It's that time again! The HLTB Podcast hosts are back to discuss our very favorite games that we played in 2025! Join us for a radical retrospective, in which we talk repeatedly about Pokémon, commiserate about the agony of filing taxes, and attempt to pronounce Nietzsche quotes. Which games will come out on top? Tune in to find out!

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Music – Ian Edward (intro/outro), Abatage (incidental), call me lethargy. (incidental)

Graphic design – M4thew and Matt

0:00:00 - Intro

0:01:03 - Beaten

0:45:40 - Retired

0:52:41 - Playing

1:37:53 - 2025 Game of the Year

2:28:29 - Collections Game

2:41:44 - Goodbye!

Games Mentioned:

Diallo: First Day at Maze Corp (itch), Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Switch 2), Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (PC)

Lia: The Servers Are Shutting Down in 24 Hours but My Pull Rate's Been Set to 0.0001?! (PC), Dinner With An Owl (PC), Let's Go There and Wander Nowhere (PC),  BirdLingo (PC), Baba Files Taxes (PC), Devil Express (PC), Birdle, Broforce, Hairdresser Simulator, Max Payne, Tower of Fantasy, Balatro (Mobile), Satan Loves Cake (PC), Wordle, Murdle, 112 Operator (PC), Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch), Where's My Seat (Mobile), While Waiting (PC), Is This Seat Taken? (PC), Elder Scrolls Online (PC), Professor Layton and the Last Specter (DS), Hypnospace Outlaw (PC), God of War 2018 (PS4), Fitness Boxing (Switch), Just Dance 2020 (Switch), Jump Rope Challenge (Switch), Quasar Blaster (Browser, itch)

Matt: Roguebook (PC), Bunhouse (PC), BirdLingo (PC), Wingspan (PC), Engare (PC), Professor Rubik’s Brain Fitness (PC), Skate Story (PC), Old School Rally (PC), Data Wing (Mobile), Pokémon Sapphire (GBA), Pokémon Ultra Moon (3DS), Birds Organized Neatly (PC), Don’t Stop, Girlypop! (PC)

Roy: Pokemon Blue (GB), click to ten (PC), Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Switch), Pokemon Silver (GBC), Arknights (Mobile), Tabletop Simulator (PC)