Not a Game podcast episode 52 – Showered with limbs

08/06/14 • 104 min

This week Tom and Pip are joined by Richard Cobbett. Tom’s been playing LA Cops, which just released with a short but sweet early access build. This spurs us to talk about Sunless Sea and the two’s different approaches to story driven early access games. Pip has been having a survival horror week, building arm effigies in The Forest and getting non metaphorical cold feet in The Long Dark. Meanwhile Richard has been beating Phileas Fogg’s record in Around the World in 80 74 days. Also we can’t stop talking about Kim Kardashian and are not sorry. Show notes inside....

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