Top 10 Games of 2025
The Year's Biggest Hits and Hidden Gems. 2025 has been an extraordinary year for gaming, blending award-sweeping indies, ambitious sequels, and hardware-defining launches.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive's debut turn-based RPG swept awards with its reactive combat, painterly art, and haunting tale of a dying world, earning IGN's Game of the Year.
Hades 2
Supergiant's godly sequel refined the roguelike formula with Melinoë's witchy runs, god-tier writing, and buttery combat, dominating Metacritic charts.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Kojima's bizarre sequel expanded the connected world with surreal deliveries, celebrity cameos, and deeper themes of life and extinction.
Ghost of Yōtei
Sucker Punch's Tsushima spiritual successor shifted to a female ronin in 1600s Japan, blending fluid swordplay, revenge, and breathtaking vistas.
Donkey Kong Bananza
Nintendo's ape-tastic 3D platformer launched Switch 2 strong with underground worlds, banana chaos, and Pauline co-op mayhem.
Split Fiction
Hazelight's It Takes Two follow-up twisted realities in a co-op odyssey of sci-fi and fantasy, redefining friendship mechanics.
Blue Prince
Dogubomb's ever-shifting manor puzzle game mesmerized with architectural roguelite genius and eerie inheritance lore.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
The decade-long sequel delivered Hornet's silken saga in a haunted kingdom, fulfilling Metroidvania dreams with precision combat.
Arc Raiders
Embark's robot-ravaged extraction shooter hooked with tense raids, deep loot, and squad-based survival thrills.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
Nintendo's long-awaited Prime sequel redefined first-person Samus hunts with stellar scanning, Morph Ball mastery, and Switch 2 visuals.