The Upcoming Games You NEED to Know About - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast – Episode Summary

Episode Title: The Upcoming Games You NEED to Know About
Release Date: April 16, 2025
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez

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1. Introduction and Show Overview

The episode kicks off with light-hearted banter among the hosts, setting a casual and engaging tone. Greg Miller introduces the primary focus of the episode:

“[03:07] Greg Miller: ...we're here to talk about the biggest topics in video games. Whether they be reviews, previews or things we need to talk about. That's what we do here on the Kinda Funny Gamescast.”

2. Steam Wish Lists and Community Engagement

A significant portion of the podcast centers around the hosts' Steam wish lists, highlighting upcoming and lesser-known games. Andy Cortez emphasizes the importance of wish listing for both personal tracking and supporting game developers:

“[10:26] Andy Cortez: ...it's not only for your own edification, but to help out the developers. And it helps out a lot for their trending lists and all that for Imperial today.”

3. Featured Upcoming Games

a. Void Breaker

Andy Cortez presents Void Breaker as a standout title within the roguelite first-person shooter genre. He praises its innovative mechanics and engaging gameplay:

“[12:01] Andy Cortez: ...the coolest part for me about Void Breaker is it's not just you're not destroying things just because it's cool and it got it and it looks awesome. It's how you weaken the enemies quicker.”

Key Features:

• Telekinesis and Gravity Manipulation: Players can grab and throw objects to disrupt enemies, reminiscent of abilities in Control.
• Bullet Hell Mechanics: Combines intense attack patterns similar to Returnal with destructible environments inspired by The Finals.
• Sound Design: Exceptional audio cues enhance the immersive experience.

Greg adds to the enthusiasm, noting the developer’s dedication despite a small team:

“[15:57] Greg Miller: But that's more than I was expecting to be honest, looking at it.”

b. Crow Sworn & Morningstar

Inspired by the art style of Hollow Knight, Andy discusses two titles—Crow Sworn and Morningstar—as excellent examples of Metroidvania-inspired games with rich narratives and challenging boss fights.

“[24:02] Andy Cortez: ...Crow Sworn is one of those [games], and then Morningstar is another one that... it's a cute little owl with a similar art style.”

Crow Sworn:

• Gameplay: Features a crow protagonist wielding a scythe and gun.
• Development: Continually updated with new playtests, indicating active development.

Morningstar:

• Art Style: Adopts a dreamy, ethereal aesthetic with a focus on boss battles.
• Steam Presence: Currently seeking a Kickstarter for broader development support.

c. Morbid Metal

Andy introduces Morbid Metal, a high-paced hack and slash cyberpunk game published by Ubisoft, highlighting its engaging combat mechanics and visually striking design:

“[28:36] Greg Miller: ...this is a cyberpunk ronin... you got that cool sort of hat and you are just juggling enemies in midair.”

Key Attributes:

• Art Style: Combines cyberpunk elements with traditional samurai aesthetics.
• Combat: Emphasizes fluid movements and strategic enemy engagements.

d. Tower Born

Tower Born is recommended as an ideal game for families and local co-op enthusiasts. Andy highlights its transformation from a tower defense concept to a beat 'em up game with deep combat mechanics:

“[44:30] Andy Cortez: ...it has local couch co-op and it seems like such a cool game to be like babies first beat em up.”

Features:

• Customization: Extensive character creation and loot systems.
• Developer Insight: Upcoming major reset and updates promise significant gameplay improvements.

e. Abyss Zero

Andy showcases Abyss Zero, a 3D metroidvania from the developers of Unsighted. He lauds its nostalgic pixel art and expansive world:

“[48:11] Andy Cortez: ...it is such a sick ass kind of nostalgic looking art style.”

Highlights:

• Dual Protagonists: Control two characters with unique abilities.
• Exploration: Emphasizes deep environmental interactions and story-driven quests.

f. Merchant 64

Presented as a charming retro-inspired game, Merchant 64 offers a unique twist on the traveling merchant simulator:

“[52:38] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: ...you are a merchant going around buying things and then traveling to different towns and selling things and just trying to like build up currency.”

Key Points:

• Gameplay: Focuses on trade, exploration, and strategic economic decisions.
• Art Style: Emulates the nostalgic aesthetics of the N64 era.

g. Jump Ship

Jump Ship is introduced as an ambitious co-op shooter where players command a spaceship and engage in both space and ground combat:

“[56:59] Andy Cortez: ...commanding a spaceship with friends and have... doing pirate type ship of like, you know, going to another...”

Notable Features:

• Dual Gameplay Modes: Transition seamlessly between spaceship management and first-person shooter missions.
• Cooperative Mechanics: Encourages teamwork through ship upgrades and mission-based objectives.

h. Neverway

Greg highlights Neverway, a survival horror title from Bloober Team, known for their work on Dead Space:

“[67:30] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: Explore an expansive world in this 3D metroidvania with carefully crafted dungeons and stylish combat.”

4. Listener Recommendations and Super Chats

The hosts engage with their audience through Super Chats, incorporating listener suggestions into their discussions:

• Ether: Jordan White recommends Ether, a 2D-3D open-world RPG adventure focusing on uncovering ancient secrets.

  “[67:32] Greg Miller: It's an RPG adventure... explore the land of Aethra and uncover a thousand year lie...”

• Wild Gate: Andy is introduced to Wild Gate, a PvP multiplayer shooter blending tactical ship-to-ship combat with fast-paced action.

  “[66:07] Greg Miller: Wild gate is a PvP multiplayer shooter that bends tactical ship to ship...”

• Additional Mentions: Recommendations include Kronos: The New Dawn and Loop Hero, expanding the diversity of genres discussed.

5. Upcoming Events and Announcements

The hosts briefly touch upon upcoming showcases and events, notably the Division 2 Battle for Brooklyn DLC:

“[40:07] Greg Miller: ...would like you to pick up a kind of funny membership...”

They also mention plans to cover the Daredevil review and upcoming streaming sessions, ensuring listeners stay tuned for future content.

6. Conclusion

The episode wraps up with final thoughts on the featured games, reiterating the importance of community engagement through wish lists and Super Chats. Greg encourages listeners to subscribe and support the show through memberships:

“[66:32] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: ...niche pixel art and combat that exceeds what they were doing at that time...”

Notable Quotes

• Andy Cortez on Void Breaker:
  “[12:01] Andy Cortez: ...they are in this weird dome and this big monolithic AI talks to you...”

• Greg Miller on Host Interaction:
  “[03:07] Greg Miller: ...we're here to talk about the biggest topics in video games...”

• Andy Cortez on Tower Born:
  “[44:30] Andy Cortez: ...local couch co-op and it seems like such a cool game to be like babies first beat em up.”

Final Thoughts

This episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast offers an in-depth look at a variety of upcoming games across multiple genres, from intense shooters and immersive RPGs to family-friendly co-op titles. The hosts’ enthusiastic discussions, complemented by listener interactions, provide valuable insights for gamers seeking new experiences. By emphasizing the significance of wish lists and community support, the podcast not only highlights promising games but also fosters a collaborative environment among its audience.

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Transcript

[Greg Miller]

Andy, what's wrong with me? Because I look over in the chat, I see pages inked say, oh, that's hype. If I say too much about my job on here, I dox myself. And that immediately makes me want to stop this show and find out everything I can about pages inked. Because first off, it's pages spelled P.

[Andy Cortez]

A, I, G, E, S. Their name is likely P. So their name is Paige.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Paige Inked.

[Greg Miller]

Are they. Are they a comic book inker? You know what I mean? Or is that what they're doing? Is that writer?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I was thinking, like, ink. Is a tattoo artist also possible?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's. That's. That would be it, too. I. I went to pages inked.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like it's like a hobby. They like journaling.

[Greg Miller]

So you think it's. You think it's the written word is what they're inking? Because they're not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They literally are inking pages.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but you have people who. I mean, like you. We all saw Dogma. You're a tracer. Like you. You know, I mean, like, people who ink comic books. That's what I would go with. No, I work for the government Pages, Inc.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Isn't that a Chasing the Constitution? Those are the pages.

[Greg Miller]

You know what? It is. Thank you. I got Dogma on the brain. They're doing a live event here. I keep forgetting to put into.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When is that?

[Greg Miller]

May 21st. I think I'm down for that. Let me know when we start the show.

[Andy Cortez]

What's up, everybody?

[Greg Miller]

Welcome to the Kind of Money Games cast. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30, aka New York Game Awards nominated aka fighting game. Poppy. It's blessing out of yo ye junior.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Can you believe they gave me Forbes 30? 30?

