Check out more of the year's best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage.
This year has been very good to us on the mouse front. We've not only seen some fantastic iterations on already-great designs—hello Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro—but also some genuinely new and interesting leaps forward.
The other two nominees for the best gaming mouse of 2025 epitomise this, with one being a big leap forward in light mouse weight, and the other being a big leap in customisability. In addition to these, though, 2025 has given us a bunch of great new mice in pretty much every niche.
Want an MMO mouse? Great, you have the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE. Want an ergonomic mouse? You have the Keychron M5. Want something very cheap but high quality? No problem, you have the Glorious Model O Eternal. There's even been something for those of you looking for a nostalgia hit in the form of the 8BitDo Retro R8.
All those are genuinely fantastic mice, too. Which means narrowing down all of these to just three nominees for the best gaming mouse of 2025 was a little difficult. But I reckon this is it; the three gaming mice below are the best we've seen all year, for different reasons.
Best gaming mouse 2025: the nominees
One of these fine rodents is going to be announced as the best gaming mouse of 2025 . But not just yet. For that, you'll have to wait until New Year's Eve, so stay tuned!
