In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here.
We've all done it: excitedly told a friend that they should read a book (or play a game, watch a movie, etc) that you think they will like. Then you wait. You wait for weeks. You don't pester them about it because you don't want them to associate your overeagerness to share your favorite thing with the thing itself, sullying the experience. If you're lucky, you earn one of life's most unconditionally joyful victories when they bring it up months later and say: "That thing you told me about? I loved it!"
