Video Gamers Podcast - Two Truths and a Lie: The Indie Gaming Challenge – Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

Gaming host Ace takes over for this week’s Indie Edition of the Video Gamers Podcast, hosting a chaotic round of Two Truths and a Lie — video game style. Josh and Ryan are put to the test as Ace reads out three bizarre game summaries — two real, one totally fake — and the guys have to guess which one’s the lie. From oddly wholesome farming simulators to unhinged horror dating sims, the world of video games has never sounded so weird. Expect plenty of laughs, deep dives into the stranger corners of video games, and maybe even a few shocking truths about the indie gaming scene itself. If you love discovering the wildest and most unexpected sides of gaming, this is one hilarious, video game–packed episode you don’t want to miss from the Video Gamers Podcast!   Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Disratory, Ol’ Jake, Gaius, Jigglepuf, Phelps and NorwegianGreaser   Thanks to our Legendary Supporters: HypnoticPyro, PeopleWonder and Bobby S.   Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/videogamerspod⁠ Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/vgp Follow us on Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/⁠  Follow us on X:⁠ https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod⁠  Subscribe to us on YouTube:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1⁠    Visit us on the web:⁠https://videogamerspod.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast. Today, we have an episode that perfectly captures the spirit of indie games, chaotic, unpredictable, and unoccasion, making you question reality itself. That's right, we're playing two truths and a lie. Every round is going to be filled with real indie games. that sounds so absurd, you'd swear I made them up. I am your host, Ace, and joining me today is a man who has mastered the art of deception, but can he tell when he's being deceived himself? It's Josh.

All right, this is true. Number one, it's a skill. I'm not saying that it's a good skill to have, but it is a skill. People that play social deception games with me instantly vote me out because they're like, we can't trust a thing Josh says. I'm like, I'm good. What are you talking about? Like, I'm the good guy.

And they're like, no, you're the imposter. So it's a curse. You must have struggled in the Amongstays. Oh, yeah. The Amongstays must have been really rough for you. It's rough. But, yeah, we'll see. We'll see.

I'm excited for this one, Ace. This is going to be a fun time. This is going to be a good time, guys. I guarantee it. Yeah. And joining us, he's a living lie detector who cannot be fooled. At least that's what he thinks. It's Ryan.

Dude, I am so gullible because I just like, trust in everyone and believe in them i'm like they do what i would do for surely they would they've got my back yep no yeah that's why you get betrayed in arc raters yep yes uh but we have a fun little game to play today gentlemen we always talk about how indie games are utterly ridiculous sometimes outside of even the most common uh way of thought where they just start combining genres and combining rats and space and all sorts of junk. So I figured

why not make that into a game, a little game called two truths and a lie. For those unfamiliar, two truths and a lie is a game where you have two truths and a lie, obviously. We'll have two true indie game descriptions and one lie I made up and the job of Ryan

and Josh is to discover which one is the lie. We're not keeping Okay, not to interrupt you, Ace, but half the time when we are talking about indie games, the most common phrase that Ryan and I utter is, what is this game? What is this game? It's said

a lot. Or where do you find these? Where do you find these? That's the other most. I should put that on a t-shirt honestly at this point. What is this game and where did you find these? There you go. We got 10 rounds, 20 descriptions, and only one fake per set. So

despite what you might think, there's only one one fake in the bunch, right? Your boys ready to get started? So we have to pick out which game does not actually exist. You need to pick the lie. You've got to pick the lie for me. Okay, so this is going to be fun for the listeners too, because they're going to be playing along with us. Yep, yep, yep.

Oh, man, please don't want to send us in close. Let us know how you did. How stupid are we going to sound when we don't know which game is completely made up on this one? The problem is Aces has been prepping for this whole time, man. Throwing all these weird games at us? like the, what was the weird

parasitic one where the dude has one arm and he's crawling around on the floor? Indo parasitic. Yeah. Bro. I would, I would, I would, I would swear you made that game up if I didn't actually watch video of that game, dude. Yeah, honestly, that's fair. That game's out there. Yes. And we've, honestly, I think we've experienced

even more out there ones. Heck, there was a, not to get a track, but there was a game put in our server that is about trying to find the bathroom in a haunted house. I mean, you got to go. you got to go. You know what I mean? That's what it's called. It's called we got to go. Yeah. It's called we got to go.

