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Reigns developer Nerial worked with interactive fiction luminary Emily Short to adapt George Orwell’s classic allegory of the Russian revolution to video game form. But is it a farming simulator?

Animal Farm is available for iOS and PC/Mac. A play-through is around 90 minutes to 2 hours, with many possible endings.

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Your hosts this week were:

  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (01:29) - The Novel
  • (10:06) - Orwell’s Animal Farm
  • (50:24) - What’s Making Us Happy This Week?
  • (50:28) - Shane - The Expanse
  • (57:22) - Raygan - Captain Tsubasa: Rise of the New Champions
  • (01:04:31) - Nate - Hades Story Gets Good!
  • (01:06:40) - Laura - Movie Watch Alongs
  • (01:10:31) - Outro

What is The Short Game?

A podcast about video games that respect your time