a band finding inspiration in a haunted house;

playing as the superintendent of a block of magical apartments;

accidentally catfishing on dating apps;

and more!

1. Investigating a mystery at Banana Corp as the CEO... A telepathic banana
2. Work as an health inspector for a group of shops
3. Carve away marble in a massively multiplayer game

1. A teleporting TSA agent pursues a passenger through the terminal
2. A parent and child must look after the driads of the forest.
3. A prisoner must escape a french prison, while the warden makes a lot of mouse jokes.

With this in mind, they come up with games such as:

1. a detective game where you play Glinda in Oz, long after the events of Dorothy;
2. a tense deduction game set in a locked down apartment building;
3. a nuclear power plant simulator with made up controls;
4. and more!

1. A first person soccer goal keeping game with wacky goal additions
2. A first person paperboy game set in a world with portals to a parallel world, not to be confused with Stranger Things a legally distinct property
3. A narrative game where your partner is a minion working in the volcano lair of Dr. Tooth von Filling.

a 3D heist game where you play a group of scrappy resistance fighters in a cross between Hitman and Commandos;

a top-down RPG about a journalist dealing with a government experiment in a small town;

a multi-character exploration of first contact with aliens who offload their emotional processing to members of a hive-mind;

and more!

1. Handling Brand Recognition for a drink company
2. Dealing with absent forrest neighbours
3. Apply sunscreen to your Gran

a VR improv theatre game involving a plunger;

a game about building your castle on wheels;

a hive-mind bringing in new members;

and more!

1. Create a safari park, while trying to find the many hidden reindeers
2. Design your own robot Santa
3. Play lots of mini games trying to win the incredible opportunity to meet Santa at the north pole
4. Hold the fort while the other elves hold an intervention for Santa.

a DNA sequencing house builder;

working behind the counter at a cyberpunk body modification facility;

winning a bodybuilding contest that has been in decline for years;

and more!

• A handyman fixing random things in a haunted mansion
• A geoguesser inspired game where you must navigate your way out of a randomly generated world
• A friendly fishing game with random encounters along the way.

a thriller set in the desert of New Mexico starring Peter Dinklage;

a man thinks he's a cartoon;

discovering the secret behind the new household robot;

and more!

A point and click adventure where you are stuck with a fairly dumb ghost;

A romantic story about becoming an assassin;

A tri-dimensional story told via different mediums;

and more!

• Investigate the many murders on the interstellar Ark ship while reconnecting with your estranged son.
• Experience 3 stories set in a restaurant with different styles of gameplay
• Investigate the murder of your brother as a substitute teacher.

a visual novel about controlling the emotions inside the head of an obsessive eSports fanatic;

a game with a PS2 aesthetic about a tidal wave of blob fish;

and more!

• An assassin trying to protect his target from a serial killer after a luxury cruise liner was shipwrecked.
• A daily commute gradually turns spooky over multiple days.

play as the bumbling bartender companion to super spy Jane Bond;

wander through the wasteland as a mercenary who says Yes to everything;

discover a mystery laid out by a psychic;

and more!

• A generational colony ship arrives at a planet that has already been colonised many years before thanks to evolved technology
• A lazy river trek turns dangerous on the trip back
• A sentient battery must ensure it can stay charged through an adventure.

Just to mention a few:

Super Sexy Cricket Nitro

Tiger Woods Gnome Dancers

Royal Hammer of Fury

and more!

• Protect cattle from from Dracula's
• Navigate the exciting world of stand up comedy as two teenage girls in a Life is Strange esque adventure
• Investigate the recent spate of wealthy billionaires donating all their money to charity... oh and the murder that also occurred.

• An anxiety enducing fire control game
• 3d space pinball with ships
• A Dishonoured / Renfield inspired game where you look after a vampire

Garfield - the MegaDrive/Genesis 90s platformer,

The Cable Guy - a metroidvania with inspiration from Metroid Dredd,

Ghost World - a game about discovering your ghostly abilities to unlock further levels,

and more!

• A Grant Grover adventure game investigating counterfeit augments.
• A game set in the Tower of Babylon.
• A precision platformer with a retry mechanic.

• playing a platformer where one of you is an imposter
• solving a mystery in a deduction game where you can only communicate via scrapbooking
• an asymmetrical multiplayer game where one person control the weather
• and more!

• A game where 7 hackers must work together, meanwhile there is a traitor within their midst.
• Multiple cartoons are birthed by a village in a horror adventure.
• A third person game where you play multiple characters, one of which turns out to be a serial killer.

Using time travel for minor inconveniences;

A wine expert dealing with prohibition;

A custom peripheral for patching circuits together;

and more!

• A desperate housewives inspired time loop game, where you have one day to solve a murder in a suburban cul-de-sac... oh and you are a fish.
• Handle the network traffic of the Sandman
• Answer questions and make your way up through the pantheon of the gods, in a bureaucratic simulator.

a golf game slash romance visual novel;

a spy thriller starring Popeye;

hunting home invaders with fire;

and more!

• A worm typing an article for a newspaper
• A tuff (sic) golem guarding a volcano god
• An adventure set through time on a planet with an unusual calendar system.

• a detective who has trouble hearing certain words
• a village stuck in a time loop
• a kangaroo based rage game
• and more!

• An adventure game with global consequences if the young campers don't make it through the week
• An adventure game set over a single night where boy band members must make it through the night without being cancelled
• A scientist utilizes the strange electrical properties of the ornithological creatures on his island in a puzzle game.

the journey of a tongue through a world of tastes;

an adventure game where you try to live up to the amazing acts of your ancestors;

a world where only DC power exists;

and more!

