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The AUDIO ONLY version of the show will be coming offline March 31st/April 1st. You have until then to mass download them all if you'd like to keep them. The VIDEO/YOUTUBE version will be online forever, so you can always revisit the show that way! Secondly, the mentioned youtube channel is here  , I said it didn't have a fancy URL but I was wrong.  Thanks all!

The big finale. Game of the Year 2025. We discuss our personal top 10s, then figure out the joint pick for our Game of the Year before wrapping this thing up! Thanks for the wild ride, it's been a fun 4 years. Of course, it wouldn't have been the same without you all. Thank you for everything. You can follow Oli on Bluesky here:  https://bsky.app/profile/oliver-guy.co.uk Or on Instagram here: http...

Jack is back to quiz the boys in our final annual Christmas quiz! Huge thanks to Jack for helping out again this year, and our community for submitting questions! You can follow Jack here: https://bsky.app/profile/ayoitsjack.bsky.social SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier = TBP Discord, Extra Credit Podcast and behind the scenes content] [£5/$6 tier = Early access...

The boys take a look at the list and how its warped and grown out of shape over the last 4 years to try to right some wrongs, with big rises and huge falls. Also includes listener comments and questions! Click here for the list!  SUPPORT US ON PATREON:  https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier = TBP Discord, Extra Credit Podcast and behind the scenes content] [£5/$6 tier = Early access, name...

The lads venture in to the Gungeon with community hero Neil Watts (aka Muppet). Neil is our discord moderator, the gatekeeper of our website but most of all a dear friend and a sweet soul. Enter the Gungeon is a topdown roguelike where everything is based around guns. Guns and puns. Imagine the structure of pretty much any roguelike, then PERFECT IT, and you'd be well on your way to envisioning wh...

This time the boys jump in to the world of Alba: A Wildlife Adventure with Andy Robertson. Alba is a 'chillectathon' on a fictional Spanish island where you are tasked with cataloging the local wildlife as well as fixing up the nature reserve, and other attractions, to their former glory. The game started life on iOS and was developed in the UK, but has since been ported to pretty much every singl...

The boys don their backpacks once again to walk the walk with Death Stranding 2. Death Stranding 2: On the beach sees brooding blue-collar worker Sam Porter Bridges deliver packages to stop the extinction of humanity (again). Although this time, he has a serious chip on his shoulder... and a ladder, a pair of boots, a silenced assault rifle, a bridge, 10 grenades, 5 health packs, 400 units of meta...

This week the lads take a deep dive in to Joe's hobby, Pinball! We focus on real pinball but also touch on virtual pinball, covering how to play, how they are built, what the industry and the community is like and more. Then we deep dive in to Medieval Madness as the focus for the episode and the list addition. The youtube version of this episode can be found here Click here for the list!  SUPPORT...

The lads take a trip to hell with the Doom Slayer himself ‪@revios219‬ . Harry is a bit of an FPS aficionado and a modern Doom super fan so who could be better to shepherd us through the gates of hell? Doom: The Dark Ages is a 2025 first person shooter in the long running Doom franchise (and the second Doom game on the show), developed by id software and Bethesda. Click here for the list!  SUPPORT...

Batman: Arkham Asylum is a 2009 action adventure game where you play as the Dark Knight on what the developers describe as "the worst night of his life". Trapped on an island with literally all the villains, Batman must survive the night as well as putting a stop to Jokers evil scheme to poison Gotham. Between kicking and punching, climbing, gadget-ing and detectiving, it's safe to say Bats is a b...

After surviving a plane crash during an escape from a zombie ridden LA (known as Hell-A) you are left to fend for yourself alone, or with 2 friends in co-op. The journey takes you through famous LA locations and you team up with lots of characters who are there for a good time, not a long time. This game surprised us with its witty writing and up-beat attitude, as well as being a technical showcas...

Natsu-mon is a vacation simulator that puts you in the shoes of 10 year old Satoru, as he ventures to the countryside as part of a travelling circus with his family. From your basecamp at the holiday home, Satoru goes out each day and finds something new to do, gamifying things a kid might do in August, 1999. A very sweet idea with a fantastic art style too! Click here for the list!  SUPPORT US ON...

