The 50 most anticipated new games of 2025

2024 was a weird year for video games, if not entertainment in general. While there certainly were major AAA releases, like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, it was smaller and indie titles that more or less stole the show. Games like Balatro, Tactical Breach Wizards, and Animal Well dominated best-of-the-year discussions, while Team Asobi and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Astro Bot unexpectedly won the hearts of gamers yearning for a challenging, personality-driven platformer.

By all accounts, 2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest years for the video game industry in recent memory. The upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto 6 and the impending announcement of the successor to the Nintendo Switch alone would clinch that distinction, but there are even more releases to look forward to on the horizon. From AAA behemoths like Borderlands 4, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and Ghost of Yōtei to ambitious new titles like 2XKO, Arc Raiders, and Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, there’s almost too many exciting new releases to keep track of.

Not to worry, though; we’ve compiled a list of the 50 games to look forward to this year, organized by their expected release date or release window.

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD

Release date: Jan. 16
Where to play: Nintendo Switch

When Donkey Kong Country Returns first came out in 2010, it was the first DK Country game not to involve developer Rare, and it came as some relief to fans that Retro Studios’ installment of the classic platformer series felt fresh and fun. It may not be the Wii game you were expecting to get an HD Nintendo Switch version, but it’s still worth checking out, especially if you never had the chance to play it back in 2010. —Maddy Myers

Release date: Jan. 23
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Do you like sci-fi? What about mechs? If so, this extraction shooter is one to watch. You’ll explore the world of Amasia alongside your AI partner in search of rare resources, taking on strange creatures and other players in the process. —Saira Mueller

Release date: Jan. 30
Where to play: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Meaning no disrespect to the older Sniper Elite games, it’s pretty impressive the way this series has just kept getting better with every entry. The latest, Sniper Elite: Resistance, will bring the series’ trademark stealth and sniping gameplay to Nazi-occupied France, where players will join the resistance. —Austen Goslin

Release date: Feb. 11
Where to play: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

The latest installment in the popular strategy franchise, Civilization 7 makes some bold changes to the familiar gameplay — including the introduction of three Ages to represent different eras of civilization. Changes aside, it’ll likely still have you up until all hours taking “just one more turn.” —Saira Mueller

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Release date: Feb. 4
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

With Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, developer Warhorse Studios plans to deliver on the fantasy of role-playing a 15th-century Bohemian warrior with the reality of a life simulation. Players don’t just engage in first-person medieval warfare; they need to sleep, eat, and train for visceral sword-based combat. The original Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a fan-favorite smash hit, and the sequel looks to go even bigger. —Michael McWhertor

Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Release date: Feb. 14
Where to play: Mac, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Pretty much for the entire run of the series, Assassin’s Creed fans have had one request: a game set in feudal Japan. That game, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, is finally out in 2025, bringing literal years of clamoring to a close. You’ll play as two protagonists, swapping between the fictional assassin Naoe and the nonfictional samurai Yasuke, with stealth- or combat-focused gameplay respectively. Though Shadows was initially planned for a late 2024 release, Ubisoft delayed it, citing the need for additional polish. All told, Shadows could be the biggest Assassin’s Creed in years — or the biggest flop. Either way, one to watch! —Ari Notis

Release date: Feb. 18
Where to play: Windows PC, Xbox Series X

The role-playing game experts at Obsidian Entertainment return to the fantasy world of Eora — from the Pillars of Eternity series — for a brand-new, first-person adventure. Avowed looks like fantasy RPG comfort food, with swords and spells (and guns!) at the heart of combat, and choices and consequences driving its wizards-and-warriors narrative. Adventure and danger await in what appears to be a classic fantasy tale on the diverse and mysterious Living Lands. —Michael McWhertor

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

Release date: Feb. 18
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Don’t Nod’s Lost Records: Bloom & Rage seems to have a lot of what made Life Is Strange and Life Is Strange 2 special: a heartfelt, complex story about teenagers. This time, the studio is taking on a mid-’90s group of friends — in a band — and adding a supernatural mystery to the mix. It looks like it’ll blend both the past and the present to create a woven narrative. —Nicole Carpenter

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

Release date: Feb. 21
Where to play: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth was my favorite game of 2024, a colossal open-world RPG that doubled as a conclusion of sorts and starting point for the long-running franchise. Its story felt like meeting eclectic weirdos on a flight to Hawaii and then deciding to spend your entire vacation hanging out with your new best friends. One hitch: the game features turn-based combat, which isn’t everyone’s cup of rum.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii offers an alternative for folks who want the Hawaiian adventure, but prefer to spend time mashing buttons as they pulverize baddies. Same beautiful setting. Same charming storytelling. But now you get a sword and naval combat! —Chris Plante

