Hey! This episode is up a little late but at least it’s here! The team discuss a bunch of games including Tomb Raider Reloaded, Valiant Hearts: Coming Home, Hazza Chazza and the 40ft wazza, Scars Above, Beyond Shadowgate, and Loretta. And for the beers, Lucy drinks “Mind Expansion Pack”...

This week Ben is joined by Aadil and between them, they’ve played a mobile game, but have all the intention of playing a different mobile game. Ben discussed Marvel Snap some more and updated Aadil on the game several months on. They discuss Vita emulation to Android devices and...

Ben and Lucy return and this time with fresh, alcoholic beers! Lucy drinks ‘Indecision Time A.I.M.S’, a pale ale from Burning Sky, and Ben dives into the big DIPA January release ‘Putty’ from Verdant. They’ve both been busy with games too. Lucy gives her final thoughts on Iron Lung...

Ben and Lucy return to talk games and drink AF beers. Ben gives his impressions on the Steamworld Build demo, Lucy chats Below the Ocean and they discuss the new remake, rerelease, or remaster of Goldeneye and its lack of online multiplayer on certain platforms. Lucy drinks Northern Monk’s...

Ben and Lucy get together to continue their dry January and find joy in video games. To start, their beers elicit a conversation, who is alcohol-free beer actually for? Then the games. Ben’s put more time into both Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII Reunion and Elden Ring, singing...

We start the episode with some sober reminscing about drinking and hangovers. Ben Played has dabbled in Elden Ring. But he mostly played FF7 Reunion: Crisis Core.Lucy earns her title as the indie queen playing Melatonin, Letterbox, and Potion Shop. We also touched on the Vampire Survivors DLC. Then...

Somehow we’re already at the end of 2022, so it’s time for our top picks. But first we open with a brief discussion/description of cat wanking, and then move on to our honourable mentions. And then on to the Top 10s, with the usual TUP tomfoolery and tangents. Strap...

The team gets together to discuss a few games and share a few beers. Ben discusses the early hours of Ixion, a newly released, space-based city(ish) builder. Lucy gives brief thoughts on Stacklands, and a more in-depth review on A Little to the Left. To drink, Lucy has the...

Ben has jumped back into OlliOlli World with the Finding the Flowzone DLC and bludgeoned his way into Bloody Ties, the new story DLC for Dying Light 2. ...

Aadil has returned to the land of the internetted… He managed to squeeze a dozen or so games of Marvel SNAP, after hearing the discussion last week. The crew goes on a deep dive from their respective perspectives. Lucy finished “The Case of the Golden Idol”, and everyone agreed...

This week Ben and Lucy both drink collaboration stouts. Lucy has the Attic Brew Co X Protokoll, Empty Cans and Ben drinks Coffee from Brew York X Siren. For the games, Ben chats a little Marvel Snap whilst Lucy is still on a point-and-click binge. She discusses The Plague...

Stouts are drank, games are discussed and 'it's not-a-me' Mario appears...

With her now internet more stable than the pound, Lucy catches us up on all the games she’s been playing over the past few weeks. Lucy played As Dusk Falls, Norco, Immortality, Tinykin, The Artful Escape, Lost Words Beyond the Page, Love 3, and Return to Monkey Island. She...

The Summer hiatus is over and we all played some games. Aadil goes on a deep-dive on TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection. Ben has gone back to Killzone: Shadow Fall, as the beginning of his new approach to gaming, taking advantage of PS++, and Lucy… played some games. Aadil had...

Lucy played 12 minutes, and things devolved into a spoiler-free discussion likening it to “The Room” of video games. Lucy and Ben have finished Stray, but graciously are waiting for Aadil to cap it off for next week’s episode. Ben has been playing Multiversus, and things naturally veer towards...

The whole crew is together for one longer episode this week. It may be the height of summer, but free-time is in short supply. Aadil, ever the timely host, interrupts the game talk for some steam deck news. Ben updates us on his PS5 queueing. We talk about spiderman,...

It’s Ben and Lucy this week. Ben has been previewing Scathe, a twitchy bloody FPS. We dip back into Powerwash Simulator and Lucy has continued playing the updated Into the Breach.. It wouldn’t be Lucy and Ben if Tony Hawk wasn’t brought up, this time it was mostly about...

TUP 339 – Catting about in a cyberdystopia and other Stray details. The whole crew is together and through the somehow busy summer we’ve all only played one game. But its the much anticipated, and talked about all over the internet, play-as-a-cat-game: Stray. Ben has finished the game, and...

