WHY DON’T THEY HAVE WRESTLING MATCHES IN PUMPKIN PATCHES!? This isn’t the set-up to a street joke, this is a genuine question that Matt has. Roses watched a fake movie starring Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson. Matt played a “stealth team tactics game” with ghost pirates.

BUT the real story here is that PushingUpRoses and Matt replayed a classic game from their youths that features a live-acted Christopher Lloyd in a fully cartoon world.  It’s called Toonstruck and it rules and the only bad thing about it is that they never released a sequel.

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GAMES MENTIONED:

 * The Naked Gun: I.C.U.P.
 * Rusty Lake Series
 * Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
 * Sword Game
 * Toonstruck
 * Grim Fandango
 * Torin’s Passage

Episode 64 - Toonstruck

We begin by answering the BIG question: What happened to Sobe?

And then we talk about video games, I guess. Because that’s what you demand of us.

THIS WEEK we rank a bunch more adventure games – WHETHER WE’VE PLAYED THEM OR NOT. After Matt tells everyone about a free Rusty Lake game, we dive into the List ™ and throw 10 new games on our DEFINITIVE list!

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Games Mentioned:

 * The Beekeeper’s Picnic
 * The Drifter
 * The Dagger of Amon Ra
 * The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show
 * Rusty Lake Series
 * Turlock Holmes
 * Toska
 * Rosewater
 * Reviver
 * Quantum Witch
 * Session
 * Neon Hearts City
 * Expelled
 * Canteloupe Chronicles
 * New Mage
 * Urban Myth Resolution Center
 * Slender Threads
 * Time Paradox
 * Helheim Hassle
 * Forgotten Hill Tales
 * Softporn Adventure
 * Saint Kotar
 * The Shine of a Star
 * Love: A Puzzle Box Filled With Stories
 * American Arcadia
 * Cleopatra: Riddle of the Tomb
 * The Labyrinth of Time

Episode 63 - Ranking Even More Every Adventure Game Ever Again!

Deep down under, Roses and Matt cast off their possessions and hop a freight train car into a  world of HIGH OCTANE EXCITEMENT and POINT AND CLICK PUZZLES. We're talking about the Drifter. And we played a couple of other very good games. Lot of hyped-up energy this episode!

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Games Mentioned:

 * The Beekeeper's Picnic: A Sherlockian Adventure
 * Öoo
 * Bomberman
 * The Drifter
 * Sanitarium
 * Return of the Obra Dinn
 * Myst

Episode 62 - The Drifter

GOOD ARTIST.

We're back again to give you a dive so deep on Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer that MAYBE one of us cries! Who's to tell? Matt played a straight-up action/arcade game and a weird little puzzle game. Roses went to the circus! And what's that? We get to move one of our rankings??

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 * Games Mentioned:
 * Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
 * Isoland Pumpkin Town
 * Sunset Hills
 * Checkers
 * Space Quest IV
 * Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
 * Pine Hearts

Episode 61 - Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer

We have a bit of a different episode for you today. This is the story of Adventure Gamers: A decades-old website dedicated to Adventure Games and their fans that was recently bought out by a mysterious compaany and hollowed out for the promotion of online gambling and cryptocurrency.

Matt and Roses chat with John Walker, Timothy Malmros, Jack Allin, and Emily Morganti to help to provide insights into what Adventure Gamers meant to them, what the hell happened to it, why it happened, and what the future is for Adventure Game fans looking for a home.

Email us: mattandroses@gmail.com

You can read John Walker’s article here: https://kotaku.com/adventure-gamers-forums-gambling-ads-jack-allin-1851784764

You can read Timothy Malmros’s coverage of Click Out Media here: https://recleudo.com/under-googles-blind-eye-a-growing-parasite-ecosystem-is-flourishing/

In case you haven’t heard of it, Jack Allin’s new website: https://adventuregamehotspot.com/

Game Boomers: https://www.gameboomers.com/

The infamous Old Man Murray article: https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

Emily Morganti’s website: http://emilymorganti.com/

And here is some other coverage we used to prepare for this episode:

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/developers-saddened-by-beloved-adventure-game-sites-pivot-into-world-of-online-gambling

https://aftermath.site/adventure-gamers-online-casino-gambling-website-sale-parasite-seo

