The Inner Gamer Podcast

The Inner Gamer is a video game podcast exploring the world of video games and the industry surrounding them. Built for the casual gamer, we dive into all the games to weed out the games that are worth your time.

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  Episode #456

  456: The Blood of Dawnwalker, Resonance A Plague Tale Legacy and Marvel's Wolverine

  Sep 21, 20262h 8m

  This week we dig into The Blood of Dawnwalker, the debut RPG from Rebel Wolves, where Coen is human by day and vampire by night and the whole game is built around that split. Different powers, different routes, separate skill trees, and a time system where every quest you take closes the door on another. We get into how the clock actually works, why it makes choices land harder. Then it's our full review of Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. Asobo traded the rats and stealth for swords, parries, and a smuggler exploring the Minotaur's Island, with a dual timeline that lets Sophia see through the eyes of Theseus. We talk about what the new direction gains and where the tension of the old games survives. We close with early impressions of Marvel's Wolverine, including a rage system that turns Logan's healing factor into a resource you spend and a post-launch debate over whether linear design is the same thing as hand-holding. Then we wrap up with Enshrouded ahead of its 1.0 launch: what makes the Shroud, the building, and the traversal click, what's coming October 15, and what the pre-launch price increase says about where Early Access is headed. Show Notes: 0:51 - Housekeeping 1:34 - The Blood of Dawnwalker: Human By Day, Monster By Night 38:58 - Resonance Traded Rats for Swords — Did It Work? 1:05:57 - Insomniac Made Wolverine Feel Dangerous — Is It Enough? 1:41:37 - Building, Gliding, Dying Towards 1.0: Why Enshrouded Clicks 2:03:00 - Upcoming Video Game Releases Become a part of the conversation! If you donate $1 or more on Patreon you can get exclusive access to the Patreon-only chat and channels on the server. Visit our website to find our social channels, check past podcasts and donate to the show. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all of our latest videos as they drop. Credits: "Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.net Woman Announcer - Ariana Guerra; Actress "Wisdom" by Super Nostalgia 64

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  Episode #455

  455: Star Wars Zero Company, Grain Rot and War Dogs

  Sep 7, 20262h 31m

  Star Wars Zero Company reviewed well, hit number one on Steam, and shipped with roughly 80% of its studio furloughed and unpaid. We came out of it in different places — one of us thinks the story is fine and the mechanics are genuinely great, one of us couldn't get past the characters and the story premise — and the argument leads somewhere neither of us expected. The gap between a seven and a nine here is mostly patch work, which raises an uncomfortable question: who's left to do it? Then we go smaller. Grain Rot is ten dollars, it's a full 1.0 release in a genre that treats Early Access as a permanent address, and it's close enough to REPO that the gap is worth arguing about instead of dismissing. We break down the Living Spark system, the persistent Outpost progression that actually separates it from Lethal Company, and whether shipping finished was the honest choice or the strategically worse one. WarDogs hits Early Access the day after this episode, and after four hours of getting absolutely dismantled by it, something clicked. The interesting part isn't the guns — it's that total strangers were reviving each other and communicating, which is the thing Battlefield has promised for a decade and never delivered. The reason is mechanical, and it's a lesson the biggest shooters in the world still haven't learned. And we close on the crater. Every publisher on earth spent the last year rearranging their schedule around a single Thursday in November — Take-Two moved NBA 2K27 to avoid its own game — leaving September and October as a six-week pileup where good games are going to disappear. We talk about what that costs players with limited hours, why the Netflix trailer premiere matters more than anything in the trailer itself, and how to plan a fall when the calendar has been bent around a game that isn't out yet. Show Notes: 0:57 - Housekeeping 2:22 - Everyone Likes Star Wars Zero Company. Should You? 50:57 - Can Grain Rot Beat Lethal Company And REPO? 1:10:35 - Can WarDogs Do What Battlefield Can't? 1:42:20 - What Is GTA 6 Doing To The Rest Of Gaming? 2:25:50 - Upcoming Video Game Releases Become a part of the conversation! If you donate $1 or more on Patreon you can get exclusive access to the Patreon-only chat and channels on the server. Visit our website to find our social channels, check past podcasts and donate to the show. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all of our latest videos as they drop. Credits: "Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.net Woman Announcer - Ariana Guerra; Actress "Wisdom" by Super Nostalgia 64

