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We are back! Back again! Gamestein's back!  Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  After a bit of a bit of a hiatus, we come back to you with a game set in a Lisa Frank apocalypse. You are a sludge-man, or perhaps a small child?, with one of those stretchy sticky hands, wandering the overly bright and vibrant and WILD wasteland, slapping stickers on this broken world to slowly paste it back together! Probably. It's been a while! The one thing we know is that our logo is DISGUSTING. This time, we brought a space-simulation-slash-crafting-slash-discovery-game Astroneers, a fast-paced grapple-hook focused action-platformer called Silver Grapple, and...Sludge Life. Sludge! Life! A game set in a dreary, grimy city made up a bunch of unique story vignettes where you're drawn to tag whatever you can! Yeah, these were some neat ones. -Game Spoiler Warning!-  4:39 - Murder By Numbers 16:20 - Guild of Dungeoneering 25:08 - Deathtrap Dungeon 38:03 - Our Monster This episode was edited by Tony Zahnle. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play...we don't know! ;)  Also, we should be back on a more regular schedule...eventually. For now, enjoy! You can always share your thoughts, feelings and reviews at https://twitter.com/drgamencast !!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  Okay, these are admittedly some very tough times. So why not unwind with the soothing tones of Danny Devito grumbling about your picross solving as you attempt to solve the murder of the Dark Lord and figure out which adventurer is responsible? Every room is a narrated experience...and a puzzle...which might also have another puzzle inside? At the end, who stabbed the evil demonic ruler of this adobe with their gleaming sword of justice?? This time, June played a grid-based rogue-light dungeon-building experience called Guild of Dungeoneering. Tony brought Murder by Numbers, a Phoenix-Wright-like murder-solving game where it is heavily mechanically Picross! And Kevin played a heavily narrated (by Eddie Marsan, no less!) dungeon-crawling choose-your-own-adventure game called Deathtrap Dungeon! -Game Spoiler Warning!-  5:20 - Murder By Numbers 22:17 - Guild of Dungeoneering 39:04 - Deathtrap Dungeon 53:46 - Our Monster This episode was edited by June Sery. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play...we don't know! ;)  You can always share your thoughts, feelings and reviews at https://twitter.com/drgamencast !!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  So, we'll be honest, due to a number of reasons, we just didn't want to talk about our chosen games this time! So instead, we decided to change up our formula, get a little messy, and we brought our own little game bits in from home, and this time, we didn't even dare each other to play them! As a result, enjoy our new bizarre procedural extremely short demake-remake take on everyone's favorite green-hatted hero, Lonk! ...Wait. Link! That's right, it's Six Steps From Zelda! This time, June played a fast-paced MMBN-spiritual successor as a roguelike, One Step From Eden! We also played...well...Final Fantasy 7. You all know that one, right? The one with the spiky hair and big sword? Well Tony played that one...both original and Remake! And Kevin played an hour long spectacle action extravaganza, Bright Memory! -Game Spoiler Warning!-  8:50 - One Step From Eden 27:10 - Final Fantasy 7 Remake (and original??) 46:50 - Bright Memory 59:50 - Our Monster This episode was edited by Kevin Zuhn. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play...we don't know! ;) But hopefully it'll be out on time!  You can always share your thoughts, feelings and reviews at https://twitter.com/drgamencast !!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  Happy quarantine! We have to admit, movie about the blue hedgehog really got our minds racing...fast. Gotta...GO fast. Like a Father and Son detective agency solving a non-linear vandalism plot about who exploded a watermelon. And the only way to solve it? Lobbing your detective father at high speeds through the house to reach those hard-to-get musically-hinted clues! And, why yes, the music genre themeing this time IS Ska, why do you ask? This time we played a top-down twitch-action gorilla game called Ape Out, a bordering-on-surrealist point and click adventure game starring the titular Frog Detective, both games 1 and 2, and also a child-throwing exploratory puzzle/platformer called Dad Quest!  -Game Spoiler Warning!-  8:47 - Ape Out 21:58 - Frog Detective 1& 2 35:05 - Dad Quest 48:13 - Our Monster This episode was edited by June Sery. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play Noita, Void Bastards, and Life is Strange 2!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  Hey, do you like board games? Specifically public domain board games and off-brand licenses so Milton Bradley and Hasbro can't sue us? Join our wayward trio of lost board game pieces trying to reclaim their friends across a cluttered house-scape. Charge forward as the unstoppable Rook! King your enemies as Checkers(?)