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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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

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 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Matt gets revenge on Roses for grilling him on Monkey Island by giving her a hard-AF King’s Quest Quiz! After she does mildly okay, they get back to ranking every adventure game ever. Games Mentioned: Hollow Knight: Silksong Kingdoms of the Dump Foolish Mortals Coven of the Chicken Foot Twenty Small Mazes Constance King’s Quest 1-7 Ranked: Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator Case 6 Am I? Whateverland Cosmology of Kyoto Nauticrawl Delores: A Thumbleweed Park mini adventure The Black Cauldron Room 208 Solaria Moon As Dusk Falls Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

WOW! Can you believe it, folks? 2025 is over, and we’re on to a new year. But wait! We have some unfinished business! We can’t move on to 2026 until we RANK THE BEST GAMES OF 2025! To help us in this endeavor, we bring along content creator and game curator CASEY EXPLOSION! Casey brings all their expertise and charm along to help us figure out our TOP TENs (or TOP SIXes, for some of us). Come learn about all the best games of 2025 with your pals Matt, PushingUpRoses, and Casey Explosion! 2025 Games Mentioned: Asylum Bye Sweet Carole Easy Delivery Company Duskpunk CARIMARA: Between the forlorn pines Demon School The Séance of Blake Manor Guns of Fury Cabernet Promise Mascot Agency Dark Queen of Mortholme Dispatch Power Wash Simulator 2 Silent Hill F KINGDOMS OF THE DUMP STRANGE JIGSAWS PIPISTRELLO AND THE CURSED YOYO ROSEWATER BLUE PRINCE STRANGE ANTIQUITIES THE DRIFTER CITIZEN SLEEPER II: STARWARD VECTOR DUCK DETECTIVE 2: THE GHOST OF GLAMPING ABSOLUM HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG ÖOO NO, I’M NOT A HUMAN OLD SKIES CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 LOOK OUTSIDE Other Games Mentioned: Scratches Snowrunner Citizen Sleeper Frog Detective Small Saga Paradise Killer Styx: Blades of Greed The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon Perfect Tides: Station to Station Esoteric Ebb Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Merry Christmas everyone! And, as it's Christmas, we're here giving you the traditional holiday experience of a ghost-related detective mystery in a haunted mansion on Samhain! Ok... So... maybe we're a little late with this. BUT, as Roses and Matt are catching up on 2025 games, we both played the EXCELLENT Seance of Blake Manor and we want to talk to you about it! Plus, a lil' bit of Christmas, too! Games Mentioned: Strange Jigsaws Bye, Sweet Carole Foolish Mortals Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? Seance of Blake Manor The Excavation of Hob's Barrow The Colonel's Bequest The Dagger of Amon Ra The Roottrees Are Dead Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses has been busy watching Amish Holiday Films, but Matt is able to tell us about a new game called DuskPunk (not to be confused with DustPunk). Then Roses "surprises" Matt with an array of adventure game trivia games, including our famed segment "How Much Do My Pants Weigh?" Games Mentioned: DuskPunk Pokemon Disco Elysium King's Quest 5 and 6 The Monkey Island Games Zak McKracken Myst Gabriel Knight Sam and Max Hit the Road Dagger of Amon Ra Animal Well Firewatch Police Quest 3 Grim Fandango Sanitarium Trivia Game Screen Caps: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTs0YCo7JlhFCNHwiAv71wmBzXPLmyMNZ4Cgw&s https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVlfOJ7i6SZUaC6tsoI6rjBtDs_fKYPdyHvA&s

