25 of the biggest PS5 games coming in 2025

PS5 biggest games in 2025 – Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, GTA 6

2025 is set to be a huge year for gamers and PS5 owners, with new entries coming in some of the biggest franchises ever to grace this pastime. I am, of course, referring to GTA 6, which is expected this year, but there’s also new Assassin’s Creed, Monster Hunter, Civilization, Mafia, Doom, Elden Ring and so much more. Full console exclusives are rare for PS5 this year, but Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2 will fill that hole… not that you’ll mind with everything else that’s coming out!

We’ve collated a huge set of 25 of the biggest games for PS5 in the coming year.

Dynasty Warriors: Origins

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 17th January 2025

Dynasty Warriors: Origins is a major refresh for the Dynasty Warriors series, taking it right back to its roots. Players are a nameless warrior that has lost his memories, and is thrust right into China’s Three Kingdom’s period. It is a time of war and strife with the events of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Battle of Chibi taking place.

This is not just about taking out thousands of enemies in a matter of minutes using loads of different combos and skills. There is also an RPG side to it. As you complete missions and tasks you will earn XP, which in turn translates to your character rising up the military ranks and earning new skills. You will also build bonds with other characters. There are a lot of new things that even veteran fans of the series will discover, and Dom wrote about them after spending four hours with Dynasty Warriors: Origins.

Eternal Strands

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 28th January 2025

Eternal Strands has a huge and expansive open world that can all be explored, which is called the Enclave. Unfortunately, the Enclave has largely been invaded and taken over by a force known as the Surgeborn, an otherworldly enemy that has trapped the people in a smaller and smaller corner of it.

Enter the Weaver, Brynn. She is on a mission to push back the Surgeborn, liberating the Enclave from their incursion. It will not be an easy fight as the Surgeborn consist of towering creatures that will prove a challenge to take down. However, Brynn has access to weapons and magical abilities to fight back, as well as being able to use the environment to help her. You can use enemy attacks against each other as well to even the odds. The world can be manipulated so new paths can be created showing hidden parts of the Enclave. Be careful though, as the world is dangerous and destructible.

Sniper Elite: Resistance

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 30th January 2025

You know what you’re getting with Sniper Elite: Resistance, a spin-off story that puts Karl Fairburne’s longtime co-op buddy character, Harry Hawker, in the spotlight. You’ll be sneaking through large levels, silently taking down patrolling guards, sniping from hundreds of meters away (to trigger the series’ iconic X-Ray killcam), and working your way through a variety of missions behind enemy lines in Occupied France.

We went hands on with Sniper Elite: Resistance at last year, saying, “Sniper Elite has become a bit like stealth action comfort food over the past decade, having really settled into the sandbox levels and mission structure in the last few games. Sniper Elite: Resistance isn’t looking to revolutionise the series, but give a new campaign, a few new twists and tweaks to the formula, and just let you settle in with a nice glass of red – to go with all the red you spill in-game.”

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 4th February 2025

It’s been a good seven years since the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and fans of this historical RPG have  been waiting a long, long time for Henry and Sir Hans’ journey to continue. There’s less than a month to wait, you’ll be glad to hear, with our duo journeying through medieval Bohemia in the early 1400s to deliver a message at the start of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

Things…. don’t quite go to plan, and they’re swept up in the problems of kings and wars that are increasingly affecting the region. This grand sequel will feature two main areas, with the Bohemian paradise of the opening juxtaposed with the city of Kuttenberg and all of the political intrigue that that can bring. Don’t worry if you don’t remember or haven’t played the original, as Warhorse promise this will be a good starting point, even if it’s a direct narrative continuation.

Ahead of its February release, we’ve been able to dive into the opening hours of the game, sharing our initial thoughts on the road to review with our Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 preview.

Civilization VII

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 11th February 2025

There’s been a good few pretenders to the throne emerging over the last few years, but Civilization VII is arriving to firmly put its stamp on the historical 4X genre once more.

This game will tackle the concept of shifting ages, just as the genre as a whole has been. Split into three distinct ages – Antiquity, Exploration and Modern – each civ is restricted to a particular time period and then has to grow and morph into another through a point of crisis. Rome will eventually fall, but that can provide the historical and gameplay foundations to become any number of medieval empires – the Holy Roman Empire, perhaps? – and from there lead into modern European nations.

We went hands on with Civ VII back at Gamescom 2024, as well as having the opportunity to speak with Creative Director Ed Beach about this major new direction for the series.

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 21st February 2025

The Yakuza/Like A Dragon series is as much known for its leftfield side quests and spin offs, as it is for its more serious crime stories. Yet, Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii may just be the most out there for the series, and placing Goro Majima as a pirate captain with his own ship. It is bonkers and fits the character of Majima so well, who is probably only second to Kiryu when it comes to the franchise’s cast.

