Episode Details

Both Toms join Chris to discuss Recursed, Bridge Constructor Portal, Gorogoa, GTA Online, PUBG, and the games we’re looking forward to in 2018.

Plus: a games-from-books jam idea that actually works, things horses don’t do, a bit of Mad Max, a whole lot of boats, and more. Boats.

• Here’s the IGF shortlist! Congrats, Tom!
• Baba Is You has a good trailer.
• Tom F has been playing the mind-bending Recursed.
• Chris has been playing Bridge Constructor Portal. He calls it ‘Bridge Simulator Portal’ for the duration of this episode, because he’s an idiot.
• Awesome Games Done Quick starts this weekend!
• Tom F and Chris have played Gorogoa.
• Tom S has been enjoying Mad Max, which is inexplicably a fiver.
• He’s also been working through GTA Online‘s excellent new heist.
• Chris has, like apparently everybody, been spending time in now-actually-out Plunkbag.
• Here are the games we discuss in our look forward to 2018:
  • Into The Breach
  • Spelunky 2
  • Death Stranding (maybe)
  • Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
  • BattleTech
  • Frozen Synapse 2
  • Wandersong
  • Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
  • Nimbatus
  • Untitled Goose Game
  • Sea of Thieves
  • HK (Untitled Cyberpunk Cat Game)
  • Ooblets
  • Skull & Bones
  • Abandon Ship
  • Pillars of Eternity II: D(r)eadfire
  • Sunless Skies
  • Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance
  • Project Tingler
  • Museum of Simulation Technology
  • #Wargames
  • Far Cry 5 (and the associated owning of James Davenport)
  • A Place for the Unwilling
  • A Way Out
  • No Truce W