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The 16 Best Video Games of 2025

By YPB Team

Cursed painters, shifting mansions, samurai revenge sagas, and a decades-late metroidvania sequel all landed the same year. Some are quiet indie surprises, others are the biggest names in gaming going bigger. Which will win?

  1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — ranked #11
    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
    A French turn-based RPG about an expedition racing a painter's yearly curse, widely called the breakout game of the year.
    1000pts
  2. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — ranked #22
    Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
    Kojima Productions' sequel expanding the delivery-and-connection gameplay across a new Mexican and Australian landscape.
    722pts
  3. Hollow Knight: Silksong — ranked #33
    Hollow Knight: Silksong
    The long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed metroidvania, following Hornet through a new kingdom of silk and song.
    722pts
  4. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II — ranked #44
    Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
    A grounded medieval RPG sequel praised for its historical detail, though its steep difficulty curve divided players.
    676pts
  5. Split Fiction — ranked #55
    Split Fiction
    Hazelight's co-op adventure from the creators of It Takes Two, splitting two writers between sci-fi and fantasy worlds.
    559pts
  6. Donkey Kong Bananza — ranked #66
    Donkey Kong Bananza
    A 3D platformer built around large-scale terrain destruction, marking Donkey Kong's first major starring role in years.
    500pts
  7. Elden Ring Nightreign — ranked #77
    Elden Ring Nightreign
    A cooperative roguelike spin-off of Elden Ring built around three-player runs against a shrinking, escalating map.
    500pts
  8. Blue Prince — ranked #88
    Blue Prince
    A puzzle-mystery about a shifting mansion that rearranges its rooms each day, compared favorably to Inscryption.
    433pts
  9. Ghost of Yotei — ranked #99
    Ghost of Yotei
    Sucker Punch's open-world samurai sequel set generations after Ghost of Tsushima, following a new protagonist's revenge.
    433pts
  10. Doom: The Dark Ages — ranked #1010
    Doom: The Dark Ages
    A medieval-set prequel to the Doom reboot trilogy, trading mobility for heavier armor and shield-based combat.
    357pts
  11. Mario Kart World — ranked #1111
    Mario Kart World
    Nintendo Switch 2's launch racer, opening the series' tracks into one connected open world for the first time.
    357pts
  12. Silent Hill f — ranked #1212
    Silent Hill f
    A survival-horror entry set in 1960s rural Japan, exploring repressed small-town relationships beneath its monster design.
    269pts
  13. Monster Hunter Wilds — ranked #1313
    Monster Hunter Wilds
    Capcom's latest entry pushing the series into more dynamic, weather-shifting open habitats and seamless expeditions.
    269pts
  14. Cronos: The New Dawn — ranked #1414
    Cronos: The New Dawn
    Bloober Team's survival horror about a time-traveling Traveler merging with the enemies it kills.
    269pts
  15. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — ranked #1515
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
    A full remaster of the 2006 RPG rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 while keeping its original quests and world intact.
    167pts
  16. Keeper — ranked #1616
    Keeper
    A surreal puzzle-adventure from Double Fine about a walking lighthouse, carrying the studio's usual handcrafted whimsy.
    45pts

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