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Last year was the first time I took part in one of the Something Awful forum GOTY threads, and it really jazzed me up for Videogames again. I felt like I'd not played enough games in 2024, and thought that I could make 2025 different. I'd keep up with the medium, I'd set aside time to game, and I'd come into December having a well-thought-out list with good, compelling reasons for each one.
So that went about as well as everything else did for 2025. I spent the year working a job I hated, with long commute times and that required me to be away from home for weeks at a time. My gaming time was - outside of a pretty good January and December - about as limited as it had been in 2024. I also got back into watching movies in a big way, and so that was my major outlet when I had downtime. I actually decided I wasn't going to contribute this year, since I didn't feel like I'd done enough to justify it. But I read through the thread anyway, and thought "fuck it, why not." And when I sat down to pull the list together anyway, I had at least ten games I wanted to give my points to, so here we are. And now I'm cross-posting to Tumblr as well.
The ten games I enjoyed playing the most in 2025, below the cut.
10. Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019): Medieval Anime High School Chess - now with fewer "it's fine, she's actually 1000 years old" dragons.
I played this game a whole lot on release, finishing two of the three paths available. When the DLC came out, I picked it up and started my third playthrough, this time as Black Eagle House. I wanted to save the evil bisexual wizards as a treat for last, y'know? But somewhere along the way, after finishing all the DLC content, I burned out on the game and didn't finish it. Fast-forward to the start of December, I had quit my job, had a new Switch 2, and was scrolling through my Switch software. So I reinstalled FE:3H, started the Black Eagles storyline all over again, and made it through this time. I don't know if this is the best Fire Emblem game ever, but it's the one I've sunk most time into. My fondness for ridiculous anime bullshit has remained strong over the years, and it was nice to just be able to sink into the world of Fodlan again. I can't really see myself playing it for a fourth time - I'm not good enough or patient enough to want to do a Maddening Difficulty run - but I'm glad I returned to it one last time.
9. Expelled! (2025): How DARE you accuse me of this thing that I absolutely did.
I'd actually forgotten that I played Expelled! this year. I haven't played Overboard!, though I'd always meant to, but when Expelled! dropped it looked like so much fun I decided I'd just skip straight to the new one without playing the original. And it was a delight! I enjoyed every minute of the 8 hours I spent playing it. It was funny and charming, and clever enough to thoroughly hook me for the few days I spent with it. Over those 8 hours, I got all the endings, unlocked all the achievements, and saw pretty much everything the game had to offer - and then I stopped thinking about it until I opened up my Steam library this morning to work out what I was going to put in this list. But that's okay - not everything needs to be a 133 hour odyssey. In fact, 8-12 hours is probably my sweet spot for a game these days. Another one that I don't think I'll ever play again, but the time I spent with it was time well spent.
8. Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood (2023): Hubris is a word for cowards.
I bought Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood on sale the year it came out, and then proceeded to not play it until May this year. I'm a sucker for cosmically powerful magic-users shaking the bones of the world and tearing down the thrones of heaven, etc etc, so I was hooked pretty quickly. But, like with Expelled!, I played it through a few times and then felt like I'd seen most of what it had to offer. I think I have one more runthrough left in me, where I try and craft the finest and most puissant of tarot decks, and make sure everyone gets the future that they deserve.
7. Silksong (2025): Shaw!
I am extremely bad at Silksong. And I haven't come anywhere near close to finishing it. But it's still a game I played this year and, while I might not have loved every moment I spent with it, I'm looking forward to the day that I finally pick it up again. I put it down not that long after I started, as work and other games took up my attention, but now I'm unemployed, have a Switch 2 for convenience, and have all the time I need to finally git gud keep playing until I finally hit the wall where my tired 30-something reflexes fail me. I haven't got that much to say, really, and everything I could say has been said by others more eloquently, but it would be irresponsible of me to not list it here, y'know?
6. Citizen Sleeper (2022) : They have TTRPGs on computers now?
I bounced off Citizen Sleeper when I first tried to play it, despite multiple people assuring me that it was extremely my shit and that I would love it. I couldn't quite wrap my head around the mechanics. Until this year, when a friend told me that it was just Blades in the Dark, and then it clicked and I lost the next few days down the Citizen Sleeper rabbit hole. What a beautiful fucking game. The music, writing, and visual aesthetic all come together to produce one of the best gaming experiences I have had in a very long time. I haven't picked up the second one, but come this time in 2026, I expect it to make a well-deserved appearance on my GOTY rankings.
