The year 2025 promises to be much richer than the previous year in terms of big and notable releases. As usual, we’re expecting sequels, relaunches and remakes – from DOOM and Civilisation to Metal Gear and Gothic. However, there will also be original projects of famous developers, for example Judas, which is being worked on by one of BioShock’s co-creators. Of course, the main release remains GTA VI – a project of such scale that many games in our list do not have exact release dates. Still, no one wants to compete with Rockstar’s flagship series.
Grand Theft Auto VI
What can even be said about the most anticipated game of not only this year but the decade? Releases from Rockstar studio are a rare phenomenon, but at the same time, more important. Each of their novelties is expected to be a project that defines a whole generation of video games, a technological leap, and a benchmark for other developers to follow.
Expectations for the sixth installment of GTA are especially high. It’s the first game in the series in almost 10 years and the first Rockstar title to be released since the departure of Dan Houser, the studio’s co-founder and creator of the franchise. For the first time in years, one of the protagonists in GTA will be a woman. It’s also the first game in the series since 2002 where the setting is Miami, including the fan-favorite Weiss City.
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Will Rockstar Games live up to its expectations? Or, amidst big changes in the company, the industry, and the world, and after a massive studio leak in 2022, will the big-name developers still miss the mark? We’ll find out this year, unless, of course, the game gets postponed.
Metal Gear Solid ∆: Snake Eater
2025 – PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Konami does not give up trying to revive its major franchises. After the remake of Silent Hill 2, the updated version of another iconic game of the publisher – Metal Gear Solid 3, which many fans still consider the best in the series created by Hideo Kojima about mercenaries, clones, wars and world conspiracies.
Snake Eater is not only a fan favourite, but also the first chronological part of Metal Gear. So the prequel remake about operative Snake and his dangerous mission in the Siberian jungle (don’t ask) should be a great entry point even for those who weren’t familiar with the convoluted plot of the other games. MGS ∆ was going to be released in 2024, but didn’t make it in time. Let’s hope we don’t have long to wait.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
4 February – PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
The sequel to the iconic RPG about medieval Bohemia. The first part came out back in 2018, conquering many with its complexity and carefully recreated, realistic world (in the game you have to, among other things, wash yourself so as not to repel others, and teach the illiterate hero to read), but the plot broke off halfway through.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II should complete the story of Czech avenger Indřich and surpass the original game in scope. The world will be about twice as big (the main location is the fortress of Kutná Hora), in addition to cold weapons there will be firearms, the combat system will be a bit simpler and more aggressive. For fans of the first Kingdom Come and the RPG genre in general, this is an offer that is impossible to refuse. The game is planned to be released in early February.
Civilization VII
11 February – PC, macOS, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
The new instalment of the most famous 4X-strategy series. As in the previous games, in Civilisation VII you will have to choose a civilisation and develop it from antiquity to modernity. But in the seventh instalment, you can choose a new civilization when a different era arrives – a major change for a series whose motto has always been ‘Build an empire that can stand the test of time’.
Another innovation is that leaders of states are no longer tied to a single nation, so Xerxes, say, will be able to rule Rome. Finally, Civilisation VII will be the first in the series to be released simultaneously on PC and consoles.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
14 February – PC, macOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
The ultra-popular action game series about a secret brotherhood of assassins and mystical artefacts has already taken fans to Renaissance Italy, Revolutionary Paris in 1789, and Ancient Greece. Finally Assassin’s Creed will reach feudal Japan – fans have been asking for a large-scale game in this setting for a long time.
For Ubisoft, which hasn’t been doing too well lately, this is a particularly important release. The repetitive formula for games in the series is long overdue for an update, and even the most dedicated fans seem to have grown tired of giant maps and 100-hour campaigns. Admittedly, Shadows has already been at the centre of a scandal due to its historical (un)accuracy. In order to make sure that the game will be of real quality and that there will be fewer technical problems at launch, Ubisoft has postponed the release date by three months.
Avowed
18 February – PC, Xbox Series X|S
Obsidian Studios is set to release two big RPGs at once in 2025. The first one is the fantasy Avowed, ported from 2024. Its main feature is a flexible combat system, thanks to which in both hands you can take magic wands and cast a hail of spells on enemies. Or choose two pistols instead – there will be firearms in the game too. In addition to a variety of battles, the developers promise a non-linear story with ten endings and elaborate co-participants.
The second Obsidian game is a fantastic The Outer Worlds 2. In it you need to explore space colonies and search for a way to deal with the rifts in the fabric of the universe, threatening to destroy humanity. Decisions and their consequences, companions with their own storylines, variation – everything Obsidian is famous for should be in this game. In place, however, and catchy, colourful level design, for which some criticised the first part. The release date is still unknown.
Split Fiction
6 March – PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Swedish studio Hazelight, led by game designer Yusef Fares, has established itself as a master of co-operative games in recent years. A Way Out and It Takes Two are real gaming blockbusters for two, colourful, dynamic and very diverse.
Split Fiction, as the developers promise, will be their biggest game. The action will unfold around two girls-writers, one of whom works in the genre of science fiction, and the other – with fantasy. The heroines agree to participate in an experiment that allows them to get into their invented worlds, but by mistake the girls find themselves in one simulation, moving between different universes against their will. To get out and save themselves, they will have to work together as players.
As with Hazelight’s previous games, Split Fiction can’t be played alone, but each pair of players can share a copy of the game, even if they want to play on different devices.
Gothic Remake
2025 – PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
An updated Gothic was expected in 2024, but the game won’t finally be released until 2025 at the earliest. The cult German RPG significantly updated not only graphics, but also gameplay. It will be possible, for example, not just to roast meat, but to find recipes, cook food and sell it, earning money on it. Expanded and narrative, so the game will be able to learn more about the orcs and, apparently, even work with them.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
First half of 2025 – PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
The long-awaited sequel to the 2004 cult RPG about urban vampires has been postponed several times already. Since its announcement in 2019, the game has managed to change developers. And although for a while many fans thought that the project would remain in production hell, now the release is still scheduled for the first half of 2025.
For The Chinese Room studio, known primarily for its very linear and relatively short games, this is the first project of this scale. The company has no experience of working on complex RPGs with a branched plot, and whether it will cope with the task is still unclear. Even the publishers of Bloodlines 2 from Paradox have already stated that they will not take on huge RPGs in the future, which does not inspire confidence.
DOOM: The Dark Ages
2025 – PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
The id Software studio continues to develop its main game series. This time, Executioner of Doom (aka Nameless Infantryman, aka Dumgai) will deal with demons in the Middle Ages, acting as the last defender of the realm before the hordes of the underworld army.
The shooter is the third instalment of DOOM following the franchise’s relaunch in 2016. The developers have already made it clear that the upcoming game will be very different from the ultra-dynamic DOOM Eternal and its add-ons. The Dark Ages should be a darker game with a completely redesigned combat system, where shooting will be as important as melee weapons and shields. As game director Hugo Martin put it in an interview, ‘if in Eternal you took off like an F-22 fighter jet, in The Dark Ages you’ll feel like an Abrams tank’.