{"id":135358,"date":"2025-12-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-194331"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:00:00","slug":"feature-games-of-the-year-2025-nintendo-life-staff-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/feature-games-of-the-year-2025-nintendo-life-staff-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Games Of The Year 2025 – Nintendo Life Staff Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every year in December, Team Nintendo Life puts our heads together and we combine our personal Top 5s into an uber, unranked GOTY list encompassing all the Switch games that got us hottest under the collar throughout the year.<\/p>\n

2025 brought us Switch 2, of course, but it’s been a very strong year across the board, with exceptional games of all sizes on all platforms – and an absolute ton<\/em> of them. Perhaps the knock-on effects of layoffs<\/a> taking out huge swathes of the industry haven’t quite hit the pipeline, but this year we’ve once again had more brilliant games than time to play them all.<\/p>\n

The future may be uncertain, but the breadth of quality on Switch 1 and 2 this year is undeniable, so let’s take a moment to celebrate that. We’ve got 25 games below, in alphabetical order<\/strong>, with comments from the pickees (yep, making it a word), plus a chunky list of honourable mentions to finish.<\/p>\n

Let us know your personal favourites in the usual place, and keep an eye out for our reader-ranked top 50 very soon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

NL staff key: Alana Hagues (AH), Alex Olney (AO), Felix Sanchez (FS)<\/em>, Gavin Lane (GL), Jim Norman (JN), Liam Doolan (LD), Ollie Reynolds (OR), PJ O’Reilly (PJ)<\/em><\/p>\n

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