The Other Castle

The Other Castle

The Other Castle is a podcast where hosts Tom and Andrea discuss the plot, lore, and more of video games. We discuss and dissect the best, the worst, the weird and the nonsensical alike. New episodes Wednesdays!

Episodes

April 30, 2025 96 mins

Season 10 Episode 9

Tom & Andrea kick off their 100th game (probably) by going deeper than ever before in Subnautica. Come along as we are stranded on planet 4546B, surrounded by water, with no way home. It's time to survive, as we collect minerals and materials in order to build a shelter for what could be a long stay. That is if the mysterious illness eating away at our insides doesn't take us first. 

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Season 10 Episode 8

Tom & Andrea take a stroll through Raccoon City's most notorious mansion with the inventor of the survival/horror genre, Resident Evil. Come along as we try to make it through the mysterious Spencer Mansion alive, all while being attacked by one of gaming's most reliable villains: Zombies! Not only that, you'll also find out how the promise of a free lunch made it all possible. Join us for the Godfather of zombi...

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April 16, 2025 221 mins

Season 10 Episode 7

Tom & Andrea do their best to prevent global destruction in Final Fantasy 6. Join us as we take on the task of juggling 14 playable characters, all while battling the most evil villain in gaming history. Listen in and discover why this is Tom's all-time favorite story in a video game (As well as which character he has tattooed on his chest). The magic is real, and the stakes have never been higher. 

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April 9, 2025 158 mins

Season 10 Episode 6


Tom & Andrea take a trip back to the hormone-fueled world of High School in Doki Doki Literature Club. Come hang out as we explore new relationships in this drama-filled club. School is already scary enough, but the members themselves have horrors that nobody is ready to encounter. Least of all, the player character. Who will you choose? Will it even matter? Did we even record an episode? (Yes we very much did,...

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April 2, 2025 84 mins

Season 10 Episode 5

Tom & Andrea begin their new careers as Power Wash Service Providers in the shockingly complex, Power Wash Simulator. Mysteries abound in Muckingham, the dirtiest town in not-America. It's our job to spray away the grime and uncover the truth behind the shocking mysteries within. We might even save a lost cat along the way. Find out how a small indie title took the world by storm by bringing us the world's firs...

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March 26, 2025 171 mins

Season 10 Episode 4

Tom & Andrea return to the original Nazi-stomping franchise with Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. We reteam with Billy Blazkowicz right where we last left him. Despite his grand gesture at the end of the first title, his friends won't let him die, and soon he's off on a new adventure. This time, he's being chased by an old enemy out for revenge. Will Billy make it out alive? You might be surprised by the answer...

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March 19, 2025 113 mins

Season 10 Episode 3

Tom & Andrea are inkbound once more, this time through Disney History, in Epic Mickey. Teaming up with Mickey Mouse, we meet a familiar stranger named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and learn all about his origins. Including the absolutely outrageous story of how Disney acquired the character. Using our magic paintbrush, we explore the Wasteland to discover why the mysterious Mad Doctor brought us there. All the while ...

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March 12, 2025 199 mins

Season 10 Episode 2

Tom & Andrea take to the mean streets of New York City with everyone's favorite webslinger, Spider-Man! We battle members of his rogue's gallery such as Kingpin, the Vulture, Rhino, Mr. Negative, and especially Peter Parker's love life. Find out how it became the Playstation 4's highest-selling title, beating out mega-hits like God of War. Come along as we go on Spider-Man's award-winning fight to save the ones ...

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March 5, 2025 178 mins

Season 10 Episode 1

Tom & Andrea saddle up for another western adventure with everyone's favorite outlaw, John Marston, in Red Dead Redemption. Mosey along with us as we venture out into New Austin, Mexico, and other exotic locations on the hunt for the remaining members of the Van Der Linde Gang. It's life or death for everyone involved, and John is determined to be the last man standing. We also find out why Rockstar is so secret...

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December 25, 2024 198 mins

Tom & Andrea return to Night City with Cyberupnk 2077: Phantom Liberty. We join V as a mysterious character named Songbird reaches out with a special request: Save the President of the New United States of America. We dive chrome-first into Dogtown, a new section of Night City led by the nefarious Kurtis Hansen. A neighborhood full of political espionage and spies along with the country's most deceptive sleeper agent, Solomon Reed....

