Game Of The Year Debate 2025: The Prologue
Game Of The Year Debate 2025: The Prologue  
Podcast: The MinnMax Show
Published On: Thu Oct 30 2025
Description: https://www.patreon.com/minnmax - Unlock a benefit and directly support independent games media MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Sarah Podzorski, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, and Leo Vader assemble for a big episode where we prepare for our Game of the Year debate for 2025. We share picks for games that we want to see on the list of "The Two Tens" and we need more people to play. After that, we talk about the excellent new games Town to City and Whisper of the House before unpacking Leo and Jacob's enthusiasm for Battlefield 6 and its new battle royale. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/VuU6nP7iWGo Help support MinnMax's supporters! https://www.iam8bit.com - 10% off with Promo Code: HOLLAWEEN To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...  00:00:00 - Intro 00:05:14 - Pew Pew Bang wins Game Podcast Of The Year 00:07:58 - Preparing for our GOTY debate 00:14:12 - Road to Empress 00:16:34 - Cauldron 00:24:57 - Keep Driving 00:27:18 - Citizen Sleeper 2 00:30:59 - Hell Is Us 00:33:46 - Keep Driving 00:35:14 - Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders 00:40:04 - Promise Mascot Agency 00:41:16 - Dead Letter Dept. 00:43:32 - Shinobi: Art of Vengeance 00:46:19 - Grimshire 00:48:25 - Peak 00:50:03 - The Alters 00:53:38 - Absolum 00:55:07 - Hades 2 and Silent Hill F 00:57:39 - Hollow Knight: Silksong 01:01:04 - He Is Coming 01:02:32 - Inventorix 01:04:52 - What might not make The Two Tens cut 01:09:09 - Blue Prince 01:12:55 - The Roottrees Are Dead 01:16:31 - Town To City 01:26:32 - Whisper of the House 01:32:21 - Battlefield 6 01:45:53 - Join the Wall of Heroes in November! 01:47:02 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/ 01:48:33 - Community questions 02:35:44 - Get A Load Of This Leo’s GALOT - https://laist.com/news/entertainment/30-rocks-werewolf-bar-mitzvah-an-oral-history Jacob's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRcB4n4CGcy9KwO4-t0aJ8Qedwy5tsPsP Hanson's GALOT - https://www.pbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23123887644&gbraid=0AAAAAooDyp1-2hytkILpy63WjMckdd3ds&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9obIBhCAARIsAGHm1mRTFKirrcLG5HdzdLWzt2b5rX3Hj7mKoRKVQcuwBifIBpNecR5WAJcaAlj3EALw_wcB Janet's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/kelslewin.bsky.social/post/3m4ae6g6cjk2b Sarah's GALOT - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIOrKydv1BZ/?hl=en Community GALOT - https://automaton-media.com/en/news/hideo-kojima-never-even-heard-about-konami-being-offered-a-matrix-game-no-one-told-me-for-26-years/ Disclosure - Games discussed on MinnMax content are most often provided for free by the publisher or developer. Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Support MinnMax directly on YouTube - https://youtube.com/minnmax/join Follow us on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow Subscribe to our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/minnmax Subscribe to our solo stream channel - https://www.youtube.com/@minnmaxstreamarchives Catch up on the best of MinnMax - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6FR1Lkt9IiPSuF4WIH4Rl7tSxrqUv0KV Buy MinnMax merch here - https://minnmax.com/merch Follow us on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/minnmax.com Go behind the scenes on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/minnmaxshow This podcast is powered by Pinecast.