Video Gamers Podcast - Listener-Powered Spotlight: Community Indie Games – Gaming Podcast
Episode Date: October 2, 2025Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan, and Ace are diving into something a little different this week—community suggestions on indie games! From hidden gems to underrated passion projects, we’re breaking down t...he titles YOU recommended and why they deserve the spotlight. Are these indie darlings pushing the boundaries of gaming, or are they simply fun experiments flying under the radar? We’ll cover everything from unique mechanics to standout storytelling and how these games stack up against bigger video games on the scene. If you’re into video games that thrive on creativity, this is the episode for you. Tune in for a community-powered discussion you won’t want to miss on the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf and Phelps Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, Patrick, NorwegianGreaser and PeopleWonder Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.com/invite/Dsx2rgEEbz 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
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                                        Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast.
                                         
                                        Today, we're spotlighting indie games sent in by you.
                                         
                                        From vampire hunting nuns to haunted handymen, we will break down your wildest picks, mechanics, and surprises.
                                         
                                        I am your host
                                         
                                        Ace
                                         
                                        And joining me
                                         
                                        He is my brother
                                         
                                        In Undead Arms
                                         
    
                                        shouting the same battle cry as I
                                         
                                        Death to Kronos
                                         
                                        It's Josh
                                         
                                        Okay
                                         
                                        I
                                         
                                        I thought you were going somewhere
                                         
                                        Besides Hades 2 there
                                         
                                        When you said my brother in arms
                                         
    
                                        And I thought we were talking about
                                         
                                        The Nunn game
                                         
                                        And I thought my battle cry
                                         
                                        Was just going to be
                                         
                                        so so i was i was waiting for that and then and then i and then i realized it was a
                                         
                                        hatees two reference which is still very good that's a great reference it was a great
                                         
                                        reference but you know that that is might be better no sense until we get into these games
                                         
                                        yours might be a little bit i apologize for nothing look at the trailers all right josh i'm
                                         
    
                                        a little drum roll from you.
                                         
                                        Oh, okay, here we go.
                                         
                                        And back from his infinite vacations,
                                         
                                        returned to us by the gods of Olympus themselves,
                                         
                                        making his first appearance in the indie episode
                                         
                                        in over a month.
                                         
                                        It's Ryan.
                                         
                                        What?
                                         
    
                                        That is gotta be the worst drum roll I've ever heard in my life.
                                         
                                        I'm not a beatboxer, man.
                                         
                                        Drugs is like on the side of a boat like
                                         
                                        He's just like patting the water
                                         
                                        That was not a drummo
                                         
                                        Yeah
                                         
                                        I do it without using your hands
                                         
                                        Without using your hands
                                         
    
                                        That's an annoying vibration sound
                                         
                                        It's better than what you did
                                         
                                        Put your hands on your hips and be like
                                         
                                        Anyways I'm back baby
                                         
                                        I am back
                                         
                                        Ryan's back
                                         
                                        Ryan how was the seventh vacation
                                         
                                        Listen man I'm a busy guy
                                         
    
                                        people people know me people want to see me it's what what's what we do man you think you're too good
                                         
                                        for the indie show is that it i think that's what yeah that's well after today we'll see with what we
                                         
                                        got going on so i don't know it sounds like ais is trying to bribe ryan with uh some some
                                         
                                        interesting visuals that'll keep in some of the game hey hey that's that doesn't keep him
                                         
                                        around that's none your business oh he's got none jokes all right
                                         
                                        fellas there were actually no indie game showcases today it's sad but true slackers
                                         
                                        slackers so instead I had to make my own little showcase out of games sent in by our listeners
                                         
                                        and our friends but first Hades 2 came out oh Hades 2 came out to very good reception
                                         
    
                                        some people saying it is possibly a game of the year candidate and we've been playing it
                                         
                                        And I want to get Ryan's first impressions on this, since he did not play Hades 1.
                                         
                                        I was going to say, he never played Hades at all.
                                         
                                        So this is his first go at this franchise.
                                         
                                        I did not play Hades 1.
                                         
                                        I hopped in.
                                         
                                        I'm like, well, I'll get some time in because I saw that we were going to cover it on the indie episode.
                                         
                                        And then we ended up not recording yesterday, which gave me a little more time.
                                         
    
                                        I'm only about an hour in.
                                         
                                        But what I've played so far is freaking awesome, dude.
                                         
                                        like it is it is so crisp and clean it's beautiful the audio is amazing the voice over stuff is amazing
                                         
                                        like the attacks like everything i've done so far just getting into like the bare bones beginning
                                         
                                        of this game i've loved it so far uh yeah it's it's amazing i know it's being received well um
                                         
                                        steam igin like pc gamer like all those things are recording it way high uh yeah i mean i'm i'm in
                                         
                                        agreeance so far like we'll see you know once i really dive into it which we will but uh yeah so far man
                                         
