Best Soulslike Games 2025 — Top 7 (Official Trailers) Looking for the best soulslike games 2025 has right now? Here are seven standouts with official trailers—led by Lies of P and its 2025 story DLC—followed by fresh picks worth your time on PC, PS5, and Xbox. I’ll keep this list updated as patches land. 1)…
ASKA review: a gorgeous Viking survival/colony sim with depth—but heavy grind and AI babysitting hold it back. Trailer, gameplay, and score 6.5/10.
Polar exploration, crew management, and cosmic dread meet in The Perilous North Reviewed on PC.Score: 8/10 The Perilous North brings the terror of polar exploration and survival in an exciting strategy RPG. The Perilous North is set during the golden age of polar exploration and is being created by a talented husband-and-wife development team. The…
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Impressions from 8.4 hours: bold visuals, noisy UI, and buggy—but fun with friends Reviewed on PC.Score: 6.5/10 What is skate.? On PC, skate. is EA & Full Circle’s free-to-play, always-online reboot set in San Vansterdam. This skate review highlights how it brings back physics-based Flick-It controls, supports cross-play/cross-progression, currently requires a controller on PC, and…
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First Impressions — Mars Attracts Reviewed on PC.Score: 7.5/10 I’ve spent half my life on city-builders and sims. The golden era for me runs from SimCity 2000 and SimCity 4 through Caesar III, Pharaoh, Zeus: Master of Olympus, Tropico, Anno 1404, Banished, and into modern staples like Cities: Skylines. Mars Attracts first impressions are influenced…
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3M on PlayStation & Xbox; 13M+ total players VOID Interactive announced that Ready or Not has surpassed 3 million players on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Less than two months after its July 15, 2025 console debut, combined sales across PC and console have topped 13 million. The studio framed the milestone as the…
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Game of the Week #22 — Pompeii: The Legacy is the must-play Roman city-builder where law, trade, and disaster planning forge your dynasty Twenty years after Vesuvius, Pompeii rises—and it needs leadership. Pompeii: The Legacy (Siscia Games) blends deep city management with generational strategy: write laws with teeth, balance patricians and plebs, cultivate trade routes…
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Forge, equip heroes, and grow your shop — Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith enters Early Access Medieval Crafter: Blacksmith is a blacksmithing and shop-management sim in a lively medieval town. Developed by Compact Core Games and published by GameDev.ist, you play a dwarf blacksmith forging weapons, armor, and tools for locals while expanding a workshop that also…
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Subnautica 2 unveils the Collector Leviathan — reactive UE5 predator teased Unknown Worlds has introduced the Collector Leviathan, a new deep-sea threat in Subnautica 2. The team highlights reactive AI built on Unreal Engine 5 behavior trees and a stimulus system that responds to light, sound, and player actions—aiming to make encounters feel tense, unpredictable,…
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tinyBuild and debut studio Fantastic Signals reveal The Lift — Steam Playtest is live Indie publisher tinyBuild and debut studio Fantastic Signals, a new team made up of veteran developers responsible for games such as Pathologic 2 and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, has announced The Lift, a first-person, narrative-driven supernatural handyman simulator…
Onirism delays 1.0 to October 2—sidestepping Hades II’s Sept 25 date Shoreline Games and developer Crimson Tale have moved Onirism’s full release from September 25 to October 2, 2025. The team cites the newly announced Hades II v1.0 date on Sept 25 as the scheduling clash and says the extra week will help ensure a…
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The Division 2 gets a free, playable demo on Steam — progress carries over Ubisoft has made a demo of Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2 available on Steam. The Division 2 Steam demo is a straightforward way to sample the base game on PC before buying—download the demo, play, and keep your progress if you…
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Tactical top-down co-op where planning meets controlled chaos The Phantom Squad game is a tactical top-down shooter built for 1–4 players from Ctrl Freak and publisher Super Rare Originals. You sketch routes, stack up on doors, sync breaches, and adapt when things go loud. It launched on PC (Steam) on July 18, 2025 and leans…
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Shape of Dreams Giveaway We’re celebrating launch week with five Steam keys for Shape of Dreams from Lizard Smoothie & NEOWIZ. Join our Shape of Dreams Giveaway for your chance to win! Shape of Dreams — Launch Giveaway (5 × Steam Keys) Join Our Newsletter Get our weekly indie picks, interviews, and giveaways straight to…
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Game of the Week #20 — Shape of Dreams is out now — rock-solid, wildly replayable, and a real GOTY contender NEOWIZ and Lizard Smoothie land a confident 1.0 with Shape of Dreams—a fast, MOBA-inspired action roguelite built around clean skill-shot combat, real co-op synergy, and the kind of “one more run” loop that sneaks…
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