Can you imagine? Like, you got to go so bad that you pulled over and you go up to a random house. And it's like, oh, great. This is my luck. This house is haunted. Like, that's like, desperate times, man. Yep. Desperate times. All right, boys. Let's get it started. All right. Game one is. a somber journey through a handcrafted subterranean world full of wandering bugs, branching paths, and precision combat.

Game two is a bright personality-filled 3D platforming adventure where each world plays a completely different mechanics using hats as the primary tool. And game three is a swamp-based management sim where you craft charms to reshape the wetlands into

your own private island. Oh man. I know my answer. I want to say two. but like that's something that an indie game would do is put hats as like the main thing what are you going to do Josh you go are we a team are we trying to

defeat I want you to work together I look at Josh and media is just like I'm not I'm going competitive man I'm going to win baby like let's go let's go so if we're working together number one is hollow night number two is yep you got that which means the answer

Okay, yeah. The answer is number three. Three is correct. Good job, I'm surprised you knew a hat in time. Yeah, man. I did not know if, I don't know.

But I know some video games. Okay. You do? Do you know some video games? Oh, no, I don't like this. Ace was like that was the easy one. He's like, oh, yeah. That is the easy one.

I was curious if you guys would get a hat in time. Yeah, the swamp-based management sim completely made up. It does not exist. Also, someone will make it now. I totally believed it. Who would build a house and a swamp? I'm looking at you, Louisiana. Yeah.

Who would build a theme park in a swamp? But yeah, I don't know if I have to explain Hollywood much. I think everyone knows how this game goes, Ryan. I'm feeling a little bit more comfortable now. All we have to do is know these indie games and we'll be great. Yeah, easy. All right. We're so screwed. Yeah, we're screwed.

That was the warm up. That was BP, baby. that was like the that was the tutorial where they're like they really can't mess this one up man oh man all right game number one in unfinished main screen number one oh a round number this okay this is yeah we're around that was round one we're in round two now and then it's gonna go one two three just so we don't get confused I mean I can go four or five six and no no no no I just I thought you I thought you like game number one was like the first set of games and then I was like wait we already did this no no no we're in round two

Yeah, round one. All right, we're in round two now. Game number one is an unfinished manuscript world where environmental puzzles require rearranging the actual stories text. Game number two is a roguelike where combat is triggered through a slot machine interface that cause chaotic buffs and attacks. Game number three is a frantic, momentum-driven pizza-themed platformer with a bizarre art style where mastering movement is key to chasing high scores.

Oh, dang it. these are wait wasn't don't you remember a pizza game yeah there's pizza tower but i don't oh man okay so bob it is you is the is the is the yeah is the first one at the second read the second one again ace the second one was a roguelike where combat is triggered through a slot machine yeah that's lots and daggers causing chaotic of us in the tax yeah yeah yeah so i think see i think he's trying to trick us because i think it's Pizza Tower sounds really familiar, but I don't know. Read that, read that one description again.

I wasn't a platformer. I don't think so. It is a platformer, actually. A frantic momentum-driven pizza-themed platformer with a bizarre art style where mastering the movement is key to chasing the high scores. I'm almost positive that one is Bobba is you. So I think it's three, Ryan. I think it is three. But Pizza Tower exists.

I just don't know. That is incorrect. No. Oh. Wait, what? Three is not correct. What? That is pizza tower.

Ah! Which one's the wrong one then? This is the first one. One. Yeah. That's the wrong one. Read that description again. An unfinished manuscript world where environmental puzzles caused rearranging

the actual stories text. Oh, is that not what you doing? Baba is you? I've never played that game. I don't know what that is. That is not Baba's you. That's where you...