• An Inside Out inspired conscience game
• A devil and angel inspired conscience game
• A music business tycoon game with storylets added for fun
• A game where you must stop your character from hearing the number 69

A holy implement disguised as an every day utensil;

piracy on the gaseous methane sea of another planet;

the alien base that lives under the Great Artesian Basin;

and more!

• A point and click adventure game based in a theatre camp, run by an ex assassin
• A walking simulator set in a distant world, where you play a mixed breed alien
• A mashup of Beverly Hills Cop and The Producers.

• a zen shaving game where you remove hair from a variety of creatures
• a cozy Stardew Valley-esque game, where you are a sleeper agent waiting for a mission
• an apple picking game with a hidden horror element
• and more!

• A game where two planets fall in love and chaos ensues
• A bounty hunter game set in the star wars universe with Carmen Sandiego like investigation and a totally new gameplay enhancement system.
• A time travel game where you must orchestrate a meet cute.

• telepathic characters via the Shining;
• health systems and weight loss;
• pranking celebrities;
• and more!

• a Superstore and Monster Prom inspired VR game where department store drama happens around you while you work
• a pharmacy deduction game where you must decode doctor's handwriting to dispense the right medicine
• a prophet who must ensure their prophecies are fulfilled as they go about their day
• and more!

• A comedic wing commander-esque game
• An adventure game set in a precinct where the captain has been replaced by their serial killer twin
• A run based crime syndicate simulator with a Batman-esque "villian"

an extraction shooter take on Blue Prince;

a modern remake of Spy vs Spy;

Boss Baby as a lawyer;

and more!

• A point and click investigating paranormal goings on.
• A mystical spy thriller
• A horror game where you literally can't miss a moment.

working in the medical lottery office of a dystopic future society;

escaping an open air prison in the middle of a vast desert;

ancient playwrights battling it out, Call of Duty style;

and more!

• A proceedurally generated pest control game
• A scientist must defend a barge from a giant kraken
• A game where you get to use paper mache in VR

a Bulletstorm-esque first person brawler where your fists are made of diamond;

a storylet driven sci-fi game set in the lead-up to an intergalactic war;

a non-violent Hitman style game where you are investigating your environment to determine the best love matches;

and more!

• Collating evidence and piecing together old crimes after the digitisation was corrupted
• Tracing paths and connections people took through a state/county.
• Analysing your neighbours through garbage.

• an Apogee style platformer revolving around smashing papaya;
• figuring out alien body language in a first contact situation;
• figuring out the strange place your village has been built;
• and more!

Ron Gilbert - Why Adventure Games Suck

• A team of stage magicians pull of heists in a world where actual magic exists
• Serial killers try to blend in in 1980's Miami
• A deductathon where you are researching people with super powers to help them avoid the fascist government
• and more!

• Fool's Gold
• Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
• Hellraiser: Bloodlines
• Fant4stic

• an animal husbandry game about chicken bombs
• an Obra Dinn/Roottrees style game about an attorney working for a university
• a game about memories and how perception changes over time
• an astronaut travels at light speed and misses his life back home for a stupid reason
• and more!

• Warp bubbles
• A boy in a sensory deprivation bubble
• Bubble based technology
• Bubble jet printers

Fireproof as an action disaster movie where you play a firefighter staving off the end of the world;

Rebecca as a post-apocalyptic noir mystery about an elite member of society and his new wife;

Freaky as a body-swap movie between a pregnant women and her dead-beat boyfriend;

and more!

• A game where you play the middle manager of a space elevator
• A game set in the south pole at a secret facility
• A game set in a morning tv show, heavily based off of Get Krackin.

• showing up un-costumed to a costume party and having to steal your costume
• the drug-fueled Batman fantasy of an octogenarian
• a time-travel fueled weight loss solution
• and more!

• A cosy game where you must tend to a house made of flesh
• An adventure game where you play 3 witches that are banished from using magic.
• A legal game set in the night garden court, where Judge Worm (the fourth of his name) presides.

the laundry focused Dirty Paintball;

the spooky reality bending Dead Dream;

chilling out with Drug Induced Lawn Mowing;

and more!

• Santa Claus is turned into a vampire by one of the elves, in a Heavy Rain inspired adventure
• Eeyore is turning against everyone in the 100 acre woods and submitting them to Saw like torture devices
• Explore friends and relationships in three time periods at christmas.

a mundane job in an office where all technology is controlled by magic;

sharing the secret of the Fountain of Youth;

a courtroom drama following the events of Luigi's murder trial in the Mushroom Kingdom;

and more!

• A game where you are an exorcist cursed with knowledge
• A tightrope walker is pursued by the crew who attacked their twin.
• Rollerball but physics based controls
• Miles Morales trying to get back to New York city by hitchhiking

a downhill bike racing game starring Pee-wee Herman;

turf wars between holidays as they try to take over the calendar year;

the secret alter-ego of a superhero is less than savoury;

and more!

• A vet management game
• In Search of Bunyip, a monster hunting game set on Lake Eildon
• An action / roguelike set on a beach where you are doing odd jobs for families
• An action adventure set in a car chasing down the mythical Snacknado.

exploring a world where everything is edible (but perhaps not tasty);

a squad based soccer game where you choose an animal to play as;

unravelling the mystery of a prophetic tapestry;

and more!

• A cow based self realisation journey
• A roguelike cleaning out slime from gigantic creatures
• A game where you play an elephant doing odd jobs to pay for his road trip
• A hunger games style game where you train the tributes
• A VR game with ice sculpture mechanics.

a prince who wants to stay amphibious to pursue his music career;

nursing a severed limb back to life;

running the logistics for a Warehouse 13-esque facility;

and more!

