Halfway through 2025, the new RPG work "Light and Shadow: Expedition No. 33" developed by Sandfall Interactive currently ranks first in 2025's new work on the Metacritic platform with its excellent quality, and has been regarded as the number one hot candidate for the current game of the year by many players and comments.

Recently, TGA's official Twitter launched a voting consultation: "If you vote today, what is your annual game in your mind?" The comment section showed an overwhelming trend, and the name of "Light and Shadow: Expedition No. 33" was repeatedly mentioned, accounting for the vast majority of nominations.Although there are sporadic voices mentioning "Death Stranding 2" and "Heaven: Save 2", the former is not yet released, and its nomination reasons are not sufficient at the current stage because the full version has not yet been released; although the latter is expected, the number of nominations is still not as high as "Light and Shadow: Expedition No. 33".

And some enthusiastic players said in the comments that the quality of "Light and Shadow: Expedition No. 33" is enough to compete for the "Best Game of the Decade" rather than the annual awards only.Players praised its wonderful BOSS combat design, extremely atmospheric soundtrack, fascinating plot, full character shaping and unique worldview construction, and believed that its comprehensive performance deserves the highest praise.

Although there are still several highly anticipated works to be released in the second half of 2025, "Light and Shadow: Expedition Team No. 33" has already gained a significant advantage in the annual game competition due to its extremely high completion and player reputation.Many players and analysts believe that latecomers will face great challenges in order to surpass "Light and Shadow: Expeditionary Team No. 33" in comprehensive experience.

What do you think about this? Which work do you think is the annual game this year?Welcome to the comment section for discussion.