Game of the Year 2025

[MetalCaveman]

It's that time of the year again.  

 

Digimon Story: Time Stranger

 

This year I played through Cyber Sleuth and I'm currently going through Hacker's Memory, both have been really fun, so when I booted the demo for Time Stranger and saw how much better everything looked, that immediately was my "GOTY" moment, been playing for a bit and so far everything seems like a huge improvement (except for agent level, but we'll see how that goes lol).                                                                 

[Mister Jack]

 

I almost put Dispatch but if I'm being honest with myself this is the game I obsessed over the most in 2025. I loved the tactical combat and with 100 endings to find among wildly different routes, I ended up playing this for a stupid amount of time in my obsession with getting the golden ending. There aren't really any lazy fade to black text over a blank screen endings in here that I could find either. They all have their own art and scenes and were interesting enough to motivate me to keep going to find the next one. I still haven't found all 100 of them, though I imagine someday I'll go back to get the rest.