This week's releases: from July 28 to August 1st, 2025
, by Thibaut
The last week of July 2025 promises to be filled to the brim in terms of new releases. Ninja Gaiden is coming back, Grounded 2 will scare arachnophobes and the Lord of the Rings world is back in the spotlight with Tales of the Shire.
SMOKING
- July 28, 2025 on PC (early access)
Let's start with a motorized combat game set in a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic world. We need to equip our speeder with lethal weapons so that we can roam the wastelands, wiping out any other survivors in our path.
Reload
- July 28, 2025 on PC (early access)
We remain in the world of four-wheelers with this RC sim-cade racing game featuring realistic graphics. Each car can be customized before competing on tracks inspired by real-life locations.
Primal Planet
- July 28, 2025 on PC
A game with a retro look and Metroidvania-style progression. This platformer mixes science fiction and prehistory, as dinosaurs and UFOs attempt to block our path. Alone or in cooperation, you'll have to survive among predators, tribes and aliens.
Tales of the Shire
- July 29, 2025 on PS5, Xbox Series S|X, Switch and PC
Players will finally be able to live as a real Hobbit in this relaxing life simulation. The Shire can be explored and our home decorated. Cooking, fishing and other activities will punctuate the daily life of our little character.
Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy
- July 29, 2025 on PS4, PS5 and Switch
This franchise of first-person dungeon crawlers taken straight from the eighties and nineties is back this week. We'll be playing the role of a young girl named Fia who has just entered a school of magic. Mysterious events will be intertwined with the courses she'll have to follow diligently.
Achilles: Survivor
- July 29, 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (version 1.0)
Available in early access since last January, this roguelike action game asks us to build defenses to face creatures from Greek mythology. Our avatar grows stronger with each new attempt.
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap
- July 29, 2025 on PS5
PS5 gamers will finally get to enjoy Robot Entertainment's latest tower defense game. Once again, you'll have to build traps, weapons and other infrastructures to bring down hordes of orcs. Play alone or up to four players with friends.
Day of the Shell
- July 29, 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC
Let's switch genres with this turn-based tactical game with roguelite elements. We travel from island to island across a devastated world to confront the gods responsible for the chaos.
Grounded 2
- July 29, 2025 on Xbox Series X|S and PC (included in Game Pass)
Obsidian is back with its survival game in which you have to challenge the insects in a garden. This second opus features a number of new additions to the bestiary and the weapons that can be crafted. Joining forces with friends will be essential if you are to come out of this experience alive.
Cook Serve Forever
- July 31, 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC (version 1.0)
More than two years after the start of its early access period, this 2D cooking game is finally being released on all supports. Dozens of hours of culinary adventures await us, with hundreds of new recipes and ingredients to master.
Time Flies
- July 31, 2025 on PS5, Switch and PC
Time Flies is a small, minimalist adventure in which we take on the role of a fly. The fly can explore an entire world and accomplish dozens of unique objectives, such as reading a book, playing the guitar and much more. The physics of the fly have even been precisely reproduced.
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
- July 31, 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC
Ninja Gaiden is back with a 2D action-platformer with a retro appeal aesthetic. With its cool pixel-art graphics, this title offers delivers edgy action and pays tribute to the franchise's history. All this with gameplay that's easy to pick up, but hard to master.
Heartworm
- July 31, 2025 on PC
It's yet another game with an old-school visual look that's inviting itself onto our computers. Oriented towards horror and survival, this production places us in the role of a young woman who can only defend herself with the help of her camera. With its fixed, shoulder-mounted camera, this title pays homage to the survival-horror films of the 90s.
9 Years of Shadows
- July 31, 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Warrior Europa attempts to restore the world to its former glory in this side-scrolling platformer with a Metroidvania twist. The heroine has many techniques at her disposal to defeat her opponents.
SWAT Commander
- July 31, 2025 on PC (early access)
Here we have to carry out several missions with other players. Our expertly-trained squad will have to eliminate terrorists, capture criminals, rescue hostages, recover intelligence and clean up hostile areas. This FPS will put our tactical skills to good use.
Earthion
- July 31, 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch and PC
This retro action game featuring eight levels, colorful graphics and fast gameplay seems to have come straight from the 90s. The aim is to destroy as many ships as possible in the purest tradition of 2D shoot 'em ups.
Frosthaven
- July 31, 2025 on PC (early access)
This board game is but a cooperative turn-based tactical RPG with a dark fantasy ambience with some demanding, sophisticated and captivating mechanics.
Dear me, I was...
- July 31, 2025 on Switch 2
Arc System Works is back with a narrative experience with watercolor visuals. It all revolves around a woman's life, with its share of joys, sorrows and many events. It's an interactive adventure both short and accessible.
Dead Take
- July 31, 2025 on PC
Last but not least, we end on this first-person psychological horror game in which you have to explore a mansion as luxurious as it is haunted. The building hides many secrets, and each room brings its own dose of surprise... and fear.