In this week’s episode Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I get our competitive thinky caps on with Bearwaves’ Feud.

In this week’s episode Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I face-off in steel and gunpowder acrobatic arena fighter Samurai Gunn 2.

The last time I published one of these was just before Covid-19 hit and it was a lumbering monstrosity of a list. I didn’t have it in me to do one in 2020 nor 2021, but 2022 felt different. Joel and I even started Side by Side again, as I’m sure you’ll have noticed with the recent flurry of posts…

In this week’s episode Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I stuff our faces in the madcap party game GourMelee.

First boomerangs, now frisbees. In this week’s episode Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I play Windjammers 2, badly.

In this week’s episode Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I get tossed into a pit and die a lot in Spirits Abyss.

In this week’s episode Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I take a look at Toyful Games’ madcap driving action game Very Very Valet.

Whew, it’s been a while, but like a boomerang tossed into the distance, Side by Side is back!

Tenderfoot Tactics is an open world turn-based tactics game where you play as a band of goblins exploring a vast archipelago, getting into cool fights and pushing back a malevolent force known as ‘the fog’.

The fights are cool because they’re all about manipulating and dramatically transforming the battlefield. You can smash craters and crack ravines into the earth, fill them with water then electrocute, boil, or even ice the water over to cross it. You can grow movement-hindering (or enhancing!) brush then set it alight to toast your foes (or your tender toes). You can even infect enemies with a fecund poison that, on death, spawns a ‘bog body’.

My first bog body was called Bobbie. Bobbie the bog body.

Unfortunately Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I have not been able to do Side by Side this year due to, well, the nature of the series being totally at odds with a pandemic. Joel had always planned to do a deleted scenes episode for season 5 but he got distracted. Well, that time is now, or, it was, about a month ago when he put this together, but I got distracted and forgot to post it up. Lots of amusing clips here of what was a great selection of local multiplayer games. Fingers crossed for 2021…

Argh, this was meant to go out over the New Year period(!) but I’ve been burning the candle at both ends with work and… well, this turned out a lot longer than I expected!

Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I end season five of Side by Side with, well, a sheep dog game called Disobedient Sheep. You can’t say we’ve not had variety this season!

This week, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I slink around in the dark trying to kill each other in Mild Beast Games’ At Sundown: Shots in the Dark. We played this a few years back at Rezzed and loved it, and since then it’s been in active development. Much to our excitement it was finally released in January this year!

Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I resume our usual Side by Side programming this week with Totally Reliable Delivery Service, an ‘open world multiplayer physics game about terrible delivery drivers’. Yep, that was us!

In our second departure from playing, Joel Goodwin of Electron Dance and I discuss local multiplayer trailers. And we forget to mention a couple of (puts on American hat) doozies.