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

In a crowded field of excellence, which games were our favorite?

19 Dec 2025, 14:00 · TechRadar

Features By Rob Dwiar Contributions from Jake Green, Dashiell Wood, Rhys Wood, Demi Williams published 19 December 2025

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It’s that time of year once again, and after hours and hours of playing, absorbing, writing about, and arguing over the year’s best games, we here at TechRadar Gaming have finalised our top 20 picks.

We put in a lot of time and care to this list; it transcends pure review scores, and is the product of intense conversation and discussion about the impact games have had on us and the community, what consists of the best new artwork that’s been brought to the table, the innovation of fantastic followups that build on predecessors, and simply what has been the most fun to play. It all culminates in this, TechRadar Gaming’s Game of the Year 2025 list, which is a distillation of our editors’ and writers’ takes on games throughout the year that reflects our collective opinion and thoughts.

It’s been a sensational year for gaming generally, from genre-defining multiplayer games in the likes of Arc Raiders, a triumphant return for the Battlefield series, some incredible new games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Blue Prince and a host of brilliant followups that build on their predecessors like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and Hades 2.

However, this year, once again, did not come without its pain for those who make the games we love. We saw a host of studios shuttered, exciting games cancelled and thrown away, and thousands of job losses once more.

But those who have seen their games come to fruition this year have treated us to some all timers, and some stand-out games of the entire generation. In fact, it’s been such a good year that we’ve felt compelled to expand our game of the year list to 20 from last year’s 10, just to give some more brilliant games a little time in the sun.

Here’s what we enjoyed the most from this year, culminating in our pick for Game of the Year 2025.

Rob Dwiar, Managing Editor, TechRadar Gaming

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