You take the words and move it around and it's like gate open and then if you like move the words now it opens the gate. Baba is you as a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow or present as blocks that you interact with. I thought you changed the rules of the game.

By moving the words around. Which would be a manuscript world. I'm sorry, did I write a game that already exists? I think you did, Ace. That's why I'm like, bro, that is so Baba is you. Ace invented a game that already exists. All right. I invented a game that already exists because I thought that was far fax.

Oh my gosh. We're calling that one a time. I thought that was a far-fetched idea. Anybody that knows Baba is you is going to be like, yeah, dude. That was number one. Fine, yeah. All right, round three. I'm shocked.

Ryan, can we pat ourselves on the back that we knew pizza tower? How did you go pizza tower? Because whatever, we read, we read the show doc stuff, dude. We watch the videos. We don't play any of it, but we don't play anything. We read. We play some of them. We play some of them.

All right. All right. I'm digging. All right. Round three, boys. Let's do it. All right. Walk in, Josh.

Lock in, in, let's go. Let's see if I could avoid making a game that already exists. That's why I was a number one's Bobb is you. And I'm going to have to watch this video to see if Ace's eyes are like, what the heck is he talking about? Because I'm like, Bob is you? That's easy.

I was trying to keep a poker phase. But, all right, round three. Game one is a noir punk side scroller where your firearm doubles as a traversal tool, letting you glide and dash through an industrial conspiracy. Game two is a radio broadcast. broadcast that predicts your future actions while you're hunted through low poly corridors by a monster

made of sound. Game three is a bleak 2D action souls like RPG where every strike and roll is bound to stamina and punishing boss encounters. That one exists. That's every dark soul's game ever. I think

it's number one, Ryan, because the number two is the, I've seen that LIDAR one where it lights up the guys with the weird little gun thing. I can't remember the name of that game, but I know that game does exist. I was going to say one or three, but three, I mean, that's high odds. There's a game. Yeah, there's a, it's, well, I mean, that's not an indie game, but it's, that's got to exist. I mean, there's a million like that, I would think.

Indy Dark Souls game. So you want to say number one? One. One. All right. Number one. One is the incorrect answer, gentlemen. That is a game called Gunner.

umbrella. Gun umbrella? I've never heard of gun umbrella in my life, dude. How have you never heard of gunbrile, bro? I know. Yeah, gunbrella is actually really fun. So is it number two then? It is

number two. That is not exist. I was thinking, you know which game I'm talking about where it's like you have this weird looking little gun and it's all dark and then it lights up like the people are just little dots and it makes like a little 3D representation like because your guy is blind or something. I know what you're talking about, but

that's not this. This is specifically was my idea of what I would do for a PS1 horror game that are so popular. Gunbrella looks like Batman the animated series like the intro. It does. It's very dark and sad. I will say that. So what was game number three Ace? Oh, game

number three was Salton Sanctuary. I heard that just tough. Which is actually one of my favorite games. The art's not very good. Did you say that has like one of the hardest boss fights in it? It has some of the hardest boss fights I've ever encountered. So if you don't build yourself correctly, you

just get mopped over and over again. But Salt and Sanctuary is basically 2D Dark Souls. You bet you had it right. Is he going to keep a score? I feel like we're two, what are we two? We got two. No, we have one, whoa, whoa, one win, one tie and one loss so far. So we've, yeah.

Oh, man. One one and one. All right. One one and one. We're spreading it out. We're spreading it out. Here we go. Ready for round four, boys?

Yeah, let's do it. All right. Ryan, I'm going to need your help on these, buddy. Come on, man. You're the one that's been guessing wrong. We're a team, remember? Remember we're a team for the umbrella loss? I'm going to let Ryan, you're running with this one, Ryan.

