Pc Gamer Hardware Awards: The Best Gaming Mouse Of 2025

Three rodent contenders, but only one winner for the year.

Check out more of the year's best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage.

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.

The other two nominees for the best gaming mouse of 2025 epitomise this, with one being a big leap forward in light mouse weight, and the other being a big leap in customisability. In addition to these, though, 2025 has given us a bunch of great new mice in pretty much every niche.

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.

Corsair Sabre V2 ProThe Corsair Sabre V2 Pro genuinely shocked me this year. I got my mitts on it at Gamescom and could not believe how light it was. I kind of still can't.At just 36 g, it's a genuine step forward in the ultralight market, especially considering others that get close (say, 39 g) tend to have giant holes in the underside. Not this one, it's as solid as they come, and doesn't feel flimsy in the slightest.It cuts back on pretty much everything else—RGB, buttons, battery life—but it's worth it for competitive FPS gaming. I feel about this mouse the same way I did about the original Logitech G Pro X Superlight when it launched a few years ago: It's a genuine jump forwards in the ultralight mouse market.Read our full Corsair Sabre V2 Pro review.

Razer DeathAdder V4 ProWhile the Corsair Sabre V2 Pro epitomises all that the industry is capable of in terms of cutting down mouse weight right now, the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro epitomises all that it's capable off, well, across the board. It might not be the absolute lightest, or the most perfectly ergonomic, and so on—there are mice that better suit those individual, niche use cases—but it's the mouse that best combines all these things the best and with the least compro

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