US EditionClair Obscur Leads the AP’s List of 2025’s Top Video Games
Clair Obscur, a debut indie game from French studio Sandfall Interactive, leads AP’s 2025 rankings amid major releases and Nintendo’s Switch 2 hardware launch.
- This year the Associated Press named Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 its top game, praising the debut from French studio Sandfall Interactive for its storytelling, art, music and satirical political narrative.
- Industry coverage emphasized the Switch 2’s arrival, with reviewers calling Nintendo’s Switch 2 a terrific piece of hardware but lacking a killer app in 2025.
- Several standout games leaned into odd mechanics and striking visuals, including cloning mechanics with half a dozen clones and surreal creature designs like a talking catfish in The Séance of Blake Manor.
- The Outer Worlds 2, shown by Xbox Game Studios, exemplifies major studios reinforcing their reputations in 2025, with role-playing releases addressing political and class themes.
- Despite tech talk, reviewers argued AI can’t replicate 2025’s thrilling adventures and highlighted memorable art and music in standout human-crafted games.
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Clair Obscur leads the AP’s list of 2025’s top video games
By LOU KESTEN, Associated Press It’s been a difficult year for the people who create video games, with layoffs persisting while the tech industry tries to force us to use artificial intelligence for everything. But great games emerged nonetheless — and I can’t imagine AI ever being able to deliver the kind of thrilling, rewarding adventures we’ve seen in 2025. Related Articles The rise of resistance cinema in the era of Trump …
Clair Obscur leads the AP's list of 2025's top video games
In a year in which technology news was dominated by artificial intelligence, the outstanding video games were still being designed by human beings. Top of the list is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which Associated Press writer Lou Kesten calls “a…
Clair Obscur leads the AP's list of 2025's top video games
It's been a difficult year for the people who create video games, with layoffs persisting while the tech industry tries to force us to use artificial intelligence for everything. But great games emerged nonetheless — and I can't imagine AI ever being able to deliver the kind of thrilling, rewarding adventures we've seen in 2025. [...]
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