2025's Most Anticipated Video Games: From Avowed to Grand Theft Auto VI

Artribune has compiled a list of the most anticipated video games of 2025, spanning major releases, cult series returns, and experimental indie titles. Highlights include Obsidian Entertainment's fantasy RPG Avowed, set in the Eora universe of Pillars of Eternity, launching February 18, 2025 on PC and Xbox Series S/X. Bennett Foddy's Baby Steps, a comedic walking simulator, arrives on PC and PS5. Curiosmos, a solar system sandbox by Céline Veltman & the Silly Stars, will be available on multiple platforms. Date Everything! by Sassy Chap Games lets players romance 100 anthropomorphic household objects, releasing February 14, 2025. Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding 2: On The Beach continues the story with Norman Reedus and Léa Seydoux, joined by Elle Fanning and George Miller, on PS5. Despelote explores Quito, Ecuador through soccer and a child's eyes, coming to PC, PS4/5, and Xbox Series. Glaciered offers a post-human oceanic Souls-like experience. Grand Theft Auto VI returns to Vice City in a fictional Florida, featuring the series' first female protagonist, on PS5 and Xbox Series. Horses is a disturbing horror game about a horse farm with human 'horses'. Pathologic 3 continues the cult series, focusing on a doctor battling a plague, with a free prologue Pathologic 3: Quarantine. The Nintendo Switch 2 is also expected but unannounced.