Having already covered what Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo have in the pipeline for 2025, all that’s left is the multiplatform heroes that keep the lights on all year round for the big three.
Whether you’re Ubisoft, EA, Capcom, Devolver Digital, Annapurna, Square Enix, or anybody else, there are plenty of releases expected to drop in the next twelve months that have gamers everywhere salivating.
While only a few dates are known at this stage, we expect most are waiting for a little game called Grand Theft Auto VI to settle on a date before they all decide to steer clear a month on either side of that, such is the firepower of Rockstar’s money-printing IP.
So here’s a look at all of the biggest and best third-party video games to be excited for in 2025.
Grand Theft Auto VI
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet. Coming 2025 to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Borderlands 4
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, outrageous enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
Elden Ring Nightrein
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Elden Ring Nightrein is a standalone adventure within the Elden Ring universe, crafted to bring a new gaming experience. Join forces with other players to take on the creeping night and the dangers within.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Release Date: February 14
Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in Feudal Japan! Become a shinobi assassin and legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos. Switch between these two unlikely allies as you discover their common destiny and usher in a new era for Japan.
Monster Hunter Wilds
Release Date: February 28
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Release Date: February 21
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Embark on an over-the-top, modern-day pirate adventure with an ex-yakuza, now pirate captain & his crew. Engage in exhilarating combat on land and sea in the hunt for lost memories and treasure.
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
In the chaos of war, worlds collide. Captain America and Azzuri, the Black Panther of the 1940s, must overcome their differences and form an uneasy alliance to confront their common enemy.
Fighting alongside Gabriel Jones of the Howling Commandos, and Nanali, a Wakandan spy embedded in Occupied Paris, they must join forces to stop a sinister plot that threatens to turn the havoc of WWII into the ultimate rise of Hydra.
Lost Records: Bloom and Rage
Release Date: February 18
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange.
Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Mixtape
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
On their last night of high school, three friends embark on one more adventure together. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.
Civilization VII
Release Date: February 12
Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier’s Civilization VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
Split Fiction
Release Date: March 7
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Dispatch
Release Date: TBC 2025,
Platforms: PC, Consoles TBC
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter.
Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero.
Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game
Release Date: March 25
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Welcome home, Hobbit! Live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire. Discover, decorate, & share in this idyllic corner of Middle-earth.
Click here to read our Tales of the Shire hands-on preview.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Release Date: February 1
Platforms: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head, and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Atomfall
Release Date: March 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Earthblade
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Mac
You are Névoa, an enigmatic child of Fate returning at long last to Earth, in this explor-action platformer from the creators of Celeste. Earthblade’s lush pixel art world offers seamless exploration, challenging combat, and countless mysteries to pick apart.
The Alters
Release Date: Q1 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Explore an emotional sci-fi game that features a unique blend of adventure, survival, and base-building elements. Play as Jan Dolski, a simple worker who creates alternative versions of himself in a desperate attempt to escape from a planet where even sun rays can prove deadly.
The First Berserker: Khazan
Release Date: March 27
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
The First Berserker: Khazan is a hardcore action role-playing game. The player will become Khazan, the great general of the Pell Los Empire, who overcame death, and sets out to reveal the incidents that led to his downfall and seek vengeance on his enemies.
Directive 8020
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone. In space, death takes many forms.
2XKO
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
2XKO is an upcoming free-to-play fighting game developed and published by Riot Games in collaboration with Radiant Entertainment.
Crimson Desert
Release Date: Late 2025
Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure set in the beautiful yet brutal continent of Pywel. Discover adventure, uncover wonders, and experience thrilling action as you witness the saga surrounding Kliff, leader of the Greymanes, whose mission takes him on an incredible journey.
Demonschool
Release Date: Q1 2025
Platforms: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mysterious island.
Killing Floor 3
Release Date: March 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
It’s 2091 and megacorp Horzine has produced the ultimate army: an obedient horde of bioengineered monsters called zeds. Now, join the rebel group Nightfall in this co-op action/horror FPS that puts you and your teammates in a battle for the future of humanity.
Dune: Awakening
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Dune: Awakening is an open-world survival MMO set on the most dangerous planet in the universe. Survive the desert by learning the ways of the Fremen.
Expand your potential through combat, spice, building, and trade. As guild intrigue and warfare rage, control the spice and cling to power.
Mouse: P.I. For Hire
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns-blazing, jazz-fueled adventure in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930s with the adrenaline and action of an explosive first-person shooter.
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the Ninja Gaiden series from the team behind Blasphemous, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling, and challenging ninja adventure.
Possessor(s)
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Escape a sprawling, flooded city overrun with surreal interdimensional horror in this fast-paced action side scroller.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Discover the origin story of iconic military operative Snake and begin to unravel the plot of the legendary Metal Gear series.
FBC: Firebreak
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
A three-player cooperative first-person shooter set within a mysterious federal agency under assault by otherworldly forces.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
Skate Story
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Mac
Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey from a fragile beginner to a hardened skater.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is an action-packed, rogue-lite adventure in the world of Random. Play as Queen Aleksandra and wield her living die-companion Fortune, as they go all in against the ancient evil that took everything from her.
The Wolf Among Us 2
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Fables are real and walk among us in The Wolf Among Us 2. There are no fairy tale endings.
Little Nightmares III
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Little Nightmares III is an atmospheric adventure game in which you follow the journey of Low and Alone, two best friends in search of a way out of the Nowhere.
Rematch
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Control one player on your team and compete in fast-paced 5v5 matches from an immersive third-person perspective. Team up with your friends and join the action.
Judas
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
A disintegrating starship. A desperate escape plan. You are the mysterious and troubled Judas. Your only hope for survival is to make or break alliances with your worst enemies. Will you work together to fix what you broke – or will you leave it to burn?
Mafia: The Old Country
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Uncover the origins of organized crime in Mafia: The Old Country, a gritty mob story set in the brutal underworld of 1900s Sicily. Fight to survive as Enzo Favara in this immersive third-person action-adventure.
Hell Is Us
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
If war is the closest we get to hell on earth, it’s because Earth harbours the worst of demons: humankind. In an isolated country ravaged by infighting, discover the secrets of your past and deal with the repercussions of a mysterious calamity.
Hyper Light Breaker
Release Date: January 14 (Early Access)
Platforms: PC
Enter the Overgrowth, a new realm in the world of Hyper Light. Play alone or with friends to explore open worlds, create new builds, rip through hordes, and overcome the Crowns and the Abyss King.
Cairn
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.
Kingdom Come Deliverance II
Release Date: February 4
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th-century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure, through the eyes of young Henry, as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.
Tron: Catalyst
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
The Arq Grid stands on the brink of collapse. With your Identity Disc and Light Cycle, fight to escape by wielding the power of the Glitch loop. Electrifying action and a rich story combine in a new adventure set within Disney’s iconic Tron universe.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Fight your way through a modern-day Seattle on the brink of an open war as an elder Vampire. Meet the power-players, ally yourself and decide who will rule and what the city will become.
Untitled Virtua Fighter Title
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: TBC
An all-new title in the iconic Virtua Fighter series has been revealed at the hands of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio.