                                        this thing is uh it's a banger for me there's something about hades they's just they always nailed
                                         
    
                                        that level of quality you never expect yeah especially when you got so used to lesser quality
                                         
                                        games while you were waiting for hadies too yeah like i don't know if you feel the same way josh i
                                         
                                        so you know everybody i made a kind of a big thing about where had like zero hype for it right
                                         
                                        I did not play the early access at all because I said I want to save for the full game.
                                         
                                        And then we got closer to the full game release.
                                         
                                        And it was like, and I even said, I don't really see a lot of people talking about this.
                                         
                                        Like is what's going on here?
                                         
                                        Guys.
                                         
    
                                        That was a dumb thing for me to do.
                                         
                                        Because, because let's be honest, man.
                                         
                                        Number one, Hades was fantastic.
                                         
                                        And dare I say Hades 2 is better.
                                         
                                        Is better.
                                         
                                        I would agree.
                                         
                                        I would agree.
                                         
                                        Haiti's one in my opinion. So spoiler, because we are going to deep dive it, but I'm just telling
                                         
    
                                        people right now, I have been playing it every chance I get. And that feels like it's not enough,
                                         
                                        number one. And then it is, it has, it has exceeded every expectation that I had for what they could do
                                         
                                        with the sequel to Hades. And I feel like an idiot now for not being more hyped about this game.
                                         
                                        But at the same time, it's kind of nice to kind of just go, well, I'm going to play it.
                                         
                                        And then go, oh my gosh.
                                         
                                        Like, I am having a blast playing this game.
                                         
                                        And it just keeps getting better.
                                         
                                        Like, Ryan, like, I'm 14 hours in.
                                         
    
                                        And I was like you, you know, where it's like, okay, this is cool.
                                         
                                        And then, bro, the more I play it, the better this game gets, man.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        I'm loving it, dude.
                                         
                                        Like, I'm only, like, five hours in because I've been crazy busy.
                                         
                                        But, like, I'm loving how they were able to bring in references to Greek mythology that we didn't get in the first game.
                                         
                                        and how the blessings are even still,
                                         
                                        even though they're the same,
                                         
    
                                        they're also different.
                                         
                                        So it's like, oh, I love this game.
                                         
                                        No, it looks, it looks cool.
                                         
                                        I love you're able to get that kind of multiple skill set.
                                         
                                        You're not stuck with one attack right away.
                                         
                                        Immediately you have multiple ways to attack these enemies,
                                         
                                        AOE attacks, direct attacks, heavy attacks.
                                         
                                        Like you have kind of multitude you can pull from.
                                         
    
                                        So is this, is this like, like, I haven't looked too much into it,
                                         
                                        but is this launch, launch, or is this still early access?
                                         
                                        sir. This is official. No, this is the full.
                                         
                                        So, Josh, isn't it nice to not sit in a dumb early access game, dude?
                                         
                                        This is why just give us the game. I don't want early access. I don't want us to be your guinea pigs what we try to figure it out. If you want to do some beta tests here and there for a few people, that's fine. But just launched the game. Early access for a year and a half is so dumb, dude. I'm so sick of it. And I really wish they would quit. But there's something to be said about just getting a game when it's long.
                                         
                                        launched and you have the full access to the game and it is done, you know.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Or you could just be like me and just not play the early access.
                                         
    
                                        That's what I just abstain from the early access.
                                         
                                        Yeah, because I didn't play the, and I'm with you, Ryan, I'm not saying that I love early
                                         
                                        access, but like there are games that come out where I go, I'm not playing this game until
                                         
                                        it's fully released because I am that interested in just the full experience.
                                         
                                        So I'm with you because if I only had like, self control, no way.
                                         
                                        If I only had a couple levels, then it's like, yes, if I only had a few levels to play and then
                                         
                                        had to put it down and then come back to it, it would feel different to me.
                                         
                                        But this is, I am a kid in a candy store right now, dude, because everything I find all the
                                         
    
                                        new levels, the new skills, the new weapons, like all this stuff is just building and building.
                                         
                                        And I keep just going like, it just keeps getting better.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I agree.
                                         
                                        And we're not going to go too in depth with it all.
                                         
                                        This is just our first impressions, what we think.
                                         
                                        But I will say, uh, yet another indie sequel better than Silk Songs.
                                         
                                        So, oh, who, put that.
                                         
                                        Oh, we're putting that on the.
                                         
    
                                        It's time Ace takes some heat
                                         
                                        I'm already taking the one always taking all the heat
                                         
                                        I've already taken heat for having to try the last judge
                                         
                                        50 times this casual I love when they call
                                         
                                        Josh a casual I know right
                                         
                                        calling us news like let's compare
                                         
                                        I don't it's look look
                                         
                                        don't feed the trolls that's the real
                                         
    
                                        No feed them and feed the trolls
                                         
                                        Feed the trolls feed the trolls
                                         
                                        I just want to start replying to everybody
                                         
                                        that it says something stupid
                                         
                                        and just be like,
                                         
                                        thank you for your hateful comment
                                         
                                        that feeds our algorithm.
                                         