• a game where you control a marionette manually
• a horror game set at a camp for toddlers
• a game called All Draculas Hate Dentists

a Pacific Rim/Commando mash-up where you are an ex-mech fighter brought back to save your daughter;

a point and click adventure where you play two slightly naive men looking after some difficult kids;

an investigate reporter tries to discover the source of the shocking visions of a rich heir;

and more!

• Controlling dangerous fantasy creatures in a national park
• Avoid aliens by continually maintaining rhythm while going through life
• Pay actual bills with actual money through space invaders styled gameplay

a mouse digging his way between houses, looking for treats;

dueling painters trying to be the one who paints the most of a house;

California Games meets the legal system;

and more!

Games discussed include

• Monique the leek runs for president as your character trys to turn from antagonist to protagonist.
• Search through videos from an archive to solve a mystery
• An adventure game set in a school staff room.

• a spy thriller take on My Dinner With Andre
• a tense sci-fi survival game set next to volcanic vents in the deepest ocean
• a mystery revolving around a friend lost in a haunted theme park ride
• and more!

• A timeloop adventure set between the hours of 9am and 3pm at an office
• A dystopian adventure where the main character realises they are not like everyone else
• A cosy game where you unpack a hoard.

• a game played on your phone where you are trying to find your missing friend Jared;
• a tea-bag factory simulator;
• playing as an eccentric architect trying to build the best tower for his community;
• and more!

• A management game set in a resort
• A point and click adventure game about a facehugger trying to find a face to hug.
• A clothes manufacturing game where the only fabric available is velvet.

• a Katamari style kids shape spinner
• a super-spy finding themself in a tiny city
• a co-op game where the players balance food as they deliver it to a giant
• and more!

Ben and Trev delve deep into Pixar's Cars universe and realise the real truth behind the Cars that Disney doesn't want you to know. Also they talk about games that don't exist:

• Interior designing in the Cars universe
• Takedowns such as those in Burnout, but in the Cars universe
• An RPG with medicinal magic powers.

• Serving sausages in space in VR
• Explore conversations through non linear time
• The origin of the laughing clown

• a Quantic Dream style game where somebody finds out something terrible about their spouse thanks to their affair
• a horror game set at an abandoned water park in the bright light of day
• another horror game, but closer to home as you deal with bathroom renovations;
• and more!

• A tower defence game against a singular case worker
• Manage a farmers market set in Kevin Costner's Waterworld
• Use a programming language to defend the world against the incoming world of Mondas.

a tense mystery game set in a police station inspired by The Crazies and The Guilty;

a game where you play the cameraperson for a team of ghost hunters;

a mash-up of Deliverance and Back Draft about an arson investigator in the deep south;

and more!

• Dead or Alive: Hobo in the Magic Kingdom
• Biosky
• Grey's Anatomatch Three

• discovering your society is living inside the sleeping body of a titan;
• the disastrous case of 60 Armageddons
• the art gallery of the far future;
• and more!

• A puzzle based love matching game set in a Grey's Anatomy style hospital
• A top down rogue like with elements of Pacific Drive and the apocalypse
• A Night at the Museum inspired adventure game set in a costco

Thanks to Alex Krause for joining us! Check out https://bigtallboys.com

• The Olympics but during the Purge
• A Deadpool action adventure with 4th wall breaks
• A sexy sheep shearing game
• A point and click adventure game with very limited controls

• Recovering a dragon's treasure in a rogue like adventure game
• A cozy game about collecting eggs
• A goat simulator / Tony Hawk inspired office job.

A point and click adventure where you play the personification of an out of circulation currency, in a world of money;

A cooking game where you must satisfy picky eaters;

A tower defense game set in an Officeworks;

and more!

• A WaterWorld-esque world where the only remaining enforcement is the coastguard.
• A VR adventure set on the starship Poseidon.
• A vampire adventure based briefly off of 8 Mile.

controlling crash test dummies through a Jigsaw-esque set of traps;

stealth based runs as you built your arsenal to become a Predator;

take down a crime syndicate in successive runs while the surviving bad guys become more powerful;

and more!

That's right it's a Star Wars themed episode, Ben and Trev muddle their way through many different game ideas based on the popular Star Wars universe. The games include:

• A Han Solo adventure game
• A Dredge inspired fishing game on Kamino
• A heist style game set on Coruscant

guessing countries based on their three dimensional flags;

a wig controlling the mind of bald people;

and more!

• The very sweary grandma from all the fairy tales and nursery rhymes is actually the same person who is under house arrest.
• What if the adventure game UI became a real object in the game.
• One guest at the party has a sensory deprivation "helmet" on their head.

a tense horror game set in an underwater exoskeleton;

a golf game set in a fairy tale universe with visual novel elements;

a kids adventure story exploring a mirror universe called The Back to Front;

and more!

• What if Wash didn't die in Serenity?
• A puzzle game where fire sprites try to set peoples houses on fire.
• A puzzle game similar to The Room but this time it's an apparatus.

a PvE mash up of Hell Divers and Fortnite where you are travelling back in time to gather information;

a storylet driven arcade game with elements of Space Invaders, Missile Command and colony building

• A baywatch inspired 80's romp on a beach
• A forensic scientist who focuses on phone repairs
• A drunken police officer gets his thrills in the apocalypse by skydiving.

a spy thriller where you must escape from the top of a building after being betrayed by your team;

a catering game a la Overcooked where positioning your waitstaff is the key to success;

a world overrun with dihydrogen monoxide;

and more!

• Dentists with storylets
• Avatar the action adventure game
• A point and click story about 2 towns and their fixation on bells.

a game show hell on the other side of a massive fibre-optic cable;

golf played purely with explosives;

a survival game on a desolate alien world;

and more!

