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Nick @nickcummings.com · 08/04/2026

If you like words but hate reading, I have good news for you: I recorded my Resident Evil Requiem review and it's up on the @siliconsasquatch.com podcast now! Subscribe on your favorite app or listen here: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/3/...

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Review: Resident Evil Requiem — Silicon Sasquatch

The long-lived series plays the hits and takes a well-deserved bow, but it stumbles in its hesitation to move on

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Nick @nickcummings.com · 22/03/2026

I wanted to synthesize my thoughts about Resident Evil Requiem, a game I truly loved in its first half and just kinda enjoyed hanging out with in its second. So I went to my computer and pushed a bunch of keys on the keyboard and now there's this review you can read:

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Review: Resident Evil Requiem — Silicon Sasquatch

The long-lived series plays the hits and takes a well-deserved bow, but it stumbles in its hesitation to move on

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Doug B @dougbonham.blog · 02/03/2026

Over on the @siliconsasquatch.com blog, I’ve collected my items that didn’t make our 2025 GOTY and provided them for your review. Give it a read! www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/3/...

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GOTY 2025: Doug's Honorable Mentions — Silicon Sasquatch

And now with sports, it’s our sports editor, Doug

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Nick @nickcummings.com · 03/02/2026

Hello. I set out to write a short follow-up as a coda to the @siliconsasquatch.com Game of the Year feature and instead wrote several full articles. Please enjoy this...well, I'm calling it a zine. Please enjoy this zine about AI, aging, skills lost/found: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2026/2/...

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GOTY 2025: Nick Presents a Zine on 2025 and the Future — Silicon Sasquatch

Presenting the 2026 Nick Prospectus and Digest

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 24/10/2025

New blog! @dougbonham.blog takes us on a journey to the edge of memory, where The Old Games lurk.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

Game of the Year: 1000xRESIST "I believe 1000xRESIST is an essential addition to the canon that expands our knowledge of not just what games can express but how they can express it." – @nickcummings.com Many congratulations to @sunsetvisitor.studio! www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from 1000xRESIST over the shoulder of the protagonist showing an array of bright white tube lights hanging over a stark, empty, industrial-looking room.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#2 - Thank Goodness You're Here! "Yes, it's masterfully animated with a fabulous sense of place; yes, it's funny and fun for its entire playtime. But its combination of those strengths coalesces into something magical." Congrats, @coalsupper.bsky.social! www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

A screenshot from Thank Goodness You're Here! depicting an ensemble of the cast gathered at the pub with the player character standing on the bar in the center of the screen.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#3 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard "It’s the party and their dynamic with the player, Rook, that makes Veilguard stand out. The story Veilguard tells is one rooted in empathy even with flawed people." – @tyleramartin.bsky.social Read more: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

The party from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, gathered around a low table in a magical room of some sort.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#4 - Lorelei and the Laser Eyes "Its puzzle design is superb and beautifully interwoven with themes of unresolved trauma, missed opportunities, and the struggle to create art that authentically expresses the creator's intention." Congrats, @simogo.com! www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from Lorelei and the Laser Eyes depicting the player character, a woman with glowing magenta sunglasses, reaching her hand into a rune-encircled hole in a burgundy-wallpapered corner of a room. Big Silent Hill 4 vibes.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#5 - Balatro "I can think back to any number of games — roguelites like Hades, countless sports games — which have afflicted me deeply, to the point of distracting from homework, housework, and sleep. Few hit as hard as Balatro." Congrats, @localthunk.com! www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from Balatro on the 11th of, uh, 8 possible antes. An array of traditional playing cards are laid out on the bottom half of the image, many with modifications to them. There are also five joker cars arrayed at the top and frankly, I don't recognize what they are or what symbols are on them. Clearly I need to play more Balatro.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#6 - Helldivers 2 "The real magic is in the stories it creates: The missions that spiral into total disaster; the last-second heroics; the unplanned chaos that somehow works out. These moments cement Helldivers 2 as 2024’s standout multiplayer experience." www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

A Helldiver standing in an eerily lit black and orange canyon on some distant planet

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#7 - Tactical Breach Wizards "A deeply entertaining strategic romp about the strength found in diversity, and how sometimes you gotta get by with a little help from your friends." – Spencer www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from Tactical Breach Wizards showing an isometric view over a shootout between two parallel train cars

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#8 - Metaphor: ReFantazio "Metaphor wears the aesthetics and tropes of fantasy, but beneath the traditional veneer is a story dealing with issues that feel contemporary, even prescient, given the current geopolitical climate." – @tyleramartin.bsky.social www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Key art from Metaphor: ReFantazio, showing three anime characters in dramatic battle poses against some really hard-to-describe shit, if I'm being honest. Glowing faces and an angry yellow eye of god in the sky? I mean, it's an Atlus RPG, so that sounds about right.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#9 - Dragon's Dogma 2 "What cements Dragon’s Dogma 2 as one of our top games of 2024 is its delayed title card. The cycle of rebirth, laced with themes of free will, threads into the game’s “true” ending." Read @aaronthayer.bsky.social's full write-up here: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Dragon's Dogma 2 screenshot showing an over-the-shoulder view of a hooded archer aiming a glowing bow at a giant flaming bird bearing down to attack over a bunch of thatched-roof cottages, much in the vein of a certain beefy dragon

