007 First Light, Mooki Island, and Card Crawl 2 - Ep250

Games, games, and, uh, more games, in our landmark 250th one of these things. There’s an argument over the best Bond as we take a shot at 007 First Light from IO Interactive, which feels like a young 007 by way of Uncharted and Hitman. While on the smaller screen we’re slinging swords at decks of dastardlies in a mobile classic reinvented: Card Crawl 2 from Tinytouchtales. Then it’s off out to a trip to UK Games Expo 2026, with lots of chat about the thoughtfully miniaturised Magic Maze Pocket from Sit Down! Games and the community-owned reinvigoration of Netrunner from Null Signal Games. Not enough? Fine. How about our thoughts on latest hotness SHUG from Wandering Games, as well as the completely adorable Mooki Island from Scorpion Masque and Hachette. All that, and an aniseed flavour, on Ep250. 00:00 - A hospital visit 08:08 - 007 First Light 24:14 - Card Crawl 2 40:51 - Magic Maze Pocket 44:02 - Netrunner 51:35 - SHUG 55:40 - Mooki Island On this episode were Dan (@ThisDanFrost), Kris (@DigitalStrider), Peter (@XeroXeroXero), and Sam (@MrSamTurner). Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we’ve ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you’d like to see what we’re up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page. Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.