WOW! Can you believe it, folks? 2025 is over, and we’re on to a new year. But wait! We have some unfinished business! We can’t move on to 2026 until we RANK THE BEST GAMES OF 2025!

To help us in this endeavor, we bring along content creator and game curator CASEY EXPLOSION! Casey brings all their expertise and charm along to help us figure out our TOP TENs (or TOP SIXes, for some of us).

Come learn about all the best games of 2025 with your pals Matt, PushingUpRoses, and Casey Explosion!

2025 Games Mentioned:

• Asylum
• Bye Sweet Carole
• Easy Delivery Company
• Duskpunk
• CARIMARA: Between the forlorn pines
• Demon School
• The Séance of Blake Manor
• Guns of Fury
• Cabernet
• Promise Mascot Agency
• Dark Queen of Mortholme
• Dispatch
• Power Wash Simulator 2
• Silent Hill F
• KINGDOMS OF THE DUMP
• STRANGE JIGSAWS
• PIPISTRELLO AND THE CURSED YOYO
• ROSEWATER
• BLUE PRINCE
• STRANGE ANTIQUITIES
• THE DRIFTER
• CITIZEN SLEEPER II: STARWARD VECTOR
• DUCK DETECTIVE 2: THE GHOST OF GLAMPING
• ABSOLUM
• HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG
• ÖOO
• NO, I’M NOT A HUMAN
• OLD SKIES
• CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33
• LOOK OUTSIDE

Other Games Mentioned:

• Scratches
• Snowrunner
• Citizen Sleeper
• Frog Detective
• Small Saga
• Paradise Killer
• Styx: Blades of Greed
• The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Esoteric Ebb

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Merry Christmas everyone! And, as it's Christmas, we're here giving you the traditional holiday experience of a ghost-related detective mystery in a haunted mansion on Samhain! Ok... So... maybe we're a little late with this. BUT, as Roses and Matt are catching up on 2025 games, we both played the EXCELLENT Seance of Blake Manor and we want to talk to you about it!

Plus, a lil' bit of Christmas, too!

Games Mentioned:

• Strange Jigsaws
• Bye, Sweet Carole
• Foolish Mortals
• Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?
• Seance of Blake Manor
• The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
• The Colonel's Bequest
• The Dagger of Amon Ra
• The Roottrees Are Dead

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Roses has been busy watching Amish Holiday Films, but Matt is able to tell us about a new game called DuskPunk (not to be confused with DustPunk). Then Roses "surprises" Matt with an array of adventure game trivia games, including our famed segment "How Much Do My Pants Weigh?"

Games Mentioned:

DuskPunk

Pokemon

Disco Elysium

King's Quest 5 and 6

The Monkey Island Games

Zak McKracken

Myst

Gabriel Knight

Sam and Max Hit the Road

Dagger of Amon Ra

Animal Well

Firewatch

Police Quest 3

Grim Fandango

Sanitarium

Trivia Game Screen Caps:

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