We're back from London! And we haven't changed a bit. Nope, not us. We sound and act exactly the same as before we spent some time on the British Isles. So come join us for a spot of tea as we talk about ADVENTURE X, THE GREATEST GAMING CONVENTION ON EARTH. Matt and Roses discuss their trip, the con, the demos they played, and then take YOUR LISTENER QUESTIONS until they're sick to their frickin' stomachs! Games Mentioned: Winter Burrow Strange Jigsaws Baba is You There Is No Game Foolish Mortals Pippistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores The Dark Room with John Robertson Blue Prince Contradiction The Roottrees are Dead Her Story Immortality Mouthwashing Sanitorium The Chzos Mythos (Trilby Games) 7 Days a Flumpy Broken Age Adventure X Demos: Asocial Giraffe* Ashwood Conspiracy Behind the Hydra's Eyes Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror REFORGED Chance's Lucky Escape* City of Voices* Contact Protocol DEAD HAND: RED STAR Dark Tides Dolos: Your Best Future Duskpunk* Esoteric Ebb* Expelled Freida is Changing* Ghost Haunting In Their Shoes* Legends of Castille * MAW Minddiver Mithra Mops & Mobs Panthalassa* Spirits of the Afterland Sleepytime Village The Beekeeper's Picnic* The Dark Queen of Mortholme* The Midnight Barber The RATLINE The Seance of Blake Manor* The Tragedy at Deer Creek* Trance Theft Horso Truer Than You Vice Undercover* We Stay Behind Your Crown is Mine * - games we highlight in the episode Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast Show less

It's early in the morning and PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp have woken up specifically to do the duty that no one else is brave enough to do -- They rank every adventure game ever. BUT FIRST, believe it or not, they've BOTH played a ton of games! Matt's got some spooky new mystery games to tell you about and Roses has plunged face first into some cozy sims!! Then, of course, we do what we must. Games Mentioned: Winter Burrow The Séance of Blake Manor Fields of Mistria My Time at Portia Foolish Mortals War of the Western Deep Strange Jigsaws Baba is You Astrologaster Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise Sender Unknown: The Woods SIMULACRUM Emily is Away The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything Biohazard: Escape Room Machinika: Museum Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com OFFICIAL RANKING SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11bDfPsY0tpw6m3b3EZZiY3xWuCYz4CMlMaOHST44yTA/edit?usp=sharing Roses' video on Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence with YakWaxLips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3zV8RY9NI Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Velcome everyone. Earth is Purgatory! For our FINAL EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH, we start off with a spooky folk story, and then a TON of Next Fest demos! Then we talk about a disturbing horror game about answering your door in the apocalypse, and a game about a naughty boy who runs with scissors. Games Mentioned: No I’m Not a Human The Berlin Apartment Nighthawks Servant of the Lake Earth Must Die! Séance of Blake Manor Perfect Tides: Station to Station Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club Cult Vacui The Dark Rites of Arkham The Last Case of John Morley Father Winter Burrow Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence The Tragedy at Deer Creek Papers Please Myst Clock Tower Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

SPOOKY MONTH CONTINUES! With Roses really wanting a coffee and Matt wanting to figure out how to make baths less hot. After a quick discussion about spookycute game CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs, they dive headfirst into the horrifying waters of Mouthwashing! Games Mentioned: Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs Inscryption No, I'm Not Human Mouthwashing Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

We journey deeper into SPOOKY MONTH, past the thorny brambles, through the crumbling graveyard, over the alien’s house, into the haunted church where we find our two heroes, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses, cowering in the corner, hiding from the goblins and playing video games. This week, Roses played a harrowing psychological horror game (MORE ON THIS NEXT WEEK), Matt played a cute retro platformer, and then we dive into two spooky games! First, NINE WITCHES: FAMILY DISRUPTION, a spooky/wacky point-and-click about witches and aliens and curses and Nazis. Then, BYE SWEET CAROLE, a masterfully animated mesh of adventure genres, that’s like a playable dark fantasy Disney movie. Games Mentioned: Mouthwashing Crow Country Lust from Beyond Pippistrello and the Cursed Yoyo Nine Witches: Family Disruption Bye Sweet Carole Clock Tower Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Take your pants off and run and hide, folks, because EPISODE SIXTY-NINE IS FALLING IN THE MIDDLE OF SPOOKY MONTH! It’s time to hump a dracula, french a skelerton, jack off with a swamp creature, and yell BOO at your partner when you climax. In this episode, we’re going to get really fucking gross because we’re talking about the erotic horror adventure game Lust From Beyond. And, spoilers folks: We’re not fans! So go grab your condom that you drew little ghost eyes on and lean back and enjoy Matt and Roses console themselves from playing this goddamn game. Games Mentioned: Quest for Glory Pippistrello and the Cursed Yoyo Centum Hollow Knight: Silksong Lust from Beyond Silent Hill Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

