43. What the Heck?

Tiff Arment joins us to discuss the ups and downs of survival games. We dig in to stark and frozen landscape of The Long Dark, the dark whimsy of Don’t Starve, and Minecraft’s role in kickstarting the whole genre. Afterwards, we discuss Prison Architect, the hardest difficulty in The Last of Us, Goat Simulator, and podcast microphones.

• Hunger in Minecraft
• Hinterland Games’ The Long Dark
• Klei’s Don’t Starve
• The noble beefalo
• Up Up Down Down 26, with Don’t Starve’s audio designer Matt Marteinsson
• Don’t Starve Together
• Don’t Starve’s Treeguards
• Prison Architect and its new Escape Mode
• The Video Games Episode of Top Four
• Marco’s excellent Microphones Mega-Review