Game Of The Year 2025 (The Final Debate)

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Games, Video Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 265 minutes

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Summary

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It all comes down to this. Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski debate the final ranking for MinnMax's Game of the Year list for 2025 and crown one game with the #1 spot. Will it be Hollow Knight: Silksong? Ghost of Yotei? Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Despelote? Tune in to find out!

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Here's the big list of all of our personal Top 10s - https://www.patreon.com/posts/everybodys-top-146529722

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:42 - Ranking The Two Tens

00:11:29 - Consume Me Spoilers

00:28:05 - Spoilers End

01:21:41 - Stray Children Spoilers

01:26:35 - Spoilers End

01:30:35 - Despelote

01:43:20 - Spoilers End

01:52:52 - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Spoilers

01:56:31 - Spoilers End

02:02:07 - Thanking iam8bit

02:04:00 - Ranking The Two Tens

02:17:08 - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

02:22:21 - Spoilers End

02:39:49 - Baby Steps Spoilers

02:41:57 - Spoilers End

02:58:22 - Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Spoilers

03:04:49 - Spoilers End

03:19:40 - Blue Prince Spoilers

03:26:52 - Ranking The Two Tens

Disclosure - Games discussed on MinnMax content are most often provided for free by the publisher or developer. Also, we held code giveaways for new Patreon supporters for the following games: Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance, Sunderfolk, Wildgate, Despelote, Promise Mascot Agency, Spilled!, Star of Providence, LEGO Party, and Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to the grand finale of the two tens from MinMax.
0:24.8	MinMax is a place about games, friends, and getting better.
0:27.4	My name is Ben Hansen.
0:28.4	Thank you for being here on this very special episode.
0:31.8	I'm joined once again by Haley McLean.
0:35.2	Hi.
0:36.0	Joined by Jacob Geller.
0:38.0	Nice short one this time. Kyle LLean. Hi. Joined by Jacob Geller. Nice short one this time.
0:39.5	Kyle Lalyard.
0:41.3	I echo Jacob.
0:43.2	Jeff Marcia, Phoebe.
0:45.9	That's me.
0:46.5	Oh, you're doing boys first and then girls.
0:48.7	I'm going.
0:49.4	I was first.
0:52.2	I'm Smith-Diving.
0:53.3	I wasn't paying attention. I'm sorry. I'm a girl.inding it. I wasn't paying attention.
0:55.3	I'm sorry.
0:55.5	I'm a girl.
0:56.3	I'm a girl.
0:57.6	Why do you have so many beards in your closet?
1:01.6	Because I like to experiment.
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