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a spin off set after the events of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. In this spin off, Majima has lost all of his memories and wakes up on a desert island. Soon, after he is the captain of his own pirate ship, engaging in naval battles with other pirate captains, and setting foot on a pirate enclave known as Madlantis. Combat will be more of the classic action style of Yakuza, rather than the turn based of Like A Dragon, and we are expecting the story to be both bonkers and full of feeling when it drops anchor.

Monster Hunter Wilds

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 28th February 2025

Having transformed itself into one of the biggest video game franchises out there, Monster Hunter Wilds is looking to take the next step forward from the series, following on from Monster Hunter World and the Nintendo-centric Monster Hunter Rise. Wilds is set to feature the most open and most alive environments yet in a Monster Hunter game.

The fundamental gameplay loop will remain the same: find your target monster, attack them, chase them down, try not to die, capture or kill them, carve off pieces from the carcass, use those pieces to make better weapons and armour, find a bigger monster, repeat. It will also be better with friends, forming parties to go on hunts together and coordinating your resources. New for Wilds is that this can be crossplay for the first time.

Split Fiction

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 6th March 2025

Coming from the makers of the excellent Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out and It Takes Two – and with an only lightly sweary introduction from Josef Fares at The Game Awards – Split Fiction has shot right to the top of our must-watch list as another splitscreen co-op experience that you’ll want to hunker down with a partner or friend to play.

Split Fiction sees Mio and Zoe – named after Fares two daughters – as two aspiring writers who are seemingly conned into feeding their stories into an evil AI machine. While AI stealing human beings content is worryingly close to reality, the game sees Mio and Zoe pulled into the machine, and their two stories, one fantasy and one sci-fi mixed and merged, with the duo jumping between the two from level to level. Each level will introduce new mechanics, blending fantasy and sci-fi tropes together in some intriguing ways. We can’t wait!

Assassin’s Creed Shadows

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 20th March 2025

Fans have been demanding an Assassin’s Creed set in Japan pretty much since 2007, and they’re finally going to get what they want with Assassin’s Creed Shadows – even if it’s been embroiled in a disappointingly inevitable amount of internet discourse, thanks in no small part to featuring a black immigrant samurai as one of the two playable characters. That’s something that Ubisoft has at times struggled to communicate well with fans and gamers around the world.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes us back to 16th century Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama era, featuring a female ninja and a male samurai for its lead characters. That man is a historical character based off Yasuke, a man of African origin who was one of the rare immigrants to Japan and who served Oda Nobunaga. The female ninja is named Naoe from Iga Province, who is inducted into the local Assassin’s order to battle all those persky Templars. Their stories will be intertwined, letting you master complimentary playstyles as both characters have contrasting abilities – Naoe for stealth, Yasuke for direct combat. This will be a fresh take on the twin protagonists that we’ve seen on occasion through the Assassin’s Creed series.

Atomfall

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 27th March 2025

Atomfall spins us off into an alternate version of events following the Windscale Fire nuclear disaster in northern England, in which the surrounding area was rapidly locked down, the locals kept in line and monitored by the military group Protocol, and advanced retro-futuristic technology the order of the day. Can you unpick the mystery?

It might look like a very English Fallout, but this is a rather different style of game, where scarcity of resources plays a big factor in pushing you to melee – you get to fight roving bands of bandits dressed like Morris dancers – and investigating the story will be a bigger part of the experience.

The First Berserker: Khazan

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 27th March 2025

Sometimes, you just want a violent, revenge story to dive right into, and it looks like The First Berserker: Khazan will be that game. Ben Starr, the iconic voice behind Final Fantasy XVI’s Clive Rosfield, has been cast as General Khazan. General Khazan is betrayed by his Emperor and exiled to the the mountains, where he nearly dies. However, after surviving he merges with the Blade Phantom, and sets out for revenge.

The world of The First Berserker: Khazan will be merciless. Set in the Dungeon & Fighter universe, every foe will provide a challenge in combat. Bosses will be even tougher, and defeat will come easily to those who are not prepared for it.

Killing Floor 3

PS5, XSX|S, PC – March 2025

Coming nine years after Killing Floor 2, this game will be immediately familiar to fans of zombie horde modes as players team up to take on an undead army of Zeds. Killing Floor 3 is set 70 years after the last game, and the world is overrun by the Zeds. Players are part of the rebel group known as Nightfall.

Teams of five will face the relentless waves of Zeds, unlocking skills and weapons to survive the dystopian setting. Some of the classes confirmed are the medic, the sharpshooter, and the ninja, There will be some closed beta tests ahead of Killing Floor 3’s full launch in March, and you can sign up for your chance to take part on the Killing Floor 3 website.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

PS5 – Q1/Q2 2025

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was a great way to wrap up 2024… if you had an Xbox or gaming PC. MachineGames took the beloved film franchise and crafted a thoroughly distinct first person action and puzzling game, delivering an experience that’s thoroughly true to the character. Thankfully for PlayStation gamers, Microsoft decided to make this a timed Xbox exclusive, with a port coming to PS5 in the first half of 2025.

