It’s the end of term at Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!) and Rik and Jo celebrate with a bumper size chat about Swedish thriller The Samaritan Paradox.

PhD student Ord Salamon is aimlessly bored and putting off writing his thesis when his friend Magnus calls him with some positive encouragement to read a book: specifically, the book Magnus lent Ord a little while ago.

It’s not a game about reading a book though… Well, it sort of is, actually, but in between reading, Ord is drawn into an increasingly complex tale of danger, intrigue and mystery.

Topics under discussion also include having plans for a horse, whether a saw or a snore is louder, and what happens if you try drying wet and dirty clothes with an iron.

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for The Samaritan Paradox.

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Rik and Jo return to complete Shardlight. Did our hosts leave Amy in some kind of situation last week? Was it a good or bad situation? And does she manage to change her circumstances at all, if indeed she wants to?

Trying to avoid specifics is quite tricky when you’re midway through a game. But once this episode is over, Rik and Jo will have reached the end of Shardlight, and given you a brief appraisal of it: that’s the Discussion: [Indie Game] (spoilers!) guarantee.

There’s a few grisly details to poke through, and the word ‘pustules’ is even used at one point. Plus, there’s discussion of whether Darth Vader ever told anyone to ‘see HR on Monday’, and if you should drink a liquid that you find under a bench just because the leader of a cult told you to.

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for Shardlight.

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It’s back to the future again for this week’s episode. Do Rik and Jo find themselves in an optimistic utopia, or is it another bleak vision of a broken future?

It’s the latter, of course, as today’s game is Shardlight, which begins with protagonist Amy Wellard doing an extremely dangerous job for rich men in silly outfits in exchange for the chance of vaccination against a terminal illness.

Our hosts also discuss V for Vendetta, hunky topless butchers, and whether Jagged Alliance 2 really was the reason that Rik didn’t have a girlfriend in the 90s.

***KLAXON!*** ***SPOILER KLAXON!*** This podcast features spoilers for Shardlight.

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GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/shardlight

Music for this podcast is by VOiD1 Gaming: https://www.void1gaming.com/