• Old timey robots
• Statues of Priestesses that can't be moved.
• Remote escalators

a couch-competitive game where you and your friends vie for control over a single body;

a mail-sorting game where you must live with your mistakes;

Fantasy Valet, where you must be careful which mounts you place next to which;

and more!

• The real reason Grizzly Bears are feared.
• A rogue-like exploration game
• A spider learns stealth from the best

a game with a custom headband that tingles to tell you where water is;

control a snake with a rhino horn in a third person adventure;

experience a crazy night of drunken chaos a la Harold and Kumar;

a point and click adventure where all your verbs are close up magic term;

and more!

• A game involving a dentist delicately balancing the nitrous oxide / oxygen intake for 4 simulateous patients.
• A skill tester based sugery game
• A sequel to their first ever Global Game Jam game, BOOM

a combination of off-brand Jurassic Park and Mortal Kombat;

Spielberg's Duel mixed with clone thriller Dual;

a nostalgic Aussie take on Five Nights at Freddy's;

and more!

• Justin McElroy is lost in a cartoon world and must get back to his own universe.
• A Bonnie and Clyde-esque couple travel between towns conning unsuspecting victims.
• The daughter of a mob boss enters princess protection and must learn the many skills of being a princess

• a geologist who must solve a robbery using only rocks
• the life of a teleprompter technician
• a storylet based rescue game set on an island
• the dark side of the baby delivering business
• and more!

• Johnny Turbo's Sushi of Death
• Planet of the Yeti Family
• Save Yourself from the Fencing - Deathmatch
• Zany Bow Hunter Cascade
• Irresistable Hammer Brawl

a creepy narrative adventure where you explore the back rooms of an eldritch mansion;

a multiplayer game where Santa Claus has franchised his present giving to the highest bidder;

a romantic adventure where Krampus' apprentice finds out the truth about his parentage;

an app to track your Whamaggedon streak;

and more!

• A rhythm game controlling the lights and pyrotechnics
• The very lives of 3 super powered individuals are in the hands of politicians
• Everything French disappears from New York and you are there to investigate.

a contemporary thriller set in a quarantined nightclub, with Obra Dinn inspired detective elements;

travel across New Zealand in your truck, doing plastering jobs to make enough money to get to the place that reminds you of your love;

automate Santa's workshop across the ages as he deals with the growing population and ever-increasing demands of the world's children.

• Investigate the recent occurances of non consentual hugging as a primary school student.
• Managing a retail shop in first person
• Spin bad news into good news as you release press statements to the media.

A licensed Firefly game with procedurally generated storylets and a Sea of Thieves-esque multiplayer;

A management and hacking sim where an orthodontist must fight back against Big Teeth;

A rustpunk VR golf game where you use your putting skills to beat enemies;

and more!

• On a world where UV will kill, diamonds are used to fuel vehicles
• Twister - The Movie - The Game
• Liquid and pressure based Portal

A throwback sidescroller where you play the son of Bill Gates;

A shadow puppetry game played in the context of a rickety stagecoach;

A Daniel Mullins inspired experience where you move up the ranks of angelic tech support;

and more!

• An airbnb set horror game, where the protagonist lives in the front portion of an airbnb and scary things start happening when someone rents the back room.
• An adventure FMV game set in a weird alternate universe where everything grows on trees.

A dating app/game where you must climb a mountain to marry your spouse;

A new sporting sensation where you must feed your goalies perfectly cooked burgers;

A marching band simulator;

and more!

• A horde shooter where all your weapons are powered from extension cords.
• A VR horde shooter based around hand poses and ring slots for weapons.
• A paintball horde shooter based on the TV series Community.

a PS1 inspired escape room game with a raunchy intro;

a game where you voyage to cross the edges of a flat Earth;

a deck builder where you are taking your carnival from town to town;

and more!

• Two rival editions of a media empire game, one starring a Goose and one starring a Swan.
• A boss has to visit all the parties in a high rise building while dodging a touchy workmate.
• A rogue like burglary game.

An on-sea adventure set around the hairy island nations of B'athtuub;

A world where you need to get high to get high;

Join the crew that lives in and maintains city-sized golems made from rusted metal;

and more!

a poignant meditative game about restoring an old car after returning to your homeland;

a frustrating two player co-op game all about balance;

a loot clicker set in a school secretly run by a necromancer;

and more!

• An Around the World in 80 days inspired puzzle game
• An Infamous inspired cyberpunk hero game
• A vampire farming simulator.

two tea-drinking caveman toys searching the city for their old owner;

the microcosmic world of a pub pool table;

a platformer where you play as Hermes Conrad from Futurama, limboing your way to freedom;

and more!

• A haunted brothel management game
• The Wiggles star in their own alternate reality game, with a dark twist
• Play as the animals escaping another biblical scale flood.

a parallel universe where gummy is a fundamental particle;

somebody finds God's omnipresent suitcase;

measuring ingredients using household items;

a Return of the Obra Dinn inspired game where you find out who gave you conjunctivitis;

and more!

• Looking after the local heroes babies
• Mining deep underground with only canaries to tell if the oxygen is getting low
• Socially engineer your way to victory in a local election
• Fix Satisfactory style automation levels

Trevor Scott waking up as a literal sheep;

kids holding a civil lawsuit over custody of a bunny;

a build-a-cosplay simulation;

playing as a flight attendant on an interplanetary flight;

and more!

• Manage a thinkeasy, a place where people can reminisce in peace.
• Solving the mystery of everyone's 3d printer all printing automatically
• Bring down the world of Fantasy Gloria Jeans from the inside.

• A digital card game where each player builds a wall
• An episodic game set on a fictional tv show called Band Wagon
• An action adventure where the player character follows a wool trail and ravels it into a ball.

• A management style game where the secrets of the Sandman are revealed
• Another management game where the Gym's you manage have more difficult clientele the longer you play
• A Paper's Please / Not Tonight inspired medical game.

