{"id":21265,"date":"2025-12-19T06:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-20-best-video-games-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:38:05","slug":"the-20-best-video-games-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-20-best-video-games-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20 best video games of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A family classic reborn in a wide open world, a satirical adventure through teenage life and a mystery puzzler for the ages \u2013 our critics on the year\u2019s best fun<br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/series\/2025-in-culture\">More on the best culture of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ivy Road\/Annapurna Interactive; PC, PS5, Xbox<br \/><\/strong>An arena warrior on a losing streak takes refuge in a vast forest where she discovers the joy of working in a cosy teashop. From this simple premise comes a joyful game of mindfulness and social interaction, as Alta learns how to serve up witty conversation and decent hot drinks. Colourful and highly stylised, it is a thoughtful study of burnout and recovery.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/dec\/19\/the-20-best-video-games-of-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/85ab23f208f3974ec0c3b9bee61fd621909fe864\/681_0_2697_2160\/master\/2697.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a003aed1e1a455401b06fba4c35dd1c4\" title=\"The 20 best video games of 2025\" \/>A family classic reborn in a wide open world, a satirical adventure through teenage life and a mystery puzzler for the ages \u2013 our critics on the year\u2019s best fun\u2022 More on the best culture of 2025<br \/>\nIvy Road\/Annapurna Interactive; PC, PS5, XboxAn arena warrior on a losing streak takes refuge in a vast forest where she discovers the joy of working in a cosy teashop. From this simple premise comes a joyful game of mindfulness and social interaction, as Alta learns how to serve up witty conversation and decent hot drinks. Colourful and highly stylised, it is a thoughtful study of burnout and recovery. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family classic reborn in a wide open world, a satirical adventure through teenage life and a mystery puzzler for the ages \u2013 our critics on the year\u2019s best fun\u2022 More on the best culture of 2025 Ivy Road\/Annapurna Interactive; PC, PS5, XboxAn arena warrior on a losing streak takes refuge in a vast forest &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-20-best-video-games-of-2025\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 20 best video games of 2025<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}