The Left Right Game

This series may have ruined all other podcasts for me, it’s SO good that I was sad when I was finished.

I love the Left Right Game and highly recommend listening! The audio quality is amazing and it has a really great story line. The one criticism that really ruined it for me is you don’t always know what the characters are seeing. You can hear it but not visualize what’s really happening in the game. I wish there were more context in some spaces but overall great listen!

Take a chance on this one. Easy to listen and to follow along. The story moves at a solid pace. It’s not overwhelming , acting and sound design are seamless. Compelling story.

I don’t normally write reviews for podcasts and I should say I’m generally very very picky with them, I can count on one hand the amount of podcasts I have actually finished. This podcast is one of my top favorites, I listened to the whole thing in one sitting. A lot of the reviews here say the ending is confusing and that there isn’t enough exposition and description. But to me, the mystery of the road, as another reviewer put it, is the point. You don’t get any answers, you have to just accept the logic of that reality as an observer that’s like the spoken message of the podcast. You get to imagine the creatures and the horror and that’s what makes it scarier, this is horror 101, the monster is always scarier before you see it. I also just appreciated that the main character was not annoying and constantly in denial, she was reasonably skeptical but rational and calm in the face of everything going on around her, massively refreshing in a medium oversaturated with mc’s who are constantly freaking out and unaware of what’s going on around them. If you liked season 1 of Alice isn’t dead, long road trips through empty landscapes, and surreal mysteries with no real answers, this is the podcast for you.

The mysterious story seemed intriguing at the beginning. But over time, it felt like a mini fragmented stories of the characters rather than something larger with a more meaningful purpose. I guess I don’t truly get the meaning behind the road, even though there isn’t really any meaning to it. I can appreciate the time continuum and how the world on the road doesn’t follow a linear timeline. But the endless ambiguous stories of the road, the hitchhiker, the weird baby, Tom. A puzzle with no meaning behind the puzzle.

If you want something cheesy with annoying characters and really goofy logic, this might be for you. I think i was looking for something more serious than what this is. This is a horror podcast- but it isn't a great horror story. I downloaded all of this hoping for a good way to spend some time, but was really disappointed to have to slog through a mile of cheese on my own out of service road trip. The first episode was absolutely excellent- And the voice actors and audio engineers behind this all are wonderful and super talented. However, the characters remained shallow horror stereotypes and created a lot of gratingly purposeless conflict that added not much stakes to the story. We never got much view into who they were, which was really disappointing because they were all interesting and had potential. The acting around high stress situations and death was so poorly done it completely broke my immersion and made me audibly cringe myself. This story drug itself out a long time for a lame conclusion. Not a lot of clarity of good climaxes here. I am so thankful i didn't embarrass myself by recommending it to anyone before listening. Extremely well produced, I loved Tessa Thompson’s beautiful voice acting, and was really impressed by most of the performance these actors gave. But the story just drug itself far too long.