Gamescom 2025: these are the video games that turned our heads up to now

Gamescom 2025, child. Once once more a crack group has lured all one of the best upcoming video games within the business to at least one nice huge constructing in Cologne and trapped them there, for international examination. And as soon as once more, the next information to come back out of the convention is just too voluminous to digest with any specific ease.

TG has taken its superb toothcomb – the truth is little greater than an RSS feed and an enormous stack of caffeinated drinks – to the Gamescom announcement pile and picked out, on your delectation, the bits price being attentive to at this stage.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Life could be gruelling, and typically you simply wish to come house, lock the door, push down the day’s ritual humiliations, and be Batman. TT Games is aware of this common truism concerning the human situation, and has made this recreation accordingly.

The LEGO video games have at all times had a knack for mixing figuring out film references with slapstick humour and, recently, genuinely nice storytelling and a deep however family-friendly gameplay method. What which means for this newest superhero title is an expertise that appears really fairly a bit like Rocksteady’s venerable Batman: Arkham video games, however with extra eyebrow-waggling and express nods to the Nolan film scenes. Your younger youngsters will toddle over, decide up a pad, take part by way of drop-in co-op, and shortly outshadow your talent degree.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight doesn’t have a launch date but, but it surely’s coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2, too. 

Road Kings

Road Kings appears to be like like a kind of… American truck simulator. And that is likely to be an issue, what with the existence of American Truck Simulator, besides that Saber Interactive’s tackle that very particular subject is definitely very completely different.

The Gamescom trailer suggests a narrative-led expertise, with NPCs to speak to and a give attention to the expertise of being on the highway. Not not like our latest indie favorite Keep Driving, besides you’re behind the wheel of an articulated lorry. And additionally operating a whole logistics firm, in a kind of player-manager function. Intriguing.

This one’s due in 2026, and it’s coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV

Hearing that there’s a brand new real-time technique recreation within the works is akin to getting a press launch that they’re bringing velociraptors again – this style as soon as dominated the lands of PC gaming, however – and we’re conscious that is the place the raptor simile actually falls aside – they’re more and more uncommon right now.

The Dawn of War sequence has been among the many highest profile and highest high quality RTS output in latest a long time so it’s an enormous deal that quantity IV has been revealed at Gamescom. That’s despite our reservations that unique studio Relic isn’t concerned, as a result of though this recreation’s developer King Art doesn’t have priors within the sequence, it did make the wonderful Iron Harvest in the identical style.

It’s coming “soon” to PC.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword

It takes lots to discern oneself from the writhing morass of comparable Soulslike video games which are introduced at each main video games business occasion, however Onimusha’s executed it.

It helps lots that its enemy designs are simply so unusual. The Gamescom trailer appears to be like like somebody taking a samurai sword to David Cronenberg’s cheese goals.

There’s a moody, darkly inviting and distinctly drawn world to discover right here when the sport releases on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2026.

Death By Scrolling

The first and most essential factor it’s essential to find out about this recreation is that it’s being made by Ron Gilbert, the legendary creator of a few of gaming’s all-time nice journey video games. Monkey Island? Gilbert. Maniac Mansion? Him too. With a portfolio as weighty as his, it’s secure to say this man can yawn one thing extra entertaining than the common recreation.

However, a yawn-fest Death by Scrolling isn’t. It’s really a roguelike the place you struggle enemies, acquire gold, dodge the grim reaper’s advances and battle towards a consistently vertically scrolling display till you’ve sufficient gold collectively to pay the ferryman to take you to the afterlife. It’s a PC-only affair, and it’s coming “soon”.

Hollow Knight Silksong

We’re conflicted about this one. On one hand, it generated essentially the most buzz of any recreation on the convention, partly as a result of it was AWOL for thus lengthy after asserting itself again in 2019 (!) so there’s a way of collective delight and reduction that the challenge’s nonetheless alive, appears to be like sturdy, and is popping out shockingly quickly on 4 September to… effectively, principally each platform. The record’s so lengthy we will’t even match it into this record however you’ll be able to seize all the data in its Gamescom release trailer.

On the opposite hand, we all know from bitter expertise how difficult this sequence of gothic side-scrolling Metroidvania video games are. There might be tears.