Kaye, Ben, Jala, and Moxie talk about Metal Gear Solid Delta, Heartworm, SPRAWL, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Alterium Shift. Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy. Kaye: Metal Gear Solid Delta. Heartworm. Picross. Ben: PAX West. The Fate of the Fellowship. Moxie: SPRAWL. Fallen London. The…

Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum advertises itself as a lost NES adaptation of the Garbage Pail kids line of collectible trading cards. In reality, it’s a modern game made by talented devs who make games for NES hardware. And it’s pretty fine! But there are so many Garbage Pail kids to talk about, so we spend most of our time…

Let's get to know our friend Ignacio a little bit. Our friends, the Kettlemans, have gotten into a bit of a bother and Ignacio might know where they went. He was the last one to see them before they went missing, after all.

It’s hard to think of a more damning indictment of the state of the world in 2025 than the fact that a cheap RTS developed to shock people with gender stereotypes in 1996 is really tame in comparison to what happens today. What happens in this game is by no means good, but it plays in tropes that are so outdated as to be cartoonish. Tim HomeImprove…

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Nine Kings, Threshold, Voxelgram, and much more! The Grind: Dennis: Nine Kings. Elden Ring. Ben: Voxelgram. Moxie: Warhammer 40k: Darktide. Kaye: Threshold. Eyes on the Exam. The Multiplayer: What kind of game surprised you, either positively or negatively? The End Boss: AI company’s poll says game developers…

You are a rock and roll musician who fights creatures in virtual reality! You embody rock'n'roll in every way except the music. What's more, you received a job offer from Uganda!

Nacho has joined the party! We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about the Battlefield 6 beta, Is This Seat Taken?, Grunn, and much more! The Grind: Ben: Grunn. Kaye: Is This Seat Taken? Merge Maestro. Look Outside. Moxie: Fallen London. Dennis: Various N64 games. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Battlefield 6 (Beta) The Multiplayer: Strange (video game) Currencies. The End Boss: Doom…

For the first time since 2019, Watch Out for Fireballs! is going to have a panel at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this October, the weekend of October 17-19! We will be giving an updated version of our 7/10 Games talk, with new games and new guests (we'll have at least one Retronaut with us). We don't currently know when our slot is, but we will a…

Dynamite Dux is a forgotten Sega arcade beat-em-up with a profoundly cursed aura. Play five minutes of it and tell me this game isn’t haunted to hell and back. Then, come with us as we talk about the raunchy easter egg that took people 30 years to uncover.

Kaye, Dennis, Jala, and Moxie talk about Cyclopean: The Great Abyss, Warhammer 40k: Darktide, Look Outside, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Alterium Shift. Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm. A Raven Monologue. Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Moxie: Fallen London. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Dennis: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Burnout Paradise Remastere…

Are you ready for an episode about a notoriously derided Superman game hosted by two people who don’t really care for or know about Superman, and haven’t seen that new movie everyone’s raving about? We hope so!

It's time to go back where it all began. We begin with a day in the life of down-on-his-luck lawyer, Jimmy McGill and end with the single encounter that creates the entire Breaking Bad story. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.…

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Witchfire, Date Everything, and much more! The Grind: Moxie: Witchfire. Warhammer 40k: Darktide. Dennis: Warhammer 40k: Darktide. Chameleon Run. Kaizen: A Factory Story. Elden Ring. Ben: City of Six Moons. Dune Imperium. Date Everything. Kaye: The Hundred Line: Last Def…

Picking games to cover on Abject Suffering is hard. We don’t like hitting ones that have been talked to death. So sometimes we just grab something with a name that calls out to us. What’s a Troddler? What does a Troddler mean for my life? We never would have guessed that Troddlers, a game nobody has heard of, might actually be a pretty fun puzzle g…

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Kaizen: A Factory Story, Look Outside, Descenders Next, and much more! The Grind: Ben: House Flipper. Skin Deep. Skald: Against the Black Priory. Kaye: Look Outside. Dennis: Descenders Next. Kaizen: A Factory Story. Moxie: NOTHING. The Multiplayer: Assign someone a game to play as punishment. The End Boss: Sp…

This movie was so influential it's easy to watch it and think "I've seen this before!" But take yourself back to 1995 when this genre standard burst onto the scene. Se7en is still every bit as dark and affecting as we remember. The sequel, Ei8ht, on the other hand? That one has aged very poorly.

