Hannah watched 51 movies in 2025. Not all of them were helpful for game design, but there was inspiration to be found everywhere—in the form of left-behind robots, edgy existential planets, sci-fi noir, and Mother. Mother? Mother!

Follow along and find every movie mentioned in the episode here:

https://letterboxd.com/hanbandit/diary/films/for/2025/by/added-earliest/

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