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We believe that video games can serve as tools for understanding ourselves, each other, and the world around us— and we celebrate gaming in its many contexts: as a hobby; as an art form; as therapy.

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We believe that video games can serve as tools for understanding ourselves, each other, and the world around us— and we celebrate gaming in its many contexts: as a hobby; as an art form; as therapy.

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Pixel Therapy's Games of the Year 2025 – Pixel Therapy Pod

In 2025, so many video games helped us laugh, helped us escape, and helped us connect. Join us for our annual discussion and celebration of the games that made our year.00:00:46 – Some bittersweet news00:09:56 – 2025 year of gaming overviews00:26:47 – Spencer and Jamie's Top 5 Games of the Year01:31:30 – Honorable Mentions01:43:52 – Favorite characters of the year01:47:36 – Favorite games journalists/content creators of the year01:52:15 – Most hype for in 2026Watch the live stream recording of this episode on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/live/SE2sNC_uE3QSide Questhttps://transasylumsupport.github.io/The Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network is an interdependent, solidarity-based network of queer and trans asylum seekers, loved ones, collective members, and volunteers dedicated to the abolition of all cages and borders, revolutionary compassion and trans liberation. Our goal is to free transgender asylum seekers languishing in detention centers and help them relocate to and create thriving lives in Western Massachusetts. Learn more by visiting their website or @transasylumsupport on Instagram!About Pixel TherapyWe're a podcast queering and transcending video games for all kinds of gamers and those who love them–get cozy with us! If you like what you hear, please take a moment to rate us, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (or your listening app of choice) and subscribe! Want more? Join for free at patreon.com/pixeltherapypod
  1. Pixel Therapy's Games of the Year 2025
  2. Demonschool, Because It's Turn-Based RPG Season
  3. Fight Time and Flirt with Doom in Hades II
  4. What do Dispatch, Consume Me, and BALLxPIT Have in Common?
  5. A Bunch of Games About Little Guys
  6. Queer Theory? In Front of MY Death Stranding 2: On the Beach?!
  7. Everdeep Aurora Mines for Truth in the Midst of the Apocalypse

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We’re a bi-weekly podcast bringing you new perspectives on video game culture and current events with folks who may or may not identify as gamers– from streamers and industry folks to artists and activists, everyone deserves a little pixel therapy. Launched September 2020, we have fun, we go deep, and we explore the love of games within a broader social and cultural context while challenging conventional notions of what it means to be a “gamer”— and who gets to call themselves one. Pixel Therapy Pod is independently produced and co-hosted by Spencer Icasiano (they/them), a queer and trans, mixed race Filipino writer and UX designer, and Jamie Siebenaler (she/her), a queer team and project manager with a deep passion for games.