All right. Game number one is a low-poly 3D fishing game and virtual chatroom hangout. Game number two is an absurd British comedy adventure where even normal conversations spiral into elaborate comedic twists. Game number three is a farming sim where crops mutate based on the seismic activity you trigger underground Ryan Ryan

he's thinking so hard all these games are so ridiculous I know they really are really ridiculous and this batch especially so wait a fishing sims slash chat room that sounds vaguely familiar that sounds vaguely familiar like that one might actually exist

because it's so dumb that I think somebody probably did come up with that one So I don't think it's number one. Are you Googling? Is Ryan Googling right now? Ryan, are you Googling my descriptions? Oh, no, no. Oh, okay.

Oh, are you going to, like I can remember your descriptions? Are you kidding me? I can't remember what I did yesterday. Like, I'm going to remember descriptions. He's got AI listening into my cocks. There you go, going to Google this weird fishing game chat room. He might find things he might not like.

I know, right? I think number one might exist, Ryan. Number two, I don't even remember what the description on that one was, but number three, the weird crops of seismic activity sounds too weird to be true. Isn't there? Read the second description, Ace. Yeah. You know, with the second description, it's an absurd British comedy adventure game

where even normal conversations spiral into elaborate comedic twists. So money Python, basically. is there a money python game is it andy is the question like how does a conversation so it'd have to be a conversation based game that then gets weird yeah I feel like there's a gajillion

farming sims out there so it's probably more likely that there's a farming sim sim I love right I'm gonna let you pick on this I don't think it's number one is my take now it's just if it's two or three Don't let us down, Ryan

Read me three again Three is a farming sim Where crops mutate based on seismic activity You trigger underground Let's uh That's gotta exist Freaking everybody wants to make a farming sim man I'm leaning towards two dude

I'm leaning two also Yeah let's do two Let's lock in two Two is incorrect That game exists We're so bad Three was in fact the made-up game. What game is number two?

The game number two is a game called, Thank goodness you're here. It is an absurd British comedy game where you walk around this ridiculous town and the only interactions you have is smacking people to interact with them. Oh my gosh. This is ridiculous.

It's hilarious. I will give it that. And number one was a game called web fishing. Yeah, see, I feel like number one actually existed, man. Yeah, we had it down to two or three, right. You guys had it. You had it very close and you fumbled it at the end. The fact that that game exists is, what are we doing, people?

What are we doing? And how did you find all these games, Ace? That's the other thing, man. Oh, I have a confession. I'm like, this is just Monty Python, which I'd love. No slander, but I was like, but that game can't exist, man. All right, we'll do round five, and then we need to take. take a quick ad rig.

All right. You guys should be able to get this one, I think. I'm confident in your abilities this time. Game number one is a drifting shrine that rearranges its layouts every day as you attempt to catalog its relics and find the treasure hidden within. Game number two is a life sim frontier where you ranger hyperactive slime creatures, manage corrals, and build an ecosystem fueled by adorable chaos. Game number three is an underwater descent.

into a rogue like abyss to gather Brian and conquer the depths. Oh, it's number one then. Because number two, yeah, three is abysis and two is, uh, I know the game. I just, I just drew a blank,

but two absolutely exists. So it's number one. Yeah, it's number one. Number one does not exist. Wait, read the description for number two again. I know this game. Oh,

you know number two? It's a life sim frontier where you wrangle hyperactive slime creatures. It is slime rancher. Yeah, that is correct. See, I knew that one. Yeah. I don't even have to give like other script.

for Slym Rancher because I just did. That is what Slymercher is. You wrangle these little guys. And of course, number three is Abyssus. That was a give me. Because I freaking. This gave us Abyssus, Ryan. Because he's like, oh, I did.

At this point, they're probably idiots. They've probably only gotten like one of these right. I wasn't sure where we would be by now. I'll be honest. With the brine. We're about where I expected. We're losing horribly. Well, audience, I'll just say, it's not a lie to you that we'll be right back

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truth is a lie. It wasn't lying. I wasn't lying. I'm still here. We're still here. It's a solid job. How are you feeling, gents? We're halfway through. What's our score? Are you keeping score A? Feeling, why is it, one, one, and three? I believe we're two, too, actually now.

