230: Game of the Year 2025, Part 2

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

In our second and final year-end wrap-up, we detail numbers 4 through 1 on our personal GOTY lists, and then dive into an array of honorable (and not too many dishonorable) mentions before pondering the year ahead. Happy new year!

CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:17) Brad's recap from last episode
(00:01:55) Vinny's recap from last episode
(00:02:10) Alex's recap from last episode
(00:02:29) Number 04 [Brad]
(00:10:04) Number 04 [Vinny]
(00:16:18) Number 04 [Alex]
(00:22:55) Number 03 [Brad]
(00:31:03) Number 03 [Vinny]
(00:31:21) Number 03 [Alex]
(00:38:12) First Break
(00:38:17) Number 02 [Brad]
(00:45:34) Number 02 [Vinny]
(00:52:49) Number 02 [Alex]
(00:57:38) Number 01 [Brad]
(01:16:09) Number 01 [Vinny]
(01:29:34) Number 01 [Alex]
(01:38:21) Second Break
(01:38:26) Honorable Mentions
(02:17:56) The games that missed the mark for us
(02:24:05) ...and nobody talked about Maro Kart World
(02:25:05) There's always more to talk about...
(02:27:06) Brad's Top Ten Games of 2025
(02:27:25) Vinny's Top Ten Games of 2025
(02:27:53) Alex's Top Ten Games of 2025
(02:28:13) Wrapping up and thanks for 2025
(02:31:20) See ya
(02:31:41) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, and we are back.
0:13.2	Welcome back to another next.
0:14.9	I forgot.
0:15.1	Sometimes I forget this is actually a podcast.
0:16.7	Hello, welcome back to another next-lander podcast.
0:19.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:19.2	And welcome back to our continuation of our game of the year celebration where we are running down our favorite games of the year.
0:28.8	I'm joined by Alex Navarro.
0:30.1	How are you?
0:31.2	I am presumably fine.
0:33.6	I'm going to guess that during this break, whenever this one goes live, I am somewhere and I am fine.
0:38.9	Great, fantastic. Good presumptions to have. Brad Shoemaker, how are you?
0:43.1	Hi. Hello. Hi. You say welcome back, but it's almost like we never left.
0:46.6	It's almost like we never left, except it has been a week since we recorded this last night.
0:51.3	Video games. They're still here. They are still here and they are still coming out.
0:55.7	Though we are now, we are here to talk about 2025.
0:59.9	And again, if you are listening to this, there is a video version where we will have
1:05.0	access to the list to look at.
1:07.7	And we will also have some footage underneath some of these things. But we are here to look at and we will also have some footage underneath some of these things but
1:12.0	we are here to look at our video game lists to jump off here Brad Schumaker why
1:18.4	don't you run us down your top let's see we have 10 to 5 the first six that we have
1:25.5	right now yeah my bottom six starting at number 10, avowed, peak, Eldon Ring, Night Rain, Silent Hill F, Fortnite, and Ball Pit slash Megabonk.
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