Save Your Game

Are Matt and Roses here to talk about what a dork Shane Gillis is? Are they here to talk about how dumb the Tesla "Flying" Car is? Are they here to talk about the Play Date? Or The Shadows That Could Hear? Or a Zombified Angela Lansbury? NO! They're here to talk about Midnight Scenes. And they will. And it'll spook the pants off of you. Put your pants back on, please! GAMES MENTIONED: Root Bear The Whiteout Dig! Dig! Dino! Chance's Lucky Escape Gloom Gate HOUM Sound Mind Dimhaven - The Lost Source Myst Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place Midnight Scenes: Among Graves Rosewater Perfect Tides: Station to Station The Supper: New Blood Unwelcome The Librarian The Supper Tetris TIMESTAMPS 09:39 - Play Date with Matt 13:11 - Gloom Gate 15:45 - HOUM 19:38 - Roses: Fields of Mistria 36:49 - Matt: Dimhaven - The Lost Source 43:55 - A Really Really Old Song 44:30 - Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place 1:03:00 - A Safe Space - SPOILERS 1:10:20 - Midnight Scenes: Among Graves 1:35:26 - Goodbye ADVENTURE X 2026 TICKETS: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/adventurexconferencescic/2339289 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses and Matt attempt to scare each other by turning mundane stories into SpooOOOooOOooky stories. After briefly discussing a few games they’ve been enjoying, Matt and Roses then deep dive into the next two installments of the Midnight Scenes, short episode games inspired by The Twilight Zone. Games Mentioned: Graveyard Keeper 2 Servant of the Lake Final Fantasy: Resonance The Dark Dome Studios Games Cube Escape Midnight Scenes: The Highway Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note Midnight Scenes: The Nanny Midnight: Among the Woods Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

After what could be the most alluring intro ever recorded, Matt and Roses discuss what they’ve been enjoying, promptly followed by finishing up the ULTIMATE RECOMMENDATION ELEGANZA EXTRAVAGANZA list. Roses gets too heated about Gone Home. They then segue right in to spooky month with two lovely games from the Midnight Scenes series, horror games inspired by The Twilight Zone. Fields of Mistria Pilot Wings 64 Desktop Explorer Librarian: Tidy Up The Arcane Library Mouthwashing Firewatch Gone Home What Remains of Edith Finch Night in the Woods Still Wakes the Deep Midnight Scenes: The Highway Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note

Roses got a Switch 2! So she can play Banjo-Kazooie again! Matt played an adorable, wholesome Metroidvania called The Merlies! Then, we recommend a ton more games in a few more Adventure Game categories, and we WAYYYYYY overshoot for times and SPOILER: WE DON'T EVEN FINISH. But it's a hell of a fun time. Games Mentioned: Banjo-Kazooie The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Donkey Kong Bananza The Merlies Nighthawks Clock Tower Scratches Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Slender: The Last 8 Pages At Dead of Night Nightmare Frames Burnhouse Lane Phantasmagoria The Last Door The Quarry Death of the Reprobate The Procession to Calvary Thank Goodness, You're Here Untitled Goose Game The Stanley Parable There is No Game Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo Danganronpa Doki Doki Literature Club The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy The Wolf Among Us Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Overboard! Murder She Wrote My Brother Rabbit Family Mysteries Enigmatis Haunted Hotel Tower Full Of Cats Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses informs Matt about the strangest Mascot of all time before they both get into the next set of recommendations. Roses is confused about Banjo Kazooie and Matt isn't quite sure what a puzzle adventure game is. Games Mentioned: Fields of Mistria Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask Banjo Kazooie Psychonauts Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Lair of the Clockwork God Final Fantasy VII Tunic Disco Elysium Esoteric Ebb The Quest for Glory Games Pokemon Citizen Sleeper 1 & 2 Myst Blue Prince Outer Wilds Call of the Sea The Room Little Nightmares Lorelei and the Laser Eyes The Witness Creaks Strange Jigsaws Limbo The Room VR I Expect you to Die Cube Escape Collection Is This Game Trying to Kill Me? Rusty Lake: Roots Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Not only are there so many adventure games out there, there are so many TYPES of adventure games out there! How do you know whether you're looking at a Deduction Game vs a Horror Game? A Puzzle Adventure Game vs an Escape Room Game? A Point and Click Game vs a Text Parser Game? Well, okay, you should probably be able to figure that last one out for yourself... but for everything ELSE, your old pals Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses are here! In the first of a 3-part series, we not only set straight the different subgenres of "Adventure Game," we also reccomend our favorites of each. And Matt played Wavetale finally. Games Mentioned: WaveTale Curse of Monkey Island Nightmare Frames King's Quest (2015) Perfect Tides: Station to Station Dropsy Unavowed Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars The Crimson Diamond Colonel's Bequest Trilby's Notes The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker Enclosure The Seance of Blake Manor L.A. Noire Tangle Tower Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers The Forgotten City Chicken Police Paradise Killer Case of the Golden Idol The Return of the Obra Dinn Contradiction The Incident at Galley House Duck Detective: The Salami Boiz Chants of Senaarr Strange Horticulture Strange Antiquities Hatoful Boyfriend No I'm Not A Human Papers Please NUTS Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses is obsessed with Master Chef and Matt can't decide on whether he likes a new indie game or not. After some failed attempts at negging, Roses and Matt discuss Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father in honor of the beloved Tim Curry, who played the titular character. Rest in Power, Legend. Games Mentioned: Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster Toonstruck Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity Celestial Return Aerial Knight's McFreezy Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within Gabriel Knight: The Vampire One