Oh, no, yeah, we got two. It's probably two one and two. Yeah, you have two. It's two two two two. Oh, we're doing good, dude. Oh, wait, we're tied right now? Yeah, let's go right. We're tied right now.

Ace King trick us. Knuckles, bro. Yeah, we'll see about that. Round six. Game one, you play a synthetic heroine who roars through a dystopian world with hyperviolent melee combat and an over-the-top comic book art style. game two a gloomy castle where restoring color

unlocks elemental forms that reshape combat and movement with your ghost teddy bear. Game three is a roguelike shooter set inside an abandoned theme park where rides randomly malfunction as levels. I think it's number three again. Do you?

I feel like number two. There's something about a castle being gray and color and stuff like that. Number one, I know that game. I feel like it's number three I'm kind of surprised how often you actually like can spark when I when I brought up a game before

I'll be honest I'll remember them all just vaguely I'm just like vague like little fake memories I think it's number three Ryan what do you think read three again a rogue like shooter set inside an abandoned theme park where rides randomly malfunction as the levels

that seems that seems weird even for Andy you think that three you think it's three three you got it it is three it does not exist good job wait read

read one again because I think I know this one a synthetic heroin roars to a dystopian world oh that's the game I wanted to play it starts with an S right does not with a

with hyper violent melee combat in an over the top comic book art style this is the game I wanted to pick up for a while what's the name of it it's cookie cutter okay never mind it wasn't cookie cutter

I was not way off I was thinking the man there was that weird cyberpunk game it's oh man I can't remember the name of it now I'll think of it here at a minute but you'll think of it later I'm sure and then game two

was a game called nine years of shadows which is you play as this girl who breaks into this gloomy castle and starts restoring the color within and it's a really good game I'll be honest I was thinking of signalis that's the one what I thought you were talking about with number one. I was like, it starts with an S

and I couldn't remember what it was, but. It does not. Oh man, now I'm not feeling so comedy. She has a, yeah, because it's got the female protagonist, uh, it's violent, blah, blah, blah. Signallis is very good. Yeah, I will say that. It's not like hyper melee focus, though. It's more like resonative-able style. Okay.

Very slow, Ryan. Three to two. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it, buddy. Let's do it, buddy. All right, boys, we're on round seven. Game one is a lantern-driven dungeon crawler where your light source burns your own life bar to build your sanity bar. Game two is a group of reporters head to the

front lines to capture pictures of an ongoing alien invasion. Game three is a creature collecting sandbox where you automate bases, explore biomes, and fight alongside your captured allies. It's one or three. Two is a, uh, what is it?

Hi, what's the, what's the I can't tell you. Not you. Josh with people taking pictures of aliens yeah it's the gosh high line or whatever what is it called hotline Miami

not that's a different hotline Miami is quite a guess where you go out he didn't play it with us it's not number two oh did yeah he did you go out with the cameras and the video cameras and we take pictures of all the crap and then we fly the helicopter oh headliners headliners I kept one

to say highline. Is that what he just described as number two? You're probably right. Yeah. Reporters head to the front lines to capture pictures of your ongoing alien or what you said one or three.

Yeah, it's one or three. Yeah. What's what you got tell you? Yeah, he wants you to pick one. Well, I want you to tell me and then I'll pick the opposite. Oh, now you're playing against each other. No, no.

We're on the same team. This is total cooperative right now. read me one again one is a creature collecting sandbox where you automate bases explore biomes and no that was number three explore biomes and fight alongside your captured allies

huh that was number three oh I thought you wanted me sorry oh no one one is a lantern driven dungeon crawler where your only light source burns your life bar to build your sanity isn't that like midday walk yeah I think it's no

well three is like Pokemon though is that is three Power? But. Ooh. Ace is trying to keep poking face. It is. It's number,

let's go number one, Ryan. I just looking at Ryan's face. When he went, one. Let's do one. Let's do one. One, lock it in. We're going on one.

