Best Games of 2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33on 4 of 7 rankings2
Hollow Knight: Silksongon 2 of 7 rankings3
Kingdom Come: Deliverance IIon 1 of 7 rankings4
Blue princeon 1 of 7 rankings5
Dispatchon 1 of 7 rankings6
Keeperon 1 of 7 rankings7
Citizen sleeper 2on 1 of 7 rankings8
And rogeron 1 of 7 rankings9
Europa Universalis Von 1 of 7 rankings10
Despeloteon 1 of 7 rankings11
Ball x piton 1 of 7 rankings12
South of midnighton 1 of 7 rankings13
Lego partyon 1 of 7 rankings14
Mixtapeon 1 of 7 rankings15
Unbeatableon 1 of 7 rankings16
Absolumon 1 of 7 rankings17
Schedule Ion 1 of 7 rankings18
The King is Watchingon 1 of 7 rankings19
lines 98on 1 of 7 rankings20
Wuchang: Fallen Featherson 1 of 7 rankings21
Sunderfolkon 1 of 7 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 7 independent rankings, recounted 21 October 2026, the best game of 2025 is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, followed by Hollow Knight: Silksong and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II.
How this is counted
This chart counts 7 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles released in 2025, cut down to those titles, in the order that source listed them. A title's place is its average position across all sources counted: a title someone left off their ranking counts as tied with their last place (here, that source ranked titles of this kind and left this one out). A small pull toward the middle keeps one enthusiastic list from crowning a #1. Every title in the computed chart has a numbered position, with its source count shown beside it. It is recounted whenever a ranking is published, changed or removed, last on 21 October 2026. Member rankings and attributed external lists use the same calculation. Multiple lists from one member or external author count once; linked slices add no extra vote. Frozen links, private or unlisted lists and unmatched titles are never counted. The full method.