[Greg Miller]

I can.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What did I do? I sat here talking about video games.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I mean, you know, I think everybody in the video game category that's not making video games, like, all right, what are you doing? There's talking. That's what I think about us every day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

These people are watching this. We're talking. You know what I mean? We're just talking.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're just chatting about things.

[Andy Cortez]

Huh? We're listening. You know, they're listening. We're. We fill up their day with.

[Greg Miller]

I know. I'm aware of the relationship. I know.

[Andy Cortez]

Comedy and hopefully despair. Those are the two.

[Greg Miller]

Comedy and hope.

[Andy Cortez]

That's it.

[Greg Miller]

That's all we got for you up here.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, of course.

[Greg Miller]

That is the Hispanic heartthrob. Texas street Latino heat clicking Heads and ripping them to shreds. The globetrotting head shot and rooting Tootin three point shooting nitro rifle from Twitch tv. Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Wrist is feeling better.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is it nice?

[Andy Cortez]

No. Like, it's so fucked up. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hate that.

[Andy Cortez]

But I wear the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What happened to your thing?

[Andy Cortez]

I wear it at night. Keeps your arm regulated.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Too many people making fun of you. Said you look like you were jerking off.

[Andy Cortez]

No, that's what I've been saying. I just realized.

[Greg Miller]

I've been saying it when I get home.

[Andy Cortez]

I realized I didn't need it during the day. Like, I need it for the hours that I'm unaware of what my wrist is doing. I don't want to, like, get caught sleeping in a weird angle and wait. You know, sometimes you wake up and your arms asleep, you're just like, oh, God, man. That's like really up for a while, I think. You know, I feel that got to kind of protect myself. Can I use it during the day? Since you're not using it during the day. Wait, what?

[Greg Miller]

When I use it during the day.

[Andy Cortez]

While during the day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Your wrist?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You want to wrist. I'm sorry.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a good one, though. That's a good joke.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett's like, I'll volunteer to see what's. What your wrist is doing at night. Unaccounted for wrist time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Just for wrist hours.

[Andy Cortez]

I wake up seven and a half hours of footage.

[Greg Miller]

How's everybody doing? We having a good day?

[Andy Cortez]

Doing great. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Doing great now.

[Greg Miller]

Great episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily out there. Always, Always a pleasure to listening to you and Mike out there doing it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Me and Michael love to yap.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah, you do. Andy, you've been running around. I haven't seen you at your desk. I know you've been up to stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

Prepping the stream.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. GTFO today.

[Andy Cortez]

Really excited. Exciting. Yeah, I finally, you know, it's. It's kind of a. The. The timing is kind of odd because you may think, oh, there's been a lot of sponsored streams. This is probably sponsored as well. This is not sponsored. This is just me being super stoked about the upcoming Den Wolves and always wanting, for the last year or two, wanting Greg to play GTFO with us because I think he would dig the chaos and the horror aspect. And it's just one of those cool kind of co op games. And yeah, it was awesome for them to want to be like, hey, we want to play with y'all.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. If you've missed when we did the preview of Den of Wolves, Last week, two weeks ago and two weeks ago, I guess since I wasn't here last week. Gdc, yeah, the devs were in the chat and they were so stoked to hear Andy talking about it and then talking about gcfo. They were very gung ho on playing with us so we actually made that happen. Not a sponsored thing at all. Just a little organic moment from the Gamescast now to the stream today. But I digress. We're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about the biggest topics in video games. Whether they be reviews, previews or things we need to talk about. That's what we do here on the Kinda Funny Gamescast. Each and every weekday we run you through those topics and have a great time doing it. If you like that, well, we'd like you to pick up a Kinda Funny membership. Remember with your Kinda Funny membership you can get all of our shows that's more than 80amonth A.D. free. And of course you get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series I call Greg way. It's 15 to 20 minutes of content, meaning you get an hour long podcast from me each and every week. All for supporting an 11 person small business trying to entertain you. We bring you comedy and hope. Was that it sounds like despair and despair.

[Andy Cortez]

Despair.

[Greg Miller]

There's a healthy dose of despair around here. Of course if you have no bucks, this offers Our way on patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple or Spotify and get your membership. No big deal. You can watch us record the show live for free on YouTube.com kindafunnygames Twitch and of course Andy, if you have Amazon prime, you have Twitch Prime. Don't forget to subscribe each and every 30 days. They don't remind you about it and they take it away from you. Give some subs too. Have some fun and why not. Today we're talking about a whole bunch of different games. We kicked it off with my wish list a few weeks ago of Steam games that I had forgotten about. We all like that so much. We want to go through Andy's wish list of games. Of course I want you to shout out games you haven't heard us talk about things that are on your wish list. You can do that all on YouTube.com kindafunny games as a super chat to be part of the show as we go.

[Andy Cortez]

One of those kind of random topics that we weren't really show, we weren't really sure where to take it and it just Kind of became Greg's wish list thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And afterwards those just like I feel like I got the most feedback on that games cast out of all the other ones when we, whenever we do reviews or previews, obviously you get, you know, feedback from there saying like, hey, great episode a day, whatever. But that one, I feel like the most amount of people reach out to me saying that shit was cool. I want more of that from you all just getting awesome recommendations for stuff that people haven't heard about.

[Greg Miller]

You're welcome.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I did it.

[Greg Miller]

You did the pace corps, the one core.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a piece.

[Greg Miller]

Are we going to get away? No, we're going to, we're going to tear me apart. Remember, somehow we talk all day long. Live talk shows is what this 11 person small business does. You already got kind of funny games daily which was of course your Mario Kart world predictions, they went way longer than they expected, which I appreciate it. There's good conversations. Remember there is a Mario Kart direct.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or Mario Kart World, Nintendo direct.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Thank you very much. Tomorrow we'll be live reacting to it on a delay so we're not watching it at all. 10:00am we'll watch it live. Do the Gamescast reaction onto your programming day after this. You are getting your final Daredevil Disney plus season one spoiler cast. I'm very excited to talk about this go through. I heard you almost watched it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I started because I, I, I have my Daredevil like podcast. I like to listen to that break down episodes.

[Andy Cortez]

I really thought you were about to.

[Greg Miller]

Say I have my Daredevil podcast record.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I talked to my homie as.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, as you listen. Yeah, you're a listener.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right. But yeah, no, I, I like started it last night and I was like, ah, it's 11, I'm tired and also like I'm talking a lot tomorrow so I want to get good sleep and so I decided not to but like right when I get home, I'm going to put it on while I clean my house.

[Greg Miller]

I got lots to say. I'm looking forward to that. It'll happen right after this.

[Andy Cortez]

So responsible of you because I just, I just get in bed, I'm like a couple runs of blueprints. Like what's the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, dude, blueprints has been throwing me off. Like my, my thing now is that I had to play blueprints in the background or doing something else. And so like literally I took my Steam deck well while I took my car to the car wash and I dropped my car.

[Andy Cortez]

There's not that much time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was like a detail. Like it was like a detail like.

[Greg Miller]

Laying on the horn behind him. Like, take it out of neutral, go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

For an hour into a run.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I'm like, the light's blinking green and you're like, where? I'm in the boiler rush.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My bad.

[Greg Miller]

Car's all dry after that. Spoiler cast for Daredevil Born Again. We will be playing GTFO with the devs and we're very excited about that. If you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg way is 15 minutes of me talking about Stars in the bank and if the drama is real or not. I've been shocked by how many people want to know the inside kayfabe baseball on Stars in the bank and I answer it all today. I air it all out for you.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Our Patreon producers Anatoly asked Delaney Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we're brought to you by Imperial Factor and Shady Rays. But we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be topic of the show. Andy Cortez. Andreas Cortez C as you said, I changed the game when I came out and showed my wish list.

[Andy Cortez]

You did so much changed the DNA of this very company in this day.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Daily Gamescast, Greg and Abraham Lincoln. They did so much for the country.

[Greg Miller]

I want to know what is on your Steam Wishlist. I want to know how you treat your Steam Wishlist. What are you adding it during the showcases, the presentations later? Are you doing it off of steam next festival? You are a connoisseur of games. You play a wide variety of things and you play so much based on streaming. So much that I'd love to know how you handle this and what you what has caught your eye and what you've put out there.

[Andy Cortez]

So I, I've been a lot better about it lately in the same way that I use that website backlogged. I don't have an Android app.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I know it sucks, right?

[Andy Cortez]

We got to get an Android app. But I've been. I've been getting better about sort of tracking what I played throughout the year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

That way when we get to go to discussions I don't have to just look to my Steam play log or whatever. I like having a list of things that I'm kind of making my way through. But the way that I have been, I've been getting better about wish listing things. I think just the way us as a company have Kind of drilled it into people's heads. It's also just been naturally and habitually drilled into my head of, you see something cool Wish list. That shit not only for your own edification, but to help out the developers. And it helps out a lot for their trending lists and all that for Imperial today.

