Two Player Theory is a podcast where we think through games and media, together. Co-hosted by Derek and Zach.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "016 - The Sizzlin' Hot Summer of 26" (22 July 2026, 83 minutes), "015 - Scoops, Clues, and Obstructions of Justice (Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes)" (3 December 2025, 112 minutes), and "014 - "A Miserable Pile of Jokes" (Observation and SIGNALIS)" (3 October 2025, 77 minutes).
Two Player Theory publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 89 minutes across 18 episodes.
Booking probability for Two Player Theory is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Two Player Theory requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Two Player Theory's contact route on record: verified email.
Two Player Theory is a leisure podcast with 18 episodes published.
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Episode #19
The theorists are back from (summer?) break! They check in on what they've been up to this year, but spend most of their time talking about table top role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons and Mothership, and why...
<p>Cynthia is joined by guest hosts Derek and Zach for another special "guest episode!" While playing through Her Interactive's 2011 game Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes, the theorists try not only to solve the case, but...
<p>For this very scary season, Zach and Derek trade horror games, horrible jokes, and excellent Dracula impressions. Derek reflects on Observation (No Code, 2020) as an existential thriller, and Zach dives deep into...
Episode #16
<p>Zach and Derek are joined once again by special guest Kyle to talk through Suzerain (Torpor Games, 2020), a political, narrative game where you play the role of a newly-elected president in a fledgling democracy, and...
<p>Joined once again by special guest Sean (or Bean, has the Theorists end up calling him), Derek and Zach meditate on 2024's beloved indie game about a failed nun, INDIKA (Odd-Meter). They talk fate, faith, work, play...
<p>Derek and Zach make their way through Arco (2024), an indie, postcolonial (??) turn-based action game about the violence of colonization and the stories of indigenous people seeking revenge and redemption for past...
<p>Thanks to a listener suggestion, Zach and Derek drift into the neon-lit world of Cloudpunk (Ion Lands, 2020). They reflect on Cloudpunk's unique, "cozy" take on cyberpunk, and try to figure out what they want and...
Episode #12
<p>Derek and Zach are joined by special guest Sean to recount the highs and lows of their relationships with FromSoft's classic Dark Souls (2011). They reflect on narrative and mechanical design, struggle, failure...
<p>Zach and Derek talk about one of the biggest games in the world: Minecraft. They test their knowledge, try their hand at some amateur foley work, and work through why procedural generation in games like Minecraft...
<p>On this unintentionally-well-timed-nearly-Valentine's release, Zach and Derek visit the dating-sim/dungeon crawler Boyfriend Dungeon (Kitfox, 2021), a game far less saucy than the title suggests. How does the game...
Episode #9
<p>It's Two Player Theory Award Season!! Zach and Derek highlight their favorite moments with games in 2024, both the big and the small.</p> <p>Wanna see the full list of our awards? Check them out on social media...
<p>Or, The Life and Death of Robo Derek</p> <p>Zach and Derek (and a special guest ??) do a game swap to tackle a favorite genre: roguelikes, roguelites, and everything in between. They focus on FTL: Faster Than Light...
<p>Has the die already been cast? Are we all just floating along for the ride? What makes a memory, a dream, a ghost, or an echo (un)real? Is there hope for community and life after the flood? Derek and Zach consider it...
<p>Derek goes back to the very beginning of his interest in first-person shooters with Team Fortress 2 (Valve, 2007), and Zach tells the tale of his time at summer camp in Psychonauts (Double Fine, 2005).</p>
<p>Friend Kyle joins Derek and Zach to talk about a really bad tweet thread - but also about Sid Meier's Civilization V, Baldur's Gate 3, and what we want from good criticism.</p>
<p>Zach explores the many pathways of Chrono Cross's story, within the game and across his life growing up.</p>
<p >In this episode, Derek and Zach talk through their experiences with the latest instalment in the Animal Crossing series, New Horizons. Topics include utopia, friction, and the debut of the Fruit Minute with Derek...
<p>Derek talks about his decade-long relationship with the rogue-like that started it all (for him) - The Binding of Isaac (Nicalis, 2014)</p>
<p>In this first episode, Derek and Zach talk through their experiences with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom</p>
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