Dear Button Boys Listeners, you are cordially invited to the official Button Boys Taste Test Challenge 2025.

In this episode Pierre, Sarah and Glenn, will be given a simple task. Choose the three best games coming out before the end of the year. Don't you worry though, they will be judged and judged harshly.

Alongside the main event, Sarah discovers a disturbingly idyllic gaming world, Pierre gets frustrated by the Americans and Glenn tries to find a cure for burnout.

As the entertainment draws to a close they will, as is tradition, gripe themselves clean.

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Games Mentioned in this week's episode:

• Codewords


• Lake


• Ninja Gaiden Rage Bound


• Shinobi


• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance


• Wanderstop


• Red Dead Redemption 2


• Halo: Combat Evolved


• Astrobot


• Split Fiction


• Blue Prince


• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33


• Baby Steps


• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy


• QWOP


• Hollow Knight Silksong


• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7


• Battlefield 6


• Hell Let Loose: Vietnam


• Ghost of Yotei


• Ghost of Tsushima


• Final Fantasy VII Remake


• The Last of Us Part 2


• Strange Antiquities


• Strange Horticulture


• Coffee Talk


• VA-11 Hall-A


• Mouse: P.I. for Hire


• Cuphead


• Cronos: The New Dawn


• Beneath


• Bye Sweet Carole


• Forgotton Anne


• Scarlet Deer Inn


• Mixtape


• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage


• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond


• Metroid Dread


• The Eternal Life of Goldman


• Winter Burrow


• Kingmakers


• Age of Empires II


• Castlevania: Portrait of a Ruin

Produced and edited by Ben Drayton

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