Top 20 Video Games of 2025 | games

Ivy Road/Annapurna Interactive; PC, PS5, Xbox
A warrior, who suffers successive losses, takes refuge in a vast forest where she discovers the joy of working in a cozy café. From this simple premise comes a fun game of mindfulness and social interaction, as Alta learns how to serve up witty conversation and decent hot drinks. Colorful and highly stylized, it is a thoughtful study of burnout and recovery.

Intel/Nintendo Switch, iPhone/iPad, Mac, PC
An attempted murder mystery set at a private girls’ school in the 1920s reveals that it is also a harsh takedown of British class politics. Witty and beautifully drawn, it is full of amusing stereotypes of boarding schools, from self-interested conservatives to a terrifying matron, whose motives and personal grievances must slowly be revealed. It feels like a really excellent graphic novel.

Giant Games, PC, Switch
A stylish return to Greek mythology from developer Supergiant Games, this time starring the underworld’s daughter Melinoë, who tries to stop the giant Chronos from destroying everything. You are aided in your attempts to kill time by a group of absurdly attractive immortal companions and evil relatives. Repeated runs lead to gradual mastery of Melinoë’s spells and weapons, tipping the balance of fate slightly in your favor.

Sucpop Collective, PC
A gardening simulator that’s also a horror adventure, Grunn is a strange and often disturbing experience in game design, set in a Dutch village inhabited by ghostly figures and intriguing secrets. Mow the grass, collect photos, but be very careful when visiting the church or exploring that strange hideout behind the fence.

Megagun Industries, PC, Xbox
All is right with the world as you carve beautiful lines down the pristine snowy mountain scenery – until you hit a rock or fly off a cliff, that is. Simple in its aesthetics and simple gameplay, this game is one of the best skateboarding games ever made. Playing with other people adds a bit of fun chaos to the experience, but Snow Riders is best when it’s just you and the mountain, testing your perseverance on a particularly challenging trail.

Nintendo, Switch 2
Nintendo’s favorite monkey returns for a wild adventure on the classic platformer, accompanied by Pauline, who is able to gain magical, shape-shifting powers. Instead of perfect jumps, you punch, smash, and blast your way through bizarre locations, collecting power-ups and crushing bosses, and tearing up the Super Mario level design book as you go. smashing.

Capcom, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox
Capcom’s incredible beasts, from snarling pink monkeys to large dragons that control lightning, have long been waiting for a world large enough to contain them. The Prairies are just that world: a vast expanse of desert, volcanic plains, forests, and icy peaks that provide ideal habitats for unusual and dangerous menagerie – and perfect arenas to fight them. The story is a thrilling ride of escalating epic encounters, but then opens up an extensive list of more challenging hunts.

Hazlelight Studios/Electronic Arts, PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox
Two aspiring writers get caught up in each other’s stories in this much-loved interactive take on a buddy comedy. However, they are not friends: they are polar opposites. Hardcore sci-fi writer Mio and down-on-his-luck fantasy writer Zoe understand each other better as they are forced to collaborate their way through their strange fantasy worlds. Gameplay switches unexpectedly every 20 minutes – one level could be an action-packed space blast, the next will have you stumbling through a fantasy forest as mutant animals, and an unexpected diversion will have you working together to turn sentient sausages into buns. You’ll be brought closer to the second player as well, as navigating these co-op scenarios requires communication, patience, and a sense of humor.

11 Bit Studios, PC, PS5, Xbox
After an emergency landing on a planet supposedly rich in precious metals, Jan Dulski finds himself completely alone. The rest of the crew died on impact. So, to continue the mission, and escape the impending sunrise that will burn him out of existence, he must clone himself to create a crew. After twenty hours split between exploring a hostile planet, managing the base’s resources, and managing the bickering between all the alternate Jans, you’ll be left with a lot to think about about how our life choices shape our identity.

Panic, PC, PS4/5, Switch, Xbox
Set during Ecuador’s journey to the 2002 World Cup, Despelote is a beautifully crafted semi-autobiographical adventure centered around a young boy and his obsession with the beautiful game. With a focus on families, childhood and the uniting power of fans, it’s a unique take on the idea of ​​a sports simulation.

Two Point Studios/Sega, PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox
The Two Point series of management simulations have consistently combined humor and deep strategy to compelling effect, and the latest is no exception. Your role as museum director is to collect exhibits from around the world and then display them in an attractive location to attract visitors. Meanwhile, there are staffing issues to deal with, and does your café serve nice enough snacks? It’s an interesting challenge and the cartoon style images provide a lot of entertaining aspects.