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

#10 - Astro Bot "Here’s the thing about video games, though: they are often more than the sum of their parts. Astro Bot is charming and perhaps most importantly for a platformer, it’s an absolute joy to play." – @tyleramartin.bsky.social Read more: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from Astro Bot depicting Astro Bot standing in the field, looking toward the camera, arm raised against the sunlight. A large anthropomorphic tree — like some real Whispy Woods energy — is in the background, surrounded by flowers.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 04/05/2025

How does the act of observation drive a person to action? Watcher, from @sunsetvisitor.studio's 1000xRESIST and the winner of our Best Character award, is both the player's avatar and agentic in her own right, student and teacher, past and future. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot of 1000xRESIST showing a close-up of Watcher, a blue-haired young woman in a blue-and-white futuristic suit and thin circular glasses, speaking to Secretary, who is saying: "Sometimes, you just don't fit in the backpack."

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 02/05/2025

How do you make a no-win situation meaningful to play? Ask the Dragon Age: The Veilguard team about Weisshaupt, a powerful sequence that rewarded long-time fans and stood out to us as the Best Moment of 2024. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from Dragon Age: The Veilguard of a group of fantasy characters pushing against a massive wooden door, seeking to keep it barred.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 02/05/2025

Transcending time, space, and reality to tell a deeply human story, 1000xRESIST's narrative is powerful and important. We're thrilled to name it the winner of our Best Storytelling award. Hekki grace, @sunsetvisitor.studio. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 02/05/2025

What's the most fun game of 2024? Well, according to us, it's Thank Goodness You're Here! It's a slap-filled romp through a charming old Northern English town, and despite that description, it's quite a delight from start to finish. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from Thank Goodness You're Here! depicting two flowers in love in the foreground and the protagonist approaching whimsically with a lawnmower.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 29/04/2025

The winner of our Best Multiplayer award is Helldivers 2, a game that dared to ask: "what if all the prickly/goofball movement and combat systems of Metal Gear Solid V were blended with multiplayer with your friends?" Folks: it's a good time. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Helldivers 2 screenshot depicting a soldier overlooking multiple laser strikes in a dark, smoky battlefield filled with weapons and bug-alien things.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 29/04/2025

Our The Shape of Things to Come award is a bit of a dubious honor so, uh, congratulations to "Fortnite and the Metaverse as a Neutron Star" for collapsing pop culture down into a portable, bland shooter. We can't believe you killed Unreal Tournament for this. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

An image of a whole bunch of licensed schlock as featured in Fortnite. There's Boba Fett, or maybe the guy from The Mandalorian, I don't know. Rick is here. The Borderlands guy is also here. Iron Man is here. And Aquaman. And John Wick. And a blue-haired guy I don't recognize. Also the Iron Giant is back there. So many guys are here. I just spotted Claptrap from Borderlands. Wow. Lots of guys. So many guys. We love to see our guys.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 29/04/2025

Our pick for Best Art Direction is @coalsupper.bsky.social's whimsical and irrepressible point-and-slap adventure game, Thank Goodness You're Here! @dougbonham.blog elaborates on the game's lovely aesthetic in greater detail here: www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

Screenshot from the game "Thank Goodness You're Here!" A tiny balding man stands in an alleyway in front of a brick building with worn posters reading "Big Ron's Big Pies & Sons," "Something Special in-between," "Price Shags Ltd.," and graffiti reading "NO PARKING | NO LOITERING | NO DOGGING," the last of which carries a meaning my facile American brain was not prepared to learn about tonight.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 27/04/2025

The winner of our Best Music award is @simogo.com's Lorelei and the Laser Eyes! Its blend of acoustic and synthetic instrumentation and use of dynamic environmental music make it an indelible part of a deeply memorable game. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

A screenshot from Lorelei and the Laser Eyes of a woman playing a grand piano in black and white

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 27/04/2025

The winner of our Least Probable Game of the Year award is EA Sports College Football 25, a game whose mere existence would be enough to set @dougbonham.blog's heart aflutter.

The Oregon Ducks holding the championship trophy and celebrating in EA CFB 25

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 27/04/2025

Our Best Game Not of the Year is Magic: The Gathering! It's now more than 30 years old, making it most definitely *not* of the year. @nickcummings.com explains the highs and lows of Magic in 2024 and what it's meant to return to a childhood favorite. www.siliconsasquatch.com/blog/2024/12...

A Magic commander deck on Archidekt featuring Minsc and Boo as the commander.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 27/04/2025

Welcome to the 2024 Silicon Sasquatch Game of the Year Awards! 🏆 This is our fifteenth annual feature on the best and most noteworthy games of the year. We do it because we believe thoughtful criticism is a good and important thing and because we want to help more people engage with the medium.

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 27/04/2025

Okay! We're almost halfway through 2025, so it's the perfect time for us to talk about the best games of 2024. Sorry it took us so long, but we're all aging millennials, many of whom have substantial obligations to children and/or Magic: The Gathering. Anyway. Let's get started!

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Silicon Sasquatch @siliconsasquatch.com · 28/12/2024

Hello! We're an independent, ad-free, labor-of-love blog that's been covering games and culture since 2008. We typically hibernate most of the year before popping up for a big end-of-the-year feature. Check out our writing and podcasts at siliconsasquatch.com if you're so inclined. Cheers!

Framed pictures of the home page of siliconsasquatch.com at various years — 2008, 2013, 2018, and 2023 — against a wood-panel backdrop

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