This week we discuss Contrast, a flawed but interesting puzzle platformer for PC and consoles. Contrast has an appealing 1920s cabaret aesthetic and a really neat shadow-merging mechanic that had a lot of promise, but the game didn’t resonate with most critics. Is the game worth its three-to-four-hour playtime?

Contrast is available on Steam (Windows), Playstation 4, and Xbox One, as well as previous generation consoles, and costs $14.99. Expect it to take three to four hours to complete.

Links for this episode

• Contrast by Compulsion Games – official site
• The Night Circus – Amazon
• The Daddening of Video Games – Stephen Totilo at Kotaku
• Psychonauts
• We Happy Few – the next game from Compulsion Games
• Monaco – What’s Yours Is Mine
• Rocket League
• Attack of the Friday Monsters

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Your hosts this week were:

• Raygan Kelly – @raygank
• Nate Heininger – @natestl
• Laura Nash – @laurajnash