Ah, the Summer Game Fest 2025, the dark ritual in which Jeff Keeley summons all the gaming gods to shower us with teasers, trailers, and sequels. Hi, folks, it’s Zaid, and today on Aura Riot, 10 brand new games announced at Summer Game Fest 2025.
10. Code Vein II
Hey, did you need more anime vampires in your life? If the answer’s yes, you’re getting it. If the answer was no, you’re still getting it. It’s still coming one way or the other, I guess. I guess it doesn’t really matter what your answer is. “Code Vein II” is coming.
So there’s a new threat this time in the form of something called lunar rapacious. I dunno what the hell that is or means. I do know that it’s somehow causing revenants, vampires to go mad and become monsters called horrors.
This time around, you’re not a blank slate custom Hero. “Code Vein II” brings us a protagonist, a bonafide protagonist called the Revenant Hunter. Well, I don’t really know to what extent if you’re going to be able to customize at all. We haven’t been told, so if you wanna spend 45 minutes customizing the eye glow again, I don’t know if you’re gonna be able to. We’ll see though.
This character’s arc is guided by another character called Lou, a girl, with the ability to rewrite history. So you’ll be traveling across timelines, fixing turning points in revenant history, and while trying to set things right, I guess. So the world is ending again, it’s more complex, time is involved, but it’s still anime, vampire-hunting Souls-like action.
9. Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver
I guess Wu-Tang was just like they made a lot of games that sound like Wu-Tang Clan, like “Wo Long” and “Wu Chan,” and why isn’t there a Wu-Tang? I guarantee that’s how this happened. I promise you somebody in the Wu-Tang clan was like, “There’s no reason for us not to release a game if they’re gonna keep making games that sound like this.”
Anyway, “Rise of the Deceiver” is a fast-paced, co-op action RPG. It is not a Souls-like. Again, it’s fast, it’s not based in parries. The emphasis is expression, teamwork, and of course, drip. It’s not often I get to say the word drip with a straight face as Falcon, the Game Bird.
I dunno, I love Wu-Tang Clan. Who doesn’t love Wu-Tang Clan? If you know the Wu-Tang Clan, you probably love the Wu-Tang. Why wouldn’t you wanna at least try? I mean, not gonna lie, my expectations aren’t automatically super high for this type of a game, but that’s more categorical as opposed to what we’re looking at. Like, this looks cool as hell. Actually, I think I’m pretty optimistic about this one.
8. Atomic Heart 2
“Atomic Heart 2” got announced. Yep, “Atomic Heart 2.” I actually really like “Atomic Heart.” Some of the stuff that people think is cringe about it, I like in a kind of semi-ironic, but not really actually ironic way. It’s a fun game. It’s a little cringe in a weirdly charming way, at least to me. I’m happy they’re doubling down on all of that nonsense.
Obviously, “Atomic Heart 2” is expanding on the stuff from the first. You got the cyborg glove stuff, you got weapons, melee, ranged, et cetera. I’m just psyched that they’re making a cycle, sequel. Cycle, ha. I mean, that’s basically the level of things that you would hear in “Atomic Heart” and that’s why I enjoy it.
7. The Cube
Also from Mund Fish, “The Cube.” Now, when you think of the “Atomic Heart” universe, you assume “Atomic Heart” and now “Atomic Heart 2,” but we’re also getting “The Cube” which is a multiplayer RPG shooter that takes place in the “Atomic Heart” universe.
In “The Cube,” players embark on expeditions to explore the enigmatic structure, the Cube, a big cube, big levitating cube. You got rotating walls, shifting terrains, unpredictable combat scenarios. Basically it’s an MMORPG shooter with rogue-light mechanics wrapped in a psychedelic Soviet fever dream. Mund Fish owes me money for their marketing.
6. Scott Pilgrim EX
Which is, let’s just be completely clear, a new Scott Pilgrim beat ’em up. The original “Scott Pilgrim Versus the World” game is one of my favorite beat ’em ups of all time, and the people who made it later went on to form Tribute, who is behind “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Shredder’s Revenge,” and they just absolutely killed that game.
We’ve talked about the Marvel “Cosmic Invasion” game coming soon, they’re behind that as well, but this is kinda like the main event for this. Can you tell I’m excited? EX-cited?
It’s not just that they’re making a sequel to that game, it’s that it’s a lot of the original developers, it’s an Anamanaguchi coming back for the soundtrack. This time around, they’re talking about it being kind of open world, like River City Ransom style open world, which is not, I mean, open world in the sense of today, but it’s a bunch of interconnected areas that apparently are gonna be all open from the very start of the game.
I dunno, I’m psyched. Just I’m so happy. This is getting a new game from the original devs with Anamanaguchi on it, with Brian Lee O’Malley working with them on it. Everything about this is fantastic to hear.
5. Lego Voyagers
I don’t know if you’re aware of “Lego Builder’s Journey,” which is a little bit more contemplative of a Lego game. The developers behind that are making this, kind of, has the same style as “Builder’s Journey,” has an isometric perspective, but “It Takes Two” also.
It looks like “Builder’s Journey,” but you’re two different Lego bricks and it’s “It Takes Two” in that respect. You have to do the things that you would do in “It Takes Two.” That’s basically what it looks like anyways. It doesn’t look manic or mayhem oriented. It looks similarly kind of cozy-type game as “Builder’s Journey.”
