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Digital Foundry's Best Game Graphics of 2025 - PC/PS5/Xbox/Switch 2 - Another Amazing Year (Patreon)

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2025-12-13 18:59:48
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2026-01-04 10:20:07
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2025-12

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Need we saw more? As we draw to the end of another remarkable year in video games, the Digital Foundry team sit down to pore over the technological showcases of the last 12 months in an attempt to answer the immortal question: What were the best game graphics of the year?

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Digital Foundry's Best Game Graphics of 2025 - PC/PS5/Xbox/Switch 2 - Another Amazing Year

Thanks to CyberPowerPC for sponsoring this video. Check out the Christmas PC deals here: https://bit.ly/48ZL52t and go here for the Christmas Giveaway: https://bit.ly/4pZY4Hf Need we saw more? As we draw to the end of another remarkable year in video games, the Digital Foundry team sit down to pore over the technological showcases of the last 12 months in an attempt to answer the immortal question: What were the best game graphics of the year? Visit the new Digital Foundry website: https://www.digitalfoundry.net Go here to check out DF merch! https://store.digitalfoundry.net Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe 0:00:00 Introduction 0:02:09 Honourable Mentions: Kirby Air Riders, Mario Kart World, Star Wars Outlaws (Switch 2), Fast Fusion 0:11:45 Routine 0:16:35 Earthion 0:20:00 Silent Hill f 0:25:50 Mafia: The Old Country 0:32:18 Metroid Prime 4: Beyond 0:39:00 Ghost of Yōtei 0:46:11 Dying Light: The Beast 0:56:32 Top Three Discussion

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AV

feature request (if it's not a big lift) - could you guys add the file size info to the download link text? thx!

Zeke the Plumber

Keeper is one of the best looking games of the last 5 years and it’s not even close. Insanely gorgeous game, stunning HDR when dialed in correctly. Any list that omits Keeper is invalid.

BespokeEP

I could never disagree more with Doom, it wouldn't even make the top 100. It is a step back from Eternal in every way graphically. A game in 2025 that doesn't have foliage that reacts to your character is frankly pathetic. And highlighting the path tracing which less than 1% of gamers can actually utilize is just weird. Graphics of the year should be judged from low spec systems . AC Shadows was hands down the winner, and it wasn't even close

MattGPT

I totally disagree on basing it on low end hardware, the best graphics are the best graphics. Doom looks amazing path traced, to claim otherwise because that requires a higher end GPU is missing the point entirely. The world's fastest car does not stop being the fastest because only a few people can afford one, the best team at the World Cup do not stop being the best team because only a limited number can watch them live. To me DS2 was a more beautiful game, I enjoyed it much more as well, but Doom was certainly a graphical showcase that wins at that path traced top end. This is also DF, it is about the top end, about the bleeding edge, "Best graphics with settings on low" might be an interesting Direct in it's own right, but that is not what this is about.

BespokeEP

The only people who own the rigs that can handle path tracing smoothly are tech outlets. Look at steam hardware survey. What good is judging something that nobody will see? Every developer could have added path tracing, but what is the point when no one will ever see it? And forgoing dynamic and destructible environments for a non interactive one. They basically picked the same game using the exact same tech as last year. When 100's of games looked 1000x better

BespokeEP

I mean the fact that art direction was obviously not even factored in. Invalidates this, doom the dark age was just a very plain and boring looking game. If you lined every game up and asked random people which looked best, doom wouldn't even be considered

MattGPT

Plenty of consumers have the kit to run path tracing, yes they are in a minority of consumers but there are still plenty of people with RTX 5070 Ti cards or better. I have looked at the Steam hardware survey, it has a huge range of hardware on there, but even just taking RTX 4080, 4090, 5070 Ti, 5080 and 5090 there are nearly a million cards capable of path tracing Doom, so you seem to have a very odd idea of what qualifies as "nobody". And again, something does not stop looking good when run maxed out just because you personally cannot run it at that level. It would seem very much that art direction was factored in, Metroid Prime 4 shows exactly what can be done with good art direction and great implementation whilst not using top end tech. I get it, you disagree with their choice of #1 game graphics this year, there is nothing wrong with that, but disagree honestly rather than trying to make up spurious criteria you think should be applied with the aim of changing the definition of "best graphics" to "best graphics when run on low settings".

Austin Zveare

I wouldn't say it has the best graphics because it's software lumen, but I can 100% agree with you on being the most spectacular HDR showcase I've ever seen on my LG C1 with RenoDX.

AgentBirdnest

Woot! This was a great watch. Thanks, guys. :-) I agree with your top pick. While it might not be my favorite *style* (that'd probably go to Dying Light), Doom's realistic lighting is just so pleasing to my eyes, and the fact that it runs so well is the cherry on top.