Games Mentioned:

 * Beekeeper’s Picnic
 * Baldur’s Gate II
 * Dune Awakening
 * Sins of a Solar Empire II
 * Frostpunk
 * Ixion
 * Keeper
 * Shadow of Destiny
 * Peasants Quest
 * Universal Paperclips

Episode 60 - R.I.P. AdventureGamers

Uh oh, everyone. We’re BACK! And we have a pretty strange episode for you all. You’ll just have to hear what happened for yourself. Matt also finished Clair Obscur, and Roses finished her move and little clay worm, so… We talk about that.

Regardless, wish Matt luck on his last week of college and wish Roses luck on her vacating the black mold from her lungs.

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Instagram: @saveyourgamepodcast

Games Mentioned:

 * Fall Guys
 * Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
 * The Abyssal Zone
 * The Abyssal Zone
 * Chop Suey
 * Magnus Imago
 * The Suicide of Rachel Foster
 * Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
 * Lunar Axe
 * Sleuthhounds: The Halloween Deception
 * Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower
 * Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
 * The Room VR: A Dark Matter

Episode 59 - Ranking Every Adventure Game Ever Again

There’s an important moment in every podcast’s life where they finally have to broach that inevitable conversation… The chomping/champing at the bit conversation. And Matt and Roses finally get there as Matt discusses his favorite new French RPG, CLAIR OBSCUR.

Then the gang discuss a hilarious, cozy new detective game DUCK DETECTIVE: THE GHOST OF GLAMPING.

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Games Mentioned:

 * Blue Prince
 * Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
 * Chrono Trigger
 * Thank Goodness You’re Here
 * Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
 * Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
 * Rosewater
 * Expelled!
 * Neon Hearts City
 * Near-Mage
 * Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
 * Rue Valley
 * Strange Antiquities
 * The Mermaid Mask
 * Foolish Mortals
 * Perfect Tides: Station to Station
 * Greenhearth Necromancer

Episode 58 - Clair Obscur and Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Matt’s been digging into some old RPGs on his Retroid Pocket, but this pales in comparison to PushingUpRoses’ excitement for a CHICAGO POPE!

Also, we do a deep dive into Wadjet Eye’s new epic point-and-click adventure OLD SKIES, which somehow devolves into a long discussion of cake.

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Games Mentioned:

 * Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
 * Chrono Trigger
 * X-Men: Legends
 * Old Skies
 * Wanderstop

Episode 57 - Old Skies

Oh, what? They're talking about Zelda AGAIN!? Yes. And if you listened to the last episode, you'd know that. Stop playing dumb. We left you with half of the Zelda's to go and in this ep, we finish 'em off. 

Plus, Roses and Matt both played games by former guests of the show. Matt played some of the new* Indiana Jones. And a game that falls short of its demo?

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Games Mentioned

 * Old Skies
 * Rosewater
 * Blue Prince
 * Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 
 * Deck of Haunts
 * Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
 * Final Fantasy VIII
 * Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
 * Zelda: The Minish Cap
 * Zelda: Twilight Princess
 * Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
 * Zelda: Spirit Tracks
 * Zelda: Skyward Sword
 * Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
 * Zelda: Breath of the Wilds
 * Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Episode 56 - Zelda Pt. 2

Zelda is the story of a little blonde elf boy named Zelda who go on adventure and kill a big green pig man to save the princess who is named Princess. Join us as we, Zeldo expert, talk about the boy Zeldo and his big mighty sword and all the Princess he save with him boom-o-rang. Join us as we seek the Triforce and scour some dungeons with our main man Tingle I mean Zelbo I mean Zelda.

PLUS: Roses is back from Mexico! Matt, your next Pope(??), played a weird game about pimping out mascots.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

 * “Christ Fighter”
 * Bibleman
 * Promise Mascot Agency
 * Blue Prince
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * Zelda II: The Adventures of Link
 * A Link to the Past
 * Link’s Awakening
 * Ocarina of Time
 * Majora’s Mask
 * Oracle of Seasons*
 * Oracle of Ages*
 * Four Swords*
 * Wind Waker

Episode 55 - Zelda

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