The Future Game Show Spring Showcase 2025, hosted by Jennifer English (Shadowheart from Baldur’s Gate 3) and Nolan North (Nathan Drake from Uncharted), has just wrapped up, leaving us with an impressive lineup of upcoming games.
This year’s showcase, which took place on March 20th, 2025, featured a whopping 51 games across various platforms and genres. From survival horror to action RPGs, turn-based strategy to platformers, there’s something for everyone.
Let’s dive into every game announced at the showcase, providing you with all the details you need to mark your calendars and update your wishlists!
1. Lost Rift
Release Date: 2025 (Early Access)
Platforms: PC (Steam)
Genre: Survival
Lost Rift kicked off the show with a world premiere trailer. This supernatural survival game is set on a mysterious desert island and boasts both PvP and PvPvE gameplay. Players can expect a blend of base building, resource gathering, and intense combat when it hits Steam Early Access later this year.
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Release Date: April 24, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass
Genre: Turn-based RPG
This stylish turn-based RPG got a character trailer featuring Maelle, a rapier-wielding survivor voiced by Jennifer English. Set in a world where light and shadow play crucial roles in gameplay, players will lead Expedition 33 through dangerous territories. The game combines strategic combat with exploration and narrative elements.
3. Animal Use Protocol
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC
Genre: Survival Horror Puzzle
From the creators of the STASIS series comes Animal Use Protocol, a survival horror puzzle adventure starring a hyper-intelligent chimp and their rat companion. Players must navigate through a mysterious research facility, solving puzzles and uncovering dark secrets.
4. Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny
Release Date: May 23, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Action Remaster
Capcom’s classic samurai action game returns with this comprehensive remaster. The developer diary focused on the game’s new “Hell” difficulty mode for veteran players. The remaster preserves the original’s blend of historical Japanese settings with supernatural elements while making it accessible to modern audiences.
5. Nitro Gen Omega
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Tactical RPG
Nitro Gen Omega is a tactical RPG featuring turn-based combat with a focus on mech customization. Players will build their mechs, fill them with mercenaries, and engage in strategic battles. The game promises extensive character customization and a branching narrative.
6. The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time
Release Date: 2025 (Demo: April 25, 2025)
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5
Genre: RPG Parody
This tongue-in-cheek RPG parodies the trend of remaking classic games. It focuses specifically on recreating the final act of a fictional “greatest RPG ever,” complete with intentionally over-the-top cinematics and gameplay. A playable demo will be available on April 25, 2025.
7. I Hate This Place
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC
Genre: Open-world Survival
Bloober Team and Skybound Entertainment joined forces to reveal I Hate This Place, an open-world survival game based on the Kyle Starks comic of the same name. Players will need to navigate a world filled with supernatural threats and dark humour.
8. Once Upon a Puppet
Release Date: April 23, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Puzzle Platformer
Once Upon a Puppet is a charming puzzle platformer where players control a living puppet in a storybook world. The game features a unique art style reminiscent of classic puppet shows and fairy tales. Players will make choices that affect the story’s outcome as they navigate through various whimsical scenarios.
9. Revenge of the Savage Planet
Release Date: May 8, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass
Genre: Co-op Action-Adventure
The sequel to Journey to the Savage Planet got a quirky live-action trailer featuring the “Ding Dong Influencer Accelerator Program Extreme Routine”. This co-op action-adventure game returns players to the colourful and dangerous alien world, expanding on the original with new areas to explore, strange creatures to catalog, and resources to collect.
10. Inayah: Life After Gods
Release Date: March 2025
Platforms: PC
Genre: Metroidvania
ExoGenesis Studios shared the launch trailer for Inayah: Life After Gods, a mysterious Metroidvania in which players chart the ruins of a high-tech civilization. The game features a unique art style and promises challenging platforming and combat.
11. Deathground
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Dinosaur Survival Horror
Deathground combines the tension of survival horror with the threat of prehistoric predators. A new gameplay trailer showcased the game’s tense atmosphere and stealth mechanics. Players must navigate environments filled with dinosaurs that use advanced AI to hunt realistically.