It's time for SPOOKY MONTH once again! Mwahahaha!! Matt has been raptured but don't worry, he still has access to the internet and can play games when he's not being harassed by St. Peter. Matt and Roses then discuss the spooky nature of Quest for Glory 4, an adventure RPG hybrid with questionable choices, but amazing world building. Games mentioned: Eulogy for Nonno Dad’s Monster House 2 Hollow Night: Silksong Quest for Glory 1-3 Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness Quest for Glory 5 King’s Quest Dagger of Amon Ra Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father Join our discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast Email us at MattandRoses@gmail.com

Very weird cold open this week (aren't they all?), and then Roses and Matt get some gripes about GAMING CULTURE™ off of their chests before talking about some really amazing games! Matt played a promising demo for War of the Western Deep and an amazing short indie game called The Dark Queen of Mortholme. Roses and Matt both get excited about games that are either discovered or released during the recording of the show. And then, after a brief recollection of Strange Horticulture, we go in deep to talk about all the things we loved (and it’s pretty much all the things) about Strange Antiquities! Games Mentioned: Leisure Suit Larry Hollow Knight: Silksong Plumbers Don't Wear Ties Cabernet War of the Western Deep Brok the InvestiGator Date Everything The Dark Queen of Mortholme Dad's Monster House 2: Medal Strange Horticulture Strange Antiquities Stardew Valley Papers Please Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com AND join our brand new DISCORD SERVER https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV

This week, Roses's Google Home becomes possessed and Matt cannot stop talking about Little Problems. The game, not his PERSONAL little problems. Then, Matt and Roses discuss a much-anticipated title from Grundislav Games - Rosewater! And well I'll be, it sure was a fun romp in the American Frontier. Games mentioned: Hollow Knight: Silksong Little Problems The Golden Idol games Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon Rosewater Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Ok, let's address the spider in the room: We could not find a way to play the Naked Gun game BUT we do come to you this week with stories of black jelly beans aand Roses dumping a scooter. Also, Matt is playing Hollow Knight: Silksong and has a lot to say about it. Then, Matt recently got to play a PushingUpRoses favorite, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon! Some come on a journey with us and Jake Stonebender through time and space and a cozy little bar while we SAVE THE UNIVERSE! Games Mentioned: Hollow Knight: Silksong Blasphemous Unbound: Worlds Apart Lone Fungus Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus Nine Sols Rosewater Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Jezzball The Journeyman Project The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

WHY DON’T THEY HAVE WRESTLING MATCHES IN PUMPKIN PATCHES!? This isn’t the set-up to a street joke, this is a genuine question that Matt has. Roses watched a fake movie starring Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson. Matt played a “stealth team tactics game” with ghost pirates. BUT the real story here is that PushingUpRoses and Matt replayed a classic game from their youths that features a live-acted Christopher Lloyd in a fully cartoon world. It’s called Toonstruck and it rules and the only bad thing about it is that they never released a sequel. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com GAMES MENTIONED: The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P. Rusty Lake Series Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew Sword Game Toonstruck Grim Fandango Torin’s Passage

We begin by answering the BIG question: What happened to Sobe? And then we talk about video games, I guess. Because that’s what you demand of us. THIS WEEK we rank a bunch more adventure games – WHETHER WE’VE PLAYED THEM OR NOT. After Matt tells everyone about a free Rusty Lake game, we dive into the List ™ and throw 10 new games on our DEFINITIVE list! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: The Beekeeper’s Picnic The Drifter The Dagger of Amon Ra The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show Rusty Lake Series Turlock Holmes Toska Rosewater Reviver Quantum Witch Session Neon Hearts City Expelled Canteloupe Chronicles New Mage Urban Myth Resolution Center Slender Threads Time Paradox Helheim Hassle Forgotten Hill Tales Softporn Adventure Saint Kotar The Shine of a Star Love: A Puzzle Box Filled With Stories American Arcadia Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb The Labyrinth of Time

Deep down under, Roses and Matt cast off their possessions and hop a freight train car into a world of HIGH OCTANE EXCITEMENT and POINT AND CLICK PUZZLES. We're talking about the Drifter. And we played a couple of other very good games. Lot of hyped-up energy this episode! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: The Beekeeper's Picnic: A Sherlockian Adventure Öoo Bomberman The Drifter Sanitarium Return of the Obra Dinn Myst