Release date: Feb. 28
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise somehow manages to get both deeper and more approachable with each entry. Monster Hunter Wilds is the franchise’s most ambitious adventure yet, with a sprawling ecosystem that will feature new monsters to battle, a new mount to further speed up travel, and even greater depth for the series’ trademark combat. Dynamically changing environments and multiple weapon loadouts will help keep things fresh, even for Monster Hunter veterans. —Michael McWhertor

Release date: March 6
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

This fast-paced, colorful shooter is set for release in March. Traditional hero shooter mechanics are bolstered by power-up cards, which grant wild bonuses like a teeny-tiny noggin that’s tough to headshot, or an upside-down world. This free-to-play game has super short rounds and rewards aggressive play, quick reflexes, and clever use of hero powers and shard cards. —Cass Marshall

Release date: March 25
Where to play: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Although Frodo and his pals ended up getting pulled into some very un-hobbit-like adventures, we all know that most hobbits can’t abide that sort of thing at all. Tales of the Shire embraces the core activities of the hobbit lifestyle — farming, eating, and socializing — already a trifecta in the cozy life sim genre. So if you wished Frodo had never left the Shire, and indeed that you yourself could make a home for yourself there, this is the game for you; here’s a glowing preview of the game from Polygon’s own Lord of the Rings expert Susana Polo if you need more details. —Maddy Myers

Release date: March 27
Where to play: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Inspired by Fallout: New Vegas, this upcoming game from Sniper Elite developer Rebellion Developments is set in an alt-history 1960s version of England in the wake of the Windscale nuclear disaster. In the world of Atomfall, the disaster has transformed northern England into a radioactive quarantine zone; the single-player, first-person survival game features everything you’d hope to see in a New Vegas-inspired experience. That means scavenging, crafting, bartering with and/or fighting NPCs, and exploring and uncovering the mysteries of this ravaged world. —Maddy Myers

Release date: March 28 (early access)
Where to play: Windows PC

The first thing you’ll notice about InZoi is how extraordinarily realistic it looks, especially compared to The Sims, its stylized and cartoonish competitor. Krafton’s upcoming life sim game — slated to be released in early access on March 28 — capitalizes on the capabilities of Unreal Engine 5, and it shows. What remains to be seen is how fun the rest of the game is beyond the hyperrealism of its character creator. When Jordon Oloman previewed the game for Polygon at Gamescom 2024, he described InZoi as “a technical marvel, a mind-boggling, genre-eating life simulator that I’m keen to dig deeper into.” —Maddy Myers

Release date: March 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

The story of Football Manager 25 has been one of delays. While it initially released its new entries in the fall, Sports Interactive announced in October 2024 that this year’s game won’t come out until March (when many of the globe’s major leagues will be wrapping up their seasons), in order to “deliver the best possible experience” for the “biggest technical and visual advancement in the series for a generation.” Among the many intriguing new features — better animations, a completely overhauled match day experience, an improved UI — the most exciting is the long-overdue addition of women’s soccer to the mega popular simulator franchise. —Pete Volk

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X

Do we even have to remind you that Grand Theft Auto 6 is currently slated for 2025? Though there’s no announced release date, publisher Take-Two Interactive has the game set for fall 2025. GTA 6 is easily the most anticipated game expected out in the next year, bringing the franchise back to Vice City, the franchise’s fictional version of Miami. While those games were set in the 1980s, GTA 6 brings Vice City to the present, following a Bonnie and Clyde-esque duo. —Nicole Carpenter

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

After dominating the world of MOBAs, tactical shooters, and animated entertainment, Riot Games is now setting its sights on fighting games. 2XKO is set in the League of Legends universe and employs a few of its characters in a unique fighting game that’s designed from the ground up for 2v2 combat. —Austen Goslin

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Borderlands 4, criminally not titled “4derlands,” doesn’t need to be anything beyond “more Borderlands” to work. But the next entry in Gearbox’s loot-shooter series introduces a number of new features, including a grappling hook (scientifically proven to improve every game it’s a part of) and an allegedly “seamless” map. Bring on the 87 gajillion guns! —Ari Notis

