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

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Release Date: 01/25/2026

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen This week, we record one of our shortest shows because, quite honestly, we did not have a ton to talk about. That said, I feel like there were a lot of fun discussions. We start off talking about Forza Horizon 6, as Tam has discovered how fun this series is. After that, we talk a bit about Voidling Bound, a game that a lot of us were not following but are now interested in. Ace discusses Fields of Mistria and talks about how it is very adjacent to Stardew Valley. We also briefly talk about how...

AggroChat #571 - Sad Cat Game

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks. We start off this week with a discussion about Life Below, which is an underwater building sim focused on coral reefs and maintaining them. From there, we talk a bit about another one of our patented 11 sads out of 10 games, where you try to keep the last cat in the universe alive. Spirit Crossing has launched on Steam and we are all pretty happy to see it being untethered from mobile-only. We talk about all of the things that we saw at the Summer Games Fest, which are too many individual games...

AggroChat #570 - Hollowing Season

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Tamrielo Hey Folks! We had quite the list of topics this time around. We start off with a bit of a postmortem on Zero Parades and how that game really stuck the landing. From there, Bel talks a bit about the upcoming final patch for Destiny and how it might have saved the game. Tam discusses his feelings so far about 007 First Light and how its Hitman DNA shows through while being a unique game and not a DLC. Many games were released this week, and we talked about some of them before diving into Mina the Hollower....

AggroChat #569 - Eggplant Cousins

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We had a stacked show last night and had a bit of a rolling start as Thalen joined in a little late. We start off with Tam talking about re-exploring Xenogears, and then Ace finding their groove in Dead as Disco. Tam has a kid who is rapidly becoming a Pokémon fiend and, as a result, has been exploring the latest entry, Pokémon Violet. Ace convinced Bel to ignore his fear of deep water and play some Subnautica 2 Multiplayer. Bel and Kodra discuss their plans for the upcoming Path...

AggroChat #568 - Anti-Fun Features

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Thalen Good Morning, Folks! Last night we recorded what I think might be one of our better shows ever, because there were a lot of interesting discussions. We start off talking about Eurovision and how it felt like it almost ended in a riot. It’s a bit dated, but we talk about some of the details that came out of the Dan Frazier plagiarism situation in Magic: The Gathering. Ace talks a bit about Subnautica 2 and how some of the features caused them to bounce early. Path of Exile II 0.5.0 reveal happened, and...

AggroChat #567 - Lords Be Hatin

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Thalen Hey Folks! We are down a few folks this night, which leads to a bit of a short show. It is, however, a show filled with some pretty good conversations. We start off with Bel talking a bit about Diablo IV Lord of Hatred expansion and how his opinion of the game has swung a bit from good to frustrated to really good again. An event currently running in Diablo drives us down the familiar classic era World of Warcraft discussion, as we agree that Black Rock Depths was an amazing dungeon. Kodra talks a bit about Pokémon ZA and...

AggroChat #566 - Nom Tasty Bytes

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We have almost too many topics, which is odd because normally this only happens when we skip a week. We start off with a discussion about Paradise Killer, the first game from the folks who created Promise Mascot Agency. From there, we talk a bit about the current round of Hugo Award Nominations since Thalen gets to vote. Ash talks about the existence of Beat Weaver, but is NDA bound and cannot go into much detail. This is essentially a spiritual successor to Frequency and Amplitude from Harmonix. We...

AggroChat #565 - Non-Euclidean Horses

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, and Tamrielo Hey Folks! I did not realize this until pulling together the post this morning, but apparently, last Monday was the 12th anniversary of our podcast, and last Friday was the 17th anniversary of the Tales of the Aggronaut blog. We have, in fact, been doing this for a while, it seems. Tonight, we start off the show staring into the black hole of equine abominations that is Horsey Game. From there, we talk a bit about the madness that is the challenge mode of Peglin brought by Act 4. After listening to Tamrielo talk about...

AggroChat #564 - Moon Joy

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ashgar, Belghast, Tamrielo, and Thalen Hey Folks! We were out last week due to various scheduling issues, but led off the show with a bit of a message about Bel going through Chemo and maybe having scheduling issues every other week. From there, we talk a bit about the Artemis II mission and how wild it is to experience “Moon Joy”, as we enter a new phase of space exploration. Ash talks a bit about the Rabbit and Steel update, and Tam talks about the wild experience of playing Screamer. From there, we talk quite a bit about the Promise Mascot Agency...

AggroChat #563 - Omens Were Shattered

AggroChat: Tales of the Aggronaut Podcast

Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen We start off this week discussing a bit about Project Tahiti, which is a fairly professional emulator server that is helping to keep Marvel Heroes Omega alive. We’ve talked a bit in the past about missing this game, but it now functions again and is really easy to get up and running, especially if you ever played it on Steam. Bel talks a bit about some drama happening in Path of Exile with the account banning of Jenebu, the originator of The Forbidden Trove and what this means for the Mirror...

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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.

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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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