Every Game Coming Out in April 2026 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Every Game Coming Out in April 2026

Date: March 31, 2026
Host(s): Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, Mike “SnowBikeMike” Howard
Theme: Comprehensive preview, analysis, and excitement check for every significant game scheduled to release in April 2026, covering all platforms and genres, with typical Kinda Funny banter and gaming insight.

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Episode Structure

1. Opening Banter and Tone Setting (02:05–04:08)
2. April 2026 Overview – "Is It a Big Month?" (04:08–08:48)
3. Full Day-by-Day April Releases Discussion and Impressions (08:48–87:44)

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1. Vibes & Introduction

(02:05–04:08)

• Classic Kinda Funny warmth and banter: Greg, Blessing, Andy, and Mike riff about food, McGriddles, carwashes, and McDonald's breakfast policies.
• Greg: "We're talking about every game coming out in April. There's a lot—as always."
• Mike jokes about how anticipating so many games is a "double edged sword" (03:57).
• Quick gratitude to Patreon producers: Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twining.
• Reminder: April Fool's Day is tomorrow—don’t get fooled by Nick’s texts.

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2. April 2026: A Big Month for Games?

(04:08–08:48)

• Greg floats the idea of a "bumper crop" of releases, confusing some co-hosts until Andy helpfully clarifies: "A bumper crop is an unusually large or abundant harvest..." (07:38, Mike reads the definition).
• Optimistic sentiment: Blessing and Andy both expect substantial and promising releases, citing titles like Pragmata and Pokémon Champions.
• Running joke as everyone struggles to pronounce "Pragmata" correctly.
• Andy: "This is definitely the month where things are going to start heating up." (08:46)

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3. Notable Releases & Key Discussions (with Timestamps)

Week 1: April 1–7

Spark Ignites (PC Early Access)

(09:07–11:53)

• Pixel fantasy RPG with branching narrative, catches Greg’s eye: "I'm still... when I see early access I go, I'll wait for the final game." (09:42–10:55)
• The group debates pros/cons of Early Access—Blessing notes it's tough to return to a game for its final version after trying it in Early Access.

Darwin’s Paradox (April 2) – Cinematic platformer

(13:45–15:17)

• Andy defines “cinematic platformer” as a game where visuals and atmosphere outweigh raw gameplay.
• Mike: "I enjoyed the Metal Gear Solid demo... but it's a little slow."
• Blessing: Not as excited, prefers action-oriented or visually innovative platformers.

I Am Jesus Christ (April 2, PC)

(15:44–17:35)

• Greg: "I'm really, really looking forward to this one."
• Laughs about embargoes and story spoilers: "We already know what happens." (16:34, Andy)
• Blessing: Points out the depiction of Jesus, asks about representation: "Why is this man Caucasian? All right, let's have the conversation." (17:23)
• Group agrees the intent seems earnest rather than satirical.

Motion Wreck (April 2, Switch/PS5)

(20:19–21:04)

• Super chat recommend; Blessing and Andy highlight its innovative use of motion trails for puzzles and retro minimal art.

Starfield (April 7, now on PlayStation 5)

(23:11–24:50)

• Greg and co. discuss expectations for the "game of the year" edition, tracking the PlayStation launch, and community reaction.
• Mike: "Big-time developer with Bethesda, right? A Bethesda game that missed PlayStation now coming there... I think that's a big deal."

People of Note (April 7, Annapurna, Rhythm RPG)

(25:41–26:13)

• Blessing: "Cool ideas... wasn't in love with it by the end of the demo."
• RPG with rhythm/band mechanics, doubt about depth and execution.

SigmaStar Saga DX (April 7, WayForward)

(26:55–27:08)

• Greg: "On my must play—I'm excited to start from the beginning and see if it clicks."
• Half-shooter, half-RPG mashup praised for style and nostalgia.

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Week 2: April 8–15

Samson: A Ty Dalston Story (April 8, Mad Max devs)

(28:32–29:47)

• Blessing previewed: "Reminds me personally more of Sleeping Dogs... The gameplay loop is you’re fulfilling this mission so you can make enough money to do this stuff."
• Greg: "Maybe it’s just the car, but I get pings of Driver from it..."

Pokémon Champions (April 8, Switch/Switch 2)

(31:46–32:43)

• Blessing: "Came back really, really excited to play more" after preview trip.
• Mike predicts this will "print money" as a battle-focused, free-to-play experience.
• Group wants a "Kinda Funny Pokémon tournament" once it’s live.
• Customization options, ranked and unranked battles, questions about microtransactions.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (April 16, Switch/Switch 2)

(56:07–58:36)

• Blessing gushes: "This is the game I’ve been wanting to play for over 10 years."
• Greg laments Nintendo’s limitations on content sharing: "...trying to make it hard so... people who want to make that kind of content are really just stopping people from being like, look, it's grandma."

Mouse PI: For Hire (April 16, all platforms)

(53:03–55:16)

• Rubber hose FPS with hand-drawn animation; Greg says playing the preview "made me a believer."
• Andy: "The boss fights are a lot more inspired by more modern FPS games."
• Blessing: "I hope it's like seven [hours], I'm having a good time with this, but I don't want to live in this..."

Gecko Gods (April 16, PC/Switch/PS5)

(58:51–59:19)

• Blessing: "It's fun playing as a little guy sometimes, you know? Climbing walls and all that stuff..."

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Week 3: April 17–24

Pragmata (April 17, Capcom)

(61:52–64:11)

• Verm Dex (Super Chat): "I think the game is going to be special."
• Andy is cautiously optimistic: "I don't think the story will deliver ... but we'll enjoy the gameplay."
• Blessing shares insider scoop: "What we showed in the demo is not indicative of all that's in this game. That got me hyped."
• Andy: "The hacking minigame is surprisingly fun!"

Vampire Crawlers (April 21, deckbuilding roguelite)

(65:03–66:02)

• Andy: "Demo was really fun... not the most visually appealing, but mechanically cool."
• Mike: "This is a team that has earned my trust."

Tides of Tomorrow (April 22, narrative adventure)

(66:44–68:59)

• Mike and Blessing dig into its Deathloop-style, multiplayer-narrative twist.
• Blessing: "Really unique concept that I think is going to be hard for them to pull off in the final thing."

Kiln (April 23, from Double Fine)

(70:06–72:31)

• Multiplayer “pottery brawler” impresses with tactile clay-sculpting system.
• Mike: "The icing... is the pottery creator... takes it to the next level."
• Blessing: "Pottery building is going to go viral."

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Week 4: April 24–30

Sorrows (April 30, PS5)

(79:04–81:04)

• Andy: "This just seems like it’s going to deliver on everything we were hoping for… It felt like I was watching the pilot episode of a new HBO show."
• More approachable than Returnal, but maintains deep story and challenging gameplay.

Invincible Versus (April 30, 3v3 tag fighter)

(82:56–84:19)

• Blessing: "I am looking forward to this one... made by people who worked on Killer Instinct."
• Discusses 3v3 tag fighting mechanics and IP crossover potential.

Inkonbini: One Store, Many Stories (April 30, “convenience store sim”)

(81:46–82:46)

• Greg: "This is what draws me in—there’s a narrative layer. Not just stocking shelves, but actual stories."

Bus Bound (April 30, bus sim)

(84:50–86:06)

• Mike: "We did a sponsored stream, but loved this experience... The city is vibrant and huge."
• Stories about his dad's bus driving career and the “Bus Rodeo.”

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor: Heavy Duty Expansion, Amnesia: Rebirth on Switch, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Mullet Mad Jack, and more—quick ceremony of “rapid-fire” end-of-month releases.

(86:01–87:44)

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4. Memorable Quotes

• Andy: “A bumper crop is an unusually large or abundant harvest… Thanks, Violet!” (07:38)
• Greg, on Early Access: “When I see early access I go, I’ll wait for the final game.” (09:57)
• Blessing on I Am Jesus Christ: “Why is this man Caucasian? All right, let’s have the conversation.” (17:23)
• Andy on Mouse PI: “The boss fights are a lot more inspired... and that makes me a lot more excited for the game.” (54:48)
• Mike on Kiln: “I think this will be a fun party game for families and anyone out there to give a try and enjoy.” (71:20)
• Andy on Sorrows: “It felt like I was watching the pilot episode of a new HBO show...” (80:10)
• Blessing (re: Tomodachi Life): “This is the game I’ve been wanting to play for like over 10 years.” (58:11)
• Mike: “You showed me that you all got the formula and you did something fun... This is going to be a good time.” (65:53, about Poncle/Vampire Survivors team)

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5. Final Thoughts / Community Involvement

• Greg urges listeners to chime in below with their most anticipated April releases and what they want to see reviewed.
• The cast notes there will inevitably be more release date announcements and “hidden gems” not featured on Releases.com yet.
• Super chats sprinkled throughout with community picks and recommendations (e.g., Motion Wreck, Last Flag, Kiln, Alabaster Dawn, Cursed Words).

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6. Overall Tone

• High-energy, laughter, sarcasm, and genuine hype.
• Deep genre and platform coverage: indies, AAA, niche simulations, story games, shooters, roguelikes.
• Playful, friendly ribbing and frequent tangents—anchored back to insightful, relatable discussion for those seeking new games.

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7. Notable Moments & Community Quotes

• Ongoing Early Access debate (10:00–13:00, 15:17)
• Pragmata name confusion and predictions (08:22, 61:52–64:11)
• Pokémon Champions as a battle-focused, free-to-play likely obsession (31:46–34:28)
• Hilarious Tomodachi Life memes and content potential (56:21–58:11)
• Capcom insider "cards close to chest" info for Pragmata (63:24–63:44)

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Key Timestamps for Referenced Segments

• 09:18: Spark Ignites – Early Access skepticism discussion
• 13:45: Darwin’s Paradox – Cinematic platformer debate
• 15:44: I Am Jesus Christ – Faithful adaptation and representation talk
• 23:11: Starfield – PlayStation impact
• 28:32: Samson – Crime open-world preview
• 31:46: Pokémon Champions – Preview impressions & mobile hopes
• 56:07: Tomodachi Life – Social insanity preview, Nintendo sharing gripes
• 61:52: Pragmata – Group speculation and secretive presentation
• 65:03: Vampire Crawlers – Deckbuilder roguelite highlights
• 70:06: Kiln – Pottery brawler viral potential
• 79:04: Sorrows – Returnal-style narrative praise
• 81:46: Inkonbini – Slice-of-life sim narrative love
• 84:50: Bus Bound – RP bus sim and family anecdotes

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Summary

April 2026 promises a mix of heavy hitters, anticipated indies, and unexpected gems. The Kinda Funny crew runs the gamut from irreverent to enthusiastic, dissecting gameplay mechanics, genre trends, nostalgia, and representation. With everything from Jesus simulators to pottery brawlers, this is the go-to roadmap for what to watch, wishlist, or avoid in video games this month—and a testament to the enduring appeal and diversity of modern gaming.

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For a detailed game-by-game breakdown, check the Kinda Funny Gamescast YouTube channel or join the community in the comments to share your April picks!

Transcript

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[Greg Miller]

What's up everybody? Welcome to the Kinda Funny Games cast for Tuesday, March 31, 2026. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka Goldfish Poppy it's Blessing Eddie.

[Blessing Eddie]

I gotta get in a little snack between shows.

[Greg Miller]

Oh man, I hear you. I was eating chicken wings out.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, chicken wings.

[Greg Miller]

I walked in, I said Mike, you

[Blessing Eddie]

you made for my salad yesterday.

[Greg Miller]

I think chicken wings are more acceptable for bread. 45. You know what I mean? I walked into Mike And Mike's room. I was like, hey, I'm gonna order McDonald's. You want anything? He said, no. Then we got jab a drawn in there. Then next thing I know, I went to do it. I was like, you can't order breakfast anymore.

[Andy Cortez]

I was like, ah, damn.

[Greg Miller]

And so I was torn up. I didn't want to have my pool already.

[Mike]

So bring back McDonald's 24 7.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, we should. Didn't Covid kill that? Isn't that what happened?

[Mike]

What happened there, Greg? He came back and then they killed it again.

[Greg Miller]

I was literally. Then I was telling Andy that I screwed up the McDonald's order. And literally while I was explaining at the end, I was like, starbucks. I could have just pivoted to the bucks, gotten a breakfast sandwich.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm a one in two boater wings. And it's 24 7. Breakfast at McDonald's. I want hash browns nonstop.