[Greg Miller]

Right. Like the ads that go. We are very big on calling out the wish list because of course that's something we're taking from the GDC streams and conversations with independent developers here to actually working with them.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. And being a GDC was a great thing as well, because busting out the Steam app when somebody's busy playing a game at, I don't know, the mix or something. Right. If somebody's playing a game with the mix and I know I won't really have a chance to play it, I'll just bust out my Steam app on my phone, type in the game, hit wishlist and bam. Like I just added. Right. And it becomes a lot. Pretty easy right there. But I would say also just a lot of showcases, I think I've. I think maybe a year ago when we had another one of these showcases that were always, you know, sometimes you get that sort of mentality of, ah, this could have been an email just put. But I've totally turned my, my way of thinking on that because I don't remember things. I have the worst memory of all time. And so for me, even if these, this could have been an email showcases, those are still super helpful to me to get my eyes on something and going, I'm so. I'm such a visual person that I go, oh, I remember this game. We saw this or whatever. And all of those smaller showcase really put me onto a lot of games. And so I was playing a game which is going to be the first one that I'm going to talk about, called Void Breaker. Void Breaker was on the Triple I Initiative Showcase and I had somebody in my chat as I was playing this. Go, man. Andy, you turned me onto the Witcher. How do you always, like, hear about these weird games? The Witcher or not the Witcher? Sorry.

[Greg Miller]

I had never heard about Cyberpunk.

[Andy Cortez]

2077, about GTA or Call of Duty. Andy, man, I saw Greg's face and I was like. I was like, what year was this? This guy, he was like, I. You put me on a witchfire and I never heard of that. How are you? What is. And I was like, it's just showcases. It's part of our job. Naturally we're gonna be more into These newer unheard of titles that just kind of comes with the. With what we do every day. But Void Breaker Far and Away is my most anticipated I'm assuming this year early Access. I don't fully know all of the details on it but Void Breaker, this looks awesome. Void Breaker was on the triple I initiative thing and of course it looked awesome and there was a lot of other stuff that looked awesome. I played that other game that I was really stoked about, Metal Eden, which is the game by the Ruiner devs. And Metal Eden was good but I wasn't blown away by it. I was just like hell yeah, I'll play this whenever it comes out. Void Breaker has. I can't really even over exaggerate with, with how excited I am for this video game. Void Breaker is a roguelite first person shooter with and if you're an audio listener I'll just describe it like this.

[Greg Miller]

Go watch the video.

[Andy Cortez]

This the control sort of telekinesis grab gravity function where you're grabbing things to throw and destroy enemies with. It's that ability from control. It's awesome gunplay and it is the bullet hell attack patterns of Returnal mixed with the destruction of the game called the finals. I don't know how a lot of people haven't necessarily even played the finals, but the finals has insane destruction where you can be on the top floor doing a mission and if they people can just like you know, explode the floor underneath you which is their roof and you will crumble down with them. It has all that destruction. But the coolest part for me about Void Breaker is it's not just you're not destroying things just because it's cool and it got it and it looks awesome. It's how you weaken the enemies quicker. It's how the. Their shields break. And I think the sound design is freaking fantastic. Whenever you that there's such a cool feeling of seeing a horde of enemies coming to you, knowing you have a gigantic platform floated above you. You toss a grenade up there and all of the debris drops real in a realistic fashion, you know, physics wise. And you see all the, the debris dropping on them and you hear all those little sound effects letting you know that you are creating all of these. And they are stunned now.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And they are going to be taken out easier with your weapon. It. It's insane. It's. It's unbelievable how well it plays, how good it looks, how it's made by one dude, one other dude. One dude made all the music. One dude made all of the game. I'm so blown away by this where after every sort of encounter I'm just like, God damn, dude. This is a video game right here. And it's a, it's roguelite in nature has sort of a kind of reminds me of like maybe Ghost Runner in its narrative. There's also some weird stuff where whenever you're in the game, you're in this kind of weird dome and this big monolithic AI talks to you and he's like, you know, you're here to do a task, whatever the. And then you eventually you kind of go to your home base and then your gun kind of starts talking to you and you're like, why is my gun talking? And the gun's like high life too. Exactly, yes. And it's like go to, go to the basement, they can't hear us there. And you're like, oh shit, what's this all about? And then you find a dead body in the basement with like a little consciousness chip and it's the dude who was there prior to you who's now trying to talk to you and help you. And so it has like some narrative hooks. I'm not sure how deep it'll go.

[Greg Miller]

But that's more than I was expecting to be honest, looking at it. Because the gameplay looks awesome right now, everything you're saying. And again, if you're audio listener, like it's like almost monochromatic but then it's got this neon green in it and this yellow in it and you're using this cool ass tether. Like this looks, looks awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

The, the, the one of the coolest parts about not only all, everything that you've seen, obviously it's all just so badass and it feels great. And the enemy variety, they're not to say that there's like the most astounding amount of enemy variety, but there's a lot of enemy attack pattern variety where suddenly you'll, you know, you have that roguelite sort of thing bless. Where you get to the end of a platform and there's, there will be. If you see in the distance out there, the little skull icon, those are the signs to tell you go this way for the boss or no, go this way for like a mini boss, go this way for whatever challenge and you'll get this little treasure box and it sort of like lets you know what's coming up ahead, right? And one of the coolest things is when you get to the end of a run, you get your little treasure box or your loot crate or Whatever the. And it'll have these little nodes, these modules that you upgrade your. Your with. I. I don't know if I gave Barrett the best time code, but there will be a time code where UI pops up. Oh, probably here, actually. So here are the. These are the upgrades, right. And your typical stuff. Bless. You get like three options.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Upgrade.

[Andy Cortez]

Some of the ones later on will connect a. A. Like a fire between projectiles. So if I shoot like left, right, you'll see a line connecting those bullets as they go out. It's crazy, but right here, if you could pause right here. Barrett. This shit is what takes it to the next level. Because you can kind of. You can only equip these nodes or these power ups in those. Right. Anything that's X out you can't use. Right. So any of those white things are those boxes that you could put your power ups in. The power ups may be ice ammo or any time clip. Yeah, yeah. All that stuff. Faster reload. Or the one that I had that was really neat where if things. If destruction is falling down, if I blow up a wall or blow up something, it will. Some of the destruction will be little ice bombs that'll drop near enemies and will freeze enemies. So there's a lot of different modifications there. But what's super sick about this sort of modification setup is it's not only powering up things. You can also get upgrades to go, like, maybe I don't need this power right now, but I will get this little node which makes the. So, like, it's hard to explain. It's super hard to explain. But you see the arrow on the bottom or no, do you see the red arrows pointing up and down with the yellow to the right? Do you see that on the screen right there? So that means that it cancels out it. It'll mean that those red squares, you can't put anything in there if you eventually unlock those. But if you put something to the right of it, it becomes extra overpowered. Okay, so then the one on the very, very bottom middle, where it's like the two red arrows left and right with the green pointing up, I'm sort of like planning out. Okay, I might be able to put a power in between those to where it's not only getting powered up by the left node, it's getting powered up by the right by the bottom node. And it's like extra overpowering this. And it could break the game in some crazy ways. Where I eventually had an acid rounds thing that breaks down enemies a lot faster and I had one of those setups where, you know, you could. It was two different nodes that were powering up a note. So it was getting like quadruple powered at this point. And this final boss right here at the very, very end was just getting extremely melted. And the bosses are very much like, they remind me of Returnal, but the, the enemy health bar going down so fast. And you see the little green ticks underneath the health bar? Those are the acid buildups, right? You can kind of multiply and kind of build up. I was like, holy, I can't believe I got through that boss phase so quickly. And then phase two begins and the damage is harder and the patterns are a little bit tougher, but it was just wild how quickly I was able to find a way to get extremely overpowered. And obviously this game, I think, is launching in early access.

[Greg Miller]

So that's where Steam page says, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, right now they're doing the play test.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, yeah, the play test is available right now if you're on Steam. But the, you know, you got to assume a lot of these things will get ironed out numbers wise. Push a couple numbers here and there. But I, I just cannot explain enough how great this game is and needs to be played by anybody who cares about control or roguelites or first person shooters or Returnal. Like, it has all of these amazing elements.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A lot of things I like.

