Only a reminder that we’ll be publishing our 2025 GOTYs quickly — each yours and ours! If you have not rated the Swap 1 & 2 video games you have performed but (or when you’ve performed one thing new within the final couple of weeks), be happy to learn on and have your say.
And when you’ve rated them already? Properly executed, beautiful particular person! As you had been.
We’re into December now, and whereas there are nonetheless late-coming video games exhibiting up, it is time to begin trying again on the goodies the final 12 months have introduced us. Sure, it is GOTY time.
2025 has been a bumper one throughout the board, with good video games huge and small — indie, are-they-indie?, and absolutely-definitely-not-indie — launching each single month. That is the yr that Silksong lastly got here out, for heaven’s sake! Oh, and Nintendo launched a complete new platform. Simply trying on the software program, the standard in 2025 has been top-shelf.
In the event you’ve joined us solely not too long ago, we right here at Nintendo Life have our personal employees GOTY listing encompassing all of our private prime fives, however prime GOTY billing goes to our community-ranked High 50 Swap video games of the yr – this yr that includes Swap 2, too.
We have got one for yearly of the Swap’s life thus far, every ordered in line with the corresponding video games’ Person Score in our database.
These real-time lists, primarily based on the Person Scores in our database, are a residing rating of every yr’s most interesting video video games. Trying again over the Swap era, listed here are the winners from the earlier eight(!) years:
Not a nasty octet, is it? So, it is time to begin trying via the gems we have performed within the final 12 months.
Under you will discover each Swap sport we have reviewed in 2025 awarded a 6/10 or larger. To charge any video games you have performed, registered customers can click on the star subsequent to the corresponding title and provides them a rating out of 10. We encourage you to make use of the search bar, however in any other case you may browse at your leisure.
IMPORTANT: All Swap 1 and a couple of video games launched in 2025 are eligible and out there to charge in our database. We have restricted those proven under to cull countless pages of shovelware, but when there’s one thing we did not overview (or simply did not get pleasure from as a lot as you), discover it by heading to the search bar on the very prime of the web page and going on to that sport’s web page.
We’ll go reside with the outcomes later within the month, and because of the real-time nature of the listing, video games launched between now and the top of the yr nonetheless have each likelihood of exhibiting up within the High 50, too. Nobody’s left behind!
Thanks for ‘voting’! Our database ought to comprise each sport launched in 2025, however please tell us under if something is lacking and we’ll get it added. Comfortable ranking!
