Editor-DN
The year is waning and soon we’ll be standing at the starting line of 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, there are going to be more new game releases in 2025. If you’re already looking ahead on your calendar and planning the games of your future to-play backlog, we can help you out with a lot of likely candidates. We’re tracking all the new games of 2025 that you’ll want to know about as they announce release dates and then (inevitably) as some of those release dates get delayed.
As with the last few years, the beginning of 2025 is the beneficiary of at least one pretty big RPG delay that scooted into the new year to avoid a crowded end of 2024 schedule. Avowed wound up with a February 2025 release date where it’s—well, actually now it’s just sandwiched by some other really big releases in February like Civilization 7, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Keep this page bookmarked to find out if anyone chickens out of that gridlock of a release week.
The biggest games of 2025
What’s the forecast for the new games of 2025?
There’s no doubt that 2025 is going to feel like a much bigger year in gaming than 2024 has. This year brought us some smash hit surprises like Palworld and Helldivers 2 but we were noticeably lacking a single major release to really act as the gravitational pull for the year. Next year isn’t going to have that problem.
In 2025, GTA 6 will likely be the biggest release of the year. Though it doesn’t have a release date yet, Rockstar is targeting 2025. As for whether we’ll be playing it on PC next year, well we aren’t holding our breath. Beyond the next major Rockstar release, 2025 is already stuffed full of other long-awaited sequels in major game series. It’s going to feel a lot more like 2023: the summer that brought us Diablo 4, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Starfield all right on top of each other. Here’s a quick reference of the biggest games launching in 2025:
Biggest games launching in 2025
2025 game release schedule
January 2025
- January 9 — Freedom Wars Remastered – Classic Vita RPG gets the 4k treatment (Steam)
- January 15 — Aloft – Crafting survival in the sky (Steam)
- January 16 — Assetto Corsa EVO – Hyper realistic racing (Steam)
- January 16 — Dynasty Warriors: Origins – Massive battle hack and slash RPG (Steam)
- January 16 — Tales of Graces f Remastered – Yet another remaster of the Tales RPG (Steam)
- January 23 — Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles – Retro lightsaber battles (Steam)
- January 23 — Synduality Echo of Ada – Futuristic extraction shooter (Steam)
- January 28 — The Stone of Madness – 18th-century stealth tactics (Steam)
- January 28 — Warside – Tactical Advance Wars-styled wargame (Steam)
- January 30 — Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – Spider-Man sequel on PC (Steam)
- January 30 — Sniper Elite: Resistance – Stealthy 3rd person warfare (Steam)
February 2025
- February 11 — Civilization 7 – Continue to oppose Gandhi’s 4X reign of terror (Steam)
- February 11 — Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – More medieval first-person action RPG (Steam)
- February 13 – Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate – Pixel art beat’em up (Steam)
- February 14 — Assassin’s Creed: Shadows – Feudal Japan gets the assassin treatment (Epic)
- February 14 — Date Everything! – A “sandbox” dating sim (Steam)
- February 14 — Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2 – Another chapter in Trails (Steam)
- February 14 — Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered – More Lara classics remastered (Steam)
- February 18 — Avowed – Obsidian’s first-person fantasy RPG (Steam)
- February 18 — Lost Records: Bloom and Rage – Life is Strange meets Yellowjackets (Steam)
- February 20 — Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii – Majima Goro sets sail (Steam)
- February 28 — Monster Hunter Wilds – Monstrous new frontier (Steam)
- February ?? — Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter – Rat soulslike sequel (Steam)
March 2025
- March 4 — Two Point Museum – Museum management sim (Steam)
- March 6 — Suikoden 1&2 HD Remaster- A classic Konami remaster (Steam)
- March 20 — Atelier Yumia – Open world crafting RPG (Steam)
- March 25 — Tales of the Shire – A wholesome Hobbit life sim (Steam)
