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December 25, 2025
The video games you may have missed in 2025
Date a vending machine, watch intergalactic television and make the most out of your short existence as a fly. Here are the best games you weren’t playing this year The 20 best video games of 2025 More on the best culture of 2025
TL;DR
- Date Everything! allows players to romance everyday objects with anthropomorphized characters.
- Sorry We’re Closed is a survival horror game where love is the monster in a London setting.
- Clues by Sam is a daily logic puzzle where only factually certain answers are accepted.
- Blippo+ simulates channel surfing on an intergalactic television.
- Stray Children is a monster-taming RPG inspired by Moon and Undertale.
- BALL x PIT combines horde control with Breakout-style mechanics.
- To a T features a protagonist with arms stuck in a T-pose navigating life.
- Wheel World is a chill bike-racing game with a possessed ride.
- The Drifter is a pixelated point-and-click game with a dystopian plot.
- South of Midnight is set in the American deep south with combat against manifestations of sorrow.
- Skin Deep is a stealth game where players save talking cats from space pirates.
- Sword of the Sea is a hoverboard knight game set in a desert landscape.
- The Roottrees Are Dead is a mystery game involving a candy dynasty.
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles offers a fresh take on the Final Fantasy series with themes of class struggle.
- Absolum is a cooperative roguelike beat 'em up with satisfying new powers.
- Promise Mascot Agency is an open-world adventure in small-town Japan with a redemption story.
- Eternal Strands is a fantasy RPG embracing elemental powers with chaotic results.
- Lushfoil Photography Sim is a photography game focused on solitude and attention to surroundings.
- Rematch is a football game simulating five-a-side matches, similar to Rocket League.
- Baby Steps is an adventure game where players control a grown man learning to walk.
- While Waiting focuses on making mundane situations enjoyable and teaching patience.
- Strange Antiquities deals in occult objects, exploring gothic locales.
- Old Skies is a point-and-click adventure game about time-travelling tourism.
- Is This Seat Taken? is a puzzle game combining Sudoku with speed dating mechanics.
- Look Outside is an RPG-style survival horror set in an apartment complex with a dark secret.
- Deltarune is an episodic, charming, and witty RPG from Toby Fox.
- Luto is a psychological horror game about grief and life after loss.
- Time Flies lets players experience life as a fly with a ticking clock bucket list.
- And Roger is an emotional game with a mystery unfolding over three chapters.
- Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To is a visual novel, dating simulator, and match-three game.
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