legend, which is a heroes of might and magic. Clown, basically. Now, there was a time where all of these games were all the rage. Heroes of Might and Magic took these where you are basically trying to conquer a land. You go out into the world and a overworld kind of overhead map. You explore, you find resources and army units and things like that. You usually have a city that you take over. And then you can upgrade that city so that you can produce new units and things like that. Anybody who's played any of the Hero of Might and Magic games knows what this genre is hands down.

Um, some games have taken a little bit further where it's a little bit more tactical or on the resource or the strategy side. I prefer the arcade style ones and man, if Kings Bounty the legend doesn't fit that. Guys, I looked at this. I have 80 hours in this game, dude. Whoa. And I have a lot for you. In years, dude. But I'm telling you, it is came out in 2008.

Dude, it is the best mix of like having different, uh, like, classes and races to where you can be like demons or necromancers or elves or whatever each race has its own units which are really really fun you can acquire other races units like temporarily and stuff so it was really cool but it's arcadyish to where you don't get so bogged down in like the unit management and your city management and stuff like that the combat is was just a ton of fun the variety of units was great. It looks old at this point. I get that it's kind of dated. But my goodness, man, if this wasn't just a really good time for anybody that likes this genre, and keeping with my trend of really cheap games, guys, this game is one dollar on G-O-G right now.

And it's a dollar for a dollar four on Steam. Yeah, $1.004. Sorry, don't forget that four cents there, guys. You know, Ace and I were ready. I mean, bro, for a dollar, you're going to get. at least five, six hours before you go, man, this game's kind of old at this point. But I love these kind of games because it feels like you're playing like a fantasy, like army simulator where, and you can get like mega units, you know,

to where they're really, really strong and they're crushing all the little guys. You've got like heroes that can cast spells over the whole battlefield and stuff. I don't know. I just, I find the genre really fun from time to time. I'm watching this and I feel like I'm like 13 playing like PlayStation again. Like that's what it feels like.

Exactly. Exactly, but there's kind of like, I don't, and again, it pops in my head from time to time because it's a different genre than what I normally play. And when I think about this kind of like, man, that'd be fun to go and find those, you know, liches for my army that I found that one time that we're wrecking everything. You know, it's like this game just pops into mind from time of time. So, no, that's like how almost every screenshot is just guy on horse in different place. Well, that's the overworld map. That's part of that's where you're exploring and trying to find new units and new cities. to conquer and new races that you come across

and stuff like that. All right, listen, we're super low on time, guys. Give me, we don't have time to get into them, but what else is on your list? Just give me a title. I had high-fi rush, because I have never played high-fi rush. Everyone tells me you should play that is so good, and I just haven't gotten to it. You should play that. Salt and Sanctuary is on my

list because I absolutely love Salt and Sanctuary and even though the art style is rough. Yeah, I know. Hard Metroidvania, right? A soul's like Metroidvania, even better. Yeah, that sounds, yeah. And then finally, one more. Metroidvania through Lika H through blood. That's a crazy.

Anybody that's played excite bike that you want excite bike with guns and blood and aren't you like a weird animal? You're a fox. Yeah, you're a fox. Yeah. So a fox riding a dirt bike with guns and lots of gore. That's a weird one. I actually played that one. It's not a bad game. It's really good.

It's a good motorvania for sure. That's sick. I'm real simple. Ace in his motovania's Meta. What's the other one? Vania. Petrovenius. It's like, I didn't make that one. What did you call?

Yeah, I can't. Motovania. Ace, you're banned. You're banned for many vania puns. Moving forward on this podcast. Oh, man. All right.

What else was on your last round? Just one more. I just had Roller Crocer Tycoon, too. I, drowning, yeah, see, the music, I don't know if you were doing the music from Roller Coaster Tycoon. Yeah, Ace was, yeah.

It's in my head. building, crafting, like doing all the things you can do. Like, it is one of those that if you're into that type of game, it still stands up. Like being able to create the roller coasters and doing all that stuff, it's, it's, you know, longevity is unmatched. So I love it. Never played it, but they look like fun. Oh, it's so good. And I could see the allure of like just designing a new coaster and see how it does.

Like this, that's supposed to come back down. But then you crank up the speed and then it goes and everyone just launch. It just flies off. Yeah, they just launch in a lake. You launch them into the lake and get a lawsuit. Yeah. Last one for me is a very cute game called the Book of Unwritten Tales 2. This is an old school point and click adventure with a really charming art style,

very charming characters, neat puzzles to overcome. It is very, very much an old school point and click adventure, but it's a modern take on that genre. I remember seeing this, getting really excited about it. I bought it. I played it. And I was like, bro, this has taken me back. And it's really well done. So anybody that is looking for something completely different, insanely charming,

with good characters, story and puzzles and things like that. The book of Unwritten Tales, too, is a really strong recommend for me for that genre of games. Nice. All right. Well, listen, we want to hear what your random games are. The ones that pop into your head for no reason whatsoever, whether you've meaning to play it, you played it, you heard it. It's got a weird title.

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