5. Misericorde Volume One (2023): I think I'm detecting some homosexual undertones to these nuns.
I had never heard of Misericorde until the GOTY thread for last year, but I played it off the strength of people's reviews in the thread. Barely a videogame, I suppose, but an excellent murder mystery novel with a banging soundtrack. I was sucked in immediately, and read the whole thing in one sitting. I had every intention to go back and re-read it to pick up on everything I was sure I missed (I am no closer to figuring out the solution to the various mysteries dangled in front of me as Sister Hedwig, World's Worst Nun Detective, is) but after I finished reading it, I saw that…
4. Misericorde Volume Two (2024): All Toxic Nun Yuri, All The Time.
...Volume Two was scheduled for release the very next day. The soundtrack is just as good (Xeecee needs to hurry up and publish it on Bandcamp, I wanna give them money and listen to more nuncore trip-hop on the go), the writing is even better, and the convent's fucked up social dynamics are even more fucked up than you could possibly have predicted. A+ visual novel experience. Like Volume One, it's still barely a video game, but I don't think it would work nearly as well as it does in a different medium.
I don't know when Volume Three is going to appear, but I will buy it the minute it's available, and very happily return to this world of fucked up gay nuns doing weird and suspicious shit. And this time, I'll re-read both Vol 1 and 2 in advance. Maybe I'll figure things out on my own. But I suspect I won't, and that I'll love the whole thing anyway.
3. 1000xResist (2024): There is a you that remains and remains and remains (in my top ten forever).
I'm another one who was introduced to 1000xResist via last year's thread. I bought it with enough time to spare that I could play it through before voting closed, and so it was number one on my list last year. I finished replaying it last night, exactly a year after finishing it for the first time. I thought about not including it in my top ten, instead giving it an honourable mention, but all thoughts of that approach vanished as the credits rolled. It's become one of my favourite games of all time, and I plan on replaying it every December. So why shouldn't I give it my hard-won points?
The "are videogames art?" debate is long-dead, but this game (alongside Disco Elysium) proves that they can be Capital-L Literature. Not a perfect game, but one that - if it resonates with you - will stay with you forever. I've bought and gifted it to multiple friends, and have convinced at least half a dozen others to play it. Hekki Allmo.
2. Pokemon Legends Z-A (2025): "Sorry, I'm gonna be late for work. It's the - yeah, it's the giant angry lions that are on fire, they've melted my tires again."
Ever since I was a child, I wanted a giant 3D free-roaming Pokemon game with real time battles. And here it is! Like every Pokemon game ever, it's a bit of a mess, undercooked in some ways and overthought in others, but you know what? I don't give a shit. The thrill of running around Lumiose, dressed as God's Perfect Lesbian, Cher from Clueless, or the Head of the Poke-Yakuza, with all my best pokemon friends alongside me just wipes away any complaints I have. Sure, they'll come back again when I think about them an hour after putting the controller down, but they all disappear again when I boot the game back up again. It also has a charming cast of characters who are as deep as a puddle, but are still cool and my friends - plus the DLC lets me dress as them now.
And Jacinthe's theme is the best bit of music from a Pokemon game in years.
1. Hades II (2025): Beguiled By Witches
Could number one have been anything else? It's Hades II. It's like Hades I, but with more witches and an even more banging soundtrack. I'd say more about it, but I've gotta go break back into hell to beat up an old guy and heckle a band. Death to Chronos!
My fellow Louisas are few and far between so it's nice that Expelled! is giving us our day in the sun with a hockey stick swingin bitch. A win for the brand.
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Sometimes I really want to read a short summary of what to expect from a game with a very particular description that CATER to my OWN SPECIFIC interests, so here we go.
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what to expect from EXPELLED!
This is part of the "Overboard!" games (now just two!: Overboard! and Expelled!) in the sense that they are narrative games about a mystery to solve, and where clues can be accumulated through multiple playthroughs
You play as Verity, a 16 years old girl at an all girls school in the 1920s. The game starts with the headmistress expelling you for throwing another student out of a window
As Overboard! the tone is more humorous than serious but there are plenty of serious themes
Verity will then narrate to her father what really happened
Like Overboard! the game as a limited time for Verity to play/replay the events: the accident happens at around 7am, and you have till 4pm to show the headmistress and the whole school that you are innocent
You can click on different locations in the school, and do differnt things (talk with characters, steal things, pickpocket, put clues into other's pockets etc.) and you can decide to frame someone, trick, lie, tell the truth, be the best girl ever or the worst girl ever, find secret etc.
The game also has an "evil" counter, the more mean, trickster-like and bossy you are the more your counter rises (and there will be certain consequences)
I won't go into details into the story, as there are a lot of surprises, just know that the game is not over once you fail once, as you restart with all your previous knowledge stored into your diary
I played more or less 6 hours and managed to solve the main mystery, but not yet some secondary ones
Some queer subtext, up to you if some love confession is romantic love or not, I decided to interpret it as such
plot? You play as Verity and you have been accused of pushing a schoolmate out of a window. You only have a school day to prove your innocence.
gameplay? narrative game, point and click, choices and dialogues
characters? All the characters are quite distinct, and are mainly the five teachers, the gardener, and your classmates
sadness level? very low
death? none that I could see