Indie Game Ravers

We are joined this week by returning guest Stephen Carter, aka Points of Brew to discuss a few beery issues. Stephen starts by drinking a new beer from Salt Steel Brewing Co, Aadil has one beer this week and cracks The Little Earth Project Stupid Sexy Suffolk Blend III and Ben begins with Rare Candy from Turning Point. Ben leads the conversation wanting to discuss the latest blog post from Cloudwater on beer distribution and if our drinking habits are changing. This leads into Stephen discussing actually going out for a beer. Stephen opens another beer, The Dank Knight from S43 Brewery and Ben has Canadian Riot from Beatnikz Republic in celebration of Aadil and Canada Day. Lucy chats about […]

This week we’ve 6 beers and 5 games to chat through. Aadil starts off the drinking with Hopstravaganza from The White Hag, Lucy has World King Fist from Burning Soul Brewery and Ben drinks Deya’s Something Good 5. Both Aadil and Lucy have been playing The Almost Gone, a recently released point and click puzzle game. Lucy continues the point and click fun with her thoughts on Edna & Harvey: The Breakout – Anniversary Edition. More beers are cracked. Lucy sticks with Burning Soul drinking the Zephyr Saison. Aadil has Buxton Brewery’s Costa Rican Coffee Extra Porter and Ben finishes with another All Together beer this time from Verdant Brewing Co. Aadil touches briefly on Hexcells and as always Lucy […]

Hot, hot gaming and beer chat this week. Lucy drinks Tartu Pilsner from Puhaste, Ben has a Session pale from North Brewing Co and Aadil sups Buxton Brewery’s Lupulus X Simcoe IPA. Lucy has been playing Little Orpheus from The Chinese Room and it sparks a conversation about Apple in the gaming space and a brief foray for Ben into That Game Company’s mobile game Sky. More beers are cracked. Lucy has O Brother Brewing’s On Reflection, Ben drinks the Wylam X Finback collab Paying the Price for my Smooth Ride and Aadil finishes with the Northern Monk X Fieldwork collab Eternal Sunshine. Talk turns to Magic the Gathering Arena and remote playing and the episode finishes on initial and […]

It’s a show of two halves (sort of). In the first Ben drinks Steam Machine’s Odins Jam Jar and asks has a demo or beta put you off a full title. Lucy drinks Merrytiller from Kinnegar Brewing and discusses Signs of the Sojourner and Aadil has the Yeastie Boys X Utopian collab Dream Sequence whilst talking the itch.io client and few titles from the bundle for racial equality and justice. Lucy drops off the pod and Dave and Sean from Pillbug Interactive appear. They come to discuss their inclusion on that itch bundle and their new game Making it Home. Dave drinks Gower Gold from Gower Brewery and The Golden Champion from Badger Beers. Sean has made a Hop, Skip […]

This week Aadil, Ben and Lucy have all picked up the Bundle for racial justice and equality from Itch.io and Lucy has actually played some of them, discussing A Snakes Tail and Spring Falls. She drinks Flying Dogma from Dogma Brewery X Flying Dog Brewery. Aadil drinks Mikkeller’s Pepper Spray and Ben leans into the supermarket with Wild Boar from Buxton. Lucy also discusses Rakuen and starts a big conversation about Bioshock. More beers are drunk. Lucy has Zon & Zee from Brouwerij De Molen, Aadil drinks Arbor’s Space hardware and Ben has the Thornbridge X Firestone Walker collab Pondera. Ben is waning on Final Fantasy 7 Remake after getting to, maybe, the final boss and Aadil has been playing […]

Lucy, Aadil and Ben get together to discuss video games whilst all drinking some tasty beers. Lucy starts with Tasty Juice from Lervig, Aadil has Wild Card Brewery’s Unite Tribute and Ben drinks Verdants I Will Nee Your Signature. Aadil gives everyone an Animal Crossing update and delves into the systems and community support the game’s economy. It’s a heft chat so more beers are cracked. Lucy drinks Omnipollo’s Mads, Aadil has Euphoric Minds from Amundsen and Ben finished with Farrago from Polly’s. Ben wants to talk the PS4 reveal event and what everyone wants to see. Lucy finishes on games including Ring Fit Adventure, Euro Truck Simulator, Forza Horizon 4 & Lego and the developer Grahfmetal.