                                        Because then what do they do?
                                         
    
                                        They have to say something, right?
                                         
                                        But then you're like,
                                         
                                        I just trapped you and realizing that like
                                         
                                        you're helping us out here and they're like,
                                         
                                        wait a minute.
                                         
                                        Yeah, and then they're like,
                                         
                                        if you respond,
                                         
                                        you're helping us.
                                         
    
                                        And if you don't respond,
                                         
                                        your head's going to explode.
                                         
                                        So like which one's it going to be?
                                         
                                        Yeah,
                                         
                                        that's funny,
                                         
                                        dude.
                                         
                                        You trap them in like a rock
                                         
                                        in a hard place situation.
                                         
    
                                        It's a wild place, man.
                                         
                                        It's a wild place.
                                         
                                        but now we are moving on to the main focus of this indie which was community suggested indies which we love to involve our community and things we do we love i love getting indie suggestions from people even if i've never spoken to you in our discord before if you dm me an indie suggestion i'll probably check it out yeah i can't say the same for these two chuckleheads but for me at least no i do like as goofy as it sounds one of my favorite pastimes is just like one of my favorite pastimes is just like one of
                                         
                                        watching trailers for games and i can usually tell within the first like 30 seconds where i'm like yeah
                                         
                                        nope nope that's not for me no but then there's times where i'm like okay well this like this game
                                         
                                        actually looks kind of cool and but yeah i like watching trailers man so i love when people share
                                         
                                        stuff we have we have an entire channel in our discord server for just like posting game trailers
                                         
                                        and game recommendations and stuff like that for people so i mean number one if you're not in our
                                         
    
                                        Discord server, you should be.
                                         
                                        The link is in the episode description, so it's literally like two clicks, one to open
                                         
                                        your screen and one to join the Discord server.
                                         
                                        So for all you lazy people out there, we got you.
                                         
                                        But yeah, this is, and so all of these suggestions came from members of our community.
                                         
                                        And me, because I'm also a member of our community.
                                         
                                        That's true.
                                         
                                        Wait, do I get to make a suggestions?
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, well, I was going to say, I didn't get nothing.
                                         
                                        What?
                                         
                                        Oh, next time, next time.
                                         
                                        I'm sure you just missed the email.
                                         
                                        You just missed the email.
                                         
                                        No, I'm sure.
                                         
                                        It was, you know, probably in your spam folder.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        But we're starting off with a game called Nun Holy, which is a Hades-like, where you play as nuns, I will say, bustier nuns, and you hunt vampires.
                                         
                                        It has a anime art style, but it is a very solid Hades-like.
                                         
                                        Like, we see a lot of cheap imitations.
                                         
                                        This is not one of them.
                                         
                                        This is actually a really fun game.
                                         
                                        I remember you showing me this trailer ace and you kind of even went I'm not sure that this trailer fits like you know the vibe but then I watched a trailer and I went look you know yeah so these are we'll just you know they're nuns they're very well endowed nuns so it's like you know there you go but that's it apart from that obvious visual art style
                                         
                                        bro you're right
                                         
    
                                        this game looks great
                                         
                                        it's fantastic
                                         
                                        three different characters that you can be
                                         
                                        it's snappy
                                         
                                        there's like there's a bunch of different moves
                                         
                                        I mean is this
                                         
                                        this isn't on the level of Hades
                                         
                                        but it's like it actually looks
                                         
    
                                        fairly decent man
                                         
                                        and you're taking on the undead and vampires
                                         
                                        and stuff like that which I think is cool
                                         
                                        I like yes so
                                         
                                        apart from the
                                         
                                        silly
                                         
                                        there's no way around it
                                         
                                        the silly physics
                                         
    
                                        of the characters themselves
                                         
                                        like this actually looks like a very
                                         
                                        neat, well done
                                         
                                        kind of Hades clone-ish type
                                         
                                        game. You know, you watch your mouth. I'm going to have
                                         
                                        none of it.
                                         
                                        No, Josh, don't not respond to that.
                                         
                                        You didn't like the game right?
                                         
    
                                        No, I did.
                                         
                                        What I was going to say,
                                         
                                        it did give me
                                         
                                        I mean, along the lines
                                         
                                        of Hades, you know, and stuff like that, but
                                         
                                        Also, like, the atmosphere in the world reminded me of the OG Diablo, Diablo 2.
                                         
                                        It does have to be a old, old, like, Diablo 2 Hellzone, you know, or any of those kind of areas.
                                         
                                        Like, so it does have a cool kind of top-down, like, look to it.
                                         