! Rise high and construct platforms with your family as Jengo! And Lord Bucket himself stands at the end, consuming all into his insatiable center. We played Bug Fables, a Paper Mario-like RPG adventure with a bunch of adorable little bugs and a lot of humor and charm, Dicey Dungeons, a semi-roguelite dice battle game about a bunch of diced heroes attempting to win their freedom from a deadly game show, and Youropa, a 3D puzzle platformer revolving around a painted ragdoll exploring the upended ruins of Paris, France to bring everything back together. -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Bug Fables - 5:15 Dicey Dungeons - 23:00 Youropa - 36:22 Our Game - 52:15   This episode was edited by Kevin Zuhn. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play Dad Quest, Frog Detective 1 & 2, and Ape Out!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  We wanna yell the very best, like no-one ever has! That's right, trapped in the world of Pokémon without any of that fancy technology to catch the mysterious magical monsters that roam the land, we instead use our wonderful abilities to compete. That's right! We literally consume the words of our opponents and leave them empty husks, with the hope of one day defeating the Champion Clown! ...How did we get here, you ask?  We played Later Alligator, a charmingly illustrated adventure/mini-game collection staring talking alligators who are investigating a light-hearted assassination plot slash birthday party, Beglitched, a pure puzzle match-three game involving delving into a witch's laptop to delete her hackers, and a fan-made holiday spoof-game, Merry Gear Solid 1 and 2, where you...uh. You've played Metal Gear Solid before, right? Sort of? It's kind of that??  Also, we played a LOT of Pokemon so that's also in there.  -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Later Alligator - 5:24 Beglitched - 18:45 Merry Gear Solid & Merry Gear Solid 2 - 29:36 Our Game - 47:20 This episode was edited by Tony Zahnle! Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play Bug Fables, Dicey Dungeon, Youropa!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  You are a simple 'Can'-garoo from Down Undah, an animal of pure cartoonish chaos that can bring the photorealistic world around you to its knees with your objects of power. As the world around you descends into madness, as slot machines dab and shoes wildly inflate, you better parkour yourself to the rocking beat of Crush 40 if you hope to bounce your way through this...puzzle-platformer?  Y'know, genres are useless for describing games anyway.  This month, we played the indie darling Untitled Goose Game, a puzzle-honker where you're a goose causing mischief, Control, a third-person horror shooter vaguely related on the creepy abstract terror and lore of the SCP Foundation, and Sayonara Wild Hearts, just the most visually breathtaking action-rhythm/interactive soundtrack game you've ever played.  -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Untitled Goose Game - 1:36 Control - 12:35 Sayonara Wild Hearts - 30:51 Our Game - 43:29 This episode was edited by Tony Zahnle! Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play Later Aligator, Beglitched, and the Merry Gear Solid Collection!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  You are trapped in an ancient museum filled with the world's past mistakes. You're wheelchair bound, but it's okay, there are upgrades aplenty! (We are SO sorry if we got this one wrong, in advance.) Explore a mysterious, labyrinthine mega-museum while learning the foibles of our ridiculously short-sighted past, and also meet the strange society that now lives in the very darkest corners of this structure.  Also, we teach Kevin about skitching. This month, we played an extremely zen 3D collectathon platformer about climbing a small mountain, both physically and metaphorically, A Small Hike, a fast-paced gimmicky wall-jumping Metroid-vania platformer called Dandara, and a top-down adventure horror game set in a corporate office building that is 110% possessed by a Witch's curse, Yuppie Psycho. -Game Spoiler Warning!-  A Short Hike - 3:18 Dandara - 17:30 Yuppie Psycho - 35:40 Our Game - 1:02:16 This episode was edited by June Sery! Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play Untitled Goose Game, Control, and Sayonara Wild Hearts!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  We started with the title, and worked our way backwards? Welcome to a strange evolving narrative where you've gotta dance and stay on beat, to make enough points to buy your way through a Musical! There's nothing less than the fate of the entire planet at stake, as you fight the only Boss that can stand in your way between the world's salvation and catastrophe! Kind of! It's actually a lot. You're probably better off listening. This week, we played a card-game based civilization management game called Simmuland, the collaborative sequel to the indie classic and a well-designed dungeon romp through a Nintendo property, Crypt of the Necrodancer: Cadence of Hyrule, and a Punch-Out-esque boxing adventure game where you're a duck-headed man fighting your way through an oppressive Corporatocracy, PatoBox! -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Simmuland - 5:19 Cadence of Hyrule - 18:11 PatoBox- 38:40 Our Game - 54:53 This episode was edited by Tony Zahnle! Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play A Short Hike, Dandara, and Yuppie Psycho!

