422: Deltarune Chapter 3
Toby Fox is back, and it’s TV TIME! Previously:
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr
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441: ENA: Dream BBQ
From the depths of Steam and YouTube comes ENA, a strange polygonal girl in a surreal hypercapitalist dreamscape. Your hosts were left wondering what the hell this was all about, and why is it so...
Jun 11, 2025•55 min
440: Skin Deep
Indie game royalty Blendo aka Brendan Chung, creator of Thirty Flights of Loving and Quadrilateral Cowboy among others has come out of his cicada-like 7 year dev cycle with another instant classic. Skin Deep is...
May 30, 2025•1 hr 1 min
439: Despelote
A video game memoir by Ecuadorian indie developers Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena, and published by Panic, Despelote takes you back to a childhood in 2001 Ecuador, and the magical grip soccer held over the...
May 17, 2025•54 min
438: Many Nights a Whisper
We’re talking about Many Nights a Whisper, a short, meditative archery (kinda!) game from Red Strings Club developer Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour. The Dreamer has prepared their entire life for one impossible shot that will...
May 06, 2025•58 min
437: Expelled! Spoilers!
We spent this week playing a bit more of Inkle’s follow up to Overboard!, and made some shocking discoveries!
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 8 min
436: Trash the Planet
This week, Laura and Nate dive into Trash the Planet, a free, browser-based resource-management game that subverts clicker mechanics to serve its narrative. You play as a group of raccoons who start out collecting trash...
Apr 01, 2025•47 min
435: FlyKnight
Shane and Nate were buzzing about FlyKnight, a $5 indie dungeon crawler that surprised us with its humor and depth. In this episode, we break down what makes this tiny first-person RPG so fun, from...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min
434: Expelled! An Overboard! Game
Expelled! is the latest game from all-star narrative design studio Inkle. It’s a follow up to our 2021 Game of the Year winner Overboard!, and it builds on that game’s strengths in every conceivable area....
Mar 12, 2025•56 min
433: A Huge Year for Small Games
Steam Next Fest just concluded and the Short Game team searched through the mountain of demos to discuss some of the most exciting games with short game energy coming out this year. 00:00 Intro04:09 WYRMHALL: Brush...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 5 min
432: Sheepy: A Short Adventure
All four co-hosts are present and accounted for as we talk about ultra-short platformer, Sheepy: A Short Adventure. It’s right there in the name! Sheepy is a FREE game on Steam and itch.io, and it’ll...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 5 min
431: Fight’N Rage
Rats with Knives! It’s time to finally talk about Fight’N Rage! This has been on the back burner for a while; it was first suggested to us nearly 4 years ago as a modern, mechanically...
Feb 03, 2025•56 min
430: Steam Deck Chat
This week we are welcoming long time friend of the show Jason McIntosh (aka Jmac, aka Halstrick) who’s joining us to talk about the Valve Steam Deck. It’s been about three years since the Steam...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 17 min
429: Grunn
How has it taken us ten years to get around to covering a Sokpop game? The venerable but very weird indie collective has put out a fascinating perfectly normal gardening game. Ahem. OK fine, Grunn is a...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr
428: Parking Garage Rally Circuit
🎶️ I’M ON ANOTHER… ON ANOTHER LEVEL 🎶️ This week we are talking about the retro-inspired, Ska-infused rally car racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Race through the most iconic parking structures of the US! It’s...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 5 min
427: Game of the Year 2024
It’s Game of the Year time again! This week we’re looking back at 2024 to pick the best short video game of the year, and recognize some other great games as well. 00:00 Intro04:52 Game...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 10 min
426: Game Mixology
This Thanksgiving week the hosts gathered to play a bit of a game, trying to match short games to randomly chosen genres and adjectives. What’s a David Lynchian Platformer, or an “I Want To Go...
Dec 02, 2024•55 min
425: Neva
Press Y to Neva There’s a certain sector of our listenership that loves it when we talk about games that don’t work for us. If that’s you, then please enjoy our discussion of Neva, the latest...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 9 min
424: 1000xRESIST
What a story. 1000xRESIST is one of the best works of science fiction we’ve seen in a game, and it opens new territory at the intersection of visual novels, adventure games, and interactive fiction while...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min
423: Miscellaneous
This is a show nominally about video games.
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 5 min
422: Mouthwashing
An unsettling game for the tail end of spooky season. Mouthwashing is a non-linear narrative horror game about a doomed space freighter and her crew. Please enjoy Dragonsbreath X mouthwash.
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 6 min
421: IFComp 2024 Part 3
We cover a few more games before the close of the comp. Get those votes in!
Oct 14, 2024•57 min
420: A Little to the Left
This has been recommended to us a lot, so we finally decided to clean out those drawers and organize those bookshelves. A surprisingly fun series of tiny organization puzzles which added up to an interesting...
Oct 07, 2024•59 min
419: IFComp 2024 Part 2
Laura and Raygan talk about another handful of games from this year’s interactive fiction competition. Thanks to the authors, and to all our patrons who are sharing their IFComp experiences on the Discord!
Sep 23, 2024•52 min
418: I Am Your Beast
A quick episode about a very fast game. I Am Your Beast is the latest game from Strange Scaffold and Xalavier Nelson Jr. Even more “boomer shooter”-y than previous Short Game favorite El Paso, Elsewhere,...
Sep 16, 2024•41 min
417: IFComp 2024 Part 1
Surprise! The comp started early! Well we were surprised anyway. We’re kicking off our coverage of this year’s IFComp with impressions of the following games: As with all our IFComp coverage, we need your help to...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 15 min
416: Valley Peaks
Frog Fatigue and Frog Enthusiasm abound in this discussion of open world first person mountain climbing game Valley Peaks.
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr
415: Video Game Books
In this topic episode, Laura and Raygan go through their bookshelves to talk about the video game books they have enjoyed. Art books, game design books, history, and even novels.
Aug 12, 2024•59 min
414: Thank Goodness You’re Here!
A surreal comedy “slapformer” about a little guy who goes around.
Aug 05, 2024•29 min
413: Clickolding
You click it real good.
Jul 29, 2024•50 min
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