Game Of The Year 2025 (Building The List)

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Leisure, Games, Video Games

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 304 minutes

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We're officially kicking off MinnMax's 2025 Game of the Year debate, which we call The Two Tens! We've gathered the full crew of Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski to create a list of our favorite games from the year before we start hacking away to get the list down to the Top 20. Will your favorite game make the cut? Please forgive us if it doesn't. Join us on next week's episode where we'll rank The Two Tens. What will take the #1 spot? Will it be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Will it be Death Stranding 2: On The Beach? Will it be Aotenjo: Infinite Hands? Tune in to find out!

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:44 - Win Steam codes by following @MinnMaxShow on Instagram

00:06:41 - Building The Two Tens

01:50:21 - Cutting The List Down To 20 Games

03:10:52 - And Roger Spoilers

03:17:27 - Spoilers End

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to the MinMax Show, a place about games, friends getting better,
0:24.9	but not just any episode of the Minmax show.
0:26.7	This is a very special episode.
0:28.4	This is the two tens.
0:30.5	This is the beginning of our big game of the year debate.
0:33.1	Thank you so much for being here.
0:34.3	Couldn't be here without you.
0:35.4	My name is Ben Hansen, freshly shaven thanks to a charity drive. Joined by Haley McLean. I love games.
0:42.4	Joined by the fanciest lad in North Carolina, Jacob Geller. Mutual, I'm sure.
0:49.0	Jenna Garcia. Hello. Jeff Markiafava in the middle.
0:54.3	Mama Sume.i Lewin.
0:58.4	It's the end of the year.
1:00.3	Kyle Hilliard.
1:02.1	I like video games.
1:03.5	Hell yeah.
1:04.1	Leo Vader's here.
1:05.9	Merry Christmas.
1:06.9	Sarah Pazorski to the...
1:09.3	It's pronounced to Uma Musume.
1:11.2	Let's find out together how this is pronounced.
1:13.6	This is exciting.
1:14.8	This is the beginning of our big game of the air debate.
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