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  Episode #453

  453: Halo Campaign Evolved, Funnel Runners and Ghost Recon Wildlands

  Aug 11, 20262h 3m

  This week, Brett, Austin, and Jason cover four very different corners of gaming — starting with Halo: Campaign Evolved. Brett played the entire thing with zero nostalgia, and the remake genuinely won him over. But the three new prequel missions, the only original content in the release, tell a different story: reused assets, thin characters, and a baffling choice to have a new character openly dismiss Master Chief. That firsthand breakdown gets weighed against the discourse, the layoffs that hit the studio a week after launch, and what it all means for a $50 price tag. From there, the crew takes a first look at Funnel Runners, an early access co-op survival game where the real threat is a terrifyingly realistic tornado — thin on content right now, but building real community buzz. Then it's a generational showdown on Ghost Recon Wildlands' 25th anniversary update: Jason's 195 hours deep, Brett's walking in cold, and the two compare notes on the new 4K/60fps upgrade, the Last Rites mission, and what Ubisoft's silence on Breakpoint says about where the franchise is really headed. Closing things out, Austin replays Spider-Man 2018 in the wake of Brand New Day's record-breaking box office run, using it as a lens for what Marvel's Wolverine — Insomniac's next big swing — might look like when it lands in September. Time-value takes, honest tradeoffs, and opinions throughout — no hype, just the real talk busy gamers actually need. Show Notes: 1:30 - Housekeeping 2:33 - Halo: Campaign Evolved's Biggest Flaw Isn't the Remake, It's What They Added 41:57 - Funnel Runners First Look: The Tornado Survival Game That Terrified Us in the Best Way 1:01:47 - Ghost Recon Wildlands Just Got a Free Upgrade — Is the 2017 Classic Still Worth It? 1:31:53 - Spider-Man 2018 in 2026: How Does It Hold Up? 1:58:14 - Upcoming Video Game Releases Become a part of the conversation! If you donate $1 or more on Patreon you can get exclusive access to the Patreon-only chat and channels on the server.   Visit our website to find our social channels, check past podcasts and donate to the show. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all of our latest videos as they drop.   Credits: "Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.net Woman Announcer - Ariana Guerra; Actress "Wisdom" by Super Nostalgia 64

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  Episode #452

  452: Palworld 1.0, Black Flag and Garden College Creator Zac Harvey Interview

  Jul 27, 20263h 6m

  Palworld just did something almost no Early Access game manages — it actually finished. Roughly a quarter of Early Access games on Steam ever reach a full release, and Pocketpair's 60-person team crossed the line with a doubled map, a reworked progression system, and no price increase for existing owners. We dig into why the survival-crafting, creature-collecting, base-automation mashup works when it shouldn't, and whether 1.0 is a "come back" moment or a "start fresh" commitment that busy players should think twice about. Then it's Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, where the critics and the players are pointing in opposite directions. Reviews landed lukewarm while it sold two million copies in a day and set a franchise record for concurrent players on Steam. We make the case that the "inessential remake" take misses what's actually great here: a vast Caribbean built out of bite-sized islands packed with Legendary Ships, Mayan Stelae, caves, and underwater wrecks — a structure that respects a player working with 45-minute windows instead of full weekends. Community developer Zac joins us to talk about Garden College, the top-down RPG he's building, and what running and participating in game jams has taught him that solo project work never could. And we return to Sony's disc decision from a completely different angle — not the ownership debate we already had, but the dependency stack underneath it. PSN's July outage was reportedly tied to the same AWS infrastructure that delayed patient care and grounded travelers last October. Halo buyers who paid extra for early access couldn't launch a single-player campaign because login servers were overloaded. One man lost 25 years of purchased games to a hack and only got them back after his post went viral. The through line: how many companies have to be having a good day for you to play something you already paid for? Check out more of Zac's work here: https://zacmadeagame.itch.io/ Show Notes: 0:49 - Housekeeping 2:14 - Palworld Finally Grew Up — Was It Worth the Wait? 36:18 - Black Flag Resynced: The Ultimate Open World Game? 1:13:05 - The Sony Disc Debate Was Never About Discs 1:57:29 - Indie Game Development and Game Jams with Zac Harvey 3:02:05 - Upcoming Video Game Releases Become a part of the conversation! If you donate $1 or more on Patreon you can get exclusive access to the Patreon-only chat and channels on the server.   Visit our website to find our social channels, check past podcasts and donate to the show. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all of our latest videos as they drop.   Credits: "Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.net Woman Announcer - Ariana Guerra; Actress "Wisdom" by Super Nostalgia 64

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  Episode #450

  450: Meccha Chameleon, Empulse and the XBox Reset

  Jun 30, 20261h 48m

  This week on The Inner Gamer, Brett, Jason and Austin start with the indie story nobody saw coming: Meccha Chameleon, a $6 hide-and-seek party game from a nearly-solo Japanese dev team, sold millions of copies in days with zero marketing spend. They break down the skill-based mechanic that made it perfect for viral clips, the conspiracy theories that followed its success, and whether a tiny team can actually sustain support for a player base this size. From there, the conversation shifts to Empulse, 1047 Games' early access movement shooter chasing that old Titanfall feeling. The gameplay genuinely delivers — but with Splitgate 2's collapse still fresh, the guys dig into whether a no-microtransaction promise is a real change of heart or just the only move left for a studio rebuilding trust. The back half of the episode turns to the industry itself. Xbox's "reset" has gone from rumor to reality — real layoffs, real studio closures, and a console price hike happening at the same time the platform is trying to reassert exclusivity. And closing things out, Brett, Jason and Austin tackle the rising cost of being a gamer head-on, using GTA 6's tiered pricing and the Steam Machine's four-figure price tag to talk through what's actually worth paying for — and how to navigate a hobby that keeps getting more expensive. Show Notes: 1:09 - Housekeeping 1:59 - Meccha Chameleon Sold 10 Million Copies— What Nobody Is Talking About 19:19 - Empulse First Look: Good Game, Poor Track Record 48:47 - The Xbox Reset is Here, and It’s Worse Than We Thought 1:13:55 - Gaming Got Expensive — Permanently 1:43:12- Upcoming Video Game Releases Become a part of the conversation! If you donate $1 or more on Patreon you can get exclusive access to the Patreon-only chat and channels on the server.   Visit our website to find our social channels, check past podcasts and donate to the show. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see all of our latest videos as they drop.   Credits: "Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.net Woman Announcer - Ariana Guerra; Actress "Wisdom" by Super Nostalgia 64

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