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Ep. 130 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang is all together and talking about some great new games. Dan and Dan beat God of War Ragnarok and Shelby is pretty deep in. Big surprise, they all love it! Dan and Dan are in love with the Night in The Woods-like Pentiment from Obsidian. Also Marvel's Midnight Suns is a surprisingly fun story in addition to a fantastic tactics game and Dan's been loving it. We end it by recapping The Game Awards. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -God of War Ragnarok -Somerville -Pentiment -Pokémon Scarlet/Violet -Marvel's Midnight Suns

Ep. 129 of The Circle Back Podcast. The whole crew is here and talking about a ton of recent releases. Everyone dipped their toe into God of War: Ragnarok and are as impressed as you could have guessed. Dan played through A Plague Tale: Requiem and is wondering why a sequel that improves over the original in every way somehow feels a bit flat. Oh, and Dan is obsessed with Marvel Snap in an unhealthy but fun way. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Played: -The Looker -The Excavation of Hob's Barrow -Scorn -Marvel Snap -Return to Monkey Island -Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope -Bayonetta 3 -Vampire Survivors -A Plague Tale: Requiem -God of War Ragnarok 

Ep. 128 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang is missing Shelby on this episode, but Dan has been busy as ever playing a ton of new games including the incredible Return to Monkey Island. Dan wrapped up Horizon Forbidden West and really loved it. A new tabletop meets turn-based tactics game has Dan's full attention amongst a bunch of other great games. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Horizon Forbidden West -Return to Monkey Island -Metal Hellsinger -Cult of The Lamb -Shovel Knight Dig -Splatoon 3 -Citizen Sleeper -Strange Horticulture -Moonbreaker -Dark Souls 2 -Spiderheck -Overwatch 2 -Aperture: Desk Job -The Looker -The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

Ep. 127 of The Circle Back Podcast. The crew is all together and excited to talk some games! We've all played the new Sam Barlow game "Immortality" and let's just say it is divisive! Dan played the wonderful 3D platforming collectathon throwback "Tinkykin" and is loving it! Shelby and Dan touch on their continued experience running cults in "Cult of The Lamb". Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Cult of The Lamb -Two Point Campus -Immortality -Tinykin

Ep. 126 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all here and there are some games to discuss! Dan is back and forth between the 'turn your brain off' zen of Power Wash Simulator and the layers and layers of building, designing, and nurturing your own cult in Cult of The Lamb. We also discuss some RPG's including Dan wrapping up Triangle Strategy and LOVING IT, and dipping his toe into an old Japanese only classic in Live A Live. Oh, and we've all been some cool cats and kittens in the cyberpunky post-apocalypse of Stray. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Elden Ring -Escape Academy -Into The Breach -Triangle Strategy -Stray -Live A Live -Power Wash Simulator -Multiversus -Hindsight -Cult of The Lamb

Ep. 125 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all together and playing some dang video games! The whole crew is loving the best game of June Neon White, Dan and Dan are falling in love with a space station in Citizen Sleeper, and Dan and Shelby are playing catch up on some of the more interesting games from earlier in the year, notably, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe and Elden Ring. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Disc Room -The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe -Elden Ring -Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course -Card Shark -Horizon Forbidden West -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge -Citizen Sleeper -Switch Sports -Neon White

Ep. 124 of The Circle Back Podcast. Shelby is missing, but Dan and Dan had a ton of news to talk about with the summer games season upon us! We run through the PlayStation State of Play for June, Summer Game Fest, and Xbox Bethesda Showcase and all the exciting games showed off. We then dig into a few April games, and a few June games, but focus on the May games of which there were very few but solid! Citizen Sleeper and Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate- Daemonhunters were the standouts for us. We also touch on some of the impressive demos Dan played during the Steam Next Fest. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Rogue Legacy 2 -Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate- Daemonhunters -Citizen Sleeper -Hardspace: Shipbreaker -Card Shark -Poinpy -Metal: Hellsinger -Anger Foot -Cult of The Lamb -Naiad -Terra Nil  