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5

The next installment of the baffling and beautiful Kojima Productions game Death Stranding (2019) doesn’t yet have a release date, but what we do know is that it will be just as incomprehensible as its predecessor. We know that much from multiple lengthy trailers that have been released for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, featuring such bizarre new additions as Dollman, a living puppet animated in stop-motion style. I don’t know why there’s a living puppet in this game, but I’m also not sure I can explain anything that happened in the first game, either. Bring it on, Kojima. —Maddy Myers

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

With a light horror narrative, this turn-based RPG will see you fighting big bads while attending school on a mysterious island. Aside from fighting monsters with your friends, you’ll plan your school schedule in order to build skills. —Saira Mueller

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Get ready to rip and tear with a CHAINSAW SHIELD in this medieval prequel to the Doom series. Doom: The Dark Ages may be set in the past, but that doesn’t mean the gunplay will be any less contemporary. The setting simply gives the Doom Slayer a reason to smash demons with a spiked flail, ride on the back of a dragon, and pilot a giant mech that looks like an armored medieval knight. It’s quite possibly 2025’s most badass game. —Michael McWhertor

Release date: TBA
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Played from a third-person perspective, Funcom’s Dune: Awakening will allow players to customize their own characters and align themselves with the various factions vying for control of Arrakis. Combat is dictated through an interesting mix of melee and ranged abilities, including firearms, which is a significant departure from the established canon. You’ll also have the opportunity to build bases and drive vehicles that borrow much of the design language used in the more recent Villeneuve Dune saga through an open-world sandbox, pun intended.

The small amounts of gameplay we’ve been shown thus far look like a blend of Subnautica or No Man’s Sky with more live-service trappings thrown in, such as colored loot, guilds, and character progression systems. —Alice Jovanée

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5

Not quite Ghost of Tsushima 2, Ghost of Yōtei is a new story from the developers at Sucker Punch, set in the early 1600s in the regions surrounding Mount Yotei. In that time period, the region was called Ezo, and was a separatist republic led by samurai. We don’t know much about the game’s new protagonist, named Atsu, except that she wields two katanas and she’s out for revenge. —Maddy Myers

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Nearly a decade after the release of Killing Floor 2, the FPS franchise is back with a sequel that should open up plenty of room for more co-op zombie killing. The game already looks a whole lot prettier than its predecessor, and it seems to have even more unlocks and upgrades to go along with its improved visuals. —AG

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

We don’t know much about this upcoming multiplayer, co-op Elden Ring spinoff game, but we know enough to be intrigued; the project brings roguelike and battle royale elements to the punishing world of the Lands Between, as well as randomized loot and preset characters from which to select (rather than a player-created protagonist, as FromSoft’s games typically have). It all sounds very different from Elden Ring, and yet it will probably have some ineffable Elden Ring-ness to it when it arrives sometime in 2025 (following a network test early in the year). —Maddy Myers

Professor Layton and the New World of Steam

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Nintendo Switch

Level-5 announced Professor Layton and the New World of Steam during a Nintendo Direct in 2023, but hasn’t shared much about the game, aside from a few brief trailers that hinted at a new antagonist in a technologically evolving world. The last mainline Professor Layton game was released in 2017, so fans of the franchise are eager to learn more about the game as its 2025 release approaches. —Nicole Carpenter

Release date: 2025 (early access)
Where to play: Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Would it even be an action roguelike if you didn’t fight through the underworld? 33 Immortals continues the trend with a game starring a damned soul who battles their way through hell, purgatory, and heaven — but here’s the really strange part. The game supports up to 33 players working in tandem, making this a massive cooperative experience. Killing god will probably take some teamwork, after all. —Maddy Myers

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

The Anno franchise is really drilling down into the true sickos in its fan base now. The city-building simulation series is dropping its oldest edition yet, taking players all the way back to the days of ancient Rome where you can try your hand at running a little piece of the empire. —Austen Goslin

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

A multiplayer extraction adventure where the player must loot a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of deadly robots. Those brave enough to raid the above world must build relationships with traders, survive dangerous conditions, and upgrade their underground base. —Cass Marshall

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Windows PC, Xbox Series X

The first installment in the long-running series since 2012, this upcoming game is called simply Fable and, for several years since its announcement in 2020, details about it have been scant. Former entries in the action role-playing series were all about player choice, and the gameplay trailer that finally debuted in 2024 emphasized that as well, with a description that reads, “What does it mean to be a Hero? Well, in the fairytale land of Albion, that is entirely up to you.” This game is nominally coming out in 2025, so here’s hoping we’ll hear more about what those choices might be. —Maddy Myers

