The best PS5 games from 2025
TL;DR
The article discusses the challenge of identifying standout PS5 exclusives in 2025 due to multiplatform releases, noting that top games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are widely available, while Sony continues to focus on high-quality exclusives.
In this new era of console… inclusivity? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it's getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. Indeed, the top-performing games year after year on both PlayStation and Xbox are multiplatform releases, and often the best games of the year, like 2025 GOTY winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, similarly launch on most everything. (Once again, like in all things, Nintendo is the exception.)
But while lists like this will probably disappear as we get deeper into the era of everything being an Xbox, Sony still seems committed to high-quality exclu …