Year in Review - Our Favourite Books, Movies, TV Shows and Games of 2025
Join us as we wrap up 2025 with our ultimate Read, Watch, Play year in review! 📚🎬🎮 In this discussion, we dive into our absolute favourite books, movies, TV shows, and games of the year, alongside runner-ups, honourable mentions, and the biggest surprises that caught us off guard.
These are our personal favourites and not necessarily ones that were released during the 2025 calendar year (though several of them are!). Whether you’re a bookworm, film buff, or gamer, we’re sure there’s something here to add to your 2026 lists.
Let us know in the comments your favourites of the year and why!
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** Spoilers below for books, films, TV shows and games mentioned **
Books
How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Tiger’s Daughter – K. Arsenault Rivera
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Crippled God – Steven Erikson
Automatic Noodle – Annalee Newitz
City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
The Stand – Stephen King
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Movies
K-pop Demon Hunters
The Substance
TV Shows
The Pitt
Heated Rivalry
The Residence
Fellow Travellers
Video Games
Hades II
Enshrouded
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Chef RPG
Traveler’s Rest
Terminator 2D: No Fate
Dispatch
Grimshire
Is This Seat Taken?
Sun Haven