Bonus Pod - 2025's Hidden Gem Games (Patreon)

On this week's Bonus Pod, Haley MacLean is joined by Leo Vader to run down the community submitted list of the best kept secrets in this incredible year of games. We do our best to describe the trailers but it's an especially visual episode, so...

here's a link to the video version complete with accurate timestamps for you.

And here's the community's full doc with links, descriptions and extra games!

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To jump to a particular game, check out the audio version timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:19 - Monsters Are Coming: Rock & Road

00:03:39 - Flick Shot Rogues

00:04:53 - Everdeep Aurora

00:06:16 - Kabuto Park

00:07:09 - Vindilis

00:08:05 - Watchword

00:09:50 - Apparatus Exanimus

00:12:02 - Synergy

00:13:29 - Date Everything!

00:14:51 - Pocket Boss

00:15:31 - Jump Space

00:17:17 - Expelled!

00:18:23 - Wednesdays

00:20:13 - House of Necrosis

00:21:22 - Echoes of the End

00:23:06 - Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

00:24:37 - Little Problems

00:25:26 - Stories from Sol: The Gun Dog

00:26:34 - Trimjob

00:27:45 - Constance

00:29:00 - Tiny Bookshop

00:30:30 - Beyond Citadel

00:32:03 - Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer

00:33:12 - Q-Up

00:34:56 - Wander Stars

00:36:53 - Blackshard

00:38:09 - Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream

00:39:37 - Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

00:41:11 - Captain Wayne Vacation Desperation

00:42:42 - Haneda Girl

00:44:04 - Haste

00:44:41 - ShapeHero Factory

00:45:55 - Drop Duchy

00:46:50 - Z.A.T.O / / I Love The World and Everything In It

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00:47:37 - Sushi Ben

00:49:00 - Spindle

00:49:52 - Type Help / The Incident At Galley House

00:51:17 - Bounty Star - The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem

00:53:00 - Blood Typers

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00:53:39 - Marge First Logistics

00:55:17 - Mashina

00:57:18 - Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson

00:58:20 - Katanaut

00:59:35 - Kaizen: A Factory Story

01:00:47 - Sultan’s Game

01:02:02 - Soul of Sovereignty

01:02:29 - Tall Trails

01:03:35 - A Few Quick Matches

01:04:56 - Metal Garden

01:06:15 - HYPERBEAT

01:07:51 - AC: Rally

01:09:20 - Welcome Tour

01:09:40 - Easy Delivery Co.

01:11:18 - Children of Clay

01:12:02 - Omelet You Cook

01:13:05 - A Gentleman’s Dispute

01:14:15 - Sorry We’re Closed

01:15:28 - Look Outside

01:16:45 - Gentoo Rescue

01:17:39 - The Dark Queen of Mortholme

01:18:34 - Blessed Burden

01:19:37 - Galaxy Princess Zorana

01:21:30 - Cataclismo

01:23:18 - Dear me, I was

01:24:49 - Axyz

01:26:09 - Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved

01:27:25 - Poco

01:29:06 - Prototype Juan: A Tale of Two Mundos