2024 was full of great games, with some bangers like Path of Exile 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming in hot in December. The first month of 2025 is comparatively quiet, but the calm won’t last long, as February is absurdly stacked with big games. And quiet is of course relative—lots of interesting games are out in January, including the early access release of Hyper Light Breaker, the long-awaited sequel to 2016’s Hyper Light Drifter.
See what’s out in January below. For a more zoomed-out view of what’s coming out on PC this year, check out our list of 2025’s new PC games.
January’s big PC release dates
January gaming events
- The Steam Winter Sale is over, but there’ll be specials on realtime strategy games from January 20-27. See the full sale schedule in our Steam sale dates guide.
- The 2025 Taipei Game Show is January 23-26
More games releasing in January
- January 9 — Freedom Wars Remastered – Vita RPG remaster (Steam)
- January 13 — Airborne Empire (Early Access) – City builder in the sky (Steam)
- January 15 — Aloft – It’s a big month for games set in the sky (Steam)
- January 16 — Assetto Corsa EVO – Racing sim (Steam)
- January 16 — Dynasty Warriors: Origins – More large-scale battles (Steam)
- January 16 — Tales of Graces f Remastered – Action RPG remaster (Steam)
- January 20— Mekkablood: Quarry Assault – Old-school FPS (Steam)
- January 23 — Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles – Retro lightsaber battles (Steam)
- January 23 — Synduality Echo of Ada – Futuristic extraction shooter (Steam)
- January 27 — Virtua Fighter 5 REVO – Rollback netcode and 4K upgrade (Steam)
- January 27 — Space Engineers 2 (Early Access) — Sci-fi sandbox (Steam)
- January 28 — Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap – Horde shooter (Steam)
- January 28 — Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter – Rat soulslike (Steam)
- January 28 — The Stone of Madness – 18th-century stealth tactics (Steam)
- January 28 — Warside – Advanced Wars-like (Steam)
