430 episodes
The Short Game The Short Game
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5.0 • 10 Ratings
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There are a lot of great games out there. Want to play a lot of them?
On The Short Game, we celebrate great game storytelling and craft, in games that you can play in an afternoon or three. From brief but brilliant indie games to thrilling but manageable triple-A games, these are great games that respect your time.
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404: El Paso, Elsewhere
Your ex-girlfriend, queen of the vampires, has holed up in an El Paso motel to perform a ritual that will bring about the end of the world. As John Savage, veteran monster hunter and bullet-time...
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403: Gaming Slumps
Slumps. Ruts. Dulldrums. Whatever you want to call them, most of us have likely experienced times when you couldn’t play or enjoy games in the way you might want for one reason or another. In...
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402: Terra Nil
It’s the ultimate video game power fantasy: the power to clean up after ourselves. Terra Nil is a unique “city builder” in the lineage of Sim City, but with tasks you with revitalizing a wilderness...
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401: Open Roads
After an incredibly troubled development, we finally have the latest game from the team that brought you Gone Home and Tacoma… Sort of. Open Roads, from publisher Annapurna and the developers known here as The...
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400: Episode 400 Trivia Spectacular!
400 episodes. Nearly 10 years. I absolutely can not believe it. To celebrate, Laura put together an incredibly well produced trivia night game for us to play! Who knows the most about the last 10...
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A Quick Word on Slice & Dice 3.0
Slice & Dice is a game that just keeps giving, and we don’t just mean incredible dice-rolling gameplay. Since we last covered Slice & Dice, it has received two major updates. As we prepare for...
Customer Reviews
My favourite games podcast
A lovely and lovingly-made show with smart and charming hosts picking out top quality titles. The show has an amiable tone, good sound quality, and fun general topic chats at the end. The concept of spotlighting games you can fit into your everyday life without sinking 20+ hours into it is solid and practical, and by nature leans towards artistic indie games. Thanks guys.
Easily my favourite podcast!
I can’t recommend this show enough! I love the way the cast cover a variety of games (not just the new hotness) and the genuine love for each title discussed is clear and infectious (I’ve gone out and bought a few games based on some episodes). It’s also great that the taste of the cast aligns nicely with my own so reminiscing over games like Transistor, Pocket Card Jockey and Katamari Damacy has been an extra treat. Keep up the good work guys! 👍🏾
A real find
Podcast that matches my taste and aesthetic. Really enjoying working through the back catalogue - I've played most of them anyway! Nicely put together, unpretentious but literate, casual but cogent.