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

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Episode 90 - The Mermaid Mask

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

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Episode 89.mp3

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

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Episode 88 - The Incident at Galley House and Letter Lost

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

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Episode 87 - Letter Lost and Crushed in Time

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

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Episode 86 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station

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

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Episode 85 - Ranking Every Adventure Game Ever Yet Again Even More

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

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Episode 84 - The Dark Rites of Arkham

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


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Episode 83 - Cult Vacui

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

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Episode 82 - Esoteric Ebb

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

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Episode 81 - King’s Quest VII

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A podcast about narrative video games hosted by internet bon vivant PushingUpRoses and special boy Matt Aukamp.