Anything can happen, you guys. Even a new episode of Save Your Game! Matt and Roses go back into their detective kits, grab their sidekicks with the cool hair, and dive into an incredible mystery in the new Detective Grimoire game, The Mermaid Mask! Our SECOND amazing game with "mermaid" in the title this year! So we sit in our 2,000-mile-long room and record this incredible episode. Enjoy! Games Mentioned: Fields of Mistria Stardew Valley Pokopia Animal Crossing The Mermaid Mask Tangle Tower Detective Grimoire Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Duck Detective Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

PushingUpRoses and Special Boy Matt Aukamp overcome clicking bugs and sadness to bring you this absolute grab-bag of an episode! We talk about games! We talk about movies! We talk about palette knives! We answer emails! We rank games! Come have fun with us in this mp3 file. Games Mentioned: The Mermaid Mask Pokémon Scarlet Fields of Mistria Rainbow Billy and the Curse of the Leviathan The Life and Suffering of Sir Bronte King's Quest/Space Quest Jazz & Faust Dark Coolman Dark Earth The Chzos Mythos; Siberia; Grey Matter; Samarost; The Longest Journey; Enclosure; Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator; Apprentice; Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; Danganronpa; The Walking Dead; Firewatch; Broken Age; The Cave; Life is Strange; Braid; World of Goo; Hollow Knight; Shovel Knight Loom Crushed in Time Citizen Sleeper Gilbert Goodmate and the something of Phungoria David Slade Mysteries: Case Files Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required The Shattering Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses has the vapors over a man who left her life after being yelled at in a pottery studio. After she mourns this loss, she and Matt discuss the fun (but flawed) Letter Lost and the innovative mechanics of The Incident at Galley House Games Mentioned: Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Pokopia Pokemon Sun/Moon Buncha Other Pokemon Games Super Mario Odyssey Banjo Kazooie Letter Lost Forbidden Solitaire The Roottrees are Dead Type Help The Incident at Galley House The Colonel’s Bequest Life is Short Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

We've got for you, dear listeners, a DOUBLE FEATURE! Matt and Roses played a bizarre game about being trapped in a spooky, mysterious post office. AND THEN they played a point and click (and stretch) game about a Sherlock Holmes and Watson actively destroying the game they're starring in. Also, the malls are closing :( Games Mentioned: Gilbert Goodmate Krabat and the Secret of the Sorbian King Mina the Hollower Shovel Knight Letter Lost Strange Horticulture/Antiquities Papers Please Scratches Blue Prince There Is No Game Crushed in Time Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Matt and Roses BOTH play games from their ranking list that they both dislike, though one is grumpier about it than the other. See if you can tell which one. After much rambling about classic point n clicks, Matt and Roses finally discuss (and gush over) the wonderfully written Perfect Tides: Station to Station. Games Mentioned: Order of the Sinking Star The Witness Braid Boxl Sokoban Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria Jazz and Faust Dark Earth The Tragedy at Deer Creek Perfect Tides: Station to Station Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses and Matt reflect on things they may or may not be experts on, then chit chat about a game and a new show they've been enjoying. While ranking every adventure game ever, Roses witnesses Matt, in real time, fall in love with two horrendous looking games. Games Mentioned: If On A Winters Night, Four Travelers Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Fungoria My Brother Rabbit Portrait of a Torn Victor: A Steampunk Adventure Samudra Greyhat: A Digital Detective Adventure Dark Earth Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil Transylvania Jazz and Faust The Uncertainty: Last Quiet Day The Lure of the Temptress Last Half of Darkness: Tomb of Zojir Born Punk Muscarine AKA Erica's Trip Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