Ep. 123 of the Circle Back Podcast. The crew is all together and talking April (but mostly March and May) games! Not a lot came out in April if you hadn't noticed... Rogue Legacy 2 and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe are the standouts for us and we dig into some details on both. We also talk some Norco and Tunic spoilers and what makes them 2 of the best games of the year respectively. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Norco -Kirby and The Forgotten Land -Tunic -Stacklands -Patrick's Parabox -Perfect Tides -Rogue Legacy 2 -The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe -Citizen Sleeper -Trek to Yomi -Loot River

Ep. 122 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all here talking March (and February) games! Tunic, Norco and Weird West are some of the March highlights that we dive deep into on this episode. Also Shelby was missing on the last episode so we have some older games to discuss as well. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Elden Ring -Sifu -Pokémon Legends: Arceus -Horizon Forbidden West -Ghostwire Tokyo -Triangle Strategy -Weird West -Tunic -Norco

Ep. 121 of The Circle Back Podcast. We are missing Shelby but have a ton of very good games to discuss! Elden Ring is out, and it's one of the best games ever made??? Also Sifu is incredibly fun and in another year would be a legitimate game of the year contender. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Triangle Strategy -Sifu -OliiOlli World -Infernax -Horizon Forbidden West -Elden Ring

Ep. 120 of The Circle Back Podcast, and the first of our new style! Dan unfortunately could not be here for this one, but the train keeps a rollin'! We talk a whole bunch of catch-up for November and December games before eventually digging into some January games we've been enjoying including the addictive Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and the early pleasant surprise Nobody Saves the World. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy -Forza Horizon 5 -Halo Infinite -Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon -Beast Breaker -Solar Ash -Toem -The Gunk -Heavenly Bodies -Pokemon Legends: Arceus -Nobody Saves the World -Windjammers 2

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Game of the year! Listen in as the crew from Circle Back Gaming whittle down a list of 52 games to a top 10 list ranked 1-10. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best soundtracks in games in 2021. As always, our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best moments in gaming of 2021! As always, our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the games with the best game design of 2021, the best storytelling in games in 2021, the best time loop games of 2021, and the best games that didn't come out in 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best boss fights in 2021, the best game feel in games in 2021, the best multiplayer in games in 2021 and the best surprises of 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best ensemble casts of 2021, the funniest games of 2021, the games that we wish we had time to get around to, and the games with the best style of 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

The team at Circle Back Gaming ranks the best looking games of 2021, the most disappointing games of 2021, and the best new characters of 2021! As always our superlative game of the year awards have 1 winner and 2 runners up. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy!

Ep. 119 of The Circle Back Podcast. The gang's all here and have a ton of games to discuss since we missed an episode! Shelby and Dan finished Metroid: Dread and both agree it's a bonafide GOTY contender. Dan is very pleasantly surprised that he is enjoying Guardians of The Galaxy as much as he is. Oh and also Inscryption rules and the whole crew has played it to varying degrees. We then have a ton of news to catch up on including some delays and surprise game drops. We wrap it up with our gamepass games of the show, a quick little fantasy check-in and decide out October game of the month. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Inscryption -Darkest Dungeon 2 -ElecHead -Guardians of The Galaxy -Unpacking -Metroid Dread -Forza Horizon 5 -Returnal -Halo Infinite -Deathloop -Outer Wilds: Echoes of The Eye

Ep. 118 of The Circle Back Podcast. It's just Dan and Shelby on this one, but they've both been playing lots of games! Shelby started and finished Sable and really loved it despite comparing the frame rate to a silent film. Dan finally got his hands on Inscryption and it has surprises and thrills around every corner (he's in love). We then have a few delays and small news hits to talk about including our beloved Elden Ring slipping about 1 month (take your time!). We wrap it up with our Gamepass games of the show and our September Game of The Month. Stay safe, and we hope you enjoy! Games Discussed: -Sable -Deathloop -Mario Golf: Super Rush -Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -Metroid Dread -Back 4 Blood -Scarlet Nexus -Inscryption