[Mike]

Yeah, hash browns. Little flapjack hotcakes. Sausage McMuffins. My little brother had one of those McGriddles. I've never had a McGriddle.

[Blessing Eddie]

You never had a McGriddle?

[Mike]

Let me tell you what. I got the scent of that McGriddle. I said, am I doing it wrong?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

I should probably.

[Blessing Eddie]

You shouldn't have McGriddle

[Andy Cortez]

could be dangerous. McGriddle McMuffin is what the difference is. The pancake.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, the difference is like the.

[Andy Cortez]

The pancake bun.

[Blessing Eddie]

The bun is pretty much a pancake infused with syrup. It's one of the most wonderful creations.

[Andy Cortez]

The blessing is right. Like when I have one of those, I feel like I'm about to.

[Blessing Eddie]

I still remember my first time eating a McGriddle. Like that's how good.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

It's not like discovering a gem.

[Greg Miller]

It was a big deal. I remember when they announced that when they brought that. Of course. He's the master of hype. Snowbank.

[Mike]

Mike, Greg, thanks for having me. A really fun episode. These are my favorite episodes. But it's a double edged sword because I get so excited for these games. But then I also have the pressure of like, I'm never going to get to these games. And I'm trying my best.

[Greg Miller]

Of course, of course, of course. Yeah. We're talking about every game coming out in April. There's a lot. As always. Isn't that right? Hispanic heartthrob. Texas Street. Latino heat. Clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. The globe. Trotting root and Tootin. Three point Twitch tv. Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Hello, everybody. Real unfortunate. We're all trying our best out here, but real unfortunate that I spent $40 at the pump and got six and a half gallons.

[Blessing Eddie]

I filled my car yesterday on the way to the movie theater and like I was waiting for it to stop and it just never.

[Greg Miller]

You're still building up.

[Andy Cortez]

I was like, throw 40 bucks in there. Six and a half gallons. Oh, go to hell, man. And also, I'll tell you what, I got a car wash on Friday. I drove by Mike and Roger in the parking lot and they were like, damn, Roger, you look good in that. Mike was like, roger, you would look good in that car, Roger. I was like, roger, the price is just going up every day with how like expensive used cars are getting nowadays. Wash my car look so pristine. It already looked like it rained dirt all over my car. Like, man, it's just a dirty car already. It's misting. And it's also this. The rest of this week is going to rain. It was a bad time to get a car. It'd be one thing if it was just misty though, but like it's misty and dirt. My car just looks like someone was also like, like throwing sand at it.

[Greg Miller]

For entirety of live in a city and you're parking outside, you don't have a garage. Just to give context to someone.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, well, I mean the entirety of San Francisco has been under construction for the last. Oh, that's definitely what it is. It's the construction. Fucking dirt everywhere, dude.

[Greg Miller]

Lori, you know what I mean? What's it, Larry, let's go.

[Mike]

San Francisco. I love that guy.

[Greg Miller]

If you didn't know, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we run you through the biggest topics in video games, whether they be reviews, previews, or just topics we need to talk about. If you like that, of course be part of the show with super chats, YouTube.com/ kind of funny games. Right now you can tell me about your most anticipated anticipated games for April so that when we get to talking about that game, I can throw in your opinion on it. Of course we couldn't do this show without the opinions of our producers on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining for now, let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show. It's March 31, 2026, meaning it's the last day of March, which means we need to look at April, everybody. Of course, Andy. Don't get fooled tomorrow, right? April Fool's day pops off tomorrow. Don't be fooled when you wake up.

[Mike]

All right.

[Greg Miller]

Gonna see a lot of messages from Nick. Most of them are fake.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, most of the messages, you know, are popping up on not April Fools. And they're. And they're coming from a fool. Yeah, like that's most of what happens.

[Greg Miller]

Damn. Damn. That was crazy. It was deep.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. I've seen Tim yesterday. I missed him.

[Greg Miller]

Speak for yourself, I guess.

[Andy Cortez]

No, that's the.

[Greg Miller]

That's the dark cloud hanging over April. Tim returns April 13th. You know what I mean? No, we're going to talk through like we do every. Each in every month, going through every game coming out for the upcoming month. So we are, of course, turning our eyes to releases dot com. And before we even jump into the games, are you expecting a big bumper crop month? You already said. Mike, you've seen what's going on here. Yeah, a bumper crop.

[Blessing Eddie]

I stopped questioning.

[Greg Miller]

That's a real phrase. That is a real phrase.

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Mike]

From the 1800s.

[Andy Cortez]

Bumper crop.

[Greg Miller]

Fucking. You're from the Midwest too, you claim?

[Andy Cortez]

What? Convenient.

[Greg Miller]

Both of you.

[Blessing Eddie]

What, Illinois.

[Greg Miller]

You raise pigs.

[Mike]

Shut up.

[Andy Cortez]

We're doing a bumper crop happening. The sock hop dance.

[Mike]

A bumper crop is an unusually large or abundant harvest of fruit, vegetables, or grain produced in a single farming season.

[Blessing Eddie]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Violet says it. Read more, you fucks.

[Mike]

You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Get your head out of these goddamn archive of our own porn stories. All right. Get over there. Anyways, Blessing, are you expecting a lot of games in April you're excited for?

[Blessing Eddie]

Yes, because I always. Oh, that I'm excited for.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie]

I can't think. I'm not looking. Yeah, we'll go through the list off the top of. My brain isn't pragmatic.

[Greg Miller]

This month it is.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, that's the one. That and Pokemon Champions.

[Greg Miller]

And I'm sure there's more.

[Blessing Eddie]

I just can't.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure, sure. Andy, are you expecting a big April for you?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I mean, especially with Prague with Pragmata and then. It's so hard saying pragmatic now.

[Mike]

I love it.

[Greg Miller]

Pragmatic.

[Blessing Eddie]

Pragmata.

[Andy Cortez]

Pragmatic. No, it's definitely pragmatic.

[Greg Miller]

No, no. Really? Yes. Stigmata is just the Jesus thing. I did that. I infected all your head.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Sorry.

[Blessing Eddie]

So are we saying pragmatic?

[Andy Cortez]

Pragmatic. Yeah, because that's how they've always said it on the Nvidia. Things they've always said in Pragmata. That's how you just said a little while ago.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, but when I said it, I said I thought you guys were gonna

[Greg Miller]

make fun of me.

[Andy Cortez]

This is definitely the month where things are going to start heating up.

[Greg Miller]

It heats up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, we got replaced. We got pragmata. We got Sorrows.

[Blessing Eddie]

Oh, Sorrows.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh my gosh.

[Greg Miller]

Let's get into it. Of course, we're going to releases.com, where you should too, for a comprehensive look at everything coming out. Remember, we go day by day and kind of power through unless there's something to say or show about that game. So April 1st is where it begins. No fooling. Goat Simulator 3 comes to Switch to. I can't believe Goat Simulator is still going. But that's a conversation for a different day. Then I saw this one. Spark ignites PC Early Access.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like now's the only day that we could have that conversation about goat.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, we don't need to stop and talk about Goat Simulator's continued success. Spark ignites a pixel fantasy RPG where the star God's blessing grants one wish each century. Or if an ash and clover uncover its bloody truth during their pilgrimage holding a world changing secret. Will you steal divine power or defy the gods? Every choice writes a new ending.

[Andy Cortez]

This looks sick as hell.

[Greg Miller]

That's. That was my thought on it. You know what I mean? As I've come back into my turn based RPG years here, starting with Octopath last year into a multiple dragon quest this year, I looked at this and I said, you know what? I'm looking at you. PC Early Access does the thing where I'm like, I'll wait for you to come to Switch in a year and a half, two years. You're what? You got to be there.

[Mike]

Well, it's like you're playing on your Xbox. Rog.

[Blessing Eddie]

Ally.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, of course.

[Mike]

Could you not play it there? But you're a Switch guy now, so I get.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no. It's not even. Oh, the platform issue. No, I'm a PC gamer. You know that. Look at me over here. I'm on all sorts of dark subreddits now.

[Andy Cortez]

Mm.

[Greg Miller]

I mean it more in the way of like I'm still. I had this conversation real briefly on one of the shows yesterday. Maybe it was a Greg way of somebody who has been out of shape that we put our video content on podcast feeds on Spotify and I had to explain to that person, like, you don't understand. You're old. Like, I'm with you. Of when I hear or say podcasts, I think of an MP3. Me and Damon are uploading in a podcast room. Everyone else in the World now thinks of a video. It doesn't matter. Right. I am still stick with me where I'm going. I'm still over here that when I see early access I go all wait for the final game. I don't want to jump into something that doesn't have every bell whistle, whatever they want to add to it kind of thing.

[Mike]

And that's a dangerous game because now we know early access can take forever.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And he's still playing Deadlock. I put that as my game of the year two years ago.

[Andy Cortez]

Big news of Deadlock by Big news at Deadlock everybody. Big news of deadlock. Valve officially got the Deadlock Twitter account. Oh wow.

[Greg Miller]

They're gonna announce it soon.

[Mike]

You.

[Andy Cortez]

You go to at Deadlock it's suspended because it's like they have to change the rights over or whatever. And the person who owned it was in a discord being like Val took it from me. So wow. It's. Things are happening everybody things are happening.

[Blessing Eddie]

I'm not. I feel like If Slay the Spire 2 wasn't early access I probably would have committed to playing it more.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

But it being early access makes me want to wait for the full thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It's a double edged sword where I'll wait and then it'll get there and there'll be something new and hotter than I need to go play. I think of Moonlighter 2. Andy of course that it's like I love Moonlighter 1. I love the little bit I played at review but I was in a different one. You tackled the majority of it. But it's even with the update I was like I'll still wait. When are you going to be done? When are you going to be done? That's when I'll jump in.

[Andy Cortez]

But I was close to hopping in mainly because I like I'm of two sides of it. I was close to hopping in and saying let me see what the new thing is. But then I go it I don't know. I just. I experienced what I like and now I have the knowledge knowing that I love Moonlighter too. Maybe I just do wait for the final thing. Where I think that's is a reason why I love Early Access is I get a glimpse into knowing whether I'm gonna with the game or not.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And then I go all right, I'm totally fine waiting for whatever new updates come through. Unless you're Hades 2 and I'm putting in 80 hours into Early Access 1

[Blessing Eddie]

that I feel like me a little bit because yeah I put in. Well actually it didn't me because I.

[Greg Miller]

They.

[Blessing Eddie]

The progress carried over, which actually worked in my favor. Yeah, I could just picked up a pick up from where I left off. But that was one where I played enough of it in that first early access launch. And it was like, all right, I'll wait for the full release. And then it's like I'm having this weird sort of like cut up experience because it's like I played this a year ago now. I. I'm not the biggest fan of that, you know, and I understand. I'm pro early access in terms of what it does for the game, but I don't want to be the guy that's like, damn. All right, I'm gonna hop into the early access, test the game for you and then come back or do whatever. I'll just play the thing when it's done.

[Andy Cortez]

But like, you know, I like screaming for the mountaintops. This game's worth it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Please support it.

[Mike]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Or of course, whatever. You know. Saw some glimpses of promise here, but for the most part, this is one you might want to skip or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

Also round. I'm sorry. Rounding out April 1st is Ju Fu's Rodin's Guide to Pixel Museum on all the Xboxes. So if you've been looking forward to that Pixel Museum, it's here, Everybody. We moved April 2, which I would say is the first day where it's heating up out there. We start with Darwin's Paradox, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X. Dive into the adventure with Darwin and Octopus. As endearing as he is in Genius, torn from the ocean and trapped in a vast and mysterious industrial complex. Harness his unique talents and abilities to help him overcome the many dangers and traps in this captivating platformer and adventure game. Where are we at with this? Of course. This one's salted earth for me. I won't go back. You teased the Metal Gear, then you showed me the Octopus. You're dead to me.

[Mike]

Yeah. Reviews are out right now, so they're in flux of course, because they started dropping. But 74 on Metacritic. This is a game. I love that they're calling it a cinematic platformer. I'm going to add that to my lexicon here because I don't usually call it cinematic.

[Greg Miller]

Good use of lexicon.

[Mike]

Thank you.

