2025 is shaping up to be an action-packed year for gamers, with tons of great games in the works by some of the biggest franchises in the industry. Whether you're a fan of RPGs, FPS, or anything in between, you're sure to find some great titles to play this year.

While we have a ton of new games that have been announced, not all of them are slated to be released this year. So, for this list we are arranging the titles in order of release date, but keep in mind that many of them will not have dates set in stone. And as always, in the video game industry, delays may occur and some titles may be pushed back by a few months, a year, or possibly even further.

15 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

February 4th 2025

The original Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a real shot in the dark by Warhorse Studios, and it really paid off. Placing you in a beautifully handcrafted version of Bohemia with historically accurate weapons and realistic combat scenarios. The game really captures what it must have felt like to live in the 14th century. Continuing the story of Henry of Skalitz, you must siege castles, fight off bandits, and wage wars for king and for country.

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The sequel has refined the combat system of the first game by simplifying the directional combat and introducing new weapons for players to use. They have also added new combat finishers, better stealth mechanics, and a better skill tree. There are also new survival mechanics which will have you cleaning clothes, smithing weapons and tools, collecting ingredients for alchemy and cooking food to eat.

14 Sid Meier's Civilization VII

February 11th 2025

Civilization VII is the newest entry to Sid Meier's franchise, and it introduces a lot of new mechanics and changes to shake up the gameplay formula. While the core mechanics of choosing a civilization, bringing war or peace, and advancing through different ages remain the same. The game brings some major changes which will either be loved or hated by dedicated Civilization fans.

There are only three ages now: the age of antiquity, discovery, and then the modern era. Your leader has the ability to choose different civilizations at the start of each new age. The diplomacy system has also been reworked. They introduced crisis events, removed bandits, and changed how your troops navigate across the map with commanders.

13 Monster Hunter Wilds

February 28th 2025

Monster Hunter Wilds is the newest mainline game in the Monster Hunter series. After Monster Hunter Worlds’ well received launch, fans have been eagerly waiting for the next major entry in the series. Featuring a living breathing ecosystem and brand-new monsters to fight, the game is also bringing back mounts for easier exploration around the even larger open world.

Monster Hunter Wilds still has the same 14 weapon types, but it will focus on refining its gameplay instead of adding new weapons. An improved version of the slinger will be making its return, which was first added in Monster Hunter Worlds. The core gameplay remains the same, revolving around you hunting monsters in the world and then using the resources you gathered to craft new weapons and hunt even more powerful monsters.

But not everything is the same because the game makes some big changes to the series in this title. Like being able to carry a secondary weapon on your mount, allowing you to switch on the fly. Giving monsters more weak points by adding wounds and focus mode. Monster packs and pack alphas also make it more difficult to fight monsters one on one. Dynamic weather changes make different monsters show up. And offline players can now summon NPC hunters to fight alongside them if a monster proves to be too difficult for them.

12 Split Fiction

March 6th 2025

Hazelight Studios is at it again, single-handedly bringing the couch co-op genre back from the dead. While many developers shy away from couch co-op games, Hazelight embraces them, and continues to deliver fun games with unique stories and complex mechanics as found with their previous games; A Way Out and It Takes Two.

Split Fiction has a similar gameplay style to It Takes Two, but instead of playing as a married couple, in turmoil and nearing divorce. You play as a pair of sci-fi and fantasy authors who are thrown into a combined story of their writings. Together the authors must work alongside each other and use both sci-fi and fantasy elements to finish the story and return home. If you're looking for a game to play with a friend or significant other, then this title would be a great choice.

11 Assassin's Creed Shadows

March 20th 2025

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a game that AC fans have been begging for, for years. Set in Feudal Japan, you can play two different characters, Naoe and Yasuke. This seems to be an attempt by Ubisoft to merge the gameplay elements from the original games with the combat-focused RPG nature of the more recent titles.

Each playable character has a different style of gameplay, with Naoe being a shinobi. She has a more stealthy approach to combat, and her play style is reminiscent of the earlier Assassin's Creed titles, running on rooftops, setting up traps, and stealthily assassinating targets from the shadows. Whereas Yasuke is a samurai and acts more like a tank or brute from the later games, giving you an up-close and in-your-face combat experience.

10 Doom: The Dark Ages

May 15th 2025

After the triumphant return of Doom in 2016, fans were eagerly waiting to see how the series would evolve in the new age of gaming. Soon after, we were all gifted Doom Eternal, which took what the original title had and built on it to make it even better. And now, Doom returns with the franchise’s latest title, Doom: The Dark Ages.

With the new entry to the franchise, it is shaking up the formula, swapping out its futuristic environment for a medieval one, while still keeping the gameplay and mechanics that made Doom (2016) so great. In this prequel, the weapon roster has completely changed, swapping out your futuristic weapons for more medieval-esque ones, featuring a shield with a chainsaw, a mace, a musket-looking shotgun, a spike gun and the one most fans are excited about, the Skull Crusher gun.

Doom Slayer is back again, sending the hordes of hell back to whence they came. This time you are used as a weapon, not by the UAC, but instead by kings and gods. Given access to an Atlan suit and a dragon mount that you can fly around on, you must slaughter your way across the armies of hell in this grittier, darker, more archaic take on the Doom franchise.

9 Mafia: The Old Country

Summer 2025

After being spoiled by three fantastic remakes of the original Mafia games, never could we have imagined that we would be getting a brand-new prequel to the series as well. With the series taking us further back in time than we've been before, introducing horseback riding and showing off in early 20th century cars, players are sure to love this cinematic masterpiece.

Mafia: The Old Country follows the protagonist Enzo Favara as he rises through the ranks of the Torrisi crime family. Travel back in time to the old country, set in the 1900's Sicily, as you enter the dark and gritty underworld of organized crime as an initiate in the mafia.

8 Borderlands 4

Summer 2025

Borderlands has returned after a poorly received movie tie-in, and the game series has released its newest mainline game. Moving away from Pandora and featuring a new cast of vault hunters, Borderlands 4 places us on a new planet and following a new story line.

In Borderlands 4 you will have four new playable characters to choose from, and while the class types will still be the same, their powers will be very different. The game's combat system is getting a shakeup with better traversal with the new grappling system. And as with every new installment, there will be a plethora of new guns to use and a ton of different enemies to fight.

7 Dying Light: The Beast

Summer 2025

One of the best announcements we received during Gamescom 2024 was Dying Light: The Beast. After Techland’s release of Dying Light 2, many fans were confused as to what happened to the fan favorite protagonist, Kyle Crane from the original game. But that all changes with the newest entry to the series.

Kyle Crane is back and, after being experimented on for years, he has finally escaped and is now half man and half beast. His only goal is to exact vengeance on those who had turned him into this monster. Using his newfound zombie powers along with his combat and parkour experience from the original games, is sure to create a gameplay loop that fans won't be able to get enough of.

6 Fable

TBA 2025

First announced in 2020 and scheduled for release in 2025, after nearly a year without a real mainline game, Fable is finally being rebooted. A lot of gamers have fond memories of the original Fable games, but after Fable 3, a lot of fans trailed off from the series and felt disheartened by the direction the franchise had taken.

Fable (2025) looks to be a true successor to the original games, taking us back to the world of Albion. The game brings back many of the things that fans loved about the originals, like the dry British humor, evil villains, heroic champions, and a world filled with beauty and magic.