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The 25 best Steam games for 2025
Best List Here are the very best Steam games to play in 2025, whether you love RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3, extraction shooters, or puzzle games.
Hideo Kojima reveals Death Stranding 2: On the Beach release date, and the Collector's Edition includes exactly what I predicted it would
The date was confirmed at SXSW
This roguelike city-builder casts you as a benevolent Lord of the Rings villain, and its Steam Next Fest demo accidentally consumed my entire evening
News The King is Watching is filled with a host of lazy citizens
A single D&D spell in Solasta 2's Steam Next Fest demo proved to me that not every RPG needs to be Baldur's Gate 3
News I'm Shattered
The 6 biggest gaming trends of 2025
Presented by Microsoft
Our predictions for the gaming trends that will define 2025
Former Pokemon World Champion says new game is about to turn the competitive scene upside-down, with changes so big he "can't even fathom" them
News And I think I might know why
There's a whole world of Dark Souls-style lore hidden in this series of dress-up games, and I bet you can't tell which is which
News The deep lore of the Nikki series caught me completely off-guard
The Witcher 4 director refutes claims that Ciri's appearance has changed since the reveal trailer: "We have not modified it"
News Sebastian Kalemba explains CD Projekt's camera work
PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game launches this summer for $20, and its new trailer shows all the ways it'll try and kill you
Prologue: Go Wayback! introduces its deadly world
I've waited 3 years for this high-speed roguelike-flavored runner, and now that it's finally playable in Steam Next Fest my eyeballs can hardly keep up
News Haste: Broken Worlds is already climbing the Next Fest charts
Pokemon Legends: Z-A Pokedex – every confirmed Pokemon we know about so far
News Every friend that we've spotted so far that could make up the Pokemon Legends: Z-A Pokedex
With backing from Slay the Spire and Among Us devs, this Steam Next Fest roguelike inspired by an unlikely classic immediately stands out – even if I am a little confused
Castle V Castle has the Slay the Spire team on-side
Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actress and Uncharted's Nathan Drake join forces to host the next Future Games Show
Jennifer English and Nolan North will host this year's show
"We try not to say 'fun'": Meet the devs behind the new survival game that puts the "human element" before letting you be a mountain-leveling demigod
Interview | "There's a lot of preconceived notions when you say 'survival game'", and Prologue: Go Wayback isn't particularly interested in any of them
PUBG creator on how his Earth-sized open world differs from Light No Fire: "I'm not making a game. I'm building a world"
News "I don't want to make games for people, I want to make games with people"
The new survival game from the creator of PUBG is an absolutely merciless wilderness experience that's aiming to be "as hard a survival game as you can make"
Preview Preview | Prologue: Go Wayback is a survival game, but perhaps in name only
PUBG creator explains why he's making a super-hard survival game instead of PUBG 2: "This is the game I've wanted to make"
News "That's not what I want to do"
"If we can do it… This will be something groundbreaking": PUBG creator Brendan Greene is five years into making a 10,000km "realistic Minecraft" – but there's still a decade to go
Interview The first step on an "Earth-scale" journey
25 Best free Steam games you can play right now
Best Save some pennies with the best free Steam games worth playing in 2025
In addition to "billions" of weapons, Borderlands 4 has "the deepest and most diverse skill trees" of any game in the series
News You'll have the "greatest freedom to shoot and loot" ever
Borderlands 4's tone sits somewhere between the first two games, which probably means less Skibidi Toilet and more Handsome Jack-style antics
News But it isn't "without the oddity and zaniness" that makes a Borderlands game what it is
Borderlands 4 moves beyond Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands as Gearbox promises "billions of weapons and accessories"
News That's billionS, plural
Toilet humor, open-worlds, and "billions" of weapons: Borderlands 4 is pushing the looter-shooter series further than ever before
Big in 2025 Big in 2025 | Borderlands 4 is bigger and bolder than ever, but Gearbox is still wrestling with exactly what that means
