Save Your Game

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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast]

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 [https://instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast] Show less

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 [https://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 [https://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

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

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

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

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

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