Do NOT mention this game on the podcast

Don’t say you weren’t warned!

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What’s the best game that has no business being brought up on a podcast that’s all about the Best Games Ever ? If you can get your head around that, you’re already way ahead of our regular panel.

Some of the worst games ever made are also the most interesting. Take Night Trap, for example: it’s arguably one of the most important games in the history of the medium. Questions were asked about it in congressional hearings: it was, despite narrative overtures to the contrary, a peeping-tom simulator where you, the player, spied on a house full of teenage girls having a sleepover via a bank of (extremely rubbish quality) video feeds. Your objective was ostensibly to save the girls from vampires, or something, but it doesn’t matter, because few people actually played Night Trap and even fewer would admit it.

What’s interesting about it is that it caused such a moral panic in the US that it led directly to video games having their own age ratings systems, which is an important thing in the evolution of the medium, because now it’s an accepted fact that the video game audience isn’t solely comprised of impressionable children. Which means we get mature, grown-up games like The Last of Us , which is about headshotting zombies and chucking bricks.

Watch the video version ofThe Best Games Ever Showhere:

This is the video. You should watch it, you get to see everyone’s lovely faces as they react to Tom’s nonsense.Watch on YouTube

Listen to the audio version ofThe Best Games Ever Showhere:

This is the audio. You should listen to it, that way you don’t have to see our faces as they react to Connor’s nonsense.

Special thanks to David Bulmer for performing “Jim’s Theme”.

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Bloons TD 6

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Goat Simulator 3

PS5 , Xbox Series X/S , PC

Night Trap ReVamped

PS3 , Xbox 360 , PC , Mac

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polybius

PS4 , PC

Wishlisted - Our 10 Best Steam Next Fest Demos

Another Next Fest kicks off soon, but we’ve already done the digging for you.

Welcome to Wishlisted, a showcase of our favourite demos from Steam Next Fest: June 2024. Check the video above or watch on YouTube .

Finding the Best NextFest Demos is all about the joy of discovery, but with so many Steam Next Fest demos getting released in such a short amount of time, it can be bewildering. So we’ve decided to show you our ten Best Steam Next Fest games which we think deserve your attention. These are all upcoming Steam Next Fest games that we’re genuinely excited for, and that we think should play nicely on PC handhelds too!

This is just the start of our Next Fest coverage. This week we’ll be previewing loads of upcoming demos across the entire network - right here on VG247, of course, but also over on our sister sites Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun. Bookmark our Wishlisted Steam Fest hub to stay in the loop. And this is well before Next Fest actually starts, so you, dear reader, get to bask for a solid fortnight celebrating all the wonderful new games that are just around the corner. Enjoy!