2021 has been a weird year for games and for how the Happysalad crew played them. As a result we're making the Game of the Year stuff less of a thing. This way we can talk about Halo Infinite some more and with only mild spoilers.

So we've got a ranch, a graveyard, the titular ocarina, time travel, evil plots, bad times etc. etc. But what we really want to know is "what's going on with the chickens?"

In this episode we pick out the bits that interested us from The Game Awards whilst juggling cats and bad throats. Rob wraps up Backbone, flies away in Exo One and Zac adds some DLC to the usual Oxygen Not Included segment. Oh and a little thing called Halo came out so we checked that out too.

The giant owl is leading Link to Zora's domain but where he ends up would turn many a stomach. Link fixes a big fish thing in this squidgy episode.

Statistically, from a sample size of this podcast, 2 out of 3 factory games have the word "factory" in the title. You may also know that there are other genres that exist. This week we include the "shoot stuff", "drive stuff", "hit stuff", "think stuff" and "read stuff" varieties.

Genre learnings coutesy of the Saladcast.