- March 28 — Inzoi (Early access) – Sims-like with a realistic focus (Steam)
- March ?? — Atomfall – Western version of Stalker set in British countryside (Site)
April 2025
- April 17 — Koira – Puppy powered adventuring (Steam)
2025 games with TBA release dates
- The Alters – What if Fallout Shelter had a story (Steam)
- Beyond These Stars – City builder on a space whale (Steam)
- Big Walk – Co-op silly walking game (Steam)
- Broken Arrow – Real-time modern warfare tactics game (Steam)
- Bugaboo Pocket – Entomology life-sim (Steam)
- Busby – The Purrfect Collection – A collection and “playable history” of Busby (Steam)
- Cairn – Open-ended survival climber (Steam)
- Citizen Sleeper 2 – Story RPG sequel (Steam)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Turn-based RPG with a dark fantasy story (Steam)
- Crashlands 2 – Open world crafting RPG (Steam)
- Cuffbust – Adorable prison break with friends (Steam)
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach – Open world delivery sim sequel (Site)
- Dead Static Drive – ’80s Americana horror meets Grand Theft Auto (Steam)
- Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 – Undertale’s parallel story continues (Steam)
- Demonschool – High school demon-fighting tactics RPG (Steam)
- Doom: The Dark Ages – The war with hell gets medieval (Steam)
- Dragon Quest 1&2 Remake – Classic Square Enix RPGs in HD-2D (Steam)
- Dune: Awakening – Survival crafting MMO (Steam)
- Earth from Another Sun – Open world galactic scifi sandbox (Steam)
- Enshrouded (1.0 launch) – 16-player survival crafting RPG (Steam)
- Eternal Strands – 3rd person spell-em-up (Steam)
- Falling Frontier – Logistics-heavy space grand strategy (Steam)
- The First Berserker: Khazan – ARPG based on Dungeon & Fighter (Steam)
- Gears of War: E-Day – The Marcus Fenix origin story (Steam)
- Generation Exile – Space colony simulator (Steam)
- Grand Theft Auto 6 – Crime returns to Vice City (Site)
- Hell is Us – Mankind vs. Mankind vs. Demons (Steam)
- The Legend of Baboo – Dog companion action adventure (Xbox Store)
- Light Odyssey – Top-down boss rush Souls-like (Steam)
- Little Nightmares 3 – Frightening platforming (Steam)
- Lost Isle – Procgen fantasy survival (Steam)
- Lunar Remastered Collection – Two classic JRPGs with a QoL pass (Steam)
- Mafia: The Old Country – Historical organized crime (Steam)
- The Midnight Walk – Claymation horror (Steam)
- Mistfall Hunter – PvPvE extraction RPG (Steam)
- Mixtape – Music-fueled narrative adventure (Steam)
- Mouse – Classic cartoon style FPS (Steam)
- Nivalis – Cyberpunk slice-of-life (Steam)
- Node – Soviet era puzzle platforming (Steam)
- Pathologic 3 – Latest narrative horror (Steam)
- Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero – Recruit and combine Phantoms (Steam)
- QubiQuest: Castle Craft – Voxel-based castle building and defense (Steam)
- Revenge of the Savage Planet – Funky Sci-Fi platforming (Steam)
- Skate – Return of the skateboarding series (Site)
- Slay the Spire 2 – Roguelike card sequel (Steam)
- South of Midnight – Action-adventure southern folktale (Steam)
- Splitgate 2 – PvP shooter with portals (Steam)
- Subnautica 2 – Subsurface survival sequel (Steam)
- Surviving Deponia – More Deponia, now a colony sim (Steam)
- Tales of Seikyu – A fantasy farming sim full of demons (Steam)
- Tenebris Somnia – 8-bit horror with FMV cutscenes (Steam)
- The Thing: Remastered – Survival horror remaster (Steam)
- Umbratica Tactics – Vampire-hunting tactics (Steam)
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 – Revamped RPG (Steam)
- Voyagers of Nera (Early Access) – Ocean-going survival (Steam)
- Wanderstop – An existential cozy game (Steam)
- We Might Die – Mech-based roguelike shooter (Steam)
- Wheel World – Open world bike adventure (Steam)
- While Waiting – The art of doing nothing (Steam)
- Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori (Early Access) – Ride horses in Mongolia (Steam)
- Winter Burrow – Cozy, 2D woodland mouse survival (Steam)
- Wreckless – Online skatepark (Steam)
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – Bird-afflicted Ming dynasty soulslike (Steam)
More upcoming games
Although they don’t have release dates or years yet, here are more upcoming games to keep an eye on that could still land sometime in 2025.
