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August 13, 2025
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Our 200th Episode Extravaganza!

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The crew celebrates eight years and two hundred episodes!

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SHOW NOTES:

  • 0:00​​ – Housekeeping
  • 3:40 – We Reminisce
  • 16:30 – Voicemails from You!
  • 24:30 – The Locks for the Essential List of LBGC Games
  • 26:15 – Hitman & Hitman 2
  • 29:00 – What Remains of Edith Finch
  • 32:35 – Portal
  • 34:55 – Celeste
  • 37:20 – Undertale
  • 43:15 – SOMA
  • 44:35 – The Wolf Among Us
  • 49:05 – Death Stranding
  • 55:15 – Bloodborne
  • 58:05 – Hotline Miami
  • 1:01:20 – Hades
  • 1:02:20 – The Best of the Rest
  • 1:03:25 – Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
  • 1:05:45 – Yakuza 0
  • 1:08:40 – P.T.
  • 1:10:30 – Psychonauts
  • 1:13:00 – Chrono Trigger
  • 1:17:50 – Virginia
  • 1:21:40 – Emily is Away
  • 1:22:30 – Doki Doki Literature Club
  • 1:23:25 – Luigi’s Mansion
  • 1:24:50 – Florence
  • 1:27:00 – Spec Ops: The Line
  • 1:27:30 – To The Moon
  • 1:29:05 – The Last Two Slots (Night in the Woods & Shadow of the Colossus)
  • 1:34:30 – A Sacrifice for Gone Home
  • 1:36:00 – The Future!
  • 1:43:30 – Outro

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DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast that focuses on positivity and community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!

CUTSCENES: Check out Jacob, Katie and Travis’ other podcast Cutscenes! The fifth and final season is out now!

The Final List of Essential Games/Episodes of the LBGC:

  • Hitman: World of Assassination
  • What Remains of Edith Finch
  • Portal
  • Celeste
  • Undertale
  • SOMA
  • The Wolf Among Us
  • Death Stranding
  • Bloodborne
  • Hotline Miami
  • Hades
  • Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
  • P.T.
  • Psychonauts
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Virginia
  • Emily is Away
  • Doki Doki Literature Club
  • Luigi’s Mansion
  • Florence
  • Spec Ops: The Line
  • To The Moon
  • Night in the Woods
  • Shadow of the Colossus
  • Gone Home

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November 6, 2024
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191: Finding Paradise

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We cry like babies in Finding Paradise.

Note: It was just Jacob.

Developer: Freebird Games | Publisher: Freebird Games | Initial Release: December 14, 2017

Jacob and special guest Dan from The Greatest Story Ever Played Podcast dive into dreams, fulfill our greatest fantasies and destroy our regrets.

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SHOW NOTES:

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 3:45 Fast Pitch
  • 4:45 How Did We Play?
  • 7:50 Thoughts on To The Moon
  • 9:15 High-Level Story
  • 12:00 Sofia, Asher and Faye
  • 13:30 The Spoiler Wall
  • 14:40 Act 3
  • 24:40 Jacob Cries
  • 29:30 The Book
  • 33:50 Music
  • 36:00 Final Thoughts & Outro

DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast focusing on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!

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December 13, 2017
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019: To The Moon

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We explore our darkest dreams in To The Moon.

Developer: Freebird Games | Publisher: Freebird Games, X.D. Network Inc. | Release Date: November 1, 2011

Jacob, Moe and Mike travel in time, play for River and sit together in a movie theatre. Oh yeah… and Jacob cries. “I am a soft boy and I cried my eyes out.” Our last episode of 2017 launches on December 27th and we are playing Virginia.

You can now e-mail us your questions! Send questions about past episodes or questions about us to questions@leftbehindgame.club!

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

Website: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub

Show Notes (spoilers):

  • 1:59 Moe tries to explain To The Moon
  • 3:50 “Moe’s gonna hate this”
  • 4:47 Mike tries to explain To The Moon
  • 5:52 How did we play the game?
  • 6:40 What was you first impression?
  • 9:32 The “Dragon Ball Z” moment
  • 11:30 The game’s written dialogue
  • 13:22 The “puzzle”
  • 14:45 Entering the first memory
  • 15:20 The first mention of the music
  • 17:00 Character movement (aka the controls)
  • 19:25 The next few memories (up to “take care of Anya”)
  • 23:05 Did Moe think that River was a serial killer?
  • 24:43 The “movie theatre scene”
  • 25:45 The “NASA pitch”
  • 27:42 Comparing To The Moon to Dragon Ball Z again
  • 29:25 The “lighthouse dance”
  • 31:07 The issue with Johnny’s memory
  • 33:58 A mother’s mistake
  • 36:00 We go to the carnival and compare whack-a-mole scores
  • 36:43 Star-gazing
  • 37:50 “Can you see the constellation?”
  • 39:24 Emotional. Devastation.
  • 42:42 How are we going alter his memory?
  • 44:18 Rosalene vs. Watts
  • 47:20 Moe gets to shoot things
  • 48:42 Comparing To The Moon to romantic comedies
  • 51:35 The final sequence
  • 53:23 Jacob loses it… and then comes back
  • 54:25 The after-credits scene
  • 55:55 To The Moon 2: Finding Paradise + closing thoughts

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