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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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We're back from London! And we haven't changed a bit. Nope, not us. We sound and act exactly the same as before we spent some time on the British Isles. So come join us for a spot of tea as we talk about ADVENTURE X, THE GREATEST GAMING CONVENTION ON EARTH.
Matt and Roses discuss their trip, the con, the demos they played, and then take YOUR LISTENER QUESTIONS until they're sick to their frickin' stomachs!
Games Mentioned:
Winter Burrow
Strange Jigsaws
Baba is You
There Is No Game
Foolish Mortals
Pippistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo
Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores
The Dark Room with John Robertson
Blue Prince
Contradiction
The Roottrees are Dead
Her Story
Immortality
Mouthwashing
Sanitorium
The Chzos Mythos (Trilby Games)
7 Days a Flumpy
Broken Age
Adventure X Demos:
Asocial Giraffe*
Ashwood Conspiracy
Behind the Hydra's Eyes
Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror REFORGED
Chance's Lucky Escape*
City of Voices*
Contact Protocol
DEAD HAND: RED STAR
Dark Tides
Dolos: Your Best Future
Duskpunk*
Esoteric Ebb*
Expelled
Freida is Changing*
Ghost Haunting
In Their Shoes*
Legends of Castille *
MAW
Minddiver
Mithra
Mops & Mobs
Panthalassa*
Spirits of the Afterland
Sleepytime Village
The Beekeeper's Picnic*
The Dark Queen of Mortholme*
The Midnight Barber
The RATLINE
The Seance of Blake Manor*
The Tragedy at Deer Creek*
Trance Theft Horso
Truer Than You
Vice Undercover*
We Stay Behind
Your Crown is Mine
* - games we highlight in the episode
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It's early in the morning and PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp have woken up specifically to do the duty that no one else is brave enough to do -- They rank every adventure game ever. BUT FIRST, believe it or not, they've BOTH played a ton of games! Matt's got some spooky new mystery games to tell you about and Roses has plunged face first into some cozy sims!!
Then, of course, we do what we must.
Games Mentioned:
Winter Burrow
The Séance of Blake Manor
Fields of Mistria
My Time at Portia
Foolish Mortals
War of the Western Deep
Strange Jigsaws
Baba is You
Astrologaster
Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise
Sender Unknown: The Woods
SIMULACRUM
Emily is Away
The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything
Biohazard: Escape Room
Machinika: Museum
Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence.
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OFFICIAL RANKING SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11bDfPsY0tpw6m3b3EZZiY3xWuCYz4CMlMaOHST44yTA/edit?usp=sharing
Roses' video on Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence with YakWaxLips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3zV8RY9NI
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