Happy late early December everyone! That can only mean one thing: we’ve opened voting for Eurogamer readers’ top 50 games of the year, and a little earlier than last year, too. I’d love there to be a smart reason for this, but it’s really because we simply won’t have time to collate all the votes and comments and turn them into an article if we leave it any later.
In terms of actual games released, 2025 has been pretty good, I think. There’s a nice and varied mix of games making up my personal top 10, so hopefully you’ll have plenty to pick from.
As is the usual way, we’re asking you for your ranked top five games of the year, with the option to also tell us why each of them had the special sauce. The rules are thus:
- DLC/expansions are not eligible, unless they are playable as ‘standalone’
- Ongoing games not released in 2025 are also not eligible
- Ports of games not released in 2025 are also not eligible – but we’re allowing Switch 2 versions if what’s in the new version has been significantly altered/added to.
- Games still in Early Access are not eligible
- Remakes and significant remasters are eligible.
- Games released from Early Access into ‘1.0’ in 2025 are eligible.
I attempted to provide you with every game released in 2025 via a dropdown box, but this failed for multiple reasons so we’re going the old-fashioned way of typing the names into boxes.
If you are happy to provide your Eurogamer username, your words could form part of our final article. This is set to be published on December 30, a day before Eurogamer’s own Game of the Year is revealed. I wonder which is going to have the most embarrassing top 10?
If you could get your votes and comments in by the end of Sunday, 14th December, I (and whoever else is tasked with turning an Excel sheet into a readable article) will be very grateful.
Here’s the form for your choices, so get voting now (unless you’re waiting to play through Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and need a few more days with it).
Thanks, as always, for reading – and for sticking with us through 2025 even though we (I) said the Switch Super Mario Galaxy ports were reasonably priced.
