My Top 5 Games in 2025

The best 5 games I played in 2025. 

Schedule & Updates

December 2025

The place to read up on all the stuff I plan on writing this month and what I´m cooking up for the near future in general. As always, the schedule I talk about here is subject to change. Stuff might take longer or things may happen in the gaming space that might take priority. 

The end of the year is as good as upon us. Only a handful weeks to go until 2026. I got to say it doesn’t really feel like a big deal this year. My job’s important deadlines were in November so I think that’s the big reason why that is. It’s customary for creators like myself to do a little look back at the year around this time. Talk about the good, the bad and the memorable. which I will be doing briefly in this update. 

Now, when it comes to top 5 games that game reviewer played this year you’ll have to wait until that post drops at the very end of the month/ the beginning of January. I’ve written such a ranking for the last two years and while they don’t get read much, I just like writing them. That, together with my review of Pokémon Legends: Z-A and my review of the 2nd (and final) season of Netflix’ Tomb Raider are the drops for this month. There, got the ‘schedule’ portion out of the way already. 

What I will talk about are the statistics and whatnot. 2025 is, far and wide, the best year in numbers that my little writing space has gotten since I started this hobby back in 2020. Basically, every month ended with more reads than the last with a big boost in October/November. For around 3 week my numbers more than tripled! The numbers have since gone back down again, I figured they would, but they appear to now have stabilized at double the readership from before this boost. I can’t be disappointed by that, now, can I? I mean, that is double the readership that I set myself as my first goalpost way back when. 

To keep growing this little hobby of mine I plan to reintroduced ways to subscribe to the blog. I turned those of because no one was using them back in 2020… and because I felt uncomfortable with people searching up the blog and seeing, like, only 2 subscribers on the counter. Even so, when I see that my review of the Fire Emblem Three Houses DLC, a ‘weird’ post to drop in November 2025, received its most read in the first few hours after it went live, I can only assume those are my dedicated readers. The people who have made it their habit to check out my blog every other Saturday for the latest. I want to make it easier for those people by introducing that subscribe button. It’ll also, hopefully, make the barrier of entry for new readers who like what I do lower as well. 

That little observation has also made ponder my current release schedule. More accurately releasing new posts weekly instead of bi-weekly. The conclusion I’ve come too as that this isn’t possible. I just don’t have that kind of time in my life but perhaps I can do something else. Repost some older stuff in those off-weeks when relevant. An example of that is an updated review of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered now that my journey to 100% the game is complete. I have about a month to make up my mind about that. 

For the last two months I’ve slowly worked my way backward through my posts and given them a facelift. I haven’t really touched the writing itself but I’ve updated the format of the text to match my current style, given them new headers to make the more unique and given them dedicated Search Description. A part of me thinks that this updating played a part in that bump in readers. That it made the crawling of my website by Google easier or something like that. Pure speculation on my part but something I just can’t keep wondering about. 

For all gaming-related posts I will do this updating but I will leave the old comic book related shenanigans alone. That isn’t really a part of what I do anymore and while I won’t delete it, I’m won’t put in the work to update it either. Let it remain in its current state as markers of the past. 

Well, that’s all, for this month folks! Thank you all for an all around great 2025! I hope you’ve enjoyed my writing this past year and that you will stay on this little journey into 2026. I wish you happy holidays, a good time with your friends and family, and I hope to see you here again in 2026! 


Your Writer,

F.T. Wolf

Comments

  1. Love your gaming-movie mashup! Chikorita’s my vibe too. Check [Eyes Never Wake]( https://eyesneverwake.com/ ) for more inspo—keep rocking it!

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    1. Thank you! As you´ve read, I´ve been toying with more movie content. Starting with video game movies is a good way to expand my niche without alienating my gaming focused readers.

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