Games We Want to See on Xbox in 2025

The start of 2025 appears to be like stacked, with builders and publishers dashing to get their video games out earlier than a sure Rockstar knocks the world off its axis with Grand Theft Auto VI. The likes of Monster Hunter Wilds, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Murderer’s Creed Shadows, Sniper Elite: Resistance, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Avowed and a lot extra are all launching in Q1 2025.

And but, we nonetheless need extra. These video games already introduced are all nicely and good, however the place are the surprises coming from in 2025? Effectively, now we have ready a bit of wishlist of video games that haven’t but been introduced for launch on Xbox in 2025, however there’s a good probability of them showing. 

Have a learn, and tell us what you wish to see within the feedback beneath, however in a number of phrases, these are the video games we wish to see launch on Xbox in 2025…

UFO 50

This listing is in no specific order, however we’re beginning with maybe the one I’d personally be most happy to see on consoles. Or, extra particularly, the 50 I’d be most happy to see on consoles.

UFO 50 is a compilation of fifty video games launched from 1982 to 1989 for the LX collection of residence consoles by an organization referred to as UFO Delicate. Nonetheless, the twist is that none of those video games had been actual earlier than this compilation, and UFO Delicate and the LX consoles by no means existed. 

UFO 50 is definitely a faux compilation of fifty video games all created solely for this one, bigger recreation. However don’t let that idiot you, as lots of the video games inside are worthy of their very own locations in Game of the Year lists such is the standard on present right here.

I might wax lyrical in regards to the distinctive roguelike-esque Get together Home that has you creating celebration visitor lists to finish varied goals, or the difficult but satisfying controls of Mortol, and even Block Koala, a easy sokoban at first look, however with insane quantities of depth. That’s simply three off the highest of my head, and there are at the least 47 extra I might discuss.

I say at the least 47 as a result of there are many hidden messages, video games and secrets and techniques that exist however are purely optionally available. UFO 50 has an overarching meta-narrative that goes into particulars in regards to the fictional UFO Delicate and their historical past, however in case you are having an excessive amount of enjoyable taking part in via 50 new video games, a really actual prospect, it’s possible you’ll be too busy to delve deep. Not least when a few them, Grimstone and Divers, are absolutely realised RPGs with tens of hours of content material a bit.

Already lauded as top-of-the-line video games of final 12 months, UFO 50 reaching a wider viewers on consoles looks like a really smart match. And one I hope comes prior to later.

Should you can’t watch for a console drop, seize UFO 50 on Steam. 

Dave the Diver

Dave the Diver is one other title that launched on PC first, however has since been ported to Nintendo and PlayStation. With new DLC on the horizon Within the Jungle, now appears nearly as good a time as any for Dave to dive onto Xbox.

Because the identify suggests, you play as Dave, who’s a diver. Approached by his pal, they comply with open up a sushi restaurant. And you may’t get any brisker than diving for the fish your self, so Dave spends a part of his day gathering the fish, and the remainder of his time working the restaurant. It’s this gameplay loop that has received followers over, and we’re keen to provide it a strive.

Together with the upcoming DLC, Dave the Diver has teamed up with everybody from Balatro to Godzilla since first releasing. And wouldn’t a stunning Xbox collaboration rejoice a console launch completely? How about serving Grasp Chief some sashimi, assuming he can truly eat together with his helmet on on a regular basis? Or tie-in to the upcoming releases like Fable of Gears of Warfare: E-Day. 

Though, uncooked Locust doesn’t sound interesting in any respect.

A Remaining Fantasy recreation

Xbox players had been blessed with a whopping seven Remaining Fantasy video games final 12 months: the elegant Final Fantasy XIV and newest enlargement Dawntrail, plus the Final Fantasy I – VI Pixel Remasters. However there are nonetheless a number of massive ones lacking: Remaining Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth and Remaining Fantasy XVI.

Certainly one of these will likely be coming to Xbox this 12 months, and after Sq. Enix’s U-turn on console exclusives, I’d anticipate it being Remaining Fantasy XVI. It is usually seemingly that the third a part of the Remaining Fantasy VII remake trilogy will likely be multi-platform at launch each time that releases, so it could make sense to launch the primary two earlier than that additionally. However these, as we’re led to consider, are behind extra restrictive exclusivity agreements. So, let’s focus on the probably.

Remaining Fantasy XVI was a return to the collection highpoints when it launched again in 2023. After some extra divisive entries in Remaining Fantasy XIII and XV, XVI went again to a extra conventional high-fantasy setting, and it paid off.

