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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Best of 2025 Awards - The Bloodies

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5709 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

It's Been A Good Year For Games™ and Nadia, Eric, and Victor are ready to decide just how good. From the biggest smash hits like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to the pluckiest indie darlings like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we're covering it all!So place some bets on your favourite RPGs of the year and warm up your vocal chords to yell at your phone; It's the 2025 Axe of the Blood God Awards! Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com Also in this episode: Literally nothing else. See below for the categories and see below that for the lists of nominees. Note: Microsoft and the Xbox brand remain subjects of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement for their complicity in the ongoing apartheid and genocide of Palestine. In the interest of journalism we've chosen to cover Microsoft but encourage you to visit https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft for more information. Timestamps: 0:00 - Main Topic - The Blood God Awards! 3:28 - Favourite Blood God Moment 8:08 - Best Non-RPG 12:48 - Best Art Direction 19:12 - Best Innovation 28:40 - Best Revival 38:56 - Best Menu Screen 45:52 - Best Moment 56:08 - Coolest Move 1:02:56 - Best Combat System 1:15:44 - Best Music 1:21:08 - Best Party Member 1:29:20 - Best RPG of 2025 1:16:16 - Random Encounters 1:40:16 - Nadia's Nostalgia Nook Awards Nominees: Favourite Blood God Moment:- Kat's Sendoff- Not Eric Playing Final Fantasy 6 lol- The Gonster- History of Sound Novels- Victor liking sexy ladies Best Non-RPG:- Blue Prince- Donkey Kong Bananza- Shadow Labyrinth- Hollow Knight: Silksong Best Art Direction:- Stray Children- Artis Impact- Hades 2- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Innovation:- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy- Elden Ring: Nightreign- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Revival:- Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter- Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D- Raidou Remastered- Tokimeki Memorial: forever with you - emotional- Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Best Menu Screen:- Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition- Digimon Story: Time Stranger- Monster Hunter Wilds- Not Persona 3 Reload- Citizen Sleeper 2- Hollow Knight: Silksong- Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Best Moment:- Processing Grief - The Promise of Tomorrow - Patch 7.3 - Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail- End of Act 1 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33- End of Chapter 12 - Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition- Grinding for Advanced Classes - Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles- The Gommage - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Coolest Move:- Throw Rock - Final Fantasy Tactics- Elemental Genesis - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33- Giga Slash - Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Best Combat:- Raidou Remastered- Citizen Sleeper 2- Octopath Traveler 0- Demonschool- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy- Elden Ring: Nightreign- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Best Music:- Octopath Traveler 0- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33- Hades 2- Into the Mist - Patch 7.4 - Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail- Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Best Party Member:- Estelle Bright - Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter- Elma - Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition- Susie - Deltarune- Maelle - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 RPG of the Year:- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33- The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy- Hades 2- Quartet- Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter- Demonschool- The First Berserker: Khazan- Fantasy Life i: The Girls Who Steals Time- Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma- Pokemon Legends Z-A- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II- Monster Hunter Wilds- Octopath Traveler II- Kingdom of the Dump- Shrine's Legacy- Citizen Sleeper 2- Elden Ring: Nightreign- Deltarune- Everhood 2- AvowedFurther Reading:2024 Sharlayan Dropouts Valentione's Day SpecialMusic in this Episode:Oasis in the 100 - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Blood God Disciples.

0:17.0

2025 is coming to an end, but we got to send it out the right way the only way we know how by

0:24.6

arguing with each other about RPGs and the best ones of the year that's right it's time for the

0:29.9

25 acts of the blood god awards aka the bloodies we made it happen finally i'm eric van Allen one of your co-hosts here Nadia are you ready for a very merry bloodies I am always ready for a very merry bloodies let's get this done before menopause finishes yes that's what I'm saying that's what I'm talking. That's what I'm talking about. Victor, you ready to get bloody?

0:56.0

Eric, I awoke this morning to a deafening silence. My home was empty, a choking, claustrophobic darkness shone through my window. I stumbled out my door

1:17.9

only to see a night sky that turned my blood to ice, nothingness. Like I had slept trillions

1:27.0

of years and the light of even the nearest star was lost,

1:31.4

the blackness of space.

1:32.5

I got in my car.

1:35.0

I raced through empty streets to escape the city.

1:38.6

After what seemed like days I pulled over on some foreign highway.

1:47.9

Even beyond the reach of any city, there was nothing in the sky.

1:53.1

I fell to my knees and I wept for the loss of the cosmos.

1:59.1

And I realized that there were no stars left in the sky.

2:03.5

Because they're all here at Gaming's biggest night welcome to the 2025 Blood God Awards day I've also had the bad Walmart melatonin I recommend

2:11.0

weaning yourself off it man that's that shit sounds great the bloody's not sponsored by walmart that's right

2:21.5

that's right folks we are here with all the the theatrics and preamble we are we are hosting the

2:28.6

awards we have oh i forgot to count how many categories we have i should have counted that

2:32.8

many i don't know Like let's say 15.

2:34.9

It's probably not 15.

2:36.0

But let's just arbitrarily say 15 because apparently you just say whatever you want these days in the

2:40.7

age.

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