Reminder: It is Time To Charge Your Swap 1 & 2 Video games Of The Yr

Only a reminder that we’ll be publishing our 2025 GOTYs quickly — each yours and ours! If you have not rated the Swap 1 & 2 video games you have performed but (or should you’ve performed one thing new within the final couple of weeks), be at liberty to learn on and have your say.

And should you’ve rated them already? Properly performed, pretty particular person! As you have been.

We’re into December now, and whereas there are nonetheless late-coming video games exhibiting up, it is time to begin trying again on the goodies the final 12 months have introduced us. Sure, it is GOTY time.

2025 has been a bumper one throughout the board, with sensible video games large and small — indie, are-they-indie?, and absolutely-definitely-not-indie — launching each single month. That is the 12 months that Silksong lastly got here out, for heaven’s sake! Oh, and Nintendo launched an entire new platform. Simply trying on the software program, the standard in 2025 has been top-shelf.

For those who’ve joined us solely just lately, we right here at Nintendo Life have our personal workers GOTY checklist encompassing all of our private high fives, however high GOTY billing goes to our community-ranked High 50 Swap video games of the 12 months – this 12 months that includes Swap 2, too.

We have one for yearly of the Swap’s life to this point, every ordered in keeping with the corresponding video games’ Consumer Ranking in our database.

These real-time lists, based mostly on the Consumer Scores in our database, are a dwelling rating of every 12 months’s best video video games. Wanting again over the Swap era, listed here are the winners from the earlier eight(!) years:

Not a nasty octet, is it? So, it is time to begin trying by the gems we have performed within the final 12 months.

Under you will discover each Swap sport we have reviewed in 2025 awarded a 6/10 or greater. To price any video games you have performed, registered customers can click on the star subsequent to the corresponding title and provides them a rating out of 10. We encourage you to make use of the search bar, however in any other case you’ll be able to browse at your leisure.

IMPORTANT: All Swap 1 and a couple of video games launched in 2025 are eligible and out there to price in our database. We have restricted those proven beneath to cull countless pages of shovelware, but when there’s one thing we did not evaluate (or simply did not get pleasure from as a lot as you), discover it by heading to the search bar on the very high of the web page and going on to that sport’s web page.

We’ll go stay with the outcomes later within the month, and because of the real-time nature of the checklist, video games launched between now and the top of the 12 months nonetheless have each likelihood of exhibiting up within the High 50, too. Nobody’s left behind!

Thanks for ‘voting’! Our database ought to comprise each sport launched in 2025, however please tell us beneath if something is lacking and we’ll get it added. Completely happy score!