New and Best Game Releases of July 2025
Summer is in full swing and we are here to bring you a hot line up of New Games in July 2025!
This month is packed with long-awaited returns and exciting new adventures.
Let’s explore all the games worth getting excited for this July!
Before we dive into the full list itself, here are some Honorable Mentions of the New and Best Games we are most excited about this month!
Grounded was an amazing game that surprised a lot of people – it was repayable, fun, detailed and cared for by the developers. With more of that good stuff coming at the end of this month, we are extremely excited about Grounded 2. Check out our Grounded 2 section on the website for fresh news and guides on the game as well as our Grounded 2 interactive map for you to find anything you might be looking for.
Similarly, another game we are excited about is Tales of the Shire – a cozy hobbit life simulator set in the beloved world of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. We’re expecting to dive into cooking, fishing, dancing, eating with our friends and building strong relationships with our fellow Bywater hobbits! For tips, tricks and guides, check out our dedicated Tales of the Shire section and try to catch us eating tasty pies Live on Twitch!
Finally, another honorable mention is Mecha Break – a new and exciting “Gundam-style” multiplayer shooter game we’ve been playing since the very start of the month. It is our first entry on the list, so let’s dive right in!
July 2 – Mecha BREAK
PC, Xbox Series X/S
A near-future sci-fi multiplayer shooter where players pilot customizable mechs in high-octane 3v3, 6v6, and PvPvE extraction game modes. The game emphasizes fast-paced ground and aerial combat.
July 10 – EA Sports College Football 26
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
The return of the beloved college football simulation series, featuring deep gameplay enhancements such as a “Wear & Tear” system affecting player performance, physics-based tackling, and expanded team playbooks.
July 10 – Every Day We Fight
PC (Early Access)
A tactical roguelite where players lead a band of civilian resistance fighters caught in a time loop against a mysterious alien threat. The gameplay blends real-time exploration with turn-based combat, where skills and gear persist across loops.
July 10 – Everdeep Aurora
PC, Switch
A non-violent 2D puzzle-platformer and exploration adventure. Players control Shell, a small cat who must dig deep underground to find her missing mother after a meteor shower forces all life below the surface.
July 10 – Ground of Aces
PC, Mac (Early Access)
A WWII base-building strategy game where players command a military airbase, managing aircraft, pilots, and crew. Inspired by management sims like RimWorld, the game focuses on the human stories behind the historic conflict.
July 10 – ISLANDERS: New Shores
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch
The sequel to the minimalist city-builder, expanding the formula with new biomes, more building types, advanced scoring mechanics like line-of-sight, and a creative sandbox mode for pressure-free building.
July 10 – Mycopunk
PC
A co-op first-person shooter where players, as robots in the New Atlas Hazard Crew, are tasked with clearing planets of dangerous fungal beasts. The game features mission-based rounds and deep character customization with unique gadgets and weapons.
July 11 – Brickadia
PC (Early Access)
A multiplayer brick-building sandbox game that provides players with the tools to create and play in their own worlds. It features a dynamic physics system and wire logic for creating interactive contraptions and custom game modes with friends.
July 11 – Patapon 1 + 2 Replay
PC, PS5, Switch
A remastered collection of the two classic rhythm-action games. Players command the adorable Patapon army by beating sacred drums to a four-beat rhythm, guiding them on a quest to reach Earthend. This version features enhanced visuals and new quality-of-life functions.
July 11 – STRIDEN
PC (Early Access)
A fast-paced, sandbox looter-shooter survival game set in a post-nuclear Cold War Scandinavia. Teams battle to collect points, build strongholds, and activate a radio transmitter for extraction while surviving a harsh, radioactive environment.
July 11 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4
PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch 2, Switch
A full remake of the third and fourth installments of the iconic skateboarding franchise, rebuilt from the ground up. The game will be available on Xbox Game Pass on day one.
July 11 – Xenopurge
PC (Early Access)
A tactical auto-battler roguelike where players act as a remote commander, issuing indirect orders to a squad of mercenaries tasked with purging an alien threat. Gameplay involves planning routes and setting priorities for the AI-controlled squad.
July 14 – Dawn Apart
PC
A space colony and factory simulation game with fully destructible environments. Players must mine, automate, and defend their settlers, or choose to lead a rebellion against the corporation controlling them.
