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MainFrames is a quirky, tightly packed precision platformer with a ton of personality and unique ideas. It's challenging and rewarding to create what could be one of the best byte-sized experiences of 2025.
Knights in Tight Spaces is fantastic, with excellent combat, beautiful art style, and meaningful additions to gameplay that will keep you coming back for more.
Hazelight Studio's Split Fiction elevates the co-op experience to new heights while telling a touching story about loss and friendship.
Two Point Museum stakes its cost of entry on your willingness to engage once again with the franchise's dry wit and humour. Those who do will find a tycoon game with new tasks and tricks well worth some time at the museum.
Monster Hunter Wilds sets the new gold standard for the series, with epic battles, a fantastic narrative, and gorgeous graphics.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii delivers a great pirate adventure for the series, with the spotlight once again shining on Goro Majima. The reworked gameplay to the action-brawler formula makes the game feel more fun than ever before. And while it sounds like a small change, adding a jump button to combat is a game changer to gameplay that lets players do sweet air combos on enemies like Majima is Dante from Devil May Cry. The new style, Sea Dog in combat, is astounding, letting you juggle multiple enemies, making the game feel like you’re playing a Yakuza-themed Dynasty Warriors game.
Obsidian Entertainment has crafted a masterpiece; every RPG fan owes it to themselves to play Avowed. With a breathtaking world, incredible companions, thrilling combat, intricate customization and deep systems, The Living Lands beckon.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak 2 is ambitious, but doesn't hit the same heights as its predecessor. The combat and characters are the highlight, let down by a time travel trope that lacks impact.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is the perfect sequel, taking the original in new and exciting directions while staying true to its roots.
Eternal Strands begins with a bang and does its best to keep you engaged through its 40-hour campaign. The inspirations the new IP pulls from are wonderfully celebrated and elevate them as few others have.
I like Synduality Echoes of Ada, but it's also frustrating and barren. Its gameplay systems are tight and polished, but is that enough for an extraction shooter? When new games drop so frequently, you need to stand out, which Synduality Echo of Ada does with its aesthetic but little else, and it needs to bring more to the table to stand out.
Tales of Graces f Remastered is an excellent remaster that offers some worthwhile improvements and saves another game from console purgatory. While the combat system is one of the best in the series, the story is sometimes predictable, and the score doesn't invoke any lasting memories.
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is a challenging platformer that will test you at every level as it holds up even by today's standards.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins contains many significant improvements in gameplay, giving us an excellent return to the series after an extended absence.
Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana is a look to the past for the series, updating one of Adol's best adventures with bells and whistles like Turbo Mode, new voiced lines, and more. If you're curious about the series, The Oath in Felghana is a great place to start, but be warned that there is a challenging game ahead of you. Thankfully, it doesn't overstay its welcome and has a straightforward story that'll keep you invested to the end (and onward to more adventures).
With an engaging dub, thoughtful combat, and a commendable cast, Fantasian Neo Dimension is one of this year's best — and one of Mistwalker's finest titles.
Batman: Arkham Shadow is an incredible VR game and a fantastic Arkham title. The story is dark and twisted, a thrilling mystery that’ll keep you guessing until the end.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is an honest and simple beat 'em up that follows the formula of classic arcade games brought to modern gaming.
In a love letter to the character, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle proposes that the series' future isn't in film but in video games.
Undoubtedly, Antonblast is one of those few platformers you'll remember for ages.