Save Your Game

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
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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
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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
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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