Our Most Anticipated Games of 2025 | Team Talk

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After a busy 2024, we're back to bring you our traditional picks for our most anticipated games of the coming year.

It might be easy to point to Grand Theft Auto VI and whatever launch software Nintendo decides to bundle up with the successor to the Switch, but there's an awful lot more expected to greet enthusiastic gamers this year as well.

What's your pick? Perhaps you haven't made up your mind yet? Shout them out on Discord, and, in the meantime, allow us to get the ball rolling with a few suggestions…

​by Team PTC

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Avowed and Split Fiction | JameS Parry

While I've kicked off 2025 by catching up on two games I'd been curious to try from last year – Indiana Jones and The Great Circle and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, there's plenty yet to come this year.

First up is Obsidian’s Avowed in February, which sees a hired adventurer investigating a plague that has befallen the land.

Ever since its original announcement, this has been one to watch. The team's pedigree with role-playing games is long-established as one of the best in the industry, and their most recent effort The Outer Worlds was brimming with character, passion, and excitement.

It'll be nice to explore a world without the expectation that comes with a long-standing world, as although it lives in the same universe as the unfamiliar Pillars of Eternity, it doesn't have the intimidation factor of something like Skyrim or The Elder Scrolls VI.

Hot on its heels is Split Fiction, the latest coop game from industry leaders Hazelight, who brought us the solid A Way Out, and the exceptional It Takes Two.

After their previous work I'm practically foaming at the mouth for more outstanding coop experiences, and arguably this team is the best of the bunch for scratching that particular gameplay itch.

The premise for Split Fiction is a bit more of a surreal, sci-fi and fantasy tale, as two authors get trapped within their stories and need to work together to escape – and no doubt learn a thing or two along the way.

The innovation and unique experiences on display in previous games alone is enough to build excitement, but the opportunity to explore both sci-fi and fantasy (my two favourite genres) in a single title can't be missed.​

Atomfall and Fable | Chris BranD

It's shaping up to be another stellar year for gaming, as long as the big-hitters don't get pushed back to 2026, as we all know GTA VI surely will. With the inevitability of delays, it's unwise to put all of your eggs in one basket, which is why I'll be dual-basketing this year.

​That's right, I'll be skipping merrily through 2025 with a basket in each hand, both filled to the brim with giant, golden, eggs.

Looking like it sits somewhere between Fallout and S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Atomfall is an RPG set in a fictional version of Great Britain many years ago. The Glorious North has been recreated faithfully, with beautiful rolling hills, picturesque villages and a vague sense of uneasiness.

You'll be bartering with creepy locals, fighting off gangs of outlaws, avoiding overzealous security forces and running from hideous mutants, whilst trying to solve the mystery of why you're here and how you can escape this brutal land. For my fellow Northerners, imagine Saturday: The Game.

Decidedly unlike Fallout and S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Fable is an RPG set in a fictional version of Great Britain many more years ago and I've had to cut this bit in order to avoid a horrible tangent and actually say something of substance, but you see where I was going.

It appears I have a preference for games set in my home country. It just feels more meaningful to rob and kill someone who could be a neighbour and I find myself making excuses as I try to ease my guilty conscience.

​Maybe he was the aggressor and I was merely defending myself? Maybe setting him on fire was a small mercy as there's a chill in the wind that feels like a million tiny cuts?

The choices I make feel a lot more personal when I have a connection to the world and we Brits have a fairly unique sense of humour which manifests in even the darkest of situations.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | LiaM Andrews

I am very much looking forward to the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond later this year. I remember being very excited when the game was originally announced way back in 2017 with a simple logo teaser, and it’s been a long wait to get to this point.

However, one of the main reasons I’m looking forward to the game is because I think we’ll see Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption re-released for the Switch ahead of Beyond’s release.

I never played Echoes and didn’t finish Corruption, and although I still have access to a Wii and could play them that way, I would like to see them get the same remaster treatment the original Metroid Prime game got in 2023, which looked fantastic and played even better with modern control options.

It would make sense for Nintendo to give everyone the chance to catch up on the series ahead of the highly anticipated sequel. The Switch release of Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2 just before Pikmin 4 came out gives me hope, but you just never know with Nintendo.
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Either way, Beyond looks very promising from the snippets we’ve been shown so far, and even if we don’t get the older games as well, it’ll still be great to see the series back in the spotlight once again.