At The Table With The Dice Tower - Looking Back at 2025

About this episode

The episode reviews the games of 2025, discussing various categories and highlights.

It's time for our look back at the games of 2025. Highs and lows, heavy and light, thorny and rosy and hoopy. 01:20 - Top Tens on Video 01:51 - Year as a Whole 07:49 - Convention/On The Go Game - Hot Streak, Light Speed Arena, Ghost Lift, Ito, 1AM Jailbreak 12:07 - All-Day-to-Play - Regicide Legacy, My Father's Work, Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era 14:48 - Best Theme - Luthier, Flow, Storyfold: Wildwoods 20:06 - Guilty Pleasure - Deep Regrets, Moon Colony Bloodbath 24:38 - Favorite Classic - Race for the Galaxy, At The Gates of Loyang, Sentient, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, You're Bluffing 27:22 - Stand-Out in Our Favorite Genre - Bohemians, EXIT Advent, Threads of Fate, Rove 32:48 - Hoopiest Hula-Hoop - Spooktacular, Oddland, Zenith 37:05 - Thorniest Thorn - Feel Like a Fool, Lynx, Donald Duck in Happy Camper 41:38 - Rosiest Rose - Vantage, Formaggio, Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread 47:42 - Looking Forward to 2026 - Use Up All Your Sick Days, Vegan Cafe, Sail Legacy, Floe 50:35 - Announcements: Gamefound, Dice Tower Cruise, East, West Next Episode: January 13, 2026 Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Tom Vasel, Julie Ahern, Eric Summerer

Topics covered

• game reviews
• 2025 game highlights
• board game themes
• convention games
• favorite classics
• upcoming games

Keywords

• 2025 games
• board game reviews
• top tens
• game themes
• convention games

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Regicide Legacy, My Father's Work, Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era, Luthier, Flow, Storyfold: Wildwoods, Deep Regrets, Moon Colony Bloodbath, Race for the Galaxy, At The Gates of Loyang

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