Balatro, Duolingo, and Hundreds of Beavers - Ep214

A mega massive wrap up of all our favourite things we discovered in 2024, including: Codenames, Duolingo, The Rise of the Golden Idol, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Thunder Road Vendetta, Hundreds of Beavers, Essen, Balatro, Midnight Mass, One Shot RPGs, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Deadloch, The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game, Wilmot's Warehouse, Godzilla Minus One, Cyberpunk 2077, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, Death's End, and the works of Simon Stålenhag. All that, yes ALL THAT, and the pants option always available, on Ep214. 00:00 - Approaching a Sweep 03:18 - Codenames and Duolingo 07:23 - The Rise of the Golden Idol and Thank Goodness You're Here! 11:49 - Thunder Road Vendetta and Hundreds of Beavers 15:52 - Essen, Balatro, and Midnight Mass 20:45 - One Shot RPGs, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and Deadloch 29:39 - The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game 33:34 - Wilmot's Warehouse 40:50 - Godzilla Minus One and Cyberpunk 2077 44:37 - Tomb Raider I-III Remastered and Death's End 53:30 - The works of Simon Stålenhag 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. Links to everywhere 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.