Top 20 Games, 4 Overlooked Gems, Baby Steps Breaks Containment

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 135 minutes

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On this episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, and Jacob Geller share the community's ranking of the best games from 2025 before launching into discussions on some impactful games that they missed from the year before like Many Nights A Whisper, Wednesdays, Fulcrum Defender, and Rhythm Doctor. Kelsey also talks about her ongoing journey with the great, new RPG Octopath Traveler 0. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:02 - Apply to be MinnMax's production assistant - job@minnmax.com

00:03:36 - MinnMax community's Two Tens

00:13:02 - Baby Steps 00:24:24 - Hello Fresh

00:26:29 - Octopath Traveler 0

00:33:41 - Many Nights A Whisper

00:43:01 - Fulcrum Defender

00:45:58 - Huel

00:48:28 - Avatar: From The Ashes

00:59:44 - Terminator 2D No Fate

01:05:24 - Rhythm Doctor

01:15:00 - Wednesdays

01:26:05 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:27:09 - Community questions

02:04:13 - Get A Load Of This

JeffM’s GALOT - https://youtu.be/dUkLYOPRYH4

Jacob's GALOT - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grand-designs-with-jacob-geller/id1812045307?i=1000741324567

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dk_PQt-bdo

Kyle's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45-rI25B6jk

Community GALOT -https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1pq37px/et_interplanetary_mission_is_a_ps1_game_noted_for/

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a brand new episode of The MinMAC Show,
0:25.1	a place about games, friends, getting better, coming to you in the first real way in 2026.
0:29.7	For the first time, I'm Ben Hansen, joined by Jeff Marcia Fava.
0:33.9	It's me.
0:34.9	The Baby Steps Captain himself.
0:36.3	It'll never come up again.
0:37.4	Don't worry, folks.
0:39.3	We're also joined by Jacob Geller.
0:41.7	New Year, new me.
0:42.7	That's right, joined by Kyle Hilliard.
0:45.0	Hello.
0:45.9	And joined by Kelsey Lewin.
0:49.2	We're back.
0:50.7	We're here.
0:52.8	Thanks for having us, everybody.
0:56.0	That was a big break for us, but hopefully it didn't feel like a big break for you if you're just
0:57.8	listening regularly but thanks for sticking
0:59.9	with us we have a lot of fun stuff
1:02.0	to unpack in this year episode of the podcast
1:04.1	2025 is not over in more
1:06.1	ways than one we have
1:07.6	based on hundreds and hundreds of votes
	...

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