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Liam Harwood

@liamrharwood.com

Welcome to Liam's internet brain hole. Lead Technical Narrative Designer at Ghost Story Games (Judas). Previously created Obscurant with King Brick Games.

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2025

Favorite Books I Read in 2025:

*(in alphabetical order)*

- **Hell Followed With Us** by Andrew Joseph White
- **The House in the Cerulean Sea** by TJ Klune
- **Interior Chinatown** by Charles Yu
- **Martyr!** by Kaveh Akbar
- **Piranesi** by Susanna Clarke
- **Play Nice** by Jason Schreier
- **Sword and Citadel** by Gene Wolfe
- **The Sympathizer** by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- **This Must be the Place** by Maggie O’Farrell
- **Yellowface** by RF Kuang

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2025

Favorite TV Shows of 2025:

🔟 **Daredevil: Born Again** (season 1)

9️⃣ **Peacemaker** (season 2)

8️⃣ **The White Lotus** (season 3)

7️⃣ **Slow Horses** (season 5)

6️⃣ **Severance** (season 2)

5️⃣ **The Studio** (season 1)

4️⃣ **The Chair Company** (season 1)

3️⃣ **Pluribus** (season 1)

2️⃣ **The Rehearsal** (season 2)

1️⃣ **Andor** (season 2)

Honorable Mentions:

- **The Bear** (season 4)
- **The Paper** (season 1)
- **Futurama** (season 13)
- **Poker Face** (season 2)

David Lynch Memorial Rewatch:

- **Twin Peaks**

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2025

Favorite Movies of 2025:

🔟 **28 Years Later** (dir. Danny Boyle)

9️⃣ **Wake Up Dead Man** (dir. Rian Johnson)

8️⃣ **Superman** (dir. James Gunn)

7️⃣ **Friendship** (dir. Andrew DeYoung)

6️⃣ **Companion** (dir. Drew Hancock)

5️⃣ **Frankenstein** (dir. Guillermo del Toro)

4️⃣ **Sinners** (dir. Ryan Coogler)

3️⃣ **Bugonia** (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

2️⃣ **Weapons** (dir. Zach Cregger)

1️⃣ **One Battle After Another** (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Honorable Mentions:

- **KPop Demon Hunters** (dir. Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans)
- **The Naked Gun** (dir. Akiva Schaffer)

Favorite Movies That Didn’t Come Out This Year:

- **Nosferatu** (dir. Robert Eggers)
- **Hundreds of Beavers** (dir. Mike Cheslik)

Amazon Presents: Bad Movie of the Year (of the Decade?):

- **War of the Worlds** (dir. Rich Lee)

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2025

Favorite Albums of 2025:

🔟 Bon Iver - **SABLE, fABLE**

9️⃣ Billy Woods - **GOLLIWOG**

8️⃣ Turnstile - **NEVER ENOUGH**

7️⃣ Danny Brown - **Stardust**

6️⃣ Model/Actriz - **Pirouette**

5️⃣ Black Country, New Road - **Forever Howlong**

4️⃣ Clipse - **Let God Sort Em Out**

3️⃣ clipping. - **Dead Channel Sky**

2️⃣ Viagra Boys - **viagr aboys**

1️⃣ Geese - **Getting Killed**

Favorite Album That Technically Came Out In 2024:

- Cameron Winter - **Heavy Metal**

Game Score of the Year:

- Lorien Testard - **Clair Obscur: Expedition 33**

Movie Score of the Year:

- Jonny Greenwood - **One Battle After Another**

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2025

Favorite Games of 2025:

🔟 **Skin Deep** (Blendo Games, PC)

9️⃣ **Death Stranding 2: On the Beach** (Kojima Productions, PS5)

8️⃣ **despelote** (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, PC)

7️⃣ **Split Fiction** (Hazelight Studios, PS5)

6️⃣ **Baby Steps** (Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy, PC)

5️⃣ **Donkey Kong Bananza** (Nintendo, Switch 2)

4️⃣ **Hollow Knight: Silksong** (Team Cherry, PC)

