Episode 530: Games Of The Year 2025 Part 1

Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Ben Vernel

Nintendo, Leisure, Tv & Film, Xbox, Comedy, Ps4, Gamers, Ps5, Gaming, Video Games, Games

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

It's time for our yearly countdown of our favourite games of the past year! This week, we're going through numbers 6 - 10 of our individual lists as well as recapping the big news stories, trends and general feelings about the year in gaming.

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0:00.0	This week on Filthy Casuals, it is time for part one of our Game of the Year special.
0:06.1	We are looking back on the news stories and trends of 2025 as well as counting down our 10 through six top games of the year.
0:17.4	All of that and more on today's Filthy Casuals.
0:31.6	Good morning, video games.
0:35.3	Welcome to Filthy Casuals, a podcast about video games,
0:39.3	hosted by two very kind and extremely knowledgeable boys.
0:43.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:45.9	My name is Tommy Dasalo, and if I'm not mistaken,
0:51.4	joining me today, as he has every other week, except for, I know, maybe one along the way where he was sick or something or overseas.
1:01.2	Actually, Ben Van der Leyen.
1:02.7	Shut up.
1:03.4	Shut up.
1:04.7	You know him.
1:06.1	You love him.
1:08.1	It's Big Bad Ben Vanel.
1:13.8	Big Bad Ben, he's here. There was an episode this year that I did not make. I believe because I was on holiday. Quite a big, beautiful episode. It was
1:21.2	Andrew Levin stepping in for me. Talking about the Nintendo Switch to Hands on Event you guys went to, which is, yeah,
1:30.9	one of the big, big stories of this year, one of the big events, one of the big episodes
1:36.7	that we got to do, present company excluded 50% of.
1:44.2	It did work out perfectly because you were not at the event.
1:47.8	You were not even in the country.
1:49.7	And it felt very unfair to get you to sit on a call, taking time out of your trip
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