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The harsh winter of the 2024–2025 season has passed, with the great February snowfall covering (almost) the entire country with a generous layer of snow! Some of us took advantage of the “snowy” days to catch up on older games or try out newly released titles, such as Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Others are probably already turning their attention to the promising releases of the next 9 months.

As you’ve come to expect, the GRIND editorial team brings you a new round of recommendations — games that, in our opinion, are worth keeping you glued to the screen until at least December!

Atomfall

Release date: 24 March 2025

If you enjoyed last summer’s Fallout: London mod, which brought the beloved universe to the “enchanting” lands of London, and you wanted to see more of post-Brexit Great Britain, then we wholeheartedly recommend you try Atomfall when it launches on 27 March!

Like the famous franchise that inspires it, Atomfall presents us with a post-apocalyptic world, where the nuclear disaster at Windscale created an exclusion zone in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, populated by all sorts of mutants, weirdos, and UKIP voters (we assume). The game offers the same absolute freedom we were used to in 90s-2000s titles, allowing us to finish it without taking a single life, or giving free rein to dark desires to massacre all characters in Atomfall. Of course, no experience of this kind is complete without an amnesiac protagonist, and coincidentally, the main character suffers from a retrograde form of this condition.

 

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Release date: 24 April 2025

Did someone mention RPGs? Because a small studio in France has decided to blow the whole world away with this creation of theirs. Drawing inspiration from the classics of the golden age of JRPGs, Clair Obscur promises an adventure of epic proportions and with an unforgettable cast (Charlie Cox, Andy Serkis, and Jennifer English, to name a few actors). From everything presented about the game so far, it seems to have all the elements that defined the best Japanese role-playing titles: turn-based combat, a fantastic story in which we will face a god, a world-map that can be traversed in various crazy ways, and so on. And finally, I’ll mention that it’s a dark fantasy creation set in a Belle Époque universe (like Lies of P) and that from 24 April, I don’t think you’ll be able to contact me or fans of the genre anymore.

 

DOOM: The Dark Ages

Release date: 15 May 2025

Id Software returns with the newest title in the DOOM franchise, and we’re not referring to the continuation of the third edition of the Romanian Orthographic, Orthoepic, and Morphological Dictionary, but to the famous video game series that transforms us into the greatest nightmare of hell’s dark forces. The Doom Slayer returns in this prequel, which takes place hundreds (or thousands) of years before the events of Doom (2016), during the last human kingdom besieged by the soldiers of hell. Each game in this new trilogy has had a specific theme: the first was “Run-and-Gun”, the second was “Jump-and-Shoot”, and now it’s “Stand-and-Fight!”. The developers wanted to make us feel like a tank, and from everything we’ve seen about the game, it seems they’ve succeeded. Doom: The Dark Ages appears to be more extreme and visceral than Doom: Eternal, and this is due to the in-game shield, a new mechanic that allows the player to block and retaliate against enemy attacks. The arenas are larger, but by no means open-world, and my big question about the game is whether that heavy-metal choir from Eternal will return. We’ll certainly find out the answer to that question on 15 May.

 

Ninja Gaiden 4

Release date: Autumn 2025

The big surprise from Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 was certainly Ninja Gaiden 4. The last game in this legendary franchise came out more than 10 years ago, and the current title is a direct continuation of it. Unfortunately, we don’t know many details about Team Ninja’s creation, except that it’s made in partnership with Platinum Games (Okami, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Bayonetta, Nier: Automata), and with a pedigree like that, we can certainly expect an excellent action game. The only story details we have are that it takes place many years after the events of Ninja Gaiden 3, and the protagonist is Yakumo, a new shinobi who can manipulate his own blood and that of enemies to create weapons. The famous ninja Ryu Hayabusa will also appear, but he won’t be the main character (although he will be playable in certain sections). And if you’re wondering when you can return to this dark representation of Japan, unfortunately, we don’t have a precise date, but we know it will launch during the current year (2025).

 

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

Release date: Autumn 2025

If you haven’t had enough of the action in Lies of P and the mythical creatures that the heroes of the Three Kingdoms Period fought in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, or that feeling of accomplishment when you took down a powerful enemy in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, then the developers at Leenzee have a huge surprise in store for you! Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike set in the Shu kingdom, at the end of the Ming dynasty. The main character is an amnesiac pirate suffering from a malady that slowly transforms her into a monster, but which allows her to use various weapons and magical abilities. In addition to all the classic elements of the genre, Wuchang comes with something new: a system for recovering lost points that involves fighting an evil clone of the protagonist, which appears every time she dies while under the active influence of the disease (which seems to have spiritual connotations). Regarding its release date, we’re in the same situation as Ninja Gaiden 4.

Article by Tudor-Codrin Enea