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Discover some of the best new games for PlayStation consoles from the first half of 2025, including epic RPGs, tricky puzzlers, the return of a fighting legend, and touching indie stories.
Join the brave adventurers of Expedition 33 as they set out to defeat the Paintress, a mysterious figure who, once a year, wipes everyone of a certain age out of existence. Participate in turn-based battles featuring real-time offensive and defensive actions in a role-playing experience rich in emotional storytelling and characters never to be forgotten.
A stylish descent into the surreal takes you on a trip to both sides of London: the everyday bustle and the dark demon world. This survival horror follows Michelle who, in the midst of her preoccupation with her ex, becomes cursed by an archdemon. Help or hinder the locals to determine their destiny and discover what lurks beneath this borough to lift this hex.
Explore a mysterious mansion with an ever-changing layout in this critically acclaimed puzzle game that tasks you with finding the elusive Room 46. You decide what room awaits behind each door, from a selection of options. Find helpful items and follow clues – but use your limited moves wisely, as the manor’s floor plan resets every morning.
Elegantly eccentric with an intricate story that threads itself through more than 150 puzzles, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a captivating conundrum. To truly understand this odd hotel and its guests, you’ll need to think outside of the box, and sideways, and backwards, and upside down.
When a well-meaning criminal meets a severed-finger mascot with anger issues in a cursed town full of secrets, you know only good things can happen. Promise Mascot Agency is a bizarre blend of management simulation and open-world exploration, with card-based battles and a wicked sense of humour. It probably shouldn’t work – yet it does so, gloriously. A genuine original.
This dark fantasy adventure from makers of Lost in Random features characters sculpted from clay and animated in a stop-motion style. The effect is haunting as you scamper through twisted landscapes, outwitting monsters to bring back light to the world.
The Midnight Walk is also playable using PlayStation VR2.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is a narrative adventure set in 1995 and 2022, with protagonist Swann, now an adult, having to confront the consequences of what happened when she was a teenager. Mixing friendship-testing scenarios with supernatural spookiness, Lost Records is another captivating story from Don’t Nod, the creators of Life is Strange.
Inspired by Firefly and Cowboy Bebop, this sci-fi experience casts the player as a robotic body programmed with human consciousness, trying to escape from a gang that wants what's in your head. A dice-driven RPG that mixes tabletop tenets with high-stakes tension, it's a game that challenges you to do what you can to stay alive, and stay free.
Deltarune is an extraordinary tale of tenderness and weird whimsy in a fantastical world. Battle in turn-based bullet-hell scenarios, solve puzzles, befriend new allies, and determine the fate of the Dark World.
Progress from the PlayStation 4 version of Deltarune can be imported to the PlayStation 5 version of the game. Purchasing Deltarune allows access to all currently available Chapters. Upcoming Chapters will be added as free updates.
Classic SNK fighting series Fatal Fury returns after 26 years with City of the Wolves, featuring the all-new REV system to supercharge offensive moves, as well as control options aimed at getting newcomers straight to the heart of the action. An RPG-style mode, Episodes of South Town, deepens the story side of this new fighting-scene challenger.
Sit with a soothing cup of tea in Wanderstop, which tells the story of the fighter Alta who is struggling with imposter syndrome. Restore her confidence and feeling of community, work at a tea shop and complete quests for an intriguing cast of characters.
Unleash cartoon chaos in this utterly unserious adventure in which Terry will do whatever it takes to get his car into space. Explore a small but perfectly formed open world full of treasure to dig for, crimes to commit (in a weirdly friendly way) and – most importantly – hats to wear. It’s all totally wholesome, but undeniably odd.
Become Ryu Hayabusa in this remaster of the critically acclaimed action adventure from 2008. Use the legendary Dragon Sword in battles that span the world, with everything presented in incredible detail thanks to Unreal Engine 5. Famously a challenging series, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black also features Hero Style Play, a mode to ease beginners into the action.
Escape an ancient, biomechanical world full of deadly traps in this brain-testing platform-puzzler. Overcome obstacles with teleportation, shift gravity to swap positions with objects and enemies, and enjoy a world brought to life in gorgeous pixel art. Feeling competitive? Test your skills against other players with speedrunning and leaderboards.
This short and sweet game tells a story of growing up in Ecuador at a time of political and cultural change – and when the national football team is aiming to qualify for the World Cup for the first time. We see the impressionistically styled streets and parks of Quito through the eyes of Julián, casually kicking his way through a charming slice-of-life tale.
Real-time strategy game Against the Storm combines the complexities of city-builders with the spontaneity of roguelikes in a fantasy world on the precipice of collapse. Construct villages, craft with resources, and maintain the Queen’s favour before the next storm rolls in.
Certain to appeal to fans of Hollow Knight and Animal Well, this action-platformer with an emphasis on exploration is a dark delight, sending players on an adventure through the Land of Fumes. As Lilac, summon Homunculi allies to fight foes as you venture forward in a quest to retrieve your lost memories.
From Sloclap – the studio that made the celebrated Sifu – comes a football game with a compelling arcade twist. Rematch offers five-a-side multiplayer matches with the action viewed from a third-person perspective, one player per team member. There are no fouls, no offsides and no pauses for breath – just intense action underpinned by deep tactics.
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