The Games You Should Play Over The Holidays

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's Thanksgiving week in the US, which means the GI staff is taking some time off, heading to wherever they rest their heads, planning dinners and get-togethers, and getting in some extra game time.

In light of that, we're publishing a special early edition of The Game Informer Show this week with a little twist - rather than a roundtable discussion, we had everyone contribute their own solo take on what they're playing, thinking about, or otherwise getting back into this holiday break! From the 2025 backlog to older games, and even some tabletop options, we've got a boatload of personalized selections from the GI crew. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Game Informer Show.
0:10.1	We've got a bit of a different episode this week for you.
0:12.5	Instead of our typical roundtable discussion where we talk about the latest gaming news and reviews and exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from
0:21.9	around the industry.
0:23.1	Today, we're changing it up and we're each going to be recording a little solo segment
0:28.5	talking about our games that we're looking forward to checking out over the Thanksgiving
0:33.6	break.
0:34.5	I think it's a great way for you to know what we're up to, what we're playing behind the
0:37.4	scenes, and as well as, you know, get some recommendations for games. Maybe you want to
0:42.0	check out. So I hope you enjoy this special episode. It's going to be shorter, obviously,
0:46.8	than usual. But I think it's a great way for us to at least get something up for you, whether
0:50.9	you're listening in between, you know, runs to get a new plate
0:54.7	at Thanksgiving or if you are not someone who celebrates the holiday or you're in another
0:59.6	location where the holiday is not a holiday week. We hope you enjoy this episode regardless.
1:05.9	Thanks, as always, for listening folks and hope you enjoy.
1:10.1	Hey, everybody, it's Matt Miller here,
1:12.0	editor-in-chief at Game Informer. Happy Thanksgiving. We wanted to talk a little bit about
1:17.6	some of the games we're going to be playing over the break, maybe give you some ideas about
1:21.9	things that you might be able to enjoy. For me, I'm diving back into one of my favorite games of the last several months.
1:29.4	I don't know if everybody's had a chance to play it yet. Absalom is an amazing brawler, and it's one
1:36.2	you should absolutely check out. It harkens back to some of those old kind of fantasy brawlers
1:43.7	from the early days, even things like Golden Axe or the early like D&D brawlers like Champions of Mastara and that kind of thing.
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