July 14 – Kaizen: A Factory Story
PC, macOS, Linux
An open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team. Set in 1980s Japan, players design, build, and optimize production lines for iconic products like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
July 15 – EDENS ZERO
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
A 3D action RPG based on the popular space fantasy manga by Hiro Mashima. Players control Shiki and his friends, exploring a vast open world, reliving the original story, and tackling over 200 game-exclusive quests.
July 15 – Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
A narrative-driven isometric stealth game set in a vibrant city inspired by early 1900s Scandinavia. Players switch between three playable characters, using their unique skills to unravel the mystery of a brother’s disappearance.
July 15 – Lost in Prayer
PC (Early Access)
A tactical turn-based roguelike with a unique twist: any creature that kills the player becomes playable on the next run. Players explore the procedurally generated realms of Heaven and Hell, mastering dozens of characters to escape Purgatory.
July 15 – Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch
An enhanced edition of the classic 2006 Dungeons & Dragons RPG. This version includes all three original expansions, improved textures, full controller support, and four-player cross-platform co-op.
July 15 – Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
PC
A definitive remaster of the beloved real-time strategy castle-sim. This version features graphical enhancements, quality-of-life improvements, and a brand-new cooperative multiplayer mode.
July 16 – Worship
PC (Early Access)
A multiplayer roguelite inspired by Pikmin, where up to four players lead a cult devoted to an eldritch god. Gameplay involves converting followers, performing rituals, and battling rival cults in a cute-yet-grim world.
July 17 – A-RED Walking Robot
PC, PS5, PS4
A physics-based toy robot simulator known for its high difficulty. Players pilot a tiny, wind-up robot through intricate workshop environments, overcoming challenging mazes and obstacles that test controller skill and patience.
July 17 – Donkey Kong Bananza
Nintendo Switch 2
The first original Donkey Kong game in over a decade. This 3D platforming adventure sees Donkey Kong and Pauline team up to run, jump, and smash their way through vibrant environments to recover the Golden Bananas.
July 17 – Dust Raiders
PC
A management strategy game set in a lawless wasteland. Players upgrade a convoy of vehicles, engage in tactical fights, manage resources, and gather a crew to rule the desert territories, all within a dynamic economy.
July 17 – Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact
PC, PS5, Switch
A 2.5D fighting game based on the acclaimed Hunter × Hunter manga and anime. Developed by Eighting and published by Arc System Works, it brings the series’ iconic characters and their Nen abilities to the competitive fighting game stage.
July 17 – Neon Abyss 2
PC (Early Access)
The sequel to the chaotic roguelike, now with four-player online co-op. This installment dials up the action with faster run ‘n’ gun gameplay, more combat styles, and unlimited item synergies for creating overpowered builds.
July 17 – RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business
PS5
A standalone follow-up to RoboCop: Rogue City. Picking up where the original left off, RoboCop must tackle a new threat in the OmniTower. The title sees Peter Weller reprise his iconic role.
July 17 – The Drifter
PC, macOS, Linux
A pulp adventure point-and-click thriller where a murdered drifter awakens seconds before his death. Haunted and hunted, he must untangle a mad web of conspiracy in a fast-paced narrative thrill-ride.
July 17 – The Necromancer’s Tale
PC
A dark gothic RPG blending the rich narrative and detective work of Disco Elysium with tactical combat akin to Baldur’s Gate 3. Players assume the role of a necromancer to investigate a grim mystery.
July 18 – Shadow Labyrinth
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch
A genre-twisting take on PAC-MAN where players must consume darkness to survive. The game involves phase-shifting between different characters to explore a mysterious, hostile world where it’s eat or be eaten.
July 21 – Ascent of Ashes
PC (Early Access)
A deep colony sim from the creators of the Combat Extended mod for RimWorld. Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, it combines base building, survivor management, and real-time-with-pause tactical combat.
July 21 – The King is Watching
PC
A roguelite kingdom builder where the player’s gaze is their primary tool of command. Players must balance resource production and military training to defend their kingdom from threats, with unique events making each run feel different.
July 22 – BRUTAL JOHN 2
PC (Early Access)
An ultraviolent, old-school first-person shooter that pays homage to ’90s classics. Players, as Brutal John and his dog, fight to destroy a crypto-mining mutant’s empire using a devastating arsenal and an ultra-detailed gibbing system.