12. Kingmakers
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Siege Simulator
Redemption Road Games provided an overview of Kingmakers, an anachronistic siege simulator. Players can both build and assault castles, using modern weaponry against medieval knights and driving trucks through cavalry fields. The game features realistic physics for destruction and a detailed building system.
13. Elsewhere Electric
Release Date: Summer 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam), Meta Quest
Genre: Asymmetrical VR/Mobile Puzzle
Games by Stitch revealed Elsewhere Electric, an innovative asymmetrical puzzle game. One player uses VR to explore a surreal abandoned facility, while another player on a mobile device manipulates the environment and provides guidance. The game emphasizes cooperation and communication between the two players.
14. System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
Release Date: June 26, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Immersive Sim Remaster
Nightdive Studios’ System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster got a release date trailer. This remaster of the influential immersive sim has been optimized for modern platforms, featuring enhanced visuals while preserving the atmospheric horror and RPG elements that made the original a classic.
15. GOG Preservation Program
Release Date: Ongoing
Platforms: PC (GOG)
Genre: Various
While not a game itself, the GOG Preservation Program announcement highlighted the importance of game preservation. GOG.com is committed to making classic games available and playable on modern systems, ensuring that gaming history is not lost to time.
16. Mandragora
Release Date: April 17, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Dark Fantasy Action RPG
Mandragora is a visually striking dark fantasy action RPG with hand-crafted 2.5D environments. The game features a deep combat system, extensive character customization, and a grim world inspired by European folklore. With multiple endings and a branching narrative, Mandragora promises significant replay value.
17. Billie Bust Up
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch
Genre: 3D Platformer
Billie Bust Up is a colorful 3D platformer featuring a cast of quirky characters. The game promises tight controls, varied environments, and a lighthearted story that pays homage to classic platformers of the past.
18. Shelf Heroes
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, Mobile
Genre: Puzzle Adventure
Shelf Heroes is a unique puzzle adventure game where players organise books on shelves to uncover hidden stories and solve mysteries. The game combines elements of visual novels with inventory management puzzles.
19. Chains of Freedom
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Turn-based Tactics
Chains of Freedom is a turn-based tactical game set in a dystopian Eastern European world. Players lead an elite military squad to uncover conspiracies and battle against mind-controlled enemies. The game features a deep narrative and challenging tactical combat.
20. Bionic Bay
Release Date: Summer 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Physics-based Platformer
Bionic Bay is a physics-based platformer designed with speedrunning in mind. Players control a character with bionic enhancements that allow for gravity manipulation and other movement abilities. The game features leaderboards, time trials, and a robust replay system for comparing runs with other players.
21. NEIGHBORS: Suburban Warfare
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5
Genre: Strategy Simulation
This quirky strategy game puts players in the middle of an escalating neighborhood feud. NEIGHBORS: Suburban Warfare allows you to plan and execute increasingly absurd tactics against the family next door, from harmless pranks to elaborate schemes. The game features a humourous take on suburban life with destructible environments.
22. Hawthorn
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Atmospheric Adventure
Hawthorn is an atmospheric adventure game set in a mysterious, fog-shrouded world. Players must unravel the secrets of an ancient civilization while navigating treacherous environments and solving intricate puzzles.
23. Industria 2
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: First-person Adventure
The sequel to the atmospheric first-person shooter Industria, this game continues the story in a parallel Cold War-era dimension. Players will explore abandoned industrial complexes, uncover dark secrets, and face off against mysterious robotic enemies.
24. Romestead
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC
Genre: City-building Strategy
Romestead is a city-building strategy game set in ancient Rome. Players must manage resources, construct buildings, and navigate political intrigue to build a thriving Roman city. The game features historically accurate architecture and a deep simulation of Roman society.
25. South of Midnight
Release Date: April 8, 2025
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC, Xbox Game Pass
Genre: Action-Adventure
South of Midnight is an atmospheric action-adventure game set in the American South. The game features a unique art style inspired by Southern Gothic folklore and promises an immersive narrative experience. As an Xbox Game Pass title, subscribers will have access to this intriguing adventure on day one.
