Ross isn't here today (he's at the second most magical place on earth), so Rich, Lee, and El are holding down the fort to catch up on what we’ve been playing.

El brings the cozy vibes with electronics repair simulator Re-Story and the puzzle game Is This Seat Taken. Lee dives into PC gaming on Android handhelds with HoloCure: Save the Fans and goes full retro with the classic JRPG Chrono Trigger. Rich, meanwhile, is losing his mind over the Remedy Connected Universe in Alan Wake 2 and struggling with the keyboard controls in 007 First Light. We also mourn the sudden death of Lee's editing PC GPU.

Games discussed: Re-Story, HoloCure: Save the Fans, Alan Wake 2, Is This Seat Taken, Chrono Trigger, 007 First Light, and more.

Swears included. Obviously.
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The gang's back, but Rich is missing (probably on holiday, definitely dodging us). Lee, Ross, and El return to the mics to catch up on what they've been playing, fixing, and buying.

In this episode, Lee justifies his newest purchase—the Retroid Pocket 6—while immediately experiencing buyer's remorse over the newly announced Pocket Nova. Ross takes a break from the big titles to find his zen managing a virtual pizzeria in Good Pizza, Great Pizza (strictly no cheese, please). Meanwhile, El brings her usual dark vibes to the table, raving about her 200+ hours surviving the grueling, mod-heavy zombie apocalypse of Project Zomboid.

To cap it all off, we play the highly stressful Random Game Name Game and Lee teases a broken 1982 Vectrex museum pickup that he plans to fix up.

Games discussed include: The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Good Pizza Great Pizza, Project Zomboid.

Got a game we simply must see? Let us know what you've been playing in the comments below! Swears included. Obviously.

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All four are back, the name has been trimmed, and nobody can agree on how many hours make "a couple". Rich, Lee, Ross, and El return for narrators with god complexes, football games that have quietly turned into slot machines, and a £40 handheld that has apparently fixed gaming forever.

We've dropped the 'Continue' because Rich couldn't remember it. So this is Ready Player 2, episode 4. Or episode 102, if you're feeling pedantic.

Rich finally plays The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, roughly a decade late, and falls hard for its lilting narrator, its forty-odd endings, an achievement for not playing for ten years, and a bucket he point blank refuses to explain.

Ross wades into FC26 (formerly FIFA, now a card-pack gambling machine with football attached), where the base pack costs 100,000 coins, the FIFA licence has wandered off to Netflix, and saying "GG" earns you a torrent of abuse from teenagers with better strikers than you.

El champions The Drifter, Powerhoof's stunning 2D point-and-click of conspiracies, time-travelling agents and a genuinely awful bit with a lake, then digs out the bargain-bin brilliance of Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive.

Lee has bought a TrimUI Brick second hand off eBay, declared gaming fixed, and now carries it everywhere to play The Minish Cap in car parks. His long-awaited Retroid Pocket 6 shipped the same day. It may never leave the drawer.

Along the way: what actually counts as retro, the slow death and quiet survival of the point-and-click adventure, Rich's stint writing for the Australian Nintendo Magazine System (and the final issue that was never printed), why old gaming mags were quite so unpleasant, and an update on Lee's hacked Discord — the servers are back, the members came with them, and Discord even gave him his money back.

Ross finishes with Happy Side of Par, a golf game with no microtransactions in it whatsoever, which in 2026 counts as a plot twist.

Games discussed: The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, EA Sports FC26, The Drifter, Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, A Link to the Past, Dispatch, Disco Elysium, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Day of the Tentacle, Discworld II, Path of Exile 2, Arc Raiders, and a whole lot more.

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GAMES DISCUSSED

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703340/The_Stanley_Parable_Ultra_Deluxe/
Official site: https://stanleyparable.com/

EA Sports FC 26
https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26
Ultimate Team features: https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/features/fc-26-football-ultimate-team

The Drifter (Powerhoof)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/
Developer: https://www.powerhoof.com/

Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive (scriptwelder)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/611760/Dont_Escape_4_Days_to_Survive/
Don't Escape Trilogy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070550/Dont_Escape_Trilogy/

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/The-Legend-of-Zelda-The-Minish-Cap-267486.html

Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/Dispatch/

Happy Side of Par
https://happysideofpar.com/

HARDWARE

TRIMUI Brick — official site
https://trimui.pro/brick/
Official store: https://trimui.net/collections/trimui-brick

NextUI (the custom firmware on Lee's Brick)
https://github.com/LoveRetro/NextUI
Docs: https://nextui.loveretro.games/docs/

Retroid Pocket 6
https://www.goretroid.com/
US store: https://goretroidusa.com/retroid-pocket-6/

MAGAZINES

Fusion Retro Books — publishers of the relaunched CRASH, ZZAP! 64, ZZAP! AMIGA and Amtix CPC
https://fusionretrobooks.com/

Amiga Addict
https://amigaddict.com/

Lee
@MoreFunRetro

Ross
https://bsky.app/profile/therossbell.bsky.social

El
Search for EscapingIRL

Rich
@newbe5 ​but he wont see it for 5 years