# The best video games of 2025

The 25 best-reviewed games released in 2025 according to Metacritic's critic scores (all platforms). No DLC, expansions or compilations.

- 4 votes · 25 items
- Sep 22, 2026 · Poppy W.
- https://even.best/en/l/245/the-best-video-games-of-2025

## Top 20

1. **Rhythm Doctor** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Released December 2025. Metascore: 89.
2. **Hollow Knight: Silksong** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Released September 2025. Metascore: 90.
3. **Absolum** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Released October 2025. Metascore: 87.
4. **Hades II** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released September 2025. Metascore: 95.
5. **Blue Prince** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released April 2025. Metascore: 92.
6. **Split Fiction** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released March 2025. Metascore: 91.
7. **Donkey Kong Bananza** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released July 2025. Metascore: 91.
8. **despelote** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released May 2025. Metascore: 89.
9. **The Talos Principle: Reawakened** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released April 2025. Metascore: 89.
10. **The Seance of Blake Manor** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2025. Metascore: 89.
11. **Death Stranding 2: On The Beach** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released June 2025. Metascore: 89.
12. **Kingdom Come: Deliverance II** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released February 2025. Metascore: 89.
13. **Monster Hunter Wilds** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released February 2025. Metascore: 88.
14. **Abiotic Factor** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released July 2025. Metascore: 88.
15. **Sword of the Sea** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released August 2025. Metascore: 88.
16. **Monster Train 2** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released May 2025. Metascore: 87.
17. **Shinobi: Art of Vengeance** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released August 2025. Metascore: 87.
18. **Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2025. Metascore: 87.
19. **Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released May 2025. Metascore: 87.
20. **Lumines Arise** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released November 2025. Metascore: 87.
21. **Dispatch** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released October 2025. Metascore: 87.
22. **Cross Blitz** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released November 2025. Metascore: 87.
23. **Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released January 2025. Metascore: 87.
24. **Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released September 2025. Metascore: 86.
25. **Mario Kart World** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Released June 2025. Metascore: 86.

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