Gaming in 2025 Retrospect

[Moonface]

It's the final day of 2025, so I think it's a perfect time to start reflecting and talking about anything that happened in gaming this past year, whether it be what games you played (regardless of release year), new discoveries, notable events, etc.

Platform Round-Ups

• Nintendo Year in Review 2025
  
• PlayStation Wrap-Up 2025
  
• Steam Year in Review 2025
  
• Xbox Year in Review 2025
  

Gaming in 2025 Articles

• Famitsu | 191 Japanese Game Developers Pick Their Favorite Games of 2025
  
• Eurogamer | The 50 best games of 2025, ranked
  
• Steam | Steam's best selling games of 2025
  
• Wikipedia | Major Gaming Events in 2025
  
• Wikipedia | Notable Deaths in Gaming in 2025
  

To keep it clean, this post will only be for adding links worth checking out and any of my own thoughts will be in a separate post.

[Moonface]

PlayStation Wrap-Up 2025
Well, despite having played a tiny amount on my PS5 this year, I guess it wasn't enough for Sony to record anything because my PlayStation Wrap-Up has absolutely zero stats. Going by my trophy lists, it seems I only played Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown on January 2 for maybe an hour or two to finish the story, and then I played like 3 hours of Doom: The Dark Ages when it released and that was it. So collectively I probably used my PS5 for not even 6 hours this entire year and haven't touched it at all since May 17.

Not really surprising, given I didn't really have interest in many games on PS5 this year and I was also hesitant starting up any new games in the second half of this year due to needing to focus on finishing up my degree program. Looking at releases this year I didn't touch but would want to, it really only comes out to this:

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
  
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
  
• Chronos
  

Just a really shit year for PS5 offerings that I would care for. It's kinda just adding to the argument of not bothering with a PS6 whenever it comes out, especially since the few games I've listed are all on PC anyway. Literally not a single exclusive for me to care about.


Steam Replay 2025
Okay, actually a platform I spent time on this year where I can get some stats:

• Games Played: 6
  
• Achievements Unlocked: 54
  
• Longest Streak: 307 Days
  
• Top Games:
  
  1. Slay The Spire - 56% of Play Time /  816 Sessions Played
     
  2. The Binding of Isaac: Repentance - 26% of Play Time / 355 Sessions Played
     
  3. Grounded - 12% of Play Time / 55 Sessions Played
     

My full replay can be viewed here if anyone is interested: Moonface's Steam Replay 2025

Slay The Spire being first doesn't surprise me because I started that game this year, so I spent a ton of time in it just playing the game normally. It'll be interesting to see what the stats for it will be next year because I'll really only be playing it for the daily runs like I do with The Binding of Isaac. Also my Replay backs up how the second half of my year went; you can really see it in my playtime per month chart where the start of the year has way more playtime and then drops down a lot for the second half of the year.


Other Games
So this doesn't get tracked by anything, but the only other game I played a lot of this year was Minecraft with @ShiraNoMai . I will be surprised if this wasn't my most played game this year by a huge margin because I played through three different huge packs this year:

• Drehmal: Apotheosis
  I started this in 2024, and finished it up in May and this is still the best gaming experience I had all year. This could have been a standalone game asking for $70 and I'd have been happy to spend every penny on it.
  
• Better Minecraft 4
  The first modpack I've ever played in Minecraft, and it was a very interesting experience going into it with no knowledge of any mods. The only downside to it was the lack of incentive to do much of the content outside of the major mods it included.
  
• All The Mods 10
  Currently playing this one, and this one resolves all my issues I had with BMC4. It isn't about just get strong and beat the final boss and you're done, and the inclusion of MineColonies lets me do a lot of creative building stuff without all of the effort resting entirely on me.
  

[Mr EliteL]

My PlayStation Wrap-Up looks very simple.

2 games Played:
Genshin Impact - 501 hours (98%)
Unicorn Overlord - 9 hours (2%)
Multiplayer Hours - 66
Total Trophies - 9

501 hours looks a lot, but then putting it into days it's only 20-21 days.

Quite surprised Unicorn Overlord was that low, I must've only played like twice. I hope next year's will look better with at least two more titles.

Dialogue in GI probably takes up a good chunk of the playtime being unskippable, and can only tap a button that makes the text show up quicker and to move to the next line, not a proper quick skip. Miliastra took a good amount of the Multiplayer Hours for when I played mainly an Unrailed Wonderland, as well as helping in Co-Op here and there when I felt like it.

Nintendo Wrap-Up, don't know if I played on it at all, only to buy a game in the eShop, which I haven't touched.

If my laptop could record my game time on there, it's probably triple the PS5 at least.