2025 was a crazy year for mobile games, with new releases offering console-quality experiences for the first time. With the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset offering incredible performance in the year’s flagship phones, it’s great to see games finally take advantage of all that power.
We also saw a few great lightweight mobile games released in 2025, although again, they were mostly ports. The Steam Frame hasn’t even been released yet, and we’re already seeing a blurring of the lines between Android games and PC games, and that trend is set to continue in the new year.
