Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The passions that we fought with and subdued never quite die. | Watch my exclusive videos and support me by joining Nebula at go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller
Patreon: patreon.com/c/JacobGeller
Buy my first book, “How a Game Lives:” harpercollins.com/products/how-a-game-lives-jacob-geller?variant=44008639135778
Buy my second book, “You’re Not Overthinking It:” lostincult.co.uk/overthinking
Social media and merch links at jacobgeller.com
Watch my Nebula companion video on my other favorite media of 2025: nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-jacob-gellers-other-favorite-things-from-2025
Watch this video on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-top-ten-games-of-2025
Listen to the MinnMax Podcast: youtube.com/@minnmax
Thanks to Jeremy Brauns Music for his cover of “Niamos:” youtu.be/6E7gfpGql7w?si=5aSopuyP0WcAYy_S
Thanks to WillRock for his OCRemix, “Apollo Duck:” youtu.be/KfmiPl4oPiQ?si=loVp-W4ojJvJzHv9
Additional Footage of Death Stranding 2 provided by DefendtheHouse and EuroThug4000
youtu.be/dAk1hkY37pE?si=j3XRwM-F2yA4Wrvl
youtube.com/watch?v=JUW7_pM81GU&t=662s
Source on Game Industry Layoffs: https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2025
Music (Chronologically): Mindless Regress (Sektori), Promenade dans Lumière (Clair Obscur), Niamos — Club Mix (Jeremy Brauns Music), Eternal Longing (Hades II), Flow State (Dead Letter Dept.), Mayoi Uta (Silent Hill F), Fading Glint (Citizen Sleeper 2), Lisrim — Golden (Lies of P: Overture), Story of Rainy (Death Stranding 2), Credits (Despelote), Glamorous (Consume Me), Gustave (Clair Obscur), Red Memory (Hollow Knight: Silksong), Tifa’s Theme (Final Fantasy VII Remake), Apollo Duck (OCRemix of “The Moon” from Duck Tales by WillRock)
Game Ten: 00:00
Intro: 01:26
Game Nine: 04:20
Game Eight: 06:08
Game Seven: 07:38
Game Six: 10:03
Game Five and a Half: 11:51
Game Five: 13:18
Game Four: 15:56
Game Three: 17:41
Game Two: 19:18
Game One and Conclusion: 21:56
Additional Footage by Getty Images and Storyblocks
Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://bsky.app/profile/hotcyder.bsky.social
Description Credit: “The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued” by Trumbull Stickney
The passions that we fought with and subdued never quite die. | Watch my exclusive videos and support me by joining Nebula at go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller
Patreon: patreon.com/c/JacobGeller
Buy my first book, “How a Game Lives:” harpercollins.com/products/how-a-game-lives-jacob-geller?variant=44008639135778
Buy my second book, “You’re Not Overthinking It:” lostincult.co.uk/overthinking
Social media and merch links at jacobgeller.com
Watch my Nebula companion video on my other favorite media of 2025: nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-jacob-gellers-other-favorite-things-from-2025
Watch this video on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-top-ten-games-of-2025
Listen to the MinnMax Podcast: youtube.com/@minnmax
Thanks to Jeremy Brauns Music for his cover of “Niamos:” youtu.be/6E7gfpGql7w?si=5aSopuyP0WcAYy_S
Thanks to WillRock for his OCRemix, “Apollo Duck:” youtu.be/KfmiPl4oPiQ?si=loVp-W4ojJvJzHv9
Additional Footage of Death Stranding 2 provided by DefendtheHouse and EuroThug4000
youtu.be/dAk1hkY37pE?si=j3XRwM-F2yA4Wrvl
youtube.com/watch?v=JUW7_pM81GU&t=662s
Source on Game Industry Layoffs: https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2025
Music (Chronologically): Mindless Regress (Sektori), Promenade dans Lumière (Clair Obscur), Niamos — Club Mix (Jeremy Brauns Music), Eternal Longing (Hades II), Flow State (Dead Letter Dept.), Mayoi Uta (Silent Hill F), Fading Glint (Citizen Sleeper 2), Lisrim — Golden (Lies of P: Overture), Story of Rainy (Death Stranding 2), Credits (Despelote), Glamorous (Consume Me), Gustave (Clair Obscur), Red Memory (Hollow Knight: Silksong), Tifa’s Theme (Final Fantasy VII Remake), Apollo Duck (OCRemix of “The Moon” from Duck Tales by WillRock)
Game Ten: 00:00
Intro: 01:26
Game Nine: 04:20
Game Eight: 06:08
Game Seven: 07:38
Game Six: 10:03
Game Five and a Half: 11:51
Game Five: 13:18
Game Four: 15:56
Game Three: 17:41
Game Two: 19:18
Game One and Conclusion: 21:56
Additional Footage by Getty Images and Storyblocks
Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://bsky.app/profile/hotcyder.bsky.social
Description Credit: “The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued” by Trumbull Stickney