[Andy Cortez]

There's not one weakness here, which is like kind of astound. There's always a first person shooter type deal. Even with Metal Eden where I'm like, ah, this definitely what didn't feel satisfying, but it looks great. Gunplay feels good, but it's lacking, blah, blah, blah. I cannot say enough great things about Void.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You sold me on get on getting to the sooner because I had this, like, I had the play test downloaded on my PC for the last few days because I also saw it at the Triple I initiative. But it's the weird thing of the ordering of like, I saw Metal Eden first. And so like, I'm kind of like, all Metal Eden is on the brain right now. And then Void Breaker came through. I was like, okay, another one to like kind of put in this bucket. But hearing you talk about it and like talk, like, get into some of the specifics of how it works, I'm like, oh shit, this sounds fucking awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I just went through and requested playtest as well. They have here as a recent announcement on the 11th, so almost a week ago, 19,000 play testers in 24 hours. That's awesome. Void Breaker Open Playtest is running right now on Steam until the 24th of April.

[Andy Cortez]

It's just so satisfying, like, knowing that you're kind of in the heat of battle and going, man, I can. Oh, shit. I. If I lure all of these enemies and kind of kite them towards here, there's so much destruction to weaken all these dudes. And the sound effect and sound design music's great too. It's just very kind of like cyberpunk, just so. Like that sort of just Pumping Adrenaline type shit. That it. If we just did an episode only on this, that would like. I. I could end the wish list right here. Right. But Void Breaker, please go support that because I want this game to be awesome and to be seen by a lot of people because it blew my mind.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And if you request the play test, when I did it, it granted it immediately. Like, like you're automatically. And so if you want to play it, you can play it right now.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. If you're on PC. This is not one of those, like, I hope I get in type deals. I think it's only up for another week or so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. Kind of running 10 days. Okay, 10 days. That's. That's plenty of time. But yeah, this game rocks. I cannot freaking wait for whenever the early access date is because you. You beat the first boss and then it hits you with bless. Do you remember did you ever play the stellar Blade demo back in the day?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Where when you beat that boss, they get you that sizzle reel of like, here's all the stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Kind of a trailer. Mini trailer. You get that mini sort of sizzle reel at the end of beating this first boss. And I was just so bummed out that it's. I was done with it. Right.

[Greg Miller]

It's always a sign of a great game.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Fun fact, too. This is being published by playstack, who I would say is like, kind of an underrated publisher currently. I forget if they did. I'm on the page.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They did do Balacho. So this is the Balacho publisher. They also published Rise of the Golden Idol in Case of the Golden Idol. And like, even as I scroll through, they have abiotic factor, which I've heard.

[Andy Cortez]

Quite a bit about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Mortal Shell, which came out like, quite a few years ago, but, like, playstack's been doing the damn thing, right. Balacho last year. It seems like this could be another hit for them if, you know, everything comes out right. Like, good for them.

[Andy Cortez]

They have a good eye for curation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

What else you got Andy super stoked about Void Breaker. The next two are kind of along the same. It's for anybody who's a fan of Hollow Knight, these next few games. It's one that I talked about last year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I feel like you're introing a song right now at a concert like this one.

[Greg Miller]

You're like turning the guitar like this one's gonna go out to anybody likes Hollow now.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, this thing that. And fans know like, oh, get excited or what.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I love Hollow.

[Andy Cortez]

The first game is called Crow Sorn, which is one I've already kind of shown off and talked about. But game rocks. It is also being published, I think by the same people who are publishing Hollow Knight. Or at least the PR people. Same PR are the same. Yeah. So Crow Sor and Kicks Ass. It was a Kickstarter game a long time ago and they are still in development. They always put out updates with new type of like play tests that you can kind of hop in new things to check out. But they're constantly working, they're constantly at it. It seems like it's another Silk song where it's just going to take a long time to make this game. But I love the animation style.

[Greg Miller]

Really great art.

[Andy Cortez]

The bot. Yeah, the art's fantastic. It looks like. I mean it just looks like Hollow Knight. But the. I love the idea of you being this sort of crow. Look, Eileen the crow, bloodborne looking dude with a. You got a scythe and a gun and the gameplay is fantastic. The boss fight patterns were a lot of freaking fun. So Crow Sworn is one of those and then Morningstar is another one of those. And this time you're not a crow, you're a little owl. And Morningstar I couldn't find a trailer for because I think it's still trying to be Kickstarted.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

But they have a Steam page and Morningstar. Very similar art style. Looks freaking fantastic. You're a cute little owl. And again it's, you know, a lot of. A lot of teams once Hollow Knight sort of set that standard going for that art style where it's kind of dreamy, kind of ethereal, bloomy looking. But I just love the little dude. I've loved. I love following them on Twitter because they have a lot of. This is definitely one of those Twitter games that I've seen a lot and they post a lot of updates and little clips and I think they recently hit like 10, 000 wishlists and you know, they're really stoked about the development of it. So this game looks Rad as well. And there's not a whole lot to say other than that. It's just, hey, these are two seemingly kind of Metroidvania hack and slash games that are going to challenge you boss fight wise and are going to have probably awesome music. I mean, whatever this enemy is looks sick as hell. That big ass owl. I don't know. I just really, really enjoy when devs can innovate on the emulation and try to push whatever that other team did. Can we do that better? I think that's so. That's such a cool challenge. Whenever devs are like, we want to do that. We know this looks like Hollow Knight. We know that if you just saw.

[Greg Miller]

We got inspired by this and now we're putting our take on it, our twist on it, doing this thing to make it different. Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I wrote down a note to myself. Game clone. Game for game showdown. Crone sworn or crow sworn? Morningstar. I don't know what the game is, but there is some game here of like games that are inspired by other, like, by other games, right? Thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, but yeah, like, what do you call it? What, what was the. What is the topic? Game Cloner Greggy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, that's terrible.

[Andy Cortez]

It's bad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know, same or same or lame. No, I feel so.

[Greg Miller]

I don't understand the game yet, but there's something there with like, remember when you were in school in English class, you had to learn about like the root words and like, all right, here's the. Or like, you know what I mean? Of like origins. There's something about origins or root words or DNA or lineage. There's something going here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

See the game. Here's the game.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, doppel gamer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's. Oh yeah, that's not bad. That's not bad because then like, see, I wonder what are you gonna.

[Greg Miller]

You're gonna read a title of a game and then we have to guess what.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I've not figured out the rules yet. But now like, I mean as you talk about it, right? Of like the etymology kind of thing. I think it would be almost like it's a different game as I explain it, but I would have like the final product, like a final game in a lineage. And it is you tracking back like, all right, what is like the first game that I'm going to say in this lineage, right? So like, let's say as a random example, it's like Last of Us to Uncharted to. I don't know what's inspired Uncharted.

[Greg Miller]

Tomb Raider.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. To Tomb Raider.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's actually a good point.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, Tomb Raider.

[Greg Miller]

I like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was going to try and make bring back Last of us to Banjo somehow, which I think I could, but like, oh, I'll figure it out. I'll work it, I'll workshop.

[Greg Miller]

I like it. I like it.

[Andy Cortez]

You may need to keep talking because I need to sneeze. I feel okay.

[Greg Miller]

Well, you said etymology and it reminded me of entamins donuts, so you can share there. My foot pushed off. Oh yeah. And to men's ology where we have to eat a donut before we answer a question.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Whoever can swallow their donut first, I'm sure nobody's gonna choke.

[Andy Cortez]

I posted through. I posted an audible Barrett in assets as well that I didn't put on.

[Greg Miller]

This is coming in so hot. He's building.

[Andy Cortez]

It's so hot. But this is one that you all have talked about on on Games Daily. This is also on the triple I initiative, Morbid Metal published by Ubisoft.

[Greg Miller]

What? Really?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I had no idea until legitimately right now. When I looked at. I was looking for the trailer and I saw it was on Ubisoft's channel. I was like, why is it there? And then I opened up the Steam page to wishlist it because I had forgotten to. And Morbid Metal is published by Ubisoft and this was on the III initiative and it is another insanely cool, high paced, fast action, hack and slash sort of cyberpunk game where you are essentially a cyberpunk looking ronin. Right? You got that. That cool sort of hat and you are just juggling enemies in midair.

[Greg Miller]

I want you to know earlier on Games Daily, Mike said something and bless is like, you know what I look for in games. Describe a game I would like. And everything you just said Andy of a cyberpunk road, like that's an ending.

[Andy Cortez]

Absolutely. Give a dude a sword in a cyberpunk world.

[Greg Miller]

Put some neon lasers on there. Yeah, you're all set.

[Andy Cortez]

What's up? Or.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, I'm just. I can't find anything about you. Oh no. Here you go. Ubisoft in screen. Ubisoft and screen. This is from like eight hours ago, by the way.

[Andy Cortez]

It's on their Steve page.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

U S and screen just announced Morbid Metal. Get the out of here. Pop up Morbid Metals early access.

[Greg Miller]

Calm down. It's okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, man, I'm tired.

[Greg Miller]

I couldn't stay awake. Watch.

