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Video Games | Ongamecast

Welcome to Ongamecast, the podcast where every game is more than a pastime… it’s a world, a story, and a legacy waiting to be explored. I’m your host, Ikecy Christian, and every week we crack open the games you can’t stop playing and the ones you never saw coming.From indie darlings to AAA epics, retro legends to genre-defining masterpieces, this is where we go beyond the surface. We dive into the design, the narrative, the emotion, and the culture behind the pixels.Whether you’re a seasoned gamer, a lore junkie, or just here for the ride, here is your portal into the heart of gaming.

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    Copa City Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Let me be real with you… This game had no right being this intense.Because on paper? It sounds boring—logistics, planning, infrastructure.But when you’re inside it?It’s pressure. Real pressure.Copa City takes something nobody thinks about—and turns it into a full-on strategy thriller.

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    Disney Dreamlight Valley Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Disney Dreamlight Valley in 2026 has grown into something far beyond a casual life-sim. With meaningful traversal, deeper character integration, and technical improvements that finally unlock creative freedom, it stands as one of the most complete cozy adventure experiences available today.

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    Dracamar Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Dracamar is not trying to overwhelm you—it’s trying to remind you. That games can be soft without being shallow, meaningful without being heavy, and beautiful without trying too hard.

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    Kejora Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Kejora is an atmospheric masterpiece of Indonesian indie design, where synergy and observation take precedence over strength and speed. Its character-switching can feel slightly dated, and minor audio limitations exist, but its emotional resonance, hand-painted environments, and clever loop design elevate it beyond a simple short experience.

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    Ancient Farm Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Ancient Farm delivers a beautiful and uncompromising recreation of early agricultural life. Its commitment to manual mechanics and historical inspiration creates a meditative experience that rewards patience and persistence.

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    Pathologic 3 Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Pathologic 3 is the smartest game of 2026. By reimagining ‘survival’ as a battle for mental clarity and ‘time’ as a resource to be spent and regained, Ice-Pick Lodge has created a sequel that honors its roots while fearlessly breaking new ground.

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    The Bearer and the Last Flame Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    The Bearer and the Flame stands out as one of the most immersive and memorable survival RPGs of 2026. It’s challenging, yes—but in a way that feels meaningful, deliberate, and unforgettable.

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    Tokyo Xtreme Racer Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Tokyo Xtreme Racer stands as a powerful evolution of its legacy. It respects its roots while embracing modern systems that deepen both strategy and immersion. The SP battle system transforms racing into a psychological experience, and the atmosphere captures the loneliness and beauty of the midnight highway.

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    Dark Auction Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Dark Auction: Hitler and the Old Castle is a deeply thoughtful, narrative-driven experience that prioritizes writing, atmosphere, and emotional engagement over mechanical polish.

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    StarRupture Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Welcome to a planet that doesn’t want you here.But unfortunately for you… your sentence says you have to stay.Because in StarRupture, you’re not a chosen hero, a fearless explorer, or the captain of some prestigious space mission. You’re something far less glamorous and far more expendable. You’re corporate labor. A convict. A disposable asset dropped onto the hostile world of Arcadia-7 with one very specific assignment: build the machines that will tear the planet apart and turn it into profit.

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    Fairy Tail: Dungeons Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Fairy Tail: Dungeons first debuted on PC in 2024, but it’s in its Nintendo Switch grand entrance on January 7, 2026, where the full guild comes alive, sending waves of excited players back into Magnolia’s depths.

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    Lost Soul Aside Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    This is Lost Soul Aside.And you? You’re not stepping into this world gently. You’re thrown into it as Kaser—a rebel with more defiance than preparation—fused to a shape-shifting dragon named Arena who absolutely did not read the “silent companion” memo. He talks. He judges. He saves your life. He might also get you killed. It’s complicated. It’s symbiotic. It’s chaotic in the most beautiful way.

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    Gears of War: Reloaded Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Gears of War: Reloaded doesn’t just reopen an old chapter—it rips it out of the archive, drenches it in 4K clarity, and dares you to survive it again. You are not easing back into a classic. You are stepping into a battlefield that has aged like steel—harder, sharper, less forgiving.

