2025's Most Anticipated Games - Paul's Picks
2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest years in video games of all time. No matter whether you play on PC, PlayStation 4 or 5, Xbox One or Series X|S, or the Nintendo Switch, and maybe the upcoming Switch successor, you’re going to have a lot to play in 2025. Given that, we couldn’t simply pool the team’s thoughts into one top 10 countdown of the most anticipated games, so we solicited 10 from each person to discuss. Today, hear what Paul has to say about their 10 most anticipated games of 2025.

10. Hollow Knight: Silksong
Honestly, I strongly considered not putting Silksong on this list, considering the number of times that I’ve been burned. My parents taught me though when I was a kid (admittedly in the context of Santa) that if I don’t believe, I won’t receive, and so I won’t stop believing in Team Cherry’s ability to release Hollow Knight: Silksong, but seriously, how much longer do they have to leave us waiting for? With every year that passes I become less confident in the game simply due to the fact that “feature creep” may be taking hold. I’m worried, but I won’t stop believing.

9. Fable
There is perhaps no game in 2025 that carries with it more hopes, dreams, and significance for its publisher than Fable. From the pedigree of the IP, to the sad end of Lionhead, and Forza Horizon developer, Playground, the return of Fable has been a long time coming, and it has been a while now since the game was first announced. We’re due for a release, and supposedly 2025 is the year. Xbox has a big year ahead as you’ll soon see with a couple other games on my list, and for many, this may be the centrepiece.

8. Split Fiction
I’d heard some rumblings about Split Fiction in the lead-up to both the leak, but also the eventual Game Awards reveal, and everything I’d heard was overwhelmingly positive about Josef Fares’ latest. Upon finally seeing it myself through TGA trailer, I understand the hype; this is yet another awesomely quirky, and endearingly unique, co-op platformer from the minds of Borthers: A Tale Of Two Sons, A Way Out, and It Takes Two. Somehow, it seems to be even more ambitious than those other titles with the two eras that are being straddled by the game. I’m all about this one when it arrives in March.

7. Avowed
Recent previews, including Matt’s own, have enhanced the already high opinion I had of the game. Forget the internet bellyachers, and dial completely into what the game is doing and I think, like me, that you’ll be feeling pretty confident in what Obsidian is building. They’ve honestly given no reason in decades to doubt the quality of what they developing here, and so bring on February as far as I’m concerned. As a bonus, the game visually looks stunning, those Microsoft dollars are doing wonders!

6. Borderlands 4
I know Borderlands 3 was a bit of a letdown, especially given where the franchise had been at with the incredible success of Borderlands 2. The thing is, that the core gameplay of Borderlands 3 was still excellent, no complaints at all, but it was the writing paired with some pretty rubbish antagonists that brought the game down. This might be a critical point for the IP, if they can recapture the narrative magic of earlier games (as Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands suggested they might be) then Borderlands 4 could be a Top 5 GOTY for me, however if not, and if there’s nothing to spice up the gameplay a bit, then we could be on a slippery slope into irrelevance. For now, I have confidence in what Gearbox can do.

5. DOOM: The Dark Ages
I had this slightly higher on my list in initial drafts of my top 10, but then I remembered that iD and Bethesda completely torched Mick Gordon and the soundtrack won’t be the same as a result, and that took away a few points. That all said, as a game playing experience, I know that I’m going to be in love with DOOM: The Dark Ages, and I can’t wait to see what the Dark Ages setting is going to result in for both the look and feel of the world of DOOM.

4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Rarely would a brand new IP from a brand new team get me excited on levels like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but this one is an exception. The French-developed title is channelling the best of classic and modern JRPGs, whilst it possesses a really engaging narrative hook, and visuals that are eye-searingly good. The combat looks as awesome as it can get for turn-based JRPG-styled, and after eating well on the genre in 2024, and 2025 looking relatively sparse in comparison, I’m putting a lot of eggs in this basket. Ben Starr’s voice being in the game also gives the game some bonus credits.

3. Judas
I have the utmost faith in what Ken Levine and his team are building with Judas. I almost didn’t consider this one for my list either, until I remembered Troy Baker recently allude to a 2025 launch in a recent GQ interview. I’ve heard Ken speak about Judas a couple of times, and devoured the impressions of Geoff Keighley, Ryan McCaffrey, Skill-Up, Jake Baldino, and Lucy James have made based on the very exclusive opportunity they got to play 5 hours of it in early 2024. Judas is one of the great mystery games of the year, and I’m so excited by the prospect of being able to attempt to unravel that mystery sometime in the next 12 months.

2. Ghost Of Yotei
I went into 2020 excited for Ghost Of Tsushima purely based upon the pedigree of Sucker Punch as a developer, but not necessarily because I was crazy about the game itself. Flash forward to EOY 2020 and Ghost Of Tsushima was one of my favourites of the year, and now, with a much anticipated sequel incoming, my hype for what Ghost Of Yotei could be is magnitudes greater than the prior entry. We still don’t know much, and I’m all for that mystery. All we know is 2025 at this point, but I will back PlayStation and Sucker Punch to adequately drip feed the info and then blow my mind later this year.
1. Monster Hunter Wilds
I’ll buck the community trend of losing my mind over GTA here, I’m just not much of a GTA fan but go your hardest everyone – Monster Hunter Wilds is where it’s at this year for me. The recent Beta, while looking a bit rough visually on consoles, played like a dream. Being able to switch between weapons, have even bigger spaces to explore, and of course, a new swathe of monsters to massacre (or be mashed by) leaves me incredibly excited. Fortunately, while there are many games with “TBD 2025” next to their names, the wait for Wilds isn’t nearly as long. February 28, come at me.
So that concludes Paul’s list of their most anticipated games of 2025. What are some of yours? Hit us up via social media to let us know what games you are keen on in 2025!