Ep. 427 - Game of the Year 2025
The Insert Credit Show · Brandon Sheffield
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Show Notes
Insert Credit nominates and ranks the fifteen best video games of the year 2025.
Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
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(Finalized list appears at the bottom of the show notes, don’t spoil yourself!)
SHOW NOTES:
- Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure
- “Displeased! If I breathe, if I live, I am displeased. Only the dead are satisfied.”
- 52 Pickup
- Video Game History Foundation Digital Archive
- Demonschool
1: Ash Parrish’s First Nominee (05:20)
2: Brandon Sheffield’s First Nominee (09:27)
- Yakuza series
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Ichiban Kasuga
- Kazuma Kiryu
- Goro Majima
- Yakuza 0
- Deadpool
3: Frank Cifaldi’s First Nominee (14:46)
4: Ash’s Second Nominee (20:34)
5: Brandon’s Second Nominee (24:50)
6: Frank’s Second Nominee (28:01)
7: Ash’s Third Nominee (32:37z)
- Dead Take
- Tales of Kenzera: Zau
- Assassin’s Creed: Origins
- Full-motion video
- Ben Starr
- Neil Newbon
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Baldur’s Gate III
- Matt Mercer
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Harvey Weinstein
- Alan Wake series
- Sam Lake
- Max Payne series
- Palworld
- Meet The Unconventional Publishers Trying To Unfuck The Games Industry
8: Brandon’s Third Nominee (37:53)
9: Frank’s Third Nominee (43:24)
Frank’s Top 5 Albums of the Year (54:01)
- The Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming
- Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
- Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
- Wet Leg - moisturizer
- Wednesday - Bleeds
10: Ash’s Fourth Nominee (59:31)
11: Brandon’s Fourth Nominee (01:05:41)
12: Frank’s Fourth Nominee (01:08:50)
13: Ash’s Fifth Nominee (01:14:37)
- News Tower
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Game Dev Story
- Home of the Underdogs
- Superhero League of Hoboken
- Mad TV
14: Brandon’s Fifth Nominee (01:22:01)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Promise Mascot Agency
- Insert Credit Gaiden #13 - The Intended Game, with Oli Clarke Smith
15: Frank’s Fifth Nomination (01:27:41)
16: Alex Jaffe’s First Nomination (01:33:29)
THE INSERT CREDIT GAME OF THE YEAR 2025 TOP 16:
- Silent Hilf ($69.99) [14 hrs]
- News Tower ($24.99) [9.5 hrs]
- South of Midnight ($39.99) [11.5 hrs]
- Wanderstop ($24.99) [10.5 hrs]
- Hollow Knight: Silksong ($19.99) [28 hrs]
- Blue Prince ($29.99) [26.5 hrs]
- Dead Take ($14.99) [4 hrs]
- Promise Mascot Agency ($24.99) [12.5 hrs]
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ($59.99) [36 hrs]
- Windswept ($19.99) [9.5 hrs]
- Hypogea ($9.99) [2.5 hrs]
- Asura the Striker ($14.99) [0.5 hrs]
- The Roottrees are Dead ($19.99) [11.5 hrs]
- Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater ($69.99) [12 hrs]
- Call of Ponchy: Mahjong Warfare ($0.99) [??? hrs]
- Demonschool ($24.99) [31.5 hrs]
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