The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff

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• Zarxrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NPR reviews games now?

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  • Ashtear@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Their reviews aren’t frequent. This is more of a “we ask around the org for what everyone liked this year.” It’s a consistently good list year after year.

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  • celeste@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Search on their site shows best of year lists going back to like 2011

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• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a surprisingly deep list.

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interesting that they didn’t include Ninja Gaiden 4 in an otherwise incredibly exhaustive list, but apart from that I think this is as close to “every notable 2025 release, summarised and collected” as you’re going to get.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No Avowed or Outer Worlds 2 either, which are high on my personal list. And before someone wants to tell me they were divisive, they both reviewed far better than the likes of To a T.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I forgot about those because I never played them myself and honestly this year has been awash with so many good releases that they kind of slipped my mind. But you’re absolutely right!

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• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Didn’t bother going further as soon as I saw “Interactive list” 😮‍💨

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  • idoit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean it’s just filters so you can get a more relevant list for yourself. The PC-only filter was useful for me.

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• zecg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It saddens me that Sektori came out too late to be on these lists, because they are effective marketing for indies and it’s one of the finest games ever made. It works flawlessly, is Linux friendly and is polished to a shine. It’s very opinionated design, but the opinions are in my opinion all correct and the overall game is a wonderful sequel to Geometry Wars. The only thing it’s missing right now is 2-player (at least) coop.

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• Novamdomum@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Really nice list and well laid out too. Currently downloading the demo for Revenge of the Savage Planet from it :)

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• Kolossos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No Factorio: Space Age on the list? The factory must grow…

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