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Another spooky month comes to a close, but we're not letting you go without talking about two of the most unique, interesting games of the damn year! First, a somber, disturbing small-town short story about a man who runs a doll shop. Second, a genre-bending otherworldly survival horror adventure that's a mix of pixel art and FMV cutscenes, full of suspense, horror, symbolism, personal drama, and lots of magic.

Also, an AI rant, because it's us. Happy Halloween, everyone.

GAMES MENTIONED:

• Fields of Mistria
• Welcome to Elderfield
• Echo Weaver
• Big Walk
• The Doll Shop
• Tenebris Somnia
• Florence
• Clock Tower

TIMESTAMPS

04:45 - What Have We Been Enjoying

07:00 - Roses: Fields of Mistria

20:30 - Matt: Echo Weaver

24:44 - Matt: Big Walk

32:15 - The Doll Shop (Spoiler Free)

39:30 - The Doll Shop (Spoilers)

1:06:00 - Tenebris Somnia (Spoiler Free)

1:40:55 - Tenebris Somnia (Spoilers)

2:18:40 - Goodbye!

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Are Matt and Roses here to talk about what a dork Shane Gillis is? Are they here to talk about how dumb the Tesla "Flying" Car is? Are they here to talk about the Play Date? Or The Shadows That Could Hear? Or a Zombified Angela Lansbury? NO! They're here to talk about Midnight Scenes. And they will. And it'll spook the pants off of you.

Put your pants back on, please!

GAMES MENTIONED:

• Root Bear
• The Whiteout
• Dig! Dig! Dino!
• Chance's Lucky Escape
• Gloom Gate
• HOUM
• Sound Mind
• Dimhaven - The Lost Source
• Myst
• Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place
• Midnight Scenes: Among Graves
• Rosewater
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• The Supper: New Blood
• Unwelcome
• The Librarian
• The Supper
• Tetris

TIMESTAMPS

09:39 - Play Date with Matt

13:11 - Gloom Gate

15:45 - HOUM

19:38 - Roses: Fields of Mistria

36:49 - Matt: Dimhaven - The Lost Source

43:55 - A Really Really Old Song

44:30 - Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place

1:03:00 - A Safe Space - SPOILERS

1:10:20 - Midnight Scenes: Among Graves

1:35:26 - Goodbye

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Roses and Matt attempt to scare each other by turning mundane stories into SpooOOOooOOooky stories.

After briefly discussing a few games they’ve been enjoying, Matt and Roses then deep dive into the next two installments of the Midnight Scenes, short episode games inspired by The Twilight Zone.

• Games Mentioned:
• Graveyard Keeper 2
• Servant of the Lake
• Final Fantasy: Resonance
• The Dark Dome Studios Games
• Cube Escape
• Midnight Scenes: The Highway
• Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note
• Midnight Scenes: The Nanny
• Midnight: Among the Woods

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After what could be the most alluring intro ever recorded, Matt and Roses discuss what they’ve been enjoying, promptly followed by finishing up the ULTIMATE RECOMMENDATION ELEGANZA EXTRAVAGANZA list. Roses gets too heated about Gone Home.

They then segue right in to spooky month with two lovely games from the Midnight Scenes series, horror games inspired by The Twilight Zone.

• Fields of Mistria
• Pilot Wings 64
• Desktop Explorer
• Librarian: Tidy Up The Arcane Library
• Mouthwashing
• Firewatch
• Gone Home
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• Night in the Woods
• Still Wakes the Deep
• Midnight Scenes: The Highway
• Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note

Roses got a Switch 2! So she can play Banjo-Kazooie again! Matt played an adorable, wholesome Metroidvania called The Merlies!

Then, we recommend a ton more games in a few more Adventure Game categories, and we WAYYYYYY overshoot for times and SPOILER: WE DON'T EVEN FINISH. But it's a hell of a fun time.

Games Mentioned:

• Banjo-Kazooie
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• The Merlies
• Nighthawks
• Clock Tower
• Scratches
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
• Slender: The Last 8 Pages
• At Dead of Night
• Nightmare Frames
• Burnhouse Lane
• Phantasmagoria
• The Last Door
• The Quarry
• Death of the Reprobate
• The Procession to Calvary
• Thank Goodness, You're Here
• Untitled Goose Game
• The Stanley Parable
• There is No Game
• Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
• Danganronpa
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
• The Wolf Among Us
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Overboard!
• Murder She Wrote
• My Brother Rabbit
• Family Mysteries
• Enigmatis
• Haunted Hotel
• Tower Full Of Cats

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Roses informs Matt about the strangest Mascot of all time before they both get into the next set of recommendations. Roses is confused about Banjo Kazooie and Matt isn't quite sure what a puzzle adventure game is.

