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The Best Games of 2025 You NEED to Play
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items 2025 was a banger of a year for excellent video game experiences. And it wasn’t even the big name companies you’d expect to see. There were so many pleasant surprises, it really felt like a special year.
I, and quite a few buddies, have created this...
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My Top 10 Gaming Recs for 2025
2025’s Honorable Mentions for Gaming
My Top 10 Gaming Recs for 2025
Here we go - it’s my personal top 10 games I recommend to check out. Each of these games released in 2025 and have provided me with countless hours of entertainment (and a couple tears).
The games lists are from different distributors but can be fo...
My 2025 Game of the Year. The GOAT. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Everything about this game is phenomenal, from the character writing to the combat system to the whole musical score. This game drips with aura and was an incredible experience from st...
1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
If it weren’t for Expedition 33, Hades 2 would be my top game this year. I’ve been playing this one since it released in Early Access, and it’s been a treat to see how it evolved over time to the fantastic game it is today.
Most everything about it ...
2. Hades II
Coming in third is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and I did not anticipate dropping 50+ hours into this in 2025. The sheer amount of roleplaying you can do is endless. The story good, combat is alright, but you play for the roleplay and the visuals, be...
3. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Bananza gave me a good break after completing Expedition 33 with mindless smashing. This Donkey Kong adventure had me engrossed with the world, exploring and upgrading as much as possible. Completions may have a tough time and mayyyyy need to terrafo...
4. Donkey Kong Bananza
Dispatch is a phenomenal episodic video game, a type of game not seen since the good days of Telltale (though some former staff are involved!) Revolving around a ragtag team of heroes, the decisions you make affect the game and future episodes, which...
5. Dispatch
Arc Raiders was a surprise for me. I’m not typically a fan of extraction shooters but something about this game made it more enticing. Maybe it’s the “roguelike” nature of it (love me a good rogue game) but it kept bringing me back for the loot and p...
6. ARC Raiders
Roguelike? Check.
Puzzler? Check.
Damn good game? Check.
Blue Prince is a great example of a fun and strategic surprise of a game that I really enjoyed this year. The presentation of an ever-changing manor translating to a well-thought roguelike puz...
7. Blue Prince
First Berserker: Khazan wrecked me for hours. The timing of parry’s and dodges were unforgiving…but I found myself trudging through, punishment after punishment and gradually getting better with each death. It’s souls-like for sure, but much more act...
8. The First Berserker: Khazan
If you ever want to just turn your mind off and blast away dirt and scum from different surfaces (and let your OCD be free), check out PowerWash Simulator 2. I got the original as a joke gift but it was one of my favorite games, and I was stoked to h...
9. PowerWash Simulator 2
Split Fiction was a solid game with lots of fun mechanics for a co-op game, with very good story as well. It was a treat to go through with a buddy of mine. What surprised me, and enamored me, the most was the vastly different art styles for each cha...
10. Split Fiction
2025’s Honorable Mentions for Gaming
I enjoyed my time with Silksong (after many years of waiting), and honestly, even if I didn’t like it, I’d still have it on my Honorable Mention list for the devs pricing it at $20 when they could’ve charged so much more. If you like Hollow Knight (w...
Hollow Knight: Silksong