    
                                        And, yeah, I mean, the gameplay looks neat.
                                         
                                        Like, it looks like something kind of, not unique, but something enjoyable.
                                         
                                        So, you know, it's not, you know, horrible.
                                         
                                        I mean, it's, and it's very positive reviews on Steam.
                                         
                                        I wonder why it's it's it's it's I wonder why but it's uh it's got a really killer
                                         
                                        soundtrack too I will say the music in this game is absolutely yeah that makes a difference
                                         
                                        dude music in a game makes a big deal oh it absolutely does right I think you're kind of
                                         
                                        on point with this week we kind of mentioned Hades but honestly because they do show off
                                         
    
                                        this in the trailer where it's like they have full inventory and equipment slots so I would say
                                         
                                        it probably is a little bit more like Diablo in that regard I think the game play
                                         
                                        because I'm not seeing like loot spilling out of these creatures or anything.
                                         
                                        So I think, you know, it probably has more of the combat of Hades,
                                         
                                        but I think there are more of those like RPG elements.
                                         
                                        Almost like a mix.
                                         
                                        That would lend it.
                                         
                                        Yeah, exactly.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        And plus the inventory is a cache system similar to Resident Evil 4, which is cool.
                                         
                                        Yeah, which I love that system.
                                         
                                        It's so satisfying.
                                         
                                        I love that system.
                                         
                                        Moving on to an actual community member.
                                         
                                        Jake with endoparasitic.
                                         
                                        I know Ryan already has.
                                         
    
                                        Jake, what's wrong with you?
                                         
                                        Oh, you both have things to say about this one.
                                         
                                        You know we love you, Jake.
                                         
                                        We love you, buddy, but what, what's, what's wrong with you, Jake?
                                         
                                        I've gone golfing with Jake when he's been in town.
                                         
                                        I've spent some time with him.
                                         
                                        I went to his son's birthday.
                                         
                                        We went bowling.
                                         
    
                                        I love Jake.
                                         
                                        Dude, who hurt you, man?
                                         
                                        What is this game?
                                         
                                        What is this game, dude?
                                         
                                        Well, I'll tell you what this game is.
                                         
                                        Go ahead.
                                         
                                        Let us know.
                                         
                                        It is a horror game, a pixel horror game, where you play.
                                         
    
                                        play as a researcher who had three of your limbs ripped off and you'll be crawling around
                                         
                                        this research facility solving puzzles fighting parasites and trying to stop yourself from being infected
                                         
                                        and you have to do everything one step at a time because you only got one hand like what are you
                                         
                                        what else you get to do yeah I dude this game looks weird this game does really weird you guys
                                         
                                        crawling around with one arm it's like it Ryan was doing the motion it's like you stretch it out
                                         
                                        and then you pull yourself forward.
                                         
                                        But then there's enemies coming.
                                         
                                        At some point, you get a shotgun.
                                         
    
                                        And so now it's like you shoot an enemy that's coming towards you.
                                         
                                        But then the screen has a little mini game where you have to pull the shells out.
                                         
                                        And then you got to put the shells back in.
                                         
                                        Like, there are some neat little mini game elements to what I saw.
                                         
                                        But dude, what is this game, man?
                                         
                                        Like, why would anybody want to just slowly crawl around with one arm?
                                         
                                        I don't know, man.
                                         
                                        It's a horror game.
                                         
    
                                        You're not supposed to enjoy like what?
                                         
                                        what's happening, do you?
                                         
                                        The horror would be playing this.
                                         
                                        The horror would be playing this game.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's the actual gameplay itself, I think.
                                         
                                        At one point two, he's got a shotgun, a pistol, a crossbow, and then I think another
                                         
                                        gun on his back, and he's got one arm.
                                         
                                        Like, what is he?
                                         
    
                                        He's crawling around.
                                         
                                        Like, what do you want him to do?
                                         
                                        Like, you want him to stand up?
                                         
                                        He don't have legs.
                                         
                                        Bleed out and die, like nature intended.
                                         
                                        He lost three of his limbs.
                                         
                                        What do you?
                                         
                                        Yeah, but he's been infected by the parasite.
                                         
    
                                        So that's keeping him alive, I guess.
                                         
                                        It's a less reason to continue on, man.
                                         
                                        This is the end.
                                         
                                        You know, you're to use a lot less bullets.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Jake, it's an interesting find, my friend.
                                         
    
                                        But this one did not.
                                         
                                        There's something out there for everybody, man.
                                         
                                        There's something for everyone.
                                         
                                        You know what?
                                         
                                        It's got good reviews.
                                         
                                        I'll always give it that.
                                         
                                        But I think it, if it was done.
                                         
