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Looking ahead already, what game are you most excited for this year? 👀🎮

New year, same backlog.

📂 500,000+ contributions
🤝 made by 2,000+ contributors
🐳 One incredible year for MobyGames

GGWP! Let’s do it again in 2026. 🥂
Happy New Year! 💙

As the year comes to a close, our Game of 2025
🏆 Clair Obscur: @expedition33

Not only the most collected game on MobyGames this year, but also the highest-scoring title, based on over 167 reviews from critics and players.

What a year! Here’s to those who come after. 👏

Here are the Top 5 most researched games on MobyGames in 2025:

1️⃣ GTA: San Andreas
2️⃣ GTA V
3️⃣ GTA: Vice City
4️⃣ Resident Evil 4
5️⃣ Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Looks like our contributors have been busy getting everything in order ahead of next year’s(?) big GTA release. 👀

When you've made it through to the weekend.

(Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, 2025)

Every forgotten title deserves its page.

Join the MobyGames mission, because gaming history is ours to keep.

Yakuza was first released 20 years ago. 🐉

Back then it was PS2 noir, street fights, and Kamurochō nights. Now it’s a sprawling saga spanning multiple platforms, genres and generations.

Yakuza (Playstation 2, 2005)
SEGA / Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

Nominations for Game of the Year at the Game Awards 2025 are in 🏆

⚔️Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
📦Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
🍌Donkey Kong: Bananza
💀Hades II
🪡Hollow Knight: Silksong
👑Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

How do you feel about this list?

It happened: Escape from Tarkov has, as of today, fully escaped early access. 💥

From alpha in 2016 to beta in 2017 and now version 1.0, Tarkov’s journey has been long.

Which makes you wonder: when does Early Access stop being “early”?

🐳 https://www.mobygames.com/game/241362/escape-from-tarkov/

📅🎂 Today marks 24 years of Halo.

Halo: Evolved Combat was released Nov 11, 2001

📅🎂 19 years ago, Sony released the PS3 and told us to:
"play beyond"

Does the creepy doll ad haunt anyone else to this day?

🕹️ Top 10 Most Researched Games on MobyGames.com right now — a wild mix of classics and new gems.

See anything you like? 🔍

25 years ago, a simple Half-Life mod changed online gaming forever. 💣

Counter-Strike redefined team play, and tactical shooters — and it’s still shaping the scene today.

What’s your earliest CS memory? LAN party? 56k modem lag?

📂 https://www.mobygames.com/game/2726/half-life-counter-strike

We preserve games because memory fades faster than media.

Every upload keeps history alive. 💾

A classic box art showdown
Mega Man in 🇯🇵 vs Mega Man in 🇺🇸

Behind every game entry on MobyGames is a contributor double-checking release dates, screenshots, and obscure credits.

It’s quiet work that keeps gaming history alive.

Drop a thank-you for the archivists who never hit pause.
🙇💖

The MobyGames community never slows down! 🚀

Here are the top 10 most researched titles from last week. 🔽

Gaming lines that live rent-free in my head:

🎙️ “War. War never changes.”
🎙️ “Boo points, I punch!”
🎙️ [Your pick here ⬇️]

Which line sticks with you to this day?
(⭐ Bonus points if you know the ones above!)

It’s Friday, controllers charged, backlog looming. 😎

What’s your weekend game plan — grinding something new, or comfort-gaming with an old favorite?

Be honest: which game did you start, love… and never finish?
(It’s okay. We promise not to tell your Steam library 🤐)

Let’s talk about unfinished masterpieces.

🎉 5 years ago, Fall Guys threw 60 jellybeans into a blender and hit GO

What came out? Pure chaos. Pure joy. 👑
#HappyBeanDay

Grounded 2 launched yesterday — more 🐜, more 🛠️, more story... but still Early Access.

Would you buy a game before it’s fully finished, or do you wait for the 1.0 release?

What are your thoughts on Early Access games? 👇

🎮 It's launch day as two big titles drop today:

🌿 Tales of the Shire – Cozy up in Middle-earth in this peaceful Hobbit life sim.
🐜 Grounded 2 – Shrink back into the backyard for another survival adventure.

Will you be playing? 👀

They don't make box art like this anymore 💣

Kaboom! (1981)
@atari.com

Today marks 15 years since StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty dropped.

For many, this wasn’t just a game — it was a lifestyle.
Midnight installs and Zerg rushes at 3AM during LAN parties.
On streams, a new era of competitive gaming began.

What a legacy!🛸 Happy 15th, SC2.

“I’ll just try it for 10 minutes.” 🤷‍♂️

[38 hours later]: You now know everything about the game’s lore, economy, glitches, and composer.

🎮 What was that game for you?

Based on scores collected in the MobyGames archive… we’ve got some early GOTY contenders.

What have you played this year that stuck with you—narratively, emotionally, mechanically?

We’ve quietly added something that should be enjoyed LOUD:

Game soundtracks are more than background music—they're mood, memory, emotion ...

... and now, they’re part of the archive. 🥳

🎧 Enjoy official game soundtracks embedded on MobyGames pages.

So far, MobyGames contributors have added

👾 304,716 games
👤 1,297,437 people
🕹️ 56,988 companies

to the MobyGames database. 📂

That's one mind-blowing community effort!