What a butt year 2025 was. Absolute butt. However, some great games came out during that particularly cursed slice of calendar. Here are my top picks of the pack.

Oh, we made it! Good job! We've finally reached the tip-top of best-game mountain. It's time to talk about what the best game that the Maximum Utmost folks played this year. Will your favourite make the list? Only if you have taste!

We play video games. A lot. However, sometimes circumstances cause us to leave a game incomplete. That feels bad, so we have a category specifically for those games. These are Maximum Utmost's favourite games we didn't consummate with.

Sometimes a game is more than just a game, sometimes it's a sauce that you just marinate in. Sometimes it's a soothing salve that you spread all over yourself. Here are some of Maximum Utmost's favourite salves of 2025.

Characters: sometimes they move the plot along, and sometimes they're just the spice that makes the dish extra flavourful. Oh, gosh, I really want some curry. But there's no curry here, only Maximum Utmost's picks for best characters of 2025.

What did you put in your ears last year? Need something else to stick in there? In this phase of Maximum Utmost's end-of-year awards, we're talking about the best aural experiences heard in 2025.

We've rolled into a new calendar year, and now it's time to look back and flip off the previous one. It's the start of Maximum Utmost's end-of-year coverage. To start, we have a selection of great stories the authors experienced this year.