Video Gamers Podcast - The Backlog Games Bonanza - Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

Gaming Hosts Ryan and Josh are back again with another fantastic gaming filled episode. In this episode, we take a look at our extensive backlog of games and make some interesting video game discoveries. We talk the games we’re most excited to try, which ones are must plays, and realize we might just have some hidden gems waiting for us. It’s video game chat with your friends, from the best gaming podcast around! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q   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. Gaming is an amazing hobby, but sometimes we can get a little too excited about the number of games out there. Sometimes we fall prey to the wonderful, yet evil Steam Autumn sale. Our wallets take a beating, but our backlogs grow in leaps and bounds. Sometimes awesome looking games like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Avowed release within just a week or two of each other. Whatever the cause, we all have that backlog of games we've been meaning to get to. And today we're talking about a ton of games in our backlogs that still have our eyes and

attention. If maybe not our time to actually play them, it's going to be a gaming packed episode with some seriously good titles. So get ready, but first some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh and joining me when I asked him what his games in his backlog were, he said, well, Diablo two, Di joining me, when I asked him what his games and his backlog were, he said, Diablo II, Diablo II Lord of Destruction and Diablo II Resurrected. What do you mean?

It's Ryan. What, I mean, what more of a backlog do you need? Like that's, you're never done. That's all it is. 20 something years later, you're never done. And it's just revolving. That is, I'm just being economical. I'm being frugal and friskle and Frisco, I don't think it's really I don't think frisco is a word

That's how committed I am to Diablo I'm making up words I You know we we pick on you and your love of Diablo 2 but dude any game that you can play 20 years later I'm saying have a good time is a Testament to a great game. Like rocket league. I love rocket league. I haven't played it in a few months, but it's like, is rocket league going to be around in another 15 years or people still going to be just, you know, playing rocket league. And it's like, I don't know. If it is, then you're an all time game at that point. So yeah. Well, welcome in everybody.

Who Ryan? It's, um, I'm tired balls. I'm tired balls. I wish this is like the IRL stamina bar. I don't have a mod for it. So, uh, but this is where we got to rest, man. We're going to do, we're just going to just be goofy and crazy and fun and, and talk about some crazy stuff right now. I'm excited. Yeah. You know, it, listen, we, we want to thank all the, the people that have come on the show to do these awesome interviews. I mean, talking to voice actors, talking to these developers. I mean, this has been awesome and we warned people ahead of time. We said, man,

we are shooting for the moon. We're taking this podcast to the next level. And I think they got a taste of that. But at the same time, you know, this is always who we've been. It's who we will always be. We are gamers chatting games, hanging out together, talking about the stuff that gamers talk about. And,'s been awesome, but this is like a breath of fresh air. Back to basics, baby. They're getting that stamina bar back, right? We've done the big heavy fight, and it's like, now it's just time to explore a little bit. So yeah, exactly.

You said it. We're back to basics. So for people that are like, are you guys turning into just an interview podcast? No, we're not. We're still going to be doing these awesome bonus rounds, our twig episodes, our deep dives and all that. But we are absolutely thrilled and excited to be able to mix in some of these

interview episodes and just meeting people in the industry and talking to them and kind of getting that inside look. Like honestly, one of my favorite things is like asking the questions that gamers think. Exactly. Yeah. We're, we're, we're, we're is like asking the questions that gamers think. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We're, we're, we're, we're your voice. We're here for you. Yeah. And I mean, that's what we will always do.

That is our guarantee to people. But honestly, the feedback to those interviews has been spectacular, dude. So honestly, thank you to everybody that has reached out to us and just said, yo, I love these because you know, that, that was the the goal, is to be able to do this, keep it entertaining, and kind of give people a look at the people that are behind the games on those as well. So we'll definitely have more of those in the future.

We probably will not have four of them in a row, kind of thing like that. But yeah, we're super excited for you. Like I said, this was our promise to the listeners, right? Is we're going to try to up the game. We're going to try to bring you more awesome content. And the only thing we ask is that you join us for the ride and bring a friend along, man.

That's the best thing people can do is tell people about the podcast, leave us a review. We have a couple we're gonna read here in just a second. And just rate the show and join our community, man. That's, that's really all we ask in return. So, um, speaking of reviews, Ryan, we get a chance to get back to a couple of them. Buddy, this is one of my favorite things, man. These, every time we see these come in, um, it just, it warms my heart and,

you know, good, bad, otherwise, like just to see that people care enough to hop in, write a review, let us know what they think. Like there's something special about it and it's, it is so awesome. And if you leave them, we're going to read them on the show, which is even better. Yeah. Yeah. It really, you said it and we have said it before, but there is nothing like seeing a new review pop up and the kind words that people say. And then to realize that we get to kind of be a part of their

lives. You know, we're at the gym with them. We're, we're mowing the lawn with them. We're on their commute to work with them. And I mean, that is awesome, man. We absolutely love it. It's the reason we do this. So, well, I'll tell you what, I'll start off with this one, Ryan. Uh, this is a good one. This one comes in from Gregasaurus and it's titled one above all from your favorite Raptor. And it says in a world with easily over a million podcasts and countless ways to pass the time in your day, I am beyond confident in saying that this show is in fact one above

all above all the other shows. The quality of this content does not easily dry or get repetitive. Above all the others, there are no hosts that truly care about the connections made along the way. Above all the others, there is no community that has made me feel like I belong. This is not just a show with two friends. This is one big family that's going on an incredible journey together and I will never get tired of being excited for the next chapter. Thank you for making all of this possible. Thank you for keeping what I believe to be the spirit of gaming alive. The true friendships. All the best. Your favorite Raptor. Oh man, that's a good review. That's pretty solid.

Like what more can you ask for than that? A bunch of, a couple of dorks talking about a video games and you get that response, man, that's, oh man, that is, uh, that is extraordinary for sure. And speaking of extraordinary, I got another review. That's also also I guess we're extraordinary because it's five stars but this is from Solid A with two whys which it says awesome podcasts these guys are funny and cover a lot of content and make a lot of their own content to keep it interesting glad I

found you guys I tried other podcasts gaming, and it just ain't it. This is it. Love you guys. Thank you. Love you too. Love you, man. That is that is a saw. Dude, I love every one of these. So that's a solid review. A day.