Games Mentioned:

• Fields of Mistria
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
• Banjo Kazooie
• Psychonauts
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Final Fantasy VII
• Tunic
• Disco Elysium
• Esoteric Ebb
• The Quest for Glory Games
• Pokemon
• Citizen Sleeper 1 & 2
• Myst
• Blue Prince
• Outer Wilds
• Call of the Sea
• The Room
• Little Nightmares
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• The Witness
• Creaks
• Strange Jigsaws
• Limbo
• The Room VR
• I Expect you to Die
• Cube Escape Collection
• Is This Game Trying to Kill Me?
• Rusty Lake: Roots

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Not only are there so many adventure games out there, there are so many TYPES of adventure games out there! How do you know whether you're looking at a Deduction Game vs a Horror Game? A Puzzle Adventure Game vs an Escape Room Game? A Point and Click Game vs a Text Parser Game? Well, okay, you should probably be able to figure that last one out for yourself... but for everything ELSE, your old pals Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses are here!

In the first of a 3-part series, we not only set straight the different subgenres of "Adventure Game," we also reccomend our favorites of each.

And Matt played Wavetale finally.

Games Mentioned:

• WaveTale
• Curse of Monkey Island
• Nightmare Frames
• King's Quest (2015)
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Dropsy
• Unavowed
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
• The Crimson Diamond
• Colonel's Bequest
• Trilby's Notes
• The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
• Enclosure
• The Seance of Blake Manor
• L.A. Noire
• Tangle Tower
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
• The Forgotten City
• Chicken Police
• Paradise Killer
• Case of the Golden Idol
• The Return of the Obra Dinn
• Contradiction
• The Incident at Galley House
• Duck Detective: The Salami Boiz
• Chants of Senaarr
• Strange Horticulture
• Strange Antiquities
• Hatoful Boyfriend
• No I'm Not A Human
• Papers Please
• NUTS

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Roses is obsessed with Master Chef and Matt can't decide on whether he likes a new indie game or not.

After some failed attempts at negging, Roses and Matt discuss Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father in honor of the beloved Tim Curry, who played the titular character. Rest in Power, Legend.

Games Mentioned:

Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster

Toonstruck

Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick

Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity

Celestial Return

Aerial Knight's McFreezy

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within

Gabriel Knight: The Vampire One

Anything can happen, you guys. Even a new episode of Save Your Game! Matt and Roses go back into their detective kits, grab their sidekicks with the cool hair, and dive into an incredible mystery in the new Detective Grimoire game, The Mermaid Mask! Our SECOND amazing game with "mermaid" in the title this year! So we sit in our 2,000-mile-long room and record this incredible episode. Enjoy!

Games Mentioned:

• Fields of Mistria
• Stardew Valley
• Pokopia
• Animal Crossing
• The Mermaid Mask
• Tangle Tower
• Detective Grimoire
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Duck Detective

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PushingUpRoses and Special Boy Matt Aukamp overcome clicking bugs and sadness to bring you this absolute grab-bag of an episode! We talk about games! We talk about movies! We talk about palette knives! We answer emails! We rank games!

Come have fun with us in this mp3 file.

Games Mentioned:

• The Mermaid Mask
• Pokémon Scarlet
• Fields of Mistria
• Rainbow Billy and the Curse of the Leviathan
• The Life and Suffering of Sir Bronte
• King's Quest/Space Quest
• Jazz & Faust
• Dark Coolman
• Dark Earth
• The Chzos Mythos; Siberia; Grey Matter; Samarost; The Longest Journey; Enclosure; Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator; Apprentice; Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; Danganronpa; The Walking Dead; Firewatch; Broken Age; The Cave; Life is Strange; Braid; World of Goo; Hollow Knight; Shovel Knight
• Loom
• Crushed in Time
• Citizen Sleeper
• Gilbert Goodmate and the something of Phungoria
• David Slade Mysteries: Case Files
• Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey
• Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required
• The Shattering
• Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place

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Roses has the vapors over a man who left her life after being yelled at in a pottery studio. After she mourns this loss, she and Matt discuss the fun (but flawed) Letter Lost and the innovative mechanics of The Incident at Galley House

Games Mentioned:

• Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
• Pokopia
• Pokemon Sun/Moon
• Buncha Other Pokemon Games
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Banjo Kazooie
• Letter Lost
• Forbidden Solitaire
• The Roottrees are Dead
• Type Help
• The Incident at Galley House
• The Colonel’s Bequest
• Life is Short

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We've got for you, dear listeners, a DOUBLE FEATURE! Matt and Roses played a bizarre game about being trapped in a spooky, mysterious post office. AND THEN they played a point and click (and stretch) game about a Sherlock Holmes and Watson actively destroying the game they're starring in.

