The Biggest Games Releasing in December 2025

As soon as upon a time, December was an extremely useless month for video games—a possibility to compensate for your backlog, since the entire 12 months’s large video games had already come and gone.

Properly, that is now not the case. There are a bunch of killer video games releasing this December.

December brings us robust choices throughout a bunch of genres, from psychological and survival horror to side-scrolling beat-’em-ups, a traditional RPG, a long-awaited sequel to a legendary franchise, and even an summary artwork recreation about skateboarding.

Most of those video games are indie affairs, with just one recreation from a giant writer, so we’re anticipating most of those to be fairly inexpensive as nicely—a pleasant bonus when the vacations are slamming your pockets. You’ll be able to afford a bit of deal with for your self, or make your entire mates play terrifying horror video games with out spending a ton of cash.

Notice: All the video games listed beneath are conventional or “Web2” video video games. None have crypto or blockchain components, so far as we all know—however you may take pleasure in ’em anyway.



Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Launch Date: December 1, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), Nintendo Change + Change 2, PS4/PS5, Xbox One + Collection X/S

Children from the ’80s and ’90s may bear in mind seeing all these nice arcade beat-’em-up video games hanging round arcades, bowling alleys, and the like—X-Males, The Punisher, Captain America and the Avengers, and so forth.

Marvel Cosmic Invasion appears to be like designed to take you again to these days as you choose from 15 characters to combat towards the lethal Annihilation Wave threatening the galaxy. You will select two characters for every stage and swap between them, every with distinctive skills and particular assaults, and it’s also possible to group up for on-line and native co-op with as much as 4 gamers.

Horses

Launch Date: December 2, 2025Platforms: Epic Video games Retailer, GOG, itch.io, Humble Retailer

Horses is a brief, intense horror recreation that lasts for about 4 hours. You play as a school pupil who goes to work on a farm for 14 days, and issues rapidly get bizarre. This recreation has some violent and grotesque imagery, so look into it earlier than you dive in. Valve declined to host this recreation on account of a few of its content material, sparking an enormous controversy within the course of, however yow will discover it on a wide range of different platforms like GOG, Epic Video games Retailer, and extra.

Sleep Awake

Launch Date: December 2, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S

Sleep Awake comes from the sport publishing arm of horror large Blumhouse. The title is helmed by Cory Davis of Spec Ops: The Line fame, and longtime 9 Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck. You reside within the final metropolis on Earth, the place individuals are making an attempt to remain awake—as a result of those that go to sleep are taken by the Hush. Finck led the sound design on this recreation, and the visuals combine in psychedelic imagery and live-action sequences to make for a singular horror expertise.

Metroid Prime 4: Past

Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: Nintendo Change, Nintendo Change 2

Dormant for nearly 20 years, Nintendo’s Metroid Prime sequence is again. This entry takes intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran to the planet of Viewros, and there is a bunch of recent stuff to take pleasure in.

Metroid Prime 4: Past provides a extra open world map, which is sufficiently big that Samus has her personal sci-fi bike to get round on. This entry additionally provides extra modernized controls, and you’ll even use the Change 2 Pleasure-Con mouse function if you need, although it stays to be seen how that works virtually.

That is additionally apparently a recent begin for the sequence narrative, which means that you do not have to return and play a recreation launched on Wii in 2007 to make sense of the story. The Change 2 is beginning to construct a library of nice video games, and we’re anticipating this to affix the ranks of the most effective titles on the platform—although there’s a model for authentic Change, too.

Octopath Traveler 0

Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: Nintendo Change, Nintendo Change 2, PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, PC (Steam)

Octopath Traveler 0 is all about ranging from zero. As an alternative of choosing from a collection of current heroes, you will create your hero from scratch. Your city is destroyed early within the recreation, and also you and your allies should rebuild it from the bottom up. Storywise, this role-playing recreation tells the story additionally seen within the cell recreation Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, however with larger depth, together with fleshed-out characters, voice appearing, and a reworked plot.

Routine

Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), Xbox Collection X/S

Over a decade within the making, Routine is a first-person sci-fi horror title set on an deserted lunar base. Like Alien Isolation, it leans into the Eighties sci-fi aesthetic. This recreation eschews waypoint markers, as an alternative leaving it as much as you to determine the place to go and why as you discover and conceal to outlive.

Skate Story

Launch Date: December 8, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam, GOG), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Change 2

Certain, you may skate only for the sake of it. However what when you may skate with goal? In Skate Story, you play as a demon skater within the underworld, tasked by the satan to skate to the moon and swallow it. The place video games like Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater and Skate look to allow you to stay out the fantasy of being a talented skater (every in their very own means), Skate Story is an summary expertise with dazzling wireframe and polygonal imagery.