The PC Gaming Present 2025 has now drawn to an in depth, leaving a well-recognized path of top-quality trailers, bulletins, unique interviews and world premieres in its wake. Perhaps you missed the published on Twitch, YouTube and elsewhere, or possibly you merely need to relive it—no matter your deal is, we have got you coated right here with each single recreation and trailer that aired in the course of the showcase’s two-hour-plus runtime.
In fact, this 12 months’s flagship occasion was barely totally different to years passed by as we forged our eye over the stuff that makes one of the best and most unique PC video games tick. In essence, we have spent the final decade telling you about all of the PC video games it’s best to play, so it solely felt proper to do the identical this 12 months whereas additionally exploring the {hardware} that makes all of that doable. With the assistance of PC Gamer’s personal Jacob Ridley, we constructed The Rig—a high-end PC that noticed us workforce up with AMD, GIGABYTE and HAVN as we packed in one of the best processor cash can purchase, a vastly in style graphics card, and a top-of-the-line motherboard. Higher nonetheless, here is how you can win The Rig in our blockbuster giveaway.
On the video games entrance, we shared over 70 trailers and 15 first reveals, together with Blumhouse’s horror thriller recreation Eyes of Hellfire, Failbetter Video games’ narrative farming sim Mandrake, and Gentle Rains’ tantalising sci-fi journey recreation Ambrosia Sky. We spoke to Treatment Leisure about their upcoming co-operative shooter FBC: Firebreak, discovered extra about 10 Chambers’ PayDay non secular successor Den of Wolves, and went behind the scenes with IO Interactive’s much-anticipated James Bond recreation, 007: First Mild.
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Ambrosia Sky
Far Far West
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Version
Contemporary Tracks
Contemporary Tracks is a quick, livid and frantic rhythm recreation about hacking and slashing ethereal beings whereas rocking out to heavy steel music. Sure, that’s actor Peter Stormare within the trailer above.
Terminull Brigade
Terminull Brigade’s newest trailer reveals the motion roguelike bouncing between two vastly totally different aesthetic moods. In a single second, techy anime ninjas are slicing aside robots in an ocean of neon. Within the subsequent, comedian booky onomatopoeia is flying out of Mad Max street warriors getting blasted with laser fireplace. That kind of juxtaposition makes for an irresistible hook in a style the place selection is king.
Ratatan
Ratatan blends the roguelike and rhythm genres with a splash of side-scrolling motion. Throw in a vibrant aesthetic alongside on-line co-op that helps as much as 4 gamers and this one’s onto a winner.
Moomintroll
Necesse
Whether or not you accomplish that alone or alongside some fearless associates, Necesse needs you to construct, quest, and conquer throughout an infinite procedurally generated world. Servers help lots of of gamers which, as outlined above, can get slightly bit messy in all the fitting methods.
Den of Wolves
Within the first of the PC Gaming Present 2025’s tentpole video therapies, we went behind the scenes with 10 Chambers to study extra about Den of Wolves—a four-player co-op heist FPS set in a techno-thriller future. From the creator of Payday, Payday 2 and GTFO, Den of Wolves is in secure (cracking) palms.
All Methods Dance
All Methods Dance is an upbeat recreation about overthrowing a tech billionaire with the ability of dance. As introduced on the PC Gaming Present 2025, All Methods Dance is grooving its solution to early entry this August.
Spooky Categorical
From esteemed puzzle recreation creators Draknet and Associates comes Spooky Categorical, one other brain-breaking puzzle ’em up set inside a Halloween-themed theme park.
The Rogue Prince of Persia
First unleashed into Early Entry final 12 months, The Rogue Prince of Persia re-announced itself on the PC Gaming Present 2025 with a brand new breakneck baddie-slashing, boss-battling trailer. Examine that out above.
Enginefall
Due in 2026, Pink Rover Interactive gave us a contemporary new take a look at Enginefall in the course of the PC Gaming Present 2025. Set aboard sprawling trains that circle a post-apocalyptic world, Enginefall combines high-stakes PvP with survival and crafting.
EVE Frontier
Our newest take a look at EVE Frontier arrived in the course of the PC Gaming Present 2025, providing us a complete look beneath the hood of the hardcore area survival MMO. For those who’re eager to proceed gazing into the long run too, the Founders Entry program is effectively price a glance.
