What Games Are Coming in 2025?

A lot of good ones, really.

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Robert Scarpinito
January 03, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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Welcome to 2025! We’re already three days into the grind of a new year, but there’s already so much to look forward to. Here’s a shortlist of my more anticipated games to play over the next 360ish days, in case you need some ideas for what to look forward to next.

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Feb 4 (which moved up a week, because Feb is crowded)

  • Civilization VII - Feb 11

  • Assassin’s Creed: Shadows - Feb 14 (more out of morbid curiosity, honestly)

  • Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii - Feb 21

  • Monster Hunter Wilds - Feb 28 (“because Feb is crowded,” see?)

  • Hades II - Whenever it hits 1.0 (even though it’s already pretty great)

  • Doom: The Dark Ages

  • Ghost of Yotei

  • Borderlands 4, maybe?

  • Death Stranding 2

  • Whatever the Nintendo Switch successor is (with Metroid Prime 4 as a launch title???? Sign me up)

  • Whatever unpredictable indie breakout hit sucker punches us (think Balatro)

  • Oh yeah, and Grand Theft Auto VI, I guess

There’s so much more on the horizon that we know of and probably way more that we don’t know. It’s a good time for software.

But it’s worth noting that all of that comes at the cost of many people’s livelihoods and job security, as we’ve seen in the past two years now of record-breaking layoffs and turmoil in the industry. I only say this as a reminder for the industry we’re all a part of, as consumers and creators.

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