Episode Details

Graham, Tom F and Chris aim their laser-like takes to dismantle the zen pleasures of Hardspace: Shipbreaker, the tawdry traumas of The Last of Us Part II, the chaotic bird-butt coop of KeyWe and the narrative clunk of Cloudpunk.

• Do a physics on men, shelves and concrete, in this throwback shooter: Trepang2.
• Do a physics on spaceships and sometimes, accidentally, yourself, in fab extraterrestrial scrapyard game Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
• Do a psychology on dogs in finger-wagging misery-box
  The Last of Us Part II.
• Chaotic co-operative post-office management game: KeyWe.
• A Monster’s Expedition is a lovely puzzle game what our Pip done wrote for.
• Dystopian delivery driver game with disappointing dialogue: Cloudpunk
• Other games of the delivery driver genre:
  Eurotruck Simulator 2, Bus Simulator 18 and Elite Dangerous.
• And the burgeoning delivery-driver-with-narrative genre: Jalopy, Wheels of Aurelia and the really excellent Driver: San Francisco.
• A successful vertigo inducer: Against the Wall.
• Nu-Swede-o prog: Anekdoten and Gösta Berlings Saga.
• Recommended reading: Magic for Beginners and Wild Wood.
• Pulping vivisectionists is videogame jazz in Ape Out.
• Tom F didn’t fall in love with The Witcher 3.
• Graham seeks not the time-sink treadmill of Factorio.
• Was XCOM: Chimera Squad actually enjoyable?
• The original Mafia definitely wasn’t. And yet, beloved.
• A special kind of swearing is also reserved for the original Mirror’s Edge.

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