The Big Year: What 2025 Games are You Most Looking Forward To?

[ZedClampet]

Per the folks at our fan site, PC Gamer, 2025 is going to be a huge year for games. Basically that means AAA games, so that doesn't do me that much good, but I've looked through the following list and found quite a few games that I'm pretty excited for.

The 2025 game release calendar is going to tower over this year with constant major launches

We're looking ahead to the 2025 release calendar and it's very packed already.

www.pcgamer.com

My list (of the games they have in the article)...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Nivalis
Two Point Museum
Aloft
Era One
Subnautica 2
Assetto Corsa Evo
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap
Beyond These Stars
Generation Exile
Menace
Solasta 2
Voyagers of Nera

 

[January's Ghost]

I'm most interested in AC Shadows and Avowed.

 

[DXCHASE]

My top 3 are

Killing Floor 3
Doom: Dark Ages
Mafia: Old Country

Those are 3 solid buys for me.

Runner-Up: Dune Awakening. Im not a huge survival playing fan, but i love the Dune series.

Theres also Path Of Exile 2's full release adding in the rest of the campaign, classes, endgame etc.

 

[Rolfil]

Sniper Elite: Resistance
Two Point Museum
Atomfall
Subnautica 2
Control 2

Plus Path of Exile 2 when it releases out of early access, Last Epoch season 2 and of course Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator

 

[neogunhero]

In no particular order

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
Split Fiction (gf and I loved It Takes Two)
Death Stranding 2
Avowed
Orcs Must Die Deathtrap
Mafia Old Country
Two Point Museum
DOOM Dark Ages
Nivalis
Killing Floor 3
AC Shadows
GTA 6 (don’t have a current gen console though)
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Crimson Desert

There are just so many games I’m interested in coming out in 2025. I don’t think there has ever been a year where there are this many games i’m excited for. There’s a ton more but I thought my list was getting too long already.

 

[Pifanjr]

Civilization 7 - I'll probably get this once I can get it on sale with its two major expansions.

Subnautica 2 - I still need to play Subnautica: Below Zero first, but I expect I'll play this at some point.

Avowed - if this turns out to be a particularly good game I'll probably pick it up once I have a PC that can run it.

Gold Gold Adventure Gold - reminds me a bit of Black & White, but I have my doubts it'll hold up to my expectations.

Sniper Elite: Resistance - I liked Sniper Elite 3 (or 4?), so I might play this one day as well.

Dune: Awakening - I'm mostly curious about how they're going to bring the Dune world alive. I doubt I'll have time to actually play it, but my wife loves Dune and if she decides to buy it I might try it out.

Fable - I liked the first Fable game, but my expectations are very low based on the later games in the series.

 

[BeardyHat]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

I may pick it up on release, depending on reports of how much extra work it'll need. Other than that, I'll look forward to deep discounts on games from this year and last.

 

[mjs warlord]

Their is one called A.S.H. thats been in my coming soon wish list for at least a year

 

[Frindis]

Sniper Elite: Resistance, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Mafia: The Old Country & Half-Life 3.

 

[isleepinabed]

As things stand I'm not looking forward to much apart from re-releases, namely Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D (if it isn't listed at full price), Lunar Remastered, and Project Justice on the Capcom Fighting Collection 2.

There are others that have been announced for a long time that are currently MIA that I'd like to know more about: Rosewater, Phonopolis, maybe Pathologic 3...

I'm ready to be surprised by the year's unexpected gems

 

[ZedClampet]

In no particular order

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
Split Fiction (gf and I loved It Takes Two)
Death Stranding 2
Avowed
Orcs Must Die Deathtrap
Mafia Old Country
Two Point Museum
DOOM Dark Ages
Nivalis
Killing Floor 3
AC Shadows
GTA 6 (don’t have a current gen console though)
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Crimson Desert

There are just so many games I’m interested in coming out in 2025. I don’t think there has ever been a year where there are this many games i’m excited for. There’s a ton more but I thought my list was getting too long already.

You win the "My favorite list other than my own" award.

 

[Zloth]

The very first game on the list is GTA6, which is almost certainly not showing up for PC in 2025!? I suppose it technically could happen but come on! Might as well put Breath of the Wild on there, too.

• Civ 7
• Avowed
• Death Stranding 2
• FF7 Rebirth
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• Yakuza Pirates? Dunno, this one has serious shark jumping potential.
• The Alters
• Expedition 33
• Solasta 2
• Subnautica 2
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

In the could-possibly-happen-in-2024 category

• Light No Fire
• Judas

Others not in the article

• Wayward Realms
• Warped Space
• Star Citizen: Squadron 42 (it could happen!!)

 

[neogunhero]

You win the "My favorite list other than my own" award.

To be fair, I took a lot off your list as well. We seem to have similar tastes when it comes to games. I almost forgot about Nivalis until I saw your list!

 

[neogunhero]

The very first game on the list is GTA6, which is almost certainly not showing up for PC in 2025!? I suppose it technically could happen but come on! Might as well put Breath of the Wild on there, too.

Rockstar is all over the place when it comes to PC releases. GTA IV came out little over 7 months after console release (April 2008 - December 2008), GTA V took 1 year and 7 months (September 2013 - April 2015), and RDR2 was 1 year and 1 month (October 2018 - November 2019).

It’s so hard to judge whether it will be sooner or later for the PC release. One thing is clear to me though, don’t get your hopes up for a PC release in 2025😥

 

[Colif]

Titan Quest 2... I don't know if its in article as I can't read... but it is only game I know I want now.

I might fill in the gaps if I find anything else. But so far, thats it.

 

[Johnway]

A lot of good games have been listed that i would be interested in. The problem is that i'm mostly indifferent atm as my pc isn't going to run them and i'm looking at my backlog to finish.

I guess its just Path of exile 2, but i'm not falling for the hype as i'm just waiting for the various updates and content to be released. Early access is something i generally don't touch.

 

[neogunhero]

The problem is that i'm mostly indifferent atm as my pc isn't going to run them and i'm looking at my backlog to finish.

This is my problem also. I was so excited for Stalker 2 but wasn’t sure if I could run it so I played on Game Pass. Turns out my PC barely hangs on as I play. After that I didn’t even bother trying out Indiana Jones because I knew it would be the same. I always prefer frames to graphics quality, but these games especially looks terrible at low settings, and even then I’m barely getting 30fps. This is why I’ve been looking back in my Steam library and making a list of games I want to revisit.

 

[isleepinabed]

A lot of good games have been listed that i would be interested in. The problem is that i'm mostly indifferent atm as my pc isn't going to run them and i'm looking at my backlog to finish.

I guess its just Path of exile 2, but i'm not falling for the hype as i'm just waiting for the various updates and content to be released. Early access is something i generally don't touch.

This is my problem also. I was so excited for Stalker 2 but wasn’t sure if I could run it so I played on Game Pass. Turns out my PC barely hangs on as I play. After that I didn’t even bother trying out Indiana Jones because I knew it would be the same. I always prefer frames to graphics quality, but these games especially looks terrible at low settings, and even then I’m barely getting 30fps. This is why I’ve been looking back in my Steam library and making a list of games I want to revisit.

Upcoming games don't automatically mean that they're more hardware demanding. There were a lot of celebrated games this year I'm sure would run in most people's computers, and surely next year's will provide more.

On the other hand I'm all for replaying or finally deciding to try older games! This year I had a lot more fun playing older games I hadn't got into than the games that actually came out in 2024. They might have been old but they were new to me...