As soon as upon a time, December was an extremely useless month for video games—a possibility to compensate for your backlog, since all the 12 months’s massive video games had already come and gone.
Properly, that is not the case. There are a bunch of killer video games releasing this December.
December brings us sturdy choices throughout a bunch of genres, from psychological and survival horror to side-scrolling beat-’em-ups, a basic RPG, a long-awaited sequel to a legendary franchise, and even an summary artwork sport about skateboarding.
Most of those video games are indie affairs, with just one sport from an enormous writer, so we’re anticipating most of those to be fairly inexpensive as effectively—a pleasant bonus when the vacations are slamming your pockets. You may afford just a little deal with for your self, or make your whole buddies play terrifying horror video games with out spending a ton of cash.
Be aware: All the video games listed beneath are conventional or “Web2” video video games. None have crypto or blockchain parts, so far as we all know—however you would possibly get pleasure from ’em anyway.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion
Launch Date: December 1, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), Nintendo Swap + Swap 2, PS4/PS5, Xbox One + Sequence X/S
Children from the ’80s and ’90s would possibly keep in mind seeing all these nice arcade beat-’em-up video games hanging round arcades, bowling alleys, and the like—X-Males, The Punisher, Captain America and the Avengers, and so forth.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion appears to be like designed to take you again to these days as you choose from 15 characters to struggle in opposition to the lethal Annihilation Wave threatening the galaxy. You will select two characters for every degree and swap between them, every with distinctive skills and particular assaults, and you may also staff up for on-line and native co-op with as much as 4 gamers.
Horses
Launch Date: December 2, 2025Platforms: Epic Video games Retailer, GOG, itch.io, Humble Retailer
Horses is a brief, intense horror sport that lasts for about 4 hours. You play as a school pupil who goes to work on a farm for 14 days, and issues shortly get bizarre. This sport has some violent and grotesque imagery, so look into it earlier than you dive in. Valve declined to host this sport as a consequence of a few of its content material, sparking an enormous controversy within the course of, however you will discover it on a wide range of different platforms like GOG, Epic Video games Retailer, and extra.
Sleep Awake
Launch Date: December 2, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X/S
Sleep Awake comes from the sport publishing arm of horror large Blumhouse. The title is helmed by Cory Davis of Spec Ops: The Line fame, and longtime 9 Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck. You reside within the final metropolis on Earth, the place individuals are attempting to remain awake—as a result of those that go to sleep are taken by the Hush. Finck led the sound design on this sport, and the visuals combine in psychedelic imagery and live-action sequences to make for a singular horror expertise.
Metroid Prime 4: Past
Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: Nintendo Swap, Nintendo Swap 2
Dormant for nearly 20 years, Nintendo’s Metroid Prime collection is again. This entry takes intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran to the planet of Viewros, and there is a bunch of latest stuff to get pleasure from.
Metroid Prime 4: Past affords a extra open world map, which is sufficiently big that Samus has her personal sci-fi motorbike to get round on. This entry additionally affords extra modernized controls, and you may even use the Swap 2 Pleasure-Con mouse function in order for you, although it stays to be seen how that works virtually.
That is additionally apparently a recent begin for the collection narrative, which means that you do not have to return and play a sport launched on Wii in 2007 to make sense of the story. The Swap 2 is beginning to construct a library of nice video games, and we’re anticipating this to affix the ranks of the most effective titles on the platform—although there’s a model for unique Swap, too.
Octopath Traveler 0
Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: Nintendo Swap, Nintendo Swap 2, PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, PC (Steam)
Octopath Traveler 0 is all about ranging from zero. As an alternative of selecting from a choice of present heroes, you may create your hero from scratch. Your city is destroyed early within the sport, and also you and your allies must rebuild it from the bottom up. Storywise, this role-playing sport tells the story additionally seen within the cell sport Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, however with better depth, together with fleshed-out characters, voice appearing, and a reworked plot.
Routine
Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), Xbox Sequence X/S
Over a decade within the making, Routine is a first-person sci-fi horror title set on an deserted lunar base. Like Alien Isolation, it leans into the Nineteen Eighties sci-fi aesthetic. This sport eschews waypoint markers, as a substitute leaving it as much as you to determine the place to go and why as you discover and conceal to outlive.
Skate Story
Launch Date: December 8, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam, GOG), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Swap 2
Certain, you may skate only for the sake of it. However what should you might skate with function? In Skate Story, you play as a demon skater within the underworld, tasked by the satan to skate to the moon and swallow it. The place video games like Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater and Skate look to allow you to stay out the fantasy of being a talented skater (every in their very own approach), Skate Story is an summary expertise with dazzling wireframe and polygonal imagery.
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