The Biggest Games Releasing in July 2025
It is July, and we’re dwelling in a post-Swap 2 and Demise Stranding 2 world.
We’re within the doldrums of summer time for actual now, and whereas the sport launch calendar is something however empty, it is not fairly so full of high-profile releases as it’s in different components of the yr.
This month brings us Nintendo’s second massive launch for the Nintendo Swap 2 in Donkey Kong Bananza, contemporary remakes of Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 and 4, in addition to Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree, and a bunch of smaller new video games price chasing down.
Of these, we’re particularly trying ahead to Grounded 2, the sequel to Obsidian’s survival recreation Grounded, during which a quartet of younger teenagers had been miniaturized and needed to survive the numerous bugs of the yard.
Ninja Gaiden returns to its sidescroller roots in Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, and Mecha Break seems prefer it may make for among the finest PvP mech fight but.
Mecha Break
Launch Date: July 1, 2025
PC (Steam), Xbox Sequence X/S, Android
Mecha Break is a 3v3 or 6v6 hero shooter during which you design your hero and customise your mech to tackle different gamers in a PvP or PvPvE mode.
The mechs are the fast-moving anime-style sort, so anticipate battles to be lightning quick.
Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4
Launch Date: July 11, 2025
PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Nintendo Swap (incl. Swap 2), PC (Steam, Battle.web, Microsoft Retailer), Xbox Recreation Cross
Certain, we’re a bit uninterested in each recreation getting rebooted, reimagined, remastered, and remade. However it’s laborious to get mad at Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater.
These endlessly replayable video games needs to be on each platform they’ll match on. This two-game remake follows within the footsteps of THPS1+2, together with each new and traditional maps, skaters, modes, and music.
Donkey Kong Bananza
Launch Date: July 17, 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Swap 2
Donkey Kong has thrown barrels, pushed go-karts, and been shot out of numerous barrels.
Now, he is making his means by the Underground World in quest of Golden Bananas, and he is punching his means by something that will get in his means.
This recreation seems to observe within the footsteps of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, in that, as an alternative of providing gamers a curated play expertise as Nintendo has historically achieved, we’re being given the liberty to discover the world.
Certain, you may punch enemies, however the actual enjoyable right here is in punching every little thing else as a means of exploring the world. We’re actually hoping that is DK’s massive comeback second.
Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree
Launch Date: July 24, 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Swap, Nintendo Swap 2
Tremendous Mario Celebration Jamboree was launched on the Swap final yr, however this model has been enhanced for the Swap 2, and that provides some killer options.
Amongst them is Recreation Share, which permits a Swap 2 proprietor to share the sport with different individuals on their native community, together with Swap 1 gamers.
There are additionally new mini-games to help options just like the system’s onboard mic and the mouse performance constructed into every controller. Should you already personal Jamboree on Swap, there is a paid improve, or you should buy the Swap 2 Version of the sport and get all of it on one cart.
Grounded 2
Launch Date: July 29, 2025 (Early Entry)
Platforms: PC (Steam), Xbox Sequence X/S, Xbox Recreation Cross
We will not await Grounded 2. The primary recreation’s artwork was cute, however secretly terrifying—a 1-inch Wolf Spider seems like a kaiju-sized beast whenever you’re brief sufficient {that a} blade of grass supplies you with important shade.
Do not even get me began on Black Widows and Wasps. The sport had an amazing mix of survival, constructing, exploration, terror, and fight.
This sequel to the 2022 recreation is getting into early entry, so it’s going to be a bit bit earlier than it is prepared for prime time, however it’s going to have mountable bugs (known as buggies), and we’re hoping Obsidian will carry extra of their storytelling expertise to bear on this sequel.
Tales of the Shire
Launch Date: July 29, 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam), Nintendo Swap, PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S
Once we take into consideration cozy video games, it is virtually a shock that we’re solely getting a Hobbit-themed cozy recreation now.
Don’t be concerned, your loved ones identify right here shouldn’t be Baggins, and you will not must be one of many only a few Hobbits to depart the Shire and go on a harrowing journey. No, your work is at house.
On this recreation, you’ll “stay the cosy lifetime of a Hobbit within the splendidly serene panorama of the Shire. Uncover, embellish, and share on this idyllic nook of Center-earth.”
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Launch Date: July 31, 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam), Nintendo Swap, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S
Following within the footsteps of the Prince of Persia video games final yr, Ninja Gaiden is getting two completely different, new releases this yr (along with the sooner remake of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black).
First up is Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, which takes the sequence again to its sidescrolling roots.
Higher but, the crew behind it additionally developed Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2, two superior side-scroller search-action video games with nice fight and probably the most steel artwork route conceivable.
Ninja Gaiden 4 hits later this yr—search for it on this listing this fall.
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