                                        in a more fun way
                                         
    
                                        the restriction could really
                                         
                                        make the tension part of the game
                                         
                                        put him on like a skateboard or something
                                         
                                        he can roll around
                                         
                                        skateboard dude that's like the ultimate
                                         
                                        is that like the ultimate quest in this game
                                         
                                        you like zoom around with his one arm
                                         
                                        forget the shy but he just go in a circle
                                         
    
                                        yeah that's true that's true you only have
                                         
                                        you can only like go to one side man
                                         
                                        you know I'm just picturing the guy on
                                         
                                        uh you know in toy store
                                         
                                        story, the original toy story that was zooming around.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        All right, Jets.
                                         
                                        We'll get right back to the community picks after a little break.
                                         
    
                                        All right.
                                         
                                        We are back with another indie from our community.
                                         
                                        This one coming from Jigglepuff called Slots and Daggers.
                                         
                                        This is the second roguelike slot machine game I've seen this year.
                                         
                                        What is going on in the world?
                                         
                                        We got Bellatro and now everybody's going, well, I can't just use cards.
                                         
                                        So what's enough?
                                         
                                        Pretty soon we're going to have like, you know, a rogue like roulette going on.
                                         
    
                                        Anything could be a rogue like man.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Oh, man, the wheel's going to have like blood dripping on it.
                                         
                                        You know, it's, it's going to have like a like a, you know, if you spin the skull, then you die.
                                         
                                        Like actually guys, can we copyright this right?
                                         
                                        I was going to say.
                                         
                                        Technically, there is a roguelike roulette called buckshot roulette.
                                         
                                        It actually, it exists.
                                         
    
                                        Wait, is that roulette?
                                         
                                        It is.
                                         
                                        You're right.
                                         
                                        Yeah, okay.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's in the name, so I think it's roulette.
                                         
                                        What are we doing, people?
                                         
                                        Come on.
                                         
                                        There's so many.
                                         
    
                                        And we don't have anything for craps.
                                         
                                        I was, okay, that's what I was going to say.
                                         
                                        I'm like, in the casino, man.
                                         
                                        You give me some sort of rogue-like craps and we're just like throwing bones, baby?
                                         
                                        You know why?
                                         
                                        Because people don't understand how to play craps.
                                         
                                        That's why.
                                         
                                        They're like, I don't know.
                                         
    
                                        This is too complicated.
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        See a crap, better go up to a slot machine and pull the lever down.
                                         
                                        See what happens.
                                         
                                        Oh, my gosh.
                                         
                                        I just like, I haven't seen a whole lot of rogue-like slot machine.
                                         
                                        games, but if I had a nickel for everyone I'd seen, I'd have two nickels, and it's weird
                                         
                                        it happened twice.
                                         
    
                                        I don't, am I weird that I don't think this game looks that bad?
                                         
                                        No, it looks great.
                                         
                                        It looks fine.
                                         
                                        Like, I could definitely see just sitting there playing this for a few hours, like, this is
                                         
                                        fun.
                                         
                                        I just get to kill things by pulling the lever.
                                         
                                        I like the, I like the fact that it is kind of leaning into this almost like turn-based
                                         
                                        combat where you are fighting monsters with this slot machine.
                                         
    
                                        And then your spins of the slot.
                                         
                                        slot machine affect the
                                         
                                        outcome. Yeah, yeah. And they even show that
                                         
                                        like you can get new you can like get new
                                         
                                        reels as like power ups and there's
                                         
                                        attacks and blocks and defense and then
                                         
                                        like coins, you get more coins to spend
                                         
                                        and it's like this is
                                         
    
                                        a weird RPG
                                         
                                        ish combat game that
                                         
                                        kind of works in this trailer.
                                         
                                        Like I am oddly curious
                                         
                                        about this one. I am too
                                         
                                        honestly dude. Like I didn't pick up the other
                                         
                                        slot machine game.
                                         
                                        I didn't pick up Clover Pit. I didn't pick up
                                         
    
                                        Clover Pit.
                                         
                                        but you guys aren't no this is what happens when it like uh you came installed on your computer
                                         
                                        and your internet's out and you're like oh i really want to play video game i'm gonna play this
                                         
                                        this is all i have to play so are you equating this to solitaire yes this is solitaire or uh the
                                         
                                        pinball or anything else that's like come pre-installed on your computer your phone because
                                         
                                        you can't play anything else i i will tell you right now i love you jiggle jiggle no
                                         
                                        I love them.
                                         
                                        I will never, ever even look at this game
                                         
    
                                        after today.
                                         
                                        We're two for two.
                                         
                                        I'm sorry, people. I love you, but we got to be
                                         
                                        real. We got to be real.
                                         
                                        Fair enough. Hey, we're real
                                         
                                        here. We're honest. I don't think this game looks terrible.
                                         
                                        I could see this game actually being fun.
                                         
                                        It's a slot machine. Like, you're fighting enemy. What do you mean?
                                         
    
                                        I was about to say, it depends on, is it
                                         
                                        just literally like left click, the slot machine?
                                         