Cantankerous Booty of Love

Super Sexy Business Simulator

Tropical Limbo Universe

Rocket Powered Stick: World Tour

and more!

• A gory, Bully inspired, monsters university game
• Stuart Little gets a job
• A mall santa is the only one who can stop the apocalypse

a Dredge inspired game where you play a mail delivery person in a dark fantasy world;

an adventure/puzzle game where you can change the words of prophecies to affect the outcome of events;

a game where you are designing and managing a cruise ship liner that is powered by zombie labour;

and more!

• A snowy adventure with a teen vibe and an appearance from a Bit Storm classic character
• Investigate a Zombie outbreak at a very popular food chain
• A VR adventure through portals and into the characters very psyche.

a Sam Fisher-esque assassin who also happens to be a giant Megalodon;

a world with domesticated dragons that discovers a great beast;

what a Fast & Furious game should really look like;

and more!

• Discover why Ken and Ryu have similar moves in Street Fighter 2 onwards
• An adventure set on a steampunk space ship
• A point and click adventure where the original use for Yelp is discovered.

playing as a Telecom Justice, in a world where wireless communication has been banned;

booby trapping a verandah during a neighbourly dispute;

fighting back against giant space bees emerging from the centre of the Earth;

and more!

• A vengeful spider chasing after the 1% after years of being juiced.
• The humble high 5 is discovered to be a way to travel to a new dimension
• An adventure set in Australia during Banjo Patterson's time.

A wacky race across the world;

A heavy metal band faces the apocalypse;

Forces of heaven and hell vie for the possession of God's fiddle;

and more!

• A Papers Please inspired legal game involving the bad guys from video games suing the heroes
• A Romeo and Juliet-esque romance game set in a submarine where 2 star crossed Deep Water Polo players fall in love
• A point and click / 2d side scroller beat em up mash up set on a weird alien planet.

a character who finds their autobiography from the future, and must decide how best to use it;

a far future society re-discovering the technology of our present day;

waking up with Elvis's signature tattooed in a sensitive place;

and more!

• Night-time Ballet Choreographer
• Bionic Devil Voyage
• Violent Hamster Paratroopers
• Go Go Gnome Saga
• Everybody Loves the Jetpack
• Galactic Shaving on the Oregon Trail

An old captain is haunted by the ghost of the shark he once fought;

A Tiktok trend results in a horrifying night for some babysitters;

Two himbos find themselves stuck on a ghost ship;

and more!

• An intergalactic story of Candace and her robot R.O.C.K.Y. 5
• A heist within a law enforcement compound
• A murder mystery set in the 1970's, where a secret war is boiling between two gangs.

Freddy vs Jason (but they're just twin brothers);

A social deduction game where you try to determine who is an angel;

A horror roguelike where you have the power to see who the killer will attack next;

and more!

• A 4v4 team battleship game in first person
• A 4 player competitve co-op treasure hunting game
• A 1v1 game where players take on the role of either an assassin or a bodyguard
• A water based raid on a protected island / castle

• A theme park ride owner tries to unsuccesfully sabotage his rival
• Slip through a speaker cabinet into the metal world and bring music back to the forefront
• Beetman and Radish fight their way through hordes of cloned fruit to discover the mastermind behind all the recent kidnappings.

• A precognitive AI that determines crimes that will potentially be committed.
• A Scrubs inspired doctor game, with CSI style mechanics for diagnosing the patients
• A roguelike game set on an ocean planet, where you control a ship hunting enormous sea beasts.

A semi-procedural superhero management game where the costumes you create define the heroes or villains of the world;

A post-singularity world where the AI running the joint didn't quite get things right;

A wacky underwater survival game with archery;

and more!

• A systems management game involving a theme park
• A real estate based game with a great use of ChatGPT
• A VR game about Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
• A world which has no fear.

an optometrist doing weird things to eyes;

a lumberjack twin stick axe brawler;

a dentist dealing with a conveyer belt of patients;

and more!

• A world where bed bugs become aerosolized
• A roguelike where a Prince tries to hide his princely powers from his goon friends
• A disney platformer of Nemo's search for Marlin's ashes.

play the 'person in the chair' for a team of Get Smart style secret agents;

figure out where there is an arrow in space pointing at your planet;

act as the GPS and make route decisions that will affect your driver's lives;

play radical mini-games as a judge that is too cool for court;

and more!

• Jon Bon Jovi runs away from his ravenous crowd every night
• A bear mistakes a man in a bear costume as a love interest
• A teenager creates a new crowd control weapon and it is used by a facist goverment to control the masses.

a Law & Order style investigation set on a single city block;

a game where you play the bailiff in a courtroom, keeping all the jurors on track;

a game about a cop who uses his imaginary cartoon friends to solve crimes;

a Star Wars mechanic simulator with endless story opportunities;

and more!

a stealth elf in the vein of Sam Fisher who has gone rogue (or have they?);

a puppet brought to life planning the assassination of Santa;

a town hidden by trees employing lumberjacks to make a path for Santa's Xmas journey;

and more!

• A world covered in waterslides after the Water War
• A survival adventure on an island inhabited by sunlight powered creatures
• A post apocalyptic Oregon Trail inspired game.

A sloth plumber having to fix pipes efficiently;

A shape-shifting chair in a world of tornadoes;

A butterfly that can't fly making it's way through a round of Fortnite;

and more!

• Ice Cream: Hot Pursuit - An off brand Mr Whippy is in hot pursuit of selling lots of ice cream
• Maze Hospital - Shout out to co workers to find your way around this hospital
• Ultraviolent Squirrel 2 - Return to the world of that classic 360 title everyone remembers Ultraviolent Squirrel. This time he is not so violent

a wholesome picnic simulator with deep environmental storytelling;

a time loop puzzle game with narrative interludes where you need to discover the best way to cheat on tests;

a run-based monster exterminator game where your loadout is a vital decision;

and more!

