"Goodness gracious, 2025 has been a fantastic year for video games, and most excitingly, for games of all scales and budgets. Big-name releases have hit the spot, while indies have sprung from nowhere to become breakthrough hits, such that wrestling them all down to a top 10 with which I'm happy has been an ordeal. But I got there, and I'm happy with it."
"I'm so pleased to see the game got some attention from others too, with the extraordinary art in this walking-sim horror game astonishing everyone who saw it. This is a peculiar and striking game, combining truly beautiful vistas and horrendous body horror, and it's so damned interesting. Every surface ripples with pixels, such that the world is only truly tangible when you're moving, giving everything an organic feeling of breathing."
2025 delivered an exceptional year for video games across budgets and scales, with both big-name releases and indie breakout hits standing out. A top-ten list was compiled after reading other sites' top charts and playing 183 new PC games, then ranking the ten judged to be objectively best in a 'scientifically proven and unquestionable order of goodnessosity.' Eclipsium is a walking-sim horror notable for extraordinary art, beautiful vistas paired with body horror, pixel-rippled surfaces, and a 3D world re-rendered onto a 320×180 canvas with a 12FPS human hand as interaction. The Drifter begins as a point-and-click adventure before revealing a fascinating story possibly involving peculiar secret forces.
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