Ready player one! The best games of 2025 so far, from Doom to Split Fiction
Clair Obscur has already been hailed as the best title of the year, and for good reason: it's a massive, ambitious fantasy RPG that sticks the landing. Developed by French studio Sandfall, it's set in the land of Lumiere: a place where every year, a goddess called the Paintress marks down a number. Everybody who happens to be that age then dies in an explosion of petals. Naturally, this has to stop, and soon enough leading man Gustave is leading an expedition to defeat her once and for all. The studio has been open about the fact that this is intended to be a tribute to Japanese games, and it shows: there's a lot of Final Fantasy in its DNA, from the turn-based combat to the melodramatic story that unfolds as you spend more time with your companions. The game itself is pleasingly slim - only 35 hours long - but the combat is exceptional and the world dense with secrets to uncover.
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