Several recent high-profile releases continue to struggle with performance, even on enthusiast-grade hardware.
The technical analysts at Digital Foundry have begun their 2025 year-in-review, evaluating the technical state of the year’s biggest titles. Their latest report highlights the most polished PC conversions alongside the most problematic releases of the year.
The following titles were recognized as the premier PC ports of 2025:
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Doom: The Dark Ages
Digital Foundry commended the exceptional optimization found in these titles. According to their analysis, the ray tracing implementation in the latest DOOM entry “comfortably eclipses the competition,” offering superior performance, broader RT coverage, and remarkable stability.
Conversely, the most disappointing PC ports of 2025 include:
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — Experts noted that “frame-time stuttering on modern high-end PCs actually feels worse than it did on 2006-era hardware,” attributing these issues to the specific implementation of Unreal Engine 5.
- The Outer Worlds 2 — The title suffers from persistent shader compilation stutters and a poorly optimized ray tracing suite characterized by visual noise and heavy performance penalties.
- Monster Hunter Wilds — Despite several post-launch patches, performance remains inconsistent, and players equipped with 8GB VRAM graphics cards often encounter severely degraded, “muddy” textures.
Source: iXBT.games