Save Your Game

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

WOW! Can you believe it, folks? 2025 is over, and we’re on to a new year. But wait! We have some unfinished business! We can’t move on to 2026 until we RANK THE BEST GAMES OF 2025! To help us in this endeavor, we bring along content creator and game curator CASEY EXPLOSION! Casey brings all their expertise and charm along to help us figure out our TOP TENs (or TOP SIXes, for some of us). Come learn about all the best games of 2025 with your pals Matt, PushingUpRoses, and Casey Explosion! 2025 Games Mentioned: Asylum Bye Sweet Carole Easy Delivery Company Duskpunk CARIMARA: Between the forlorn pines Demon School The Séance of Blake Manor Guns of Fury Cabernet Promise Mascot Agency Dark Queen of Mortholme Dispatch Power Wash Simulator 2 Silent Hill F KINGDOMS OF THE DUMP STRANGE JIGSAWS PIPISTRELLO AND THE CURSED YOYO ROSEWATER BLUE PRINCE STRANGE ANTIQUITIES THE DRIFTER CITIZEN SLEEPER II: STARWARD VECTOR DUCK DETECTIVE 2: THE GHOST OF GLAMPING ABSOLUM HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG ÖOO NO, I’M NOT A HUMAN OLD SKIES CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 LOOK OUTSIDE Other Games Mentioned: Scratches Snowrunner Citizen Sleeper Frog Detective Small Saga Paradise Killer Styx: Blades of Greed The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon Perfect Tides: Station to Station Esoteric Ebb Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Merry Christmas everyone! And, as it's Christmas, we're here giving you the traditional holiday experience of a ghost-related detective mystery in a haunted mansion on Samhain! Ok... So... maybe we're a little late with this. BUT, as Roses and Matt are catching up on 2025 games, we both played the EXCELLENT Seance of Blake Manor and we want to talk to you about it! Plus, a lil' bit of Christmas, too! Games Mentioned: Strange Jigsaws Bye, Sweet Carole Foolish Mortals Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? Seance of Blake Manor The Excavation of Hob's Barrow The Colonel's Bequest The Dagger of Amon Ra The Roottrees Are Dead Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Roses has been busy watching Amish Holiday Films, but Matt is able to tell us about a new game called DuskPunk (not to be confused with DustPunk). Then Roses "surprises" Matt with an array of adventure game trivia games, including our famed segment "How Much Do My Pants Weigh?" Games Mentioned: DuskPunk Pokemon Disco Elysium King's Quest 5 and 6 The Monkey Island Games Zak McKracken Myst Gabriel Knight Sam and Max Hit the Road Dagger of Amon Ra Animal Well Firewatch Police Quest 3 Grim Fandango Sanitarium Trivia Game Screen Caps: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTs0YCo7JlhFCNHwiAv71wmBzXPLmyMNZ4Cgw&s https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVlfOJ7i6SZUaC6tsoI6rjBtDs_fKYPdyHvA&s

We're back from London! And we haven't changed a bit. Nope, not us. We sound and act exactly the same as before we spent some time on the British Isles. So come join us for a spot of tea as we talk about ADVENTURE X, THE GREATEST GAMING CONVENTION ON EARTH. Matt and Roses discuss their trip, the con, the demos they played, and then take YOUR LISTENER QUESTIONS until they're sick to their frickin' stomachs! Games Mentioned: Winter Burrow Strange Jigsaws Baba is You There Is No Game Foolish Mortals Pippistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores The Dark Room with John Robertson Blue Prince Contradiction The Roottrees are Dead Her Story Immortality Mouthwashing Sanitorium The Chzos Mythos (Trilby Games) 7 Days a Flumpy Broken Age Adventure X Demos: Asocial Giraffe* Ashwood Conspiracy Behind the Hydra's Eyes Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror REFORGED Chance's Lucky Escape* City of Voices* Contact Protocol DEAD HAND: RED STAR Dark Tides Dolos: Your Best Future Duskpunk* Esoteric Ebb* Expelled Freida is Changing* Ghost Haunting In Their Shoes* Legends of Castille * MAW Minddiver Mithra Mops & Mobs Panthalassa* Spirits of the Afterland Sleepytime Village The Beekeeper's Picnic* The Dark Queen of Mortholme* The Midnight Barber The RATLINE The Seance of Blake Manor* The Tragedy at Deer Creek* Trance Theft Horso Truer Than You Vice Undercover* We Stay Behind Your Crown is Mine * - games we highlight in the episode Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast Show less

It's early in the morning and PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp have woken up specifically to do the duty that no one else is brave enough to do -- They rank every adventure game ever. BUT FIRST, believe it or not, they've BOTH played a ton of games! Matt's got some spooky new mystery games to tell you about and Roses has plunged face first into some cozy sims!! Then, of course, we do what we must. Games Mentioned: Winter Burrow The Séance of Blake Manor Fields of Mistria My Time at Portia Foolish Mortals War of the Western Deep Strange Jigsaws Baba is You Astrologaster Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise Sender Unknown: The Woods SIMULACRUM Emily is Away The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything Biohazard: Escape Room Machinika: Museum Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com OFFICIAL RANKING SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11bDfPsY0tpw6m3b3EZZiY3xWuCYz4CMlMaOHST44yTA/edit?usp=sharing Roses' video on Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence with YakWaxLips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3zV8RY9NI Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

Velcome everyone. Earth is Purgatory! For our FINAL EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH, we start off with a spooky folk story, and then a TON of Next Fest demos! Then we talk about a disturbing horror game about answering your door in the apocalypse, and a game about a naughty boy who runs with scissors. Games Mentioned: No I’m Not a Human The Berlin Apartment Nighthawks Servant of the Lake Earth Must Die! Séance of Blake Manor Perfect Tides: Station to Station Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club Cult Vacui The Dark Rites of Arkham The Last Case of John Morley Father Winter Burrow Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence The Tragedy at Deer Creek Papers Please Myst Clock Tower Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast

SPOOKY MONTH CONTINUES! With Roses really wanting a coffee and Matt wanting to figure out how to make baths less hot. After a quick discussion about spookycute game CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs, they dive headfirst into the horrifying waters of Mouthwashing! Games Mentioned: Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs Inscryption No, I'm Not Human Mouthwashing Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/saveyourgamepodcast