Lucy finished “Endling: Extinction is Forever”, and discussed her overall opinions on the whole experience. She also played “Lord Winklebottom Investigates”, a 1920s based murder mystery point and click adventure with a giraffe protagonist. We round the episode off with a chat about what games are on our radars,...

Ben catches us up on the start of Dading round 2. He then treated us to an in depth chat about Rollerdrome, an upcoming third-person action shooter that is also a rollerskating game by the same team who brought us OlliOlli World. Ben had the Super Visions Hazy IPA...

Just Aadil and Lucy this week, so naturally we take some time out to talk about the nonsense meme of caring too much about pineapple on pizzas. It’s been a minute and Lucy has played a few games. We talk about her time with “Escape Academy”, as well as...

Ben talks Planet Zoo and his life now as an animal husbander, rather than a park designer. He also played some Guardians of the Galaxy. We also touched on “Starbucks pricing” models and PS+. As usual the convo involves things like Gamespass, the Steam Deck, as well as an...

Lucy and Aadil talk about the games they’ve been playing. Lucy throws away a dagger card to take us on a deep dive on Neon White. Aadil also played a game with cards, but this one is a turn-based strategy RPG: Gordian Quest. Lucy had the Island in the...

The whole crew is together to chat the games they have been playing. We spoke about Bugsnax, Cookie Cranker, Kids, the Steam demo festival, Anger Foot, Streets of Rage 4. And then Lucy and Aadil do a deep dive on TMNT: Shredder’s revenge, expect nostalgia. Ben had the Iron...

We touch on beer subscriptions and what can make them special versus stale. This week’s tupic was e3/not e3. We talk trailers vs gameplay and interviews, and all the deadspaces. Inevitably, without Lucy around there was a lot of Final Fantasy 7 talk. Ben gave his highlights from all...

We talk at length about our time at the Bristol Craft Beer Festival, and beer festivals in general before getting into the annual “Why e3 exist?” conversation. Oh also an argument about the optimal way to get your microsoft rewards points happened. Lucy, Ben, and Aadil had the Brave...

Ben has played a lot of Planet Zoo, and its still a lot deeper than the Jurassic World Evolution series. We chat about Netflix gaming and the byzantine approach to accessing their games. Lucy played Poinpy which is a joy. We also chatted about Diablo Immortal, She also played...

Lucy tells us of her time with APICO, a beekeeping simulator with minecraft-like survival elements. Ben touches on his first impressions of Diablo Immortal. We then spend the rest of the episode talking about the open letter from CAMRA chairman Nik Antona to the Minister for Small Business lobbying...

We start with a chat about Aadil’s PC problems, windows 11, and the scourge of computing that DUST is. Aadil takes a deep dive on the first-person photography game Umurangi Generation, now on GamesPass. Some nerding out on photography in general. We chat at length about the mechanics, UI,...

Aadil continues his chat with Chad and Curtis of Bit Rot Games. We chat about the narrative focus of Recursive Ruin, demo design and testing, and the procedural techniques from music to visuals. We also chatted about how to make the perfect martini, the perils and pros of machine...

Aadil is solo-hosting but is joined by the return of Chad and Curtis from Bit Rot Games. We talk the development, features, and balance of designing a narrative puzzle game that is Recursive Ruin. With only Aadil at the helm we touch on Micro-brewing vs. Craft brewing (vs. Femto-brewing),...

Ben played FIFA 22, courtesy of PS+. It devolved into a general discussion of FIFA, football games and the (lack of) iteration over the years in sporting games. Ben had Arbor’s Space Hardware NEIPA, Lucy Cloudwater’s West Coast IPA, and Aadil had Arbor’s Texas Sunday Morning Hazy India Pale...

Lucy makes us all jealous with her first impressions of the Play Date, and “Playtris”. That is until the Steam Deck arrived. She played Strange Horticulture, ElecHead, the Apeture Desk Job, Ynglet, Swallow the Sea and Raven’s Hike. We also chat briefly about Stadia and the steam platform.  ...

Ben talks about his initial impression of the beautiful Trek to Yomi, along with a review roundup of (minor?) complaints. Aadil played the sometimes body-horror ‘family’ game Bugsnax!   Ben has the Maple Pancake Pale Ale from Fierce, also from his recent trip to Sainsbury’s. Aadil has Arbor’s Date...