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    Hell is Us Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Hell is Us crashed onto the scene on September 4, 2025, and even now, in the early months of 2026, the industry hasn’t settled. Developed by Rogue Factor and led by Jonathan Jacques-Belletête — the same visionary who shaped the striking aesthetic of Deus Ex: Human Revolution — this project didn’t politely enter the Soulslike conversation. It interrupted it. Loudly. Deliberately. Almost defiantly.

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    Revenge of the Savage Planet Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Revenge of the Savage Planet isn’t here to hold your hand. Officially released on May 8, 2025, this isn’t just another sci-fi romp—it’s the spiritual heir of 90s pulp adventure, resurrected from the ashes of Google Stadia by the survivors of Typhoon Studios now known as Raccoon Logic.

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    Madden NFL 26 Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Madden NFL 26 isn’t here to play nice—it’s here to teach you respect, one bruised rib at a time. Saquon Barkley isn’t just running; he’s a force of nature, a highlight reel incarnate, and if you don’t read him, you’ll pay.

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    Sword of the Sea Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Sword of the Sea doesn’t just ask you to play; it asks you to exist in motion, to understand the poetry of momentum, and to feel every pulse of the Hoversword as if it were part of your own body. Every swipe, every grind along the broken pillars, every whip of air across the Necropolis is a story being written under your feet.

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    Fatal Frame II | Best Gaming Podcast

    To understand Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE, you can’t treat it like a typical game. Team Ninja has performed what can only be described as a modern ritual: resurrecting a 2003 classic and infusing it with the soul of 2026 horror design.

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    Resident Evil 9: Requiem | Best Gaming Podcast

    Resident Evil 9: Requiem is officially arriving on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and the brand-new Nintendo Switch 2, and everything we’ve seen so far promises the most intense, meticulously crafted horror experience of 2026. Leon S. Kennedy is back, but the man we knew is gone—replaced by a desperate, infected survivor haunted by thirty years of memories, scars, and unanswered questions.

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    Code Vein II Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Code Vein II isn’t just a sequel, it’s a resurrection. A universe where beauty and brutality dance, where power lives in your veins, and every battle feels like a heartbeat racing against extinction.

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    Nioh 3 Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Nioh 3 is a highly engaging, gritty Souls-like with deep combat and exploration, widely enjoyed by fans of the genre, but may feel challenging and imperfect in places.

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    Path of Exile 2 Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Path of Exile 2 is the standalone sequel to the popular ARPG, continuing its dark-fantasy, isometric dungeon-crawl action with deeper character progression and new systems like an expanded skill tree and dodge mechanics. It’s still in early access, with ongoing updates and delayed full release.

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    The Outer World 2 Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    Under the guidance of legends like Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, with Phil Spencer keeping a watchful eye, The Outer Worlds 2 wasn’t just a game release… it was a statement. Xbox saying: “We have the best RPG stable in the galaxy

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    The Midnight Walk Review | Best Gaming Podcast

    In The Midnight Walk, those ridges are everywhere — every twisted tree, every grinning monster, every flickering candle.

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    Dying Light: The Beast | Best Gaming Podcast

    Dying Light: The Beast isn’t just another entry in a franchise; it’s a concentrated, twenty-hour adrenaline shot. The setting has changed. The urban chaos of the city is gone, replaced by Castor Woods, a once-beautiful valley now twisted into a vertical playground of death. After a decade of experiments, Crane has escaped. But he didn’t come out alone. He brought something feral with him—something that changes how the night hunts, and how you survive.

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    Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater! | Best Gaming Podcast

    Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, released on August 28, 2025, is Konami’s ambitious attempt to rebuild the 2004 masterpiece from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5. It is a faithful, near one-to-one reconstruction that manages to preserve the soul of Hideo Kojima’s original vision while wrapping it in a visual fidelity that finally matches the prestige of its story.

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    Death Stranding 2: On The Beach | Best Gaming Podcast

    Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, released on June 26, 2025, for the PlayStation 5, is not just a sequel. It is a massive, sprawling interrogation of the very concept of "connection" that defined its 2019 predecessor. Developed by Kojima Productions and powered by a visually arresting evolution of the Decima Engine, it is a game that is at once more accessible, more violent, and significantly more strange than anything that came before it.