Wild Woody is a swan-song for a system nobody owned, built around a power fantasy nobody has ever had. Who wants to be a pencil? So we introduce a much more tempting fantasy… How many hot dogs could you be trusted with?

Breaking Bad is over, but a question still remains... what happened to Huell? We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4, Chorus of Carcosa, The Alters, and much more! The Grind: Moxie: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4. The Division 2. Dominion. Kaye: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4. Chorus of Carcosa. Dennis: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4. Trackmania. The Alters. Ben: Twilight Imperium. City of Six Moons. The Mult…

Arachnophobia is now mostly forgotten, but it was once a beloved one-off horror comedy movie about extremely virile spiders overtaking a small town. Then they made a game out of it, and it was very boring! So we talk about Brian Wilson’s obsession with “Short’nin’ Bread” instead.

In this episode, we find that the grout is already cleaned out, and have a night at the museum. Other Segments: Chronicles of Darkness: Hunt down the skinny on Vampire Hunters Handbook for the Recently Deceased: Celerity Protean Protips: Gary has a microtip to share

A perfect encapsulation of 80's movie jank. It's dumb, it's sexist, but boy are the boss fights cool. And it inspired SmashTV! What more could you ask for? Join Ahnold as he battles the gauntlet and attempts escape from a sadistic TV show with life-or-death stakes.

We don’t know anything about soccer, but we DO know things about Mega Man. Unfortunately, this game leans more on the soccer side of the equation. So we default back to the last time either of us played sports: in gym class. We also talk about our recent trips to festivals, both Renaissance and Pride.…

This is the road that takes Jesse Pinkman far, far away from this whole mess. The 63rd episode of Breaking Bad, presented as a feature presentation. El Camino is different from the main series, but only in so much it was built as an epilogue movie from the ground up. This is a character study, and isn't as much concerned with moving the plot forwar…

Kaye, Dennis, Jala, and Moxie talk about the Alters, Songs of Conquest, Finity, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle Chapter IV: Sacred Feathers. Dagon. Songs of Conquest. Dennis: The Alters. Finity. Moxie: FBC: Firebreak. The Division 2. Kaye: The Labyrinth of the Demon King. The Multiplayer: W…

To prove just how dead in the water Sega was in the mid-1990s, they bet big on Bug!, a very slow 2.5D platformer that began life as a Sonic game. The Sega Saturn was a system in search of an identity, and boy howdy, Bug! did not provide it.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about FBC: Firebreak, SplitGate 2, Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, and much more! The Grind: Moxie: The Division 2. FBC: Firebreak. Dennis: FBC: Firebreak. Control. iRacing. SplitGate 2. Lost in Random. Lost in Random: The Eternal Die. Ben: Not Marvel Snap. Magic the Gathering. Super AutoPets Kaye: Labyrinth of th…

What's scarier in this world than trying to make friends as an adult? Tim Robinson teams up with director Andrew DeYoung to bring us an expanded look at the tragicomedy of an I Think You Should Leave character.

Have we talked about Spider-Man more than any other superhero on this show? Maybe Batman is up there. And Gary has definitely shoehorned “Turn Off the Dark” into more episodes than is necessary. But this is the first time we’ve really camped out on the Sinister Six, one of the more incoherent supervillain groups of all time. Also, take a look at Sp…

In which all of your questions are finally answered. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Episode Description: Kaye, Ben, and Jala talk about The Labyrinth of the Demon King, a shitload of Steam NextFest demos, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Labyrinth of the Demon King. Ben: Baby Steps (Demo). Frosthaven (Demo). We Harvest Shadows (Demo). Jala: The Drifter (Demo). Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (Demo). Davy x Jones (Demo). Gecko Gods (Dem…

Folks, Gary chose to harm all of us by picking this game for Abject Suffering. Part of the shovelware dance game craze of about fifteen years ago, the Black Eyed Peas Experience ranks pretty low on the list of things we’ve covered. And that list is long.