It’s Ben and Aadil chatting about the games they’ve been playing. Ben touches on his time with Dorfromantik, from early access to many hours played through release. Aadil talks about the now in kickstarter Remnants of the Rift. Ben went to Sainsbury’s and picked up Unity’s Hugh Pale ale,...

Special Guest Kimberley Owens (@creaftbeerpinup) joins us again for a more raucous episode than the last. We start with going through Kimberley’s Star Wars beers to pick one for the episode. We talk about Kimberley’s approach to gaming and unwinding. We talk Battlefront 2 (2) , retro games before...

It’s May the 4th (at time of recording) and we are joined by the lovely lovely Kimberley Owens (@craftbeerpinup) to chat Star Wars beers and video games. Then Aadil can’t help gush about his time with LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.   Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us...

It’s been a minute but we are back with a catchup about Lucy’s brewery visit to Little Earth Project, and some of the games Aadil has been playing: Winter and Skábma: Snowfall.     Lucy has the Northern Monk Patrons Project 4.05 Northern Tropics Tropical Milkshake IPA. Ben has...

It’s just one episode from us this week but it’s the joy of a longer one. We discuss the games we’ve been playing starting with mech twin-stick shooter Uragun, jumping into eldritch cowboys in Wierd West and heading back to the arcade with Astro Ace. Ben and Aadil drink...

Just one episode this week and we are chatting about genres we miss, or styles of play within genres we would love to see again, with maybe some nostalgia in the mix as well.   Lucy has Crak’s Fresh, a DDH IPA. Aadil has Whiplash’s Quiet Crowd, a Robust...

The gang talks about Playstation’s new plus offerings in comparison to Microsoft’s GamePass. The multi-tiered approach is described and dissected. Plus bonus Olivia Newton John!     Aadil has the Stout Brummie from Birmingham Brewing Company, while Lucy and Ben both have beers from Staggeringly Good. Lucy has Bru,...

Ben and Lucy talk at length about the end-game of Tunic, spoiler-free. Aadil tries to just mention what it reminds him of trying a new character in Elden Ring, and the stark differences in experience the two seem to have.     Lucy has the promised A Saison Apparent...

On this week’s Topisode we chat a bunch about the solo-developed Zelda ”soulslike” TUNIC, as well as chatting about keeping up with the zeitgeist and when its a good, versus the normally bad, thing.   Aadil has the Stout Brummie (Salted Caramel and Almond Milk Stout) from Birmingham Brewing...

On this week’s tupisode we chat about Onde, Aerial Knights, Rayman mini, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees and Labyrinth City. We also chat about Apple Arcade and Netflix Games.   Lucy has the Yankie Brummie (APA) from Birmingham Brewing Co., Ben has Polly’s Beginning Futures (DDH IPA), and Aadil has...

This week’s topisode is all about Elden Ring. It’s Aadil’s first Souls game and Lucy is 70 odd hours in. Ben sadly waits on the sidelines currently. The focus is first impressions and what makes this game special. Ben has Left-Handed Giant’s Export Porter, and Aadil has the Nesta...

On this week’s games roundup we talk about Far: Changing Tides (and its predecessor), Atelier Sophie 2 (and not its predecessor), and Wordbreaker by POWGI. Aadil had Beatnikz Republic’s Ekuanot Silhouette NEIPA, and Ben had Polly’s Bleur Orion IPA.   Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/JwY25Kv Visit Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outoflivesnetwork...

On this week’s topisode we start out with Aadil’s time with the psychological horror game “Martha is Dead”. We then move to a discussion of the developer releasing a version of the game without certain graphic scenes and ‘inappropriate imagery’ as to Sony’s request. Chat about censorship, gore in...

On this week’s tupisode we talk about the games that we’ve been playing this week. Lucy played and enjoyed both Gibbon beyond the trees and Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective. Ben let’s us know what his first few days with Horizon: Forbidden West is going. Lucy has the...

On this week’s Topicsode we chat about upcoming TV and movie adaptations of your favourite, and not so favourite, videogame franchises. We talk Cuphead, Bioshock, Disco Elysium amongst other upcoming projects from Netflix and Amazon Prime.   Ben has Left Handed Giant x Uitje collaboration Woodland Creatures Milk Stout,...

It’s just Ben and Aadil this episode and they talk extensively about Ben’s time with Dying Light 2, which prompts a discussion of what we want out of an open world, inevitably leading to the latest scoops about Elden Ring and its glowing reviews. Aadil also gives a short...