GOOD ARTIST. We're back again to give you a dive so deep on Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer that MAYBE one of us cries! Who's to tell? Matt played a straight-up action/arcade game and a weird little puzzle game. Roses went to the circus! And what's that? We get to move one of our rankings?? Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Isoland Pumpkin Town Sunset Hills Checkers Space Quest IV Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer Pine Hearts

We have a bit of a different episode for you today. This is the story of Adventure Gamers: A decades-old website dedicated to Adventure Games and their fans that was recently bought out by a mysterious compaany and hollowed out for the promotion of online gambling and cryptocurrency. Matt and Roses chat with John Walker, Timothy Malmros, Jack Allin, and Emily Morganti to help to provide insights into what Adventure Gamers meant to them, what the hell happened to it, why it happened, and what the future is for Adventure Game fans looking for a home. Email us: mattandroses@gmail.com You can read John Walker’s article here: https://kotaku.com/adventure-gamers-forums-gambling-ads-jack-allin-1851784764 You can read Timothy Malmros’s coverage of Click Out Media here: https://recleudo.com/under-googles-blind-eye-a-growing-parasite-ecosystem-is-flourishing/ In case you haven’t heard of it, Jack Allin’s new website: https://adventuregamehotspot.com/ Game Boomers: https://www.gameboomers.com/ The infamous Old Man Murray article: https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html Emily Morganti’s website: http://emilymorganti.com/ And here is some other coverage we used to prepare for this episode: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/developers-saddened-by-beloved-adventure-game-sites-pivot-into-world-of-online-gambling https://aftermath.site/adventure-gamers-online-casino-gambling-website-sale-parasite-seo Games Mentioned: Beekeeper’s Picnic Baldur’s Gate II Dune Awakening Sins of a Solar Empire II Frostpunk Ixion Keeper Shadow of Destiny Peasants Quest Universal Paperclips

Uh oh, everyone. We’re BACK! And we have a pretty strange episode for you all. You’ll just have to hear what happened for yourself. Matt also finished Clair Obscur, and Roses finished her move and little clay worm, so… We talk about that. Regardless, wish Matt luck on his last week of college and wish Roses luck on her vacating the black mold from her lungs. Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com Instagram: @saveyourgamepodcast Games Mentioned: Fall Guys Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 The Abyssal Zone The Abyssal Zone Chop Suey Magnus Imago The Suicide of Rachel Foster Corpse Party: Book of Shadows Lunar Axe Sleuthhounds: The Halloween Deception Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy The Room VR: A Dark Matter

There’s an important moment in every podcast’s life where they finally have to broach that inevitable conversation… The chomping/champing at the bit conversation. And Matt and Roses finally get there as Matt discusses his favorite new French RPG, CLAIR OBSCUR. Then the gang discuss a hilarious, cozy new detective game DUCK DETECTIVE: THE GHOST OF GLAMPING. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: Blue Prince Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Chrono Trigger Thank Goodness You’re Here Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping Duck Detective: The Secret Salami Rosewater Expelled! Neon Hearts City Near-Mage Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer Rue Valley Strange Antiquities The Mermaid Mask Foolish Mortals Perfect Tides: Station to Station Greenhearth Necromancer

Matt’s been digging into some old RPGs on his Retroid Pocket, but this pales in comparison to PushingUpRoses’ excitement for a CHICAGO POPE! Also, we do a deep dive into Wadjet Eye’s new epic point-and-click adventure OLD SKIES, which somehow devolves into a long discussion of cake. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Chrono Trigger X-Men: Legends Old Skies Wanderstop

Oh, what? They're talking about Zelda AGAIN!? Yes. And if you listened to the last episode, you'd know that. Stop playing dumb. We left you with half of the Zelda's to go and in this ep, we finish 'em off. Plus, Roses and Matt both played games by former guests of the show. Matt played some of the new* Indiana Jones. And a game that falls short of its demo? Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned Old Skies Rosewater Blue Prince Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Deck of Haunts Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping Final Fantasy VIII Zelda: Four Swords Adventures Zelda: The Minish Cap Zelda: Twilight Princess Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Zelda: Spirit Tracks Zelda: Skyward Sword Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Zelda: Breath of the Wilds Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Zelda is the story of a little blonde elf boy named Zelda who go on adventure and kill a big green pig man to save the princess who is named Princess. Join us as we, Zeldo expert, talk about the boy Zeldo and his big mighty sword and all the Princess he save with him boom-o-rang. Join us as we seek the Triforce and scour some dungeons with our main man Tingle I mean Zelbo I mean Zelda. PLUS: Roses is back from Mexico! Matt, your next Pope(??), played a weird game about pimping out mascots. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: “Christ Fighter” Bibleman Promise Mascot Agency Blue Prince The Legend of Zelda Zelda II: The Adventures of Link A Link to the Past Link’s Awakening Ocarina of Time Majora’s Mask Oracle of Seasons* Oracle of Ages* Four Swords* Wind Waker