[Blessing Eddie]

I like that. Yeah. Just what is a cinematic platformer to do?

[Mike]

Cinematic platformer to me is like an inside. I think it is a 2D platformer that is more heavily based on the what you're seeing visual wise. Setting the tone as Opposed to like, hey, we're. There's a lot of gameplay at the forefront, I guess is what I think about it.

[Andy Cortez]

Changing perspectives a lot.

[Blessing Eddie]

Maybe I just call that a puzzle platformer because I think that is the gameplay, you know, like the gameplay here is solving puzzles more so than the execution of it. But you know, I respect marketing.

[Mike]

Yeah, I. I respect it.

[Andy Cortez]

In Matt, former.

[Mike]

This is one that I've been looking forward to. I did enjoy the Metal Gear Solid demo. I like the game, it is a little slow. And noting some of the reviews here. One from Game Informer, noting that it's like just a little bit slow when it comes to the hiding mechanic. I felt that as well as like the octopus goes in camouflage mode. When you wait and hold for a minute. It is kind of a long, drawn out experience, I'm sure over a course of a couple hours.

[Andy Cortez]

Did you enjoy it more than Reanimal?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, oh. Ooh.

[Andy Cortez]

We had some good laughs and Re.

[Mike]

Reanimal is really good. I. I enjoyed Reanimal more.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Mike]

Than what I've played with Darwin's Paradox. But I look forward to trying this one.

[Andy Cortez]

Welcome.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, fair enough. From there we roll on and right into Fishbowl. This is still April 2nd. There's a lot of April 2nd stuff here. Fishbowl comes to PlayStation 5 PC. It's a Greg ass game. 21 year old Aldo lands her first job in a new city and lives alone while grieving her grandmother's death. I'm in. Let's fucking go. The daily choices she makes in navigating life lead to a unique journey of self discovery.

[Andy Cortez]

She's grieving. Let's go. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Let's see what the Discovery is all about as we jump into it. Go through and see what's gonna be about visual. I have not paid much attention to it, but again, that sounds like a goofy little game. A cozy little game, you know, emotional little game that I'm definitely gonna kick the tires on. But sadly it will be right on the bench. Because the bigger game coming out for me on April 2nd is I am Jesus Christ. This comes to PC. Walk in the footsteps of Jesus in this immersive first person retelling of his life from baptism to resurrection. Perform iconic miracles. Meet biblical figures and explore the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Galilee. Experience the story of the Messiah in I Am Jesus Christ.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, this one's been a long time coming.

[Greg Miller]

I can confirm to everyone I have it. I There is no Fargo. We're doing a Thursday gamecast.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean we know what happens.

[Greg Miller]

Well, you know, we'll see what's up. Gamescast plays we're doing it. We're with me and Nick. If he's not in jury duty. I will be sure to tell you what's going on in this game and I will walk you through Jesus's life here.

[Mike]

We already know what happens.

[Andy Cortez]

We don't need an embargo.

[Mike]

Yeah, very interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

No story spoilers.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I can't wait to see.

[Blessing Eddie]

Is there a moment? Are people mad about this one?

[Andy Cortez]

Why would they?

[Blessing Eddie]

I feel like I've not seen the Reddit threads or anything like that.

[Mike]

I think this got announced a long time ago. We saw this at like an IGN summer game fest and I think that was when all the laughter on Twitter was. But I don't, I haven't seen any like angry about.

[Greg Miller]

Here's my thing is I think with the way they've been presenting it, they're presenting it as like, yo, we're making a game about Jesus. Not like hahaha, we're making a game about Jesus. If it was the hahaha game about Jesus people mad. But he's what I feel like they're legitimately like we are making the definitive first person Jesus game.

[Blessing Eddie]

Hold on. Bring up the gameplay again because this is the definitive Jesus game. Why is this man Caucasian? All right, let's have the conversation.

[Greg Miller]

Let's do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean you're not wrong.

[Mike]

You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

You're not wrong. There's, there's a lack of melanin. You know the truth.

[Greg Miller]

I think there's a DLC if you'd like a Middle Eastern Jesus. As would probably. But look at right here. Right? Look at this. I get to fight demons or something. Look at those rain physics bouncing off. I'm excited for Thursday. I'm really, really looking forward to this one. Other games coming out on April 2nd, you have Temtem Swarm, PlayStation 5P, Clean Up Earth on PC, Morkula, Send to the Gods, Switch, PC, Xbox, Xenonauts 2 on PC, Modalist, Factory Automation. Is this one for you, Mike? PC. Have you heard of that one?

[Mike]

Don't worry, this one's not on my list.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, what I wanted to call out for the group was Cursed Blood on PC. Cursed Blood is a brutal one to four player co op roguelite set in a twisted blood punk samurai world where ruthless apes wield katanas in a revenge fueled rampage against the mafia that desecrated their sacred shrine. Anybody paying attention to this one? Because it's got the words in there. Blessed that I know you like sometimes. We got a roguelite, we got co op, we got samurais.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah. I mean, a lot of those words genuinely do stuff for me. But as I'm looking at the gameplay, it doesn't feel like Maya kind of thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

I think that's the perspective.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Honestly, that Dead nation perspective that I like, where I'm like, maybe I wouldn't want to jump into this.

[Andy Cortez]

I think I would have preferred it were it like a third person sort of action game. Especially just because I love the look of, you know, I love that there's an orangutan is one of the classes and another one's just like a chimp and another one's just like, like, I don't know, I just, I love the idea of these different, you know, breeds or what's the word I'm looking for? Yeah, different species. Yeah. I like that they're all kind of different, you know, the different classes or whatever. But it's a top down that doesn't really do it for me there.

[Greg Miller]

Mike, you're not going to jump in there with the gibroni.

[Blessing Eddie]

You know what?

[Mike]

I. I might put this on my list. I'm going to put it on my wish list right now because we played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. What was the roguelite on that one? We had a really good time with. And I actually do like the top down style. I usually call it twin stick, but yeah, I like, I like that top down. Yeah, I'm a fan of that.

[Blessing Eddie]

Nice metric.

[Greg Miller]

After that you got go, go, Mr. Chickums coming to PC, Xbox and PlayStation 5. And then our first super chat off the bench comes from frantic Josh who says, check out Motion wreck on Switch PlayStation 5, April 2nd. Motion Wreck is a record. Is it a record or because you're recording? Oh, this game, Motion Wreck is a. I'm going to say record puzzle action game that uses the power to record and replay motion trails to explore a devastated world. Use Motion Wreck to unravel the mysteries of a world ruled by machines. You can record the trajectory of your movements from walking to jumping. Use stage gimmicks to create and record more complex movements to traverse the world. And yeah, bless puzzle Poppy. This one immediately, I thought spoke to you.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, no, this one for sure speaks to me. I forget where we first saw this. We've seen this before at some indie showcase thing and I love one. One. I love this game's art style.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie]

Going for the very minimal, like 8 bit, 4 bit, like black and White. I'm playing it on Atari. Kind of. Kind of look to it. But yeah, I love the rewind mechanics. And this is another one I would call a puzzle platformer. Yeah. In genre.

[Greg Miller]

Do you think Iron checks one up?

[Blessing Eddie]

If I find the time I was trying to figure out because there's another game I played called Elekhead way back in the day and I thought it was maybe the same developer because it looks similar. It is not. But I really, really loved Elechead when that came out in 2021 on Steam. And so I'm sure I would love this if I gave it a shot. But it just comes down to time and place.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. You're also getting Latony Aztec Cities on PC and then Logiart, Grimoire on Xbox. To round out, we jump to April 3rd. All will fall on PC. Shinobi Art of Vengeance gets its Sega Villains Stage DLC, PC, Switch, Xbox One. If Tim was here not neglecting his job, his career, his livelihood, he'd talk about that. But he's not, so too bad. A Rat's Quest. The way back Home. Xbox One, PC and Switch. Guns and Nuns storming hell on PC. Which is a hell of a title. Anomaly 404 on PC space log PC early access the weeping swan. 10 days of the city's fall PC bad time to be a city or be falling. You got all will fall. Cities will fall. SCP fragmented minds Chapter 2 on PC Early Access Wasteland Bites on PC April 6 Pompeii the Legacy on PC and then Evo Creo 2 has been highlighted by someone at this table.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, I highlighted that One step into

[Greg Miller]

the world of Showru, an island inhabited by powerful creatures known as Krio. These monsters have existed for millennia, yet their origins remain shrouded in mystery. Will you be the one to uncover the truth? Begin your journey as a new cadet. What am I looking at?

[Blessing Eddie]

Well, what if I told you that this game is just Pokemon? Yeah, it definitely looks like straight up Pokemon. Evo Creo 1 came out a while ago. I played not that much of it whatsoever. I played a little bit of it and I know a lot of people liked it. And recommended when I was talking about recently, like, hey, I'm looking for a Pokemon like game again. That Pokemon itch, right? I need something that's going to scratch that itch. A lot of people were saying Evo Creo. So it's cool to see that the second one's coming through. For fans of Pokemon ROM hacks or Pokemon like games, this might be One for you there. I'm coming off of. I'm still playing Pokemon Leaf Green. I'm at the Elite four right now, so I'm probably not gonna jump into this one because there's another Pokemon related thing that's coming out.

[Andy Cortez]

I love the pixel art, but yeah,

[Blessing Eddie]

the art style is really cool. Especially in the battles. The battles look really cool.

[Mike]

Have you ever played Temtem?

[Blessing Eddie]

I booted up Temp time. Okay.

[Mike]

One liked. You can play with friends as well.

[Blessing Eddie]

It's more of like a really style thing, right?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Night shippers comes to PC April 6th and then card coder comes to PC April 6th as well. Then it's April 7th, everybody. Not only does Starfield come to PlayStation 5, Starfield, Terran Armada and of course the free lanes DLC drops on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, et cetera. Of course you already know what Starfield is.

[Andy Cortez]

Mike just hit you with a big yawn right there.

[Mike]

No, I mean I can't wait for Greg to tell me all about this. I'm pretty interested here.

[Greg Miller]

Parksview super chats while we're live right now on YouTube.com, youTube.com kind of funny games just like you can and says I just finished the Trackers Alliance DLC and can't wait for Freelance and Taran Armada. Starfield is amazing and I hope it gets a new influx of players. I think aside from my usual ranting and raving about Starfield, that's going to be the interesting story for us to talk about a lot on Games Daily is what are the figures going to be like. We talk about Xbox games coming to PlayStation all the time. Starfield a divisive one, right? Like this is one we've heard a lot of opinions on. It did not live up to the hype. It underperformed in terms of critical expectation, I think but but has clearly found an audience that stuck with it. And now to get the most complete, best version of the game. Knock on wood. In theory. It'll be interesting to see if PlayStation people jump in buy it. Of course we have the usual look at the psn right now it's at the top of the charts. What's that actually transfer over when Matt Piscatella comes out with Circana data.

[Mike]

I mean big time developer with Bethesda, right? A Bethesda game that missed PlayStation now coming there like you said with the game of the Year edition we'll call it. I think that's a. A big deal. I'm excited to see the numbers and talk about that with you and Also see the content, right? Like what is the new content? Is Greg hyped up about it? You know, it's good if you're excited about it, Greg, because you are so in tune with this game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You know, what we saw in Bethesda was awesome. I can't wait for it. So I'm very excited to get my hands on it. I'm bummed that I will be on spring break when it launches, but maybe that'll give me more time to play in New York, but probably not. But maybe. But not, you know. But I'll be talking about it whenever I get the chance. Don't worry about that. Also happening on April 7 Road to Voss Talk PC early access people of note switch to PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X, a game I was prepared to go past. But if you want to open up and give me a trailer. Alec Bobko super chats and says People ofnoth on April 7th is one to keep an eye on. The Next Fest demo was awesome. I had seen this bumming around. It's an Annapurna one. After being shut out of the Noteworthy Song contest, Cadence realizes that her solo act might not be enough for the judges as she travels across Note to the rock city of Duranus, the EMD capital. They always give you too much here. It's an RPG where you're singing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And playing music.

[Blessing Eddie]

I played the Next Fest demo for this one. I wasn't. Honestly I wasn't blown away by it. But it does have like really neat ideas. Specifically the how they feed in like rhythm mechanics and stuff into the turn based battling. Right. Like you have different instruments that your crew like that your party is bringing in into the battle. It very much is kind of like what you expect out of JRPG style. Turn based. Okay. But all themed around music and all themed around like you being part of this band. Again, cool ideas. I wasn't like in love with it by the time I finished it.