26. Pioner
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Open-world Survival
Pioner is an open-world survival game set in a post-apocalyptic version of Eastern Europe. Players must explore a vast, anomaly-filled landscape, scavenge for resources, and uncover the mysteries of what caused the catastrophic event that reshaped the world.
27. Hell Clock
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Horror Puzzle
Hell Clock is a horror puzzle game centered around a mysterious clock that alters reality. Players must solve increasingly complex time-based puzzles while avoiding supernatural threats. The game features a unique visual style that shifts between different artistic periods as reality warps around the player.
28. Rivals Hover League
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Futuristic Sports
Rivals Hover League is a fast-paced futuristic sports game combining elements of hockey and racing. Players control hover vehicles in intense matches, using special abilities and team tactics to outmaneuver opponents and score goals.
29. Finding Frankie
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Parkour Platformer
Finding Frankie combines parkour mechanics with a heartfelt narrative about searching for a lost friend. Players will navigate through a colorful urban landscape, performing fluid parkour moves and solving environmental puzzles. The game emphasizes freedom of movement and creative path finding.
30. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord War Sails
Release Date: June 17, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Medieval Simulator Expansion
This major expansion for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord introduces naval warfare mechanics to the medieval simulator. Players can build and command fleets, engage in ship-to-ship combat, and conduct coastal raids. The expansion integrates seamlessly with the base game’s economic and political systems. Ideally this will also allow Console players and PC players to be on the same update but we will see.
31. WILL: Follow the Light
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Sailing Adventure
WILL: Follow The Light is an Unreal Engine 5 sailing adventure with aurora vistas and an intrigue-filled narrative. Players will navigate treacherous waters, uncover ancient mysteries, and make crucial decisions that shape the story’s outcome.
32. Cloudheim
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Action-Adventure
Cloudheim is an action-adventure game set in a world of floating islands. The game features a physics-based combat system and an emphasis on exploration. Players will discover the secrets of this fragmented world while mastering various weapons and abilities to overcome increasingly challenging enemies.
33. Section 13
Release Date: May 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Twin-stick Roguelite Shooter
Section 13 is a twin-stick roguelite shooter where players fend off waves of vicious monsters in a clandestine facility. The game promises intense action, a variety of weapons and upgrades, and challenging procedurally generated levels.
34. Bandit Trap
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Asymmetrical Multiplayer
Bandit Trap is a 3-versus-1 multiplayer game where three players take on the role of Bandits trying to rob a house, while one player acts as the Trapper, setting up various traps to thwart the robbery. The game features a cartoony art style and emphasises chaotic, slapstick humour.
35. Metal Eden
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Mech Combat
Metal Eden is a fast-paced mech combat game featuring customizable mechs and destructible environments. Players can modify their mechs with various weapons and components to suit different playstyles. The game includes both a single-player campaign and competitive multiplayer modes.
36. Neon Abyss 2
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Roguelite Platformer
The sequel to the popular roguelite platformer Neon Abyss, this game expands on the original with new characters, weapons, and procedurally generated dungeons. Players will shoot their way through neon-soaked levels, collecting power-ups and facing off against challenging bosses.
37. The Last Caretaker
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5
Genre: Post-apocalyptic Adventure
In The Last Caretaker, players control a heroic robot tasked with bringing humanity back from the brink of extinction. The game features open-world exploration, crafting mechanics, and a narrative that explores themes of loneliness and purpose in a post-apocalyptic world.
38. Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Release Date: April 9, 2025 (Early Access)
Platforms: PC
Genre: Psychological Horror
This psychological horror game puts players in a zombie apocalypse scenario with a focus on survival and resource management. Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days emphasizes the psychological toll of survival rather than just combat, with players making difficult moral choices throughout the narrative.
39. Locomoto
Release Date: April 8, 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Puzzle-Adventure
Locomoto puts players in control of a sentient locomotive with the ability to transform the environment. This charming puzzle-adventure game features hand-crafted levels and a whimsical art style. Players will need to solve increasingly complex puzzles as they journey through a vibrant, imaginative world.
