Most Anticipated PC Games Launching In 2025

PC gaming tends to offer a lot more variety and versatility than console gaming. Many indie games launch on PC only, you can install mods to tweak your experience to your liking, and you can adjust your setup to your preference as well. Looking ahead to 2025, there are quite a few games waiting to take advantage of that.

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From horror to strategy to RPGs, there’s a plethora of games awaiting us in 2025. Here’s what our editorial team is most looking forward to, so you can add them to your own most anticipated lists.

darkwebStreamer

Ben Sledge, Features Editor

I’ve got my eyes on darkwebStreamer. The procedurally-generated indie horror only has a ‘coming soon’ release date on Steam, but I’m crossing my fingers we’ll see it in 2025. Set on the ‘90s ‘net, the game has you play as an occult streamer trying to scratch out a living in the dankest corners of the world wide web.

The only problem is, if you don’t become the biggest streamer in the world, you die. With spooky rituals, creepy NPCs, and an increasingly haunted apartment, I fully expect to be squirming in my seat when darkwebStreamer latches itself onto my Steam library, hopefully next year.

Earthblade

Stacey Henley, Editor-In-Chief

I don’t play a lot of PC games, preferring consoles for pretty much everything, so when I think about the PC games I’m looking forward to in 2025, I think of the indie games that will only be around on PC. That brings me to Earthblade, which has thus far only been announced for Steam.

The follow-up to Celeste by Extremely OK Games, who tend to make Extremely Much Better Than OK games, should channel the same fervour for discovery, but with more of an action hook. We’ve heard nothing else about the game since it was revealed in 2021 and showcased at The Game Awards in 2022, except for a statement that delayed it from 2024 to 2025. I’m betting it will be worth the wait.

Demonschool

Hilton Webster, Staff Writer

I’ve always been enticed by strategy games. Final Fantasy Tactics, Into The Breach, you get the idea. I love having to look at every angle and actually think about how I’m going to survive. Pop that into a university setting dashed with horror, and I’m sold.

Demonschool has been inching its way to launch for a long time now, and I am confident 2025 is the year I can finally get my hands on it. It’s got a wonderful, sharp art style, and the tactical elements are only as strong as the relationships you build with the characters. Because fighting horrifying demons is only half the battle when you still have to attend school.

Sid Meier’s Civilization 7

Harry Alston, Senior Staff Writer

When I think of playing games on a PC, I think of Civilization. I’ve waited eagerly for the newest iteration in the series and burned through hundreds of hours between both Civilization 5 and Civilization 6. Both games, like the civilizations you create, have managed to stand the test of time.

Civilization is going to test the formula, as new games in the series tend to do, by introducing civilization changes – similar to the format in Humankind. I’m intrigued by the potential of this and also a little cautious about it. However, if Firaxis has proven anything over the years, it’s that it knows how to make a good Civilization game. I think the new formula is in good hands.

Fable

Zoë J. Osik

I remember the good days of Fable 3, renting out the slums to make millions, and showing my evil brother that being a benevolent ruler was possible. The idea of returning to the whimsical world of Fable is exciting to say the least, and from what little we’ve seen, we’re in for a good time.

Despite the memes and outrage that the heroine isn’t drop-dead gorgeous, I can’t wait to see more. Glamorous fantasy is overdone, and gritty Witcher-esque environments are too much for me. Fable walks the middle line with the perfect blend of magic and mistakes to experiment with, and I’m ready to unleash chaos in Albion again.

33 Immortals

Amanda Hurych, Editor

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As I’ve aged into loving roguelikes, I have started to keep an eye out for especially promising ones. From Dead Cells to Risk of Rain 2, there’s been no shortage of phenomenal indie titles that have kept me both constantly dying and entertained. And you know what sounds heckin’ promising to me next year? 33 Immortals.

You and up to 32 other players engage in a cooperative multiplayer roguelike experience in which you are all trying to make it out of some sort of hellscape by fighting wave after wave, boss after boss, trial after trial. The fact that your squad of escapees can be so massive is a major draw for me. I can’t wait to see what sort of shenanigans I can get up to with 32 other people all trying to accomplish the same goal that has been true for roguelikes across the years: surviving.

Sid Meier’s Civilization 7

Matt Arnold, Staff Writer

Civ 7 is my most anticipated game of 2025 full stop, not just on PC. February is going to be a stacked month, but for me, the decision of which selection to take from the triple-A Buffet was written in the stars when I first hit New Game on Civilization 2.

I also tentatively have my eye on Might And Magic: Olden Era, which is set to enter Early Access sometime midway through the year. A return to form for Heroes of Might and Magic would be welcome, but given how far the series has fallen, the game will need to completely blow me away to have a redemption arc.

Sniper Elite: Resistance

Allyson Cochran, Guides Editor

Let’s be honest: shooting Nazis never gets old, and the Sniper Elite series gets it. With the return of the iconic X-ray kill cam in Sniper Elite: Resistance, who could resist watching a Nazi femur break in beautiful, slow-motion detail? …Again?

With a promise of smarter enemies, next-gen visuals, and ballistics seemingly so precise they might as well be teaching physics, I’m cautiously optimistic Resistance will live up to the hype. Toss in 16-player competitive multiplayer and expanded accessibility, and by 2025, I’ll be lining up (hopefully decent) shots and relishing every explosion. Resistance? More like I-can’t-resist-this.

Vice Undercover

Meg Pellicio, Executive Editor

Ever since I first played Vice Undercover at Gamescom, I have been excitedly awaiting its full release. Set in an alternate 1980s where the internet already exists, you become an undercover agent trying to dig out the Cartel’s digital secrets.

You’ll be using and exploring a retro ‘80s-esque operating system with old style programs and databases you have to sift through for clues and to solve different objectives. I found it completely captivating and I can’t wait to play more.

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