The Besties Best Game Bracket: 2025 Edition

How do you pick the best video game of the year when over ten thousand games have been released since January? You bring together the world’s best friends, hand them a bracket, and hope for the best. Yes, listeners, it’s time for the Besties to pick the Game of the Year, or as we prefer to call it, The Besties Besty.

Will The Game Awards champion Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 claim the most coveted prize in all of gaming? Or does another game have what it takes to battle for the crown?

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• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Dispatch

• Absolum

• Hades 2

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

• Ghost of Yotei

• Baby Steps

• Donkey Kong Bananza

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Wanderstop

• Blippo+

• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

• Avowed

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

• The Roottrees Are Dead

• Sektori

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On next week’s The Besties: We select the best game of 2025!

Besties Merch!

• My Favorite Handhelds of 2025 (Retro Game Corps)

• Digital Foundry’s Best Game Graphics of 2025 (Digital Foundry)

• Dragon Quest III HD-2D-3D Remake (dunkview) (Videogamedunkey)

• 2025’s Trashiest Anime (Mother’s Basement)