[Andy Cortez]

Like it's on their YouTube page. It's weird. That's.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure this out. Because I went to the Steam and it didn't say published by Ubisoft on the Steam. But yeah, I'm on Ubisoft's website now and yeah, it's them announcing the morbid metal early access summer launch and on.

[Andy Cortez]

Ubisoft's YouTube page in the description says developed by Screen Juice in Unity and published by Ubisoft. Maybe this is a recent ass acquisition.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm texting Yusuf or somebody. I gotta figure this out.

[Andy Cortez]

So anyway, this game, it's like we're diversifying. This game was already shown on games daily at one point. It's think sometime probably the day after the actual Triple I initiative. But the. Yeah, I just love the way it looks visually and it has a lot of those bullet hell sort of makings where in the you don't really ever see the dude avoiding the bullet hell stuff like you wouldn't in Returnal. But in that in one of those boss fights as you're this sort of Ronin character is doing a mid air move that defies gravity. There's a lot of projectiles right underneath the dude right there. And yeah, I just, I bless. I'm at this point right now I'm just so pissed off and I talk about all the damn time. He's angry, he's always mad. We're all angry here where it's like we just give us another division. That's one of my things, right? Yeah, just give me another 37.

[Greg Miller]

Stop funding games like this and make another division. Julian, stop making stupid Star wars games and make another division.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, now we're cooking.

[Andy Cortez]

I, you know, I just want another sort of co op shooter, third person type deal gadgetry, going with your friends doing. There's just a lot of awesome experiences we had in the Division 2 that I miss. And then my other. What's that?

[Greg Miller]

Have you heard about Monster Hunter?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean look, I love Monster Hunter but it doesn't have division type juice in terms of like what I was looking for.

[Greg Miller]

We're not walking around Washington D.C. yeah, we're not in New York going after Joe Farrow.

[Andy Cortez]

Remember that one? Like there's some fucked up crazy missions in the division too. That was just like space stunning. I was like, man, they are fucking cooking right now. So anyway, that's one thing that I.

[Greg Miller]

Space museum. I remember that.

[Andy Cortez]

That's one thing I really, really miss forget. And then my other thing that I'm pissed off about always angry is that like why have there not been any more returnal clones?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh man, you're cooking like you're cooking.

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why do you know what I love?

[Andy Cortez]

Give me more ripoffs, Mike.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Another. Another thing, Mike. For you to add to the list of things that Blessing is into. I like Bullet Hells. Like Bullet Hells. Like big old orbs that are coming at you. Shout out to near Near Automata had that shit for days.

[Greg Miller]

Have you heard about the Mitsune fight in Monster Hunter? Come on.

[Andy Cortez]

Bless.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, he looks like a big fox snake.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And that's picking it back up.

[Andy Cortez]

That's one reason why I'm super stoked blessed about Doom. The Dark Age is seeing these enemies hit you with a wave of five different projectiles. But the third one in the row is the one you have to parry. And just like that sort of mid strategy is. Is awesome. So it's like. Like why are there no more like Returnal clones? It's been a long time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Return to Returnal.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Eternal Return. Remember that one game that was an Eternal Return.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's no way those game called Eternal.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm pretty sure. Look it up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If I'm PlayStation, I'm suing.

[Andy Cortez]

Look it up.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Eternal Return.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm pretty sure it's a game. Oh wow. It is. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Eternal Return.

[Andy Cortez]

It sure is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Eternal Return is a. And this came out in 2023. Holy shit. Is a free to play 2.5D perspective battle. It's not even a Returnal like though.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no, I don't think it's a.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

2.5D perspect effective battle royale game.

[Andy Cortez]

I just remember the name. Here's the other. The other thing I want to chew on just for people out there. Hey, hey, hey. Game developers. You're making games, right? Right now you're probably making a game. I would love for y'all to make the Division 3 style game, but just rip off the of. Like just steal Bungie's marathon art style.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, just sure.

[Andy Cortez]

Completely rip it off. Give me a character creator. Because you know, it's clear that Bungee Marathon is not going to be the game that I want. And I will still play it. I just wish it was a different genre. That's. You know, that's a discussion for another time. But let's just rip off that art style, please.

[Greg Miller]

What's stopping us from us going back to the division too? They put more stuff in. There's more stuff going on. There's next gen patches.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I. I would have to start off because I'm on PC and I just. It just reignited my love for shooters. Right?

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How do you feel about Arc Raiders? Though, is that going to give you.

[Andy Cortez]

Stoked for our creators? But it's not the same art styles as the Division. Oh yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or as Marathon.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, but it's also an extraction type shooter. It's not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah. So that's the same genres.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It's not a sort of a co op story campaign going through missions and things like that. We need more dude. We need more space. Marine Twos. Our.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, our.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough. Cover shooters.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that what they call them? Like the third person you get behind cover? Are those done with like, are we past the primary, Past the era? Because I feel like that was.

[Andy Cortez]

I would say the Division is a cover shooter, but that was like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So 3.360ps3 is where it felt like every game wanted to be.

[Andy Cortez]

That Gears and Mass Effect. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Army of Two Uncharted, Canaan Legend. Uncharted.

[Andy Cortez]

Did they do that in like where.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It'S press a button to then like get behind the. I feel like we don't get those nowadays as much.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think you're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean we get them. So like Gears. Yeah, Gears is coming. But I think it was Gears prime was 360. Xbox One. Right.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll tell you why I guess Gears are relevant. Prime award from our sponsors.

[Greg Miller]

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[Greg Miller]

And we're back. And yes, according to Tom Clancy's the division over on X. Save the day. Join the Division 2 showcase on April 23rd to learn about the Battle for Brooklyn DLC. The timing and YouTube premiere link will be shared soon. Stay tuned.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Think Jay Z is going to be there?

[Greg Miller]

My other favorite wrinkle about that is that of course I just wanted to go right to find out. So I went to the Division 2's like web page and their latest news articles from February 24, 2025. They're not even updating this thing. I guess that's not true. That's their banner one. There's an April 10th one, but that's about the division Easter egg event. I also have another important update before we jump. Riley 21 says didn't the Division 2 get a rogue. This is a super chat, super chat to be part of the show. Didn't the division to get a roguelike mode last year? I vaguely remember that. Andy. I'm saying let's go back. They've got everything. They got everything now where you get it on PS5 and they boost you to whatever and you can just run with us.

[Andy Cortez]

Can I play it on Steam?

[Greg Miller]

I don't think that. No. Don't make me come play this team. That sucks. I got the platinum. You know what? For you, I'll do it. You want to do that on the 23rd? Are we going to run. We going to run some division battle for Brooklyn? You want it?

[Andy Cortez]

There's so much stuff to play.

[Greg Miller]

But like man, I'm sorry the. The Pokemon Nuzlocke's gone on too long. Nobody cares. All right?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, you mean here?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. Not at home. God, I got to do things. I want to play Monster Hunt. I got to kill. Yeah, some. Apparently somewhere Oblivion's coming out that week. I got a lot going on myself.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right.

[Barrett Courtney]

Old games.

[Andy Cortez]

Old Greg.

[Greg Miller]

That's true. It looks good.

[Andy Cortez]

The next thing I want to bring up.

[Greg Miller]

Wait, no, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really quick.

[Andy Cortez]

We have an important update from Pages Inked.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bring it back to the top of the show.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you very much.

[Andy Cortez]

They say my username is a multi layered pun. My hands are tied to Pages Inked to bring you back a homesicket Space.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Camp by Fallout Boy. But then they're also inked.

[Andy Cortez]

So my inclination of what inks meant. Wow. Yeah. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Paige is.

[Greg Miller]

So we know Page is inked.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

And works for the government. Roger.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What?

[Greg Miller]

I need you to go to this Blue sky post we're showing right now. Reverse image, search it. Find out what Paige does at the government. All right.

[Andy Cortez]

See?

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

See, Buzz. I would have thought it was. They're trying to teach us about Inc. So. It's Paige's Inc. Ed. Like education.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Pages Inc. Education.

[Andy Cortez]

That's where I would have got with it.

[Greg Miller]

Before you jump somewhere else, I do want to give you the super chats because we've had a few.

[Andy Cortez]

Please do.

[Greg Miller]

We said at the top, of course. Be part of the show. Right in. Yada, yada, yada. I like this one from Mason who gave an incredibly generous super. Thank you so much. Hey guys. Just found your channel recently and love the content. Y'all rock. I wanted to shout out to all of you. Chronos the New Dawn. Gameplay looks great. I have it pulled up over here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We talked about this a lot on. This is a new story on Cape D. They dropped the new trailer today.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, did they? Kronos, the New dawn is a pulse pounding third person survival horror game where time is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy survive a brutal future. Dive back in. Yeah, go dive back in time and stop nightmarish creatures from merging into unstoppable abominations. This is where you're talking about a dead space. Like right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Yeah. Coming from Bloober team as well. This is their new IP that they're bringing out.

