GameDiscoverCo's year-end analysis for 2025 highlights significant trends and top-performing new releases across major gaming platforms. On Steam, blockbuster titles like 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance II', 'Monster Hunter Wilds', and 'Dune: Awakening' dominated sales, with median playtimes often exceeding 45 hours. Most Steam top-chart games surpassed 2 million units sold, and select titles exceeded 5 million.
Platform Performance and Key Trends
Steam saw nearly 20,000 new releases in 2025, a modest 2% growth, with an increasingly crowded market. New PlayStation titles rose by 4% to over 1,300, benefiting from crossover hits 'Battlefield 6' and sports games. While Xbox new game releases dropped by 20% to about 900, Game Pass boosted engagement with entries like 'Clair Obscur'.
- PlayStation's top 20 games each sold over 1 million copies.
- Xbox Game Pass favorites reached millions of players.
- Switch top new eShop titles hit nearly a million units in sales in western markets.
Genre and Revenue Insights
The analysis identified 'friendslop' co-op games as a rising genre, contributing significantly to earnings. High-value action RPGs and diverse indie entries such as 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' and 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' excelled. Revenue leaders included 'Battlefield 6' and 'Monster Hunter Wilds', underscoring the importance of pricing strategies and in-app purchases.
This robust performance signals ongoing consumer appetite for both expansive epics and accessible indie games, with competition and discoverability emerging as key industry pressures in 2025's saturated market.
