At The Table With The Dice Tower - Looking Back at 2025
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It's time for our look back at the games of 2025. Highs and lows, heavy and light, thorny and rosy and hoopy.
01:20 - Top Tens on Video
01:51 - Year as a Whole
07:49 - Convention/On The Go Game - Hot Streak, Light Speed Arena, Ghost Lift, Ito, 1AM Jailbreak
12:07 - All-Day-to-Play - Regicide Legacy, My Father's Work, Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
14:48 - Best Theme - Luthier, Flow, Storyfold: Wildwoods
20:06 - Guilty Pleasure - Deep Regrets, Moon Colony Bloodbath
24:38 - Favorite Classic - Race for the Galaxy, At The Gates of Loyang, Sentient, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, You're Bluffing
27:22 - Stand-Out in Our Favorite Genre - Bohemians, EXIT Advent, Threads of Fate, Rove
32:48 - Hoopiest Hula-Hoop - Spooktacular, Oddland, Zenith
37:05 - Thorniest Thorn - Feel Like a Fool, Lynx, Donald Duck in Happy Camper
41:38 - Rosiest Rose - Vantage, Formaggio, Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread
47:42 - Looking Forward to 2026 - Use Up All Your Sick Days, Vegan Cafe, Sail Legacy, Floe
50:35 - Announcements: Gamefound, Dice Tower Cruise, East, West
Next Episode: January 13, 2026
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
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| 0:00.0 | At the Table with the Dice Tower. |
| 0:02.0 | Episode 61. |
| 0:03.9 | Looking back at 2025. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them. |
| 0:31.0 | It's time for our year-end episode, looking at our highs and lows of 2025. |
| 0:36.2 | What was our favorite grab and go game? Our favorite |
| 0:39.0 | take all day to play it game. And of course |
| 0:41.3 | what were our rosiest roses, |
| 0:43.3 | our thorniest thorns, and our hoopiest |
| 0:45.3 | hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm |
| 0:49.4 | Tom Vassel and did not name any of the |
| 0:51.3 | segments. |
| 0:54.1 | Already already salty. We've just started. It's already. Hoopiest hoops. Yeah, we've barely begun. There's a limit. The hoopiest hoops. There's a limit. I've used the same term for the past several years. I probably complained then to. You did. I like saying ho-est hoops. It's a tradition. |
| 1:12.1 | I will say this. |
| 1:14.8 | I think the episode's called Looking Back at 2025. |
| 1:18.1 | And looking at the show notes, I'm not sure everyone's in the same year. |
| 1:19.9 | Oh, interesting. |
| 1:22.9 | So anyway, yes, it's 2025. |
| 1:28.2 | And if you want to know the top 10 games of 2025 and all that jazz, it's on our channel. |
| 1:29.4 | Even Erics. |
| 1:30.7 | Even Erics. |
| 1:32.4 | I was surprised at Erick's. |
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