Hot Button’s 2025 Game of the Year Deliberations Part 1

About this episode

The crew discusses and deliberates on the top video games of 2025 across various categories.

2026 is here! Before we fully embrace that though, the crew must first definitively and collectively decide on which video games topped our lists for 2025 across eight exciting categories! The batch for today include: Best Aesthetic, Best Story, Best Character, and Best Moment or Sequence!

Topics covered

• Game of the Year
• video games
• best aesthetic
• best story
• best character
• best moment

Keywords

• 2025 Game of the Year
• video game awards
• best games
• gaming categories
• aesthetic
• story
• character
• moment

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