Also, the malls are closing :(

Games Mentioned:

• Gilbert Goodmate
• Krabat and the Secret of the Sorbian King
• Mina the Hollower
• Shovel Knight
• Letter Lost
• Strange Horticulture/Antiquities
• Papers Please
• Scratches
• Blue Prince
• There Is No Game
• Crushed in Time

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Matt and Roses BOTH play games from their ranking list that they both dislike, though one is grumpier about it than the other. See if you can tell which one.

After much rambling about classic point n clicks, Matt and Roses finally discuss (and gush over) the wonderfully written Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

Games Mentioned:

• Order of the Sinking Star
• The Witness
• Braid
• Boxl
• Sokoban
• Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria
• Jazz and Faust
• Dark Earth
• The Tragedy at Deer Creek
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station

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Roses and Matt reflect on things they may or may not be experts on, then chit chat about a game and a new show they've been enjoying.

While ranking every adventure game ever, Roses witnesses Matt, in real time, fall in love with two horrendous looking games.

Games Mentioned:

• If On A Winters Night, Four Travelers
• Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Fungoria
• My Brother Rabbit
• Portrait of a Torn
• Victor: A Steampunk Adventure
• Samudra
• Greyhat: A Digital Detective Adventure
• Dark Earth
• Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil
• Transylvania
• Jazz and Faust
• The Uncertainty: Last Quiet Day
• The Lure of the Temptress
• Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir
• Born Punk
• Muscarine AKA Erica's Trip

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There are two Matts on this show! But only for a second, then one Matt turns back into PushingUpRoses. We talk about a ridiculous YouTuber-inspired creationist movie, Improvised Shakespeare, and trying to manifest a meet-cute.

But, settle in folks, because the bulk of this episode is a break-down and basically gush-fest about the new(ish) adventure from Postmodern Games, The Dark Rites of Arkham. And now, we're both huge HP Lovecraft fans. Sorry...

Games Discussed:

• Mina the Hollower
• Shovel Knight
• Banjo Kazooey
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Nightmare Frames
• An English Haunting
• The Dark Rites of Arkham
• Dreams in the Witch House
• Darkside Detective
• Call of the Sea
• Call of the Elder Gods
• Shadow of the Comet
• Chronicle of Innsmouth
• The Terrible Old Man
• Dredge

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Lots of talk about drinks and convenience stores up top but I promise we talk about video games eventually! But if you're not here for talk about coffee, Wawa, and Food Truck driving/cooking game pitches, then why are you here at all??

Games Mentioned:

• Mina the Hollower
• The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
• Tunic
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• Subversive Memories
• Cult Vacui
• Dreams in the Witch
• The Last Door
• Excavation of Hob's Barrow

SPOILER SECTION: 1:14:30 - 1:21:24

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What part of your psyche makes you listen to podcasts? The Charisma of the hosts? Your unwavering Constitution to stand all the "ums" and corny jokes? The Intelligence that allows you to write corrective emails after evert episode? Whatever the case, we have a great podcast for you and it's all about a D&D/Disco Elysium-like called ESOTERIC EBB.

Matt and Roses gush over this incredibly special game. We also talk about about a chunk pixel-graphic horror game and a musical RPG??

Games Mentioned:

• Paradise Falls
• People of Note
• Esoteric Ebb
• Disco Elysium
• Baldur's Gate
• Knights of the Old Republic
• Quest for Glory V: Dragonfire
• Planescape: Torment
• Wildermyth
• Cult Vacui
• Myst

SPOILER SECTION: 1:33:00 - 1:40:00

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Roses is baffled as to how a weird demo got into her Steam library. Matt discusses a couple Play Date games and Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, followed by absolute gushing (on Roses’s part) about King’s Quest VII.

Games mentioned:

• Sinner’s Landing
• Chance’s Lucky Escape
• Long Puppy
• Grim Fandango
• Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
• The 100 Line: Last Defense Academy
• King’s Quest VII

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Roses is BACK with a new favorite thing and its cuteness is highly debatable. A lost segment TRIUMPHANTLY RETURNS. And Matt catches us up on some games he's been playing since the last episode.

Then, we grab our curse stones, throw on our diving shirts with our Seiman and Douman symbols, and leap into the water to face our Tomokazuki. It's time for another PARANORMASIGHT game, this one all about mermaids! And we fall in absolute love with it.

Games Discussed:

• Dig! Dig! Dino!
• The Whiteout
• Enclosure
• MIO: Memories in Orbit
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Lone Fungus
• The Hundred-Line Defense Academy
• Steins:Gate
• PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
• PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse
• Esoteric Ebb

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After Matt and Roses dive into the lore of “Bawitiba”, they come in hot with some exciting gaming news, then have a charming little conversation about a game on their ranking list!

Games Mentioned:

• Paranomasight: The Mermaid's Curse
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Mio: Memories in Orbit
• TR-49
• Danganronpa
• Strange Horticulture/Antiquities
• Astrologaster
• Orion Burger
• Pine Hearts
• Wavetale

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