Episode 344: Leprosy Mode

Alex and Tom F relive the fragtastic heyday of the FPS with Quake mod Arcane Dimensions, and die, with varying degrees of annoyance, at the hands of three different roguelikes: Noita, Spelunky 2 and Hades.

• Voxel-physics-destruction game Teardown is out on the 29th of October!
• The torrid Golden Axed tale.
• Gwen Frey‘s Lab Rat is looking for lab rats, er, playtesters. Link on the Steam page.
• Jakub Wasilewski’s SlipWays made in/for PICO-8.
• A full-fat PC version is on its way!
• Awesome Quake mod and map-pack, Arcane Dimensions.
• American McGee’s 300ft zombie and related dev tales from Quake are briefly recounted here.
• Noita is out of Early Access! Feels kinda similar to how it did a year ago, honestly. It was good a year ago, of course, but a lot of the systems still feel opaque.
• “Let’s get it over with”: Spelunky 2
• The Sealed Shop and the Mind-boggling Mistake, a Tom Francis adventure.
• Hades may be an excellent brawler, but it is sorely missing a leprosy mode.
• Surveillance game Orwell.
• “Emergent sim” classic System Shock 2.
• Daunting sci-fi colony sim Rimworld.
• NEOTOKYO! What a vibe!

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.