WTDG Podcast - What's The Deal With Games?

Resident Evil Requiem, Pokopia, Esoteric Ebb, Slay the Spire 2, Deadlock… and more?!

This week we talk Mewgenics, Deadlock, Nioh 3, Arknights Endfield, Lort, and more.

It is cold! Things are bad! But you know what? Video games are alright. This time we talk about all the 2025 games we missed, and what’s coming out next in 2026.

Top 10 lists for 2025, and a discussion of our most anticipated for 2026!

Best Story, Best Action, Best Pet, Best Cozy, Wish you Played More of, Biggest Disappointment, Favorite Surprise, James’ Album of the year. James 2025 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLz4rnkCAM0&list=PLJ5mEa670BYild3jKxKwbWF2-Nb87DebP

Categories include: Best Add-on, Best Character, Best Moment (BIG SPOILS)

Our show has the best game of the year categories. Categories include: Best NOT Best, Best on Deck, Best World, Best Friends, Best Roguelite.

Do we really talk about EVERY game in the year of 2025? Nope! Just some of them! December isn’t even over yet! What are we thinking?!?

Time to discuss the games of the year! As usual we are going to run through every single game we played in 2025, starting with January through July. We give every game a SCORE!

Arc Raiders, The Outer Worlds 2, Chaos Zero Nightmare, and MORE!

Big games, little games, mobile games, demos.

In this extra long episode we talk about some extra good games including Megabonk, Silksong, Hades 2, 2XKO, Absolum, Borderlands 4, Cloverpit, Silksong, Silent Hill f.... AND MORE?

Borderlands 4 or Silksong: which do you think Ryan likes? The answer may shock you! Also, the multiplayer game we haven't talked about in a year. Why is it back?! All this and more! WTDG!

A short podcast with a LONG conversation (monologue) about how Abiotic Factor is one of the best games of the year. Additionally, we discuss some new roguelite FPS games (Deadzone Rogue, Abyssus).

In this long lost episode, hear AI-James and AI-Ryan discuss some games!

James and Ryan discuss Elden Ring; Nightreign, The Slormancer, boomer shooters, Fantasy Life, and Steam reviews!

DOOM and BOOM this week with Doom: The Dark Ages, Oblivion Remastered, Astral Ascent, and more!

Our favorite games ever, part two?!

Our favorite games ever, part one!

Blue Prince, Expedition 33. Two of the best of games of the year! This episode!

This week we talk about The Bazaar’s 1.0 release glow-up, Age of Wonders 4, Nubby’s Number Factory, Death Loops, and way too much TEKKEN.

Monster Hunter Wilds! Two Point Museum! More and more!

This week we talk Avowed, SWORN, Ender Magnolia, and more!

Oops, we published this one late! It’s the best one though.

TEN awards categories. The best format, the best opinions (objectively). A little late, but always on time: it’s WTDG game of the year!

Every game we played in 2024, between July and December.

January - June!

Two massive releases, The Games Awards, and more! This week we’re talking Marvel Rivals, Path of Exile 2, and indie games Ballionaire and DICEOMANCER.

This episode features sounds and conversations only dogs can hear. The dogs get to hear about Metaphor ReFantazio, The Bazaar, Slime 3K, Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania, and more!

This time we talk Metaphor ReFantazio, Windblown, UFO 50, Wayfinder… and more!

Is this the most games we have ever talked about on a single episode? Maybe!

It’s time to Lock in.

Elden Ring, Cryptmaster, Fragpunk, Zenless Zone Zero, and other spicy little games are on the docket this time! Super long episode, wow!

The last one was lost, but this one isn’t! We’re catching you up on everything you missed from last time, but not really! Also, Shadows of the Erdtree, spoiler free! Also, Wuthering Waves, just free!

Is there actually a well in Animal Well? Listen and find out!

Are video games bad now? Not all games! This time we’re talking Inkbound, Pacific Drive, and more!

The big Helldivers podcast; but also, Dragons Dogma 2! (and others)

Last Epoch, Tekken 8, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Balatro, Granblue Relink… and more!

We’re allowed to release the year-in predictions in February. We’re not in trouble AT ALL.

Category time!

The second half!

In classic WTDG fashion, we roll through literally ever game this year that we care about!

The long lost episode of WTDG!

Alan Wake 2, more Mortal Kombat 1, more Cyberpunk, and more!

SPOILERS for Starfield, Ryan dicusses his Baldurs Gate 3 adventure, James discusses Cyberpunk 2.0 impressions, and a big block (button) of Mortal Kombat 1 discussion.

End-game Baldur’s Gate 3 discussion alongside early game Starfield discussion. Armored Core 6! Other games! Wow!

This week…. video games! We discuss Remnant II, Dave the Diver, a little Baldur’s Gate 3, and some of the other usual games.

Same podcast, same games! Diablo, Tears of the Kingdom, Street Fighter, and more!

Street Fighter 6, Diablo 4, ToTK, and a whole lot more! Actually, not a whole lot more; mostly just those three games.