{"id":808737,"date":"2025-12-06T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-game-where-dad-runs-off?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-12-06T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:02:45","slug":"the-best-game-where-your-family-ditches-you-the-best-games-ever-podcast-episode-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-best-game-where-your-family-ditches-you-the-best-games-ever-podcast-episode-95\/","title":{"rendered":"The best game where your family DITCHES you? 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Which didn&#8217;t stop racer-obsessed Mark trying to crowbar in a Burnout game, of all things. Or Tom from bringing up the usual guff. To find out which specific guff, you&#8217;ll have to watch or listen to this, which is presumably what you&#8217;re doing here in the first place, which means I&#8217;ve essentially wasted the last five minutes of my life typing this out. Thanks for that. Thanks. I could have spent that doing something nice, like cradling my laughing child, or eating crisps, or any number of things that we do while the reaper waits.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, watch Fallout, it&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-game-where-dad-runs-off?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-game-where-dad-runs-off?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the (frankly excellent) Fallout TV show, this week on VG247&#8217;s Best Games Ever podcast I&#8217;ve tasked my colleagues with finding the best game where a family member ditches you. With the prerequisite understanding that none of them are allowed to pick Fallout 3, the quintessential &#8220;dad&#8217;s buggered off&#8221; simulator. As it turns out, being forsaken by a family member is a fairly common scenario in video games, especially if you widen the concept of family out to any sort of fraternity or gang. Which didn&#8217;t stop racer-obsessed Mark trying to crowbar in a Burnout game, of all things. Or Tom from bringing up the usual guff. 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