Hades 2 is our favourite game of 2025 or: why we didn't give Supergiant's roguelike a bestest best review

For the past month we have been shouting about the games we consider to be the best games of 2025. As is tradition, our choices for the RPS Advent Calendar haven't appeared in an order from least good to best – to us, they're all special.

However, that's not true of the game behind door number 24. When the team's votes were counted, it was a close thing, with only five points in it, but there was a winner.

RPS's favourite game of 2025 is Hades 2.

Now, perhaps someone would...