[Greg Miller]

The one. This is one we had heard of or seen a long time ago.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

Of Chess game. Right where they were sitting there and all this weird stuff from Bloomberg.

[Andy Cortez]

This looks so fucking fire.

[Greg Miller]

Looks awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, okay for this. I Think I don't like the name though. I think it's a bad name.

[Andy Cortez]

What's it called again?

[Greg Miller]

Kronos. Kronos the New Dawn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's very forgettable for me.

[Greg Miller]

You'll eventually like it because it sounds.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I get it confused with Sorrows.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which also isn't super distinct, but like I think I'll remember Sorrows more than Kronos. Also sounds too much like Time. Time. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I think it is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which it is time.

[Andy Cortez]

You're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But there have been other things called Chrome like that imply Kronos or invoke.

[Andy Cortez]

Chronos as much of a scary. Did you Kronos Trigger? No. Who said that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

As much of a scaredy pants as I am that look, that's something I'm going to want to play.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You're going over it.

[Andy Cortez]

My next recommendation on the list is a. Is a game that isn't necessarily that I'm something that I'm like clamoring to play for. But this is more for recommendations because we have a. I say our audience skews older, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

We have a lot of listeners out there and viewers that have kids. And this is a game that has been out since last year in Early Access. But it's getting a real big kind of. All right, let's. We're retuning everything and sort of rethinking the whole thing. And they are super stoked about it. And that is Tower Born. Tower Born.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Keeps coming up.

[Greg Miller]

We had a whole. We had a whole segment on Games Daily yesterday about Tower Born of like it having a release date coming up at the end of April. But we people. Paris is playing it at night with Phil Spencer and I feel like we've been talking about it since January. Like what the fuck is going on with the game?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, it's had this, it's had that. Had Xbox Preview.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is gonna be the first time I've seen the gameplay of it. This is crazy. This is a beat em up.

[Andy Cortez]

It's a beat em up and it has like a lot of. I would have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would have told you it was a survival game.

[Andy Cortez]

A lot of the. I mean, of course I thought tower defense game. Like that's. You know, when I sat down at GDC to play it with people or with the devs there I was like, I thought this was a. Wow. I thought it was a tower defense game. This doesn't look at all what I thought it was going to be. And I've heard Paris mention it a whole bunch. And right now the devs are. I don't know if the full big sort of, you know, reset of it all has come out yet where they have kind of retuned a whole lot of things and the devs are like super stoked about where it's going. But the reason I recommend it for, for this show especially because it has local co op, local couch co op and it seems like such a cool game to be like babies first beat em up. Like because of the way that it does not only character creation but also character customization, getting new loot, having these kind of fun boss fights. And also bless the. I think they were mentioning that the, they have a lot of devs on the combat team that were from the, the Killer Instinct team. And so there's a. Like, they're like, we know it looks very cartoony and kind of like, you know, kid friendly and stuff but. But the combat can get real deep if you wanted to in terms of how things get comboed together and.

[Greg Miller]

Are you enjoying this? Huh? This isn't your type of game you said, right?

[Andy Cortez]

So I played it at GDC and I had fun with it for sure. I, I don't think it. Look, but this is more for people. I would say that whenever they go, man, I need a game to play with my kid that isn't like overly violent or whatever. I think this is something that. Because it is local couch co op.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It's something that a. I could totally see a family just like going four player co op or whatever and having these cool moments with beating the bosses, going back to the hub world, buying new loot or whatever. It. It just seems like one of those games that could work for a, a certain audience. Even if, even if it may not be something that I'm super, super stoked for. When I played it, I was really, really impressed. And the devs being like, yeah, this big reset we're coming up with, like, we're so stoked. We just can't. It's not pushed live yet. And whenever we are testing it we're like, oh man, I wish I could play on the new build instead of the, the older build. Right. It's just something that I think I would recommend to parents out there who are looking for something that isn't going to be overly violent or something that doesn't require multiple consoles and TVs. You can just play couch co op.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I would have gone through a list of genres before, before I would have told you that this is a beat em up game and like watching the gameplay for audio listeners.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like it is like when I. When we say beat em up. Like the flow of it is streets of rage but it's in a more fantasy like setting.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it looks really cool. It looks really fun. There's another one though. I'll say bad title for the game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I agree.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Born Very much invokes like either tower defense. You're building a thing.

[Andy Cortez]

When I sat down with them I was like, oh, I've heard Paris talk a lot about this because it was at the Xbox mixer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I was like, I didn't know that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

If I knew. If I knew that that it was this genre, I would have played it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Like I think it's really cool and I'm just, I was stoked to see how excited the devs were to be like, man, we are so excited about this new shit. Like it. Things work really, really great now.

[Greg Miller]

So Towerborn in early Access now the one time reset is arriving on April 29th so that'll do. The whole thing is they. Then that's update 6 they call it and I guess that launches us directly into it being out there. Yeah. With resets for Towerborn, Steam founders access on April 29th.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It seems very akin to Cyberpunk. Bless. Doing like their 1.5 tools and everything Reset where they're like hey, the we have a GTA wanted level now. Skills are completely retooled. Like it seems like they are completely resetting everything and they are super stoked about it. And yeah, I think it's just, I think it's something that the people should check out. I didn't expect to go that long and it's hard for you.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah, well, people wanted a short podcast.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, sorry.

[Greg Miller]

They love it when it's four seconds long.

[Andy Cortez]

Another one that I will bring up from back on the dock, Barrett is Abyss Zero. I don't know if it's abyss x 0, abyss cross 0, but this is from awesome this time Zero. This is from the devs of Unsighted which was a top down sort of adventure action hack and slash game. Incredible pixel art style and they said hey, for our next game we want to make a 3D game. They've been developing this for a couple years. I believe it's two developers. I'm not sure if the team has grown since they made Unsighted. It is such a sick ass kind of nostalgic looking art style. Very, very basic with how it's, you know, the textures look and things look very low. 5 style too on purpose. It looks so sick and it is a. I mean they're going for a hack and slash sort of action adventure game in this sort of, I guess, post apocalyptic world. I think the character reminds me of Kill La Kill Bless.

[Greg Miller]

Explore an expansive world in this 3D metroidvania with carefully crafted dungeons and stylish combat. Take control of two different characters fated to battle each other. Codename A and code name Z. Legendary heroes with unique abilities that change how you fight and interact with the environment.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is cool. What's funny is I very recently was like, man, I could. I'm. My nostalgia brain is kind of desiring something that is in like an N64 PS1 sort of art style. And I've been like looking at my library of N64 games that may or may not be on a device that is allegedly. Allegedly.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nintendo Switch Online. You know what I mean? Like going through there and being like, what do I want to go back and play? Or like, is there. One of the games I was looking at was merchant 64. I don't know if you guys have seen this one, but it's like a store Merchant kind of simulator game. But it's in the art style of N64.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was kind of looking at that. Of like I want something to bring me back to that specific era because that was when I got into video games.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like N64 was my first console as a very young child. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

The Mega man legend calls out call outs in chatter. Yeah, dead on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is. Yeah, this is giving me that though. Like it's that era but like maybe more Dreamcasty. Like it almost feels like 32 or not 32 bit. Sorry, like between 64 bit and like PS2 era type type stuff with a very colorful art style and then combat that like kind of exceeds what they were doing at that time. But I like it. I fuck with this. Oh yeah.

[Greg Miller]

This looks awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I highly recommend anybody to follow them on. I don't know if they're on Blue sky, but I definitely saw. I heard. I discovered them through Twitter because of Unsighted. An unsighted looked like a. It was sort of a top down, 8 bit pixelated sort of hack and slash game with dodges and parries and it reminded me of like a newer version of Hyper Light Drifter and I was always super stoked about it. But they post a lot on. Oh, they are on Blue Sky. Nice. All right, perfect. So let me go check them out on Blue sky because they are constantly posting New things in progress, new things in development. And it's just I love following developers progress and saying like, check out this new thing. I'm gray boxing right now. And it's like the coolest maneuver, you know, a traversal mechanic or something like that. It's just, it's really exciting to kind of see this game progress over the years. So yeah, that game is called abyss time 0 cross 0 x 0. Who knows?

[Greg Miller]

Good pick, Barry.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just dropped merchant 64 into the assets for you, but basically they describe it on their Steam page as a tiny, tiny, retro inspired traveling merchant game. Take control of Merchant as you buy goods at low prices and sell them in different towns at higher prices. And so it really is. You are in this N64 world as a merchant going around buying things and then traveling to different towns and selling things and just trying to like build like build up currency.

