/Tales from the Backlog

Tales from the Backlog

A video games podcast where Dave Jackson and guests break down and discuss the games they play. Each episode looks at one game in depth, focusing on mechanics, story, music and other aspects, with no spoilers until a clearly marked spoiler wall in the middle.

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195: Legend of Grimrock 2 (with Shane Selterre - Retro Hangover)

Dec 10, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- One of the best things about the thriving indie game scene is that dead genres come back to life, and nothing...

194: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (with Michael Berger - Bits of Time)

Dec 3, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- What could Nintendo possibly do to follow up the game that "saved gaming" for me? Well, they simply iterated on and...

193: Asura's Wrath (with Nick & Will - Friday Night Gamecast)

Nov 26, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Some games just stand out from the pack, and with its episodic anime structure, QTE-heavy cutscenes and South Asian...

192: Heaven's Vault (with Rebekah Valentine)

Nov 19, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Ever have one of those games that sits in your library, untouched for years, until something finally gives you the...

191: Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (with Kate & Emily - No Small Games)

Nov 12, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Modern Pokémon games are divisive, but rarely due to technical performance. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Game Freak...

190: Pseudoregalia (with Bo__Po - Underplayed)

Nov 5, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Pseudoregalia (Rittzler, 2023) represents a few things that are either making a resurgence or breaking out within...

189: Lies of P (with Rob & Kelvin - The Gaming Duo)

Oct 29, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Nobody is more skeptical of a new Soulslike on the block than me. Too often, Soulslikes build around the superficial...

188: Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (with Rick Firestone)

Oct 22, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- As I said way back in The Outer Wilds episode, I respect the hell out of that game and think it's a miracle, but I...

187: Fear & Hunger (with Adam Bucceri)

Oct 15, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Sometimes a game's reputation precedes it in a way that makes you question whether you want to play it at all, and...

186: Silent Hill 3 (with Kaye Ross)

Oct 8, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- It's been a real joy working my way through the Silent Hill series alongside doing this show, starting all the way...

185: Slay the Princess (with Matt aka Stormageddon)

Oct 1, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- This year, we're kicking off horror month with a first- a visual novel! It's the first one I've covered on the show...

184: Ultros (with John Rogers - Gaming in the Wild)

Sep 24, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Sometimes, all it takes to grab your attention is a single screenshot, and Ultros (Hadoque, Kepler Interactive, 2024)...

183: Despelote (with Moises Taveras)

Sep 17, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- There are more than enough sports games to go around out there, but the culture of sports does not begin and end on...

182: Bionic Bay (with Harry Loizides - Six One Indie)

Sep 10, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Sometimes a game you'd never heard of will break out with a 90+ on the review aggregator websites and immediately...

181: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (with Ty Schalter)

Sep 3, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Everybody has that game they played a hundred times as a kid and therefore can't be objective about anymore, and for...

180: Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (with Erik - Pages of Play)

Aug 27, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (Don't Nod, 2023) represents a different type of game that Don't Nod has been making...

179: Blue Prince (with Jenny Windom)

Aug 20, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- You know a game is good when it kicks off a new round of discourse about genre names, right? Regardless, Blue Prince...

178: Psychonauts (with Try - My Life in Gaming)

Aug 13, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- A good friend of mine likes to say "every game is somebody's favorite game", but I'm always intrigued when some...

177: Split Fiction (with Aaron Angle)

Aug 6, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon- Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server- Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi- Hazelight Studios were already on the map before their Game of the Year winner It Takes Two, but that game was so...

176: Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (with Chris Coplien - Retro Hangover)

Jul 30, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon ( Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server ( Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi ( I didn't hear about Dragon Quest for a very long time, probably an embarrassingly long time, and once I played...

175: Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (with Brian Edwards)

Jul 23, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon ( Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server! ( Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi ( Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has risen to the gaming mainstream with its beloved Like a Dragon series, and when a hot...

174: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (with Michael Higham)

Jul 16, 2025·—

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*Spoiler section includes some spoilers for key moments and/or themes in Nier Automata, Persona 5 Royal and Metaphor ReFantazio. Support my work on Patreon ( Join the Tales from the Backlog Discord server! ( Buy me a...

173: Max Payne (with Nomad - The Retro Wildlands)

Jul 9, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon ( Two podcasters entered the room on a collision course, one with a backlog the size of a mobster's rap sheet, the other with one foot in the past. There was only one way out of this mess- one...

172: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (with Dan - The Greatest Story Ever Played)

Jul 2, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon ( As a lifelong Indiana Jones agnostic, there was no way that MachineGames would make an Indiana Jones game I would care about, right? Right? Well, it certainly looked that way when the first...

171: El Paso, Elsewhere (with Jacob McCourt & Luke Lewis)

Jun 25, 2025·—

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Support my work on Patreon ( Strange Scaffold is a rare game studio that gets as much, or maybe even more, positive attention for their workplace ethos and number of releases per year as they do for their games...