SkyRig
Kaizen: A Manufacturing unit Story
Kaizen: A Manufacturing unit Story is the newest recreation from the mastermind of Opus Magnum, Zachtronics. Below the brand new studio banner of Coincidence, Kaizen is one other brain-tickler that is in-line for a demo later this month and full launch in July.
Daybreak Aside
En path to Steam later this 12 months with a demo out now, Daybreak Aside is like Passable merged with Pink Faction. An area colony and manufacturing facility sim with totally destructible environments in an alien world beneath the specter of an rebellion? Go on, then.
Modulus
Modulus seems like a must-play manufacturing facility recreation for anybody who loves a thousand little elements on 100 conveyor belts shifting in excellent rhythm. It took PC Gamer’s personal Wes Fenlon simply eight seconds (we counted) to develop into obsessive about the above trailer.
Technology Exile
Technology Exile is a turn-based technique recreation the place you reside upon humanity’s first and last technology ship. Naturally, the whole lot’s gone to crap, and it is on you to rebuild society. No strain. If that seems like your jam, Technology Exile options within the newest Steam Subsequent Fest.
The Alters
We have spent the higher a part of the final two years excited for The Alters, a sci-fi survival recreation with a killer premise from the builders of Frostpunk. The most recent trailer for The Alters aired in the course of the PC Gaming Present 2025, and, stunning nobody, it seems like being trapped on an alien planet with just a few dozen copies of your self can get slightly intense.
Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults
A fantastical realm stuffed with large spiders, mouth-watering magic, darkish secrets and techniques and valiant squads who all specialize in totally different facets of fight—Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults is a veritable guidelines of the perfect ARPG tenets. Wishlist it now on Steam.
Moonlighter 2
Moonlighter 2: The Countless Vault impressed in the course of the PC Gaming Present 2025 by showcasing the protagonist’s double life—from dodge-rolling via large bear traps to giving their retailer an excellent previous sweep. The result of that appears like a surprisingly enjoyable mixture of cosy gaming and high-pressure Soulslike motion.
Barotrauma: House and Harbor
No, I am Not a Human
Making a case for the weirdest and/or creepiest horror trailer to characteristic within the PC Gaming Present all through its decade-long existence, No, I am Not a Human is… one thing. “Solely let people in,” reads the sport’s tag line. “Eradicate all Guests.” Yikes.
Botsu
Ragdoll robotic sports activities video games Botsu made an look on the PC Gaming Present 2025, showcasing its “very foolish physics-based competitions” whereas saying a free demo is now accessible on Steam.
No Extra Room in Hell 2
Throughout right now’s PC Gaming Present 2025, Chivalry developer Torn Banner Studios introduced us a take a look at what’s within the close to future for No Extra Room in Hell 2, its early entry co-op shooter. Moreover shambling hordes of the wakened lifeless, Torn Banner promised a collection of summer time updates—together with a successor to a fan-favorite map.
Farever
Mandrake
Pizza Bandit
In Pizza Bandit, you will stability your means to shoot aliens, cook dinner pizzas, and survive in a four-player third-person shooter. It could be extra correct to name Pizza Bandit a third-person shooter/cooker—think about one thing like Killing Ground, besides with pizza.
Demonschool
The Final Caretaker
Arduous sci-fi survival shooter The Final Caretaker channels some really uncanny early British TV moods. Think about the ye olde Americana of Fallout, besides from throughout the pond, with all of the chewed VHS stylings and early radiophonic synth work that entails. Watch the trailer above: you will get it.
Railborn
Voyagers of Nera
Crusing is not the one solution to get round in Voyagers of Nera. There’s additionally browsing and spirit-powered waveriding. You may journey beneath the waves too, diving beneath the floor to discover a world of sunken ruins the place you may get eaten by a shark monster with too many eyes.
ICARUS: Nice Hunts
ICARUS, the PvE survival recreation for as much as eight gamers by Day-Z and Stationeers creator Dean Corridor, has DLC known as Nice Hunts. It confirmed off a model new trailer on the PC Gaming Present 2025 which introduced that, yay, ICARUS Nice Hunts is “coming quickly”.
Rubbish Nation
At first look, Rubbish Nation may appear to be it is nearly lo-fi beats to off-road to. But it surely’s sneakily a tower protection recreation in opposition to post-apocalyptic trash bots that appears attractive. Take a look at Rubbish Nation the trailer and lengthy for its sometime-in-2025 launch date.