• Survive against a bear attack
• Visit the birthplace of Coke
• Explore the house on haunted hill

a spiritual sequel to Quantum Leap where we discover the true implications of hopping universes;

a survival game where animals are your only source of food, tools, and even shelter;

a cryptozoological puzzle game with narrative elements;

and more!

• A Waffle Witch
• A Satisfactory inspired cleaning game
• An action adventure set against a hive mind

playing a duck that makes people depressed;

navigating the supernatural voids in random houses;

shapeshifting your way to the throne;

the worst punishment for failing to tip at a restaurant;

and more!

• A sock family going on a trip with their usual mode of transport
• A young child visits a family member in hospital
• A pharmacist in a gothic world.

• An election for a cool sun
• Gathering ingredients for a digital familiar
• Readjusting to regular life after a decade of the Purge.

Making a deal with an angel to age backwards through your life;

Playing a food critic influencer who has to catch ghosts with their camera;

Fighting an old hermit on the side of a mountain;

and more!

• Aliens cooking humans
• Criminals not being able to tell who is in their crew, when everyone wears domino masks.
• A Return of the Obra Dinn inspired workplace simulator.

• an 80s period piece where you play twins travelling to a video game tournament to win the latest game console;
• a chilled out VR game where you take stock of your life, literally, by scanning barcodes on everything you can find
• a fourth wall breaking platform game where you can bribe the camera operator to help you get through levels
• and more!

• A zombie outbreak investigated by famous poopologist David Blayne (no relation)
• A roguelike set in a sunken temple
• Penguins on a submarine hunting for a red orca

• Rube Goldberg esque delivery mechanics
• Tower Defense
• Hidden Automation

They also reimagine the film Phantoms (in which Affleck was the bomb) into a PS1 era VR game.

• Chocolate ecclair based data storage
• A Rollercoaster/theme park inspired community
• Ressurection technology

an automation game set in the lowlands of a post capitalistic society, deconstructing the junk of the wealthy to build a new oasis;

strategically build your empire of retirement homes across the lands;

a combination of Papers, Please and Burnout: Takedown as you try to do your office job while simultaneously winning high speed street races;

and more!

• The adventure of a basketball prodigy and his best friend
• A Fable inspired action adventure with battles between neighbouring territories
• An adventure where alien spheres influence society

• a side scrolling mash up of Inside and Ico helping an aunt and her niece escape an evil corporation;
• a sweat inducing acrobatic game where you pull of intense heists;
• and a romantic game where two teenagers fall in love over arcade games

• A body swap murder mystery
• Animals taking on King Midas
• Battle robots in an automated ice factory

an office worker finds himself in a labyrinth based on popular board games;

a couple on a camping trip need to find their way out after a medical emergency;

in a company full of inept employees, you must single-handedly overhaul their processes;

and more!

A Stardew Valley inspired game where you run a bowling alley;

A futuristic battlefield surgery game where you can freeze time;

Fighting back against the spider overlords with your scorpion friends;

and more!

• A VR horror game where you must use a camera to detect spirits and traps
• A Life Guard must guard all life on earth from Cthulhu like monsters
• A survival horror set in a reality tv show
• A match 3 game where a swamp witch becomes the main witness against a mob boss.

An isometric RPG set in a small towin that can't be escaped, with inspirations from Under the Dome, Wayward Pines and Atari's Asteroids;

A battle royale game where you play knights and have to besiege the castle to take down the king;

The epic love story spanning millennia between two immortal beings, and their relationship with the humans on the planet they both protect and destroy.

• A GTA clone set in a fantasy / fairytale world
• A Mario Party style game full of childrens playground games
• A VR game serving food to monsters
• A brain breaking quantum physics game

Faultlines (2010);

Drug Dealing Farmer (2013);

Blade Blaze (2016);

and of course ***REDACTED*** (202?)

Miniature Graveyard Party;

Occult Rugby Creator;

Attack of the Banjo;

Lifeless Frontier;

and, Red Hot Plunger.

• Crypto Clicker
• Nick Bitters: Paranormal Bartender
• Tinder for voters
• Inverse Siege

Together they jump all the way back to the experimental games of the early 90s all the way to the big budget 2PS games of the modern day.

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• Fairies with machine guns
• Clones
• Magical wizards and their familiars
• Extremely dangerous water
• Stage plays in the apocalypse

a futuristic dystopia where repo men come for your organs in tactical FPS shootouts;

the day to day life of Death as they reap souls and discover what holds some spirits from the afterlife;

the story of the inventor of teleportation, brought back 200 years after an accident;

and more!

• A mystery set inside of a human body
• A family drama with many mystery hooks
• A hidden map unveils a time travel adventure
• Life of Pi: The Adventure Game
• An anthology adventure series with a pawn shop wrapper.

A fairy given responsibility for a green house;

Finding your way off a doomed spaceship as it plummets through the atmosphere;

Managing the customer service desk at a fancy hotel;

Being the work experience kid on a homicide scene;

and more!

• Escape from an alien zoo, with the help of your trusty Hills Hoist crank
• Drive passengers to their destinations and learn a little about their lives.
• A modern retro game set in an 80's mall, built around an alien spaceship.

Revenge of the Spatula;

Grimy Mountain Climber Wars;

Scooby Doo and the Burger From Hell;

College Karate Chronicles;

and more!

• Excruciating Pinball Underground
• Mupppet Dungeon: Limited Edition
• Pixelated Driving Siege
• Geriatric Shock

Orbital Mummy Patrol,

Everybody Loves the Blood Munchers,

Cloud Impact,

Rescue of Heroes,

and more!