Oh, wait, is this is this this is he Canadian? Canadian? Like, hey, that's solid. Hey, you don't want to get me in a I played a lot of hockey growing up. So you don't want to get Ryan into Canada mode. And I was getting the hockey bro and say a lot of crazy stuff. I figured it out though. I think he was like, you guys I'm not solid day. It's this is solid. Yeah. There you go. See? Yeah, we might be slow, but we'll get. Oh, well, Ryan, I am excited for this episode, man. This is, this is something that every gamer in the world can relate to. You know,

it's that backlog, right? Yep. I mean, it is the games that we pick up on sale. And I, you know, I poked fun at Steam, but I think Steam is the biggest culprit because it's like, I can pick up this game for $3? OK. Epic Game Store giving away free games all the time. And it's like, sure, I'll pick that up for free. Oh, yeah, I'll pick that one up for free, too.

And before you know it, we've got this huge backlog of games. Now, I do want to preface this by saying that we are including games that we have 100% meant to play as well in that backlog. Because I don't think that the sole qualifier is that it has to be sitting in your library kind of thing. We all have those games where it's like, dude, I absolutely

meant to pick this game up. I absolutely will play this game at some point as well. So we are leaving a little bit of wiggle room there for just some of those games that will always be on our radar as far as that goes. So I mean, a lot of these games literally are sitting in my Steam library or on Epic Games Store at the same time.

But we just kind of wanted to leave a little bit of that leeway there because we all have those games, man. It's like the game you missed and you're like, I will play that game at some point. Whether it's in the library or not. It's like, okay, that one's on the list. I'll buy it when there's a sale or something happens, but it's on the list of, you know, that one's going to happen at some point within the next, you know, six, eight months, year or something like that.

So it's, it's definitely in the library. And I think one of the fun things for this is, is it's like, you're going to see a wide range of games here as well, which is really cool. And then one of our favorite things about this podcast is, is like, we don't get paid to like tell people to play video games, But I absolutely love when somebody like hears us talk about a game picks it up. And then it's like, guys, I picked this game up because I heard you talking about it. And I freaking love this game. Like that it's like, again, we talk about that, just like warm, happy feeling, man. And it's like, what better thing as gamers than to like,

put a game in front of somebody, have them, you know, experience it and then have them like share that joy of playing that game. Like, you know, we complain about games we hate, but we like the opposite is true is like, we love hearing about games that people are passionate about and they love at the same time. So hopefully you might pick up a game out of this episode that's like, Oh yeah, I forgot I wanted to play that. That's one that was on my list and I totally spaced it for sure. No, it's like you kind of give somebody a hint on like a movie or a TV show.

It's like, okay, you know, it's not interactive. The thing that's so crazy about video games is you are part of that world. And when you walk away from that and you had that amazing experience, you walk away with something different. Just, it's a little bit different than a movie or a video game or I mean, or, or a TV show. And, um, from someone who recommended it to them, it makes you feel that much more like, yeah, I told you, you know, see, see this is why I'll

relieve me on the next one. Okay. The next one I gave you, it's going to be fire as well. So, so you'll have to play it right away. So yeah, I love, I love these backlog. And I'm so stoked to get into these cause I honestly want to play them all. So I'm just like, this was, this was not a good thing to do. To look at these games. Like we were talking about it. We're like, all right, man, we're, we're back to our bonus rounds. We're back to just, you know, talking about games and stuff. And we were like this backlog. This was actually, uh, again, this was a recommendation from our community,

you know, where the people said, Hey, we, we have an like a channel on our discord server where it's like, Hey, you know, recommend some show ideas and stuff like that. And so this was a recommendation, but we instantly were like, Oh man, that'd be so fun to talk about. But then at the same time, like, dude, we were playing kingdom come deliverance to right now. We're getting ready for a deep dive on that one. Avowed is, uh, is releasing tomorrow. Uh, you know, for people that didn't get the early access option for that. So it's like,

I don't need, I don't need 10 more games that I'm dying to play. Like I don't even mind I don't need 10 more games that I'm dying to play. Like, I don't even mind space, man. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So, all right. Well let's get into this man because there are some fun games. Now, you and I did share our lists together because there's no surprises, you know, we're hiding things on this one. And we actually had two games that we overlapped on. We did. So let's start with those first, because I think it's just fun

to say, hey, we're both kind of amped to play this. This first one, I will fully say, I don't know that I'm going to like this game. I have heard so many mixed reviews about this game. I have heard people say, dude, I don't get it. It's a walking simulator. I've never played a more boring game in my life. I don't understand why people want to be,

you know, a package delivery guy that is stumbling around and trying not to just spill things everywhere. This is the most frustrating, boring game I've ever seen. And then you see people go, dude, this game is something special. It's unique. It's Hideo Kojima. Uh, you know, what's not to love.

And that is a game called death stranding. Now you and I have never played this game. We both own it. I know it's in our libraries cause we picked it up for free. When the Epic game store gave it away, we're both like, Ooh, I'll take that. So what is it about death stranding that like makes you interested? Cause I'll go into that in a little bit, but I, Ooh, I'll take that. So what is it about death stranding that like makes you interested? Cause I'll go into that in a little bit, but I wanted to preface, like, I have some serious concerns about whether I'm going to like this game or not.

No. And I mean, for you and your kind of the archetype of what you like within a game does lend to some concern for something like this, in my view for you, but for me, I mean, I'm the guy that one of my favorite parts in Red Dead 2 is the entry snow level. Like when you start off and you're just trudging through the snow and you know, that's a walking simulator if anything.

So to me, these types of worlds where you are just, you become part of it and whether you're walking or, or running or doing missions when it's that involved in that kind of, you know, the thing that, that lends me, um, some credibility on what my opinion is going to be with it is the Kojima aspect. I'm a, you know, I'm Metal Gear Solid guy. so Kojima, I'm like, okay, I'll try it. You know, it's Kojima, I'll try it. You know, I haven't yet. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I swear. I'll try it someday. It's a very polarizing game, though, man. Absolutely. And there's a lot about it. But I mean, it's sitting at like a nine out of

10 on Steam, 82% on Metacritic. I mean, it's, it's, it's up there. So it's just maybe one of those things that it's not everybody's cup of tea, but it may still be an amazing game. I, I'm very curious, like legitimately, this is probably the game that's on my list where I go, I feel like I'm either going to despise this game or I'm going to actually see why people love it. I will say this. You made me play Metal Gear Solid 5 and in playing that I remember the introduction and I remember the flaming

Pegasus and all the weird characters and I remember watching the all these cut scenes and just going like what is this game man? What are these cut scenes? Like what the heck is going on? game, man. What are these cut scenes? Like, what the heck is going on? And so it was one of those things where, but I liked it. It was so weird that I'm like, I liked it, you know? And with Death Stranding, I feel like it has a lot of that Hideo Kojima, like just like feel to it. So it's like, I mean, if you've watched any of the trailers, even when it got announced, people were like, what the heck is this man?