Read our review, where we said, “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle forges its own, distinctive path as an archeological adventure, excellently capturing the feel of the films with its visuals and performances. There’s a fun new story here as well, wrapped around its blend of exploration, puzzles and pugilism.”

The Alters

PS5, XSX|S, PC – Q1 2025

What would it be like to live with yourself? It is a question you may have pondered? Would your copy be exactly like you, or look like you but have a different view of things. Enter The Alters, 11 Bit Studios new psychological survival horror in which that question is answered, though in a very stressful environment that will push anyone to their limits.

You are Jan and Jan and Jan and Jan and, well you get the idea. Jan is a space builder trapped on an alien planet. He wants to get home but to do that he has to survive and restore his ship. It is a job he cannot do alone, but he can create Alters of himself. They are clones but with their own personalities, wants, needs, and stress points. If you don’t manage each individual’s needs or meet their expectations things will get tense, and the Jans will turn on each other. Probably not wise to say something like “Sure, Jan” sarcastically.

A The Alters demo is available now.

Doom: The Dark Ages

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 15th May 2025

Another Bethesda game that’s avoiding Xbox exclusivity, Doom: The Dark Ages is a prequel to the 2016 series reboot, nipping back in time to the last time that the Doom Slayer was out and about for some demon bashing. You’ll go thoroughly medieval on those demons, which will include a mix of very familiar foes from the series as well as some all-new enemies.

You’ll be just as powerful as in the last couple of Doom games, but the weaponry in your hand will be just a little bit different. Now you couldn’t do without a Super Shotgun, even if you’re this far back in time, but alongside that you’ll be able to whip out a Flail to knock some heads in, or rev up a throwable chainsaw shield, like it’s some kind of Captain America – Warhammer 40,000 crossover. Oh, and you’ll also get to pilot a giant mech and fly a robot dragon. What’s not to like?

Revenge of the Savage Planet

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – May 2025

Journey to the Savage Planet was a fun time, pitting players on a hostile world and leaning right into the comedy. Revenge of the Savage Planet looks like it will continue right in that vein, but with one major change to the gameplay. Where Journey was a first person title, Revenge of the Savage Planet will be in third person.

Revenge of the Savage Planet looks colourful and chaotic, but with plenty of danger to watch out for. You will need to shoot, scavenge, and upgrade to survive after being abandoned by Alta Interglobal. Interestingly, there is not just one savage planet to learn to survive on. There are four this time around, all enjoyable on your own or in co-op.

Mafia: The Old Country

PS5, XSX|S, PC – Summer 2025

The Mafia series is going back to where it all began, with Mafia: The Old Country tracing its narrative steps back to the early 1900s and before the crime families of Sicily saw their influence spread through the emigration of Italians to the United States.

You’ll be cast as Enzo Favara, having to prove their worth to the Cosa Nostra, fighting to survive through the brutal underworld of organised crime. Enzo’s already survived labor in the sulphur mines, and now has a chance (in a twisted way) to find a better life for himself by working for Don Torrisi’s crime family, doing whatever it takes to gain and retain favour along the way.

The game looks fantastic from the snippets of action that we’ve seen, and this is absolutely one to keep an eye on in 2025.

GTA 6

PS5, XSX|S – Late 2025

GTA 6 is set to be another defining cultural event, much like GTA 5 was back in 2013, a game that will no doubt suck tens of millions of people into its open world crime story. Grand Theft Auto VI takes us all back to Vice City for another crime story, featuring Lucia as the first female protagonist in the series, getting out of prison at the start of the game after a bit of “bad luck”. Revisiting Vice City, this is a modern day setting in the fictionalised state of Leonida, deeply influenced by the breadth of American culture in the South East of the country and Florida in particular.

Take Two has targeted the back end of 2025 for release, though given the scale and ambition of these games, we wouldn’t be surprised to see this slip to early 2026, sneaking into the same financial year.

Ghost of Yōtei

PS5 – 2025

One of the only first party exclusives confirmed for PS5 in 2025, Ghost of Yōtei is the much-anticipated sequel to Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima, jumping ahead to another period of significant change in Japanese history.

Ghost of Yotei is sure to hit many of the same beats as its predecessor in terms of gameplay, visuals, and the sequel’s approach to open world game design. The new Hokkaido setting will give us yet another gorgeous slice of feudal Japan to explore, while the early 17th century time period allowing for a new arsenal of weapons and technologies. Where the Mongols mainly fought with swords, bows, and cheap tricks, Atsu will likely encounter an array of newfangled gunpowder arms.