F.E.A.R. is a 2005 first person shooter from the unfortunately recently shuttered studio Monolith Productions. The game blends horror and fps gameplay to create a 'playable action movie'. A lot of attention was paid to the AI in game using a system known as GOAP, Goal Oriented Action Planning, and this system is still used today. With dynamic lighting and real-time physics, the game was no slouch...

This week we are talking about Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime on the Nintendo DS. This game has charm, fun and great ideas in buckets and was a great first DS game for the show. A very different vibe to the previous couple of episodes for sure! Click here for the list!  SUPPORT US ON PATREON:  https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier = TBP Discord, Extra Credit Podcast and behind the scene...

We have recently crossed paths with Andy Robertson, a games journalist writing for Forbes, the BBC and previously the Guardian and Wired. Andy is on his way to creating a new app called Ludocene, which has its foundations built on the Family Gaming Database. Ludocene is a video game discoverability app that hopes to cut through the thousands of games made available each day using human tags and re...

In Alpha Protocol, players take on the role of Micheal Thorton, a weird geezer who can't have a regular conversation. Or aim his gun straight. Or move quietly. Or do anything his job requires of him with any degree of consistency or success... Come on this globe trotting mis-adventure with us in a classic "we played it so you don't have to" episode! Click here for the list!  SUPPORT US ON PATREON:...

World of Goo is a 2008 indie game in which you build structures using squishy, springy goo balls and strands. It is considered one of the first widely successful indie games ever, and found its success as gaming really hit the mainstream with the birth of smartphones and the Nintendo Wii. Chances are a lot of you played it when you were younger, and this will be a nostalgia blast for an hour! Clic...

1000xResist is a narrative adventure game set in a future where humanity has been wiped out and replaced with a small society of clones, these clones are all strands of a single teenage girl but over 100s of years built their own religious beliefs, systems and governments, while under the constant threat of a larger entity. If this at all sounds interesting to you we can recommend you play the gam...

This week we spread managed democracy as rookie shock troopers in Helldivers II! This game was our Community voted Game of the Year so we figured we should probably find out what that mucky lot have been up to, and get familiar with Super Earth. Helldivers II is a cooperative third person shooter that took the gaming world by storm last year, selling 12 million copies in 3 months.  Click here for...

We run down our top games of the year, a TBP 'official' Game of the Year and our community picks! Thanks for all your support in 2024 and for watching along, we will see you in the new year! SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier = TBP Discord, Extra Credit Podcast and behind the scenes content] [£5/$6 tier = Early access, name in video of podcast, TBP Discord, Extra...

Video version over on Youtube is recommended : https://youtu.be/YasaY7-9S6Q Jack is back to quiz the boys in our fourth annual Christmas quiz! Huge thanks to Jack for helping out again this year, and our community for submitting questions! You can follow Jack here: https://bsky.app/profile/ayoitsjack.bsky.social SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier = TBP Discord, E...

Take a trip to the glorious (maybe?) country of Arstotzka with the boys in this weeks episode covering 2013's check-em-up Papers, please. Papers, please puts you in the role of a border control officer checking passports, documents and other things before choosing wether or not to let these poor souls in to the fictional country of Arstotzka. Expect your heart strings to be pulled and your red REJ...

Metal Gear Rising is a 2013 slash-em-up with a pretty cool feature in "blade mode". Blade mode allows enemies and objects in the world to be carved in real time, and the tech is still impressive today, 11 years on. I guess you could say it was... cutting edge. It's a very "Bonus Points" thing to have one of the biggest franchises in gaming (Metal Gear Solid) represented on the list by its spin-off...

In my restless dreams, I hear that podcast... We take a little holiday to Silent Hill to help leading man James find his missing/dead (???) wife Mary, following the delivery of a mysterious letter. This episode is pretty full-on so those with a sensitive disposition should probably skip! Grab your pipe (steel, for beating monsters) and join us on a trip to our special place.  Click here for the li...

Dead Rising is 2006s divisive open world game set in a zombie infested shopping mall, starring the strange, troll-like man Frank West. Armed with a camera (and anything else you can get your hands on) players must survive 72 hours against the zombie horde and even worse… other survivors. This episode we are talking about the Deluxe Remaster, but its very close to the original. Click here for the l...