India, Dec. 30 -- 2025 was a year that was positively bursting with some of the most highly anticipated games we'd ever seen: Death Stranding 2, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, to name a few. Everyone & their grandma was talking about these titles, and the hype leading up to their release was electric. And of course, the big sequels that had fans going wild all of that kept the video game industry pretty much on everyone's lips throughout the whole year.

But, despite all the brouhaha over the major releases, 2025 also turned out to be the year that showed that all this hype just isn't everything. See, there were a whole lot more titles coming out & getting attention from smaller, independent devs. Not to say some o...