If there’s one thing players love, it’s to discuss which games were the worthy titles of said year. The GOATs, the MVPs, the GOTYs, if you will. Well, Slitherine is running an award show just for strategy games with me, and we’d love to hear from you: what were your favorite strategy games of 2025?

Whether you spent the year conquering galaxies, rewriting history, or optimizing the perfect build order, now’s your chance to make your voice heard. Slitherine will be revealing the results in upcoming episodes of their monthly show, The Hot Sea, so this is your opportunity to help shape the conversation and spotlight the games that truly stood out. Now we have the finalists, and want your help to choose the winners!

Getting involved couldn’t be easier. Just fill out the form and pick your winners in the following categories:

• Best Licensed Strategy Game of 2025
• Best DLC of a Strategy Game of 2025
• Best Narrative In a Strategy Game of 2025
• Best Strategy Game Debut of 2025
• Best Ongoing Strategy Game of 2025
• Bestest Best Strategy Game of 2025

Check out the whole “The Hot Seat” episode:

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