Podcast Episodes

Short Game Classic – 51: Her Story

This week we were disrupted by the massive winter storms in Texas, so we are rereleasing this classic episode from 2015. Her Story is one of the best…

5 years, 4 months ago

261: Nuts

Why do these squirrels behave so strangely? Use cameras and other monitoring equipment to track their movement, and uncover the secret hiding in Melm…

5 years, 5 months ago

260: Bugsnax

Oh-oo-oh, we’re Talkin’ ’bout Bugsnax.

We covered Young Horses previous game, Octodad: Dadliest Catch way back in 2014, and here in 2021 they’re back…

5 years, 5 months ago

259: Eliza

Eliza is a near-future sci-fi story about the culture of tech, mental health, and the moral and ethical questions around the creation, use, and misus…

5 years, 5 months ago

258: Carto

We loved Carto, a friendly little puzzle adventure from developer Sunhead Games. It’s a breezy adventure that combines Carcassonne-style map tile lay…

5 years, 5 months ago

257: In Other Waters

In this “Narrative Exploration Game” by Gareth Damian Martin you play as an AI that inhabits an advanced dive suit worn by scientist Ellery Vas as sh…

5 years, 5 months ago

Short Game Classic – 13: Transistor

Transistor was The Short Game’s first Game of the Year, all the way back in 2014. This week we are re-releasing that episode, with some fresh Making …

5 years, 6 months ago

256: Game of the Year 2020

Thanks for sticking with us in 2020. We can’t wait to see what next year brings.

00:03:20: Game of the Year 2020: Kentucky Route Zero
00:12:44: Shane’…

5 years, 6 months ago

255: Orwell’s Animal Farm

Reigns developer Nerial worked with interactive fiction luminary Emily Short to adapt George Orwell’s classic allegory of the Russian revolution to v…

5 years, 6 months ago

254: The Pathless

Abzu developer Giant Squid and publisher Annapurna Interactive released The Pathless last month, in a strange launch that positioned the game as one …

5 years, 7 months ago