Year in Review: 2025 Part 1: The Lists

 

We like lists here.  Lists are good because they offer us the excuse and ability to list our thoughts in an easy-to-digest form.  First, there are the games released in 2025 that I actually played.  Next will be the games released in 2025 that I bought (not counting games received for free through Epic, GOG, Amazon Games), and last will be games that were released in 2025 that I remembered that I was interested in but never purchased.  I will hyperlink to articles I've written when possible.

Games Released in 2025 I Played:

• Hell Dive (1/7/25)
• S4U: CityPunk 2011 and Love Punch (1/8/25)
• Stupid Cars (1/9/25)
• Benign Land (1/24/25)
• Unreachable (1/27/25)
• Mister Goofer's Mini Game Arcade Party (2/5/25)
• DeathOmen (2/5/25)
• Dark Trip (2/11/25)
• Ashen Arrows (2/20/25)
• Same Room Same Day (3/6/25)
• Children of Clay (3/7/25)
• Grimm's Folly (3/14/25)
• Silverpine Creek (3/25/25)
• Necrophosis (4/25/25) 
• Arkero (5/9/25)
• Last Guest (5/28/25)
• Mario Kart World (6/5/25)
• HELLBREAK (6/12/25)
• Mashina (7/31/25)
• The Nameless City (9/3/25)
• Only Cards (9/4/25)
• The Escape (9/16/25)
• Fire Emblem Shadows (9/25/25)
• Horses (12/2/25)
• Pigeon's Mission (12/18/25)

Games Released in 2025 that I Bought but Haven't Played

Nothing.  I only bought one game with my own real-world money that was released in 2025, and that was Horses, partly because the concept sounded interesting, but also to support the developer, as their game was being delisted before it could even be sold by Steam or the Epic Game Store for reasosns that didn't seem consistentwith their developer terms of service.  Any other game I bought last year was released in a previous year/decade.

Games Released in 2025 that I Would Like to Buy/Play

• The Stone of Madness (1/28/25)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (2/4/25)
• Avowed (2/18/25)
• Assassin's Creed: Shadows (3/20/25)
• South of Midnight (4/8/25)
• Blue Prince (4/10/25)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (4/22/25)
• Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 (4/24/25)
• Doom: The Dark Ages (5/15/25)
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (5/21/25)
• Cave Crave (6/26/25)
• Tales of the Shire (6/29/25)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (9/4/25)
• Cronos: The New Dawn (9/5/25)
• Borderlands 4 (9/12/25)
• Baby Steps (9/23/25)
• Blippo+ (9/23/25)
• Hades II (9/25/25)
• Silent Hill f (9/25/25)
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles (9/30/25)
• Ghost of Yōtei (10/1/25)
• Little Nightmares III (10/10/25)
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (10/21/25)
• Once Upon a Katamari (10/24/25)
• The Outerworlds 2 (10/29/25)
• Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remaster (10/30/25)
• Amanda the Adventurer 3 (11/6/25)
• Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (11/6/25)
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (12/4/25)
• Octopath Traveler 0 (12/4/25)

I'm sure that there's something to be said about the fact that, despite the Switch 2 launching six months ago, I've only purchased one Switch 2 exclusive, and that's a title that came packaged with the system.  I've been using the system to work through some of my backlog of both physical and digital titles, but nothing that was released in 2025.  And that's one downside to these three (really two-and-a-half) lists is that they don't capture all of the games I played this year that could fit into other categories, such as:

• Crowdfunded Games from previous years
• Humble Bundle Games from previous years
• Random Free Games on:
• Steam
• Epic Games
• GOG
• Amazon
• Backlogs on all the aforementioned storefronts, but also throw in the Switch 1 and 3DS.

But that's kind of what will be covered in next Monday's article, where I will go into my Nintendo 2025 Year in Review and Steam RePlay.  You can look forward to fewer lists and more screenshots if I don't decide to upload the whole video next Monday.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian

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