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It all comes down to this. Ben Hanson, Haley MacLean, Jacob Geller, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, Leo Vader, and Sarah Podzorski debate the final ranking for MinnMax's Game of the Year list for 2025 and crown one game with the #1 spot. Will it be Hollow Knight: Silksong? Ghost of Yotei? Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? Despelote? Tune in to find out!

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below... 

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:42 - Ranking The Two Tens

00:11:29 - Consume Me Spoilers

00:28:05 - Spoilers End

01:21:41 - Stray Children Spoilers

01:26:35 - Spoilers End

01:30:35 - Despelote

01:43:20 - Spoilers End

02:17:08 - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

02:24:30 - Spoilers End

02:37:56 - Baby Steps Spoilers

02:40:04 - Spoilers End

02:56:29 - Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Spoilers

03:02:56 - Spoilers End

Disclosure - Games discussed on MinnMax content are most often provided for free by the publisher or developer. Also, we held code giveaways for new Patreon supporters for the following games: Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance, Sunderfolk, Wildgate, Despelote, Promise Mascot Agency, Spilled!, Star of Providence, LEGO Party, and Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3.

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Comments

Cass Wilkinson Saldaña

just want to say how much i appreciate your all's focus on end-of-year-listmaking as a measure of individual + collective passion. it rules. and it's tough! and i so appreciate how often we get to hear a cohort express something real they experienced - and how the game effectively transmitted an experience (i think there's a line in this like: "with despelote, I feel like these are my memories of an experience I had.") i don't know, it's such a non-consumerist vision of what playing games is like - not just an object to evaluate, but something we are surprised and compelled to find that we're doing! tl;dr: pod good. ty.

darthrevan150

No timestamps for Kingdom Come spoilers

JustOneMoreRyan

3:23:00 spoilers unofficially end for Blue Prince

Brian

Not a lot of discussions of the flaws of E33 and the ones that were sort of excused which was sort of the theme of that game this year. I guess I just didn’t get whatever it was that made it special enough to overlook everything. Anyway, really enjoyed listening to this and all your podcasts this year. Gotten me through a lot of days of work!

Kate Bishop

If you're gonna rake Bosman over the coals for the pronunciation of Umamasume, I gotta take y'all to task over the repeated mispronunciation of Yotei. It is Yo-tay, not Yo-thai.

ARob

Amazing debate as always! Also not Jacob continuing his annual tradition of finding any reason to rag on Final Fantasy 16 lol