RPGFan Games of the Year 2025: Overall Awards

That’s right, it’s finally time for our Games of the Year 2025 awards! 2025 was absolutely stacked with incredible games, and while we said similar in our GotY 2024 feature, it was no less true last year. Many of us started off the year wondering what the standouts would be, realizing one of the games that would dominate come spring time, and then thanks to releases by Supergiant, LEVEL-5, Falcom, and more, we had another year packed with great games, many of which we weren’t expecting we’d be writing about here earlier in the year.

We made some small category streamlining adjustments for 2025, dropping some categories, but adding a new one for Best Voice Performance, which we plan to keep in future years.

As always, we’ve included your Readers’ Choice results alongside our picks for every category. While you all had similar feelings to us in many cases, we love comparing our team’s voting against the wider pool of our readers, so we thank you all for contributing to this feature every year!

What are some of your picks? What did we get right? Where do you disagree? Be sure to let us know on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Discord, Bluesky, or however you most enjoy interacting with us!

If you haven’t read them yet, be sure to also read through our individual Editors’ Awards, too, written by 16 members of the RPGFan team!