Gaming News 2025: Top 10 Best PC Games of the Year According to Critics and Users
2025 has been a pretty good year for PC gaming. Publishers and indie developers have treated us to ambitious projects that combine innovative mechanics, captivating stories, and visual perfection. We analyzed ratings to select the best PC games of 2025 with the highest scores from critics and users. These hits – from epic RPGs to brain-bending puzzles – have provided thousands of hours of unforgettable experiences. What surprises did publishers bring us in 2025? Let’s find out, starting from tenth place and climbing to the top!
10. Dispatch
- Metacritic: 89
- Users: 9.3
- Genre: Episodic Adventure / Strategy
- Release Date: October 22, 2025 (episodes through November 12)
From ex-Telltale developers (Tales from the Borderlands, The Wolf Among Us) — a superhero office comedy set in modern Los Angeles. You play as Robert Robertson, aka Mecha Man, whose mech suit is destroyed in a battle against his arch-nemesis. Now, instead of heroics, you’re a dispatcher at a superhero call center: assign missions across the city, manage a team of ex-supervillains (Z-Team), balance office politics, personal dramas, and secretly rebuild your suit for revenge. 8 episodes like an interactive TV series: choice-driven dialogues, QTEs, strategic dispatching (pick heroes by stats, abilities, cooldowns — risks shape the story). It hooks with witty humor, star-studded cast (Aaron Paul, Laura Bailey, Jacksepticeye), emotional depth, and replayability (choices alter relationships and endings). Perfect for fans of The Boys in an office or Life is Strange — 8-10 hours of pure narrative with wild twists.
9. Monster Hunter Wilds
- Metacritic: 88
- Users: 8.6
- Genre: Action RPG
- Release Date: February 28, 2025
The most alive Monster Hunter in history. Weather and time of day radically change monster behavior and the world itself: sandstorms hide giants, downpours create new paths, lightning drives beasts into rage. 14 weapon types, a new focus system for cinematic finishers, co-op up to 4 players, and hundreds of hours of perfect grinding. For those ready to live in the game for months and consider “one more quest for loot” the best way to spend an evening.
8. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Metacritic: 88
- Users: 9.3
- Genre: Action RPG
- Release Date: February 9, 2025
Realistic medieval times without a drop of magic. You are Henry, a blacksmith’s son, in the midst of a civil war in Bohemia in 1403. Hunger, dirt, disease, reputation, even smell affect dialogues and events. The combat system requires real mastery: strike direction, stamina, combos, armor breaks in real-time. Quests are historically accurate, and choices radically change the world. The best immersive RPG of the year for those who want to truly feel like they’re in the 15th century.
7. Abiotic Factor
- Metacritic: 89
- Users: 8.7
- Genre: Co-op Survival / Immersive Sim Release
- Date: July 22, 2025
You play as a scientist in a giant underground laboratory where an experiment opened a portal to another world. Craft weapons from coffee machines, centrifuges, office chairs, and lab test tubes, build multi-level bases with turrets and traps, survive against special forces, mutants, and aliens in co-op up to 6 players. Physics at Half-Life level, humor at Portal level, crafting depth and building like Factorio + Lethal Company + GTFO. Currently the most popular co-op survival game on Steam, and it continues to receive huge updates.
6. Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Metacritic: 91
- Users: 8.7
- Genre: Metroidvania
- Release Date: September 4, 2025
- Award: PC Game of the Year — Golden Joystick Awards 2025
After 6 years of waiting, Team Cherry delivered exactly the sequel we dreamed of. Hornet in the completely new kingdom of Pharloom, 170+ new enemies and bosses, vertical game design, tons of new mechanics (silk as a grappling hook, bounce jumps, and everyone’s favorite weapon crafting). The same unforgiving difficulty, the same gorgeous hand-drawn art and soundtrack by Christopher Larkin. For those who completed the original at 101% and still want more.
5. Split Fiction
- Metacritic: 91
- Users: 8.9
- Genre: Co-op Action-Adventure
- Release Date: March 6, 2025
From the creators of It Takes Two and A Way Out. Two writers – Mio (sci-fi) and Zoe (fantasy) – get trapped in their own books and are forced to go through them together. In one chapter, the genre can change five times: a first-person shooter transitions into a platformer with dragons, which shifts to stealth with robots and flows into a puzzle with portals. Mandatory co-op (local or online), tons of humor and genius ideas every 10 minutes. The best cooperative game of 2025 and possibly the best co-op game of the decade.
4. Foolish Mortals
- Metacritic: 92
- Users: 9.0
- Genre: Point-and-click Adventure
- Release Date: November 5, 2025
A classic quest in the best traditions of LucasArts and Sierra, but with modern humor and gorgeous artwork. Louisiana in the 1930s, voodoo, ghosts, family secrets, talking skulls, and perfectly logical (but devilishly clever) puzzles. The dialogue is written so well you’ll laugh out loud every 5 minutes. Many critics are already calling it “the best adventure game since Grim Fandango,” and user reviews are full of enthusiastic impressions.
3. Blue Prince
- Metacritic: 92
- Users: 7.8
- Genre: Puzzle Roguelite
- Release Date: April 10, 2025
Every morning you wake up in the Mt. Holly mansion and rebuild it: you choose which rooms to place, how to connect them, and try to reach the mystical 46th room. Over 1,000 unique rooms, procedural generation, dark lore about a cursed family, and brain-melting puzzles. The biggest plus is replayability, as you can spend hundreds of hours here. User scores aren’t as high only because the game doesn’t forgive mistakes and requires patience on the level of The Witness.
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Metacritic: 93
- Users: 9.7
- Genre: Turn-based JRPG
- Release Date: April 24, 2025
- Awards: Ultimate Game of the Year 2025 (Golden Joystick Awards) Best Storytelling 2025 Best Art Direction 2025
French studio Sandfall Interactive created the JRPG of dreams: tactical real-time combat with QTE mechanics and party synergies, drawn in the style of the French Belle Époque with a gorgeous atmospheric soundtrack. From the first minutes, you meet characters impossible not to love. A touching story about sacrifice, forgiveness, and time that makes even tough bearded guys cry during the final credits. The highest-rated new JRPG in the last 15 years.
1. Hades II
- Metacritic: 94
- Users: 8.8
- Genre: Roguelike Action RPG
- Release Date: September 25, 2025 (full release 1.0)
- Awards and Nominations: Game of the Year 2025 (leading in almost all polls) Best Indie Game, Best Action, Best Soundtrack
Melinoë, Zagreus’s sister, against the titan Kronos. Even more gods, even more romance and dialogue, rituals, branching story, new regions, new weapons, and perfectly polished gameplay. Supergiant Games have once again made a game that’s physically impossible to put down – “just one more run” turns into 5 AM and 150 hours on the counter.
What Awaits PC in 2026 (Most Anticipated Releases)
- Resident Evil Requiem
- Nioh 3
- Crimson Desert
- Phantom Blade Zero
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
- GTA VI – unfortunately, on PC only in 2027–2028
Author: Alex
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