July 22 – Grimshire
PC (Early Access)
A survival simulation game where players must help a village endure a deadly plague. Gameplay revolves around farming, foraging, preventing food spoilage, and undertaking community projects to ensure the town’s survival.
July 22 – Hell Clock
PC
An action RPG that combines the depth of titles like Path of Exile with the run-based nature of Hades. Set in a dark fantasy version of Brazil’s War of Canudos, players have a limited time to delve into Hell before returning to the surface to upgrade.
July 22 – Luto
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
A psychological horror experience where the player is trapped in their own home. Every attempt to escape leads deeper into a labyrinthine and surreal environment, exploring themes of loss, anxiety, and depression.
July 22 – Misc. A Tiny Tale
Switch
A charming 3D platformer where players control tiny robots on a quest to clean up a post-human world and collect golden cogs. Gameplay involves exploration, helping other robots, and uncovering the mystery behind a strange explosion.
July 22 – Wildgate
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
A multiplayer shooter blending tactical ship-to-ship combat with first-person action. Crews battle each other while evading environmental hazards to be the first to escape with a valuable Artifact.
July 24 – Killing Floor 3
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
The next installment in the cooperative horde shooter franchise. Teams of players fight off waves of bio-engineered monstrosities known as Zeds with an arsenal of futuristic weapons in blood-soaked, chaotic battles.
July 24 – Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
A soulslike action RPG set in the tumultuous late Ming Dynasty of China. The land is plagued by warring factions and a mysterious illness that spawns monstrous creatures. The game will be available Day One on Xbox Game Pass.
July 25 – Ratatan
PC (Early Access)
A rhythm roguelite action game from the creators of Patapon. Players use beat-driven commands to control a large army in massive melee battles, with support for up to 4-player online co-op. The game is the spiritual successor to the beloved Patapon series.
July 28 – FUMES
PC (Early Access)
A fast-paced car combat game with a distinct retro aesthetic. Players arm customizable vehicles with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands, collecting upgrades to destroy enemies and giant bosses in a bizarre, scrap-filled world.
July 28 – Likho odnoglazoe (One-Eyed Likho)
PC
A grim first-person horror adventure inspired by a dark Slavic fairy tale. Set in 19th-century Russia, players explore an unsettling and twisted world rendered in a unique greyscale art style, solving puzzles to escape their own evil fate.
July 28 – Primal Planet
PC
A solo-developed pixel-art game that blends the metroidvania and survival genres. Players are tasked with protecting their family from dinosaurs and aliens in a hostile, prehistoric world.
July 29 – Day of the Shell
PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch
A “one-click, one-turn” tactical roguelite set in a shattered, flooded world. As a monster huntress, players travel between islands, combining the powers of divine blessings and ancient relics to create powerful builds and appease the gods.
July 29 – Grounded 2
PC, Xbox Series X/S (Early Access)
The sequel to the hit survival adventure game. Players once again control miniaturized characters who must survive in an oversized natural environment, building, crafting, and fighting giant insects. It will be available Day One on Xbox Game Pass.
July 30 – Terminull Brigade
PC
A free-to-play, co-op roguelite PvE shooter set in a vibrant sci-fi world called the “Nullverse.” Players team up to fight a rogue AI uprising, engaging in fast-paced combat with deep character customization and procedurally generated challenges.
July 31 – Earthion
PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, Switch
A new shoot ’em up from the legendary video game composer Yuzo Koshiro. The title is being released across all major platforms to ensure it reaches a broad audience of both console and PC gamers.
July 31 – Misc. A Tiny Tale
PC
A charming 3D platformer where players control tiny robots on a quest to clean up a post-human world and collect golden cogs. Gameplay involves exploration, helping other robots, and uncovering the mystery behind a strange explosion.
July 31 – Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch
A new 2D installment in the classic action-platformer franchise. This title marks a return to the series’ side-scrolling roots after decades of 3D entries, promising a modern take on the original Ninja Gaiden formula.
Make sure you come back for a digest of the most notable game releases every month! Here are a couple of games we are extremely excited about this year – Arc Raiders – Extraction Shooter That Will Convert You and Tales of the Shire: 5 Reasons to be Hyped for a New Adventure. If you are looking for more gaming-related news and discussions, join our community discord to connect and chat with other passionate gamers and get excited about some of the great games coming out this month!