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The 25 Best Games Of 2025, Ranked

Inverse has been hard at work trying out new games. Some games did not outlast their hype, while others proved themselves to be worthy of our highest praise.

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Top 3:

3. Split Fiction
2. Silent Hill f
1. Expedition 33

 

[Dacvak]

No Hades 2?

 

[Certinty]

Don't care what anyone says, Silent Hill f was not a good game.

 

[LectureMaster]

The 25 Best Games Of 2025, Ranked

Inverse has been hard at work trying out new games. Some games did not outlast their hype, while others proved themselves to be worthy of our highest praise.

www.inverse.com

Top 3:

3. Split Fiction
2. Silent Hill f
1. Expedition 33

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

If those are the best... I don't want to know which ones are the worst.

 

[Punished Miku]

Silent Hill f was not a good game.

Disagree.

Don't care what anyone says,

Agree.

 

[adamsapple]

Don't care what anyone says, Silent Hill f was a very good game.

 

[Saint Boot Gaming]

Silent Hill F is very mid. 5 out of 10. Might have given it a 6 if it did not carry the Silent Hill name. it bothers me because Silent Hill is an amazing series that deserved a better game. My hype was legit for this, but it was beat out by Tormented Souls 2 and by the look of things the upcoming Code Violet.

 

[Mortisfacio]

Any top 25 list without Arc Raiders and Hades 2 is not a valid list in my eyes.

 

[Hudo]

IVALICE CHRONICLES MENTIONED!

 

[Rocinante618]

The rolling stone list: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming-lists/best-video-games-of-2025-1235469710/ is imo better but who cares? Play whatever is fun.

 

[Fess]

AI brought me this list so nobody else has to go there.

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2. Silent Hill f
3. Split Fiction
4. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
5. Donkey Kong Bananza
6. Two Point Museum
7. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
8. Death Stranding 2
9. Blue Prince
10. Despelote
11. Peak
12. Wanderstop
13. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
14. Carimara: Beneath The Forlorn Limbs
15. Many Nights a Whisper
16. The Midnight Walk
17. Time Flies
18. South of Midnight
19. The Séance of Blake Manor
20. Ninja Gaiden Ragebound
21. Blippo+
22. Battlefield 6
23. Metal Garden
24. Öoo
25. Dynasty Warriors: Origins

 

[DeepEnigma]

That's a list, alright.

 

[TheChadOfGaming]

never even heard of half these games

 

[KàIRóS]

The list has like 3 Action games and the best one isn't even mentioned, where the hell is Ninja Gaiden 4?

 

[Killer8]

You can tell they elevated a load of artsy bullshit because it would be too mainstream to recognize how good BF6 is.

 

[Danjin44]

I hate how much Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter gets ignored in most of these lists.

 

[SJRB]

They put Two Point Museum over KCD2, lmao

 

[Witchilich]

Imagine putting Kingdom Come Deliverance II and Silent Hill f below Expedition 33.
1. Kingdom Come Deliverance II (Game of the Year)
2. Silent Hill f

 

[adamsapple]

Imagine putting Kingdom Come Deliverance II and Silent Hill f below Expedition 33.
1. Kingdom Come Deliverance II (Game of the Year)
2. Silent Hill f

For your sanity, mentally prepare yourself for an Expedition 33 sweep.

 

[Witchilich]

For your sanity, mentally prepare yourself for an Expedition 33 sweep.

Looks like the Game Pass deal made you a Expedition 33 simp, you really only like games that are associated with Game Pass in some way. That said I don't know why you imagined I hated Expedition 33, going so far as to provide me a lol reaction for saying Kingdom Come Deliverance II was better. And I don't know why you assumed I care about what game wins some award show.

 

[adamsapple]

Looks like the Game Pass deal made you a Expedition 33 simp, you really only like games that are associated with Game Pass in some way. That said I don't know why you imagined I hated Expedition 33, going so far as to provide me a lol reaction for saying Kingdom Come Deliverance II was better. And I don't know why you assumed I care about what game wins some award show.

Yes, I'm the minority who thinks E33 will be winning most of the awards and only because it's on game pass.

Such a simpleton.

Also, bruh criticizing my lol emoji's while leaving them on my posts from fucking FEBRUARY of this year

 

[Witchilich]

Yes, I'm the minority who thinks E33 will be winning most of the awards and only because it's on game pass.

Such a simpleton.

Also, bruh criticizing my lol emoji's while leaving them on my posts from fucking FEBRUARY of this year

You are the only one getting triggered because someone said Kingdom Come Deliverance II was better and started mentioning its going to win awards in TGA.

 

[SJRB]

For your sanity, mentally prepare yourself for an Expedition 33 sweep.

Bunch of people treating this game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and it changed their life almost makes me wish it loses every single nomination.

Rabid fanbase makes me retroactively dislike this game.

 

[adamsapple]

Bunch of people treating this game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and it changed their life almost makes me wish it loses every single nomination.

Rabid fanbase makes me retroactively dislike this game.

The industry has chosen it to be the golden boy for the year, it seems.

 

[Witchilich]

Bunch of people treating this game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and it changed their life almost makes me wish it loses every single nomination.

Rabid fanbase makes me retroactively dislike this game.

He will do it with anything that is on Game Pass.

 

[adamsapple]

You are the only one getting triggered because someone said Kingdom Come Deliverance II was better and started mentioning its going to win awards in TGA.

He will do it with anything that is on Game Pass.

Tell us whose really triggered

 

[Witchilich]

The industry has chosen it to be the golden boy for the year, it seems.

Is that why Hogwarts Legacy did not win despite selling 35 million?

 

[Witchilich]

Tell us whose really triggered

Who replied first? I just said Kingdom Come Deliverance II was better. Looks like that set your fuse.

 

[NeverYouMind]

Kingdom Come Deliverance II is on the list and Silksong is nowhere in sight!

 

[calico]

FFT and Two Point Museum are right in my wheelhouse, and they're both only ok at best. No Shadows or Yotei though so it's still a great list in my book.

Polymarket has Exp33 at 95%. I would take No at that price.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Who replied first? I just said Kingdom Come Deliverance II was better. Looks like that set your fuse.

You took a lighthearted quip from adamsapple and somehow made it about gamepass and xbox with a ranty reply. Also the laughing emoji can mean many things, why take it the worst way?

 

[Danjin44]

Bunch of people treating this game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and it changed their life almost makes me wish it loses every single nomination.

Rabid fanbase makes me retroactively dislike this game.

As someone who played and enjoyed this game I 100% agree with you. The game was good but hyperbolic surrounding this game is fucking insanity.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Rabid fanbase makes me retroactively dislike this game.

To be fair it's not the first "rabid" fanbase we had to deal with.

 

[ReBurn]

I've heard of a couple of these games