“Triple-A is in crisis,” Astronauts and People Can Fly founder Adrian Chmielarz tells me. We’re chatting Witchfire, and the gaming industry more generally, and how 2025 feels like the year where indie and double-A games owned the conversation more than ever. This year’s GOTY pool was fairly evenly split between indie releases and big-budget blockbusters, and the same bears out over on Metacritic’s highest-rated games of the year, where the likes of Hades 2, Expedition 33, and Blue Prince claim the top spots.

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 Triple-A fatigue is real for me, so I ask Witchfire creator Adrian Chmielarz where big-budget titles – especially FPS games – might be going wrong.  PCGamesN