On this podcast, we're not afraid to venture the bravest, boldest opinions. The opinions THEY don't want you to hear. Opinions like: Myst should have a jump button. A LOT of Chicago talk in this one, because Roses had a birthday and Matt went out to celebrate. We talk about pizza, Malort, a weird collectibles store... you know, Chicago stuff! But the TRUE STAR of this episode is our now-infamous list of EVERY ADVENTURE GAME EVER where we pull games up at random and rank them whether we've played them or not! In this episode, we reach 100 games! Enjoy and feel free to email us to argue if we get something wrong! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned - Look, it's way too many to list, so this time? I'm just gonna list the three we talk about that don't have to do with our ranking list: Myst Blue Prince Rosewater

Listen, the first 15 minutes of this podcast are about hair. We understand the inconvenience this may cause you. You expect a certain level of non-hair content from us, and we have failed to fulfill this responsibility. We will take accountability and reflect on our actions (and our hair) and, while we cannot promise that we won't do it again, we can promise that we had fun when we did it. In addition to this, Matt has more to say about Blue Prince, and both hosts have more to say about Wanderstop. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: Myst Blue Prince Animal Well Wanderstop Stardew Valley

A very sleepy Matt and a very inspired PushingUpRoses welcome an incredible guest onto the show to talk about one of the weirder games we've ever played. Musician, video producer and hella talented dude Neil Cicierega is on the show to talk about playing adventure games as 90's kid -- your dad bringing home shareware adventure games to install on your Windows 3.1 PC and the entire family puzzling over it over weeks, months, and years -- and how to pass that experience on to your kids. We also do a surprisingly DEEP dive into a bizarre 1993 game Cliff Bleszinski designed in Visual Basic when he was 17, called Dare to Dream. It goes... places. Like literal Hell. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: King Quest VI Icon Architect 1.0 Dare to Dream Hugo’s House of Horrors Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist There Is No Game Unforeseen Incidents Day of the Tentacle The Dig Wanderstop Blue Prince Palace of Deceit Jazz Jackrabbit Curse of Monkey Island Monster Breeder

This week, Matt and Roses are joined by the first developer we ever talked about on this show, MEREDITH GRAN, the creative force behind Perfect Tides and the upcoming Perfect Tides: Station to Station. We take some time to discuss our feet before discussing art, nostalgia, and the creative decisions by – let’s face it – one of our favorite frickin’ games. Then, we spend a LOT of time talking about a game that is FAR from our favorite: Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist. And we’re sorry*. *we aren't Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: Perfect Tides Perfect Tides: Station to Station The Dig Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist

It’s been a wild (sic) since we’ve done a Q & A, so we address topics like our favorite references in games, games that we liked as kids but disliked as adults, Roses’ favorite Carmen Sandiego, and what franchises we’d like to see as adventure games! But first, we talk about our thoughts on Wanderstop, which is an incredibly unique and interesting game. And Matt drinks a lot of tea. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: Fields of Mistria Wanderstop Hugo’s House of Horrors Conker’s Bad Fur Day Spyro the Dragon Sonic the Hedgehog Grim Fandango Curse of Monkey Island Dreams in the Witch House Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon Discworld Batman: Arkham Asylum Spider-Man Marvel Midnight Suns The Abbey of Crime The Abbey Daria’s Inferno An English Haunting Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? Excavation of Hob’s Barrow Scarlet Hollow Backfirewall Smile for Me Roadwarden Legend of Kyrandia II: Hand of Fate UFO 50 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Atomfall Avowed Wayward Strand Torin’s Passage Star Trek adventure games Heaven’s Vault Blazing Dragons Pentiment Hypnospace Outlaw Kentucky Route Zero Silent Hill 2 Cat Café Manager