Two top 10 lists of the best games from 2025. This week’s music is from the Promise Mascot Agency soundtrack by Peter McCaughan and Ryo Koike.
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Not played enough to judge
Matthew
- Kirby Air Riders
- The Alters
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Samuel
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
- Silent Hill f
Disappointing Game of the Year
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
- Mario Kart World
Cut out of the list in a rage after an incident involving keys
- Baby Steps
Matthew’s Bluesky Honourable Mentions
- Old Skies
- Strange Jigsaws
- Chronoquartz
- The Drifter
- Mario Kart World
- Bionic Bay
Matthew
- Clues By Sam
- Lumines Arise
- Split Fiction
- The Séance of Blake Manor
- The Roottrees are Dead
- Promise Mascot Agency
- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
- Type Help
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Donkey Kong Bananza and Donkey Kong Bananza: DK Island & Emerald Rush
Samuel
- Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
- Rematch
- Dispatch
- Avowed
- Promise Mascot Agency
- Blue Prince
- ARC Raiders
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Split Fiction
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33