# MP#118 - Ball and Gun

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Podcast: [Melonmancy Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/melonmancy-podcast-488085)
Published: 2026-01-24T22:38:07+00:00
Episode link: https://melonmancy.net/mp-118-ball-and-gun
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## Resource

We are so back GAMERS, Happy new year! It's time to talk about the best games of 2025. Be it drama surrounding the industry shows such as The Game Awards, as well as our own nominations. Here's how the Melonmancy Podcast awards game of the year: since it's unrealistic to always be playing new games at full price, unless you're some paid off corpo journalist, each member of our cast will award the best new game they played this year, be it new or old. It must only be new TO YOU. Please send us boostagrams or post on our forum what was the best new game YOU played last year and we'll talk about it next team, even if the game is fuckin ancient, if its new to you, it's new. Stuff referenced: Former Reddit Moderator thinks he's a celebrity Melonmancy Podcast cast games of the year (spoilers!) Victim's pick Skooma Dealer's pick Honorable mentions (early access) Forever Winter Jump Space Barotrauma Quasimorph Dielan's pick was a tie between two games One from this year One that was not Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

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