Darkish Swap
Spirit X Strike
Spare us these slow-moving, sluggish, canned motion set items which might be extra cutscene than battle. We’re attempting to punch a man lots of of instances in a matter of seconds! Spirit X Strike has the fitting thought—and in a brand new trailer rolled out on the PC Gaming Present 2025, its free flowing combo system is trying as flashy as it’s frantic.
Worship
Worship is a recreation about being a ruthless cult chief. The target is to unfold your cult as far and broad as doable, often with the assistance of the cult members you’ve got recruited, who will do something you demand of them—even current themselves for sacrifice. Finally, the aim is to destroy the world by way of the summoning of your cultish deity. It is a easy energy fantasy we have all dreamed of every so often. Proper? Try this when Worship hits Early Entry on July 16.
Stars of Icarus
007: First Mild
Here is some Bond, extra Bond. One other of the PC Gaming Present’s tentpole video therapies, here is an unique look behind the scenes at Hitman developer IO Interactive’s slant on agent 007, named 007 First Mild. Filmed in and round IOI’s studio in Copenhagen, our conversations discover the form this model of James Bond will take, and the way it’ll differ from Agent 47’s murderous exploits over the past a number of years.
goblinAmerica
Completely bonkers is the way you may describe psychedelic FPS, goblinAmerica. Due within the second half of this 12 months, goblinAmerica isn’t just a bizarre FPS, however a Bizarre FPS— what I imply. And it seems nice for it, unusual, abrasive and impressed by the likes of Cruelty Squad.
EverSiege: Untold Ages
PIGFACE
PIGFACE is a gritty assassination sandbox FPS that riffs on the whole lot from SWAT to old-school Rainbow Six, Hotline Miami and Manhunt. As you may count on, it is brutal—and its new trailer aired on the PC Gaming Present 2025 introduced the arrival of a brand new demo.
TerraTech Legion
Paralives
Not a single phrase is spoken within the newest Paralives trailer, however it did exhibit some awesome-looking life sim options: pulling at couches to make them longer, pulling at home windows to make them smaller, sitting on arm rests to observe TV(!!!), constructing with curved partitions, a lot litter, and even having an excellent previous cry within the toilet. Paralives is due on December 8.
Misplaced Rift
Regardless of the wealth of extraction shooters we’ve at our fingertips right now, Misplaced Rift is one which’s placing within the laborious yards throughout a couple of style. It is a survival game-meets-extraction shooter, you see, and Misplaced Rift is getting ready for a shiny new Steam Subsequent Fest demo.
Hell Clock
Hell Clock veers far-off out of your typical motion RPG premise and replaces demons and monsters with a narrative primarily based on a bloodbath in Brazilian historical past. Hell Clock is a Diablo-like roguelike steeped in a bloody historical past and it is coming to Steam on June 18.
Militsioner
Be quiet or the large cop will hear you in Militsioner, a weird immersive sim the place you are beneath fixed surveillance by, effectively, a extremely huge cop. NPCs will help you break into issues with out getting caught, however there’s additionally a complete Tamagotchi-like temper system for everybody within the recreation that you will have to handle. Bizarre? Sure. Tremendous intriguing? Additionally sure. Join the Steam playtest now.
Arcane Eats
It was solely a matter of time earlier than somebody spliced collectively cooking sims and digital deckbuilding. That is exactly what you will be doing on the hottest new restaurant in fairyland, Arcane Eats, revealed for the primary time in the course of the PC Gaming Present 2025. It is a delight!
Guntouchables
The trailer above for Guntouchables makes it clear why developer Sport Swing went for such a foolish however intelligent title: It is a brash co-op roguelike the place your solely safety is, effectively, quite a lot of weapons. Fancy gathering a crew collectively and go mutant searching asap? Guntouchables is hitting Steam on June 17.
Ultrakill
In Ultrakill’s newest trailer, New Blood provides us a primary take a look at one of many ranges coming within the recreation’s last layer, Fraud. The sheer creativeness and spectacle of the brand new FPS map is de facto spectacular, and it is trying like Ultrakill’s lengthy stretch in early entry may have been effectively definitely worth the wait.
Stario Haven Tower
Impressed by the Tower of Babel delusion, Stario: Haven Tower is a city-builder set within the sky. A cataclysmic sandstorm has compelled the world’s inhabitants to hunt shelter in underground cities till they thought up a greater resolution: why not stay above the storm? Due later this 12 months, Stario Haven Tower has a Steam Subsequent Fest demo from tomorrow.