40. Karma: The Dark World
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Karma: The Dark World is a first-person psychological thriller set in East Germany in 1984. Players take on the role of an agent who can invade the memories of those they interrogate, navigating through dark and surreal mindscapes filled with repressed traumas and hidden truths.
41. Ones to Play Montage
Release Date: Available Now
Platforms: PC (Steam)
Genre: Various
The “Ones to Play” montage highlighted several games that were immediately available on Steam after the showcase. These included Eclipsium, White Knuckle, Weeny Wise, Paper Sky, Mother Machine, and Artis Impact, offering a diverse range of experiences for players to enjoy right away.
42. Frosthaven
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Tactical RPG
Based on the popular board game, Frosthaven is a digital adaptation that brings the tactical combat and resource management of the tabletop original to video game platforms. Players will lead a group of mercenaries in a harsh, wintry environment, balancing combat encounters with town-building elements.
43. Stand-Alone
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5
Genre: Survival Horror
Stand-Alone is a tense survival horror game that puts players in the shoes of a lone survivor in a world overrun by a mysterious threat. The game emphasizes stealth, resource management, and psychological horror elements.
44. Fretless
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Music Rhythm
Fretless is an innovative music rhythm game that simulates playing a fretless stringed instrument. Players must precisely hit notes without the aid of frets, creating a unique and challenging gameplay experience. The game features a diverse soundtrack spanning multiple genres.
45. Mecha BREAK
Release Date: 2025 (Open Beta)
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Mech Battle Arena
Mecha BREAK is a competitive mech battle arena game featuring intense PvP combat. Players can customize their mechs with various weapons and abilities, engaging in fast-paced battles across diverse arenas. The game’s open beta was announced during the showcase.
46. Crown Gambit
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, Mobile
Genre: Strategy
Crown Gambit is a strategic board game-inspired title that combines elements of chess and deck-building. Players must outmaneuver their opponents using a combination of piece movement and special ability cards, creating a unique blend of tactical gameplay.
47. RAEV Kingdom on the Distant Shores
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Adventure RPG
RAEV Kingdom on the Distant Shores is a vibrant adventure RPG set in a fantastical world. Players embark on a journey across diverse landscapes, meeting colorful characters and engaging in turn-based combat. The game promises a rich narrative with multiple branching paths.
48. Reanimal
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Horror Adventure
Reanimal is a horror adventure game where players control siblings trying to escape an island filled with haunted creatures. The game features a unique art style and emphasizes puzzle-solving and stealth mechanics to survive the terrifying environment.
49. FBC: Firebreak
Release Date: Summer 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass
Genre: Co-op Shooter
Set in the universe of Control, FBC: Firebreak is a fast-paced cooperative shooter where players take on the role of Federal Bureau of Control agents. Teams of up to four players will combat paranormal threats using a combination of conventional weapons and supernatural abilities. The game features procedurally generated missions to ensure high replayability.
50. Cronos: The New Dawn
Release Date: 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: Time-traveling Survival Horror
Cronos: The New Dawn is a survival horror game with a unique time-traveling mechanic. Set in an alternate history version of 1980s Poland, players can shift between different time periods to solve puzzles and avoid threats. The game features a dynamic narrative that changes based on player actions across different timelines.
51. Painkiller
Release Date: Fall 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Genre: First-person Shooter
Closing out the show was the surprise announcement of a new Painkiller game. Developed by Saber Interactive and 3D Realms, this reboot of the classic 2004 shooter promises to bring the fast-paced, demon-slaying action to modern platforms with updated graphics and gameplay mechanics.
Conclusion
The Future Game Show Spring Showcase 2025 has revealed an impressive lineup of games spanning various genres and platforms. With so many upcoming titles, 2025 is shaping up to be an incredible year for gamers of all preferences. Whether you’re into horror, RPGs, action-adventure, or strategy games, there’s something for everyone in this extensive collection of titles.
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As release dates approach, we’ll likely see more gameplay footage and details for many of these games. Which titles from the Future Game Show Spring Showcase 2025 are you most excited about?