{"id":1445378,"date":"2025-12-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-50-best-games-of-2025-ranked"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:00:00","slug":"the-50-best-games-of-2025-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-50-best-games-of-2025-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 best games of 2025, ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-50-best-games-of-2025-ranked.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been another strange, difficult, and yet somehow also brilliant year for video games in 2025. Triple-A releases have been sparse again, compared to the boom times of old, with a great big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-everything-we-know-so-far-9357\">GTA 6<\/a>-shaped hole left in the final few months of the year. 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