Mark Steighner

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was one of 2025's best games and a much-improved sequel to 2019's Death Stranding. Nixxes PC port is outstanding.

Grime 2 is the sequel to 2021's blend of 2.5D platforming and Metroidvania/Soulslike combat, adding depth and with a more colorful tone.

Dragonkin: The Banished is a new hack-and-slash action RPG in which the player must face off against impressive Ancestral Dragons.

Screamer is a futuristic arcade racing game with a full-length anime-style story and unique racing and driving mechanics.

Greedfall: The Dying World is a prequel to Greedfall, and set in the same alternative history 17th century, showing the first game's events from a different point of view.

Crimson Desert is an immense and immensely complex and engaging open world action RPG, with a inexhaustible number of things to do and fight.

1348 Ex Voto is a third person action adventure game set in late medieval Italy, and focused on fairly basic sword-based combat.

Styx: Blades of Greed is the third game about a profanity-loving, sneaky thief and goblin with a love for a magic crystal called Quartz.

Norse: Oath of Blood combines real time exploration, turn-based combat and city building and lite management tasks, with a Viking theme.

High on Life 2 is a sequel to 2022's first person shooter, characterized by talking guns and a nonstop sense of profane humor.

ARC Raiders is a third person extraction shooter set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where robotic enemies have taken over the surface.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is a long-awaited sequel to 2004's Vampire: The Masquerade, a cult classic based on the tabletop game.

2024's Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is coming to PS5, PC and Xbox in the form of an Enhanced Edition, adding commentary and other new features.

Dune: Awakening is an excellent survival and crafting game set in the Dune universe, marred by unimpressive combat.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered brings all of the PS5 version's content to PC, with enhanced visuals and sound, plus an extra roguelike mode.

Assassin's Creed Shadows takes the franchise to Feudal Japan and features two playable characters, shinobi Naoe and samurai Yasuke.

Avowed is a new action RPG from Obsidian, with lore and story based on the popular Pillars of Eternity series of CRPGs

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is the sequel to 2018's realism-based first person medieval shooter RPG, continuing the story of Henry and Hans.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl is the latest game in the survival shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise, set in the Chornbyl Exclusion Zone.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the fourth game in BioWare's Dragon Age series of action RPGs, a follow up to 2014's Inquisition.