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Set in the universe of 2019’s Control, Remedy Entertainment’s cooperative first-person shooter follows a team of agents trapped inside the depths of the Oldest House, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control. Isolated from the outside world, players must work together to fight against the extradimensional enemies trapped alongside them, utilizing a variety of tools, weapons, and equipment cobbled together from whatever they can find on hand. Desperate times call for desperate measures! —Toussaint Egan

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, former Uncharted director Amy Hennig’s new project at her new studio, Skydance New Media, is based on a 2010 Marvel Comics series about Steve Rogers and T’Challa’s grandpa teaming up to fight Nazis. The game has a four-character ensemble, so beyond those two more famous characters, there’s also Gabriel Jones (a member of the Howling Commandos, an elite special forces unit formed by Nick Fury) and Nanali (described as the leader of the Wakandan Spy Network — and in the comics, a former queen of Wakanda as well). No release date yet, but expect to be punching out those Nazis in 2025. —Maddy Myers

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Nintendo Switch

Announced in 2017 and then followed by lots of radio silence and a total reboot, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has been a long time coming. It came as a great surprise and relief, therefore, to see a full-length trailer for the game in 2024 that promised a 2025 release date. A more specific release date has yet to be clarified for Samus Aran’s next first-person adventure, but rumor has it that it might accompany the Switch 2 — also slated for 2025, natch. (For those who have no idea why longtime Metroid fans are frothing at the mouth, pick up the remastered version of the first Metroid Prime on the Switch and get a taste of what’s to come.) —Maddy Myers

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Nintendo Switch

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is the next installment in a series of Pokémon spinoffs that started with Pokémon Legends: Arceus. I’m particularly eager for this release because it takes players to the urban setting of Lumiose City and the Pokémon X and Y generation. —Ana Diaz

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Nearly six years removed from the release of the first game, Ukrainian developer Frogwares is returning with a follow-up to its 2019 survival horror game The Sinking City. Inspired by the works of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, The Sinking City 2 takes place in the fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, which has recently been afflicted by a supernatural flood. Though it’s a stand-alone story from The Sinking City, the sequel will likely boast a few references to the events of the previous game. —Toussaint Egan

Release date: 2025 (early access)
Where to play: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Call it Skate 4. Call it skate. However you refer to Electronic Arts’ revival of its beloved and long-dormant skateboarding franchise, you have to put some respect on its name due to the long, battle-tested, community-powered development period that (we hope) ensures developer Full Circle will deliver on a bazillion requests for a new Skate game. Next year’s free-to-play Skate promises to be a living, growing game, with something different to do every day, week, or season. —Michael McWhertor

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Mac, Windows PC

Slay the Spire is the perfect “just one more game” deck-building roguelike, providing variety through its four classes and massive assortment of cards and artifacts. Slay the Spire 2 doesn’t look like it will change the formula too much, at least from what we saw in the gameplay trailer shown at The Game Awards, and that’s a good thing. While some of the concepts and characters look the same, there are enough tweaks (including a new character called the Necrobinder) to make me excited to play hundreds of hours of a sequel. —Chelsea Stark

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

The original Splitgate was one of the most fun and exciting surprises of the last several years, a snappy FPS with Portal-esque pathways that gave players the freedom to turn every map into an M.C. Escher firefight. As for how the sequel will improve the gameplay, we’ll just have to wait and see. —Austen Goslin

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Compulsion Games, the developer of 2018’s We Happy Few, is set to return in 2025 with a new third person action-adventure set in a Southern Gothic fantasy world inspired by the American South. South of Midnight follows the story of Hazel, a young woman whose hometown of Prospero is ravaged by a supernatural hurricane. Set adrift in a world that blurs the line between folklore and reality, Hazel must use her powers as a “weaver” to restore balance and find a new home. —Toussaint Egan

Release date: 2025 (early access)
Where to play: Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Subnautica 2 is the sequel to the underwater survival game Subnautica. I loved the original game because you can explore breathtaking coral reefs and dark ocean depths. I’m excited because developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment announced multiplayer for the sequel, so I’ll have another survival game I can play with friends.—Ana Diaz

