Games of 2025

A well designed stalker horror game. I played on Hardest Difficulty, No Human Enemies run. It was quite a challenge.

My second favorite Amnesia game. I enjoy replaying through this one and speedrunning it.

Fun little micro-adventure in the Doctor Who canon. A really tiny bit fanservice-y, but not too big. A direct sequel to a certain David Tennant-era episode. Will likely be beaten in an afternoon.

(For those of you who care, this story takes place during 13's run as the Doctor)

It's almost as literal a remaster as possible. Most of the old mechanics are still present, and the few changes that I noticed were either quality-of-life changes or more modern upgrades to earlier systems.

They changed the console, though, given the new engine. I hate the new console. And Oblivion keeps the old game's glitches, so you'll need the new engine a fair bit.

It's a fun modpack. It's a large modpack, though. Requires a supercomputer to run. Well balanced, but breakable if you dedicate time to figure out how.

It's an MMO. I don't play MMOs often, and I played this one solo. It's easier to play on your own than I expected, but it didn't feel as fleshed out story-wise or mechanically compared to other Elder Scrolls games.

I only played through the main campaign and some of the side quests. I'll go back to do the rest eventually, I presume.

(Also, I played this before they announced a sequel to the main campaign - I own the sequel missions but haven't played it yet)

It's Minecraft. What do you want me to say? Either you like it or you don't.

Side note, what do you put for the release year here?

A very dark, metaphorical game. Short, playable in a single session. Only issue is that there's no save feature; you have to play in one session. Also, check the content warnings.

It was... a game.

It certain feels like a precursor to Frictional Games's Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I learned after the fact that a handful of physics puzzles I thought were "make bridge with environmental objects" were actual puzzles I accidentally cheesed. Oh, well. I still used logic and reasoning to solve the problem, close enough.

Warning, though: The series was designed to be a trilogy and you can tell. The game abruptly ends with a "What was the point?" ending and a variant of "To be continued." I'm not a fan of "To Be Continued" endings and, had I been giving this game a rating score, its score would have went down a peg or two because of it. Yes, as of writing I'm playing the sequel. No, that doesn't make me feel better about the abrupt ending.

Well. That sucked.

Significantly better than I expected (and I already expected to enjoy it). I'll admit I wasn't sure how much I would enjoy the new combat system, but it was a blast.

Never been a big fan of the first two generations of Pokémon. Used the speedrun route to beat the game so I can get a Shiny Ditto for Shiny Hunting.

Nidoking's neat, I guess? Mine had awful DVs, though (13/9/11/3/0).

Technically I played the JP version so I could add some HD mods. Different discussion.

One of the best Resident Evil games. Even after all this time, it doesn't lose its touch. It was fun reliving this game, replaying all four scenarios and getting that top ranking on each. Fourth Survivor mode sucked, though.

Definitely a remake of Resident Evil 4. Loses most of the campy humor in place of a darker, even more combative experience. Good if that's your type of thing. Mechanically, a great game. I liked playing the game, don't get me wrong, I just miss the humor in the original.

Assignment Ada was a blast.

Best Mercenaries mode, too.

Easy point-and-click adventure. A sequel to the original novel of Phantom of the Opera. Very fanfic trope-y, but it's fun.

Probably won't come back to it, though. I can only take so much Phantom and I don't normally play this genre.

Fun Megami Tensei. Hard Megami Tensei. Worth it Megami Tensei.

Wanted to play this game for a while, jumped at the chance to buy it when I saw it was on sale. Fun, simple game. Movement took a bit of time to get used to, but nothing too bad.

This is certainly a Ryukishi07 story. Take that however you will. For me, that's a great thing.

Not sure how I felt about combat, though. Puzzles were great, I played that on highest difficulty, the combat just left me frustrated at times, more than normal for action games.

First playthrough. Cute game.

Short, creepy game where you help a hiker through the woods over a radio call while some creature tries to hunt them down. It's fun, but really short; I completed my first playthrough in less than half an hour. This was made during one of those forty-eight hour game dev competitions.

Apparently a ton of YouTubers played it when it was new? I only learned about it through a YouTube video essay.