3️⃣ **Clair Obscur: Expedition 33** (Sandfall Interactive, PC)

2️⃣ **Blue Prince** (Dogubomb, PC)

1️⃣ **Hades II** (Supergiant Games, PC)

Game I Just Started But Is Good So Far:

- **The Séance of Blake Manor** (Spooky Doorway, PC)

The PUBG Memorial “Sweaty Hands” Award:

- **ARC Raiders** (Embark Studios, PC)

Obligatory Fromsoft Award:

- **Elden Ring: Nightreign** (From Software, PC)

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2025

LIAM'S FAVORITE 2025 THINGS: (🧵)

Cover photo with Hades 2, Andor, One Battle After Another, Getting Killed, and Piranesi

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2024

Favorite Books I Read in 2024:

*(in alphabetical order)*

- **Between the World and Me** by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- **Blood Meridian** by Cormac McCarthy
- **Chain-Gang All-Stars** by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- **The Fifth Season** by N.K. Jemisin
- **James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes** by James Acaster
- **Mad Honey** by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
- **Notes on an Execution** by Danya Kukafka
- **The Shadow of the Gods** by John Gwynne
- **Speaker for the Dead** by Orson Scott Card
- **Tress of the Emerald Sea** by Brandon Sanderson

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2024

Favorite Movies of 2024:

🔟 **Monkey Man** (dir. Dev Patel)

9️⃣ **Kinds of Kindness** (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

8️⃣ **Furiosa** (dir. George Miller)

7️⃣ **Conclave** (dir. Edward Berger)

6️⃣ **Deadpool & Wolverine** (dir. Shawn Levy)

5️⃣ **Rebel Ridge** (dir. Jeremy Saulnier)

4️⃣ **Challengers** (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

3️⃣ **I Saw the TV Glow** (dir. Jane Schoenbrun)

2️⃣ **Strange Darling** (dir. J.T. Mollner)

1️⃣ **Dune: Part Two** (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2024

Favorite TV Shows of 2024:

🔟 **Agatha All Along** (season 1)

9️⃣ **What We Do in the Shadows** (season 6)

8️⃣ **Mr. and Mrs. Smith** (season 1)

7️⃣ **X-Men ‘97** (season 1)

6️⃣ **Arcane** (season 2)

5️⃣ **Slow Horses** (season 4)

4️⃣ **Fallout** (season 1)

3️⃣ **House of the Dragon** (season 2)

2️⃣ **The Penguin** (season 1)

1️⃣ **Shogun** (season 1)

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2024

Favorite Albums of 2024:

🔟 Doechii - **Alligator Bites Never Heal**

9️⃣ Adrianne Lenker - **Bright Future**

8️⃣ Tyler, the Creator - **CHROMAKOPIA**

7️⃣ Jack White - **No Name**

6️⃣ Charli xcx - **BRAT**

5️⃣ JPEGMAFIA - **I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU**

4️⃣ Kendrick Lamar - **GNX**

3️⃣The Smile - **Cutouts**

2️⃣ Geordie Greep - **The New Sound**

1️⃣ Vampire Weekend - **Only God Was Above Us**

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2024

Favorite Games of 2024:

🔟 **The Rise of the Golden Idol** (Color Gray Games, PC)

9️⃣ **Animal Well** (Billy Basso, PC)

8️⃣ **Indiana Jones and the Great Circle** (MachineGames, PC)

7️⃣ **UFO 50** (Mossmouth, PC)

6️⃣ **Lorelei and the Laser Eyes** (Simogo, PC)

5️⃣ **Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree** (FromSoftware, PC)

4️⃣ **1000xRESIST** (Sunset Visitor, PC)

3️⃣ **Tactical Breach Wizards** (Suspicious Developments, PC)

2️⃣ **Balatro** (LocalThunk, PC)

1️⃣ **Astro Bot** (Team Asobi, PS5)

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Liam Harwood @liamrharwood.com · 31/12/2023

Favorite Books of 2023:

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