Dispatch
In technique journey recreation Dispatch from AdHoc Studio, you handle an workplace stuffed with former supervillains as they try to develop into heroes, strategically dispatch them to emergencies throughout the town, and attempt to stability your relationships with them whereas planning your individual comeback. Straightforward work, proper? Take a look at Dispatch’s Steam demo proper now.
Wheel World
The showcase of Nidhogg developer Messhof’s open world biking sim Wheel World demonstrates simply how huge and assorted the sport’s landscapes are. There is not lengthy to attend earlier than you may discover them your self both, as the sport launches this July.
FBC: Firebreak trailer & interview
The subsequent enterprise from the Management and Alan Wake collection developer Treatment Leisure is FBC Firebreak, a three-player co-operative shooter set throughout the iconic Oldest Home. We spoke to the Treatment workforce about Firebreak’s place on the Management timeline, after the studio shared a shiny new trailer in the course of the present. “For those who can maintain a gun and use a software, Firebreak wants you,” the narrator says within the latter. You may reply the decision when FBC: Firebreak reviews for obligation on June 17.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
The most recent slice of city-building from the esteemed Anno collection is Anno 177: Pax Romana and, as revealed in the course of the PC Gaming Present 2025, it has a launch date: November 17. Which is whenever you’ll get to as soon as once more construct, develop, evolve, and, most significantly, fulfil the wants of your residents at any value.
Child Steps
The most recent recreation from QWOP and Getting Over It developer Bennett Foddy is Child Steps, which is actually the alternative of an influence fantasy. You play as Nate, “an unemployed failson with nothing going for him”, who’s been warped from his sofa and into one other world the place he discovers the magical energy of strolling. The Child Steps Steam demo is out now, and it is due date is September 8.
Warhammer 40K: Darktide
You’ll’ve thought the state of affairs in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide—demon-worshipping, mutants operating amok whereas the Inquisition barely stem the tide with wave after wave of cannon fodder—was a bit past the intervention of the native police drive. However apparently developer Fatshark disagrees, it is including the Adeptus Arbites to the sport as a brand new class subsequent month—the Imperium’s equal of the cops.
Countless Legend 2
Rejoice! Countless Legend 2, Amplitude’s sci-fi-fantasy 4X, is hitting early entry on August 7, 2025. As outlined on the PC Gaming Present 2025, the preliminary Countless Legend 2 early entry construct will embody 4 factions, each previous and new faces, which you can use to beat the brand new world of Saiadha.
Berserk or Die
Poncle, they of Vampire Survivors, are pushing into publishing this 12 months, backing Berserk or Die as they go. Berserk or Die is an absurd, manic, and absurdly manic retro-style slice of chaos the place your aim is to completely wild out on the battlefield, slaughtering as many foes as you may earlier than you succumb to the enemy’s legions.
Mycopunk
Described by PC Gamer’s personal Morgan Park as “co-op FPS goodness in its greatest kind: quick, humorous, fungal, slightly silly, and never a roguelike”. You could have already been conscious of Mycopunk’s demo that may play proper now—you could not have been conscious of Mycopunk’s launch date: July 10, 2025.
Blippo+
If the aforementioned No, I am Not a Human is up there with the weirdest horror recreation ever to characteristic within the PC Gaming Present, then Blippo+ might be the weirdest recreation in any style ever to characteristic within the PC Gaming Present. Blippo+ is an uncanny, Hypnospace Outlaw-style recreation the place you could flick via an alien off-cable TV community stuffed with ‘cloned opera stars and spooky raconteurs’. Make of that what you’ll.
Morbid Steel, a recreation developed by Display Juice and printed by Ubisoft, is courageous sufficient to ask the query: Okay, however what if we made a roguelike the place you can play each character without delay? A daring enterprise, and one which you’ll be able to pattern by way of its Steam Subsequent Fest demo. Look out for Morbid Steel in early entry on August 21.
Love Everlasting
It may be tough making pixel artwork look scary as a result of, merely, just a few blocks on a display screen can solely accomplish that a lot. Ysbryd Video games’ upcoming psychological horror platformer Love Everlasting, nonetheless, manages to nail 2D terror in its trailer – which publicizes a brand new launch window of October 2025 – principally because of some actually unsettling photographs. Examine ’em out above.
Bus Certain
Atmosfar
Atmosfar is a self-described “sky-high survival odyssey” that has now introduced an early entry launch window of sometime-in-2026. Tapping into placid, sunlit street journey vibes is a pleasant promote, underlined by 1-4 participant co-op, base constructing, spare half scavenging and lots of extra survival style staples.