• Intense Bungee World
• Jedi Funk Academy
• Spirit Command
• Psycho Guitar

and many more

the cooking/survival hybrid game Underwater Kitchen Battle;

the 'modern retro' spiritual successor to Superman 64, Depressing Underwear 64;

the mobile fad of the month, Mech With Friends;

the massively popular entry in a series everyone is talking about, Masters of Spelling: Dystopia;

and more!

Hunting kaiju across the seven seas;

Racing against fellow mad scientists in crazy contraptions;

Cultivate new crops on the back of a giant creature, while exploring strange new lands;

and many more.

• a cross between X-Com and The Sims where your soldiers relationships are tied deeply into the combat mechanics
• a simulated road house with extensible stories that play out night after night
• a Satisfactory style automation game where all of your tools and machines are plants that you must keep alive
• a retired programmer is asked to go to space so she can fight a rogue AI
• and more!

A platforming game with Gameshark/Gamegenie mechanics;

Cats playing tennis with beatem up mechanics;

Escape from your AI controlled house;

Alien bounty hunting in a Narnia/Last Starfighter inspired mashup.

and more!

rival chocolate worshipping churches;

a sequel set after Dorothy has left the Land of Oz, and the political machinations she left behind;

exploring a mysterious maze with a bunch of survivors;

discovering the real world outside the Metaverse;

and more!

Small Time Tennis Tale,

Cantankerous Spelling Blaster,

Queen of the Prison in Space,

Armored Virus,

Sleepy Gopher: The Resistence,

and tons more!

• Protecting a space station with the power of tennis
• A 2d Character investigating the "erasure" of objects in their world
• Yet another surprise Batman game
• Bowling, but in two dimensions at the same time.

• An adventure game investigating STEMM
• A game that delves into what happens when two rainbows touch
• An adventure exploring dreams and deleting memories
• A surprise Batman game out of nowhere

Jackie Chan's Motocross Hunt;

3D Fire Runner;

Mickey's Chicken Operation;

Gothic Puppy 3rd Strike;

and more!

**There will definitely be some spoiler discussions for some of the games, but, as per usual, they give plenty of warning.

a Sea of Thieves inspired game where you compete against sleighs of elves to deliver the most gifts each night;

experiencing a laid back Australian summer Christmas in the bush (in VR!);

a space opera where you play a researcher trying to understand the strange jolly force that traverses the galaxy;

a Crazy Taxi-esque drunken escapade across a town, delivery presents as best you can;

and more!

• A collectathon starring young aardvark working for the Sloth mafia with powerups selected by viewers.
• Escape from the dome using monsters made from viewer selected material.
• A piratey adventure where the directions are selected by the viewers.
• A platformer where the viewers can change the physics and rules during gameplay.

a portable toilet management simulator;

a reporter for a National Inquirer style tabloid searches for stories;

a man tries to give back for his past sins against the environment;

a non-violent fighter all about deflection and blocking;

and more!

• Santa vs Krampus: the epic battle between the mortal foes
• Try to relieve stress while landscaping and building the perfect shed
• The secret behind milk and where it actually comes from
• A horror game involving the first TV sets

From this they invent games such as:

a horrifying VR descent into an unexplored cave;

the camera operator for a foreign correspondent exploring a sunken city;

a child stolen from Earth and raised to play a grapple based zero-gee sport;

and more!

• A multiplayer city builder / exploration game within a futuristic setting with conflicting gameplay
• An investigative game with fantastic arm physics
• A redemption story with Stanley Parable-esque gameplay
• A disturbing take on the Transformers.

An endless stealther set in a high security office building;

A narrative adventure about a prophetic child and his father;

A side scrolling journalistic mystery about a tech giant and their mysterious AI;

and more!

• The selection and subsequent adventures of the fifth Horseperson of the Apocalypse
• Investigate old recordings to find out the secret of your favourite band
• A rogue like set in a child's mind
• Investigate the death of an unknown playwright.

a band trying to escape from a town of cannibals;

the relationship between an elderly woman and the Grim Reaper;

the haunting of a community television show;

and more!

A prisoner put on a haunted island by a corrupt prison system;

The human revolution against a race of steampunk vampires;

A traveler trapped in a hotel by an underground beast;

A town full of people being replaced by androids;

and more!

Games discusses include

• An adventure through time via a cryo chamber
• A pigeon detective solving crimes for other animals
• A multiplayer food delivery game with Road Rash rules.

This episode was recorded for PAX Radio presented by Audio Technica as part of PAX Online 2021

A rage virus in space that is only active when hot;

The Wicked Witch of the West navigates a wet day with only an umbrella;

A game focusing on DC's Joker and his many henchman;

A couch competitive game focused on jetpacks in zero gravity;

and more!

• The crazy adventures of a house dad
• Escape from the eternal recital
• A road trip adventure of a dad and his two sons
• Multiplayer gardening mayhem

A tantric clock winder on the edge;

Interviewing for a job with Santa Claus;

Hunting down your nest egg from a rogue emu;

Buying anti-depressants for your pet phoenix;

and plenty more!

• A Dread inspired VR RPG set in a basement
• A noir adventure set in a daycare centre
• An RPG loosely based on a Kurodust song
• An action adventure set in the cutthroat delivery industry

Explore the world looking for mystical SCP like artifacts for use by your evil company

Decipher the timeline of a summer at camp after you find a mysterious phone in the woods

Play a demon hunter ridding a small English town of monsters in a Hades inspired roguelike

And more!