This week Ben and Aadil kick off with the same beer, drinking The Daphne Touch from Pollys Brew Co. Lucy starts the gaming chat with her thoughts on Minecraft Dungeons which has many a tangent including current-gen vs new-gen releases. Aadil and Ben then crack more beers with Aadil drinking Citrus Maximus from Arbor and Ben having Basqueland’s Mucho Bueno. Talk turns to A New Life and the emotional impact of games, twin peaks and Kentucky Route Zero and finishes on problematic narratives.

Whilst Lucy has a week off the beer, Ben and Aadil delve into the All Together collaboration hosted by Other Half to support local hospitality professionals. They chose the same two beers to drink which come from Pipeline Brewing Co and Mondo Brewing. There’s also plenty of gaming chat with Lucy having thoughts on Huntdown, Winding Worlds and VirtuaVerse from which Ben poses a question about Cyberpunk as a genre. Aadil raises the issue with digital libraries and Ben finishes by discussing the few hours he has spent with Disco Elysium.

There are games and beers galore this week (like every week). Ben kicks off the drinking with Sensei from Deep Creek, Aadil drinks Free Verse from Virginia Beer co and Lucy has Verdants Some Fifty. Initial thoughts on John Wick Hex and Deliver Us The Moon are shared and Lucy has finished Fire Escape. Second beers are cracked with Ben drinking Karpo from Alpha Delta Brewing, Aadil having Dia de Los Muertos from Ora brewing and Lucy finishes on a stout from North Brewing co X Dugges Bryggeri. Talk turns to the Tony Hawk 1 & 2 remaster, old games from Wrestling to The Simpsons. Lucy finishes with her thoughts on Draw a Stick Man 3 and Animal Crossing corner […]

Lucy, Aadil and Ben get together to discuss their weeks in videogames and sink a few choice beers. They start with some beers, Lucy has Millionaire by Wild Beer Co, Aadil drinks Full Circle Bre Co’s Lake of Stars and Ben has the Amundsen X Finback collab Fade to Green. Firstly Ben and Lucy have been playing Streets of Rage 4 whilst Aadil has been exploring Steam Remote Play. It is a lengthy discussion and leads straight into the second round of beers. Lucy drinks Forward from Attic Brew Co, Aadil has White Hags Dark Druid and Ben drinks Tiny the Welder from Arbor. Talk turns to No Mans Sky, Cloudpunk (again) and Lucys time with The Flower Collectors.

We kick off with a chat on hard seltzers and what the point of them is as Lucy drinks Wild Basin from Oscar Blues, alongside this Aadil cracks open Pollys White Noise and ben drinks Brew Yorks Big Eagle 2020. We then chat online board games, monopoly and dropped internet in the time of Corona. Lucy has played Journey to the Savage Planet, Cloudpunk and Down in Bermuda and gives her thoughts. Both Ben and Aadil open another beer both drinking Dank Money from S43 Brewery. We finish on Bens review of The Shattering and talk of Aadils initial thoughts on Gris.

The gang get together to discuss more Final Fantasy 7, touch on Call of Duty Warzone and PUBG, dive into Animal Crossing New Horizons and chat a bunch of smaller release like SiNKR, Half past fate, Edgar: Bokbok in Boulzac, Monument Valley 2 and Possessions. Ben and Aadil are on the beers with Ben drinking Leviathan Brewing You and I should ride the coast and Modern Times Space ways. Aadil sinks Good Chemistry Dark Energy and Public Access Liquids On-air.

We are joined by Stephen Carter, AKA Points of Brew to discuss his new beer and gaming podcast of the same name. We discuss Final Fantasy 7, both original and remake, Sea of Thieves and Scrapers on Apple Arcade. With four of us, this is a big 8 beer show. Stephen drinks Here Be Dragons from Brass Castle and O-G Hazy from Brewdog. Aadil drinks OHaras White Haze and Imperial Biscotti from Evil Twin, Lucy has Dream Tempo from Pentrich Brewing followed by Ocata from Garage brew co whilst Ben starts on Verdants The Window…. then has Great Bitter Lake from Burnt Mill.