Weird baby in a backpack, weird sludge creatures, this odd world and all that. I think the main complaint is the gameplay. But yeah, death straining is there. And I know that you and I both have gone like we need to play this game at some point. Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah, it's way up there. You know, who knows when we'll get to it, because I know the next one's coming out at some point. But, you know, up there. You know, who knows when we'll get to it. Cause I know the, the next one's coming out at some point. But you know, we shall see, I guess.

Yeah. All right. And then the other one is a game that we have heard a lot about. This is a game that I'm absolutely positive that I would, I would love. Like, I don't know if you would love it, but I know that I would love it. And we have heard so many good things about it.

I am kind of curious for you to play this because this, I think is a fantastic entry into the souls like genre because it's much more approachable for people. And I think it kind of takes away that dark, grim, you know, dark souls feel. And instead it puts you under the ocean where you get to be a cute little crab. And that is another crab's treasure.

Yeah. You know, famously called a shells-like instead of a souls-like. Literally in the Steam descriptor for the game. I remember when this game was announced, and a lot of our listeners were very excited for it. Ace, who takes, he handles the indie podcast for us, in that episode, was just super excited about

Another Crab's Treasure, played it, loved it. Every person that has played this game just comes back and raves about it. And so it's like, well, it's not to love, man. Yeah. You know, like, I haven't heard a single bad thing about it. I've heard that the gameplay kind of evolves and it's just a joy.

That is that another Krebs treasure is very high on my list of like when I get a free weekend or a week off of games or something, I will pick that game up and play it like for me kind of thing because I'm pretty sure that I would love it. But you had this on your list, Ryan, and this kind of shocked me because it's like, this is Souls-like.

That's the whole point is it's Souls-like combat, but you're just a cute little crab working your way, you know, through the bottom of the ocean. So what's up with this for you? For me, it's just, you know, famously I you know, famously, I'm not a Souls fan. I'm not, uh, the kind of guy that likes to sit and just kind of roll around over and over and over, but. I need something different.

I've played a million of these, you know, medieval night kind of worlds, dark and gritty. I love it. And I love exploring. I mean, Skyrim is one of my favorite games ever. Um, but if it's going to go into the realm of that Souls archetype, like give me something a little different to interest me or just maybe just be obnoxious or crazy. And being a crab is the way to go.

Like stats, I'm like, okay, all right, I'll check this out. I'm not a Souls guy, but you know what? I'll take a peek at it, you know? Yeah, I think it's again, I haven't played it. I don't think it's super difficult is one of the things like I know that there are plenty of boss fights in the game. I like the fact that you can get different shells because you are a hermit crab. So it's like you can get like a little plastic cup or you can get different kind of shells to go on your back, which I think is kind of a neat take on like

the gear upgrades and stuff there also., which I think is kind of a neat take on like the gear upgrades and stuff there also. I just, I think this game looks fantastic. I will absolutely be picking up another crabs treasure at some point. I've just, I don't know that I've heard a single person go, eh, it's okay. Yeah. Everyone loves it.

Like, and I mean, I'm pretty sure I saw, we saw the merch from ACE, but it was just a hat with a crab with us like a sword or a Knife or whatever and I was like, yeah, okay. That's pretty sweet just for the merch alone. Like that is that's top tier You know, we got to play that one Alright, listen, we're gonna get into our individual lists here But those are the two that we share but we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll be right back Are you crushing your bills

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All right, we are back. All right. Now we're getting into the nitty gritty because this is where you and I veer off from each other a lot. And I'll start us off on this one. This is a game that I actually had my eye on from the moment it was announced. I got it for free.

Again, thank you Epic Game Store. I wish I could actually play some of these games that you're giving away. But the game for me is Marvel Midnight Suns. Now, this game, when it got announced, I just went, dude, they made this game for me. Like it's superheroes, it's Marvel, and it's a turn-based game where you get cards

to kind of use as your skill abilities. There's tacticalness, you know I love turn-based combat. I love that kind of strategy that's involved there. You get the kind of stories between the characters. There's interplay between the characters, depending on who you take on your missions and things like that. There's the whole part where you're back at the, you know, the Professor X's mansion.

I can't remember that the school for mutants or whatever it's called. Oh, jeez. I sound like a terrible fan now. So you know, and I know that that's like a big part of the game where it's like almost like a relationship kind of building part of the game too But Marvel Midnight Suns I wish listed like instantly when I heard about it

I know that we've had some people play it and they spoke very highly of it and it's been sitting in my backlog for Legitimately, I think over a year and I never booted it up I've never touched it and it's just one of those games that it's like, I have not forgotten about. I will absolutely play this game at some point. I feel like it's custom made for me. Turn-based combat, Marvel superheroes, cards is like the skills. Like, what's not to love?

This is all like Josh type stuff. And I just don't know why I've. And I got it for free. It's like there's not even any risk, man. I don't have to be like, oh, I better refund this in two hours if I don't know why I've and I got it for free. Yeah, it's like there's not even any risk, man. I don't have to be like, oh, I better refund this in two hours if I don't like it. I think that it's just that it's a big game. I've heard that it takes a while to play.

And I don't know if that's kind of what's putting me off on that. But I am still very, very curious about this one. I think it looks great. I totally get this is not up your alley at all. But yeah, that's one that's like right at the top of my backlog for me. No, that's a good one.

And it seems like it's like a little bit, a lot of comic book Marvel stuff like lately, it's just real kind of happy Dory campy stuff. It seems a little darker. It seems a little like there's real kind of battle to it. And it's just, yeah, I think this one, definitely it's not, I'm not a turn-based guy, so it's not for me, but I think you would most like, I mean, obviously a lot of these games we know that we would like it's just getting the

time to play them over something else. You know, it's like weighing those odds, but, um, because I'm not a poser like you, bro, I definitely didn't look this up, but it's the Xavier school for gifted youngsters. I said the gifted school for people for people, kids or we don't want to. That's right. We don't want to call them mutants. So like, yeah, that's not the right thing. Yeah. We don't want to genetically gifted.

