Adventure games, reviewed close up.
Adventure Games Podcast follows the adventure and narrative game scene with a mix of reviews, interviews, and specials. Episodes linger on writing, puzzles, save systems, player choice, and the small design decisions that shape how these games feel.
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Adventure Games Podcast is built for listeners who follow adventure and narrative games beyond release dates and trailers. It pays attention to the design underneath the story. Review episodes talk through what players actually experience: how a game handles saves, whether a recap system helps after a break, how long conversations affect momentum, and whether character choices feel earned. The show can be very practical. It notices when a game respects limited time. It also makes space for writing and theme, especially when games deal with grief, relationships, memory, identity, or consequence. The conversations are loose, but the criticism is not vague. Reviewers compare new releases with older adventure traditions, name specific mechanics, and think aloud about why a story lands or strains. Interviews widen the frame. Guests have discussed The Drifter, 1000xResist, Miniatures, Tick Tock: A Tale for Two, Can You Solve This Murder?, Dead Space, Atomic Blonde, and other narrative-driven work. Those episodes often move from a single game into process, influence, adaptation, or genre history. The show also has a strong community rhythm. AdventureX specials, demo coverage, YouTube recordings, Discord mentions, and annual game-of-the-year episodes give it the feel of a genre clubhouse with microphones on. It is polished enough to be useful and scrappy enough to stay personable. The live episodes even preserve the awkward checks, muted moments, and running jokes that come with gathering a group around a niche passion. That informality is part of the appeal. Adventure Games Podcast does not flatten adventure games into recommendations alone. It follows the people making them, the players arguing over them, and the craft choices that make a scene, puzzle, or ending linger.
Made for: For adventure game players, narrative game fans, indie game followers, and developers who want thoughtful discussion of story, puzzles, player choice, and craft.
What sets it apart: The show pairs detailed review roundtables with developer and writer interviews, so releases are judged both as player experiences and as made objects. Its niche focus gives small design choices the same attention as headline story moments.
The podcast for gamers and developers alike! You can find the all the latest interviews, news and reviews here. In every two episodes we have interviews with adventure game developers as we get to know the people who make these games. We find out what they’re favourite games are, what inspired them to make adventure games and then we go behind the scenes on how they make their games, what advice they give anyone who wants to create their own adventure game and why we should buy their games. In every other two episodes podcast creator and adventure game player of more than 20 years, Seoirse Dunbar is joined by fellow adventure gamers and reviewers Tomas Becks writer on The Gaming Outsider and…
Save systems get applause, while neon-lit detective puzzles receive a proper cross-examination.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A review roundtable takes a close look at how an adventure game helps players return to its story.
Adventure Games Podcast's review roundtable spends time on a small but welcome feature in Shadows of the Afterlands: a recap that appears when a player selects Continue. It brings back dialogue, scenes and plot points that might have faded between sessions.
A relaxed adventure game catch-up with a close look at grief, relationships, and player choices.
Adventure Games Podcast's first review episode of 2026 finds Shorsha Dunbar and Johnny catching up in February. Both are already behind on new adventure games, and their conversation has the relaxed feel of friends comparing what they have played.
Anthony Johnston talks interactive fiction, comics and writing for Dead Space.
Shorsha Dunbar begins with Anthony Johnston's interactive detective novel, a book she describes as part mystery and part game book. Their conversation follows Johnston through comics, film and video games, including The Coldest City, which became Atomic Blonde, and his work on…
Remy Siu talks about making *1000xResist* during the pandemic and taking creative cues from Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro.
Shorsha Dunbar asks Sunset Visitor's Remy Siu what it was like to make 1000xResist during the pandemic, when the game itself depicts the onset of a disease.
Shorsha Dunbar interviews Remy Siu of Sunset Visitor about their award-winning narrative adventure game 1000xResist, its console launch, and development insights.
Host Shorsha Dunbar introduces new team member David Lambert on the Adventure Games Podcast, discussing his podcasting experience and background.
Host Shorsha Dunbar and guests Laura Kress and Ciaran Child discuss upcoming adventure game reviews and recent releases.
Host Shorsha Zalbar introduces the Adventure Games Podcast episode, announcing its video debut on YouTube and previewing game reviews.
Hosts Shorsha and Johnny discuss recent adventure game releases and their top 10 of 2025.
Shorsha Dunbar hosts a six-person Adventure Games Podcast panel ranking adventure games released in 2025, using a weighted algorithm to combine individual ratings.
Host Shorsha Dunbar introduces the Adventure Games Podcast, reflects on a great year for adventure games, and teases an upcoming episode to determine the Adventure Game of 2025.
A special episode of the Adventure Games Podcast covering AdventureX 2025 with demo reviews and interviews, featuring a festive introduction with guest name puns.
Anthony Johnston talks about writing The Coldest City, which became Atomic Blonde with Charlize Theron, and about building Can You Solve the Murder?
Adventure Games Podcast host Shorsha Dunbar interviews Remy Siu of Sunset Visitor about 1000x Resist, a first game shaped by pandemic-era dislocation, memory, clones, and speculative fiction.
Host Shorter Dunbar interviews Tania from Other Tales Interactive about their co-op puzzle game TikTok and their upcoming game Miniatures, which features four short stories.
The host announces a partnership with DevGAMM to give away two free tickets to their Lisbon 2024 conference and interviews CEO Maria Chivona about the event.