- Arknights: Endfield – Action RPG spinoff of the mobile gacha game (Site)
- Blade – Third-person Marvel action game from Arkane (Site)
- Blue Prince – Surreal architectural puzzle adventure (Steam)
- Cart Life – Street vendor life sim (Steam)
- Chrono Odyssey – Fantasy MMO (Steam)
- Crescent County – Magic broom courier sim (Steam)
- Crimson Desert – Singleplayer RPG from Black Desert devs (Site)
- Crisol: Theater of Idols – Blood-fueled first-person horror (Steam)
- Control 2 – Surrealist adventure sequel (Site)
- Deer & Boy – Cinematic platformer with a deer pal (Steam)
- Delta Force: Hawk Ops – Free-to-play multi-mode shooter (Steam)
- Den of Wolves – Co-op futuristic heist game from Payday devs (Steam)
- Everywhere – A metaverse game from GTA producers (Site)
- Exoborne – Extraction shooter with a sci-fi apocalypse vibe (Steam)
- Exodus – Time-traveling sci-fi action RPG with Mass Effect vibes (Site)
- Fable – Quirky fantasy RPG reboot (Steam)
- Grave Seasons – Stardew Valley with a supernatural killer (Steam)
- Harmonium: The Musical World – Musical adventure with deaf protag (Site)
- Hordes of Hunger – 3D “survivorslike” (Steam)
- I Am Jesus Christ – First Person Savior (Steam)
- Industria 2 – Narrative FPS in AI infested otherworld (Steam)
- Judas – BioShock director’s next FPS (Steam)
- Jurassic Park: Survival – Action-adventure set right after original film (Site)
- Kemuri – Urban fantasy parkour from Ikumi Nakamura’s new studio (Site)
- Killer Bean – Sentient coffee bean assassin roguelike (Steam)
- Killing Floor 3 – Co-op zed FPS (Steam)
- Knights in Tight Spaces – Tight fights go fantasy (Steam)
- Last Sentinel – Dystopian action game by Lightspeed Studios (Site)
- Light No Fire – An even bigger game from No Man’s Sky’s team (Steam)
- Mecha Break – Multiplayer mech combat (Steam)
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater – What a thrill (Steam)
- NAIAD – Vibrant underwater exploration (Steam)
- Nighthawks – A vampire RPG from adventure game veterans (Steam)
- No Players Online – Vintage desktop simulator horror (Steam)
- OD – Hideo Kojima’s collaboration with Jordan Peele (Site)
- Off the Grid – Blomkamp Battle Royale (Site)
- Outward 2 – Hardcore RPG sequel (Steam)
- Perfect Dark – Classic FPS remake (Steam)
- R-Type Tactics I – II Cosmos – Tactics spinoff of side-scroll shooter (Steam)
- Remnant Protocol – Sci-fi flight sim plus rebellion management (Steam)
- Ruffy and the Riverside – Colorful character platformer (Steam)
- She Dreams Elsewhere – Retro-surreal adventure RPG (Steam)
- The Simulation – Meta horror investigation (Site)
- Sleep Awake – Psychedelic sleep horror (Site)
- Stellar Blade – Flashy scifi hack-and-slash (Site)
- Sunset Devils – Western top-down shooter (Steam)
- Tears of Metal – Co-op hack-and-slash roguelike (Steam)
- Witchbrook – Wizarding school life sim (Steam)
- Wrestle Story – turn-based pro wrestling RPG (Steam)