[Greg Miller]

But yeah, that's been my thought. I like when I hear the idea on paper I'm like, that sounds awesome. Every time I've looked at it I'm like, it's not for me. But I'm glad you don't think it's for you either. Sorry Alec. Bob, Go hit the bricks. Eco. Maybe Echo and the Bewitch lands. Coming to PC Switch 2 and Switch on April 7th and then it's Naron the Orange Room on PC. Then SigmaStar Saga DX, PlayStation 5 PC and Switch. Half shoot em up, half RPG blast through an intergalactic Genre. This is one of the ones we had at the mix. Wayforward came in and showed it off. This is on my must play. I'm going to be super excited to get my hands on this one. As somebody who likes a good shmup and likes a good rpg, mashing them up in this Game Boy advance game or whatever and bringing it over here. I'm interested to see what we got here. I thought the preview previewed well. A little confusing because they dropped this in so deep. I'm excited to start from the beginning and see if it clicks with me, if I'll stick it out the whole way. But good stuff from Wayforward.

[Blessing Eddie]

Man, the sprites are so large when you're walking around the world.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, right.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Very interesting walk. Sea of stars comes to iOS and Android, a game we loved here. Peppered an existential platformer. Comes to Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4 Switch. Kulo Niku Bowl up comes to PC. Machine Child comes to PC. TR49 comes to Switch and Signal Zone comes to PC. Bless you, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. You said Kulo and. But it's like the Japanese. But Kulo is. Is butt in.

[Greg Miller]

How would you say this one?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I mean, you nailed it, but it just like it caught me off guard.

[Greg Miller]

Sneeze.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, maybe sneeze. Yeah, he's allergic to sneeze at.

[Greg Miller]

April 8th is a big day because Samson comes out. Samson returns to Ty and Dalston. Remember this? I'm still unsure what the full name is because Releases.com listens listed as Samson colon A tie. Ty Dalston story. And they had debuted that way, but then now on Steam it just says Samson. Samson returns to that city, though. A city that shaped him hard. That's what it says. Where every fight is close and every escape is earned. He owes dangerous people more than he can pay and they're using his sister to force his hand. The clock is ticking. The only way out is through anyone who stands in your way. This, of course, from the Mad Max video game devs who. So you're getting an open world run, run fight kind of thing. People wanted to be gta. They wanted all these different things. Bless. What did you want from it?

[Blessing Eddie]

This is a fun one because I actually got to demo this game and as we're talking here, I was trying to find my demo notes and I can't find it in my Google Docs. But. But basically I don't think I ever even got to talk about it.

[Greg Miller]

No. Yeah, I never did.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah. So basically I got to play like an hour or so and they did a presentation, talking a little bit about it and they didn't really like the GTA comparisons. And I think maybe that's just because GTA comes with expectations and they're like, no, no, no, we're not that size. We're a smaller developer trying to put out something that reminds me personally more of like a sleeping dogs.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, especially with the combat you saw like throwing stuff at people.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, the combat is very like hand to hand style combat. You are driving around a city doing odd jobs like it's GTA a little bit. But it is an interesting setup because you are playing a Samson. You are repaying a debt to people that you owe every day. You wake up, you pick up the phone and they're like, you got to pay back this much today. And so your day then ends up being, all right, I'm going to go out, I'm going to do these jobs, make enough money to pay them back for the day. And that's kind of like the gameplay loop is you're fulfilling this mission so you can make enough money to do this, this, to do this stuff. A lot of the missions were kind of basic, straightforward. One of the ones I remember doing was, hey, go to this location, pick somebody up in the car and be a getaway driver and get away from the police. I did that and that was the end of the mission.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie]

There was another one that was basically, hey, go over here and beat up these people. Like very much pointed point B. There was one that was a bit more, hey, go into this location and like fight through this whole location. And that was a little bit more involved and fun. It's one that I'm more, I'm left with more questions about than answers even after playing the game because I think the environment looks good. I think mechanically I like a beat em up game. It feels fairly simple, but I also think it's neat. There's like natural open world stuff that's happening. Everybody's trying to sell somebody on a drug. Everybody, just like real life, everybody in this game is addicted to drugs. And I'm like, man, can we get some more dynamic stuff happening with these NPCs.

[Greg Miller]

Understand it's a dark world. It is a gritty world.

[Blessing Eddie]

It is a dark, gritty world. But I like that somebody's trying to make this type of game. I miss true crime. I miss sleeping dogs. I miss the era where many developers are trying to make crime games.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe it's just the car, but I get pings of driver from it where I look at that, I'm like, damn, that looks like a driver. And I'm right there with you. Like, I. I really enjoyed playing those Double A games back in the day. Give me some more, though. Let's see what Samson's got.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah. So April, if you know, not that far away.

[Mike]

I know.

[Andy Cortez]

It reminds me of MacGruber.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. Got the very generic look to going on.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah. I know there are more previews out there, people to check out, but I'm so fascinated by how the world receives this one because I do think it could be like a sleeper little situation,

[Greg Miller]

something we enjoy maybe.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Samson XP Super Chat and says, I will be playing this in honor of me.

[Andy Cortez]

Great.

[Greg Miller]

They gotcha. Also on April 8th is the occultist PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and PC. And then it's Pokemon Champions Switch. And switch to, of course, later on mobile. This is the one where everyone will battle. All you do is battle. It's free to play. You get in there. They got additions. We don't know how much anything costs, but you can battle. Kevo writes in and says, I'm excited for Pokemon Champions, but still no home update for Za and Fire. Red Leaf Green. Bless. This is another preview. We sent you off to the Great White north of Seattle to play.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yes. And I came back really, really excited to play more. I can't wait for this one. Of course. Go check out the preview with Jake Decker, who is our. Our Pokemon professor.

[Greg Miller]

Professor Jake.

[Blessing Eddie]

But yeah, it's everything that you mentioned, Greg. Right. Is it is a Pokemon game more focused around battling? You have a one recruit a day that you can do where you go in and recruit Pokemon for free. But if you spend your vp, which are victory points that you earn in the game, you can recruit Pokemon and keep them. The free ones that you recruit are only recruited for a limited time, but you are building a Pokemon team. You are spending VP to kind of like build their stats and their move Set.

[Greg Miller]

Set.

[Blessing Eddie]

And then you're going into ranked and unranked modes. Very straightforward. I compared it to Magic Arena. Mike, you've played Magic Arena. I think it's Magic arena, but for Pokemon, which appeals to me and this release dates for the Switch version specifically, I can't wait for the. The mobile version. That's the version that I actually really want. So I can play it on the treadmill.

[Greg Miller]

You put your switch on the treadmill.

[Blessing Eddie]

I'm not trying to bring my switch to the gym.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

How many different arenas we talking about?

[Blessing Eddie]

It was one of my questions. I was Asking them if we could like switch arenas and stuff. And they said there's multiple arenas. But it's like my. The vibe I get is that it's based on the mode you're playing because there's a tutorial in the game and like the tutorial's in a different arena than ranked and those are like really the only two modes that I got to play. But I asked them and they're like, yeah, there's multiple. But it didn't. I didn't get the vibe that you're picking gotcha arenas. You can pick music though, which I like. You can. One of some of the things that you can unlock in the game with your vp, your victory point points, custom throw animations for your Pokeball.

[Greg Miller]

Got it.

[Andy Cortez]

Victory poses. No, not even that.

[Blessing Eddie]

Forget. Yeah, we'll see more when the game comes out. But there's that. There's a music I played with the Pokemon music from like Red and Blue but in the overview trailer they showed off more songs, outfits for your trainers, things like that.

[Mike]

What was the microtransactions on this?

[Blessing Eddie]

There are some, but we don't.

[Mike]

We don't know because this is going to produce money.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Mike]

This is going to be the card game all over again.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this is going.

[Mike]

Getting a mobile device free money. I mean let's just say Mike's in for $20 if not more.

[Greg Miller]

$20 when you boot it up.

[Mike]

I'm pumped for this game. Bless.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Mike]

Like Pokemon Stadium was so special to me back on the stadium of like we're just fighting here. Yeah. There's a bunch of mini games that we all love to lick a tongue mini game. But like the idea of going to the stadium and battling, picking your six versus my six. I'm very.

[Blessing Eddie]

My prediction is that for us at kind of funny, this ends up being our next. Next Pokemon TCG Pocket where we all get really obsessed with it for a

[Andy Cortez]

few weeks and then I'm playing it still two years later.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike]

I'm going after ranked battles when this drops. I'm very excited to try to like shoot to the top early and make a fun one out of that.

[Blessing Eddie]

This is how we get a kind of funny Pokemon tournament to happen where we take. Where we all have our core teams, where we bring our teams together and we like face off against each other. And I'm excited for it.

[Greg Miller]

We won't have to wait long. April 8th again for Pokemon Champions. You can look for coverage here. I'm assuming a party mode and etc also on April 8th chain main staff comes to PC switch Xbox One Incantation comes to Switch, Xbox series X and PlayStation 5. And the House of Hikma comes to PC. We move our eyes to April 9th. Dark Switch comes to PC. Power Wash Simulator 2 Adventure Time Pack comes to PC. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X. And then Beyond Words comes to PC Switch, Xbox Series X. This is the one I've been looking at from the creators of GoldenEye and TimeSplitters comes Beyond Words Words, the genre defying fusion of roguelike strategy and word crafting. Build powerful combos, unlock upgrades and master a challenge where victory is spelled one letter at a time. So we're getting into a roguelike Scrabble and I'm like, huh? I'm interested enough to check that out.

[Blessing Eddie]

There's a. This reminds me, there's another Game. There's a YouTube channel called Game Maker's Toolkit. The creator of that channel made a game that is very much like this. Not Ask Scrabbly, but it is a word based roguelite game. I' ma find it. But it's. It's a really good one that actually has me excited for this as well. But also why do we. Why did they lead with. From the creators of GoldenEye and Time Splitters?

[Greg Miller]

Because it's funny, those are big names.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I remember what was the rhythm game that we all with from Xbox a couple years ago. I was.

[Mike]

Hi Fi Rush.

[Andy Cortez]

Hi Fi Rush. You know, it's like when they started off with like the horror games that they made and then jump into that. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

The Evil within or the game I'm thinking made by Mark Brown is called Wordplay also. Yeah, very fun. If you're looking for one right now, type of one.

[Greg Miller]

Can't wait till April 9th.

[Blessing Eddie]

Can't wait.

[Greg Miller]

April 9th. Also sees high above. Come to PC Restore youe Island. Come to PC A Planet Full of Cats, come to PC Wrath, Aeon of Ruin VR Brutal Edition, PlayStation 5, PC PSVR 2, Arcadia Fallen 2, PC Switch and then LU World PC Early Access. We jump to April 10th. Tiny Bookshop comes to PlayStation 5, Soul Map, Crystal Fall and Soul Sesto come to PC. And then Skull Horde comes to PC. This is another one I'm calling out that I've seen and enjoyed what I saw. Skull Horde is an auto battler, dungeon crawler where you play as a flying skull necromancer. Find powerful loot and create overpowered builds. Summon a horde of skeletons in battle in a battle of bone versus flesh. Got that vampire survivors vibe to it, which I'm all about. I love the idea of exploring the dungeon, unlocking the new card, you know, getting more powerful. Come back with whatever I've gotten. It seems like a fun one, Mike. I'd want to have on the Rog ally ready to go?

[Mike]

Yeah, no doubt.

[Greg Miller]

Build up your horde and go out there and kill some stuff. I'm looking forward to. I hope you.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, that looks pretty neat.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Beauty. Beauty store simulator comes to PC as well. Mike. I don't know if you're in that new one.

[Mike]

I love that. You know I'm going to do Drain simulator this week. Excited for. Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Great.

[Greg Miller]

And then your final game there of.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me see if there's any shadows. Nope, not one shadow in the game.

[Mike]

No, we don't need shadows. Don't worry about it. We don't need shadows. Too much time.

[Greg Miller]

Final game of April 10th is Tamashik. Xbox Series X Switch and PlayStation 5. Tamashika is a fast paced arcade style corridor shooter with hand drawn animations, precision sound effects and upbeat background music. Another one I put on there visual style in there and then of course I know how much you guys like neon white.

