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Splash banner for video games are good, features the colors white, yellow, and red. The V in video is in the shape of a thumbs up. The white in the top portion of the banner floats upward and away, like a lava lamp.

The key art for Consume Me, with an overlaid badge with salmon pink text framed by light blue laurels honoring it as VGG's 2025 Game of the Year winner. The game title and main character Jenny sit inside a red oval with a yellow border. Jenny is a teen girl drawn in a cute chibi style, and she winks and holds a big piece of toast in both hands. Behind the title there's a darkened, slightly obscured background with Jenny's face inside various fruits and berries.

The key art for Consume Me, with an overlaid badge with salmon pink text framed by light blue laurels honoring it as VGG's 2025 Game of the Year winner. The game title and main character Jenny sit inside a red oval with a yellow border. Jenny is a teen girl drawn in a cute chibi style, and she winks and holds a big piece of toast in both hands. Behind the title there's a darkened, slightly obscured background with Jenny's face inside various fruits and berries.

ANNOUNCING: Consume Me is Video Games are Good's 2025 Game of the Year

Congratulations to Consume Me, VGG's 2025 Game of the Year winner. Equal parts strategic, chaotic, funny, hopeful, and tear-jerking, its ingredients come together to make something well-balanced and soul-nourishing that we were grateful we got the chance to consume.

Nate and Julie

7 days ago6 min read

A blurred image of what seems to be video game art pieces. Over the blur is the Video Games are Good splash banner and text that reads: 2025 Game of the Year Nominees.

A blurred image of what seems to be video game art pieces. Over the blur is the Video Games are Good splash banner and text that reads: 2025 Game of the Year Nominees.

ANNOUNCING: The Video Games Are Good 2025 GOTY Nominees

These 10 were bright spots in the world of games, and earned a place on VGG's 2025 Game of the Year nominee list.

Nate and Julie

Nov 228 min read

An in-game screenshot of Consume Me. A teen girl sits at the dinner table, looking nervously down at a plate and oddly shaped blocks of food. A ham is a cube with a small one block addendum. A steak is shaped like a T. A corncob is a line. They align on the plate, covering various parts of the plate. A conveyor belt on the bottom shows incoming food blocks: a cookie and egg as small three-block L-shapes and a cubic piece of watermelon. A dog hovers to the right, hoping to be fed something off the conveyor.

An in-game screenshot of Consume Me. A teen girl sits at the dinner table, looking nervously down at a plate and oddly shaped blocks of food. A ham is a cube with a small one block addendum. A steak is shaped like a T. A corncob is a line. They align on the plate, covering various parts of the plate. A conveyor belt on the bottom shows incoming food blocks: a cookie and egg as small three-block L-shapes and a cubic piece of watermelon. A dog hovers to the right, hoping to be fed something off the conveyor.

REVIEW: Authenticity, charm, and empathy make Consume Me one of 2025's best

As advertised: It did consume me.

Nate Hermanson

Sep 248 min read

The key art for the game Consume Me. A rounded label with a bite taken out of it that has the game's title and a winking girl holding a piece of bread. The background has various versions of the main character as different fruits.

The key art for the game Consume Me. A rounded label with a bite taken out of it that has the game's title and a winking girl holding a piece of bread. The background has various versions of the main character as different fruits.

Steam Next Fest Mini-Preview: Consume Me is a game with guts

Consume Me is bright, bouncy, and fun to play while turning a sharp gaze on teen diet culture.

Julie Cooper

Jun 126 min read

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