There we go. That's what my mom used to say. You're genetically gifted. Oh brother. Oh, what a good mom. say. You're genetically gifted. Oh brother. Oh, what a good mom. Yeah, I know right. Mom's still the best lies. All right.

Well that's, so that's, all right. That's a good one. So, um, for me, my next one is going to be, um, I'm going one kind of another one on the darker kind of world that, man, I just don't know how I never got into this kind of realm. Like, it's not something along the lines of, I just didn't like the gameplay, I just didn't like kind of what it was or what it looked like. It was more of just, it just didn't happen.

Like oh, that's a cool game. I really want to play it. And then I just never got around to playing it. And that's going to be the Monster Hunter series, man. Like you've never played any of them. I've never played any of the Monster Hunter series. And I feel like it's so like tailor-made for me. I love fantastical fights.

I love beasts. I love crazy worlds, amazing graphics. Like I feel like it has everything that I love beasts. I love crazy, um, worlds, amazing graphics. Like I feel like it has everything that I would love. And it just never got around to lining up to, you know, to playing it, you know, it's just one of those things that it just didn't line up for me. And I must've been playing something else or, you know, just enthralled with some of their game or world, but, um, yeah,

that's one that I just, yeah, I never, I never got around to getting into that. It's now Paul and I played Monster Hunter World. Okay. And we liked the gameplay portion of it. I remember being like, cool, the fighting the monsters is really neat. And they're very varied, like they're,

they're mechanics in the types of monsters that you come across and stuff like that. It was the rest of the game that I really didn't like. Like the being in town and the, again, I just kind of mentioned this, but there's cooking, there's crafting, there's eight different weapon types and every weapon type has a completely different move set and upgrade paths and stuff like that. And it got to be one of these games where the,

unless you were actually stalking the monster and hunting it down and trying to find it and then fighting it, the rest of the game to me was very just convoluted, complicated, and not fun at that point. Okay. Now part of that was, you know, we play games kind of on a timer, so to speak,

where it's like, hey, I've got about two weeks to dive into this game, maybe a little bit longer depending. But I felt like that stuff kind of distracted me. The fighting the monsters part was glorious. So, and I know monster hunter wilds is coming out and people are very excited about that. And it's weird because it's like, I don't want to base the entire series off of just the one experience. So I'm kind of with you that it's like, man, this would be fun. And it's multiplayer. Like you join your buddies in these fights. You can cut off limbs and stuff.

You can target things and then you get certain things. If you can cut off the horn and stuff like that, you can cripple them, which is neat. So now they can't run away because a lot of times they'll flee when they're getting their butts kicked. But if you like, if you hack at their legs enough, now they're crippled and they can't run, you know, and stuff like that. So there's a lot going on with those games. It's just that like half of it really worked for me and the other half just didn't work at all. Yeah. So, well, one day. All right. So one for me, I'll be honest, I didn't even know I had this game and now I'm super excited because like this is what this episode has done to me, man.

So I apparently I'm just covering these Epic Game Store games first. But like, so apparently Epic Game Store gave away a game that I remember looking at and being like, oh, like, oh, dude, like I've been I've had my eye on this game for a while now. And so I picked it up. And then I completely forgot that I picked it up, man. And this game looks legitimately really, really good. That is a game called Sunless Skies. And so I remember looking up the, the very first game is called Sunless Sea. And this kind of is almost like a throwback in a way to the old like top down, uh, like 2d action arcade type games.

Like if anybody that's old enough like me to remember star control, it's, it's kind of similar in that regard, but it's a top down, you were piloting a submarine through the deep dark, creepy, creepy ocean. And it's very, very atmospheric. And I remember for the longest time, I was like, I'm going to buy this suddenly seas game and give it a shot. And then I just never did. Well, lo and behold, they made a sequel called Sunless Skies, where instead of being in the ocean,

now you're floating around, you know, in a post apocalyptic world as like a floating train, I think. And it's like, but this game looks incredible, dude. It is one of the most atmospheric games that exists. You're seeing all kinds of creepy things. You're floating through these really dark areas and you just see like these kind of scary things on the peripheral part of your vision cause it's foggy and it's dark.

And it's like, it's almost like a horror game in a way. And I can't believe that I had this game just sitting there, man. All this time just waiting to be played by you. I know. So I'm going to read just so people can understand. I'm going to read the description for Sunless Skies because it's it just sounds really neat to me. I won't read the description.

It's just considered a Gothic horror role play game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling. Now, the draw here is that you get to put together a crew, but your crew is very like, just like, you know, they're not a good crew, man. Like they all come with serious problems that are involved with them. You know, so I think they're filled with character and stuff like that. There. I love

exploration and discovery when it's just kind of natural in a game and the stories that those can tell too. So sunless skies, I will absolutely probably dive into this weekend just a little bit because I didn't realize I had this game and I think it looks phenomenal, man. It does. It has that, I I don't know almost that um gosh It's like it's you know What is that top-down old-school look but it's like a like an alien effect to it to where it's just it feels

creepy and and You know, but you're drawn in you're sucked into it So it gives that effect to where you just want to keep playing and keep going with it. It seems supremely Atmospheric, which I really love. And I feel like I'm not sure what the gameplay is like, but I feel like this is one of those games that you probably actually remember playing just because of how unique it feels at the same time. And it seems very, I don't want to say it's super like action based, but there's

definitely enough action where you're fighting and, you know, piloting around and stuff like that to kind of keep you on your toes too. So nice. Well yeah that's that's a good one. It's just gosh like I need to add another one to my I know my list. So this one is probably not on a lot of people's list because it's a pretty popular game and a lot of people have played it and a lot of people are going to be surprised that I have not, especially with my love of roguelikes. I'm going with the Hades series, man.

Oh, dude. I don't know how I missed this. I don't know how I never got into it. But I mean, I got introduced really kind of mostly into the roguelikes with you guys, you and Paul playing with you guys. But man, this looks like just such an awesome game. I wanted to play it. I wanted to dive in and see if I could beat Hades.

Because you know, that's what we went over with, you know, Jack and stuff when we were talking about the games and it's like, I've beat a millennia. I've done all these things, but I can't be freaking Hades, man. But yeah, so the problem is you got to spend the whole game working your way to him and you get one chance at him. If you had one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted one moment to capture, just let it slip. It's not like Mellini where you can just fight her 400 times in a row. If you die to Hades, you got to start over again. It's over, man.