There are two Matts on this show! But only for a second, then one Matt turns back into PushingUpRoses. We talk about a ridiculous YouTuber-inspired creationist movie, Improvised Shakespeare, and trying to manifest a meet-cute. But, settle in folks, because the bulk of this episode is a break-down and basically gush-fest about the new(ish) adventure from Postmodern Games, The Dark Rites of Arkham. And now, we're both huge HP Lovecraft fans. Sorry... Games Discussed: Mina the Hollower Shovel Knight Banjo Kazooey Hollow Knight: Silksong Nightmare Frames An English Haunting The Dark Rites of Arkham Dreams in the Witch House Darkside Detective Call of the Sea Call of the Elder Gods Shadow of the Comet Chronicle of Innsmouth The Terrible Old Man Dredge Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Lots of talk about drinks and convenience stores up top but I promise we talk about video games eventually! But if you're not here for talk about coffee, Wawa, and Food Truck driving/cooking game pitches, then why are you here at all?? Games Mentioned: Mina the Hollower The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time Tunic Hypnospace Outlaw Subversive Memories Cult Vacui Dreams in the Witch The Last Door Excavation of Hob's Barrow SPOILER SECTION: 1:14:30 - 1:21:24 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

What part of your psyche makes you listen to podcasts? The Charisma of the hosts? Your unwavering Constitution to stand all the "ums" and corny jokes? The Intelligence that allows you to write corrective emails after evert episode? Whatever the case, we have a great podcast for you and it's all about a D&D/Disco Elysium-like called ESOTERIC EBB. Matt and Roses gush over this incredibly special game. We also talk about about a chunk pixel-graphic horror game and a musical RPG?? Games Mentioned: Paradise Falls People of Note Esoteric Ebb Disco Elysium Baldur's Gate Knights of the Old Republic Quest for Glory V: Dragonfire Planescape: Torment Wildermyth Cult Vacui Myst SPOILER SECTION: 1:33:00 - 1:40:00 Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses is baffled as to how a weird demo got into her Steam library. Matt discusses a couple Play Date games and Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, followed by absolute gushing (on Roses’s part) about King’s Quest VII. Games mentioned: Sinner’s Landing Chance’s Lucky Escape Long Puppy Grim Fandango Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon The 100 Line: Last Defense Academy King’s Quest VII Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses is BACK with a new favorite thing and its cuteness is highly debatable. A lost segment TRIUMPHANTLY RETURNS. And Matt catches us up on some games he's been playing since the last episode. Then, we grab our curse stones, throw on our diving shirts with our Seiman and Douman symbols, and leap into the water to face our Tomokazuki. It's time for another PARANORMASIGHT game, this one all about mermaids! And we fall in absolute love with it. Games Discussed: Dig! Dig! Dino! The Whiteout Enclosure MIO: Memories in Orbit Hollow Knight: Silksong Lone Fungus The Hundred-Line Defense Academy Steins:Gate PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse Esoteric Ebb Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

After Matt and Roses dive into the lore of “Bawitiba”, they come in hot with some exciting gaming news, then have a charming little conversation about a game on their ranking list! Games Mentioned: Paranomasight: The Mermaid's Curse Perfect Tides: Station to Station Mio: Memories in Orbit TR-49 Danganronpa Strange Horticulture/Antiquities Astrologaster Orion Burger Pine Hearts Wavetale Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Matt gets revenge on Roses for grilling him on Monkey Island by giving her a hard-AF King’s Quest Quiz! After she does mildly okay, they get back to ranking every adventure game ever. Games Mentioned: Hollow Knight: Silksong Kingdoms of the Dump Foolish Mortals Coven of the Chicken Foot Twenty Small Mazes Constance King’s Quest 1-7 Ranked: Ben Jordan Paranormal Investigator Case 6 Am I? Whateverland Cosmology of Kyoto Nauticrawl Delores: A Thumbleweed Park mini adventure The Black Cauldron Room 208 Solaria Moon As Dusk Falls Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast