What Was 2025 Like for PC Gamers? Modest in quantity — unforgettable in quality. What made this year stand out were the games that won us over with their identity, emotion, and fearless creativity. These titles inspired us, surprised us, shattered expectations, and once again raised the bar for the entire industry.
At AdmiGram.com, we’ve picked the very best PC games of 2025 — and every one of them deserves its own special award. These aren’t just great games. These are the games shaping the future of PC gaming. Ready? Let’s go.
The Best PC Games of 2025: Year in Review
Best RPG 2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
🏆 The most poetic and visually mesmerizing RPG of the year
Developer: Sandfall Interactive
Inspired by France’s Belle Époque, this RPG feels less like a game and more like a living painting. The world is fragile yet grand, every frame feels like a chapter from a beautifully written novel, and nothing here feels accidental. Combat is pure magic — rhythmic, emotional, almost like a dance of timing and strategy. And the soundtrack? Goosebumps and tears guaranteed.
Best Action RPG 2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
🏆 The most realistic historical immersion
Developer: Warhorse Studios
Brutally honest combat, insane attention to detail, and deep respect for history turn this into a living medieval chronicle. The world doesn’t just exist — it breathes. Villagers work, dogs bark, church bells ring, and you feel like part of something real. Battles aren’t about flash; they’re about stamina, fear, precision, and survival. And the story isn’t “hero saves the world.” It’s about a person fighting for his place in it — and that’s exactly what makes it powerful.
Best Action 2025
Hades II
🏆 The most stylish, kinetic action experience of the year
Developer: Supergiant Games
Hades II is one of those games you start “just for half an hour,” and suddenly it’s 3 a.m. — and you’re smiling. Deeper, more emotional, and more ambitious than the first game, it delivers flawless combat, brilliant characters, incredible chemistry between them, and a visual style only Supergiant can deliver. Every defeat is a lesson, not a punishment — every new weapon brings a new way to play. Pure, elegant chaos.
Best First-Person Shooter 2025
DOOM: The Dark Ages
🏆 Brutal, classic, and louder than ever
Developer: id Software
DOOM drags hell into a dark medieval nightmare — and it absolutely rules. Every weapon feels heavy, every hit lands in your chest, and the soundtrack pumps fire into your veins. This isn’t just a shooter; it’s a ritual of destruction. Violent, metallic, furious — and unmistakably DOOM.
Best Action-Adventure 2025
Split Fiction
🏆 Boldest narrative experiment of the year
Developer: Hazelight Studios
Split Fiction plays with perception, twists expectations, and shows that games can still truly surprise us. Smart directing, unexpected story turns, and clever gameplay ideas transform it into an experience you don’t just “play” — you live through. It’s the kind of game you want to analyze, debate, and write essays about.
Best Fighting Game 2025
Capcom Fighting Collection 2
🏆 The best gift to fighting game fans
Developer: Capcom
More than a collection — it’s a love letter to classic fighting games. Carefully restored, modernized, perfectly tuned online play, polished mechanics, and the warm feeling of meeting old friends who somehow feel better than ever. Great for veterans, welcoming for newcomers. Pure joy.
Best Simulation/Strategy 2025
The Alters
🏆 The most human sci-fi experience of the year
Developer: 11 bit studios
This isn’t a game about bases and resources — it’s a game about people… or rather, different versions of one person. Each “you” has fears, regrets, and emotions. You don’t just manage them — you coexist with them. Rarely does a strategy hit this emotionally hard. Moral dilemmas. Psychological drama. Responsibility you actually feel. Unique and unforgettable.
Best Horror 2025
Silent Hill f
🏆 The most terrifyingly beautiful horror of the year
Developer: Neobards Entertainment
Silent Hill returns — and it does so the right way. Not with cheap jump scares, but with slow, suffocating psychological dread that grows inside you like roots. Disturbing imagery, symbolic storytelling, haunting atmosphere — the fear stays with you long after the screen goes dark. Silent Hill is back — and it’s glorious.
Best Strategy 2025
Tempest Rising
🏆 The true spiritual successor to classic RTS
Developer: Slipgate Ironworks
A love letter to the Command & Conquer era — fast, energetic, nostalgic, yet modern and smartly designed. Every unit matters. Every move matters. Every battle feels meaningful. It’s everything RTS fans have been hungry for — familiar in spirit, fresh in execution.
Best Casual 2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong
🏆 The long-awaited masterpiece that truly delivered
Developer: Team Cherry
Yes, it was worth the wait. Silksong is beauty, melancholy, precision, challenge, and wonder — all perfectly balanced. Responsive combat, fair difficulty, breathtaking world design, and music that freezes your heart mid-battle. A dream metroidvania.
Special Mentions
2025 was a year of big emotions. Some games amazed our imagination, others touched our hearts, others flooded us with adrenaline. One thing is certain: PC gaming is alive, evolving, and still full of surprises.
Also worth your attention: The Séance of Blake Manor, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, No, I’m Not a Human, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Blue Prince, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Mafia: The Old Country, Dispatch, Absolum, Old Skies, Battlefield 6.
