Game of the Year 2025: Day 4

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Technology, Video Games, Comedy, Leisure

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

We've made it to a New Year folks, so now it is TIME to crown a Top 10 games and ultimately THE GAME OF THE YEAR 2025 for Giant Bomb!

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Timestamps (note that exact times will vary depending on how many ads you receive):
0:00:00 Intro
0:03:01 Building the list and whittling it down
1:18:57 Ad Break
1:20:49 Ordering the Top 10
1:54:04 Outro

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	A WraWRawrilla
0:03.0	WERE Gang. Happy New Year.
0:27.3	We made it.
0:29.1	We did it. We've been here this whole time.
0:31.6	I like how 2026 is better than 2025 in every way.
0:35.0	Everything got fixed.
0:36.1	Everything got fixed.
0:37.1	Especially because of that thing that just happened. Yeah. Thank God. You know, I don't want to celebrate too much. You guys remember when Mike did a backflip to celebrate the new year? Uh-huh. Yeah, that was crazy. I don't think you could do that. He's filled with cheese sticks right now. For old. The great sign, my dear, for, my dear four.
0:57.0	All links are these nuts.
1:01.0	I want to recreate the Lieutenant Dan depressed at the bar, confetti gift with Mikey.
1:08.0	I think that would be sick.
1:09.0	My Lieutenant Dan are for his gum. Folks, it's day four, the final day for Giant Bombs game of the year. We've had three lovely, lovely days of fun-filled categories, maybe minus something on day three. Maybe Cats was a mistake. Andrew Lloyd Weber, not your best. Maybe about it. In general.
1:28.8	But day four, this is the main event gang.
1:33.1	Here today, we are going to be crowning our top 10 and ultimately our game of the year.
1:39.2	Shouts out again to our dear friends at Maingear.
1:42.0	Go to maingear.com slash giant bomb.
1:43.9	Go buy yourself a PC thanks for
1:45.6	letting us use the space we deeply deeply appreciate y'all uh i don't think i've introduced myself
1:50.6	i'm your host jana choa joining me as always co-captain to the ship jeff grub yo uh shan turbo
1:56.7	shan mcdow hello chuck towski. Hey there. Dan Reichert.
2:01.2	Hi.
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