2025 sure has been a year where only good things happened. Especially in the world of games, right? Right?

This is a spoiler-free episode, but just so you have an idea what to expect, here's a bunch of lists.

Games discussed or mentioned (in alphabetical order):

Anthem

Baby Steps

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars

Clair Obscur : Expedition 33

Consume me

Dark Pictures Anthology

Dead Space (remake)

Dodgeball Academia

Doom 64

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Dungeons of Hinterberg

Fear the Spotlight 

Gran Turismo 4

Hades

Harold Halibut

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Indika

Infinity Nikki

Kathy Rain

Little Kitty, Big City

Pokemon Legends Z-A

PowerWash Simulator

Resident Evil 3 (remake)

Resident Evil 4 (remake)

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 6 

Resident Evil Revelations 

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Stalker (Shadow of Chernobyl and 2)

Still Wakes the Deep

Sword of the Sea

Under the Waves

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Other mentions & recommendations

Autarr

Music:

All men unto me - Requiem

Amanda Mur - Neu Om

Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts

Dormant Ordeal - Tooth and Nail

Haru Nemuri - ekkolaptomenos

Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures

PATRIARKH- PROPHET ILJA

Postcards - Ripe

Snapped ankles - Hard Times Furious Dancing

Manga:

Hirayasumi

Vole

Books:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Project Hail Mary

The Colour of Magic

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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