2025’s upcoming games poised to be best-sellers

As we close out the eventful year 2024, we look ahead to a games release calendar that is already teeming with excellent titles. Several of the games launching in 2025 have already cultivated large fanbases and media interest, building up anticipation for them ahead of their launch. Following on from Dean’s own most-anticipated games list, the games on this list are most likely to top the sales charts in the coming year.

2025’s titles are entering into an unusual market. Many publishers would have said at the beginning of 2024 that live-service titles are the way of the market, but the market very firmly pushed back on many (not all, but many) of the newly launched titles on offer. Many of them either shut down or their publishers announced an end to fresh content after only a brief time on the market, including Concord, Foamstars, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and XDefiant.