Still in Lockdown Aadil has taken to tending a small virtual island in Animal Crossing New Horizons, Lucy has revisited a vibrant island full of puzzles in The Witness and both she and Aadil have spent time in the sea playing In Other Waters. As we record on a Tuesday the new PS5 control pad, the DualSense was revealed. Listen as we don’t know what is going on with it. The beers this week are a Cloudwater X Rock Leopard collab for Lucy followed by a Magic Rock stout. Aadil drinks beers from Blacks Brewery and Galway Bay whilst Ben has supermarket beers from Brew York and a Northern Monk X Alpha Delta Brewing collab.

Adam and Ben get together to discuss the next generation of consoles from the information released on them so far. They weigh up the tech specs of the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 and if they matter, what some of it means and what they need to see to believe the hype. Adam Thomas I’m Adam and I’m joined with Ben. We’re going to talk about the new console details for the next-generation PlayStation and Xbox as we have something to compare. And we’ve been, you know, given enough time to digest where what we’ve actually seen. So overall impressions Ben, initial thoughts. Ben Nother I mean, initial thoughts, you know, kind of all of the stuff that […]

This week the team get into game delays and Final Fantasy 7 Remake actually releasing in the UK a whole week early. This leads to discussing the working culture of game devs and strangely John Wick. Aadil is annoyed at the Epic Games Store whilst Ben has been playing Mutazione and A Short Hike through it. Lucy lets us know her thoughts on both Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Doom Eternal. Ben drinks Northern Helles from Donzoko and Wood, Sugar and Smoke from Left Handed Giant and Exale Brewing. Aadil has Evil Twin The Check Please and the Wylam X Deya collab Theres Nothing Wrong with Dreaming.

The first week of a proper lockdown and we’re keeping sane with Jackbox Party games and Disney +. We discuss some of the good initiatives coming out of this global pandemic firstly chatting Brewgooder and their one on us programme of buying a pack to gift to an NHS worker then about Ndemic Creations working with world health agencies to create a new mode for Plague Inc. Also, Aadil has been hosting some Jackbox gaming sessions over on our Discord server, link below. Lucy is making good use of the Ring Fit and we’ve played a load of demos including Carrion, Hundred Days, Roki, Elder Souls and Resident Evil 3 remake. We drink beers from Left Handed Giant, Gipsy Hill, […]

It’s the end of the world as we know it and we’re all drinking. Aadil, Ben and Lucy get together to discuss a plethora of topics whilst supping 9 beers between them. Discussed are the adaptation beer brewers, bottle shops and taprooms are having to take at this time and changes in the way we and game developers may work in the future. There are also games including House Flipper, Murder By Numbers, 2048, Threes, Corruption 2029 and a little Ori and the Will of the Wisps mention. The beers are ‘Do It Together’ from Moor, ‘Luponic Distortion’ from Firestone Walker, ‘Old Freddy Walker’ by Moor, ‘Venus IPL’ from Beavertown, Pamona Island’s ‘Thumb Man’, ‘Beer + Art Series 2019 14’ […]

I will cut to the chase, should you buy Doom Eternal? Yes, the game is insane. It is a love letter to the old school whilst adhering to modern conventions. The mixture results in something that feels familiar yet unique. This review will only cover the single-player portion of the game as at the time of writing the multiplayer servers are not live. That being said let’s begin. The story. This element of Doom Eternal whilst serving as a sequel to Doom 2016 is largely accessible as a stand-alone entry. The brief ties to the original work as the story opens up as a great entry point for new players but felt a little disjointed given how Doom 2016 ends. […]

With the world resembling that of The Division we’re all in need of a beer. Lucy chats about Hidden Through Time, Ibb & Obb, Death and Taxes and touches a little on House Flipper. Everyone has played the preview version of Filament an upcoming puzzle game and Aadil has jumped into the Final Fantasy 7 Remake demo. The beers this week come from Unbarred Brewery, North Brewing Co, Williams Bros Brewing Co, Five Points Brewing, Odyssey Brew Co and a Wylam X Yeastie Boys collab.