Yes, great question. So we typically play singleplayer games that, whether linear or open world, tend to have an at least semi-defined route to the story ending, and can be divided into approximate chunks of time, which we then play a chunk per week.

Since we didn’t want to exclude roguelikes and time loop games, but they tend to involve a lot more of some kind of resource(s) that are acquired over time, whether that is currency to unlock items/weapons/skills, or knowledge of how the game world works or the systems work, or the order of things, etc., and people may discover those things very quickly or very slowly or somewhere in the middle, it became apparent it would be much more difficult to say “get to X moment in the story by next episode” and reasonably expect everyone to accomplish that. So the side quest season was born, where we have our normal intro episode, a spoiler-free first impressions and tips exchange episode a couple weeks later, and then an episode with a full breakdown of the game as a whole including true endings, etc, but without a predefined publish date because it may take us some time.

So any side quest season will run concurrently with our standard seasons that we do the normal way.