This week's releases: from January 27 to February 2, 2025

, by Thibaut

This week's releases: from January 27 to February 2, 2025

Here's a new week filled to the brim with releases for all platforms. January 2025 ends on a high note with many titles to discover and enjoy.

Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter

  • January 28, 2025 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch and PC

This action-RPG plunges us into a snowy kingdom in which we must hunt down and slay a bloodthirsty demon. The battles against huge creatures here are brutal, and you can upgrade your character's abilities.

Eternal Strands

  • January 28, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (included in Game Pass)

This week, Dragon Age's creative director brings us his very first game. We'll be immersed in a third-person action-adventure title, at the heart of a fantasy world full of monsters to slay. To do so, you'll need a wide range of weapons and magical powers.

Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos

  • January 28, 2025 on PS5, PS4 and Switch

We'll have to collect the Dogoos through fifteen levels, choosing one of the six playable characters. Be careful, these creatures can be as adorable as they are dangerous. You'll also be able to ride a customizable motorcycle.

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap

  • January 28, 2025 on Xbox Series S| and PC (included in Game Pass)

Get ready to fend off hordes of orcs by setting traps in this mix of third-person shooters and tower defense. Whether you play solo or in coop with up to four players, the game has fun in spades!

The Stone of Madness

  • January 28, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC

Switching genres, this is a real-time tactical infiltration game set in an 18th-century Spanish monastery. To escape, five prisoners decide to join forces, pooling their skills and resources.

Cuisineer

  • January 28, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch

This roguelite asks us to explore colorful dungeons to defeat monsters and collect ingredients to cook and satisfy our restaurant's customers.

Botany Manor

  • January 28, 2025 on PS5 and PS4

After a last-minute delay, the botanical puzzle game is finally coming to PlayStation consoles. The content is the same as the other versions, with plenty of puzzles to solve and plants to grow.

Exogate Initiative

  • January 28, 2025 on PC (version 1.0)

Two years after its early access launch, this strategy/management title is finally out in version 1.0, inviting us to take part in an extra-planetary exploration program in which we must build underground infrastructures, recruit scientists and send them out to explore the universe.

Robots at Midnight

  • January 29, 2025 on PC and Xbox Series X|S

Let's continue our journey with another action-RPG featuring Zoe, a young heroine in search of answers about her past. The game features intense battles against robots in a world as original as it is frightening.

Cryptical Path

  • January 29, 2025 on PC

Here's another action roguelite that requires us to create entire rooms in order to help our character escape a labyritnh. We unlock powerful items as we progress, allowing us to go further with each attempt.

Coridden

  • January 29, 2025 on PC

This is an action-packed RPG in which our character has a human form and a bestial form to face dangers. Your powers grow over time, and the adventure can be played in coop with three more friends.

Achilles: Survivor

  • January 29, 2025 on PC (early access)

We're still here with a twitchy bullet hell that has us build structures and develop characters with the sole aim of destroying everything in our way. The arsenal on display here is absolutely insane and there's a wide variety of enemies to face.

Gimmick! 2

  • January 30, 2025 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One

Four months after its arrival on PC, this rather demanding platformer is coming to consoles. It features puzzles and gameplay governed by the laws of physics. Just a little warning: it take a little time getting used to this one.

Sniper Elite: Resistance

  • January 30, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (included in Game Pass)

Sniper Elite is back with a brand-new game. We're in command of a new agent in occupied France, working alongside the Resistance to prevent the Nazis from developing a super-powered weapon. You'll be able to take part in an exciting campaign, as well as online multiplayer and an Invasion mode.

Wizardry: The Five Ordeals

  • January 30, 2025 on Switch

Another RPG with dungeon crawling elements comes to the fore this week, featuring several scenerios from around 10 hours each. Gameplay is easy to learn, yes, but some battles require careful preparation and well-thought strategies.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

  • January 30, 2025 on PC

Insomniac Games' blockbuster is finally coming to our computers this month, and it does so with all the content from the PS5 version, improved graphics and an unforgettable adventure in the company of Miles Morales and Peter Parker.

Accolade Sports Collection

  • January 30, 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC

Here's a collection of retro sports games that includes baseball, street basketball and other winter as well as summer sports. Best of all? You can play it with friends in local multiplayer.

Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero

  • January 30, 2025 on PS4, PS5 and Switch

This RPG invites us to go on an adventure with Marona and her ghostly friends in a world of piracy. We must defeat a sinister fleet of castaways, and to do so, we'll need to recruit ghosts, link items to them and combine them with gadgets to achieve the best possible effects.

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

  • January 31, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC (included in Game Pass)

We close with another RPG. This one puts us in the "skin" of a defective android trying to escape. To do so, you'll need to find a ship and assemble a crew to cross the Starward Belt. The systems of this one are inspired by tabletop RPGs.