It's over. Yes, you keep your permanent progression kind of thing, but now you got to go through all the levels all over again and work your way back to there. So it takes a long time just to get to that fight. I've gotten him low, but I've never killed him and it just aggravates me. It's one of those things where I'm a failure and I don't like that. Cause you didn't have me. So I'm going to hop on board and we'll knock it out buddy. Well, well it's not multiplayer is the downside. That's why we were hyped for sworn. You're

thinking of sworn, which looks like Hades, but is multiplayer at that point. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah. I was just, I was so excited about thinking about killing, about killing Hades. Hades is a phenomenal game, dude. Not only is the gameplay in Hades just top notch with the combat and the action, the, the character interaction and the fact that this game remembers everything that you've done. Like it, when you die and you, you kind of come back to the, the, you know, your, your castle or your, you know, the part where your Hades is and you know, it's like the characters will actually talk about it and they'll

be like, Oh, did you die to that thing again? You know, and stuff like that. So the game like remembers your gameplay at the same time. I also happen to absolutely love Greek mythology and it just plays right into all the mythology stuff, man, with Achilles and Hades and, and, you know, all the, the gods, Zeus and Aphrodite and all that stuff. So that's also right up my alley as far as being a nerd for that stuff too, man. Dude, Hades is top notch. All right. So here's a game that a lot of people have probably not heard of, but looks absolutely incredible.

And this is another one that it's like, at some point I will play this. And I have heard very, very good things about that. And again, if you have played this game, let me know what you think of it, because I really need that push to kind of just commit to play in it. But let me just start off with this.

This game on Steam is sitting at a 96% overwhelmingly positive rating with over 20,000 reviews, dude. Jeez. So, and I bet you a lot of our listeners have not heard of this game and that is a game called Signalis. So I will actually read the stream, the steam description on this one. So Signalis, the steam description is a classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret, unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures

and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician replica searching for her lost dreams. Now before we started recording Ryan, I said the one game that I'm gonna talk about that you probably need to watch the trailer for is this game called Signalis and what did you think of it? I think it's like basically exactly what you described. It is a it is wild looking man like it's it's almost hard to describe what it looks like. It's it's that weird kind of eerie creepiness, but you know, it looks like a game that was made in like the late eighties or early nineties,

like some of the weird like graphics to it. Like it's very, it's very arts, artistic and it's styling, but it's also very dark, but it goes from like a weird, almost like, you know, like a top down third person view of the character. Um, almost like a weird, almost like, you know, like a top-down third person view of the character, almost like a resident evil. Yeah, exactly. In a sense, right? Like in a sense, but then it gets into like this weird, like puzzle-based very, almost like eight bit

in some of its graphics. You're trying to unlock stuff and. Yeah, yeah, you're turning dials and trying to interact, but you're like a replicant kind of thing. So you are a cyborg lady. It's eerie as anything. It's dark as anything. It's very atmospheric once again. But I mean, I have heard incredible things from from people that have played signal us on like social media and stuff where they're like, dude, this game blew my mind.

I have heard people equate it to like the member that like being as memorable as playing like through the near games. Really? They're just like, dude, these there's, there's like a deep, deep kind of like humanity, like thinking and how like we interact with our world and things like that. So again, I've never played it. I just know I really, really want to play this game. And if the reviews are anything and if the word of mouth is anything, I really feel like people should at least look into this. And again, if you've played it, I want to hear about it because I'm very, very interested in this game. And again, that name is signal us.

Yeah. Come and tell us. Because this, uh, I'd be interested to see what, you know, our listeners have to say. It looks so unique. Like I love games that are not just copies of other things. And this game looks like it is its complete own entity. And it is like, it's probably unlike a lot of other games that people have played and that interests me. That's for sure.

I mean, most art, if you will, which a lot of the games, you know, film, cinema, all this stuff is drawn off of something else or an inspiration. But every once in a while you you get something that is like. There's not a much like it, and there there's, you know, they're they're not drawing off of a lot of other things, and it's something just so unique. And this one looks like that

maybe drawn a lot more of older, older style stuff, but it's it's not like anything that's coming out today. So and if people needed one more thing just in the last 30 days, because this came, this game came out in 22, uh, in the last 30 days, it's actually a 97% with almost 500 reviews. There's some kind of magic here, man. And I want a piece of that. Why? What is this? What is so good? I want to know. Yeah, exactly. That is awesome. Uh, awesome so I guess I guess we're gonna just continue the the really good review trend this one I'm not sure if you had

played this I know a ton of people in our discord did I believe you did but it's the game by the name of dredge oh okay so okay so I thought you did I couldn't remember if it was just Paul or if it was you two, but, um, I know a ton of people in the discord did. I know a ton of other people that we've talked to have as well. He did a review in 60 seconds. That's right. Yeah, he did.

He did. So this, maybe that's just subconscious and why it popped into my head, uh, when we were going over this, cause I have it and I, I need to play it and I love, I mean, just again, I, I am so driven by a really good atmosphere and this has that. It has it absolutely in spades, man. So, um, having that ability to, to just kind of fall into that world to where you get lost and you are just going to go play this game and do your, you know, whatever you need to do and captain your boat.

Um, that, that's something that calls to me. So I just, you know, we get, we get so lost in all these other games or we'll get hooked on something else. And then these other ones fall by the wayside and you're just missing a gym that, that will, you know, float on by and be gone forever. If you don't go back and get it before it's too old. You don't want to go back and your backlog and hop into a game that's 15-20 years old. It's gonna be not the same reaction that you otherwise would have had kind of closer to its

release. I definitely want to check this one out sooner than later because I've heard nothing but amazing things. Dredge is one of those games that's so easy to play. Yes. Like it really, and we all need that, right? I mean, I legitimately, like I haven't played Kingdom Come Deliverance in the last three nights because I've been just working a ton

and we've been doing podcast stuff. And it's like, I sit down and I go, okay, I have like 40 minutes at most to play some video games right now. And like Kingdom Come, as impressive as it is, is it's like it takes a little while to get going. I have to think about what I'm doing so that I'll accidentally rob somebody or sleep in somebody's bed and get myself killed

and lose an hour of game time or something like that. So we all need those games that are just easy to play. Right. Like and dredge is just absolutely one of those games. You're fishing, you are upgrading your boat. So the progression is just, it's honestly almost perfection in the way that you get progression and you can upgrade your boat. I know you're a progression guy. Yeah, I do. I mean, I really am, but it's like, you know,

you can get faster motors and you can get bigger nets and you can get, you know, all kinds of things, right? Like bigger fuel tanks so you can stay out longer and things like that. And so that gameplay loop alone is something. The fishing is enjoyable. The exploration is great. The fact that it's very atmospheric and there is something creepy going on. Like you don't want to be out at night, but you kind of want to be out at night. Cause you're like, dude, what if I just stay out? Like what happens? And then you find out what happens, you know? Oh, that's what happens.