(Sorry about the late release! We're getting back into the swing of things!) Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  In the inky darkness of space, who says love can't blossom? Or, for that matter, muuuuurder~?! Sorry, we tried really hard not to do another game involving death, but, given both our track record, and ingredients, what else were we supposed to do? Form relationships with gigantic anthropomorphic planets and ride the space vibes through funky space, so you can figure out who killed Pluto! This week, we got back to basics and played an exceedingly bizarre, post-apocalyptic Russia adventure game, a throwback to an old era of Sierra, Paradigm! Also, a mysterious time traveling murder mystery on a ghost ship, Return of the Obra Dinn. And then we bounced from planet to planet in the free-form space exploration game Outer Wilds. Yes, OUTER WILDS. Not that other one.  -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Paradigm - 3:00 Return of the Obra Dinn - 20:30 Outer Wilds - 40:10 Our Game - 1:03:30 This episode was edited by Kevin Zuhn! Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next month, we play Simmiland, Cadence of Hyrule (feat: Crypt of the Necrodancer), and Pato Box!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  Edible dice, and you're solving mysteries. What more could you ask for? We're not giving you much more than that this time, you'll have to discover the clues yourself as to what the heck Diceicatessen is! (It's -both- type of edibles.) This week, we were joined by Special Guests Michelle and Stephanie from Object To This, a Phoenix Wright Fancast, to delve into a dice-card-tactics-little-bit-of-everything game about a ragtag group of orphans, Children of Zodiarcs, a game about a cool vaporwave-aesthetic Time-Samurai action-platformer, Katana Zero, and, of course, a good-natured homage to Phoenix Wright itself, except it's about Bird Lawyers in revolutionary-times France, Aviary Attorney. -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Children of Zodiarcs - 5:50 Katana Zero - 29:47 Aviary Attorney - 49:47 Our Game - 1:14:57 This episode was edited by Tony Zahnle. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next Month, we play Outer Wilds (on the Epic Game Store), Paradigm, and Return of the Obra Dinn!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity!  All you have is a storefront and the ability to sell anything you have in your possession. ...But, y'know, what if you had the ability to sell little parts of the world around you? Like, the graphics and music of your video game world? Or the ability to golf? Better make that money quick before somebody sells the core mechanic of our new hit title, Xapitalism! This week, we played a weird retro-throwback game about exploring an alternate universe year 1999 internet, Hypnospace Outlaw. Also, a game about lootin' ancient dungeons so you can sell monster-dropped pieces in your inherited little shop, Moonlighter. Also also, a game about navigating, changing, and out-thinking the rules of the game, where the core mechanic is identical to the game: Baba is You. -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Hypnospace Outlaw - 4:17 Moonlighter - 22:25 Baba is YOU - 41:54 Our Game - 55:16 This episode was edited by Tony Zahlne. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next Month, we play Children of Zodiarcs, Katana Zero, and Aviary Attorney! It's also gonna be a special guest episode, where we'll be joined by Michelle and Stephanie of the Phoenix Wright Fancast "Object to This!" 

