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AggroChat #554 – Games of the Year Show 2025 – Part Two

January 25, 2026 by Belghast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! We are back in full force and continuing our adventure through the second part of the Games of the Year 2025 podcast. We cut the list in half, giving us fifteen games that we were talking about in each episode. This is not necessarily a numerical list, but the titles that appear later in the shows did get more votes. It was a great year for gaming, but also a year where we were constantly getting distracted by the next big thing coming down the pipe. While we played a lot of games… we did not necessarily FINISH a lot of games.

Topics Discussed:

Fantasy Life – The Girl Who Steals Time
Chess.Com
Guild Wars Reforged
Cauldron
Ghost of Yotei
Dune Awakening
Atelier Resleriana The Red Alchemist & The White Guardian
Deltarune Chapters 3-4
Wanderstop
Where Winds Meet
Path of Exile Legacy of Phrecia
Split Fiction
Hades II
Blue Prince
Silksong

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AggroChat #552 – Games of the Year Show 2025 – Part One

January 11, 2026 by Belghast

Hey Folks! It is that time again, time to roll over into a new season, and time to record our massive two-part games of the year show. As we roll into Season 13, we have a minor revision to our lineup and two shows stacked with fifteen games each. As is our tradition, the list was divided into two parts, and the more votes a title got, the later in the show it appeared. It was a great year for gaming, but also a year where we were constantly getting distracted by the next big thing coming down the pipe. While we played a lot of games… we did not necessarily FINISH a lot of games.

Topics Discussed:

Slormancer
Sunderfolk
Monster Hunter Wilds
Hell Clock
Grimshire
Mercenaries of Trarthus
Final Fantasy Tactics
Digimon Story: Time Stranger
Soulstone Survivors
Ball x Pit
Guild Wars 2 Fractal Incursion
Xenoblade Chronicles X Def. Edition
Dispatch
Destiny Rising
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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AggroChat #507 – Games of the Year Show 2024 – Part Two

January 12, 2025 by Belghast

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! We have a bit of a long show because we wound up cramming a few games that we missed in the first show into this list. We round out our yearly tradition with the second part of our Games of the Year show. I am once again so glad that we decided a few years ago to start doing these on multiple nights because this year would have been a four-hour-long epic marathon of recording.

Games Discussed:

Space Marine 2
Path of Exile II
Metaphor Refantazio
Kunitsu-Gami
Games Finally Leaving Early Access
- Caves of Qud
Middara
Gundam Breaker 4
Dwarven Realms
Nova Drift
UFO 50
Warhammer 40k Franchise
Tactical Breach Wizards
Path of Exile Settlers of Kalguur League
Enshrouded
Warcraft Pandaria Remix
Rabbit And Steel
Helldivers 2
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Last Epoch

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AggroChat #418 – 2022 Games of the Year Show – Part Two

January 15, 2023 by Belghast

Hey Folks! Welcome back to the second part of our yearly “Games of the Year Show”. I have to admit I greatly enjoy this process and probably this year more than many in the past. We had a wildly diverse set of games that the seven of us collectively chose this year. Over the course of these two shows, we talk about twenty-six different games. Often times there are a few big games that most of us played and put on our list, but this year we all had a pretty wild variety of choices.

I also feel like we have set a standard going forward, that we no longer will we do this nonsense where we record for four or five hours and then split it in half. Recording two normal shows seemed to feel much better and produce a better discussion. Hopefully, our listeners will agree. In this show, we tackle the second half of the list and burn through fourteen more games.