Very similar to what we experienced in 2024, with the likes of Astro Bot, Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC and Final Fantasy 7:Rebirth all releasing, 2025 has also been a banner 12 months for video games. Featuring the likes of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Donkey Kong Bananza, Silent Hill f and Hole Knight: Silksong, it has been banger after banger for gamers.
That said, there could be a silent underdog that out beats every other game, a minimum of on the subject of Steam user reviews, and its name is Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road. The hybrid sports and RPG title from Level5 currently sits on the elusive “Overwhelmingly Positive” status on Steam, with a whopping 96 percent of the available 774 reviews being “Positive.”
Here’s a sampling of one in all the reviews based on someone who has over 30 hours on record.
I don’t love football and still, this game is totally amazing. It’s like playing a very good rpg, watching a very good anime, following a very interesting story, and competing in a very cool online match system with really deep and unique team constructing mechanics.
This game literally has the whole lot and does all of it rather well. It even has a freaking gacha system that is totally free. In fact, it higher be the worth of the sport, but still… it is completely value it.
No have to have played Inazuma Eleven before, no have to even like this sport. It is a perfect game anyway.
The remaining of the reviews echo similar sentiments, making Victory Road one in all 2025’s highest-rated titles despite being centered on a franchise that hasn’t had a real recent entry since a minimum of 2013 and an anime series that is occurring nearly a decade without recent content.
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road Was Years In The Making
Fans of Inazuma Eleven have been occurring nearly a decade because the game was first announced, making this as long-awaited a title as something like Silksong, consider it or not. It was originally revealed back in 2016 during an event, and, on the time, was announced as Inazuma Eleven Ares, with the sport coinciding with the anime of the identical name. It was purported to release in 2018. Keyword: Supposed.
It got delayed to 2019, before being renamed completely to Inazuma Eleven: Heroes’ Great Road and given a 2020 release date. That obviously didn’t occur and things were delayed again to 2021 before finally being given a 2023 release, seven years after it was announced.
The story doesn’t end here, because it was given a final rebrand to Victory Road, then next-gen console support was added before we finally ended up at a 2025 release, and even then, things were pushed back one final time before the sport launched on November 13. And now here we’re, with a game that has some extremely positive fanfare all these years later.