Hi, everyone, it's Amy Polar, and I'm launching a new podcast called Good Hang.

In preparation for that, I asked some of my friends to send in some videos and give me some

advice. Just be yourself, and the guests will come.

Don't be the celebrity that this is their, like, six things they're doing.

I love true crime and cooking podcasts. Is there any way you could combine the two?

Well, everyone has an opinion and a podcast. So, join me for good hang. It's rough out there.

We're just trying to lighten it up a little. Hello and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom.

I am Ben Lindberg, senior editor for The Ringer, and your host here at Button Mesh.

Although we have much more mashing ahead of us in December, we are approaching the end of the year,

a time when we look back at what we've enjoyed over the past 12 months, but also what we've missed.

And here at But Mesh, there's been a bit of a hole in our coverage, which we'll try to fill today.

I am not talking about a game about digging a hole, which we also did not cover here on

But Mesh.

That came out back in February and was mildly popular for a minute.

But I'm talking about the biggest steam sensations of 2025 bigger, orders of magnitude bigger

than a game about digging a hole, the games

that went viral on Valve's massive PC storefront, but earned only a passing mention at

most on this podcast today. We'll be addressing those oversights by speed running these steam

sensations to figure out why they were hits and what their success says

about modern gaming. On this episode, our concurrent podcaster count is three. Joining me for this

guided tour of gaming's viral hits is Simon Carless, founder of Game Discover Co, a company that

analyzes how people find and purchase and play games in a data-driven way.

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