We’re starting the week with bad news, including some pretty shocking layoffs at Microsoft, but it gets better from there. We move next through some of the best indie releases of the week before ending with the best indie game of the year, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.

Timestamps

(1:00) Somehow, Stray Gods returned

(4:00) Microsoft fucked up

(19:00) A fantastic week for indie games

(35:00) We’re seeing it all through Laser Eyes

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We’re keeping things nice and short this week, because we already shared our best/most deranged thoughts with the good people of the Press Start podcast! Here on our feed, we’re talking about Hades 2, Crow Country, and the upcoming Steamworld Heist 2. It’s frankly the most buttoned-up we’ve ever been, so make sure you give Press Start a listen for more of our usual energy (weird, off-putting, horny).

Timestamps

(1:00) Press Start Girl

(2:40) Hades 2

(14:30) Crow Country

(26:00) Steamworld Heist 2

(31:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?

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Witching Stone

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This time, we’re mercifully bringing you a shorter episode to follow our longest episode ever last week. We spend most of our time on a spoiler-filled discussion of Sucker for Love: Date to Die for, a horror/comedy/romance visual novel that has us both under its spell. Then we make a quick return to the land of sexist grifters to put a cap on the year’s dumbest gaming controversy surrounding Stellar Blade. Then Willa tells you about her favorite new way to play visual novels, and Robin tells you about some very good fish.

Timestamps

(1:00) Sucker for Love: Date to Die for makes monster fuckers of us all

(45:00) No one is coming to take your video game boobies away

(54:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?

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Stellar Blade and the Male Gaze

Horror and Romance Make Surprisingly Good Partners In Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

This Horror Dating Sim Sets A Hot New Standard

Hades II Is The Kind Of Hot We Need Right Now

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