Best 2025 Video Game Releases

653 duels later, Grand Theft Auto VI is still #1 in the Video Game Releases ranking, with Assassin's Creed Shadows close behind.

Grand Theft Auto VI holds a 38-point ELO lead over Assassin's Creed Shadows at the top, the widest gap in the ranking. With 1322 ELO and a 68% win rate across 68 duels, the Rockstar title dominates the race for most anticipated release. Ghost of Yōtei takes third place at 1264 ELO, while Death Stranding 2: On The Beach and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater round out the top 5. The gap between first and second suggests voters see Grand Theft Auto VI as the standout title, but the tight clustering from second through fifth reveals strong competition among the rest of the field. At the bottom, Pragmata sits at 1035 ELO with a 30% win rate, trailing Borderlands 4 and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which suggests these titles have yet to capture the community's excitement in the same way the frontrunners have.

This ranking draws on 653 duels submitted by 13 players across 16 contenders, updated 12 October 2026. The vote remains open: head to the TopList and cast your own duels to shift the standings. Every matchup you answer feeds the algorithm and reshapes the ELO scores, so your input directly influences which games rise and which fall in the hype race.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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