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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Velcome everyone. Earth is Purgatory!

For our FINAL EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH, we start off with a spooky folk story, and then a TON of Next Fest demos! Then we talk about a disturbing horror game about answering your door in the apocalypse, and a game about a naughty boy who runs with scissors.

Games Mentioned:

• No I’m Not a Human
• The Berlin Apartment
• Nighthawks
• Servant of the Lake
• Earth Must Die!
• Séance of Blake Manor
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club
• Cult Vacui
• The Dark Rites of Arkham
• The Last Case of John Morley
• Father
• Winter Burrow
• Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence
• The Tragedy at Deer Creek
• Papers Please
• Myst
• Clock Tower

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SPOOKY MONTH CONTINUES! With Roses really wanting a coffee and Matt wanting to figure out how to make baths less hot. After a quick discussion about spookycute game CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs, they dive headfirst into the horrifying waters of Mouthwashing!

Games Mentioned:

• Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs
• Inscryption
• No, I'm Not Human
• Mouthwashing

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We journey deeper into SPOOKY MONTH, past the thorny brambles, through the crumbling graveyard, over the alien’s house, into the haunted church where we find our two heroes, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses, cowering in the corner, hiding from the goblins and playing video games.

This week, Roses played a harrowing psychological horror game (MORE ON THIS NEXT WEEK), Matt played a cute retro platformer, and then we dive into two spooky games!

First, NINE WITCHES: FAMILY DISRUPTION, a spooky/wacky point-and-click about witches and aliens and curses and Nazis.

Then, BYE SWEET CAROLE, a masterfully animated mesh of adventure genres, that’s like a playable dark fantasy Disney movie.

Games Mentioned:

• Mouthwashing
• Crow Country
• Lust from Beyond
• Pippistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
• Nine Witches: Family Disruption
• Bye Sweet Carole
• Clock Tower

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