Now that we're halfway through 2025, here are my 5 favorite video games I've completed — and the backlog titles I'm most excited to play

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I love playing video games. What, are you surprised or something? My job is to write about games and tech and a million other things, but one of my hobbies is to play.

I'm nerd enough that I'm proud of the Excel spreadsheet I use to keep track of all my completions, my backlog, and even my wishlist. Since I started that, I've completed (and in many cases, 100% completed) 195 unique games, I have 197 games installed on my Xbox Series X to play, and there are dozens more that I either don't own or haven't released yet on my wishlist.