Girl Mode

After taking a break for the longest week in human history (and the customary annual lay-off of one of our hosts), we’re back to talk about two interesting games: one we like and one we don’t. How novel.

Timestamps:
(00:10) The Gay Bachelor, etc.
(04:50) TR-49 (mechanical and light story spoilers start)
(23:30) TR-49 story spoilers start for real
(26:30) TR-49 story spoilers start for real for real
(40:05) Perfect Tides: Station to Station
(50:50) Spoiler for a very fun moment in Station to Station
(53:20) Spoilers end
(56:25) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Dolls Nest, Love Through a Prism)

Mentioned this week:
Meredith Gran on Post Games
Meredith Gran AMA
Willa on TR-49 and Perfect Tides: Station to Station

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It's prediction time! First we tally up the scores from 2025 to see who the winner of an undecided prize is. Then it's into the future as Robin, Willa, and Zoe (via Willa reading her notes because we won't let her back on the pod) tell you what 2026 will hold for gaming with 100% accuracy.

Timestamps:
(00:35) Robin's dogs, the Pitt, and some Mets talk
(03:43) Our 2025 predictions, which did not go as well as we hoped
(12:47) Making 2026 predictions that will absolutely come true
(26:39) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Hyperbeat, The Expanse)

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To ease into the new year Robin and Willa took it easy and are basically giving you the audio version of those lists every outlet puts out in January. We also talk about Zoe's exploits in Mass Effect and Robin's exploits in getting one over on her landlord.

Timestamps:
(00:12) It's raining cats and possibly ceiling debris
(1:22) A lot of 2026 games getting namedropped
(37:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. the Mass Effect Trilogy, letting Zoe cut your hair, The Twilight Zone, and violating your lease )

Mentioned this week:
dotzip on Perfect Tides
Dying MMO jam

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It’s the Girlies! You know the drill. If you don’t, just listen and you’ll get it. It’s like an awards show but better.

Thanks for listening this year!

You can find a whole list of winners (with a couple of visual aids) here.

Timestamps:
(00:15) The Girlies!
(51:30) Spoilers for Carimara and Old Skies
(54:25) Spoilers end
(1:22:00) Spoilers for Carimara and Silent Hill f
(1:24:20) Spoilers end
(1:37:25) GOTY discussion
(1:43:30) Thematic spoilers for our pick
(1:48:30) Major story spoilers for our pick

Mentioned this week:
Neil Newbon being correct about generative AI
Jennifer English being incredible at the Golden Joysticks

Additional music this episode:
Take me out to the ball game from Trombone Champ
Baby Steps background music
Era Calling from Angeline Era
Nina Pasadena from Skin Deep
I’m A Bitch, My Name’s Robert from Dispatch
I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death) from Hades 2

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It’s the annual Girl Mode Game Exchange, the episode where we force each other to play one of our favorite games of the year, under penalty of death. This year, we chose Wanderstop and Baby Steps, two games about the struggle to find self-worth that take two very different paths to get there. Only one is obsessed with making you look at donkey dicks, for instance. This year, we were both pretty surprised by our reactions to our games and we didn’t even get furious with each other once, which I think is a first for one of these episodes!
!Spoilers for all of Wanderstop and Baby Steps!

Timestamps:
(00:10) The Great Girl Mode Game Exchange, aka, what we’re doing this week
(03:00) Wanderstop
(1:06:00) Excerpt from “The Everything” by C418 on the Wanderstop OST
(1:06:30) Baby Steps
(2:19:30) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. a very fucked up situation at Critical Reflex, letting Zoe cut your hair, Pluribus)

Mentioned this week:
Robin’s Wanderstop review
Nicole Carpenter’s Wanderstop review
Gio Colantonio’s Baby Steps review
Walter Chaw on Avatar (I can’t remember if our mention of this made the final cut but it’s too late to go back and check and it’s really good either way)
I worked at the creepiest publisher in indie games (CRITICAL REFLEX)

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