Game of the Year: The 25 best games of 2025

The writer's editorial order from the original article. We index, we don't re-rank.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

2025 ·201 writers · 1169 pieces

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Hades II

2025 ·138 writers · 265 pieces

→03

Donkey Kong Bananza

2025 ·124 writers · 450 pieces

→04

Hollow Knight: Silksong

2025 ·201 writers · 928 pieces

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

2024 ·129 writers · 299 pieces

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Silent Hill f

2025 ·116 writers · 307 pieces

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Ghost of Yotei

2025 ·123 writers · 514 pieces

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Elden Ring Nightreign

2025 ·141 writers · 741 pieces

→09

The Outer Worlds 2

2025 ·117 writers · 371 pieces

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

2025 ·154 writers · 543 pieces

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Blue Prince

2025 ·123 writers · 179 pieces

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Avowed

2025 ·155 writers · 458 pieces

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Dispatch

2025 ·85 writers · 145 pieces

→15

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

2025 ·152 writers · 580 pieces

→16

Battlefield 6

2025 ·152 writers · 1180 pieces

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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

2025 ·30 writers · 40 pieces

→18

Split Fiction

2025 ·92 writers · 201 pieces

→19

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

2025 ·140 writers · 595 pieces

→20

Assassin's Creed Shadows

2025 ·195 writers · 780 pieces

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Ninja Gaiden 4

2025 ·72 writers · 147 pieces

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Monster Hunter Wilds

2025 ·183 writers · 969 pieces

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Dying Light: The Beast

2025 ·78 writers · 145 pieces

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Two Point Museum

2025 ·51 writers · 59 pieces

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Mario Kart World

2025 ·148 writers · 712 pieces

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