The MinnMax Awards 2025

The MinnMax Show

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Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 282 minutes

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Summary

Win 150 Steam codes by subscribing to The MinnMax Show and leaving a podcast review that includes a social media handle. We're randomly picking one winner from Apple Podcasts on 12/22/25. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-minnmax-show/id1484599827

Welcome to The MinnMax Awards! On this big episode, Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski debate nominees and winners for the year of gaming in 2025. We determine the Best Moment, Biggest News, Dumbest Thing, and more. How many categories will Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 win in THIS show? Tune in to find out! Any help sharing MinnMax's Game of the Year content online is appreciated.

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:18 - Win 150 Steam codes by subscribing

00:08:39 - Best Thing

01:06:08 - Dumbest Thing

01:52:22 - Biggest News

02:19:17 - Best Game We Didn't Play

02:27:59 - Best Moment

02:30:48 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Spoilers

02:52:21 - End of Spoilers - Best Moment

02:54:01 - Silent Hill F Spoilers

03:01:09 - The Roottrees Are Dead Spoilers

03:03:14 - Blue Prince Spoilers

03:05:10 - Keeper Spoilers

03:08:59 - Donkey Kong Bananza Spoilers

03:14:57 - Split Fiction Spoilers

03:22:13 - Consume Me Spoilers

03:26:04 - End of Spoilers - Best Moment

03:27:13 - Ghost of Yōtei Spoilers

03:36:58 - Keep Driving Spoilers

03:38:49 - The Alters Spoilers

03:41:48 - Hollow Knight: Silksong Spoilers

03:51:08 - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Spoilers

03:54:02 - Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Spoilers

03:59:37 - End of Spoilers - Best Moment

04:10:05 - Road To Empress Spoilers

04:14:39 - Greatest Work Of Art Of All Time For 2025

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of The MinMAC Show,
0:24.1	place about games, friends, and getting better.
0:26.5	I am Ben Hanson.
0:27.9	Thank you so much for being here.
0:29.4	Thank you for having me once again, but I'm joined by Haley McLean.
0:33.9	Thank us for having you.
0:35.7	Thank you for giving birth to all of us.
0:38.2	That's right.
0:38.8	In one fell swoop, my wife took it all out.
0:41.7	We're also joined by Jacob Keller.
0:43.8	And you're looking great.
0:45.2	Audio listeners, he's never looked better.
0:47.8	So, yeah, we should probably acknowledge it.
0:49.8	During our big charity stream, the Give to the Max Charity Stream,
0:51.8	Rachel Atkins came in down to the wire.
1:11.6	It weakens it. She donated $3,000 to the immigrant lawsuit in Minnesota for me to shave my head to look like butterman. And Charles Hart did it too, except everyone, when he got done with his head shaving, was like, he looks really good. Oh, my, Charles, hard. Look at this. He was pulling it off. Yeah. And I'm looking at... Ben looked good
1:12.3	when I logged on.
1:13.6	And then Kelsey said... like he looks really good oh my Charles are look at this he was pulling it off yeah and I'm
1:10.9	I said that Ben looked good when I logged on and then Kelsey said no he does not as
1:16.5	I think I said he looks perfect actually angelic really I did have that moment as I was shaving
1:24.2	it where I was like oh no I'm giving Sean Penn in one battle after another fives and that's not what I'm looking for in this episode I was shaving it, where I was like, oh, no, I'm giving Sean Penn in one battle after another fives, and that's not what I'm looking for in this episode. I'm shaving it after this episode, but thank you, Rachel, for your big donation on charity. I'm joined by Kelsey Lewin. Have we mentioned you? No, well, Jacob did, so I'm here. Good. We're also joined by Jeff Rukhyefava. That's me. We're joined by Jenna Garcia.
1:46.2	Hello.
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