                                        machine and then see what happens like because if that's the game mechanic as you just left
                                         
                                        click that would get old pretty quick it doesn't look like that builds and like stats it looks like
                                         
                                        you may have to like kind of activate click some attacks or click uh different weapons it seems like it's a
                                         
                                        timing thing from what i was looking at oh well that's even better and it's and you get crits if you can
                                         
                                        get three in a row things like that i was like that's kind of cool i kind of like that and i'm sure
                                         
                                        there's modifiers i hate rngy in combat so this might really bother me but then at the same time
                                         
    
                                        it's a slot machine, so it's like my brain kind of
                                         
                                        expects the R&G. Exactly.
                                         
                                        Yeah, so I don't know what's good.
                                         
                                        And it accepts it. It's cool. It's cool.
                                         
                                        Orange Gino slot. It's cool.
                                         
                                        All right.
                                         
                                        Moving on to the lift.
                                         
                                        Supernatural Handyman simulator.
                                         
    
                                        This was shown to me by Shemigo,
                                         
                                        but this was also sent to me by like everyone
                                         
                                        in our Discord.
                                         
                                        Oh, really?
                                         
                                        Indies. Because this game looks really good.
                                         
                                        This game looks incredible.
                                         
                                        You play as a handyman.
                                         
                                        in this rundown sort of research center
                                         
    
                                        trying to bring it back
                                         
                                        and there's like creepy sci-fi horror things
                                         
                                        hiding in here that you have to deal with.
                                         
                                        I just think it's really neat, honestly.
                                         
                                        I can't think of anything to really equate it to.
                                         
                                        It's like a puzzle game almost.
                                         
                                        It's very much a puzzle game.
                                         
                                        Like that's the vibe I got from this
                                         
    
                                        is it's very puzzle-based,
                                         
                                        but the graphics are really good.
                                         
                                        It's got a neat style to it.
                                         
                                        I am actually really interested in this one
                                         
                                        because the trailer just shows off enough
                                         
                                        to get me really interested
                                         
                                        in the gameplay part of this.
                                         
                                        I like puzzle games.
                                         
    
                                        You know, I don't want
                                         
                                        necessarily 100% puzzles
                                         
                                        like missed or something like that.
                                         
                                        But like this game looks like
                                         
                                        it incorporates puzzles naturally
                                         
                                        into what you are doing.
                                         
                                        I don't know what the overall goal of this is.
                                         
                                        All I know is like this is probably
                                         
    
                                        the best looking game of the bunch
                                         
                                        to where it's like, okay, like I could see
                                         
                                        myself actually buying this game
                                         
                                        and playing it at some point.
                                         
                                        Yeah, honestly, me too.
                                         
                                        And the trailer almost looks like stop motion
                                         
                                        with how the graphics look
                                         
                                        and how it's all animated, how it moves.
                                         
    
                                        It's super satisfying.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I really love it.
                                         
                                        This is actually one that I'm not a big on like card games or or, you know,
                                         
                                        and I like puzzles, but my favorite puzzles are like in the mix of an action RPG
                                         
                                        or something like that where I can use it with the flow of the game.
                                         
                                        But I did genuinely like drive some interest from this from what I saw.
                                         
                                        So, yeah, everything looks cool.
                                         
                                        It looks unique.
                                         
    
                                        The way the top down is, where you can kind of see all the rooms and plan ahead and try to coordinate, you know, everything about it looks pretty neat and unique.
                                         
                                        So, like you said, Josh, this is probably my favorite out of the bunch from what I've seen.
                                         
                                        That's fair.
                                         
                                        It's definitely the best looking graphically.
                                         
                                        I'll say that.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's real pretty.
                                         
                                        It truly stands on its own when it comes to that.
                                         
                                        Really cool look.
                                         
    
                                        Really cool art style.
                                         
                                        for sure.
                                         
                                        Moving towards one that Ryan just said he's not excited for.
                                         
                                        A deck of haunts,
                                         
                                        which was suggested to us by Morgow,
                                         
                                        our good buddy who loves asymmetricals just like me,
                                         
                                        and especially loves horror games.
                                         
                                        This is a card-based roguelike game
                                         
    
                                        where you play as a sentient haunted house
                                         
                                        and you have to sort of try to basically scare the daylight
                                         
                                        to the people exploring the building
                                         
                                        without letting them get to the center of the heart
                                         
                                        and taking you down basically it's just what is that it's called a tower defense it's a tower defense
                                         
                                        game yeah i i love tower defense i like rogue like card games i'd never heard or seen this game before
                                         
                                        but i'm oddly curious about this one too because it's like it kind of checks the boxes for things
                                         
                                        that like josh likes uh as far as like games to just pass time with like they show different
                                         
    
                                        card combos so you know you're you're setting up the the interplay between which cards you play in
                                         
                                        in which order you play them.
                                         
