After a dismal year for the video game industry, 2025 is looking much brighter and much busier — if only because Rockstar Games plans to release Grand Theft Auto 6 in 2025, and Nintendo promises to deliver a successor to the wildly popular Switch and a bunch of new games to launch with it.
Those aren’t the only highly anticipated sequels coming in 2025. Video game fans can also expect Sid Meier’s Civilization 7, Death Stranding 2, Doom: The Dark Ages, the new Fable, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Monster Hunter Wilds, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and Slay the Spire 2. Beyond sequels, there are some other big bets on the calendar for 2025, like Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, Judas, Riot’s fighting game 2XKO, and South of Midnight. Suffice to say, it’s currently looking like a big, big year.
Video game release dates are always in flux, though, so Polygon’s guide to the new video games coming in 2025 will be regularly updated with new titles, release dates, and (inevitable) delays.
New video game releases for 2025
January
- Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Switch) — Jan. 16
2025 video games with no release date
- 2XKO (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Anno 117: Pax Romana (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Atomfall (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Ballad of Antara (Android, iOS, PC, PS5)
- Big Walk (PC)
- Cairn (PC, consoles TBA)
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X)
- Civilization 7 (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Crimson Desert (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Cuffbust (PC)
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (PS5)
- Doom: The Dark Ages (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D (Switch)
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- Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Eternal Strands (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Fable (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- FragPunk (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Grand Theft Auto 6 (PS5, Xbox Series X)
- GreedFall 2: The Dying World (PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Hell is Us (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Instinction (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Judas (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Killing Floor 3 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X) — early 2025
- Little Nightmares 3 (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Lost Hellden (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X)
- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Mecha Break (PC, Xbox Series X)
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Switch)
- Mewgenics (PC)
- MIO: Memories in Orbit (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Mixtape (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Monster Hunter Wilds (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Mouse (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X)
- Paralives (PC)
- Pokémon Legends Z-A (Switch)
- Pony Island 2: Panda Circus (PC)
- Possessor(s) (PC)
- Professor Layton and the New World of Steam (Switch)
- Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch)
- Slay the Spire 2 (PC)
- Sleight of Hand (PC, Xbox Series X)
- South of Midnight (PC, Xbox Series X)
- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (PC, Switch)
- The Sinking City 2 (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)
- Tiny Lands 2 (PC)
- Usual June (PC)
- Winter Burrow (PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X)
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X)