[Greg Miller]

Adding that to my list as well.

[Andy Cortez]

Abyss Cross Zero.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, then it also came out like two weeks ago.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

March 31st is when Merchant 64 released.

[Andy Cortez]

Is it a moonlighter?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Seven bucks.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Merchant 64 is a tiny retrofit traveling merchant.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I think it's. I would say maybe not like Moonlighter because it seems way more straightforward.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't know if there's combat in this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I think it is really. You're just a merchant the whole time.

[Andy Cortez]

That looks cute as hell.

[Greg Miller]

A teeny tiny adventure. This is a small game designed to be delightful, short adventure with multiple endings, Steam deck compatibility unknown.

[Andy Cortez]

The next game on the list is a game that was also on the Triple I initiative, which is like, wow, what a. How quickly that became something to keep an eye on. Yeah, it was just last year was their first one and now you left.

[Greg Miller]

Them out of the building when they did it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're like, you're not. You're not gonna make it. You're not gonna make it in this business.

[Andy Cortez]

Good luck. This game is called Neverway. Neverway is from the Pixel artists from Celeste. Oh, and this game looks totally Blessing and Barrett style as well. This is the tone that they're going for. Oh, disaster piece. Hyperlife Drifter right there like this. This game just seems kind of like a dream come true, but it's got this just awesome sort of art style. Loving this really cool color palettes that they use. I'm not sure if it's kind of a life simmy deal, but then you also have some adventuring as well. And I think it's really what got me excited about it was. Oh, it's the Celeste artist. That's really. That's awesome. But then you have these cool little key art moments with characters and it's this very sort of. Yeah, it's kind of life simmy, but there's some dark happening as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I think the thing for me with Life Sims is like a lot of it is like the presentation and like the vibe that'll get players in. Right. And I think so many of the games go for the cozy thing. I kind of like how nostalgic this art style is and kind of like how it. It feels darker in a way. It feels darker and it feels more Game Boy in like some of the. In the art style than like the other games. And I, even though I'm not necessarily a life sim person, I would kind of like to just exist in this world and it seems like it has a lot more stuff going on with it too that I want to. I want to see what's up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. The description on Steam says after quitting her dead end job, Fiona starts over on a farm and becomes the immortal herald of the dead God. Make friends, fight through horrors and pay your debt in this nightmarish life sim rpg.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where'd you get this case from?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, this is my SF bags, baby. Come on. I've been using the same SF bags format for since Vita, so. Vita Switch, Steam deck, rog ally.sfbags.com Remember they gave us a bunch of stuff to give away on the anniversary. They're local, they're great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do they have a physical store or is it all.

[Greg Miller]

No, it's all online. SFBags.com you can go. They got everything.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. The game is called Never Wait.

[Greg Miller]

Made them for playdate, that's how. Like in the. In the weeds.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Really?

[Greg Miller]

For making.

[Andy Cortez]

Holy.

[Greg Miller]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

One and a half of them.

[Andy Cortez]

Remember when like the play dates were stolen on that truck? Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Well, misdelivered or whatever just showed up. Some random thing.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. You go to their. They have a gaming case pieces thing is switched.

[Greg Miller]

I use their backpack for a long time too and then it broke. So. Yeah, not because of them, because of me.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay. I'll.

[Greg Miller]

You know what?

[Andy Cortez]

I'll call this my last one.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

There's a couple of other ones, but I'll. I'll go with this one. This game is called Jump Ship and Jump Ship is a one to four player co op game where you are commanding a spaceship, traveling through space, landing on planets and doing like first person shooter type missions. I just love the idea of commanding a spaceship with friends and have you know, you, them so and so being on the gunner, but the fact that you can kind of do pirate type ship of like, you know, going to another, flying to another ship and landing on there and trying to take whatever they have. It just seems like a game that's insanely ambitious and I don't know exactly how it'll hit all of these goals being a really small developer, but they're going for a lot of different modes of gameplay. It's not just the first person shooting on the boombox.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This guy's carrying.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, I was, I thought it was a, like a rocket thing or something.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, maybe it's a skin for a rocket launcher.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe it was a boombox. Yeah. I don't know. So. Oh yeah, it is a boombox.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So part of me, so part of me is wondering that, you know, you're on a spaceship, you're, you're commanding space, you know, your spaceship and you're shooting at other things out in the, in the world or whatever. But then when you land, it kind of reminds me that it's, it kind of reminds me of oh gosh. Re, like not the older version of Repo. What was the game before Repo? Multiplayer game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, like one of those like streamer games. Yeah, I know which one you're talking.

[Andy Cortez]

About where you like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's the content creator one.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no, no, not, not a content warning. Lethal Company. Thank you, Chad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, there you go.

[Andy Cortez]

So I think that's maybe what the boombox is like in Lethal Company. You la, you know, you just are trying to take random items to go back to your ship to make money. And I think that that's maybe what the looting is here where you're landing, you're shooting and you're maybe like let's get the out before all the enemies are sort of chasing us and maybe you could shoot them or maybe you just decide to get out and kind of go back to your ship and. Yeah, so Jump Ship seems like one of those games that could be a lot of fun with friends. The description on Steam says Jump Ship is a mission based co op FPS for up to four players where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on foot exploration and spacewalks. Engage in intense battles both on the ground and in space and always keep your ship upgraded and intact.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I I, that's fun.

[Andy Cortez]

It just sounds so cool to be able to not only loot stuff that you know, you're looting stuff to kind of have that on foot first Person shooting action. But that loot is going to go towards making your ship better. And I just, I love progression like that. I the. To be able to see the fruits of your labor and go, man, our gunner, our shield is a lot better now and we have a better, we have better cannons on our ship because of all that stuff that we were able to loot. I, I think that's such a cool thing in addition to what we streamed yesterday, which was a sponsored stream. I know. So take it for, take it for what it's worth. But Lost Guys, when we played that yesterday was blowing my mind because it's. It was the second time we streamed it as a sponsored thing. But Lost Guys is a similar sort of co op survival game and I love survival games. But Lost Guys, near the end of yesterday's Vod Bear, I don't know if you could pull it up, but as we get towards the ship building part of it and seeing the way the ship building works because the game has the most incredible grappling hook like ever. It. It's the most realistic grappling thing you'll ever feel in the game. The physics work incredibly well and they mentioned that it was the first thing that they developed, so that's why it feels so good to use. But oh, maybe fast or rewind like maybe 20 minutes or so. I'm. Yeah, keep on rewinding because you'll see. Yeah, like right here. So the, the whole purpose of it is to land on these different sky islands and build a, a ship or whatever. And the as you're building it, it sort of pops up in the sky. Right. And from when it's up there in the sky, you shape how you want it to look and it's essentially an airship that you put sails on or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

But the, the way that the building was working as they were building it for us because we were kind of running low on time. This idea of man, we are going from island to island, let's go park our ship over there, let's land, let's take out enemies, let's loot whatever they have there. Let's make our ship better because we need space for this on our ship. Right. So the, the amount of variety you could do with your ships and the amount of ships you can make to be like, all right, this is our big traveling ship. But we also have this one little fighter one that's more used for taking on these, these gigantic sort of enemies. I don't know if you could scroll back towards like maybe the middle of the VOD bear. It also because the, the grappling of it is just so freaking fun because it's legitimately like you grapple towards all these floating rocks. Yeah, here it is. And so I had gotten like a little too far down here, but it works exactly how you would want it to work. And none of it is one for one. So it all kind of can feel chaotic if you had the. I jumped way too soon right there. But then the, the way it works and letting go of the grapple and like kind of zipping yourself towards the target to what you grappled is so much freaking fun. And then at one point, once we finally set sail on our ship, we were grappling on the back of our ship and just being pulled by it. Like, it is so freaking cool. And it's such a very specific reference.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But it reminds me of like, like when you have advanced swinging on. On Spider Man 2 for PS2 where like. Oh, yeah, it's way more like you're just hanging around on the. On the spider web or whatever.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It's less kind of automated.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And more like just free form. And. And I, I freaking love that. So this game was one that I didn't, I didn't even put on the list, but this is one that I was like, oh, I want to play this this weekend. Because it's. It was a lot of fun. And again, we were sponsored by them yesterday. But I, I had a great time with it and I love sports, survival games as well. You adding stuff on your wish list there.

[Greg Miller]

I'm. Well, it's. I think if I didn't, I bought Merchant 64, but if I didn't download Merchant 64 right away, I know I'd forget and it would be like months from now where I'm like, what is it? Oh. So I made sure I download.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You have. Do you have your. Is that your RG Ally?