Kaye, Ben, Jala, and Moxie talk about Mario Kart World, KARMA: The Dark World, Skald: Against the Black Priory, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Without a Dawn. KARMA: The Dark World. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp. Kaye: Mario Kart World. Moxie: The Division 2. Ben: Skald: Against the Black Pri…

Covering Guardian War right after Paperboy 64 is a one-two punch of some of the most hideous games we’ve played. But looking past its shoddy veneer, Guardian War is kind of interesting, if insufficient. Of all of the 3DO games we’ve played, this is the one that’s most like an actual video game… being a kind of over-the-shoulder tactics RPG. Gary al…

New Hampshire. Practicualy an alien world to the landscape of New Mexico that we've come to know and love over the course of the series. And that's where Walt wastes away, slowly running out the clock. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.…

Would you believe that the Paperboy game for the N64 would be one of the ugliest things we’ve covered for this show? It seems like that would be hard to accomplish, given the competition, but this game’s spindly polygonal horrors are genuinely unnerving.

In this episode we dance ourselves clean and visit a haunted house. Other Segments: Chronicles of Darkness: Ghosts and Geists Handbook of t In this episode we dance ourselves clean and visit a haunted house. Other Segments: Chronicles of Darkness: Ghosts and Geists Handbook of the Recently Deceased: Stealth Guess Who: Jeannette and Therese LA By Ni…

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Parasocial, Pacific Drive, [SUBJECT], and much more! The Grind: Ben: Expedition 33: Clair Obscur. Pacific Drive. Dennis: Smash Hit. What the Car. Doom: The Dark Ages. Moxie: Fallen London. Borderlands 3. Kaye: [SUBJECT]. Parasocial. The Multiplayer: What AAA game successfully avoided pandering to you? The End…

Make no mistake: This is a game created for a furry vore comic… but it’s such a mild example of what we can only assume is fetish material that all we’re left with is a pretty okay Popeye arcade game clone. So we talk about the many faces of Gordon Ramsey instead.

Look upon Walt's works, the mighty, and despair. It's all about to come crumbling down. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kaye, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Doom: The Dark Ages, Lost Records: Bloom and Rage, Void Crew, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. Rocksmith 2014 Remastered. Dennis: Doom: The Dark Ages. Moxie: Void Crew. Fallen London. The Multiplayer: Let’s talk about video games within video games! The …

People have been asking us to cover the Burger King games for as long as this show has existed. They fit the remit of Abject Suffering so perfectly! But emulation is difficult, and we wanted to make absolutely sure we could play these games perfectly, so we could avoid talking about them and instead dwell on how the Burger King corporation wasted a…

Kaye, Dennis, Jala, and Moxie talk about Alterium Shift, Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders, Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Alterium Shift. Ace Attorney Investigations Collection. Venba. Of Bird and Cage. Dennis: Hill Climb Racing. Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders. Moxie: Void Crew. Dying Light 2. Fallen London. Kaye: T…

Join your favorite Angry Birds characters: Red! Bomb! Poopy flame bird! As they rescue their eggs from immigrants. It's bad!

One of our least favorite game coverage schticks is pretending that a game’s concept is so wacky that you can’t understand it. You play as a mosquito who’s tormenting a family, and it’s a flight sim? Okay, cool, I get it. A domino wants to run little courses? Sure, why would I try to stop him? A studio’s whole deal is putting aquatic life in strang…

Dare you accept the dark gift? What will you do to hold onto your humanity? What secrets await you in Real Lich Hours Season 2? Come find out, if you dare.

Walter is tricked by Hank. Hank is tricked by Walt. Nobody tricks Jack. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Half Sword, Auridia, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and much more! The Grind: Moxie: Fallen London. Borderlands 3. Kaye: Auridia. Dennis: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Ben: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Half Sword. The Multiplayer: What games do you need to play all the way to the end? The End Boss: Grand Theft A…

Listen, Mercenary Force isn’t a bad game at all. It’s actually quite interesting, if a bit too hard. A side scrolling shooter where you control four feudal Japanese warriors? It’s a good premise! Nobody knows what Gary was thinking when he brought this one. “Why is one of the hosts named differently? What happened!?” Kaye is transitioning! Find out…