{"podcast":{"title":"Critical Moves - Strategy Gaming","slug":"critical-moves-strategy-gaming-7033275","podcast_index_feed_id":7033275,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/criticalmoves/feed.xml","website_url":"https://criticalmovespodcast.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/criticalmoves/20260217_020200_54dbaef4aa2087fb2339334d89df2211.png","author":"Critical Moves Podcast","episode_count":91,"summary":"Critical Moves is a strategy games podcast that takes RTS, 4X, and tactics seriously. Most gaming podcasts don’t even bother with strategy games. We do. Each week we cover real-time strategy, turn-based tactics, 4X empire builders and indie experiments, plus shining a new light on old classics. These aren't quick reviews or recycled talking points. It’s sharp criticism and honest discussion about strategy game design. If a game is shallow or broken, we’ll say so. If it does something clever, we’ll explain why it works. We talk to developers and key industry figures, getting into the mechanics and design choices that shape the games we love. We're an RTS podcast , a 4X podcast , a place for smarter conversations about tactics and strategy gaming. Critical Moves is made for players who think about systems, mechanics, and design. New episodes every Friday. https://criticalmovespodcast.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T02:21:49.647628+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-moves-strategy-gaming-7033275"},"episode":{"title":"A Pile of Shame: Critical Moves Hosts Force Each Other's Backlog Games (Ep.88)","slug":"a-pile-of-shame-critical-moves-hosts-force-each-other-s-backlog-games-ep-88","published_at":"2026-07-03T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-moves-strategy-gaming-7033275/a-pile-of-shame-critical-moves-hosts-force-each-other-s-backlog-games-ep-88","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-moves-strategy-gaming-7033275","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/criticalmoves/2959070","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/324240/2959070/criticalmoves/2026_07_02_08_26_25_6ddf22ce-6482-4df4-9f1a-076447f92992.mp3","summary":"Drexy hosts this week, joined by Adam and an early-rising Joe (5am and counting). The trio raid each other's Steam libraries for a \"Pile of Shame\" challenge, picking games none of them have played and forcing each other to give them a proper go (2-5 hours minimum) before reporting back. Adam gets handed Warhammer 40K: Gladius – Relics of War by Drexy and Terra Invicta by Joe, complete with a rundown of Gladius's brutal AI (built by a modder-turned-freelancer) and a full strategy briefing on playing Terra Invicta as the Initiative. Drexy is gifted Nova Lands by Adam and the original Mount & Blade (with the Prophecy of Pendor mod) by Joe. Joe gets Prison Architect and Warsim: The Realm of Aslona from Adam, plus a Shadow Run: Dragonfall pick from Drexy — with a shared, unplayed copy of Warsim becoming a running joke and unofficial group homework. Expect tangents on Zephon's end-game crisis problem, Terra Invicta's mid-patch Ukraine war update, and a Rock Paper Shotgun story about a Solium Infernum player who won a match he almost missed entirely.","meta_description":"Drexy hosts this week, joined by Adam and an early-rising Joe (5am and counting). The trio raid each other's Steam libraries for a \"Pile of Shame\" challen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3042,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/critical-moves-strategy-gaming-7033275/episodes/a-pile-of-shame-critical-moves-hosts-force-each-other-s-backlog-games-ep-88/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-moves-strategy-gaming-7033275/a-pile-of-shame-critical-moves-hosts-force-each-other-s-backlog-games-ep-88.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}