As usual this time of the year, Google posted the list of the most searched for keywords in 2025, and Embark's ARC Raiders surprisingly topped the list.

The game beat Battlefield 6 , Split Fiction , Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 , Path of Exile 2 , Grand Theft Auto VI, Pokémon Legends: Z-A , Minecraft , and Roblox . The other game in the Top 10 is Strands, the online word game created by The New York Times, though of course that's not really a videogame.

Grand Theft Auto VI only ranked seventh on this chart, which may shock some readers. That said, the game got delayed twice this year, first out of the original Fall 2025 window to May 26, 2026 , and then again to November 19, 2026 . Without a doubt, this caused the countless fans of Rockstar's massive franchise to try a

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