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity! It's just another game about playin' games, except literally! In Rhombus Room, the further you progress in the video game you're playing in this video game you're playing, the stronger your powers get in real life! ...In this video game you're playing. Confused yet? Good, because we haven't even gotten to the mysterious corpse in your bathroom!  This week, we played an incredibly well designed and fluid Zelda-like/isometric parkour/dot-Hack inspired everything-game called Crosscode, a calm, zen-like PC Building Simulator where you construct your own rig with some chill techno tunes, and a dark, twisted murder mystery about six disgraced video game characters in an old dilapidated bar, The Hex! -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Crosscode - 3:05 PC Building Simulator - 31:05 The Hex - 44:05 Our Game - 56:35 This episode was edited by Kevin Zuhn. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next Month, we play Hypnospace Outlaw, Moonlighter, and Baba is You!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity! Satan is on a quest to defeat his inner demons, and he's gonna need all the help he can get! Along with his trusty Handyman, Armnold, and Wingus the Buffalo, he's gonna jog straight towards his goal, even if it costs him an arm or a leg! This week, we played an old-school Sega Genesis tactics RPG game, Shining Force 2! Also, a 'violence-rhythm game' about riding a psychedelic hellscape rail to the sound of techno war drums, Thumper. Also-also, a dark, tragic, and harrowing puzzle-platformer, The Missing: J.J. MacField And The Island Of Memories -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Shining Force 2 - 3:46 Thumper - 26:38 The Missing: J.J. MacField and the Island of Memories - 40:39 Our Game - 1:01:32 This episode was edited by Cameron Sery. Icon by Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next Month, we play Crosscode, PC Building Simulator, and The Hex!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity! Man, games these days aren't what they're cracked up to be. Fine, we'll go make our own game! With Blackjack! And Power Gears! And religion?! Card games are metaphors for overcoming the deadly Blackjack Bishops...or something!  This week, we played this little-known indie title you've probably never heard of, Mega Man 11, a delightful game about business psychics battling literal demons with tactical rock-paper-scissors, also known as Fortune 499, and an action-packed platformer about literally twisting the gears of an ancient mechanical civilization and mysterious religion, Iconoclasts! -Game Spoiler Warning!-  Megaman 11 - 6:34 Fortune 499 - 31:29 Iconoclasts - 46:51 Our Game - 1:18:45 This episode was edited by our own Tony Zahlne. Icon by our own Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next Month, we play Thumper, The Missing: J.J. Macfield And The Island Of Memories, and Shining Force II (yes, the one on Sega Genesis).

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity! Have you ever just sort of had a really rough, garbage day filled with misery and strife slowly cascading towards the eventual global apocalypse? It's possible, then, that you may have encountered the Rusty Busker, a horrible screeching robot who has no choice but to fight the very concept of happiness with its every action!  This week, we played a game about an impish minion secretly tasked with saving the world, Underhero, a game about a supremely optimistic bard spreading joy and cheer in the face of personal feelings of doubt and the eventual endtimes, Wandersong, and a game about truly upsetting dour architecture, NaissanceE, and turned it into whatever you just read above! Underhero - 3:43 Wandersong - 24:46 NaissanceE - 43:14 Our Game - 61:45 This episode was edited by our own Tony Zahlne. Icon by our own Kevin Zuhn. Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next Month, we play Mega Man 11, Iconoclasts, and Fortune 499!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity! In our third!!! episode, we discuss three games that start with the most terrifying letter of them all. That's right, 'D'! We explore the abject horror of delivery, dating, and driving really fast through deadly digital de-spaceport. Eventually, we stop talking about those games and create either the new cult gaming hit of the century or the world's most confusing computer virus.  This Month, we played: Donut County - 3:46 Doki Doki Literature Club - 17:35 Distance - 36:29 Our Game - 51:51 Icon by our own Kevin Zuhn Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.) Next Month, we play Underhero, Wandersong, and Naissance!

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity! In our second episode, we discuss a fungus swords-em-up, a time-travel tanks-em-up, and a cube-body hack-em-up! Then, we put the finishing touches on our Good Bake, an enigmatic game about mutating bug creatures overthrowing their robot overlords. But really, what happened to the humans??? This Month, we played: Dead Cells - 2:38 Into the Breach - 26:14 Quadrilateral Cowboy - 51:15 Our Own Game - 1:11:47 Icon by our own Kevin Zuhn Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.)

Welcome to Dr. Gamenstein, where three weird friends dare each other to play games, and then get together to construct our own game monstrosity! In our totally real first ever episode of Dr. Gamenstein, and not just our first attempt to put some quality(?) out in the world, we talk way too long about robots and then set loose a buddy cop duo to solve weird crimes for Quiblies and Dunkaroos. Don't worry, some of that'll make sense later. We played:  Pizza Titan Ultra - 3:41 Wuppo - 25:35 Detroit: Become Human - 45:23 Our Own Game: 1:17:35 Icon by our own Kevin Zuhn Intro and Outro are 'Video Dungeon Boss' by Kevin MacLeod (Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.)