[Andy Cortez]

This looks like this might hurt my eyes.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, I might throw it off.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like someone checked this out. Maybe it was Roger. Someone called this game out a couple months ago and we brought it up and yeah immediately sparked like ooh, this is. This is sparking some things in my brain right now that I fuck with. So I didn't realize it was coming out. This.

[Blessing Eddie]

I can barely watch this but once

[Greg Miller]

you get into the flow state of it.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's a great logo though. Like it?

[Greg Miller]

I like the style overall. Again, not a game I would probably play but something's going on here that I like a lot. It looks like I'm on a Japanese TV show.

[Blessing Eddie]

Which one?

[Greg Miller]

Oh no, you know what I mean. Like one of the game shows they put out there, like the way they're flashing the stuff up there and all that stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

I like the way the world kind of of evolves. Everything's kind of on this weird sort of like axis rotated. Yeah, it's really neat.

[Blessing Eddie]

I do like the art style but I just worry that I'm gonna get overstimulated.

[Andy Cortez]

But maybe it's one of those like it's hard to watch but once you're actually playing it, it's kind of fine.

[Greg Miller]

We moved to April 14th finally replaced has come to the Xbox series platform. Xbox One and PC exposed the sinister secrets of Phoenix Corporation. As recently an AI trapped in a human body set in an alternative. I'm sorry. An alternate 1980s America scarred by nuclear catastrophe. Navigate a dark cyberpunk thriller in this narrative driven 2.5D platformer blending cinematic exploration with fluid free flow action. This is one that we've all, I think marveled at some point about the art style of. When I got to play it at Xbox at GDC this year, I was like, fuck. I didn't realize it says free flow action there. I didn't realize they were just using Batman combat in this 2.5D platformer. I fucking loved what I played. I want to get into this world. I want to get into this story. Am I alone in that, Andy?

[Andy Cortez]

No, you're not, Greg. I mean, this is one that we've all been looking forward to for quite some time. Great style, like it is so sauced up. The visuals are amazing. Great sort of depth of field. But it's got this really kind of neat story happening with, with this, you're this character with an AI that's kind of like controlling the character. Like it, I don't know, it's just got like a lot of this weird sort of intrigue and you're trying to figure out the mysteries of this world and why you're here and who, you know, who sent you here. And I don't know, it seems really, really neat.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this like, I, I, I think it's going to be a great story. That's my hope for it. What I, I wasn't expecting to enjoy the combat SL exploration platforming as much as I did the thing.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, this one's really cool. It's another one I'll put in that puzzle platform account. But like I would add the cinematic tag to it for the marketing as well as, well, just in the sense of like so much of it strength is in the presentation. But as I'm moving from point A to point B, it feel it reminded me of playing inside. Right. Like even the stealth sections were very inside as far as like, oh, hide behind this thing. As you see the lights coming from the foreground or from the background into the foreground combat, I wasn't super sold on even though like it is that Batman, Arkham. But I, I, I think I prefer that in 3D. In 3D space. Yeah, because I like the hopping around, do all that stuff. But I like a lot of what this game has going on, so I'm looking forward to it.

[Andy Cortez]

And I especially love whenever you are doing like your investigation and whenever you bring up your pause menu, it's like on your Watch. So it's all like that Walkman?

[Mike]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's sort of like this Walkman device and it's all diegetic menu so it just kind of like zooms into your hand and it. It's just got like the perfect sort of stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Barry, if something Greg, you were so

[Andy Cortez]

excited about replace, you skipped an entire day.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, did I?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I did. Okay, hold on. Let's finish off April 14th to go back to April 13th. April 13th was curse. Well, I guess we only did April one. We'll get April 13th. April 13th has before I go switch Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. I didn't highlight it, but that sounds like somebody's gonna die. It sounds like my kind of game. Gunboat God comes to PC, Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 become the all powerful Gunboat God in this fluid shoot em carve. Yeah. Carve the waves as you stylishly fight hordes of monsters in hundreds of quick fire missions. Transform your gunboat and upgrade your weapons, skills and abilities to take on the giant challenging multi stage boss.

[Andy Cortez]

This one was cool. We did this one at the Mix last year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I was going to say a while back, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it was a cool one. I mean great style, great visual flare to it and it had a momentum and a movement and that sort of like I could do that better. I could do that better if I do the run again sort of feel to it. I enjoy.

[Greg Miller]

Are you looking? Are you gonna play it here on the 13th?

[Andy Cortez]

If it's before. It's before replace. I'm gonna check it out.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

By one day.

[Mike]

It's got the pepper grinder look to it.

[Greg Miller]

That's what I bought too. Especially going underground.

[Mike]

Yeah, that looks cool. Okay.

[Greg Miller]

And then oceaneers comes to PC Early Access on the 13th as well. Even though I've teased you with April 14th and replaced. Let me tease you with the kind of funny membership you can pick it up on YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Apple, Spotify, patreon.com kind of funny. What you do is toss us 10 bucks and we toss you. Everything is a live talk show network ad free. Meaning you get more than 80 episodes of content each and every month. Plus you get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller and a podcast series called Greg way. That's 15 to 20 minutes of me hanging out with you. On top of all that, you get good karma for supporting an 11 person 11 year old small business. But right now you're not using your membership benefits. So here's a word from our sponsor. You finally sit down to game just you, your controller and zero responsibilities. When your brain decides that's the perfect time to say, what if I'm secretly a terrible person and everyone can see it but me and suddenly relaxing and enjoying yourself is impossible. Instead, your brain grabs onto that thought and will not let it go. Here's the thing. That kind of relentless thought spiral isn't just anxiety. It could also be ocd, a condition that's way too misunderstood and way more common than most people realize. But it doesn't have to be that way. OCD needs erp, or Exposure and response Prevention, which has proven to be the most effective treatment treatment. And that's where NOCD comes in. NOCD is the world's leading provider of OCD treatment and it's covered by insurance for over 138 million Americans. All of their licensed therapists specialize in ERP therapy and will help you learn to take the power away from the intrusive thoughts in live face to face virtual sessions. If unwanted thoughts are taking over, don't wait to get help. Visit nocd.com and book a free call with with their team. That's nocd.com so good. So good.

[Mike]

So good.

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[Andy Cortez]

So glad the Saja boys could take

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Greg Miller]

Shop [e-mail] welcome back everybody. We move to April 14th. As I said, replaced already on there. Also on there Hades 2 coming over to PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X after a stint on PC and Switch and then Doset Diva's One Last Meal comes to Xbox Series X Switch and PlayStation 5. Of course this is from our friends over at Outer Loop Games battle an evil fast food empire in this spicy narrative turn based rpg. Two sisters and their upgradable spirit mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities and reconcile with loved ones. Of course again Outer Loop Games making a whole bunch of different stuff. I always think of Falcon Age most notably recently would be Thirsty Suitors. This is Ekka and his team always giving very interesting, very quick games that are always somewhat beautiful. I love the arts twisted like it's always something special with them and so I know very little about I picked up the controller but it was at a GDC for Xbox but it was one of those of like I wasn't even worth it cause I look at it and already it smacks of Thirsty Suitors in like the way it's up there Uncle Hinty pops back up. So they're kind of I think building in the same universe and it's like no I'm in like this is a game I'm gonna want to play because I love what they do and the kind of games they make. So I'm interested to get into it it but it's an interesting one I

[Mike]

haven't heard a lot of.

[Greg Miller]

Not buzz isn't the right word but just I feel like Thirsty Suitors had more people talking about it ahead of time than Dose of Divas does. So I'll be interested to see how this one hit hits when it gets out there.

[Mike]

Was it the skateboarding? It might have been over the top.

[Greg Miller]

I think it might have been also just that you Know, easier concept of like, you know, you'd come back to town and basically you're battling your evil exes. Right. So it was kind of Scott Pilgrim. Right. But now this is a different deal with Mex and we're cooking food and doing this stuff. But I'm stoked to see what about. It's all all about. Last Flag comes to PC. This is one Mike's excited about. Hide your flag, find the enemy flag, run it back, then defend for a minute to win it. Welcome to Last Flag, a fast pace 5v5 shooter with show stopping contestants set in a televised competition where strategy, teamwork and chaos blend in the ultimate game of Capture the Flag. Mike, tell me why you're stoked.

[Mike]

I love Capture the Flag as a game mode. Just point blank period. It's my favorite. Right. I've had my eyes on this for quite some time. They've had some betas and some alpha testing. I've never jumped into it. I've been waiting for the full release and them ready to rock and roll and yeah, it's just a fun shooter that I'm always looking forward to. I. I always want to find those Gotham City imposters that are the one that jump out the. The se. In of the world. If you remember that one. Bless. I really liked that game a lot so.

[Blessing Eddie]

But I forget.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Bless did not remember that one. I thought he.

[Greg Miller]

I thought he would have.

[Mike]

Yeah. Steve Inc. Was a really fun. I think Blessing would really like.

[Andy Cortez]

No, we've had this conversation.

[Blessing Eddie]

I remember showing like Andy uses an example of something I was like deceive.

[Andy Cortez]

Social deduction, man. Never heard of great art style. Yeah.

[Mike]

And so yeah, this is one of those of like. This is on my list of like. Hey, can I get the crew together for a night to play this? I think we'll have a fun evening of gaming and then we'll go from there.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

Is this one that's backed by somebody interesting? Am I thinking of a different one?

[Mike]

That's a great question.

[Andy Cortez]

By interesting what do you mean?

[Mike]

Oh, musk.

[Andy Cortez]

Is this like a Matthew McConaughey one or one of them? Like one of them.

[Blessing Eddie]

No, not Matthew mc. All right, all right, all right. No, that's a. Exodus. I'm thinking. All right, I'm going to look it up.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie]

Cuz it's either this or a different game. That's.

[Andy Cortez]

No, you're right. Oh, it's a. Shut up, shut up, shut up. Don't talk, don't look at chat. Don't look at chat. Nobody look at chat, I got the answer. It is Imagine Dragons.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Blessing Eddie]

Imagine Dragons. Yes.

[Mike]

What?

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah.

[Mike]

What do you mean by that? Like, the guy just gave him a bunch of money.

[Andy Cortez]

The singer? Yeah, the singer's like, really?

[Greg Miller]

He loves games.

[Andy Cortez]

He's. He loves games and I think, like. Like, is part of the team or a producer or something like that. Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah. Dan Reynolds, matching dragon.

[Mike]

Shout out to Dan for video game.

[Greg Miller]

Hell yeah. Turn that money around.

[Mike]

Put it. Take your money and give it to someone to help them create something.

[Andy Cortez]

What do you mean by that?

[Mike]

What do you mean by that?

[Greg Miller]

We're going to run out. April 14th here, regions of ruin. Rune Gate comes to PC. We got to go. Comes to PC. Destiny 2's Guardian Games 2020. 26th is the end event date. Moses and Plato. Last train to clawville comes to PC. And Alaska Gold Fever comes to PC. We jump over to April 15th. Mongul Star Drive comes to PC, iOS and Android. Then cleaning up comes to Switch 2. Switch PlayStation 4. It's a mic game. Turn huge messes into sparkling spaces. Feel the satisfaction of restoring them to order with your superpowered cleaning tools. The quick, cozy joy of tidy lighting up.

[Mike]

Yeah, this one caught my eye because of the art style here. Giving very fun, cartoony indie like to a T. And some other games that we've seen where it's like, oh, it just jumps off the screen. The idea of, yeah, we're doing more power Wash simulator. Hey, I'm just sucking up everything in the. On the. In the world to clean it all up is always a fun one. I think people might find this and go, hey, I really enjoyed this game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that looks cute. In a similar vein, art style made me highlight this one for y'. All. Spaceman Memories coming to PC. Space Space Memories is a retro JRPG built by one person who loves old stories set in a retro futuristic Japan haunted by ancient folklore. Play as ichiryo. I'm sorry, ichiro94, an astronaut who wakes from hypersleep to piece together the remnants of a forgotten past full of wonder, nostalgia, and strange spirits.