[Greg Miller]

It is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do you have it set to where you turn it on and it automatically goes to Steam?

[Greg Miller]

No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

I like where. I like the windows of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, good for you.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah. Having the Xbox there and everything. I know, I know. I'm totally like the. I was reading, reading reviews and stuff about it and like, I'm totally the outlier, but it's like I'm so impressed with the Rog Ally X and the interface and the mouse on the stick and double tapping on icons for what I want of just being a little game machine that can do Xbox and Window. Or Xbox. Yeah, Windows. And you know Steam. I'm like, damn, this worked out really, really well.

[Andy Cortez]

You get that Ubisoft launcher on there?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How about the ea?

[Greg Miller]

No, no, I'm not too worried about those yet. Maybe one day I forget if it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Was on this show or if it was KD where I was talking about bringing my Steam deck to the car wash. I think it was here. When you do show two shows back to back, it's one show, but in the way that you just turned on your OG ally and started making sound. When I was in like the waiting room for waiting my. Waiting for my car to get washed and detailed. I turn on my Steam deck to play blueprints and I forget that like the boot up sequence to my Steam deck is the PlayStation 2. Like, like boot up sequence. And like I turn it on and it's. The volume is all the way loud.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so you just hear the. And like there's like five other people that are just sitting there and I'm like, I gotta wait for it to go through because I can't turn down the volume until it finishes. So I'm like, I'm sorry, we're being attacked. I'm playing blueprints. I'm glad it wasn't the. I used to have the porn.

[Greg Miller]

Vampire Survivors one on my Steam deck. And that's the one where it's like, you know, usually if I'm not on a plane or here or whatever, if I'm using those, I'm in bed. And so it's that thing always of like that dice roll of Jen's rolled over and it's dead quiet in the room and she's always so annoyed with me playing video games at night in general. So I always try to be so quiet and it's like trying to mute as fast as I can. My headphones aren't hooked up yet to it. Sorry, sorry. Before we get out of here, I want. And great, by the way, great pick, Sandy.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey, thanks.

[Greg Miller]

These are some great games and I know you didn't get through all of them, so I appreciate that. We have had a lot of people super chatting with games they want us to know about Jordan White. Super chatting. Y'all should check out Ethra. It's capital E, lowercase T R. I'm sorry. T H R A some capital A.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Ether.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey man, your ether crashed Ether.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna go with oh, that's the sequel to Yur, but I was.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, I don't know if that's gonna work.

[Greg Miller]

Its style looks really cool. It's like a 2D 3D open world Aether is an RPG adventure. An open world game that revolves around the misadventures of two characters, Bob and Veil. Both will explore the land of Aethra and uncover a thousand year lie that would that the world already forgot about.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's cool.

[Greg Miller]

Very cool style.

[Andy Cortez]

I love. I love these sort of nostalgia pixel.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

2.5 traditional pixel art and a 3D world shouldn't be done like it should be forbidden by God.

[Greg Miller]

Mellow fellow Super Chats. I don't know if this counts, but I'd highly recommend Super Mario Mon a Pokemon ROM hack where you play as Mario catching enemies from the NES era until now. Funny writing, amazing sprite work and great music.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Feel like we show footage that Nintendo I agree.

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe we delete this section of the podcast. Maybe we don't bring it up.

[Greg Miller]

Living legend Super Chats and says I hope we get to see new Shinobi AOV gameplay soon. Which is that 2D side scrolling Shinobi right that they announced Age of Vengeance.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh yeah, that's what it is.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha. I mean I'm more excited for Ninja Gaiden Rage Boundaries True Fair devs. A freaking blasphemous. Not the last of us.

[Greg Miller]

Ak.98 says Andy, you got to check out Wild Gate from Dreamhaven. Have you heard of this one? Andy?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Wild gate is a PvP multiplayer shooter that bends tactical ship to ship. I'm sorry. Blends that steam. So small tactical ship to ship combat with fast paced first person action, evade deadly environmental hazards, search for powerful weapons and ship upgrades and be the first crew to escape with the artifact. Or the last.

[Andy Cortez]

Keely. Yeah, Keely revealed this and the reason why I I didn't love the art style.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It reminds me a lot of everything. Yeah. But kind of the Rick and Morty one. What was the one we talked about?

[Barrett Courtney]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

High online. It kind of kind of gives me that sort of vibe with the shading and the textures. But like. Like it's not make or break for me. It was just one that I wasn't immediately in love with. But it's those same trappings of let's all be on a ship together. We're. I'm driving it. You are on the cannon. So I need you. Like that level of. Of cooperative sort of gameplay is so I think thrilling and exciting to me. But then being able to get off this ship and then have another vertical of like this is another part of the game. And now you're on first person shooting and we're looting and Stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Another ringing endorsement of the one and only Andy Cortez. The tastemaker, we call him around here.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

DMC K747 super chatted and said been out of the loop with new games recently but checked out Witch Fire on early access after hearing Andy talk about it the other week.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Check out the Witcher.

[Greg Miller]

Have you heard about this other one?

[Andy Cortez]

The Witcher dude? Yeah. Witchfire is another one that I need to get back to. But if that. If Witchfire comes out this year it's like in a contender spot with a bullet. There's like. No. There's no doubt to me that it'll likely hit a contender spot for me.

[Greg Miller]

And then our final super chat and recommendation comes from CJ Splits on who says anyone at Kind of funny. Excited for the altars flying under. I've dropped a link in the document and then over on the scene page lists that as Explore an emotional sci fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure and base building elements. Help Jan, the sole survivor of an ill fated space expedition create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

[Andy Cortez]

I am. It's something I definitely want to check out. I think the art style is fantastic and we've been seeing about the altars for a long time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it seems like one of those that isn't my necessarily my gameplay sort of jam.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But neither is something like Blueprints which you know, there's a lot of games that are always kind of out of the norm that still hit because they are so good. And I hope this is one of those because the way that the sort of base building kind of looks a lot like Fallout Shelter. I'm like. I don't know if I necessarily want that. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

June 13th, which is rough.

[Greg Miller]

Coming up quick.

[Andy Cortez]

Everything 13.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Everything's coming on June.

[Andy Cortez]

I have Everything Bear. One more.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh great.

[Andy Cortez]

I have one more. We got Daredevil to review. Yeah. I mean is it, you know, Natty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And Chat says Blue Prince is boring. You're boring.

[Andy Cortez]

You're boring.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Grow up.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They do say Woodfire is good.

[Andy Cortez]

But Witchfire. Very, very good. This last one I want to throw out is a. I don't know if anybody here played Loop Hero.

[Greg Miller]

I did.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Which always sounds like a freaking rhythm game. But it's a. An idol sort of auto battler. And this is another auto battler for a game that it's kind of a weird one out of nowhere because Berserk boy is a 2D side scrolling mega man type Game looks great pixel art style. This game is called Berserk Bits and it's an auto battler that you just kind of put at the bottom of your screen while you do other shit. And I, I'm blanking on the name of the game that kind of popularized this because it was another sort of life simmy thing that it was designed to just be at the bottom of your menu of your screen or your monitor while you do work above it. So it's just kind of one of those ADHD things of a. Yeah, let this game kind of auto.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody's saying Rusty.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah, Rusty's retirement. Thank you. And that sort of started becoming a bit more popular. People were going, oh this is. There's kind of a market for this where people are into these sort of games that you can kind of just have playing in the background and progressing your little dudes while you're not clicking anything, they're just doing that's awesome as you're doing other work. And Berserk Boy was a game that I, I enjoyed. It wasn't something that I was like necessarily super in love with, but the. I love the art style because it is just straight up Mega man in you know, the year 2025. And this idea of having just these little dudes just automatically doing stuff while you're doing other things. Maybe I'm drawing something or whatever the hell on my PC. I think it's a neat concept.

[Greg Miller]

Well, hell yeah. Andy, thank you for bringing all these amazing games to our attention.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you. Thanks.

[Greg Miller]

Good wish list, Andy and good suggestions from you in the super chat. Thank you for being here live. Remember, we do Gamescast each and every day after Kinda Funny Games daily where we run the nerdy news you need to know about right into the biggest topics we need to talk about. Of course after that we stream some games sometimes review Daredevil and do so much more all on YouTube.com kind to funny games, Twitch TV, kindafunnygames, Apple and Spotify and podcast services around the globe. No matter where you get the show, please consider like subscribing and sharing. If you want to go the extra mile and you can, we'd love your financial backing. Pick up your Kinda Funny membership on patreon.com kinda funny, YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Apple or Spotify to get all of our shows ad free. That's more than 80amonth and your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series I call Greg Way each and every weekday. For now we gotta go talk about the man without fear. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I still want to kill the word.

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