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If you were stuck alone with one video game...

🕑 Added 2025-03-25 04:01:01 +0000 UTC

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Mk

Thank you for encouraging people to keep themselves and others safe by wearing masks in crowded spaces ❤️

Chris

Will have a new fixed upload ASAP!

rylander

Yeah just hoping they'll re-up or something

Johnny Van Cura

Same! I am a Besties/Resties completionist!

Whatsup Studmuffin

I could then preform the lusty argonian maid as a one man show.

Whatsup Studmuffin

I would say elder scrolls because I have never played it and it's a looooong game and then I would read every book in Skyrim

Daniel Chernault

It’s rimworld for me

Casey Robertson

My stuck alone game would either be Factorio, or I’d finally take the time to understand Dwarf Fortress.

Cindyy

Please reupload with the ending of the episode. The abrupt cutoff made me sad :( lol

Matt Maher

Same for me

Claire

Can confirm, it cuts off at that time on Spotify

Elle

Same, it just happened to me now :(

DeadbyDawn

Also yes

Ben Kennedy

Looks like the upload is corrupted, Resties/Besties :( cuts out around 47:10 on here and on my podcast app

Ben

I find that the only types of games I really enjoy playing on mobile are puzzle games. E.g. NYT's daily games, sudoku, nongrams, etc. My suggestion is actually by Zach Gage (who got a shoutout this episode), puzzmo.com! There's no app but the website is a progressive web application meaning when you save it to your homescreen it behaves like a proper app. It's a relatively cheap subscription but I've found it to be a suitable replacement for my NYT Games subscription. I like the crosswords in particular, they are sized between a standard 15x15 crossword and a mini 5x5 and the clues are often more interesting, personal, funny, and trend towards a younger/nerdier audience than NYT (e.g., a crossword back in January was entirely themed around Spelunky). They also have a hints system so if you're stuck, you don't need to "cheat" by googling.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Astrophysicist

Same here

Leo

Ditto.

Kyle Keller

Y’all, New York Giraffe is now canon in Mets lore: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/Kpupq3eczx

Andy Lewis

Same here…

Phillip Cunliffe

@Russ you can now run UFO50 on android in the same way as postmaster (with your own game files) https://github.com/Skyline969/UFO50AndroidUnofficial I play on my Odin 2 but the RP5 I think you have would also work great

Brannon Hoff

Same issue!

Kormakur Gardarsson

Also for me. Tried redownloading, same problem

soapy hiss

Same, always on the kids side, even tho I was raised the opposite way it sounds. Parents let me watch saw movies, play Dead Frontier (zombie MMORPG, check it out!), read asoiaf in elementary / early middle school. Consequently, I could trust in them and speak openly, and grow my own sense of independence, responsibility, and boundaries (I'm still a wimp for horror videogames). My friends with controlling/extremely careful parents don't let their parents help them grow thru their 20s now. Other than arachnophobia from seeing the big spiders in LOTR and Harry Potter, I'm not forever traumatized lol.

Devin White

I recently picked up Poinpy and man, what a game. Really feels like if Downwell had a control scheme that made sense for touch screens.

greyandgory

I don’t know why but when you were discussing what directors you would like to see adapt a video game to film, my mind went straight to Yorgos Lanthimos and the absolutely wild adaptation he could make of The Curse of the Golden Idol 😵‍💫

Goositrous

If some modding is allowed, the only answer for me is Minecraft. It can feel like outside, it has the compelling progression gameplay loop stuff, and it allows you to take on effectively infinitely large and complex construction projects.

Casey Francis Alger

I always either pick Dark Souls II or New Vegas for these things, but this time I am going to shake it up and say MOUNT AND BLADE: WARBAND. I do think the image of someone (well, myself) playing a Strategy/Action-RPG with hard-line mechanics like M&B on a ornate wooden desk with its clawfooted legs submerged to its ankles in the sand of the beach of a tropical isle would be quite the aesthetic. Plus that game is near indestructible bug-wise, and the ones it does have won't nuke your play file from orbit on a whim.

