December is lastly right here, which suggests 2025 is across the nook. Whereas the month usually doesn’t supply many high-profile releases, this yr is totally different, with blockbuster exclusives, eagerly-awaited sequels, and various hyped early entry titles. Take a look at 15 titles to stay up for this month.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Full
Animal Crossing followers might have to attend till the Nintendo Swap’s successor for a sequel, however Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Full might fill the hole. Primarily based on the defunct free-to-play title launched in 2017, it is a model of the sport with out the microtransactions and playable offline. It launches on December third for iOS and Android, retailing for $9.99 till January thirty first, 2025, and offering a whopping 10,000+ gadgets to unlock, quite a few occasions, and totally different animals to work together with whereas constructing your splendid camp.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (PS5)
After a troubled launch on PC and a few redemption on Xbox Collection X/S, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is lastly making its method to PS5. Launching on December third, it consists of all of the enhancements and revamps, from the brand new Expertise Bushes for every class to Mastery, the Social gathering Finder, and the model new Havoc system, which provides difficult assignments post-Belief Degree 30. If a compelling four-player co-op shooter primarily based on Warhammer 40K seems like your factor, Darktide might fill that void.
Infinity Nikki
One in every of my most anticipated video games of 2024, Papergames’ Infinity Nikki is a free-to-play open-world title with gacha parts. Nevertheless, it’s additionally a dress-up journey title, the place natural exploration and a relaxed ambiance take priority over min-maxing characters and nonetheless not beating Reminiscence of Chaos 12. As Nikki and Momo arrive in Miraland, there are bosses to sort out, Curio Domains to beat, and outfits granting totally different talents. It’s oddly endearing, and launches on December fifth for PC, PS5, and cell.
Marvel Rivals
What occurs when two Physician Dooms wreak havoc with time and area, inflicting heroes from throughout realities to partake in interdimensional conflicts? You get NetEase’s Marvel Rivals, a free-to-play hero shooter that makes you are feeling such as you’re Spider-Man. Or Venom, Iron Man, Captain America, and Jeff the Shark. With 6v6 battles, Group-Up Assaults that promote synergies between associated characters, and a classy presentation, Marvel Rivals affords its personal tackle the style’s objective-based aggressive play. It’s out on December sixth for Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, and PC, with 33 heroes, eight maps, and much more content material to return post-launch.
Shadow Ways: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Selection (PS5, Xbox Collection X | S)
Mimimi Video games is unfortunately no extra, however Shadow Ways lives on. Xbox Collection X/S and PS5 gamers will lastly get their arms on Aiko’s Selection, a standalone growth specializing in the titular Kunoichi. There are three new principal and interlude missions alongside model new environments, as Aiko should confront her previous and defeat her outdated sensei. In the event you loved the bottom sport and synergizing your occasion’s talents to clear missions, lethally or in any other case, then Aiko’s Selection is a must-play. It goes dwell on December sixth for consoles.
Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle
MachineGames’ latest full-fledged title is upon us, and it’s decidedly not a shooter-focused affair. Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle is predicated on the acclaimed film collection (we don’t know in regards to the newest movies), happening between Raiders of the Misplaced Ark and The Final Campaign as Indy scours the globe to research the Nice Circle. Don’t let the first-person, typically third-person perspective idiot you – that is extra of an action-adventure title with platforming and puzzle-solving. You possibly can depend on stealth to knock out enemies or have interaction in melee fight. With MachineGames touting this as their longest sport, Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle might be an effective way to finish the yr when it launches on December ninth for Xbox Collection X/S and PC.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and a couple of Remastered
It’s been a very long time since we’ve seen something from the franchise, and whereas not a brand new sport, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and a couple of Remastered continues to be a dream come true. Out on December twelfth for Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Swap, and PC, it remasters each Soul Reaver titles (if the identify didn’t give it away) with improved visuals and even a brand new map and compass for exploration. Lengthy-time fan or not, each titles are action-adventure classics that should be skilled.
Delta Pressure
Over 15 years since NovaLogic’s Delta Pressure: Xtreme 2, the collection is making a comeback. Developed by TiMi Studio Group, Delta Pressure can be accessible in open beta kind on PC beginning December fifth. The free-to-play title options single-player and co-op, however multiplayer is the true enchantment alongside an extraction shooter mode, Hazard Operations, and large battles with autos and dozens of gamers accessible. Might it lastly restore some luster to the Delta Pressure? We’ll discover out subsequent week.