[Blessing Eddie]

Here's what I was getting ready to, like, hate a little bit. Because when you said our style, I was like, I bet you this shit's gonna be HD2D. Because I feel like everybody's doing HD2D now that I'm looking at it. Even though it is kind of HD2D, this art style does rock. I love looking at this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I. I had not heard of this one until I was assembling the Run a show today and I put this on my wish list right away.

[Blessing Eddie]

This looks really.

[Greg Miller]

This is what I want to check out.

[Andy Cortez]

I will say though that the. The aforementioned Etrio 94, the boy in the art. In the COVID art I think looks a lot cooler. It's. He looks more like that sort of 80s style anime. But in here, in here he doesn't like that. Doesn't look like him. You know like the. The car. The art on the top right. Doesn't look like the boy.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but that's classic. You open up your. You're on the car ride home looking at your instruction manual. Yeah. You don't look nothing like what you're gonna get, but I hear you. You're not.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, looks like Doom guy. Like just Doom guy in a purple suit, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. I want to check that one out.

[Blessing Eddie]

That kind of reminds me of Paper Mario a little bit. Like HTD mix with Paper Mario.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. But like art style influences from like eastward and Easter is so beautiful.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie]

Eastward. Such a good game.

[Greg Miller]

April 15 also has Valor born PC early access, Calamity Angels special delivery on PC and don't lose Aggro on early access. We jump to April 16th. It's headlined on this list by Mouse PI for Hire. Everything all the Xboxes PlayStation 5. I have another PlayStation 5 for some reason switch. I think it's just everywhere. Join private investigate and get Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing jazz fueled adventure in Mouse PI for Hire. Mouse combines the charm of hand drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930s with the adrenaline and action of an explosion explosive first person shooter. Mouse PI for Hire is one we've talked about for a long time from its. Wow, that was an amazing first impression to. Is there anything really under the hood with this game to Xbox is giving it how long of a direct to man, that was a great direct to then playing it. And I am so stoked for this after playing the preview and I know opinions are varied but for me it was like oh, I don't want a sweaty shooter. I'm not a shooter guy. I'm not even a doom guy in playing this and the humor that was in it and the upgrades that were in the art that was in it. I was like damn, I can't wait to play this final game.

[Blessing Eddie]

I love they said you're not doom guy as they showed like the demons that look exactly like doom that I've not seen from this trailer before is the new trailer.

[Greg Miller]

This is the old trailer. This is the one with the March date on it before they delayed it a month.

[Blessing Eddie]

This is like the most. It's looked like doom to me. But yeah, I mean this is one that I can't wait to see how people take to it because you said it. All right. Art style is really hitting. The gameplay feels a lot more straightforward classic first person shooter than I was expecting. Boomer shooter, which is like more exciting, honestly. Like, I feel like it's become more few and far between that we see that type of game and so really looking forward to it.

[Andy Cortez]

But I do think the boss fights are a lot more inspired and a lot more inspired by more modern first person boss fights. I really enjoyed the sort of the requirement for pattern recognition and jumping over those waves and then staying behind this when that beam happens. It's there. They're a lot more intricate than I was. Than I was expecting. And that makes me a lot more excited for. For the game.

[Mike]

Do you have a estimate on how long this is going to be?

[Greg Miller]

Nobody have that. I don't think we have anything short.

[Mike]

Yeah. There's a part of me that's like I just want the game to be great. So it doesn't matter how long the length is. But I do look at this game and I'm like, I am excited for this. I would prefer this to be on the shorter side.

[Andy Cortez]

I could have sworn that they said like 15 to 25 or something.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Depending on how completionist you want to be. I could Google.

[Blessing Eddie]

I don't give a Google from playing the demo. I'm like, I hope it's like seven. I'm having a good time with this. I don't want to live in this,

[Greg Miller]

you know, I mean, you know, the AI scrape if I can trust that is 12 to 20. I'm trying to figure out if there's anybody confirming anywhere.

[Mike]

Yeah,

[Andy Cortez]

maybe. Maybe. I'm thinking about an interview that I heard at one point, but this may have been before.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it's. They're pulling it from the IGN thing. It looks like stories rough. Roughly 12 hours for a standard playthrough. According to. To this. Okay. Not terrible.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's great.

[Greg Miller]

Cthulhu. The Cosmic Abyss also comes on April 16th. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X PC Tomodachi Life Living the Dream comes to Switch 2 and Switch. A super chat from Chrono Rig says the first week of Tomodachi is going to be unhinged.

[Blessing Eddie]

Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, it will. I still cannot yell at Nintendo enough for turning off the ability to easily share your clips and screenshots from this.

[Blessing Eddie]

I Mean, you know why they did though.

[Greg Miller]

Of course I know why they did. But like, it's just not going to stop it. I mean, it's going to again, I think if you did. We did a whole preview.

[Andy Cortez]

So much Charlie Kirk meat. Like so much.

[Blessing Eddie]

Jesus Christ.

[Greg Miller]

We've done a preview on this last week, right? Go watch it. Me and Roger have put time in with it, of course. Now there is a demo out where you can go make. I think it's three me's and get in there. If you're not familiar, think of, you know, you're making your me's like in the old days on your Wii, but then you're tossing them into a world and it's a little bit Animal Crossing, it's a little bit Sims, it's a little bit Sim City. There's a million things going on there, but it's putting them into ridiculous situations, giving them lingo, giving them relationships, watching the whole thing evolve as you watch this little island grow and become more and more unhinged, as Chrono Rig says it. My complaint, of course, yes. Is that, you know, Nintendo said, okay, cool, you can do all this and you can do your screenshots and you do your videos, but you can't share them to your smartphone or directly to the web. So you need to get that memory card to put it in there. They're trying to make it hard. So, yes, the people who want to make Hitler and Jesus and Rush Limbaugh live on an island together can't share the that, but the people who want to make that kind of content are going to hook it up to obs and make that kind of content and put it out. You're really just stopping people from being like, look, it's grandma.

[Blessing Eddie]

Tune into my Twitch channel. When this comes out.

[Andy Cortez]

I, I put in a link into Assets and this is for Barrett and all the rest of the Breaking Bad lovers out there.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, nice.

[Andy Cortez]

Because this post just had me dying and I, I've been so. I was so close to streaming the demo but I'm like, I'm going to wait because this I, I'm really stoked to like be. Get really creative with this For Friday listeners. Just a great meme of like three different me, Mike Urman, Trout, Lalo Salamanca and Gus Gustavo Fring from Goats. It's so funny looking.

[Greg Miller]

It's gonna be awesome when this drops and we. You get really cool goofy ass content.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, I kid you not. Like, I. This is a game I've been wanting to play for like over 10 years. Because I remember when the first Tomadachi Life came out, it came out on 3Ds. I never owned a 3Ds, but I remember looking at it being like, this looks amazing. Like, this looks hilarious. And so when they announced this new one, I was like, hell yeah. Now's my time to shine. And playing the demo, I'm like, oh, man, this is the game I'm most excited for. On April 16th. Sorry, Mouse PI.

[Greg Miller]

Also on April 16th is Gecko Gods. PC Switch, PlayStation 5. Explore a forgotten land in Gecko Gods, A puzzle adventure built for curiosity. Climb walls, solve ancient puzzles, and uncover a lost civilization in a world full of hidden paths, quiet secrets, and natural wonder.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, I highlighted this one real quick because this is another one that showed up at a gdc. See the mix stream. Maybe like two or three years.

[Andy Cortez]

It was like about three, I think

[Blessing Eddie]

it was the first one.

[Andy Cortez]

It was like six years ago.

[Blessing Eddie]

I got to play it and like, this game was really fun, right? Like, as you can see from the video and as Greg Red, you're playing as a little gecko and you're exploring and crawling all over and like, you know, it's fun. I. It's fun playing as a little guy sometimes, you know, it's fun, like scurrying around, climbing walls and all that stuff. And you're getting all that out of this game. And I love the art style of it as well.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, after that, you're getting opus prims in Prison Peak. Prison Peak. God damn. It's the opus. Got me. Because it's all cap Opus, prison Peak, Switch, PC Switch 2, Ereban Shadow Legacy, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Atomic Heart, Blood on Crystal, Xbox Series X, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. And then under par, Golf Architect, PC Switch 2, Xbox Series X. It's a mic game. Step into the shoes of a golf architect as you build and manage your own golfing paradise. Sharpen your strategy by designing incredible courses to challenge the most demanding golfers. And watch your cool club flourish as you attract VIP players. Hire quickly, hire quirky staff and hold prestigious tournaments.

[Andy Cortez]

Washburn, get ready.

[Mike]

This is just one of those. Can I get a big hail? Yeah, right. Like, I'm all about this, right? I love Planet Coaster. I love what Two Point has done with campus, museum and hospital. We don't get the fun golf course simulators anymore, right? Where it's like, hey, I would like to build a golf course. I would like to run this. I've had plenty of Lenny. Hey, Frontier, you're killing it with Planet Coaster. We've Done Zoo Tycoon. I've done Jurassic park.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh man. Evolution 3 is great.

[Mike]

Let's have a little fun. Let's build a golf course, please. And so yeah, I'm really excited about this because yeah, this is the dream, right? I get to design my own Michael Jordan esque course and have invite all my friends to it. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Jupiter, Florida.

[Greg Miller]

You're also on April 16th getting smash it wild tactical volleyball roguelite PC. You open that up, I'll keep open that city transport simulator 2026 PC Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, Shantytown on PC hello Kitty Island, Adventure City Town iOS, PC Switch, Centopia on PC Lucky Tower, Ultimate Switch and PC ZPF. Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC V amusement SteamVR, Meta Quest 3 and Fun with Ragdolls +PC. What's your read here so far on Smash It Wild Tactical Volleyball launch?

[Blessing Eddie]

There's a lot going on in this trailer, but, but I. What's, you know what's funny is like legit. As we're finishing up talking about the golf game, I had the thought of like, man, I wish we got more volleyball games. And so like I'm looking at it right now and I'm like, I might, this might be speaking to me a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, everybody.

[Blessing Eddie]

There's just a lot going on like with the menus though.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, well, it's Rog light, right? So I mean you got to get

[Andy Cortez]

your, you got to make your build, whatever. Yeah, get your deck.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, got to build it, upgrade your team.

[Blessing Eddie]

Everybody has their own ability, it looks like.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you can give that character heavy gauntlets and that might work better for them because they already have. Have a harder serve or whatever. Oh man.

[Blessing Eddie]

Why is everybody like furry?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, you know why, you know, why do I dope? April 17th. It happens. Pragmata. No. Pragmata comes to switch to PC. PlayStation 5. It's Capcom's newest IP Pragmata, an all new science fiction action adventure with its own unique hacking twist. In the near future, the protagonists Hugh and the Android companion Diana must work together as they make their way through the cold lunar research station. We're all excited about it and so is Verm Dex who super chats and says, I'm so excited for Pragmata. Pragmata. I think the game is going to be special. I hope it is, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

I, I don't know if it will be, but I think we're all gonna like it. I think, I think we're all gonna enjoy it. And my prediction for Pragmata is that it's going to. It's going to lend a lot of just arguments to the into the discourse because I don't think the story will deliver whatsoever. But we'll enjoy the gameplay and every will go well. Then why did you all hate Crimson Desert that you know, for not having a story. But you know, I feel like this may be one of those games that may like, you know, get people rowdy or whatever because I don't really trust that this story will deliver a whole lot. I think there'll be some hype moments but I don't really expect amazing writing or anything that I've based on what I've experienced so far. But the gameplay is awesome and I. I want to play it immediately. I think it. It was a lot of fun when we checked. Check it out.

[Greg Miller]

100 yeah, I'm right there with you in terms of I enjoy playing it. I'm not expecting. Yeah. To be so enraptured.

[Blessing Eddie]

Can I share some insider info?

[Mike]

Please tell us.

[Blessing Eddie]

Ran into somebody in the last few weeks who would be in the know about this game.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Blessing Eddie]

And was talking about it and I was like, yeah, dude, like the demos are cool or whatever. And he's like, dude, we've not shown like, wow. What we showed in the demo is not indicative of like all the that's in this game.

[Greg Miller]

And I was like, that's what I wanted.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie]

And so that got me kind of hyped.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Mike]

Diana, have more. Hold on. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Is it a Mega man game?

[Blessing Eddie]

Hold on. I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

[Greg Miller]

Better me.

[Andy Cortez]

They tweeted out some Mega man the other day. It's like, stop. Stop. Pragmata.