Sucker Punch/Sony, PS5
An easy-to-enjoy and strikingly beautiful samurai action game about the vengeance-seeking warrior Atsu, which subconsciously reproduces every possible trope of the genre brilliantly. We have tense sword showdowns under fallen leaves. We have enemies eyeing each other menacingly from both sides of the burning bridge. We have hot springs, shrines and quiet moments at play Shamisen Or using a Sumi E Ink brush. We have wolves and foxes that lead us to secret places in nature. And we’ve got a selection of delightfully fun weapons and an endless horde of bandits and villains to use on. Uncomplicated and beautiful entertainment.

Kojima Productions/Sony, PS5
Troubled delivery man and resistance hero Sam Bridges returns in Hideo Kojima’s stunning, strange and intriguing sci-fi sequel. Moving the action to apocalyptic Australia provides landscapes of stark beauty – and the odd kangaroo. Although the story is often indecipherable, the realization of Kojima’s ghostly world is incredible. This is a wasteland in which you can wander for months.

Sandfall/Keplar, PC, PS5, Xbox
An expensive-looking French RPG, in which a group of depressed people set off from a ruined Paris to kill a supernatural painter, who wipes out a generation of people with a few strokes of her brush every year. It’s surreal, exciting, melodramatic, sometimes self-indulgent, and strangely hopeful — a breath of fresh air even in a genre that’s hardly starved for stylish, thematically ambitious games.

Executable, PC
A satirical game about the life of a diet-obsessed teenager in the 2000s, Consume Me is very funny. and He has a point to make. Juggling school, social time, walking the dog, putting food on your plate, and enduring painful conversations with your parents can help you properly relive the stress and stress of teenage life. At the same time, the presentation is endearingly ironic.

Nintendo, Switch 2
The showcase title for Switch 2 is another fantastic addition to the world of Mario Kart, featuring a delightful cast of characters and 30 diverse circuits connected by a network of highways that offer the opportunity to explore wide open landscapes for the first time in the series. Add in the arcade’s fantastic electronic pop and jazz soundtrack and you’ve got another family gaming staple that will remain in rotation for years.

Dreadful Entrance/Raw Rage, PC
It’s the late 19th century and you’ve just arrived at a remote hotel in the west of Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a young woman. But while searching for clues, the dead emerge from their graves – and they’re really not happy. Part Agatha Christie detective parody, part folk horror adaptation, it’s a fascinating and enjoyable experience that has things to say about class, belief and colonialism.

NewBards/Konami, PC, PS5, Xbox
In 1960s Japan, a young girl’s anger at her bullying father turns into a ghostly nightmare that consumes an entire town. Written by popular visual novel author Ryukishi07, the game puts you in familiar Silent Hill territory, which means foggy streets, devilish puzzles, and truly horrific monsters. But by infusing weirdness, myth and legend with feminist themes, it represents an interesting take on a much-loved (and feared) series.

Team Cherry, PC, PS4/5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox
Even the most stubborn player will feel like giving up at some point when they’re trapped in Pharloom, a decaying world filled with desperate little vermin that was once a shining religious capital. Here lie some truly miserable places: former farms that are now fetid swamps, dank underground caverns filled with moss and misery, and great halls now covered in dust and echoing with banshee. And of course there are the guardians of these places, from corrupt-minded monster tamers to corrupt pilgrims, robotic insects, silk-poisoned creatures and former rulers of the world, who stand in the way of your progress. Overcoming Silk Song’s most annoying enemies takes hours. Its worst places will trap you in despair. But it’s worth it, for the incredible moments you’ll experience along the way: hard-won victories, those first steps into previously closed worlds, and secret discoveries that feel so personal that it’s hard to believe that any of the millions of other players in the game could discover them in the same way. An unusual game whose extreme difficulty is sometimes both a strength and a weakness at the same time.

Dojobomb/Raw Fury, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox
A young man inherits a mysterious mansion from his uncle: a sprawling pile whose design changes every day. All he has to do is find secret room 46, and the place is his forever. The mansion turns out to be an education: about the personal history of the family that owned it, the mysterious forces that shaped it, and the political climate of the wider world in which it is set. But before you get close to the Blue Prince’s deep mysteries, you must master its blueprints. Behind every door is a choice: Are you crafting a library? An entrance with multiple exits? Guard room, laboratory, swimming pool, bedroom, nursery, drawing room? Each will have its own secrets to discover, a useful item, key or new piece of information that will bring you closer to that elusive forty-sixth room. Each may offer you a new path to the rest of the palace, or closed doors that you cannot pass through. Every day, with every new path you take through these rooms, and with every dead end you meet, your knowledge accumulates. By the time you reach that final destination, you’ll have so many unanswered questions you won’t be able to resist continuing. The Blue Prince turns out to be an almost endless puzzle, leaving you with sheets full of notes and theories, numbers and names, lines from books you want to remember and drawings of strange mechanisms. It’s among the best puzzle games ever made: atmospheric, simple, clever, and memorable; It still somehow manages to show you something new even after dozens of hours of patient exploration.