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

If you, like me, are looking forward to Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi drama Mickey 17, you should definitely keep your eye out for this weird and wild survival adventure. Set on an inhospitable planet, The Alters puts players in the role of Jan Dolski, a space miner who must navigate a gigantic circular space station to stay out of the reach of the planet’s deadly sunlight. With no one else to aid him, Jan must rely on the Alters — cloned versions of himself from alternate timelines — to help him conquer the planet’s resources and devise a way to return home. —Toussaint Egan

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Even after a year of extraordinary RPGs in 2024, we’re still ready for what could be another banger — or at least something stunning to look upon — in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a turn-based single-player fantasy RPG that’s also the first-ever project from developer Sandfall Interactive. The French studio’s game takes inspiration from Final Fantasy and Persona, and its slightly realistic, slightly stylized character designs (courtesy of Unreal Engine 5) pair with a distinctive Belle Époque-meets-dark-fantasy setting. —Maddy Myers

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

It’s been nearly 10 years since the last game in the Mafia franchise, but developer Hangar 13, which previously made Mafia 3, is back for another tale of organized crime. This time around the open-world crime series is taking players to turn-of-the-century Sicily for some old-school action. —Austen Goslin

Release date: TBA
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox Series X

Ghost Story Games (formerly Irrational Games) is back with its first release in over a decade. Set aboard a disintegrating spaceship, Judas is a first-person shooter centered on the eponymous protagonist, a pariah of this far-future society, who must fight to survive while weighing the future of the surviving remnants of humanity. The game will prominently feature procedurally generated scenarios inspired by Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System. —Toussaint Egan

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Obsidian Entertainment announced it’ll release The Outer Worlds 2, its cheeky science fiction role-playing game, in 2025 with a new trailer at The Game Awards in December. As the trailer narrator put it, The Outer Worlds 2 will have “everything that should have been in the first game — more action, more weapons, and more… graphics,” naturally. Again, there’s no specific release date for this one, but the first gameplay trailer looks quite exciting. —Nicole Carpenter

Release date: TBA
Where to play: Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Gears 5 ended on a hell of a cliffhanger half a decade ago, so it’s intensely gratifying that, in 2025, the series picks up with— Wait. A prequel?! Yes, Gears of War: E-Day is about as much of a prequel as a Gears of War game can be, going back to the start of the Locust horde invasion. Dangling narrative threads aside, mowing down hordes of squelchy underground abominations never gets old. Plus, playing once again as series mainstays Marcus and Dom is nostalgia in a bottle. —Ari Notis

Release date: 2025
Where to play: Playstation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

A new game from Bungie would always be cause for celebration, but a new extraction shooter building on the bones of the developer’s first franchise is particularly interesting. This seems like Bungie taking a dive into the deepest end of the hardcore multiplayer FPS pool, and given the studio’s track record, it’s hard to think of anything more exciting in 2025 than that. —Austen Goslin

Release date: 2025
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

Like other open-world survival games, Terminator: Survivors will task players — either alone or in co-op multiplayer — to scavenge for resources, build a base, and fight to survive against other players. But there’s another wrinkle: In a post-Judgment Day world, players will also have to survive against hunter-killer robots, namely the Terminator T-800 and the other terrors in Skynet’s mechanized army, which aims to wipe out humanity for good. —Michael McWhertor

Release date: TBA
Where to play: Windows PC

Valve’s team-based multiplayer shooter, which also has a sprinkling of MOBA-inspired elements, didn’t have an ordinary launch. Deadlock entered into secret early playtesting on Steam, with players sharing keys with one another through word of mouth and agreeing to a cone of silence about the game’s existence upon logging in. The game finally got a Steam page in August 2024, but it’s still not even technically in early access — although you can play it, if you know a guy who knows a guy, etc. We figure Deadlock will get an actual release date in 2025, and having played it a bit ourselves, we can tell you it’s got a lot of potential and (despite the weird rollout) is worth keeping an eye on when it’s fully live. —Maddy Myers

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Release date: TBA
Where to play: PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox Series X

At a preview for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Konami producer Noriaki Okamura told Polygon that the team “definitely didn’t want to alter any of the story or world” — but didn’t address the elephant in the room (the departures of former Metal Gear creatives from Konami, like Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa). Given the immense respect for the source material seen in Konami’s Silent Hill 2 remake (developed by Bloober Team), despite the immense skepticism about it on the part of Silent Hill fans, it does seem possible that Metal Gear Solid Delta might similarly win over the skeptical superfans out there. That’s clearly what the team is hoping for — and they seemingly have some more time to polish, since the game doesn’t yet have a release date beyond 2025. —Maddy Myers