Taking greater than a slight pinch of inspiration from Sport of Thrones, you performed as Clive, firstborn to the chief of Rosaria, however ignored when his youthful brother Joshua turns into the Dominant of Phoenix. Phoenix is among the worlds Eikons, extra generally generally known as summons within the wider Remaining Fantasy world, and these play a serious half within the plot of Remaining Fantasy XVI. What had been as soon as used solely in a turn-based battle state of affairs are actually entrance and centre for the plot.

It isn’t simply the Eikons which are subverted in Remaining Fantasy XVI; the crystals, so usually seen as a beacon of hope in Remaining Fantasy, are this time round answerable for killing the planet. Clive’s mission is to go world wide destroying them, while armies and extra all vie for management over one another.

The gargantuan Eikon battles in Remaining Fantasy XVI pushed the PlayStation 5 to its limits, with reviews of them overheating throughout these set-piece spectacles. I’m certain the Xbox Sequence X won’t sound like it’s about to take off when these battles begin on these consoles, and hopefully we don’t have too lengthy to attend for that both. 

Yakuza: Useless Souls

In true gamer style I’m now going to return throughout as an ungrateful so and so. 

I’m absolutely conscious that Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is already on the discharge schedule, however my want is for a recreation from the Yakuza again catalogue to make an look. And after Like a Dragon: Ishin! introduced a earlier recreation to the West for the primary time, why not make others extra accessible?

At present, Yakuza: Useless Souls lies dormant on the PlayStation 3, and there are followers that might be blissful it stayed there. It’s a little bit of an anomaly; a non-canon third-person zombie shooter isn’t maybe what you’d instantly consider if you consider the Like a Dragon collection, however you possibly can’t say it’s shocking if you consider a few of the wackier components the collection is thought for.

As soon as once more happening in Kamurocho, Useless Souls options playable stalwarts Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima alongside Shun Akiyama and Ryuji Goda, again from the lifeless. The 4 of them should discover a metropolis within the midst of a zombie outbreak. As such, gunplay is a large focus, which is the place lots of the preliminary participant base felt alienated.

However I feel it deserves a second probability, and with the franchise being a serious IP for Sega now, a remaster might assist it discover a wider, and extra acceptable viewers. A remaster must be on the way in which sooner or later, however will it’s 2025?

Helldivers 2

Undoubtedly one of many shock hits of 2025 was Helldivers 2. In a 12 months when multiplayer and live-service video games took a little bit of a beating, Helldivers 2 was a shining instance.

Closely impressed by Starship Troopers, Helldivers 2 is a co-op shooter for as much as 4 gamers. And it isn’t simply since you are capturing big bugs. Helldivers 2 additionally retains that satirical wit from the movie too.

Critics liked the best-in-class gunplay and multiplayer cooperation, in addition to the procedural era guaranteeing that issues stayed recent. And within the time since launch, the servers have been improved considerably, hopefully in time for an inflow of recent gamers.

Nonetheless, this one does include a caveat. Helldivers 2 is a Sony first-party recreation (and, for what it’s price, technically so is our final entry) however in an age the place the partitions of the console wars are toppling, sharing is caring.

Let me simply be frank and get on my soapbox for a minute. This isn’t a brand new revelation from Xbox releasing their video games on Nintendo and Sony consoles. Minecraft and Ori and the Blind Forest have been on different consoles for years, similar to MLB The Present has on Xbox. And Destiny 2 isn’t going to be closed down on Xbox any time quickly. So, let’s preserve the practice in movement and share extra of those alternatives collectively. Merely put, the extra those that have entry to a recreation, the extra persons are prone to play it.

And we wish to play Helldivers 2 on Xbox. Please. 

Kingsley’s Journey

The above video games are all greater than prone to come out sooner or later, if not 2025. My closing recreation although? Effectively, it’s a little bit of a pipe dream, however one which is sensible with the renaissance of platformer mascots that has been occurring over the previous few years.

For those who aren’t conscious, Kingsley’s Journey was a PlayStation 1 title during which you play as a fox armed with a sword and a defend who should cease an evil chef generally known as Unhealthy Custard who has remodeled the 4 True Knights of the Fruit Kingdom into his personal minions. With a baddie referred to as Unhealthy Custard, you’re in platformer territory.

For an OG PlayStation recreation although, I keep in mind it being extremely atmospheric, even for a recreation launched in 1999. However there’s another excuse I’m quietly manifesting a remake or remaster.

Copies of Kingsley’s Journey are going for round £150 on eBay, so it is going to be a very long time earlier than I can save up for that. A rerelease is subsequently the best choice all spherical. With Crash Bandicoot and Spyro again within the public eye, and a certain Croc getting in on the action very shortly, who else is getting a resurrection from the platformer graveyard?

Together with all the pieces else already deliberate for 2025, if half of the video games right here additionally sprout up on Xbox, it appears to be like like it is going to be one other robust 12 months for players.

However what’s in your wishlist? Head on over to the feedback part and tell us!