What we all knew would happen in the end: GTA 6 was delayed. Originally scheduled for release in 2025, almost certainly the most anticipated game of all time is already on May 26, 2026.
But this does not mean that 2025 will fall in history as a disappointing year for games. Not at all! Already this year we had phenomenal editions in the form of Clair Obsur: Expedition 33, Kingdom Come: Delivance 2, Blue Prince and Split Fiction, and there is much more and there is a lot more. In fact, dozens of them. There is a ghost of yotei if you need a second samurai amendment this year, Borderlands 4 for your needs of cooperative chaos, and even a novel console and accompanying games of a petite company called Nintendo.
Here’s everything you need to wait for the rest of 2025, which do not contain the words “Grand Theft Auto 6” in the title.
What next?
Because GTA 6 is originally scheduled for later this year, you almost certainly did not earn any place in the game calendar over the next few months. But in case you do it, huge drops are inevitable. Doom: The Dark Eges He arrives at the Xbox Series X/s, PS5 and PC on May 15, and looks like an amazing gothic renovation of the shooter, which we know and love. Soon after, she is something for all soul fans, like Elden Ring Nightregum It drops on May 30 on Xbox, PlayStation and PC. This is Roguelike’s cooperation, so a completely novel territory for Fromsoft, but if you were looking for a faster approach to the basic formula of the studio, this may be the basis of the night for a multiplayer for a predictable future.
Move forward from month to June, and you can enter the next wild adventure of Hideo Kojima in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Arriving on June 26 only for PS5, his trailers are already full of wild and strange ideas, so we expect it to push the envelope much further than the predecessor of the Fedex simulator. Speaking of games in which it is hard to walk on enormous surfaces Dune: Awakening Lands on PC on June 10. Watch out for sandwiches and drink a lot of water.
Switch 2
When GTA 6 is gone, the biggest event of the year is undoubtedly Nintendo Switch 2. The novel console starts on June 5 with the first enormous game: Mario Kart World. The editions of Switch 2 are also releasing the same day The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild AND Tears of the kingdomSo you will be able to play these classics with much better resolutions and a buckle number. Then it is Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tourtutorial based on the mini-consoles mini, as well as several third games coming to the system, including Hogwarts LegacyIN Spit fictionIN Street fighter 6IN Cut off the director of Yakuza 0IN Cyberpunk 2077And – of course – Fortnite.
June, however, is just the beginning, just a few weeks later Donkey Kong Banana He will arrive on July 17 to make sure that Switch 2 is not deprived of a mandatory 3D platformer. And from what we have seen so far, it looks like bananas. Later this year you can also expect Metroid Prime 4: BeyondIN Pokemon Legends: For AND Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. Oh, and a petite game called Hollow Knight: Silksongwhich apparently will really appear on Switch 2 and everything else this year.
Great Hitters
It would not be the end of the year without three or four months of great Hitters leading to Christmas. Although it has not yet been announced formally, we will certainly receive a novel one Call of duty and also Ea sports fc 26 Around this time.
September will be launched by two huge shooters: Borderlands 4 12. Marathon 23. You know what brutal fun he expects from the border, but this time the falls of arms promise that they will be even better. The marathon is more unknown, but the extraction shooter of the minds for Destiny is certainly something you can have an eye on.
The long -awaited continuation of Tsushima PlayStation, GhostHe will arrive on October 2 and bring with him a story about revenge against the group of skinny masked samurai – let’s hope that this year’s Creed Shadows has only left more of this story.
There will probably be a few others for excitement. Although we do not have confirmed dates, we would expect that very expected games are scheduled for 2025 Outer worlds 2 AND Scarlet desertto also reach the last part of the year.
Time of release 2025
It’s far from everything on the horizon. To get a larger list of things that will come this year, look at our timeline of the largest games that were confirmed in the remaining months of the year.
- The headrest of the shadowy centuries – May 15
- Fire blade – May 22
- Elden Ring Nightfrgn – May 30
- F1 25 – 30
- Mario Kart World – June 5
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – June 5
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – June 5
- Partarune: Chapter 3 + 4 – 5 June
- Dune Awakening – June 10
- FBC: Firebreak – June 17
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – June 26
- Tamagothi Plaza – June 27
- EA Sports College Football 26 – 10 July 10
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 – 11
- Donkey Kong Banana – July 17
- Shadow Labyrinth – July 18
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – July 24
- Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game – July 29
- Mafia: The Old Country – August 8
- Madden NFL 26 – 14 August
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater – August 28
- Lost soul aside – August 29
- Hell is US – September 4
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion – September 5
- Terminator 2D: Without fate – September 5
- Borderlands 4 – 12 September
- Marathon – September 23
- Ghost of yotei – October 2
- Directive 8020 – October 2
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 – October 2025
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment – Winter 2025
- Crimson Desert – Q4 2025
- Pokémon Legends: Za – End 2025
- Small nightmares 3-2025
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – 2025
- Kirby Air Ride – 2025
- Light dying: beast – 2025
- Hollow Knight Silksong – 2025
- Ninja Gaiden 4 – 2025
- The Outer Worlds 2 – 2025
- Cronos: The New Dawn – 2025
- Professor Layton and New World of Steam – 2025
- Witchbrook – 2025
Matt Purslow is a senior feature editor.