Set in 1603, Ghost of Yōtei will be right at the time that Tokugawa Ieyasu was given the title of Shogun by Emperor Go-Yōzei, settling the now unified country into a period of relative peace and stability, albeit with increasing restrictions on social heirarchy and. Atsu’s status as an onna-musha, a female warrior, naturally clashes with the neo-Confucianism and the lessening and changing roles that women had more generally in this world. This will be a really interesting period to explore.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

PS5 – 2025

Hideo Kojima’s got a lot of games in the works, but a sequel to 2019’s hugely successful Death Stranding is first on the list. Death Stranding 2 will take place outside of North America, as Sam and the DHV Magellan look to expand the Chiral Network, doing so with the backing of a private organization known as APAC. Sam, of course, will take the lead and trudge across vast landscapes, ride on futuristic vehicles and all the rest while trying to deliver packages, through increasingly exotic and alien landscapes, and confronting all sorts of monstrosities.

The most recent trailer was a huge 20-minute video from Tokyo Game Show 2024, revealing a lot about Tomorrow, who was born and grew up in the world of the dead, and Rainy, another part of the DHV Magellan crew who’s pregnant. They also have a little sing-song with Sam and Dollman (Fatih Akin), which is as bizarre and surreal as it sounds – and obviously completely in keeping with all the other craziness that has been revealed through the narrative-heavy cutscenes released so far in trailers. A new photo mode will feature in Death Stranding 2 called ‘Photo Shoot Event’.

Never change, Hideo.

The Outer Worlds 2

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 2025

The Outer Worlds 2 has chucked Xbox exclusivity out the airlock, about as ceremoniously as you could yeet yourself into the nearest star in the original. The sequel promises to do all the usual sequelly things with more action, more weapons, more possibilities, and more better graphics.

The Outer Worlds 2 will very much follow in the tone and style of the original, but promises to go bigger and broader on pretty much every level. There’s the new colony to explore in Arcadia, which is the home of skip drive technology, and which you explore as a new Earth Directorate agent trying to figure out if it’s responsible for all the big and scary rifts that are threatening the whole galaxy.

Borderlands 4

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 2025

Welcome to the planet Kairos, a world that’s dominated by a ruthless dictator known as the Timekeeper, with an army of synthetic followers known as the Order. You, of course, will play as a Vault Hunter searching for mythical alien treasures in a race against time against the Timekeeper to uncover it.

You pretty much know what to expect from Borderlands 4, with the procedurally generated loot pushing you on through each battle and mission, and a humour-filled script that will thankfully tone down the toilet humour of Borderlands 3. We’re yet to really be introduced to the Vault Hunters that will lead this adventure, but the gameplay first look showed an impressive sense of scale and slick snippets of action.

Little Nightmares 3

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 2025

The Little Nightmares series has quickly felt like a staple of the horror genres, bleeding an unsettling setting and creepily oversized enemies in alongside puzzle platforming. Original series creators Tarsier Studios have moved on to create their own fresh take on this style with Reanimal, but Little Nightmares 3 is continuing on with Supermassive Games at the helm – another studio with a rich pedigree in horror.

Trapped within the Spiral, a cluster of “disturbing places”, Low and Alone will have to work together to survive in a dangerous world full of delusions and nasty things lurking around in the shadows, with this game looking to emphasise full co-op. Whilst the game continues the themes of “eww”, “yuk”, and “bork” found in the first two games, it is set in a completely different location, as Little Nightmares 1 and 2 were both set in The Maw.

Elden Ring Nightreign

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – 2025

FromSoftware aren’t making an Elden Ring 2, but they are working on a spin-off from their smash hit. Elden Ring Nightreign is a more specifically co-op game than before, mixing up the visual style, combat and general setting of Elden Ring with a new format.

While you can play Nightreign solo, it’s intended to be played with a group of three, working together across multiple in-game days to prepare for a final boss. There’s a little dash of battle royale thrown into this as well, with the playable area shrinking after players defeat a minor boss at the end of each day, limiting the second and third day as you get closer to that final encounter. An interesting twist on proceedings.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 2025

The early 2000s and PS2 era is proving to be a fertile source for modern remakes, and Konami is the latest to try to get in on the action with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. Having been rumoured for years, this MGS3 remake was confirmed back in 2023, with 2024 giving us a couple of additional glimpses of cutscenes and story, and the game tentatively expected this year.

Very little is really known about the remake, how much the gameplay is being tweaked and modernised, but you can see from the cutscene-heavy trailers that the game does look pretty fab with Unreal Engine 5 powering it, and they’ve kept a lot of that Kojima tone.


Phew! That’s a good batch of games to be looking forward to, eh?