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 13 — Airborne Empire (Early Access) - RTS city builder in the skies (Steam)
- January 14 — Hyper Light Breaker (Early Access) - Hyper Light Drifter co-op sequel (Steam)
- January 15 — Aloft - Crafting survival in the sky (Steam)
- January 16 — Assetto Corsa EVO - Hyperrealistic 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 — Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - Cloud moseys over from consoles (Steam)
- January 23 — Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles - Retro lightsaber battles (Steam)
- January 23 — Synduality Echo of Ada - Futuristic extraction shooter (Steam)
- January 27 — Virtua Fighter 5 REVO - VF5 gets the rollback and 4K treatment (Steam)
- January 28 — Eternal Strands - Fantasy action adventure in a world of giants (Steam)
- January 28 — Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap - Horde shooting frenzy (Steam)
- January 28 — Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter - Rat soulslike sequel (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)
- January 31 — Citizen Sleeper 2 - Story RPG sequel (Steam)
- January ?? — Mekkablood: Quarry Assault - Grizzled mecha boomer shooter (Steam)
February 2025
- February 4 — Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - More medieval first-person action RPG (Steam)
- February 6 — Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator - life-saving sim (Steam)
- February 11 — Civilization 7 - Continue to oppose Gandhi's 4X reign of terror (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 — Era One - Ship customizing & base building space RTS (Steam)
- February 20 — Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii - Majima Goro sets sail (Steam)
- February 27 — Monster Hunter Wilds - Monstrous new frontier (Steam)
- February ?? — Midnight Murder Club - Hide and Seek with guns in the dark (Steam)
March 2025
- March 4 — Two Point Museum - Museum management sim (Steam)
- March 6 — Split Fiction - Co-op action game from It Takes Two dev (Steam)
- March 6 — MainFrames - Platformer with early computer nostalgia (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 27 — Atomfall - Western version of Stalker set in British countryside (Site)
- March 27 — The First Berserker: Khazan - Gruesome Dungeon & Fighter ARPG (Steam)
- March 28 — Inzoi (Early Access) - Sims-like with a realistic focus (Steam)
- March ?? — Killing Floor 3 - Co-op zed FPS (Steam)
- March ?? — Wanderstop - An existential cozy game (Steam)
- March ?? — Gold Gold Adventure Gold — A city builder fueled by greed (Steam)
- March ?? — Vice Undercover - '80s drug lords take business online (Steam)
April 2025
- April 3 — The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered - An Ellie-focused sequel (Steam)
- April 17 — Koira - Puppy-powered adventuring (Steam)
- April 24 — Tempest Rising - Archetypal base-building RTS (Steam)
May 2025
- May ?? — Revenge of the Savage Planet - Funky Sci-Fi platforming (Steam)
2025 games with TBA release dates
- Abyssus - Brinepunk 4-player co-op shooter (Steam)
- AILA - Survive against horrifying, fictional AI (Steam)
- Alara Prime - 4v4v4 competitive tactical FPS (Steam)
- Aquametsis - Corporate dystopian base-builder and FPS (Steam)
- 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)
- Blue Prince - Surreal architectural puzzle adventure (Steam)
- Borderlands 4 - An all-new crew for 4-player co-op vault hunting (Steam)
- Broken Arrow - Real-time modern warfare tactics game (Steam)
- Bugaboo Pocket - Entomology life-sim (Steam)
- Bubsy - The Purrfect Collection - A collection and "playable history" of Bubsy (Steam)
- Cairn - Open-ended survival climber (Steam)
- City Tales - Medieval Era - Colorful, hand-painted city builder (Steam)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Turn-based RPG with a dark fantasy story (Steam)
- Craftlings - Pixely resource management with Terraria-like charm (Steam)
- Crashlands 2 - Open world crafting RPG (Steam)
- Crimson Desert - Singleplayer RPG from Black Desert devs (Steam)
- Cuffbust - Adorable prison break with friends (Steam)
- Darkwater - Lethal Company-inspired co-op horror (Steam)
- Dispatch - Superheroes in a messy, workplace drama (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)
- Descenders Next - Downhill snowboarding action (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)
- Dying Light: The Beast - Zombies in rural territories (Steam)
- Earth from Another Sun - Open world galactic scifi sandbox (Steam)
- Elden Ring: Nightreign - 3-player Elden Ring standalone adventure (Steam)
- Enshrouded (1.0 launch) - 16-player survival crafting RPG (Steam)
- Eternal Strands - 3rd person spell-em-up (Steam)
- Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream - Period drama meets isometric narrative (Steam)
- Falling Frontier - Logistics-heavy space grand strategy (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 Clock - Dark fantasy Diablo-style ARPG (Steam)
- Hell is Us - Mankind vs. Mankind vs. Demons (Steam)
- Henry Halfhead - Co-op adventure with Katamari whimsy (Steam)
