Blue Prince 2025

Dexerto

Best games of all time

• Published 2026
• All-time list
• Ranked #100

Game Rant

Best Games Of The 2020s

• Published 2025
• Decade list · 2020s
• Included, unranked

Eurogamer

The 50 best games of 2025, ranked

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #1

Game Rant

Top 10 Best Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #1

Polygon

The 50 best games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #1

TechRadar

TechRadar Gaming's Game of the Year list 2025: our top 20 games from this year

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #2

The Ringer

The Best Video Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #2

Game Informer

The Top Ten Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #4

Complex

The 10 Best Video Games of 2025: ‘Metroid Prime 4,’ ‘Hades II,’ and More

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #5

GameSpot

GameSpot's 10 Best Games Of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #5

Gaming Age

Best Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #5

GamingBolt

GamingBolt's Game of the Year – Top 25 Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #6

Rolling Stone

The 25 Best Video Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #6

Collider

10 Greatest Video Games of 2025, Ranked (and We Can't Wait To See Them as Movies)

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #7

3DJuegos

Los 25 mejores juegos de 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #8

Canaltech

10 melhores jogos lançados em 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #8

Empire Online

The Best Games Of 2025… So Far

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #9

Inverse

The 25 Best Games Of 2025, Ranked

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #9

A.V. Club

The best games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #11

Escapist Magazine

Escapist’s Game of the Year: The best games of 2025, according to our team

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #11

GamesRadar

GamesRadar+ GOTY: The 25 Best Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #11

Gameswelt

Top 20: Unsere Spiele des Jahres 2025 - Die Favoriten der Gameswelt-Redaktion

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #11

Den of Geek

The Best Games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #15

Shack News

Shacknews Top 25 Games of the Year 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Ranked #17

Ars Technica

Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Included, unranked

British GQ

The 11 best games of 2025 make GTA 6 's delay just about bearable

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Included, unranked

CNET

Top 10 Games of the Year in 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Included, unranked

Digital Trends

Our favorite video games of 2025 so far: Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, and more

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Included, unranked

NPR

The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Included, unranked

PBS

6 best video games of 2025, according to this expert

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Included, unranked

RTE

The 10 best games of 2025

• Published 2025
• Year list · 2025
• Included, unranked