Dumped surreptitiously into your podcast app, it's another episode of Button Boys, the world's only gaming podcast hosted by Glenn Moore, Sarah Keyworth and Pierre Novellie.
This week the Boys are on the hunt for game mechanics and tropes that feel completely normal in games, but they've never actually done themselves, questioning the very fabric of the digital worlds we all inhabit.
In slightly less of an existential manner, Glenn's been dwelling in a dank cathedral basement this week, frantically inputting numbers; Sarah's tried out a game they so nearly picked as a ‘one to watch’; and Pierre's signed up for planetary defence, perhaps at the cost of his own sanity.
Any game developers out there should listen closely, too, as Pierre pitches what may be the first $10m-grossing Button Boys game. We're open for business...
If you can't get enough Button Boys content, head over to Patreon, where you can find our weekly Hidden Cache bonus episode featuring more gripes, game recommendations and our Hitman: World of Assassination playthrough, and our brand new Player 4 show where we interview a different comedian every month about their gaming lives.
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Games Mentioned in this week's episode:
TR-49
Expelled!
80 Days
Overboard!
Strange Horticulture
Winter Burrow
Frostpunk
Terra Invicta
Europa Universalis IV
XCOM
Ico
Mass Effect 2
Dog Pile
Cyberpunk 2077
Ghost of Yotei
Medal of Honor
Horizon Zero Dawn
Streets of Rage
Wordle
Produced and edited by Ben Drayton
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