There is a reason, there is a reason that dredge like kind of took the world by storm for a little while. And I think people played it and then people went through, it's a great game. Like it's not a groundbreaking, you know, it's just one of those super enjoyable experiences and it's cheap. It's easy. You can play it in probably three or four days if you really get into it and then you're just done with it

But yeah, I dredges a must play in my opinion. Heck. Yeah, man. That's that's one of those when it's like Okay, you know indie games off the charts like nothing. This isn't like crazy triple-a game It's gonna be something that's cheap and just an awesome good time, you know for everybody So yeah, it'll be one that I'm going to hit up very, very soon. Yeah. All right. This next one for me, uh, is a game that I was insanely excited for, but we're going to tease it and we're going to take one more break real quick. All right, we're back. I like these little pre break teases, man. I don't ask me why, you know, it's probably cause the, it's my little bit of a troll side. Yeah, it's a little bit. All right. So I was a huge

fan of vermin tide and then vermin tide too. I think slaughtering hordes and hordes of rats with your buddies and getting into these situations where it feels like defeat is eminent and then somehow surviving. And then like just that adrenaline rush and the, oh my gosh, I can't believe we pulled through that. I absolutely loved Vermintide too. I thought it was a ton of fun. The Warhammer universe, I'll be honest, I'm not a Warhammer guy, but I like it.

I just am not super into the lore like I know some people are, but dude, sci-fi, fantasy, dark mix. I love that stuff. My brain instantly is just drawn to that. And so they came out and they said, Hey, you know what? Vermintide too. Went really good. We are announcing war hammer 40 K dark tide. And I went, Oh, my gosh guys.

Like they're making another one. And this one's not just melee weapons. You get guns and you can be the big ogre guy and you can be these different classes and all that. I remember being super excited and then they started letting people play it and kind of early access or play tests and the response was not good. And I remember going like, no, no, this is like the perfect game for like three

or four friends to hop into. And I have been keeping my eye on Dark dark tide for the last two or three years. And sadly, it's one of those things where I have not heard a lot of good things about it. They actually, the developer even came out and said, listen, we're sorry, man. We get it. Like it's not jiving with people, so we're going to fix it. And in the last thing I checked Darktide

it seemed like they had fixed a lot of the stuff that was going on there and it just looks like a really good time to me I know that like gear and progression and some of that stuff was really a lot of the stuff that like people were complaining about the gameplay always seemed to be a lot of fun but it was just the like why do I continue to play this? Because there's just not a lot there. So I think it's in a good place. I don't know that for a fact.

Maybe it's just my optimism for like wanting a fun game to play with people. But, uh, you know, this is one where I'm curious. So if you have played dark tide and you think it's good, let me know if it's like one of those things where it's like, dude, as cool as it looked, you should probably just stay away. Let me know too, so I don't make the mistake of sinking a bunch of time into it. But yeah, this is, it just ticks all the boxes for me. Fun with buddies, slaying hoards and hoards of stuff,

really cool atmosphere because I like that kind of stuff. I just worry. And know, and the, and the problem is is that right now it's sitting at a 70% on steam with 80, we'll just call it 88,000 reviews. Okay. So it's like, but in the last 30 days, it's sitting at an 80% with 900 reviews. So it's like, is it getting better? I feel like the thing is, um, you know, uh, the ability to play with friends forgives a lot of changes, everything forgives a lot of sins in the game, man. Like you there, you can forgive a lot of things and then you can even laugh about

them together. Like, did you see what happened with this? And oh my gosh, this glitch happened or that thing happened and, or how ridiculous that that was like it almost enhances the effect of it You obviously want a game to run, you know the best it can but Yeah, the ability to play together It uh, it negates a lot of those issues. So man that would uh, and so so in this one you kill rats No, that's vermin. This one. I don't know. I think you fight like various factions in the Warhammer universe, which I think is what a lot of people loved. Vermintide, you only fought the rats.

I was going to say Jack's going to be upset with us, man. We were touting up all the rats. They were slaughtering rats. Arlo's the super rat. He's the bomb. And then all of a sudden Josh is in here just killing all the rats. Yeah, so it's one of those games, Dark Tide, I've just always been curious about and I think I will, you know, so. Cool. No, that's a good one.

It's yeah, like I said, man, the ability to play online with people is something else. This one, I don't know about like future ability to play online with people, but in the past you haven't been able to. And it's been a legendary game that I have never touched. And that one goes by the name of Elden Ring. Oh dude, you are missing. I know. And now listen, let hear me out.

Okay. I played Bloodborne and I did not like Bloodborne. I played a lot of Bloodborne and I really, really wanted to like it. And I said, all I do is I run through the same spot and I roll around and I slash and hit and punch this guy and then take potions and do whatever and then go to the next one.

And it's just the same thing over and over and over. And I just after that I said I don't like souls likes. I don't want to play them anymore. I don't care to play them. I don't even want to spend my time doing them. Everyone says how hard and crazy they are. I don't like fighting a boss 400 times anyways. I'm not even going to waste my time. Having said that I very very much like, fantastical worlds with armor and soldiers and big swords and awesome fantastical attacks and crazy enemies. And I feel like I just have to buckle up and give it a shot just to see. Give it a good 15, 20 hours to get in, learn the mechanics.

I won't, I won't give five hours and be like, eh, it's not for me. I'll give it a good, honest try. And, uh, and see if I can really kind of, you know, almost like, you know, when you're, when you're, you know, to our younger audience, don't do this, but when you're a kid and you try a beer and you're like, this is horrible, they call it an acquired taste for a reason. And then you're 35 and you're like, Oh, beer's the best thing ever. Uh, I don't drink anymore.