                                        You know, you have these rooms of a house that you're trying to, like,
                                         
                                        haunt and trap and rearrange and stuff like that.
                                         
                                        So there's like, there's the strategy elements there on how you're going to, you know,
                                         
                                        take care of, you know, the house and stuff like that.
                                         
                                        So this one, I did not think I was going to like, but then by the end of this trailer,
                                         
                                        I was kind of like, I can actually see kind of play in this one, man.
                                         
    
                                        It's the card mechanics.
                                         
                                        It's the card mechanics that do it.
                                         
                                        The fact that you're playing them on various rooms in this mansion and you can see the humans that are walking through and exploring and trying to like find things is kind of a neat aspect to me.
                                         
                                        So it's different enough in an oversaturated genre, which is the roguelike card games, that I think there's something there with this one, man.
                                         
                                        This one definitely looks like it stands out of his own, especially like with this kind of setting and idea it's going here with the haunted house instead of just like wizards or something that we've seen a million times.
                                         
                                        I really appreciate when games can do things like that.
                                         
                                        What about you, Ryan?
                                         
                                        I know you love card games.
                                         
    
                                        I've just, I've never been the biggest on those card games.
                                         
                                        I mean, it looks unique.
                                         
                                        It looks different.
                                         
                                        Would it be something that I would maybe try?
                                         
                                        I might try a demo and kind of see how it vibes with me.
                                         
                                        Because, I mean, I love within a game, like, playing these styles of games or card games.
                                         
                                        But, like, just as a whole, as a game on itself.
                                         
                                        has never been my big kind of thing that I'm drawn to.
                                         
    
                                        But yeah, this one's definitely unique.
                                         
                                        Like, if you like this style, I think you'll enjoy this game.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's like, what would you equate it closely to, Josh?
                                         
                                        Like, if you like this game, you'd like this one.
                                         
                                        I mean, honestly, any kind of rogue-like card game.
                                         
                                        I think, like, that is, at its base, that is what this game is.
                                         
                                        The kind of shtick on this one is just that you are trying to control these rooms in this house.
                                         
                                        So you play the cards on the rooms to then affect the humans that may find that room or are in that room kind of thing.
                                         
    
                                        So it, yeah, I mean, tower defense and rogue like card game, those are two genres I really find to be fun.
                                         
                                        So this game could wind up being way better than it, I think it might be, if it does both way.
                                         
                                        See, I like, I like tower defense, but I've never been a big card game guy.
                                         
                                        But like, you know, maybe with the mix, if it's not too crazy on the card stuff and like you can really set up with your tower defense stuff, like,
                                         
                                        Have you ever played Slay the Spire Ryan?
                                         
                                        Dude, I can see, okay, you say you don't like them,
                                         
                                        but I think if you played like some of the better
                                         
                                        roguelike card games, I could see you like really getting into them
                                         
    
                                        just because as much as I know you like like Deep Rock Galactic Survivor
                                         
                                        where it's mindless, right?
                                         
                                        It's a chill like sit sideways at your desk, put your feet up
                                         
                                        and just play this game while you're just chilling kind of watching a football game
                                         
                                        or something like that.
                                         
                                        Like there is definitely a place for those.
                                         
                                        and I, like, I feel like if you play the right one, you'd be like, okay, I'm in.
                                         
                                        I'm in.
                                         
    
                                        Like, I get it.
                                         
                                        I don't have to do a whole lot of attention.
                                         
                                        I don't have to focus a whole lot on this.
                                         
                                        But yet I still get to play something and, and, like, do it like that.
                                         
                                        It's like a chill game, man.
                                         
                                        They, they, they fit like a, like, they have a purpose in gaming.
                                         
                                        And it's not that you can't just sit down and focus on it, but like, they're, they're
                                         
                                        nice to have, yeah, for sure.
                                         
    
                                        I think the only card-based roguelike I've ever really dove into is a description.
                                         
                                        I'll be real.
                                         
                                        let's tell me like
                                         
                                        yeah you need to play like slay the spire
                                         
                                        I do I definitely need to get to slay the spire
                                         
                                        because I've heard it million times
                                         
                                        everyone says it's so good
                                         
                                        and you know the second one's coming
                                         
    
                                        you're gonna be like yeah
                                         
                                        you're gonna be like I can't believe
                                         
                                        I was missing out on this
                                         
                                        and now all of a sudden you've got a whole new genre
                                         
                                        that has 80,000 games in that genre
                                         
                                        that's just what he needs another genre
                                         
                                        just what I need more games
                                         
                                        there's not enough games out this year guys
                                         
    
                                        I don't have enough to play
                                         
                                        let me just throw Slay the Spire on that stack too
                                         
                                        all right we're going to finish this off with possibly the other best looking game on our list here
                                         
                                        which is jump space which was provided to us by a bullet he actually deamed me he was like
                                         