Andrew

It is no longer as true, but for a while I called Hoplite "The only good mobile game." There was one challenge I was banging my head against for days and it was such a relief when I finally finished it.

Goositrous

Whenever the subject of the age appropriateness of games for kids comes up, my knee jerk reaction is to side with the kids. When I was a kid, my parents didn’t want me to play “violent” games, and were particularly sensitive to gun violence. I distinctly remember them absolutely freaking out about the horrors I had witnessed when I borrowed Turok 64 without their knowledge. I also remember feeling, though I lacked the vocabulary to express, that it was a silly, arbitrary thing to worry about. It’s a game, the guns are a game mechanic, I know the difference. They had projected in to me a level of sensitivity and I guess corruptibilty that even at a young age didn’t exist. I’m sure my feelings on this are informed by the fact that I’m not a parent, but are we really sure kids can’t be trusted to engage with (very broadly within reason) whatever games they want?

Emily Coleman

You guys absolutely clocked it, my question is 100% because of all the time I spent playing Animal Crossing during lockdown and fantasizing about the sound of stepping on grass. I think my answer to this is Baldur’s Gate 3, which has the benefits of being very long, replayable, people seem to be invested in the characters, AND I haven’t played it yet, so it would stay fresh longer. (This is also a gamble, because it could just not click with me.) I think the Sims/simlike games might be the real correct answer, though.

Patrick Riney

Same ☹️

Derelict Anus

Yep, unfortunately so.

SlimLeaper

Into the Breach…it didn’t click with me the first few times I tried it but I really wanted to take advantage of my Netflix subscription so I gave it another go.

Evan

Same issue here 47:11ish

Allan Thomaz Stiubiener

For me, too 😕

SoZettaSlow

It's broken for me too at the same place

Halophyte

Ditttoooo

anna gundlach

is it just me or does the podcast drop out at about 47:13 ?

Kit Geraghty

re: roblox, some ad blockers (e.g. ublock origin) have "element pickers" - i.e. you can block certain bits of websites every time you visit them. i use it to hide the youtube shorts recs in my subscriptions, i'm sure it can be used to hide most everything about roblox that isn't just the main game

Braden Roy

I've recently been playing "Forgotton Anne" and am absolutely smitten by it so far. It's an open-world Platformer Adventure game available on all of the things—Android, iOS, Steam, Switch, and so on—and if its gorgeous hand-drawn Ghibli-esque art and animation don't get you in the door, its narrative, puzzles, characters and world will get you there. And yes, I intentionally described it as a "Platformer Adventure" rather than a Metroidva... err, "Search Action" game— it's an Adventure game through-and-through which the player just happens to interface with via platformer mechanics. Note: I'm mainly playing it on my Retroid Pocket 5 with physical controls, but the touch controls seem solid from what I've tested.

rylander

UFO 50. It's designed for this

Mark Smith

Hoplite is an evergreen favorite of mine. Simple and complex, with hundreds of challenges to be had.

Nick Fielding

Mobile game: (apart from Balatro!), an earlier Besties recommendation I keep going back to is "Slice and Dice". Each run is a series of combat encounters with randomised enemies vs your party. Everything determined by dice roll. Fun, quick, hugely varied and a f#$%-ton of challenges, modes and unlocks! Big plus as a mobile game- works in either portrait or landscape

BucklingSwashes

If an online game was allowed then my immediate answer was definitely going to be Deep Rock Galactic. I continue to return to it for every new season or holiday event, and every time I do, I am once again utterly delighted by every moment with that game. But if I had to pick an offline game, it's gotta be Hades. I was just thinking recently that despite the 250+ hours I've sunk into it, I've only ever used one save slot. A fresh playthrough is starting to sound really appealing. Seeing the characters' introductions again, getting to experience those relationships from the start, and revisiting those earlier moments throughout the main story whole knowing where things ultimately go just seems like it must be a great feeling.