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    Absolum (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    Absolum (2025) is the definitive answer to the question of how to make the side-scrolling brawler matter in the modern age. Developed by the "dream team" of Guard Crush Games and Supamonks, and published by the preservationists-turned-pioneers at Dotemu, it arrived on October 9, 2025. It is the spiritual and mechanical evolution of everything they learned with Streets of Rage 4, but twisted into a fantasy epic that breathes new life into the bones of the genre.

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    Killing Floor 3 | Best Gaming Podcast

    Killing Floor 3 (2025) is the heavy-metal, high-octane answer to the question: How much gore is too much? Developed and published by the carnage-specialists at Tripwire Interactive, and released on July 24, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, it takes the cult-classic horde shooter and drags it screaming into a dystopian 2091.

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    Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (2025) is the long-awaited, hyper-stylized successor to the legendary Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Developed by the fighting game veterans at SNK and released on April 24, 2025, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S, it isn't just a sequel; it is a declaration of war against the modern fighting game landscape. It arrives in an era of "accessible" fighters and dares to offer a depth of system mechanics that would make a Neo Geo fan weep with joy.

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    Mario Kart World (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    Mario Kart World (2025) is not just a sequel; it is the total annexation of the racing genre by Nintendo EPD. Released in the summer of 2025 as the flagship titan for Nintendo's latest hardware, it has transformed from a couch-co-op staple into a persistent, global, hyper-connected digital festival.

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    ARC Raiders (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    ARC Raiders (2025) is the definitive proof that Embark Studios are the new kings of the tactical sandbox. Released on October 30, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, it arrived not as the free-to-play co-op shooter we were promised four years ago, but as a premium, $40 masterpiece of high-stakes tension

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    Ninja Gaiden 4 (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    Ninja Gaiden 4 is the resurrection we were told would never happen. Developed in a powerhouse partnership between the masters of discipline at Team NINJA and the kings of spectacle at PlatinumGames, and published by Xbox Game Studios, it arrived on October 21, 2025. It didn't just break the silence; it shattered it with 120 frames per second of uncompromising, blood-soaked precision.

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    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Best Gaming Podcast

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a surreal, hyper-cinematic RPG from Sandfall Interactive, published by Kepler Interactive, and released in 2025 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. It is a game defined by "Responsive Turn-Based" combat and a Belle Époque aesthetic that is as haunting as it is beautiful

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    Split Fiction (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    Split Fiction (2025) is the definitive answer to the question: Can human heart survive the corporate machine? This is Hazelight Studios at the absolute peak of their powers, directed by the uncompromising Josef Fares, and published by Electronic Arts.

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    DOOM: The Dark Age! | Best Gaming Podcast

    DOOM: The Dark Ages is the primal, medieval origin story of the Doom Slayer, developed by the gods of the genre at id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. Released on May 15, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, this is a game that doesn't just ask you to kill; it asks you to conquer.

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    The First Berserker: Khazan | Best Gaming Podcast

    The First Berserker: Khazan (2025) is the definitive, blood-soaked origin story of the Dungeon & Fighter universe, developed by the combat wizards at Neople and published by Nexon. Released on March 27, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, it is an Action-RPG that dares to bridge the gap between the surgical precision of Sekiro and the chaotic, loot-heavy addiction of Nioh.

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    Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II | Best Gaming Podcast

    This game isn’t played with controllers; it’s played with headphones and an open mind. We’re here to dissect the terrifying realism of the visuals, the weaponized genius of the sound design, and the conscious choice to trade player freedom for unforgettable, cinematic, and often mechanically bare-bones focus.

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    Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    Let’s be honest. When you pick up a Hyrule Warriors game, you know what you’re signing up for. You’re not here for tactical depth; you’re here for therapy via digital demolition.

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    Blades Of Fire! 2025 | Best Gaming Podcast

    Blades of Fire presents a familiar yet intriguing dark fantasy narrative. We follow Aran de Lira, a reluctant warrior haunted by a mysterious, tragic past (because, of course, all good heroes must have one) and his very loyal, very knowledgeable companion, Adso de Zelk.

