the long dark

We're talking all about our very favourite indie games and what makes them special. Sprinkle on some chatter about bare handed bear fighting, policing, gun control and tarot cards and you've just been served up one special podcast pizza. Don't hold the anchovies.

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

The best of the best indie game: STARDEW VALLEY

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Ben's Fave Indie Games

1. No Man's Sky
2. Hollow Knight
3. Night in the Woods

Lexi's Most Loved Indie Games

1. Firewatch 
2. Jenny LeClue
3. Banner Saga

Honourable Mentions:

1. Cook, Serve, Delicious!
2. Hades
3. A Short Hike
4. Castle Crashers
5. Unpacking
6. Terraria
7. Starbound
8. Untitled Goose Game
9. Eastward
10. Disco Elysium
11. Bastion
12. Chicory
13. Braid
14. NotPron

BONUS CONTENT:

Jess' Bestest Indie Games

1. Don't Starve 
2. Disco Elysium
3. Little Nightmares
4. The Long Dark 
5. and of course, that which goes without saying...Stardew Valley

Fiona's Fave: Return of the Obra Dinn

Jon's Fave: Papers, Please and Kerbal Space Program

Most anticipated upcoming indie games:

1. Haunted Choclatier 
2. Witchbrook
3. Mineko's Night Market

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• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
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This week the boys wonder how Sonic Adventure could be so bad, muse about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, reminisce about Spectrobes, and skewer immersion in games!

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Welcome to the Lamer Gamers April News Round-Up! This episode is part of the service we provide for the people who don’t have the time to keep up with all the news and the twitters. We are going to break down the top news from the month for each console and a sort mixture of multiplatform and pc stuff we find interesting along with the most convincing rumors, the most ridiculous fake gaming news, the games that released for April, and even the games to look forward to in May! 

Emma and Rachel have fun discussing the episodic critical darling Kentucky Route Zero by indie studio Cardboard Computer.

Time Stamps:
00:13 Introductions
08:03 Gaming Corner: What we’re playing this week!
19:46 Main Topic: Kentucky Route Zero
47:00 Kentucky Route Zero ending discussion – some spoilers
50:29 Kentucky Route Zero final thoughts
54:04 Ending Spiel: What we’re loving this week

From the show:
Gaming corner includes – Papers Please, The Long Dark, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

Sons of the Forest is a game announced in December as a sequel to 2014’s The Forest that Emma mentioned.

The Long Dark is available on both PC and console. 

The first episode of Kentucky Route Zero was released in 2013, as Rachel said. Emma was looking at the Kickstarter announcement date.

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