2025 is set to be a year jam-packed with exceptional games to play on PC, and whether your setup is bang up to date or not there’ll be something on this list to pique your interest. From frenetic first-person shooters and story-driven RPGs, to action-adventures and co-operative roguelikes, this rundown provides a slice of the best that’s to come.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Finally capitalising on the appetite for games set in feudal Japan, the latest Assassin’s Creed whisks players back to 16th century Iga province plus Kyoto, Kobe, and Osaka. In Shadows, you’ll be switching your time between night-loving shinobi Naoe and brute force swordsman Yasuke, the real-life first non-Japanese samurai. A brutal civil war’s culminating phase leaves chaos reigning over the land, yet our two protagonists share common destinies as a new era ushers in.
