Video Games Releasing in 2025: What to Look Forward To

There have been incredible games released in 2024, offering everything from adventure to action. We still aren’t done with 2024 selections yet. The coming months will bring heavy hitters like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Horizon Zero Dawn - Remastered. However, we’re close enough to 2025 to get excited about what’s to come. 

Whether you’re a fan of realistic choose-your-own-adventure games or action-based fantasy, something awaits you in the new year. Learn more about our favorite selections for the 2025 video game year.

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is a 2D platformer redesigned from the original Wii system for the Nintendo Switch. Players help Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong regain their banana board from the Tiki Tak Tribe in an intense 80 levels through 9 worlds. It’s the classic game like you’ve never seen before, playable with a friend.

Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds is an exciting update to the Monster Hunter saga, hitting the market in February 2025. It offers more missions, greater weapons, and an extended hunt. For those who love a story, you’ll get more with high-quality actors and incredible new gameplay.

Civilization VII

Yes, 2025 will bring Civilization VII to the table. It introduces significant terrain shifts, more opportunities for players, and a better gameplay strategy for those who want more out of the experience. Culture and tech in the game will streamline progression, making it faster than ever. 

Assassin's Creed Shadows

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an adventure from the perspective of Naoe, a shinobi assassin from the Iga Province. It also introduces Yasuke, a legendary African samurai. You get to play your way, becoming an assassin as you work through feudal Japan.

Avowed

Fantasy is central for the iconic Avowed, offering a first-person RPG experience on the mysterious Living Lands. You must save the frontier and your soul through ample choices, weapons, spells, characters, and more. There’s combat, strange lands, and companions to run with you.

Atomfall

Atomfall is a survival action game inspired by the real-life actions of the Windscale nuclear disaster in Northern England. Here, you’ll deal with a brutal government, crazy characters, cults, and more as you work through the disaster. You must craft, scavenge, barter, fight, and talk to pass various obstacles.

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game

If you’ve ever wanted to live like a hobbit, now is your chance in Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game. You’ll create your hobbit, establishing the town as your own and your quiet adventure. The little things matter in this adventure.

Fatal Fury: City of Wolves

Fatal Fury: City of Wolves is a game that was born in the arcade, offering a powerful two-player battle game format. It was one of the first of its kind and is a popular selection for players who love to battle. A quarter of a century later, the game is ready to emerge in a more accessible format. 

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Borderlands 4

Borderlands 4 is another in the looter shooter series. Players search for secret alien treasure and fight to secure their place as a Vault Hunter in this epic universe.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Death Stranding was a controversial game when it came out, so there’s much expectation between Death Stranding 2. Your goal is to save humanity from extinction through film-style gameplay and monstrous complexities and celebrities in the Death Stranding world.

DOOM: The Dark Ages

DOOM: The Dark Ages is the latest entry in the DOOM franchise, bringing players to the medieval dark ages. There’s a metal soundtrack and an exploration ability of destroyed locations, all serving as the prequel to DOOM.

Eternal Strands

Eternal Strands is an action game where you play as Brynn, a young woman determined to recover her family’s cultural home. Magical abilities and weapons are by your side as you fight strange creatures and channel revolutionary gameplay styles to return to where you belong.

Ghost of Yotei

Ghost of Yotei is much like the Assassin’s Creed games but with a unique twist. It provides incredible landscapes in an open-world experience, an answer to the ample asking of fans. The Samurai combat system is the core of this game, ideal for those who love good design.

Grand Theft Auto 6

Grand Theft Auto 6 is one of the biggest names, allowing players to create more carnage than ever before. There are gangs, drug deals, crazy residents, and the return of Vice City. The game uses new technology, so there will be more fun gameplay than ever before. 

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Little Nightmares 3

The ever-iconic terror of a game, Little Nightmares, returns with a bang in Little Nightmares 3. You play as Low & Alone, working to get out of terrible circumstances. The game is set in the terrifying Spiral and can be played with a friend - a first for the Little Nightmares franchise.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

The Nintendo Switch is home to another Metroid Prime game: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Samus Aran, bounty hunter, heads out into the world beyond for a new and thrilling mission.

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Pokémon has an incredible legacy, and that continues with Pokémon Legends: Z-A. It’s a new day in Lumiose City. There is urban development underway, and you get to shape the city for you and the residing Pokémon.

Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker

Throes of the Watchmaker isn’t a new game, but a free DLC option to add to the Sea of Stars game. It offers new playable classes, characters, areas, puzzles, and local co-op with up to three players.

Slay the Spire 2

Slay the Spire 2 is another addition to the iconic deckbuilding series. There are new sets of cars, upgraded visuals, epic enemies, and more to make gameplay more thrilling.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

In Bloodlines 2, players battle through Seattle as an elder Vampire on the edge of an all-out war. You get to determine who will rule, what you’ll do, and what will happen to the city. You are the monster and every choice you make matters.

Will: Follow the Light

Will: Follow the Light is a small studio craft from TomorrowHead. This game offers narrative-style gameplay themed around escapism with incredible visuals. Sail between oceans and uncharted islands in a stunning universe. 

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