S4 E21 - 2025 HLTB GotM Retrospective (feat. Knalb)

About this episode

The hosts discuss the Game of the Month winners of 2025 with guest Knalb, exploring community engagement and game choices.

Another year passed and the hosts welcome back thread master Knalb to recount the "Game of the Month" winners of the community throughout 2025. Knalb also brings the stats and trivia to play a guessing game around the community's activity! Did the community choose better games than the year before? Who actually played Hatris? Why has there never been a racing game as GOTM before? And what might be in store for us in 2026? Let's discuss in this extra thick episode! Feel free to use the time stamps below to avoid spoiler-heavy chat over specific games. HowLongToBeat forums - https://howlongtobeat.com/forum Discord – https://discord.gg/v5F26Dk Email - hltbpodcast@gmail.com Music – Ian Edward (intro/outro), Abatage (incidental), call me lethargy. (incidental) Graphic design – M4thew and Matt 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:08 What has Knalb beaten? 00:14:00 What has Knalb retired? 00:19:16 What is Knalb playing? 00:48:59 January: Paper Mario 00:55:58 February: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion 01:01:19 February: Bloodborne 01:14:15 March: Metroid Zero Mission 01:21:26 April: Nier Automata 01:25:10 April: Hatris 01:31:11 May: Fallout New Vegas 01:49:43 June: Portal 01:57:58 July: System Shock…

People in this episode

Host: Matt

Guest: Knalb

Topics covered

• Game of the Month
• community activity
• game statistics
• trivia
• 2025 retrospective

Keywords

• Hatris
• racing games
• 2026 predictions

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Hatris, Bloodborne, Metroid Zero Mission, Nier Automata, Balatro, Mini Metro, Powerwash Simulator, American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, Paper Mario

Books & works: Paper Mario, Turnip Boy Commits, Hatris, Fallout New Vegas, Portal, Clair Obscure Expedition, Psychonauts, Dino Crisis, Signalis, Alan Wake 2

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