You got it, boy. Yeah. You did. You figured it out of the end that three is power. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Once you said Power world, I was like, oh, that's right. Yeah, I saw Ryan's like his brain. I saw Ace try to keep a straight face. And when he tried to keep a straight face, that's when I knew it was right because he was like he's not reacting at all.

Bro. Yeah. And you were absolutely right on two. Ryan, it's the headliners. Headlines. Yeah. You're new indie experts.

Yeah. You know what, Ryan? You know what I'm really realizing through this game is we are not idiots, man. Speak for yourself. All right. That's fair. What's that puts you guys at? 4.3.

4.3 and 4-3 and 4-3 and 1, which means there's only two left. So unless we miss both of these, we can't lose. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see how you do. Round eight, boys. Game one is a descent into a thousand rooms that begins cute and harmless before slowly revealing increasingly dangerous threats.

Game two is a psychological horror experience disguised as a retro virtual pet program that begins interfering with your systems. Game three is a turn-based tactical. game where your units evolve by mixing color-coded classes together like paint it's number three number one is the back rooms number two is that weird game that ace brought up when we were covering dokey dokey so it means it goes into your computer yeah it's three three son of a gun yes did not expect you guys to remember you you mentioned some weird little dog thing that you said broke the fourth wall and that's what game i i don't remember the game at all because i was like

this sounds crazy i did not expect you guys to remember a canido pet we have like Yeah, little glimpses of what... Yeah, that you guys got it. Yeah, good job, Jans. You might be old, A's, but the memory is sharp, buddy. What did you, what did you think number one was? Uh, the back rooms? No, it's actually Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion.

Okay, but the same thing. Whatever, we got it right. Yeah, well, that's the game work. It's the same thing. Same thing, tomato tomorrow. Yeah, moving on. The whole point is that you're going through a thousand of these floors to get to the, hopefully exit of this mansion.

and as the further you go in the more corrupt and terrifying it's basically a glorified walking sim but it's terrifying it looks like super mario graphics you know i'll give you that we can't we can't 64 sorry yeah we can't you guys it's we're playing with house money now baby wait yeah wait it's five to three now right 5 3 1 5 3 we can't even tie we win right but we're let's go ahead hey let's give us your next little indie game dude Just give us, come on, try. This was the easy one. All right.

Round nine, a rodent prince battles grotesque invaders in a hand-drawn medieval land using deliberate stamina-based combat. Tales of iron. Game two is a shifting city where you must deliver cursed packages that alter the space around you, sending you through space and time.

Game three is an eight-bit precision platformer homage to retro action games filled with themed levels and magical relic upgrades. it's number two I was gonna say two as well yeah it's number two two son of a gun you got it's number two yeah number two does not exist

obviously game one is tails of iron yep uh we've talked about tails of iron tons I freaking love tails of iron so my rat obsession really starts with any games read three again can you guess what three was read it again I want to try to guess

eight bit precision platformer homage to retro action games filled with themed levels and magical relic upgrades. Gosh, that could be a million games. I feel like that's either Celeste. I think that's Celeste. It's Shovel Knight. Okay, Shovel Night was the other one.

I couldn't remember if Shovel Night had the relics or not. I couldn't remember that. Yeah. It was one of the two. All right. Round 10, boys. This is the one to take it home. I'm proud of you.

You've learned so much. All right. Round 10. Game one is a narrative turn-based RPG. where morality, humor, and unconventional problem-solving reshape the world around you. Game two is a fast-paced action game built on branching builds, tight combat,

and narrative woven through repeated attempts. Game three is a Metroidvania where leveling up causes enemy AI to dynamically rewrite their attack behavior to adjust to your new abilities. I feel like all these exist, except for maybe number three. No Indies use an AI.

I was going to say, that's a lot of... That's a little complicated. Enemy AI is not the same as regular AI. It's the same as programming or regular anime. I know. I'm just saying, but I can't adapt to your skills. Like, that's too hard to code. These are indie studios.

