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The 2025 Main Story Awards 02: The Feel the Love Award
Dec 30, 2025 37 min EXPLICIT

The 2025 Main Story Awards 02: The Feel the Love Award

Welcome to the inaugural Main Story Awards, Side Story's end-of-year sendoff to the games and topics that captivated our attention this year. Look forward to a new short episode Every Day This Week...

The 2025 Main Story Awards 01: The Clockwork World Award
Dec 29, 2025 32 min EXPLICIT

The 2025 Main Story Awards 01: The Clockwork World Award

Welcome to the inaugural Main Story Awards, a week long showcase where we make up awards to give the games and topics that really took center stage for us this year, and which we felt like deserve...

18: Your Mother's Delightful Bonanza
Dec 10, 2025 2h 1m EXPLICIT

18: Your Mother's Delightful Bonanza

Side Story only exists because of support from listeners like you. Go to friendsatthetable.cash to support us!  Today we explore a bevvy of different worlds: 2.5D fantasy realms, alien FM...

17: A Buffer Arm and a More Traditional Hammer
Nov 27, 2025 1h 56m EXPLICIT

17: A Buffer Arm and a More Traditional Hammer

Mysterious internet occurances abound this week on Side Story. Mysteries like "What is the dark secret of the famed Roottree family, Pittsburghian candy magnates" and "Why did Austin's connection t...

16: Paradise Honk
Nov 11, 2025 1h 39m EXPLICIT

16: Paradise Honk

Between the barter system and the coin, there were other currencies. Cyrus the Great's Achaemenid Empire, which would one day stretchout from the Iranian plateau as far west as Egypt and north as t...

15: The Mama Button
Oct 21, 2025 2h 36m EXPLICIT

15: The Mama Button

This episode contains an extended conversation about the death of a pet. See the chapters below for time stamps. What makes a city good? Is it walkability? A wide variety of dining options? A good...

14: Melancholic Murder Bug
Oct 07, 2025 1h 56m EXPLICIT

14: Melancholic Murder Bug

The ocean is draining. Where is it going? Is there a drain down there? Is someone drinking it? Wouldn't they be getting very thirsty? I guess there are lizardly astrologists and coral-covered autom...

13: The Validity of the Scorpion
Sep 23, 2025 2h 6m EXPLICIT

13: The Validity of the Scorpion

Take a deep breath in. Can you smell it? That's right, the summer is finally behind us, and we can turn to the finer things of the autumn: Genetic splicing, cursed relics, and hobby-kit helicopters...

12: The Succulent Strawberry, or: Make Turnip Grow and Pet Cow
Sep 02, 2025 2h 0m EXPLICIT

12: The Succulent Strawberry, or: Make Turnip Grow and Pet Cow

This week in a special double-part episode, Ali, Dre, and Janine retun from the windy climes of Zephyr Town to tell us about the highs and lows of running a weekend produce market in Story of Seaso...

11: Sweet Pounding Hammer
Aug 19, 2025 1h 11m EXPLICIT

11: Sweet Pounding Hammer

After a long week of moving apartments, Austin breaks in his new podcasting setup. Finally, he and Janine get to talk about Popucom, the colorful co-op action-puzzle game that we've run out of time...

10: This Is Your Slime
Aug 05, 2025 2h 0m EXPLICIT

10: This Is Your Slime

Ali returns to the show to lead Janine and Austin in an exploration of contemporary Tamagotchi culture, focusing on the recent Tamagotchi Uni and brand new Tamagotchi Paradise releases, before divi...

09: Denied Your Clocks Again
Jul 22, 2025 2h 13m EXPLICIT

09: Denied Your Clocks Again

After a few episodes of exclusively appearing in the Outward Let's Play (available to $10 Patrons right here!), Jack and Janine return to Side Story proper. And oh what a trek it has been. They've ...

08: My Horse Books
Jul 09, 2025 2h 45m EXPLICIT

08: My Horse Books

Despite our audio editing software totally devouring Austin's file and corrupting nearly a fully produced episode file, this week's episode of Side Story could not be stopped. Not by the ups-and-do...

07: The Judgmental Gamer
Jun 24, 2025 1h 49m EXPLICIT

07: The Judgmental Gamer

With Austin and Keith itching to talk about Elden Ring: Nightreign, they bring Dre--who carried the group to their first win--on for their for their first appearance on the show. Plus, some mid-gam...

06: The i Stands for 'I'm the Gamer?'
Jun 10, 2025 2h 20m EXPLICIT

06: The i Stands for 'I'm the Gamer?'

After promising not to talk about the Summer Games Fest for too long, Janine, Keith, and Austin spend a full hour chatting about the event's resonance with various ongoing malaises and maladies aff...

05: Blue Prince Spoilercast
May 27, 2025 2h 22m EXPLICIT

05: Blue Prince Spoilercast

Today we dive deep into the mysterious manor of Mt. Holly as Austin, Sylvi, and (for the first time on Side Story) Keith talk at length about Blue Prince, the first-person puzzle game by Dogubom. W...

04: Get Ready to Learn Heaven, Buddy
May 13, 2025 2h 11m EXPLICIT

04: Get Ready to Learn Heaven, Buddy

Look, over there, at that tower. What sort of secrets could it hold? Perhaps some terrible Multiplayer Activities to waste your time. Or, no, wait, maybe it's one of the good towers, the kind you c...