- Island of Winds - Icelandic folklore-inspired adventure game (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)
- Menace - XCOM-like RPG from the Battle Brothers studio (Steam)
- Merchants of Rosewall - Fantasy shopkeeper simulator (Steam)
- The Midnight Walk - Claymation horror (Steam)
- Mistfall Hunter - PvPvE extraction RPG (Steam)
- Mixtape - Music-fueled narrative adventure (Steam)
- Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault - Shopkeeping RPG sequel (Steam)
- Mohrta - Surreal FPS-RPG soulslike (Steam)
- Mouse - Classic cartoon style FPS (Steam)
- Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound - Nostalgic side-scroller from Blasphemous devs (Steam)
- Nivalis - Cyberpunk slice-of-life (Steam)
- Node - Soviet era puzzle platforming (Steam)
- One Move Away - Strategic and cozy car-packing (Steam)
- The Outer Worlds 2 - A new frontier in Obsidian's sci-fi series (Steam)
- Pathologic 3 - Latest narrative horror (Steam)
- Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero - Recruit and combine Phantoms (Steam)
- Prologue: Go Wayback! - PUBG creator's solo survival game (Steam)
- QubiQuest: Castle Craft - Voxel-based castle building and defense (Steam)
- Skate - Return of the skateboarding series (Site)
- Skate Story - Surreal skateboarding (Steam)
- Shadow Labyrinth - Pac-Man, but make it twisted and 2D (Steam)
- Slay the Spire 2 - Roguelike card sequel (Early Access) (Steam)
- Sol Mates - Overcooked in space (Steam)
- Solasta 2 - D&D 5E RPG sequel to 2021's Solasta (Early Access) (Steam)
- South of Midnight - Action-adventure southern folktale (Steam)
- SpaceCraft (Early Access) - Interplanetary logistics and deep space survival (Steam)
- Sonokuni - Japanese hip-hop meets martial arts (Steam)
- Splitgate 2 - PvP shooter with portals (Steam)
- Starlight Re:Volver - Anime-inspired, dreamy roguelike (Steam)
- Steel Seed - Stealthy parkour action vs. robots (Steam)
- Subnautica 2 - Subsurface survival sequel (Steam)
- Super Fantasy Kingdom - Vampire Survivor mechanics in a city builder (Steam)
- Surviving Deponia - More Deponia, now a colony sim (Steam)
- Tales of Seikyu - A fantasy farming sim full of demons (Steam)
- Tears of Metal - Co-op hack-and-slash roguelike (Steam)
- TMNT: Tactical Takedown - I Am Your Beast dev's turn-based Ninja Turtles (Steam)
- Tombwater - Rootin' tootin' metroidvania in the wild west (Steam)
- Total Chaos - Former Doom mod turned full-blown horror FPS (Steam)
- Tenebris Somnia - 8-bit horror with FMV cutscenes (Steam)
- Umbratica Tactics - Vampire-hunting tactics (Steam)
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - Revamped RPG (Steam)
- Voyagers of Nera (Early Access) - Ocean-going survival (Steam)
- We Might Die - Mech-based roguelike shooter (Steam)
- Wheel World - Open world bike adventure (Steam)
- While Waiting - The art of doing nothing (Steam)
- Wild Tactics - Zootopia gone wrong strategy RPG (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.
- Alliance of the Sacred Suns - 4X Space Strategy (Steam)
- Arknights: Endfield - Action RPG spinoff of the mobile gacha game (Site)
- Baby Steps - Bennett Foddy's next torture engine (Steam)
- Blade - Third-person Marvel action game from Arkane (Site)
- Cart Life - Street vendor life sim (Steam)
- Chains of Freedom - Turn-based Stalker meets XCOM (Steam)
- Copa City - Football event planning (Steam)
- Chrono Odyssey - Fantasy MMO (Steam)
- Crescent County - Magic broom courier sim (Steam)
- Crisol: Theater of Idols - Blood-fueled first-person horror (Steam)
- Control 2 - Surrealist adventure sequel (Site)
- Deepest Fear - Thalassophobia-inducing horror (Steam)
- 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)
- Drivers of the Apocalypse - Car-to-car combat, Mad Max style (Steam)
- Empyreal - Destiny's aesthetic with a melee focus (Steam)
- Enter the Chronosphere - Fast-paced, time controlling roguelike (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)
- Kingmakers - Change medieval history with machine guns (Steam)
- Knights in Tight Spaces - Tight fights go fantasy (Steam)
- Kyora - The Core Keeper studio's next survival crafting sandbox (Steam)
- Last Sentinel - Dystopian action game by Lightspeed Studios (Site)
- Legends of Awen: Rise of the Fianna - Celtic folklore-inspired CRPG (Steam)
- 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)
- Project Robot - Fumito Ueda's (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus) mysterious next game
- R-Type Tactics I - II Cosmos - Tactics spinoff of side-scroll shooter (Steam)
- Rematch - 5v5, arcade-style football matches from the Sifu dev (Steam)
- Remnant Protocol - Sci-fi flight sim plus rebellion management (Steam)
- Robots at Midnight - Luxury living vs hostile robot takeover (Steam)
- Rogue Eclipse - Arabesque Futurism and Starfox dogfights (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)
- Sonic Team Racing CrossWorlds - More Sonic racing, but with Keanu Reeves (Site)
- Steel Hunters - Free-to-play, PvPvE mech battles (Steam)
- Sunset Devils - Western top-down shooter (Steam)
- Thrasher - Rhythm game follow-up to Thumper (Steam)
- Witchbrook - Wizarding school life sim (Steam)
- Wrestle Story - turn-based pro wrestling RPG (Steam)
