After spending December playing GOTY catchup and posting deliberations with various brilliant guests, it's crunch time. This episode is my personal games of the year list for 2025.

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And thanks for listening, everybody!

The votes are cast and counted, and it's time to unveil the results of the Gaming In The Wild patron GOTY vote 2025!

This annual fixture has slowly eclipsed my own GOTY list as the most-hype podcast of GOTY season in my mind. We had a record-breaking 50 voters, selecting 88 games, and one final winner. And to help me go through the results, I had one special guest: Blinkoom aka Steve from Indie Quest podcast. Enjoy the show, folks, it was a blast to create.

Find Blink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Blinkoom

See Blink’s GOTY stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2648247802

Find Blink's podcast Indie Quest: https://indiequest.buzzsprout.com

If you'd like to join the community, hit up Patreon — new patrons at any tier get a free game code for 1000xRESIST, Ultros, In Other Waters, or Citizen Sleeper (while they last) — and you can vote next year! http://patreon.com/gaminginthewild

Happy holidays folks — I'll be back before NYE with my personal GOTY episode in the final episode of the year.

00:00 Intro

04:30 Blink's Top Ten

51:54 Patron vote: lower ten

01:25:53 Patron vote: top ten

This week's show is me catching up on a couple of intriguing late-year indie releases. Skate Story is a fantastical skating game where we play a demon skating out of hell to eat the moon — it's a masterclass in both skating mechanics and aesthetic. DISPATCH is the blockbuster visual novel that takes an original spin on a superhero story, with very human themes.

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