Void/Breaker
The most recent Void/Breaker trailer hits you in levels. First, it is a enjoyable sci-fi FPS with some slick motion. Then you definately’re absorbed by its gun crafting. And then you definitely’re wowed by its destructible environments. Out later this 12 months, Void/Breaker has a Steam demo you may play proper now.
Grave Seasons
Eyes of Hellfire
Deadwire
“Suppose quick, hack sooner,” is DeadWire’s hook. And when that’s wrapped in a top-down motion recreation ribbon, with flavours of the whole lot from Hotline Miami to Gunpoint and old fashioned GTA, that’s fairly the billing. It has now additionally set its sights on a September 2025 launch.
Dinkum
On the grand spectrum of Stardewlikes to Crossinglikes, Dinkum does sound prefer it falls proper within the center. You will enhance your home and city to your liking, fish and catch bugs, and invite 9 totally different characters to affix your island. You will even be elevating crops and livestock, from cactus to wombats, and Dinkum does not tie you to the actual world clock the way in which Animal Crossing does both.
Abyssus
In Abyssus your craft and shoot and slash and blast your method via the corrupted denizens of an historic, sunken civilization. You will wield godly powers inside a fast-paced cooperative FPS and roguelite “brinepunk” journey. And if any of that floats (or sinks) your boat, know that Abyssus is coming August 12 and has a shiny new demo in Steam Subsequent Fest from June 9.
Ascendant
PlayFusion’s latest trailer for Ascendant arrived on the PC Gaming Present 2025, and gave us a fast take a look at what we will count on from the chaotic multiplayer shooter—with tanks, weapons, and a few funky hairdos all making an look. No launch date as but, however Ascendant is due later this 12 months.
Mewgenics
“An limitless Cat Breeding RPG from the creator of The Binding of Isaac and Tremendous Meat Boy!” so reads the Mewgenics Steam web page.
The most recent Mewgenics trailer aired on the PC Gaming Present 2025 is… effectively, take a look at determine for your self. After that, observe Mewgenics’ launch date: February 10, 2026
Useless Reset
Bernband
Wanderburg
Void Martyrs
“Might the Lord shield me from the evil inside,” so says the nervous voice in Void Martyrs’ 20-second montage displaying on the PC Gaming Present 2025. As a a grimdark, top-down motion recreation the place you are pitted in opposition to enemies contaminated by a biomechanical plague, that feels fairly becoming.
CloverPit
It is loud, it is retro, it is the so-called “demonic lovechild of Balatro and Buckshot Roulette that locks you in a rusty cell with a slot machine and an ATM”. Even in its quick 20-second displaying as a part of the PC Gaming Present 2025’s montage, CloverPit is a sight to behold. It is due in the summertime of this 12 months.
Eclipsium
Burning cities, a blazing human effigy, an lively abattoir, a beating coronary heart and a persistently terrifying vibe—Eclipsium crammed so much into its 20-second montage slot in the course of the PC Gaming Present 2025. If it seems like your factor, it’s best to wishlist it proper now on Steam.
Trash Goblin
Featured within the PC Gaming Present 2025 pre-show, Trash Goblin’s newest airing gave us a brand new story trailer, now that the clear ’em up sim has damaged freed from early entry. With that, Trash Goblin now has a full story marketing campaign, the power to journey between metropolis districts to promote trinkets in new areas, and a “Fetching Fungi” system that provides “an alternate method of buying already found trinkets”.
Whiskerwood
When the cat’s away, the mice will play. However do you know that when the cats are heading up a colonial empire, the mice will construct sprawling island colonies with complicated manufacturing chains? Properly, that is assuming upcoming metropolis builder Whiskerwood is predicated on true rodent information. Why would not it’s? Who would use a videogame to lie?
Outbound
The most recent footage of camper van sim Outbound features a montage of cozy routines, like foraging for berries and mushrooms, piecing collectively moveable residing areas, and exploring the sport’s gorgeous, vibrant open world for the proper spot. Outbound is with no strong launch date, however is aiming for the primary half of 2026.
Capy Castaway
Capy Castaway is a whimsical exploration journey impressed by recollections of childhood a couple of capybara and a crow looking for their method residence. And we will all completely relate, proper? Nonetheless with no concrete launch date, however Capy Castaway is gunning for launch in some unspecified time in the future in 2026.