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November 23, 2024 86 mins

Bonus Episode

Tom & Andrea celebrate World of Warcraft's 20th birthday by busting out a Patreon episode we made about it earlier this year. World of Warcraft was a cultural juggernaut. It destroyed long-held philosphies, relationships, lives, and families. Tom played it during its monumental rise from pretty much the beginning. Andrea knows it from South Park. Come on this epic adventure as Tom tells you what it was like to be a pl...

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October 16, 2024 245 mins

Season 9 Episode 10

Tom & Andrea return to Cauldron Lake in the sleepy town of Bright Falls, WA for Alan Wake 2. This time, we take control of new protagonist Saga, who has found herself written into Alan Wake's story. It's been a decade since Alan Wake was last seen, and Saga is on the case. Along with the grizzled New York detective Alex Casey. A name any fan of Alan Wake's writing should know. The Dark Place is about to get a wh...

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October 9, 2024 145 mins

Season 9 Episode 9

Tom &  Andrea team up with the iconic Link and Zelda for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Hyrule has been reduced to rubble, 100 years after a calamatous event. Waking up as Link, it's time to set things right and restore the kingdom to its former glory. But first, there's Divine Beasts to restore, and friends to meet. Plus a memory that has been wiped clean, needing to be reset. It's one of the largest f...

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October 2, 2024 128 mins

Tom & Andrea return to Arcadia Bay for the first time again in Life is Strange: Before the Storm. This time we're in control of the rebel without a cause, Chloe Price. Come along as we navigate her through Blackwell Academy, make new friends, lovers, and enemies, as she leaves her mark, literally in most cases, on her small town. Chloe befriends the popular and mysterious Rachel Amber as the two go on a journey of discovery that ne...

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September 25, 2024 105 mins

Season 9 Episode 7

Tom & Andrea stay home for once, as they go for a hike in the Mojave Desert in Fallout: New Vegas. The world ended about 200 years ago, but Sin City is still alive and unwell. Waking up with a pounding headache as The Courier, this game has us running up and down the Strip trying to piece together why we were buried alive. In order to piece it together, we have to interact with ghouls, robots, mutants, Elvis impe...

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September 18, 2024 127 mins

Season 9 Episode 6

Tom & Andrea head into an alternate reality where the bad guys won World War 2 with Wolfenstein: The New Order. In this love letter to first person shooters, B.J. Blazkowicz wakes from a coma to find himself in a world overrun with third reich scum. Unhappy with the results of WW2, he makes it his mission to end every last one of them in one of the most shockingly impactful stories ever commited to pixels.

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September 11, 2024 128 mins

Season 9 Episode 5

Trigger Warning It's South Park. 

Tom & Andrea return to Colorado for another raunchy adventure as The New Kid in South Park: The Fractured But Whole. In this outing, we don our superhero personas and take on a crime syndicate that is quickly taking over South Park. Bounce between the factions of Coon and Friends or The Freedom Pals as you hunt down missing cats, attack bootay-licious enemies, and choke down some...

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September 4, 2024 124 mins

Season 9 Episode 4

Trigger Warnings

This episode contains graphic descriptions of extreme body mutilation and gore.

Tom & Andrea are back with Isaac Clark and more Necromorphs in Dead Space 2! After the events of the first game, Isaac wakes up on the moon Titan, where he is recovering from his injuries. Shortly after waking up, h...

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August 28, 2024 195 mins

Season 9 Epiode 3

Tom & Andrea are ready to once again tackle the most complicated franchise in gaming with Kingdom Hearts 2! Come along with us as we meet Roxas, a mysterious new character with deep ties to Sora and his friends. As well as the morally ambiguous group known as Organization XIII. We also get to hear about Tom's favorite moment in all of gaming. Come find out why this game is still considered one of the greatest game...

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August 21, 2024 134 mins

Season 9 Episode 2

Tom & Andrea hope you don't have an aversion to rats as we take on A Plague Tale: Innocence. Listen in as we tour around Europe as Amicia De Rune and her little brother Hugo during the terrifying Bubonic Plague. But rats aren't the only problem, as there are people who want to take Hugo away from Amicia for good! What mysteries does Hugo hold? For a five year old, a whole lot. 

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