Josh doesn't really drink either. So we don't, you know, don't drink is what I'm saying. It's gross to me. But also, yeah, exactly. I never acquired that taste. But I I'm wondering if it's in a taste that I can acquire something that I can be like, okay, I really am starting. This is starting to grow on me. Like, and I, and I feel like the nuts and bolts are there to where it's not like

you're going to have to convince me because like, it's like, Hey man, but, but what about this? What about that? It's, it's, it's an amazing game that just not built for me, but maybe I can and play it and develop that taste for that game. You know how people say, hey, have you played Red Dead 2, right? Have you played Cyberpunk 2077?

Have you played God of War? Have you played, you know, and people talk about the greats. Dude, Elden Ring is in that conversation, dude. Those are all those action RPGs that are very story driven with that. But no, no, because every Elden Ring. It is, it is, I'm telling you, I guess I can't, I can't truly speak on it because I haven't played it.

I know, but I will say that I have played souls game and it looks exactly like bloodborne. And here's the thing. I never, I never played bloodborne, right? I've played secaro. I've played every single dark souls game that is out there. Right? I've played Sekiro. I've played every single Dark Souls game that is out there. Right. I never played Bloodborne. I don't know that I would like Bloodborne. Like legitimately, as much as I like the Dark Souls games, I have heard that Bloodborne is super hard and super frustrating. And while it may have some really good mechanics to it, I have heard a lot of people say, dude, Bloodborne just wasn't for me. Yeah. You know, and, and it's one of those things where there is no game in the world like Elden Ring.

And I get that there's a lot of people that just go, well, it's just a bigger souls like game, but it's not the open world that exists in Elden Ring is second to none, dude. And yes, you know, you have to be okay with fighting a boss, maybe, you know, 20 times, but the thing with Elden Ring, the beauty of it is, and this is where I think Bloodborne goes wrong, is if you fight a boss 15 times and you never get him to have health, just go away.

Like legitimately, just go away because you can do that so easily. You are not locked into, like, you have to just slam your head against this fight. If you're not getting anywhere, just go away, go explore. You will find so many incredible, fantastical things that it's not like you, you don't feel like you're grinding. You don't feel like it's just, it's incredible, dude.

But that's what I did with like, I mean, I fought all the Valkyries on God of War with, uh, you know, on, on mega hard difficulty, whatever it was. And I enjoyed it because I was so drawn into the story and the characters. And you like Elden Ring. That's the thing is there's no story in Elden Ring, right? Like there is. There are stories, but you have to dig two tomes and like find all the stuff. I get it. I get it. And it's confusing, but the story in Elden Ring is the, is your gameplay, like your gameplay where you're like, what the heck is that over there? On the story? You are the story. Yes. Like the fact that you're wandering around and you find some little cave and you're like, dude, what's that over there? And you go in and it's a giant dungeon.

And it's like, you could have walked past that and never seen it, man. You know, it's just, there's nothing like it, dude. There's nothing like it. I knew I'd get you hyped up for this. Oh dang it. You did this on purpose, right? I knew it. I genuinely though I I knew I'd get you hyped up for this well dang it you did this on purpose right I knew it I genuinely though I do I will I will this year I'll hear me now I will give it a try this year it will be a game that I will play and I'll put a good 15 20 hours here's the question to test it the the seamless co-op is top-notch now they have a mod where you can play with friends and it used to suck, but it's almost seamless. It's like the game was almost made to just be played

with somebody else at this point. Would it help you to have a buddy playing with you? 10,000%. Okay, well I will play with you. The only problem is, is that I don't wanna wreck everything so I might hold back a little bit. But if it gets you to play Elden Ring Dude and get hooked in it, like I'll jump in with you in a heartbeat dude. All right, that's

why I freaking love Elden Ring. All right. All right. You heard it here folks. We're going to play together. All right, listen, we're running a little low on time, so I'm going to speed this up a little bit. Um, I dove into this game for a little while. So, you know, there are some games where it's like, Hey, I dabbled in this when I bought it. And then I got busy doing something else, but I really want to kind of go back and play more. There is a game out there that is one of the best space games

that I think I've experienced in a really long time. It is absolutely, it has some of the best visuals I have seen in a space game. It has some of the best combat I have seen in a space game. And it is like a giant space RPG where your ship is your character and you can get all kinds of upgrades to this thing. If you want lightning guns, you can get lightning guns.

If you want different types of ships where you're like a little ship that can cloak and avoid enemies, or you want to go with a big bruiser ship that's got turrets on it, you can do that. It lets you fly on planets. So it's not just outer space. You can actually kind of cruise through planets and even in dungeons in planets.

Like I'm telling you, this game has it all. And that is a game called Everspace 2. I played the initial Everspace, which is a roguelike game, and I fell in love with it. And then they came out and they said, listen, we wanna take everything we learned from Everspace and we wanna turn it into this gigantic space RPG that just is, is almost hundreds of hours in, in, you know, with how much content you have.

And I remember tracking the development. I bought it on release and I played it. This game is something else, man. I cannot encourage people enough that like this kind of game to look at Everspace 2. If the trailers don't draw you in, because this game is gorgeous, I don't know what else does, but man, I'm telling you, the upgrade pass, the fact that you can go on planets,

the storylines involved, you meet people, it's just fantastic, dude. This is one of those games I really, really wanna get back into, because I think this is just one of those hidden gems man that's it's it's always weird to see uh you know when especially even us when games just kind of go by the wayside when we're so involved in the gaming world i know like thinking how many other people haven't seen these games and it can be just such an awesome Masterpiece and it just kind of falls by everyone. So man there yeah, there's so many out there

And that's why we love doing these like, you know, what's your backlog? What are you looking for? and then people will come up with a game that you've never even heard of and you look it up and you're like Whoa, that that looks really cool and you try it out and you love it. So, you know, that's that's the cool part about this but um Man, yeah, there's there's so many I want to play. Just watch the trailer for ever space too. It was an indie developer. They're small. I don't know how they made this game look so beautiful. Number one, you guys know, I love good graphics and stuff. The combat in this game, I have never seen a space game

that can be played so well with mouse and keyboard. Yeah. Like a lot of people think you need a joystick or something like that. I played ever space too, with mouse and keyboard. Yeah. Like a lot of people think you need a joystick or something like that. I played ever space two with mouse and keyboard. I've never seen a game that nailed the controls like ever space two did with that. Cause it's like, who can fly with a mouse dude? That's really weird. You're picking it up and you're slamming it down

and you know, trying to like move it over and over and over again, just so you can keep like going in one direction and it's like, they just nailed it. Dogfighting, yeah. Dogfighting is a little weird with a mouse for sure. Yeah. All right. What else you got, Ryan? Let's hit a couple of quick hitters here. For sure. I'm going to go with one that, man, this, I don't know if it's a full-on backlog game, but it's one that I've dabbled in very, very slightly, but I want to actually dive into.

