Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025

What's been your favourite new game this year? You can read all about our choices right here, with our full Game of the Year Awards 2025 list, but I've got one more for you. Importantly, this one isn't quite so subjective as most 'best of' collections because it reflects something that's really important in PC gaming: performance.

I don't just mean outright frame rates, though that's no small matter. You can have a game that runs at well over 200 fps, but if the graphics are all wonky donkey...