[Blessing Eddie]

It very much feels like though, yeah, they're playing their cards close to their chest with this one a little bit.

[Andy Cortez]

Hold on.

[Mike]

Yeah, I really enjoyed the active hacking. I didn't think I would like that at all. And playing on PC, dragging the mouse at the same time was like really, really fun.

[Andy Cortez]

And it's super optimized on PC. Yeah, it feels real good.

[Greg Miller]

Also on April 17, decolate decorations. Switch PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X Slay All Bosses idle on PC. And then Nippon Marathon 2 Daijobu PC Early Access April 20 4:20 Jay and Silent Bob Chronic Blunt Punch comes to Xbox One. PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 Runehaven comes to PC. Townsfolk comes to PC. PC April 21 Vampire Crawlers comes to Xbox One. Switch 2, PlayStation 4 Deal World Ending combos and blitz through infested dungeons. Vampire Crawlers. The turbo wild card from Vampire Survivors is A casual turn based deck builder with roguelite elements. Master the Turbo turn with your own hand of cards.

[Andy Cortez]

Dude, I loved the demo of this and I totally don't disagree with Blessing when I don't think it's the most visually appealing game at all. Like I look at it, it's kind of ugly in some spots. Vampires, Virus have always had.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, they're staying. That's. They're staying that vein.

[Andy Cortez]

There's always a different. Like it feels like they're pulling from six different art styles at some points. But once I started seeing the Matrix and getting certain cards with crazy amounts of, you know, getting a bunch of cards that improve your power every time you use them so then every next set subsequent attack is even more powerful. I, I thought it was really, really fun and I. I'm really looking forward to how they've evolved it since the Steam Next Fest demo with all the feedback that they've been taking in.

[Mike]

Yeah, this is a team that has earned my trust.

[Greg Miller]

What's up?

[Mike]

I'm in, right? You showed me that you all got the formula and you did something fun. I tried the Steve Next Fest demo. I enjoyed it. I'm all on board for this. This is going to be a good time.

[Greg Miller]

Me too. Looking forward to this one. Of course. Also on April 21st stage of mythology retold Obsidian Mirror PC Xbox One PlayStation 5 Albion Online Xbox Series X Rising Lords the Pilgrim War on PC Phasmophobia Easter Holiday event ends the end of the Sun PlayStation 5 Below the Crown PC April 22 Tides of Tomorrow comes to Xbox Series X PC PlayStation 5 From the makers of Road 96 comes a groundbreaking narrative adventure. Your choices shape the story for other players. Follow in your friend's footsteps, face the consequences of their actions and choose the fate in this plastic punk world.

[Mike]

Yeah, I highlighted this one because right off the bat the art style caught my eye with a sunset overdrive kind of look in color. But then the gameplay moved in towards a BioShock. The one. Yeah, the immersive death loop deathloop vibe where it's like I might want to bring this to the attention of the team because it does seem interesting and I really like the idea of tying in the multiplayer in quotes. Idea of like, hey, Andy's run did this. They're showing me kind of like where Andy went and like I could either follow him or go somewhere else. It reminded me of that Indiana Jones Fall guys esque game where we were running and you would follow everybody's ghost. I really like this on an Immersive sim. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about is right? And so I think this could be a really interesting idea. I. Death Loop comes to my mind of like, oh, I'd love to see what Blessing and Bear chose and how I deviated off their path where I find. Followed them and I can come into work the next day. Be like, yo, that was a crazy idea you did there. Really didn't pay off for me.

[Greg Miller]

I am.

[Blessing Eddie]

That's the one.

[Greg Miller]

Panama.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I am shocked that this is coming out, like, right now because I remember seeing this at 1.

[Andy Cortez]

We reacted to this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we reacted to the trailer. And I remember doing the thing where I read the press release and I was like, that sounds super ambitious. I hope they land it. The fact that it's here and I haven't heard about it, like, I haven't heard people talking.

[Blessing Eddie]

I did a stream for this one and I remember giving impressions when it was another game with Tides in the title during a showcase. And I was like, oh, yeah. And I talked about it and they were like, no, that's a different Tides game. But it's. It is an interesting one where I'm. I don't know how many people are going to flock to it because you mentioned Death Loop. You mentioned, like, BioShock or some of these other games, but the gameplay reminds me of, like, almost like, more leaning toward life is strange with some of these choices. And then like, more like stealthy stuff, right? As far as, like, like, you know, being like, okay, do I go left? Do I go right here? And you are following in the footsteps of people that have. That have come before you. It's a really cool idea. It's a really cool idea. Really unique concept that I think is going to be hard for them to pull off in the final thing. But I'm looking forward to seeing, like, can they do. Can they do it? How do they go about it? And then I'm also curious to see, like, is the story gonna hit? Because it was nothing for my demo timer, I was like, oh, yeah, I'm invested in the story. It's more so, like, I'm invested in. To see what other people before me did in the story.

[Mike]

Now I will highlight Road 96. I know me and Greg played this a long time ago on stream. That was a game that caught my eye and actually enjoyed playing with Greg and playing a little bit more. I thought that was cool with the decision making, the resetting of like, hey, you failed. Do it again. And now kind of go at it differently. I thought that was really good. So this is kind of a team of, like, I'd like to try their next thing, see what they got.

[Greg Miller]

Also on April 22 is Masters of Albion. That's the Peter Molyneux God game, not to be confused with Albion Online, which is happening on Xbox Series X the week the day before. Then Clockwork Ambrosia comes at PC. April 23, outbound on PC Switch 2. Xbox Series X Kingdoms Return time eating fruit in the ancient monster PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X Switch 2. Then kiln from our friends at Double Fine. PC, Xbox, PlayStation 5. An online multiplayer. Pottery Brawler. Pottery Party Brawler from Double Fine Productions. Grab your friends to assemble a team of colorful spirits. Then sculpt ceramic battle armor on the pottery wheel. The size shape of your pots determine their play style and abilities. Work together to douse the enemy's kiln.

[Andy Cortez]

You guys played this at gdc?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Day of the Devs, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Day of the Devs.

[Mike]

I played this at Day of the Devs and completely changed my tune on this one. I had a really good time. I think there's a lot to highlight here, but when we talk about the Pottery Party Brawler esque of it, all of the fun on that side of it, it was fun. It was an enjoyable time with me and the kiddos of all the Double Fine families playing together, laughing, Right? Like, you are set with 4v4 on two different sides, and you kind of meet in the middle to battle over a. A large pot of water, which then you'll suck up the water and then run to the enemy team side to put out their kiln.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Mike]

And I thought it was really fun of I would go back on defense, kind of stop everybody from putting water on our side while the other ones were jumping over there. You have three or four different build sizes. Small, medium, large, three that kind of all do different moves, have all different special moves. So you have this fun one, but I think the icing on all of this, like the cherry on top, is the pottery creator. Right? That is so much fun to make your own pots, paint them however you want, add decorations on them that it just kind of takes it a little bit to the next level, making it a fun experience. But were you. It's got the good bones to it.

[Andy Cortez]

Were you the mo.

[Mike]

No, I let the kiddos lead me.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow. Okay.

[Mike]

So, yeah, we had a lot of fun. They were giggling in the headsets, yelling at me to go play defense. Follow them over here. Here. So, yeah, I. I let them lead. I think this will Be a fun party game for families and anyone out there to give a try and enjoy. But I think they're going to. I think we're going to see a lot of people go crazy on making their.

[Blessing Eddie]

That's my thing is I. I played it as well and like, I wasn't crazy about the multiplayer aspect, but I think the pottery building is going to go viral. I think that's something that's going to be like, hot in the streets. Because I was very impressed with how easy it was and how much creativity I felt like I could have as I was sculpting things, adding little charms, p. Painting things, dipping it in the paint and bringing it back out.

[Andy Cortez]

Is it? Yeah. Like, is there a good tactile feel to it? Like, really? Is it one of those where you're like, man, I wish the dual sense was, you know.

[Blessing Eddie]

Oh, sure. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

When it comes to the vibrations of everything. Like, I. I wonder just how, you know, I mean, if you guys say that it felt really good, that's awesome because I. I love.

[Blessing Eddie]

Very malleable. You felt you feel in control.

[Mike]

Like, how visually it was stimul stimulating. I'm like, oh, you switch the pinch and you could see it really pinch. The edges of. You get that little ASMR 90 edge and like, you're really putting an edge on it. I thought that was really, really.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, I should have taken a picture of my pocket.

[Mike]

Yeah, it was good. They did a good job on that. But yeah, it reminds me of a lot of other multiplayer games we've played before. I'm trying to think of the one that Ninja Theory did before.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Mike]

Like, I could probably name a ton of like, four. Four arena battlers that are like, just like this, right? That you've played and you're like, yeah, we had a fun afternoon playing that. Right? Like, that's. That's what this is.

[Greg Miller]

We'll see what that means for Double Fine as Xbox continues to figure it all out. April 23 also sees Dragon is Dead, Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Sudden Strike 5, Xbox Series X, PC PlayStation 5, Rumbral, PlayStation 5, PC Shapes 2, PC Drova Forsaken Kin, Android iOS Food Truck Chef Full Course Edition PC and Switch Kumitan Te Old School Slaughter on PC Flatout 4 Total Insanity VR, PC Early Access April 24 gets Little Nightmares VR Altered Echoes PC, PlayStation VR 2 and PlayStation 5 and Project Vesperi on PC. April 27, my birthday gets Moomin Troll, Winter's Warmth Switch and PC and Mahu Arms PC. Then we come to April 28. April Apheon. How am I saying this?

[Blessing Eddie]

Aphelion.

[Greg Miller]

Aphelion. Xbox Series X, PC and PlayStation 5. Hunted on a frozen planet, astronaut Arnia must brave rugged landscapes and shifting realities to rescue her wounded partner Thomas. This action packed sci fi adventure blends exploration, traversal, intense stealth gameplay. This of course, don't nods space game.

[Andy Cortez]

I previewed this, I was given a preview code and I thought it felt real bad. Oh like. And this was about what?

[Greg Miller]

Don't know. You're gonna get.

[Andy Cortez]

This is about a, maybe two or three months ago, but it, the, yeah, the hand, you know, hands on the sticks but moving, you know, climbing around. I think visually it was really pretty but it has one of those, it, it has that weird thing that a lot of indie developers and double A developers are kind of running into too. And I, I think it's more and more of an issue is that the art style is really, really nice. Like it's obviously super high fidelity, the characters look good, but if you don't have the animation prowess to really match up to that, then you have that immediate disconnect of like these characters look awesome, but they're moving in a really kind of janky lo fi way. And you kind of wish in some moments that maybe the art style was less real realistic so that it could kind of match up and make your brain make that connection a little bit better. But yeah, movement wise I, I thought it felt pretty bad and kind of immediately put it down and was not super stoked to get back to it. But I hope there have been improvements since then. Maybe that was just a super early build. I know it was, but I, I, I'm not super encouraged after my preview with it.

[Greg Miller]

That's a shame.

[Mike]

We're going to space last. Space games.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah.

[Mike]

This Matthew McConaughey. You got, you got the Expanse. Whatever happened with our favorite horror team, Greg?

[Blessing Eddie]

Directive 8020 already came out. No, it's coming out soon.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, they got a new release.

[Blessing Eddie]

They just released, released it yesterday actually. Yeah, it's coming out a couple months.

[Greg Miller]

From there we move to Diablo 4, Lord of Hatred, the next big expansion PlayStation 5, Xbox, of course, PC. I'll be back for it. You know, I was obsessed with Diablo 4 and then doing Vessel of Hatred review and forcing myself to platinum before that burned me the fuck out. And even them dropping the new class didn't make me come back. So I've been waiting. This will be my return to jumping back into Diablo 4. Excited to see what they got up their sleeve and what they've reworked.

[Mike]

I think you're really going to like this, Greg. So of course I went down to Blizzard, I previewed this, which we had some funky embargoes. But now it's finally time I could talk about the Diablo 4 side of things. Right. When we talk about adding new classes, you have two. One is already out. So it's kind of like hey, have you already played it or not?

[Greg Miller]

The Palad of the Crusader. What was it?