This is another multiplayer that, that, uh, maybe, maybe exactly. And I, and I know you personally, I have seen the, the, the text where you said, I'm getting the itch again and that's right. Oh, yeah. I'll do it right now. I don't know what it is. I got sucked into the algorithm, but dude, I, I am in the rest algorithm where I'm watching this dude that that gets into these RP servers and he just baits people into his base and

he traps them. And I'm like, Oh yeah, that looks so fun. Like everything about it looks so amazing. They get so mad. Not to say that we would do that. You know, we're kind of all gamers. Oh, we would absolutely do that. That's the beauty of Rust, man. I can't, oh my goodness, dude. Ryan, if you told me I'm installing rust right now I absolutely guarantee you I would be installing it and we would be playing 18% within moments 24% don't do that to me man I'm a weak man I will do it who cares about a valid who cares about kingdom come deliverance rust we're on rust baby oh man we're gonna Rust baby. Oh man.

We're gonna get, we'll round up Paul's Rust character again. Oh my gosh. Okay, so we're not gonna have time to get to these, but I did have games that I really wanna dive back into soon on my list, and I'm just gonna say, I have three, I have Baldur's Gate three, I have the Apocalypse Run on Remnant two, cause it's the hardest level, and I literally have Rust.

And I, it would not, it would take take very very little to get me back into rust right now man I've kind of had the itch all right something about us that's that's the rest of our year oh my goodness man and the fact that you've never played rust is the best like I need you to know like the joys and oh my gosh this is the best thing ever we just tricked that dude and robbed his base but then you're gonna know the heartbreak of the I freaking hate this and oh my gosh, this is the best thing ever. We just tricked that dude and robbed his base. But then you're gonna know the heartbreak of the, oh, I freaking hate this game, man.

Like this is the worst. I love it. I'm in. I am full in for the major disappointment and the major joys. Oh man. All right. I mean, the only other one on my list,

Witchfire, it's one of those games. I bought the early access. I think it's a fantastic game. I have not checked it out in probably six months. I heard it's come a long way, and they're ready to do the full release. I think Witchfire is a top notch fun game. It is Dark Souls with guns.

It is a rogue-like where you get kind of stronger and stronger. But the gunplay and just the gameplay in Witchfire is fantastic. So highly recommend people check that out. And then the only other one on my actual backlog was a Plague Tale Innocence. I think these games are very story-based. They have some gameplay, but I've kind of heard the gameplay can, that's like the breaking point for people.

If you don't like the gameplay part, you probably still like the story part, but I've never played any of the Plague Tale games. And I know Plague Tale Requiem came out, I think, last year and kind of got a lot of praise from people there, too. So yeah, that's it for me for my backlog games also. So dude, OK, one last question, Ryan. Out of all the games you talked about, what's the one that is at the top of your list

that you were like, dude, if I was going to install one of these right now and I knew that I didn't have any other games to play, I would play this one. Uh, I would, I, why is it Elden Ring? Dude, the, okay, man, it's honestly, it's between Elden Ring and rust. Is it? Yeah. Because, because the thought of actually like, I mean, Elden Ring on its own merits would

be an amazing game to try and test out. I'm sure I'll eventually learn to love it. But the thought of playing with someone else, we're chatting, we're going over, oh, let's check out this, you know, and then we can explore together. That would be really cool. That's a draw for me because I love, a lot of my old friends, like even when I used to play Destiny, they don't play with no mics. I'm like, bro turn on your mic. Like, what are you afraid of? Let's

talk. Like, so hanging out and talking and playing games is a big draw. The thought of us playing Rust and like maybe bringing in Paul back on board and then like, you know, Ace or John or somebody else coming in and we just get fully in. The beauty of Rust is you can have any number of people, dude, because you can have a clan of like 20 people, dude. We could own the server. Yeah, bring up, bring in the discord, VGPs coming in. We're going to take over this server and, uh, and, and like make a, you know, a Russ freaking powerhouse like that, that,

uh, it gets me excited as well. So, but also then we have freaking five million games to play. This is why we have backlogs because there's so many games to play. I was having that rust itch, man. I know. I saw you say that you had a rash, but it's like, there's a cream for that. I think. Oh my goodness, man. Dang it. All right. Well, this, like you said, dude, this is the joy of backlog games. Listen, if you have a backlog of games and there are games on your backlog that you're

like, man, this is one I need to play or you want to tempt us into starting a rust server, getting a clan going. It probably wouldn't take much at this point, but come tell us. We have the best gaming community out there. We say it almost every episode. At some point we need to put together like a list of the people that were like, you know, I heard you guys talking about this all the time and oh my goodness, you're right. Like I found my home. You know, that kind of stuff is ridiculous, man.

So we really just want that to grow. We want awesome people. We want gamers that aren't toxic. We don't want people that are arguing over politics and things like that. So if you're that kind of person and you want other awesome gamers to interact with, boy, do we have the place for you. And if you are one of those awesome gamers, we want you there as well. Uh, the link is in the episode description. Just, it's free to join, come hang out with us. I think we're, we're almost up to like

a thousand gamers now, dude. So this is not, it is not the guy that has four people in his discord server. And it gets really awkward cause you join and then you're kind of like, now I got to leave and they're going to see me leave. So, uh, give it a shot. That's all we're saying. Um, and then come share what your backlog of games is as well. I didn't answer the question Ryan. So I'm going to answer that real quick.

Sunless skies is, I think that's the game I actually will wind up dabbling into okay very very soon that no that that look that looks pretty cool I need to see what it is. It might be nothing, but it might be something for me So I think that's the one I'm actually gonna wind up installing here So yeah, but yeah, that's it for this episode Listen if you've been enjoying the podcast make sure you rate us five stars on Spotify If you're on Apple leave us a review and we will read it on the show at some point. And you know, if you've been listening to this podcast for a little while, if you love what we've been doing and you go, you know what, man, I'm in boys. Think about supporting the show. It really does

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Um, so, you know, take a second to think about doing that. Cause it really does help. So that is it for this episode. I'm going to install sunless skies. Don't make me install rust, Ryan. Don't do it. 84%. But also I would love, I would love to do 92%.

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