• Spearhead the vampire plot to take over the world.
• Make your way through a chocolate factory after the tour leader tragically passes away
• Reset your way through a roguelike.
• Investigate a serial killer and produce a podcast.

a game where Snow White's dwarves ride woodland creatures into battle;

a building clearing roguelike set in a sector of a dystopic futuristic city;

a bumbling hippie and his sea lion friend solving mysteries on an oil rig;

a space convict finds himself on a mysteriously terraformed Mars;

a hidden heir finds herself in the big city for the first time;

and more!

• Discover gods by following the evidence and yeet them into space
• Tend the bar in a virtual reality strip club, but don't trust Basil
• Play as a vampire who just so happens to work in Accounting
• Rogue like involving local governments.

• A detective/factory game where you are building guns and solving murders
• serving up coffee to otherworldly creatures
• an Overcooked style micro-management game set in a school
• discover an undercurrent of conspiracy on social platform Jacebook
• fishing invades every popular sporting (or otherwise) competition
• and more!

Check out Alex's podcast over at http://bigtallboys.com or https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/big-tall-boys-1211360!

• Ensure the Feng Shui in your elevator apartment matches the energies on all the floors
• Brace for space and battle it out in a trash compactor
• Take your clients as far away as possible from their intended destination.
• Long haul trucking in space.

Join Ben and Trevor as they randomly generate some fun adventure games this week, including a man selling his soul for a beer, a human chosen to be the ceremonial prophet of an alien race, a modern day coliseum where you can sell action figures of your top fighters, and an imagined sequel to the classic film Labyrinth where Bowie's Jareth is missing and there is a new Goblin Queen!

• An adventure game about a guy out of sync with a BBQ
• An AI driven conversational game that is controlled by a microphone
• An autopsy simulation, that dips into sci-fi.

All these games and more are discussed by Ben and Trev this week.

A team based multiplayer competition to see who can scavenge the parts to build a rocket and see the curvature of the Earth (or not see it?);

A Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons finds themselves in modern day, trying to survive;

A point and click adventure exploring the harrowing life of a gig economy delivery driver during the oncoming climate disaster;

a third Portal game, where the main mechanic involves herding cows;

and more!

• A mystical shop that sells Adjectives
• A game set in a Schitts Creek like town
• Dinosaurs on an airship
• An outback version of Sherlock Holmes goes up against her nemesis... a Dentist.
• and more.

a sci-fi future where magic still exists but has been mostly superseded by technology;

what happens to the default cube when you delete it in Blender;

a factory game where you are tasked with making circus food;

a game where you must golf everywhere to traverse the world (this might be our best idea ever);

and more!

• Officespace meets The Usual Suspects in a massive cross over event
• A scientist who develops a virus is not exactly what the game presents them as.
• Tackle a murder mystery on a beach
• Dig up dirt on all your neighbours... or don't

A cyberpunk combat game with rewind abilities,

An insidious AI built into your video editing software,

Handling your organized crime family as newlyweds,

And lots more!

A black knight taking on castle corruption as a vigilante,

A robot who has just gained sentience through a botched final upgrade,

An investigation into the butcher shops within an anthropomorphic world

An elite soldier grapples with normality after a treaty with his sworn enemies, the Glargians.

and more!

A zombified take on Jurassic Park,

First contact is made in the most embarrassing of circumstances,

One man's relationship with the moon,

A deep sea dive to save the world's oceans,

and more!

A hacking adventure through Bulletin Boards and Youtube.

A game exploring exploring the secret backstory of Postman Pat;

A spooky game set between 3:33 am and 7:07 am;

The Cook twins try to solve the mystery of the missing lunch;

and more!

A game where you must avoid unpleasant bearded men handing out propaganda on 5G and other conspiracy theories;

A game where you are the first person to document what things are edible on a new world;

A multiplayer game set on an open air space elevator;

A survival game set in the an Amazon packaging centre;

and more!

And don't forget to check out Stefan's podcast, Talking With Dinosaurs!

A visiting uncle with unknown motives is viewed through different perspectives;

A game where introverts are forced to install a helper device to guide them through conversations;

An FPS where you must hit your marks during the shooting of an 80s action flick;

A survival game set in the gold rush;

and more!

A simulated world of Besties and Reverse Besties as you jump between characters struggling to make ends meet,

A caretaker of a colony ship automating systems and programming mutating robots,

A necromancy student disillusioned with academia and searching for the true Necronomicon,

and more!

• A hamster who finds an ancient device that lets them roll around
• A kart racer with food-based car construction and our patented Bestie™ system
• A western set in the climate drowned future
• An AR collectible version of the classic DS game Elite Beat Agents
• and more!

A set of robot grifters from the ghetto trying to pass in high society

A Descent inspired game about destroying volcanoes created by an alien menace

A surprising twist to a walking simulator

A wedding planning simulator

The Neverending Story from the perspective of the Rock Biter

And more!

A drone based FPS with survival elements, Sonic the Hedgehog but bloodier, a re-imagining of Titan AE as VR narrative experience, one woman's journey to find her true self, a security guard solving murder mysteries, and more!

• Elite Paperboy simulator
• Bird watching in a overpopulated city
• Using a divine blast to detect demons
• Real estate in a fantasy setting

*Spectacular may be an overstatement, we don't promise anything.

• A Long Kiss Goodnight esque action adventure
• A time traveller saving unwitting simulation prisoners
• A space ship building game set around smuglers
• A Harry Potter / Stardew valley mashup

• Discovering new materials and technology with your friend Cthulu
• The smallest ever open world game set in a school
• A mash up of Noahs Ark and Island of Dr Moreau
• A poker playing adventure

Living on your own in a world stripped of an atmosphere;

A mobile game where you must develop new dye colours for your customers;

A full service Uber/Lyft style driver simulator;

James Bond RPG in the exciting world of HR;

and more!