                                        the game is on sale this week you guys absolutely need to talk about it or it's it's called jump ship
                                         
                                        but it yes it used to be called jump space and i think we've talked about it a little bit before
                                         
                                        we have talked about this game we've covered it at least once before maybe twice on like just
                                         
                                        some normal twig episodes or something.
                                         
    
                                        I don't know why they had to change the name.
                                         
                                        I don't know.
                                         
                                        To jump space instead jump ship is like trademarked or something.
                                         
                                        Like, okay.
                                         
                                        But this is a four player co-op space simulator where you pile up on a ship.
                                         
                                        You can walk on the outside of the ship.
                                         
                                        Each person can man different stations in the ship.
                                         
                                        You go to these quests.
                                         
    
                                        You exit the ship.
                                         
                                        You fight a bunch of enemies.
                                         
                                        You get gear and loot and things like that.
                                         
                                        And then you bring it back to the ship to upgrade your ship.
                                         
                                        your characters your weapons i mean that's a fantastic gameplay loop i played the demo on this when it was
                                         
                                        available oh it's a very well-done game like honestly now i will say this the demo i was really
                                         
                                        excited for jump i'm just i'm gonna try to call it jump space but my brain keeps saying jump ship
                                         
                                        still but i was really excited for this one because this seemed like a super fun four-player co-op
                                         
    
                                        game that you can play with your friends the demo didn't wow me but i was also only playing solo
                                         
                                        but at the same time it's very well done there's a ton of content the gameplay loop is very enjoyable
                                         
                                        like this is one where if you have two or three friends to play with i could see people have
                                         
                                        a lot of fun like think single player wildgate if people are familiar with wildgate that's
                                         
                                        that's what i was thinking about was wild game we're all on the same page because that's exactly
                                         
                                        what i was going to say when you were done josh is that to me this looks like a more open
                                         
                                        and detailed Wildgate
                                         
                                        to where you can do a little bit more
                                         
    
                                        than the Wildgate game
                                         
                                        but it's got that extra kind of flare to it
                                         
                                        so yeah no that's and it's all PVE
                                         
                                        there's no PVP in this game
                                         
                                        which I thought was weird at first
                                         
                                        because I thought it was going to be a PVEVP game
                                         
                                        but then it's no it's just PVEE
                                         
                                        which I don't know that that the tracks from it
                                         
    
                                        but that's I love that we were all thinking the same thing dude
                                         
                                        oh yeah we were all just like I was like
                                         
                                        waiting I'm like unique
                                         
                                        I'm gonna mention Wildgate they have no
                                         
                                        idea, dude. Like, and then Josh
                                         
                                        is like, yeah, Walgaden. He's just like, oh, yeah,
                                         
                                        totally. Dang it.
                                         
                                        Dang it. No, this is.
                                         
    
                                        It's almost like we do this podcast together. Yeah,
                                         
                                        it's almost like we know what we're thinking. I know. This
                                         
                                        looks cool. Some of the map stuff
                                         
                                        almost looks like hell divers, too, like where you can
                                         
                                        kind of uniquely pick where you're going to
                                         
                                        go and stuff. So it's
                                         
                                        it, yeah, it's a cool looking game.
                                         
                                        And it's only, what is it, 20 bucks?
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, 1999. It's not much.
                                         
                                        Yeah. I believe it's only in early
                                         
                                        access right now, but it is
                                         
                                        aiming for a full release soon but yeah oh Ryan's dying we lost them that's all it took honestly this
                                         
                                        is another one like here's the thing I was very excited for this game play the demo this kind of fell
                                         
                                        off a little bit but then there's again we're we're flooded with games right now this is one where
                                         
                                        when it releases in full access I can see this game being a banger to where they actually improve
                                         
                                        tune it up yeah I can see us coming back to it exactly to where it's like guys we got to go play
                                         
    
                                        like we got to go play some some jump space I would love to know why they had to
                                         
                                        to change the name.
                                         
                                        I really would because
                                         
                                        Jump Ship was so much better for me.
                                         
                                        Yeah, I don't.
                                         
                                        Maybe that's a movie or I don't know.
                                         
                                        Who knows?
                                         
                                        But yeah,
                                         
    
                                        that is all the games for this one.
                                         
                                        All right,
                                         
                                        we will do,
                                         
                                        I will do another community one.
                                         
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                                        Real quick, trademark issues and complications with the original title.
                                         
                                        So that was the issue for the name change.
                                         
                                        So it was it, yeah.
                                         
                                        Yeah, we got it.
                                         
                                        We went right for once, guys.
                                         
                                        You nailed it, Josh.
                                         
                                        Look at that.
                                         
                                        Yeah, look at us.
                                         
    
                                        Don't worry.
                                         
                                        What else would it have been?
                                         
                                        There was like, ah, let's just change it, you know.
                                         
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