My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin Game of the Year 2025 (ft. Glenn Moore).
Dec 23, 2025
Glenn Moore, comedian and podcaster behind Button Boys, joins to debate the best games of 2025. They build two consoles that capture the year’s mood. Short takes cover truth and lies in games, beautiful ruin and long walks, reinventions of legends, brutal familiar worlds, and ambitious sequels and surprises.
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Design For Joyful Automation
- To design satisfying automation loops, let players set up systems that later run with minimal input and feel rewarding to watch.
- Glenn cites Vampire Survivors' joy of 'put controller down and watch' as a blueprint for emergent satisfaction.
Too Many Games Changes Cultural Moments
- Simon and Glenn note the sheer volume of games now makes cultural consensus rare and discoverability harder for developers.
- They suggest consolidation among blockbusters and high baseline quality create both diversity and discoverability challenges.
Dispatch: Management Meets Cartoon Drama
- Simon and Glenn praise Dispatch for marrying a core dispatch mini‑game with episodic narrative and memorable voice talent.
- Glenn highlights the character pushback mechanic where heroes refuse jobs, which makes resource management feel alive.