Yeah. Skills. Yeah. Read one again. One was a narrative term-based RPG where morality, humor, and unconventional problem solving reshaped the world. I think that's Disco Elysium. That's what I was thinking.

Because it's unconventional and has morality meters. So that's got to be disco. two is every roguelike ever made because there was nothing defining about two yeah read number two again a fast paced action game built on branching builds

tight combat and narrative woven through repeated attempts yeah that's a roguelike it's a very specific roguelike I think but you know whatever is it's trying to sell us on it yeah interesting I think it's number three Let's just do

We got house money, bro I know we got house money Yeah we're something matter three Number three Number three is the correct answer It does not exist There is no Metroid There is no Metroidvania

With evolving enemy That's why I said That's too hard to code man That's right away I was like Wouldn't that be cool Wouldn't that be cool It would be cool That would be cool

Of course it would be cool Or annoying Because it's like bro Every time it's better They just get better You guys thought The first game was Disco Yeah

it is not Disco It is actually Undertale Oh Undertail is Yep Okay Undertale is all about that morality

And all that Number two Number two is Hades It's like every roguelike ever Though It was like such a generic No but the narrative of Hades Is it's what makes you keep going

That's what makes it special Other roguiles don't have narratives ace I'm telling every end developer you said that Oh They don't Not as much as Hades does Does the Bistis have a narrative? Yeah, that's okay. A business does. You're trying to get the brine. So you could get the brine. Kill bad guys. Get brine. Yeah. Kill bad guys. Get brine. Get paid. Yeah. Get paid. Easy. I'm impressed, guys. You did better than expected. You actually got quite a few. That's right. That's right. Listeners out there. Did you all know how many we knew? It's almost like we do a gaming podcast.

And if you want to learn all these indie games, listen, Thursdays, every Thursday for Ace's indie. this is proof that we listen to you ace and we actually like i know i was impressed i know i completely expected you know a lot of these to be completely forgotten about dude it's funny when he gives the description you're like i feel like i've heard this i know it yeah i don't know much about it but i know it's there somewhere let me dig in my brain for a minute i see i squeaked this in my ear once of something and i feel like i remember making fun of a fishing game that was a chat room too like that's the only like there was just some weird i was like this see this is something i would make fun of. What was that one called again? I feel like that's real

then. Webfishing. Web fishing. Yeah. Nobody play it. It has a big vulnerability in it where people can see your IP. Oh, that's not good. Yeah, the developer got chased off the internet for reasons we can't talk about here. Oh, okay. It's still

not the developer's fault, by the way. It's still overwhelmingly positive. Yeah, people love it. It's a great little thing. My spouse's Venom uses all the time. Just don't play it. Here's this really cool thing just don't do it guys it's dangerous i mean do it at your own risk how about that do it at your own risk like most things we're those convincing lies though anything that happens while you play

these games were those were those mostly convincing lies dude they were i'll be honest yes if if it wasn't for the fact that i actually knew some of the games you described yeah i would have no clue that the lies were actually lies like yeah yeah in fairness to all to everyone here. I only used games that are in my library. Oh, the games I own. I own all of these games that I spoke of today. That's, I mean, that's impressive, number one.

You even, like, created a game. Yeah, you made up a game that actually exists, Ace. Like, I know. I'm going to need you to go watch, Baba is you, so you're going to be like, oh my gosh, I really did just make that game up. Well, I hope everyone had a lot of fun playing along at home. This was awesome, dude.

Kudos, Ace, for coming up with this game and doing all the work on this one. absolutely crushed you. Okay, no about Ace. Ryan. Ryan, we crushed it, dude. We crushed it. I mean, Pat's on back. I mean, did you, did you think, like, you know, that we'd be this good at indie games and knowledge, like, when we came into this episode? When you're not professionals like us, you know, got a lot of time to learn about indie, I guess. Yeah.

The only one you guys, like, really missed was the, thank goodness you're here and the... Which I've never heard of him. Yeah, because that's a dumb... Yeah, that's it. British weird game play along Monty Python It's a very fun game It should probably be fun honestly

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