Justin’s Highs and Lows for 2025!

Another year in the books! Our writing team will soon publish an article with our single-favorite games of 2025. However, I played a lot of other games last year—more than 200 different games, in fact!

In the spirit of my roundup of the highs and lows from the games I played in 2022, 2023, and 2024, please enjoy a few other awards and my personal top 10 from 2025.

(A note about this article: these winners are based on articles I wrote in 2025, not necessarily games that were released in 2025. Game release dates are pretty fuzzy, between prototypes, crowdfunding pre-production copies, retail releases, second print runs, games that first debuted in another country before I got my hands on them, and/or “deluxified” anniversary versions. Just pretend that everything rated here came out in 2025, because it did. At least, to me.)

With that, let’s jump in, using some of our Diamond Climber award categories and some of my own categories too.

Favorite Gaming Moment of 2025: Standing in the Same Card Location as Another Player: Vantage

I talked about this at length in my review, but I’ll simplify it with an analogy: imagine that you and a friend are randomly plopped onto…

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