Video Games are Good's 2025 GOTY Nominees Reveal

Every year, our Game of the Year nominees simultaneously serve as our "Best of" list for the year that was. That hasn't been truer than it has for 2025, a year so sneakily stacked with games that we legitimately left another list of 10 that would have been just as valid on the cutting room floor.

Please consider checking out all these games and keeping up with VGG at https://videogamesgood.com!

Nominees:
‪@supergiantgames‬
‪@FrankieSmileShow‬
‪@AdHoc-Studio‬
‪@Deconstructeam‬ ‪@SelkieHarbour‬
‪@necrosoftgames‬
‪@NiceDreamGames‬
‪@IvyRoadGames‬
‪@sandfallgames‬
‪@qd0rk‬
‪@hazelightstudios‬
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:54 Hades 2
3:31 Look Outside
4:57 Dispatch
6:32 Many Nights a Whisper
8:05 Demonschool
9:30 Goodnight Universe
11:07 Wanderstop
12:42 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
14:35 Consume Me
16:00 Split Fiction
17:39 Outro