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    Revenge of the Savage Planet (2025) | Best Gaming Podcast

    Today, we celebrate the pure, unadulterated chaos of it all. Strap in, deploy your most aggressive sarcasm, and let's punch a hole in the universe!

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    STARFIELD | Best Gaming Podcast

    Welcome, traveler, to StarfieldBethesda’s most audacious attempt at shaping an entire universe into a playable destiny.

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    GHOST OF TSUSHIMA 2 | Best Gaming Podcast

    Ghost of Tsushima 2” didn’t just come to continue Jin Sakai’s legend; it came to redefine what cinematic storytelling, artistry, and open-world immersion mean in gaming.

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    ELDEN RING — SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE | Best Gaming Podcast

    The Erdtree calls again — not with the golden light of grace this time, but with a whisper from its shadow. And here, on On-Game Cast, I’m your host, Íkecy Christian, guiding you through every haunting valley, every fog-laced ruin, and every breathtaking battle that defines this expansion. Developed by FromSoftware — the same minds behind Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro — and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree was released in June 2024, expanding on the 2022 Game of the Year that shook the entire gaming industry to its core.

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    BORDERLAND 4 | Best Gaming Podcast

    This ain’t your regular game night.Nah, today we are diving into the unholy carnival of bullets, banter, and broken sanity known as Borderlands 4 — yeah, the long-awaited, loot-heavy, loud-as-hell sequel from the twisted geniuses at Gearbox Software and 2K Games, officially released in 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

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    Hallow Knight: Silksong | Best Gaming Podcast

    Hollow Knight: Silksong.Developed by Team Cherry, the same brilliant minds that gave us the cult-classic Hollow Knight back in 2017, and published independently by the same creative house, this upcoming sequel has been cooking longer than a prophecy waiting for its appointed time. Originally announced in 2019, and expected to drop sometime between late 2024 and early 2025, Silksong has become more than just a game. It’s become a legend in itself. A whispered myth across forums, Discord channels, and Reddit caves, where gamers chant: ‘When will Hornet rise?

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    Mafia — The Old Country! | Best Gaming Podcast

    Welcome… to The Old Country.This isn’t your typical run-and-gun, bang-bang gangster fantasy.No, this one’s soaked in wine, blood, and betrayal.A story that smells like gunpowder and aged cigar smoke — where loyalty is currency, and trust? Ha… that’s just another bullet waiting for your back.

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    Call Of Duty; Black Ops 6! | Best Gaming Podcast

    Here’s the thing — every time you think Call of Duty has done it all, it somehow finds a new way to punch you in the adrenaline gland.And Black Ops 6? Oh, it doesn’t walk in quietly. It breaks the door down.This is not your old-school campaign where everyone’s in camo and the biggest twist is a betrayal halfway through, no.This one plays like an action movie that refused to end when the credits rolled.We’re talking conspiracies wrapped in espionage, betrayal baked into loyalty, and a kind of chaos that feels… cinematic.Black Ops 6 is a rock concert in a war zone, loud, messy, and absolutely magnetic.

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    The Blue Prince | Best Gaming Podcast

    Blue Prince, developed by Dogubomb Studios and published by Raw Fury. Released in 2025, this isn’t your typical run-and-gun, shoot-everything-that-moves kind of game. Nah, this is a mind-twisting architectural puzzle, a fever dream wrapped in velvet blue walls and a faint hum of mystery that makes your palms sweat before anything even happens.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to Ongamecast, the podcast where every game is more than a pastime… it’s a world, a story, and a legacy waiting to be explored. I’m your host, Ikecy Christian, and every week we crack open the games you can’t stop playing and the ones you never saw coming.From indie darlings to AAA epics, retro legends to genre-defining masterpieces, this is where we go beyond the surface. We dive into the design, the narrative, the emotion, and the culture behind the pixels.Whether you’re a seasoned gamer, a lore junkie, or just here for the ride, here is your portal into the heart of gaming.

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