[Mike]

Yeah. And then now you have the Warlock adding into this. Right. And we talked about the Warlock coming to all three games. Two immortal now into four. And kind of the evolution of the Warlock of like two is like the early days and now four is like the ultimate warlock beast master here.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Mike]

And it's really exciting. Exciting to see not only the new classes, the new area is going to be really good and eye catching. I think you're going to enjoy that, Greg. But the system reworks are really big. That gets me back into it. Right. We're talking about that awesome skill tree that you know from Diablo 4 and all the Diablos, of course. But they wanted to kind of take that to the next level and go, hey, for people like Greg or anyone out there who's already enjoyed so much Diablo 4, how do we get them back in and make it a little more eye catching, a little more. More exciting? And so they've completely reworked the skill tree to have multi even more nodes within it. Right. So instead of your fireball just being a fireball, now you can make them ice lightning and arcane even more. So every single skill has more skills within them that can make it even more dynamic and different, which is cool. I can't wait.

[Greg Miller]

We're looking forward to.

[Mike]

I can't wait.

[Andy Cortez]

You can be playing that on your. On your ally.

[Mike]

Your ally.

[Blessing Eddie]

X.

[Mike]

Did you play it on your ally?

[Greg Miller]

I played on my Steam deck back.

[Andy Cortez]

Really?

[Mike]

No, I haven't played this one on my handheld.

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Mike]

I'm a little worried they won. Well, yeah, I mean it run well protect my handheld. Like Super Meat Boy for example. I didn't want to play Super Meat Boy on my handheld cuz I'd be jamming them.

[Andy Cortez]

But yeah, you need to. You need.

[Mike]

I want to protect it.

[Andy Cortez]

You need to look into, you know, how, how you're handling. Because I mean like the guy who

[Greg Miller]

broke my Y button never had a problem with that Y button. This guy's jamming it up.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, but Mike's the guy that when he first started playing keyboard Mouse. He's like, I have blisters. We're like, from what?

[Mike]

Getting a hold of.

[Andy Cortez]

Is it holding that mouse too hard? Nobody holds a mouse that hard.

[Greg Miller]

Don't judge, I'm afraid. April 28 also has will follow the light. PlayStation 5, PC Xbox Series X He man and the Masters of the Universe Dragon Pearl of Destruction PC PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 Yeeze memory revelations and Cell Switch Rival Star Horse Racing. Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4 and 5. April20, April 29 Neverness to Everness PC PlayStation 5, iOS, Ariana and the Elder Codex on PC MotoGP 26 on PC PlayStation 5, Switch 2 Bobo Bay PC Echoes of Mora PC McGinn the Rat Project Stories PlayStation 5, PC Xbox Series Demon Lord Just a block.

[Andy Cortez]

Just a block.

[Greg Miller]

And then April 30th, a humongous day. It starts with sorrow. Someplace to five. Andy, we sent you to Helsinki.

[Andy Cortez]

We good? You did? Yeah, man. Oh, my God. Yeah. I mean, Roger played it too. Roger loved it.

[Greg Miller]

He's dead to it.

[Andy Cortez]

It. This just seems like it's going to hit and deliver on everything we were hoping for. For anybody who played Returnal or for anybody who saw people play Returnal and say, nope, not for me. Little too difficult. I'm not. Look, I'm not, you know, trying to bash my head into the wall and have my runs end and then go like, God damn it, dude, you're really going to punish me that hard right now. This game is a lot more approachable. It's still difficult when you're running around as Rahul Kohli, dodging and trying to get away from enemies and things like that. But from the approachability side, there are so many permanent upgrades and ways to make future runs easier for you. And more importantly, it is going to. I think it's really going to hit with the story. That's the biggest takeaway that me and Roger had. Of course, we were expecting returnal gameplay, which is already S tier, but what it's doing narratively and the way that they. The cutscene that they ended the. Our demo with. Yeah, really, really felt like we were watching it. It felt like I was watching the pilot episode of a new HBO show where you check it out and the pilot ends with this cliffhanger and you're like, oh, I think I'm in. I am really excited for what is going to have happen narratively here where Returnal was a very, very kind of passive experience and it had an awesome story, but told in very kind of, you know, non traditional ways. This is definitely going for all right, how do we evolve our formula not only gameplay wise, but narratively? You're gonna. Whenever you die, you come back to the home base, you talk to all the NPCs, they're going to give you more info, you're going to learn more about them, you're going to pick up notes and you're going to come back with more information. And I, it's, it's just like I could not be more excited for this video game.

[Greg Miller]

I can't wait. That's music to my ears. Of course you have a great preview up with Roger, like you said, hosted by Bless everybody. Check that out from Gamescast last week, also on April 30th in Konbini one store, Many Stories Xbox Series X switched to PC. Many Stories is a cozy slice of life game about running a small town convenience store. Inspired by early 1990s Japan, meet regulars, stock shelves and watch quiet everyday moments turn into meaningful stories. From the synopsis there, you know, it's a Greg game. I got to play this at GDC at the Xbox event two years ago, maybe three. I forget what it was and liked what I played there, but I was very concerned if we'd actually ever see it come out. So having an April 30th release date, I will be there. Very stoked to stock this and find those stories.

[Andy Cortez]

This game lent to a really funny, kind of funny moment during one of these preview things where we were talking about some sort of management sim game or some convenience store thing and Mike said, oh, it reminds me of Incom Beni. And Blessing was like, what?

[Blessing Eddie]

No, it was what it was. It was a reaction where I think there was Incom Beni trailer. And then like as soon as it popped up, you and Mike were both like, inconvenient. Me and Tim were like, we looked

[Andy Cortez]

each other like, do you know?

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, why do you know?

[Mike]

Inconven.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, what's going on here means convenience store in Japanese.

[Mike]

It's going to be very cool. Yeah. Very excited about this one. This one should have some heart. I think the narrative is what's going to get people right. We see so many simulator games that easy to be like, hey, I've already done that. Right. But this one I think is pushing the narrative. And I think that's what.

[Greg Miller]

And that's what draws me in, is that I think there's an I always watch you with those Sims games or simulation games and go, man, I'd like to do that, but I don't want that much where this seems like a nice Balance of like stock the shelves with the soda. Sure. Do the stories. It's not strictly from the ground up. Make your card shop go.

[Andy Cortez]

Beautiful art style too.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It just makes me go, I want another seafu. Like the shading looks so sick. Similar.

[Greg Miller]

Speaking of art styles. Oh, I thought you were going to

[Andy Cortez]

say speaking of slow clap. I was like, what?

[Greg Miller]

Here they are. No. Invincible Versus out that day as well. PlayStation, PC, Xbox Series X. Invincible Versus is a brutal superhero 3v3 tag fighting game set in the Invincible universe where you can battle to the death as a team of fan favorite characters in iconic locations. Blessing. Are you just going to be happy to have this out so you don't have to be asked all the time as the fighting game guy? What about Invincible?

[Blessing Eddie]

Yeah, I feel like it happens every other week of like oh yeah, that Invincible game. Right. But I am looking forward to this one. They announced Conquest the other day and so all y' all are. Cuz I'm main in conquest, let me tell you.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I was really considering challenging you, so I'm glad that I'm.

[Blessing Eddie]

No, I think this will be a fun one. Right. Like it's. I think it's so interesting that it's an invis Invincible fighting game because you know, we often talk about the marriage between IP and video game. Often times talk about it.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie]

And Invincible is interesting one because I'm like, are Invincible fans going to show up to a fighting game? Are fighting game fans going to show up to Invincible? But as long as the game's good, then I think that's the main thing that matters for gaining an audience to it. And I like a lot of what they're doing.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie]

It's a tag fighter made by people who worked on Killer Instinct. It has a lot of those combo systems in there. Has a lot of violence reminiscent of like a Mortal Kombat, explode people's heads, throw people to the moon, all that type of. And so I'm really, really excited for it. I hate that it's coming at the same day as Sorrows because I'm more excited for Soros. But hopefully by that time I would have beaten the review code and then I can just focus on Invincible versus

[Andy Cortez]

on the $50 for this game. The Avatar game. 30 bucks.

[Blessing Eddie]

30 bucks. Which like Man Undercutter, the W's keep coming with the Avatar Game.

[Greg Miller]

Up next is Bus Bound piece, actually adorable adventures. PC, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5. And then Busbound is a mic game. PC, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5. Step into the driver's seat. And Bus Bound, the latest title from the creators of bus simulator 21. Explore a vibrant behind this the wheel of an officially licensed bus and help transform it into pedestrian friendly paradise 1.

[Andy Cortez]

I hate those ripoff God have the

[Greg Miller]

real bus in there.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. I highlighted this one. Of course we did a sponsored stream so you take this with a grain of salt. But myself, Kevin, Joey and Nick loved this experience. It's a multiplayer game as well. The city is vibrant and huge. Very giving, giving like GTA vibe. Vibes of like we're RPing and I'm just driving the bus. But you get to create your own bus routes throughout the city. You get to run the whole entire bus fleet. You'll jump on. You can be the dispatcher and kind of organize everything. You can jump into the bus. There are real life buses here which is very impressive to see. We set up the wheel. It was a ton of fun. Don't not many people know. My father used to drive the bus. Love driving the bus. In his later retirement tournament years did the Bus Rodeo. Now if I give one recommendation to Bus Bound, put the Bus rodeo in this. The Bus rodeo is where you invite all the top drivers from around the state to come down and do the ultimate bus challenge.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a who's who, right?

[Mike]

It's a who's. And then the winner gets a big belt buckle. You won the Bus Rodeo. Big Mike always wanted to win the

[Andy Cortez]

bus belt buckle says keep an eye

[Mike]

out for this one.

[Blessing Eddie]

There is though a group of buses were called a fleet. I didn't know that. That's really neat.

[Greg Miller]

Rounding out April 30th and your month, you are also getting Winks Club. The magic is back. Switch PC, PlayStation 5, Perennial Dusk, Switch to Switch Amnesia Rebirth, Switch Switch 2 Deep Rock, Galactic Survivor, Heavy Duty Expansion Xbox Series X and PC and Mullet Mad Jack on Switch and those Ladies gentlemen and enbies. Are all the announced dates for April games coming out? Yes, there will be more. I'm always interested. Again we're using releases.com an amazing website. There's a few. Looks like maybe got left off Jason. Oh no, this is today. But let's just toss in there. Jason says Tomb water is a 2D soul slash. This is a super chat Zelda inspired indie out today. Has anyone checked it out? Between that and Super Meat Boy and Slay the Spire, I don't know what to pick up. I did not hear about Tomb Water but out today?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm looking at it right now.

[Greg Miller]

Mike in a super chat says check out Alabaster Dawn. Cool. Paul Pixel. But that's not this month. Yeah, we know Alabaster on this is the people who did a cross code.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

And that this is what led me to play that because Andy's like that's so amazing.

[Andy Cortez]

You should do the cross code demo or the Alabaster dawn demo is sick. The combat feels great but the art style is one of the. It's. They just really, really crushed the idea. Like this looks like a 2D sprite, but it's a 3D object. Like your characters are 3D but they look like they're 2D sprite sprites. It. It's so sick. This game rocks.

[Greg Miller]

And then final super chat about games we've missed. Chaos Killer X7 says it wasn't mentioned but really looking forward to cursed words on April 2nd. It's a great Boggle style. Balatra like that has a great potential to be honest.

[Andy Cortez]

Boggles the mind.

[Greg Miller]

Boggles the mind. Yeah, it's more of that word play stuff up there. So hell yeah, about that. I'm looking into that and that officially there's every game with a date. And April, if we missed your game, let us know in the comments below so people see it. But also more importantly, let us know what you're excited for. So we know what needs to be previewed and reviewed here on the Kinda Funny gamescast. Remember, the Gamescast comes to you each and every weekday. You should watch it live. YouTube.com kindafunnygames Twitch TV, kinda funnygames Podcast services around the globe. If you like it, pick up a membership, get everything ad free. Get your daily dose of me in a series called Greg Way. And of course get good karma. YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple Spot, Spotify and patreon.com Kinda funny for now, we're rolling right into the Kinda Funny podcast. How to fix Kinda Funny? If you're not watching live, make sure you check that out on YouTube or your podcast service of choice. And after that, it's a Super Meat Boy 3D four person race. Mike, I'm very excited to see how that nets out.

[Mike]

It's gonna be a good time.

[Greg Miller]

But as for the games cast, we're done. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

[Andy Cortez]

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