This one’s actually not far off in the future. The other ones we’ve talked about are at least a year away. This one apparently is coming this year, and it’s coming to PlayStations, the Xboxes, the Nintendo Switches and PC.
4. Infinitesimals
Just when you thought the tiny protagonist in a big world trope had been fully exploited, Cubit Studios says hold my beer. This is a third person sci-fi action adventure game where you’re an alien that has crash landed, not on Earth necessarily, but you’re an insect sized alien.
You’re the captain of a squadron of space-faring, I dunno, dudes, I don’t know, but you’re tiny. You’re on an alien world, or maybe you’re on our world, I don’t know, maybe it’s a different time. I really don’t know yet. It looks cool though. Don’t tell me this doesn’t look cool.
Obviously, the environment’s the big thing here. What I like about this is that it looks kinda like it’s using that “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” aesthetic just enough so that you think of it. “Infinitesimals” is coming to PS5, Xbox series, and PC next year.
3. End of the Abyss
Just when you thought your nightmares were safe, just when you thought the indie developers were gonna finally leave you alone, you could be safe, just when you thought the “Little Nightmares” developers were gonna leave you alone, just when you thought they couldn’t have possibly any more projects on the horizon.
They’re a small company, they can’t possibly do more, right? An offshoot of former “Little Nightmares” developers called Section Nine Interactive comes with “End of the Abyss,” ha ha.
It’s a top-down sci-fi horror adventure game where you play as Cell, a young combat technician investigating a facility that’s got kind of a “Dead Space” vibe to it. Kind of an exploration, kind of a survival thing, branching paths, hidden areas, gear upgrades, tense combat, I don’t know, it looks like an interesting idea, and considering that the “Little Nightmares” developers aren’t really combat oriented to have combat, like specific combat, I don’t know, it looks pretty cool to me.
Honestly, I just really like the vibe of it. I mean, I don’t know if anyone else is gonna agree with me, but it’s kind of got that weird old “Ghibli” vibe to it with some of the like roboty, monstery type things. I don’t know, it’s weird. It’s a next year game. PS5, Xbox Series, PC et cetera, et cetera. It looks cool.
2. Mortal Shell 2
“Mortal Shell” was a great Souls-like, if maybe a little bit limited and flawed in certain ways. They’re still really good in a lot of other ways. I don’t know, it was one of those sort of quirky Souls-likes. It had some weird tinges to it that weren’t quite what you’d expect, and I like that it’s getting a sequel quite a bit.
You got 60 new dungeons. The Shell system is returning. I don’t know exactly what they’re going to do to modify the combat, if anything. I would assume something, but there is also going to be a beta. You can sign up for it soon if you’d like, I have, you could do so too as well at mortalshell.com.
1. Resident Evil: Requiem
And finally, at number one, it’s “Resident Evil: Requiem,” the ninth mainline “Resident Evil” game. We don’t really know a whole lot about what this is, but we do know it takes place in a post-nuclear disaster Raccoon City, which is, I am all about that.
You are an FBI agent named Grace Ashcroft. It looks very much like it is continuing in the footsteps of the “Resident Evil 2” remake, the first person “Resident Evil” stuff, it was great. I am happy they’re moving in that direction. We don’t have any specific release date information, but it’s coming. It looks very, very cool too.
Bonus Picks Worth the Hype
These weren’t necessarily freshly announced at Summer Games Fest 2025. They’re not new, but they are very cool. I think definitely worth at least some hype.
- Stranger than Heaven
RGD Studio’s noir time machine, Rioga Gotaku, the “Like a Dragon”/”Yakuza” people. They unofficially unveiled “Stranger than Heaven,” which was previously something we knew about called Project Century, but it’s a 20th-century detective story with some survival elements and a narrative that apparently spans decades. And it’s also, keep in mind, the “Like a Dragon” devs, don’t forget that, so it’s probably going to have some crazy stuff, probably maybe gonna have cool combat. I hope. We’ll see. Obviously, I’m very interested in that. They’re non-“Yakuza” games, which I mean, I don’t know if you can really consider “Judgment” and “Lost Judgment” non-“Yakuza” games. I like the detective stuff in that though. I’m sure this is an extension of that and I think that’s cool. - Ill
Coming to us from Team Clout, a first-person survival horror game with pretty wild looking dismemberment systems, some crazy monsters. Guess this takes place in a fort that has been overtaken by a mysterious entity. - Chrono Odyssey
No, it is not a “Chrono Trigger” related piece of media, that I am at least aware in any way. It’s an MMORPG. I don’t know what exactly the nature of those elements are. It is a time travel MMORPG. That’s, I mean, really what it looks like at the moment. We’ll see more as more comes out. They’ve taken forever showing footage of this game though. - Dying Like the Beast
Obviously, this is a game that launching relatively soon, August 22nd specifically. It’s looking pretty intense, pretty visceral, honestly, pretty fast-paced, which I’m all about, looks really adrenaline pumping.
That’s all we’ve got for you today, but what do you think? Leave us a comment, let us know. And as always, we thank you very much for reading this blog. I’m Zaid. We’ll see you next time right here on Aura Riot.