Path of Exile 2 (Early Entry)
Between all of the delays because it was first introduced, Grinding Gear Video games’ long-awaited Path of Exile 2 is lastly out on December sixth, albeit in early entry, for Xbox Collection X/S, PS5 and PC. Don’t take this to imply it’s missing content material. There can be three marketing campaign Acts, six courses (every with two Ascendancies), lots of of passives, tons of Ability Gems, and rather more to mess around with. It ought to take a newcomer about 25 hours to complete the story content material, however then you definitely get to the endgame. The Atlas of Worlds has modified and brought some factors out of Final Epoch’s Monoliths of Destiny.
With Waystones outfitted, you journey to close by map nodes, clearing out enemies and executives to clear corruption. Accessing Towers will unlock extra of the map, which suggests extra corruption and challenges. You’ll encounter revamped league mechanics like Breach, Delirium, Ritual, and Expedition, every with totally different rewards, bosses, and pursuits. The quantity of content material doubling throughout early entry is mind-boggling, and we will’t wait to dive in.
Alien: Rogue Incursion
Alien: Isolation 2 is official in the end, however it would take some time to reach. Within the meantime, Alien: Rogue Incursion may function a good substitute, at the very least for these with PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest 3, and SteamVR headsets. It launches on December nineteenth and focuses on Zula Hendricks, a former Colonial Marine who ventures to the planet, Purdan, to research an SOS. As you would possibly guess, it’s Xenomorphs, and whereas iconic instruments just like the Movement Tracker, Pulse Rifle and Shotgun can be found to combat them off, warning and cautious motion are additionally necessary for survival.
Overthrown (Early Entry)
With so many noteworthy survival crafting titles this yr, it appears proper to finish with one other, particularly Brimstone Video games’ Overthrown. The premise is as you’d count on, with resource-gathering, farming, building, and extra, as you throw objects at them to broaden. Nevertheless, there’s a good bit of fight as you combat off bandits and different threats. As one of many extra common titles over the past Steam Subsequent Fest, Overthrown has generated some hype. Right here’s hoping it delivers much more when it arrives in early entry on December fifth for PC and Xbox Collection X/S.
The Spirit of the Samurai
One of many extra intriguing side-scrolling motion video games we’ve seen over time, The Spirit of the Samurai focuses on three characters: the samurai Takeshi, the spirit Kodama, and Chisai, a cat. Between exploration and preventing off Tengu and Jorogumo, the true hook is the stop-motion animation, leading to an unorthodox but hypnotizing aesthetic. The Spirit of the Samurai launches on December twelfth for PC, and in case you’re searching for an unconventional Metroid-style expertise, this might be value testing.
UFL
Other than EA Sports activities FC, there isn’t a lot by means of different soccer titles to actually embrace. UFL may change that, providing a free-to-play expertise developed on Unreal Engine 5 with over 4500 real-life gamers, membership administration, a Premier Division, and rather more to dive into. Given how different free-to-play titles like eFootball ended up, we’re just a little skeptical, however UFL continues to be value watching out for when it launches on December fifth for Xbox Collection X/S, PS5, and PC.
Skydance’s Behemoth
In the event you’re searching for a unique sort of VR expertise, one thing with extra visceral melee fight, there’s Skydance’s Behemoth. Set within the Forsaken Lands, gamers management Wren the Hunter and embark on a quest to take down the Behemoths to finish a horrible curse. Developed by the crew behind The Strolling Lifeless: Saints and Sinners, it’s out on December fifth for PlayStation VR2 and Meta Quest and has supplied some fairly satisfying fight to this point.
My First Gran Turismo
Much less of a full sport and extra of a free trial model of Gran Turismo 7, My First Gran Turismo is supposed to get newcomers into the franchise with particular tracks, vehicles, and occasions. It’s out this Vacation season for PS4 and PS5, probably launching on December third (the identical day as PlayStation’s thirtieth anniversary). Although the content material stays unknown, in case you’ve ever been not sure about Gran Turismo 7, My First GT might be the proper check.
