2025's Best Soulslike You Missed Is Officially a Sleeper Hit on Xbox Game Pass
Hell Is Us is a must-play 2025 Soulslike saddled with terrible release day luck, now getting a second chance on Xbox Game Pass.
Hell Is Us is a must-play 2025 Soulslike saddled with terrible release day luck, now getting a second chance on Xbox Game Pass.
The short version
- It feels like forever ago (cue up a cigarette drag), but looking back, 2025 was an uncharacteristically stacked year for new video games .
- Kirby Air Ride got a decades-overdue sequel !
- Blue Prince redefined puzzle games !
What happened
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — can you believe that only just came out last year ? (Cue up another cigarette drag.) The under-the-radar games of 2025 were also operating on another level. In a year stacked with shiny new entries in long-running AAA series, we also got indie gems like And Roger... , Ball x Pit , Despelote , Is This Seat Taken? , and Wheel World .
Why it matters
Though the real story of 2025 was the emergence of AA games — moderately scoped projects that nevertheless tend to take up multiple GB of your hard drive.
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