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This year has been very good to us on the mouse front. We've not only seen some fantastic iterations on already-great designs—hello Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro—but also some genuinely new and interesting leaps forward.

Want an MMO mouse? Great, you have the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE. Want an ergonomic mouse? You have the Keychron M5. Want something very cheap but high quality? No problem, you have the Glorious Model O Eternal. There's even been something for those of you looking for a nostalgia hit in the form of the 8BitDo Retro R8.

All those are genuinely fantastic mice, too. Which means narrowing down all of these to just three nominees for the best gaming mouse of 2025 was a little difficult. But I reckon this is it; the three gaming mice below are the best we've seen all year, for different reasons.

Best gaming mouse 2025: the nominees

One of these fine rodents is going to be announced as the best gaming mouse of 2025 . But not just yet. For that, you'll have to wait until New Year's Eve, so stay tuned!

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Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born. Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.

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