This year, I attended my first GDC and played a lot of promising games there. The last couple of years have been rough for the video game industry, and things may get worse before they get better. Despite that, everything I played at GDC 2025 renewed my confidence that there are still many passionate developers working on amazing games that deserve our undivided attention. These nine games stood out enough in particular to make our list of the best games we played at GDC 2025. Blades of Fire...
