As soon as upon a time, December was an extremely useless month for video games—a chance to make amends 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 traditional RPG, a long-awaited sequel to a legendary franchise, and even an summary artwork recreation about skateboarding.
Most of those video games are indie affairs, with just one recreation 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 a little bit deal with for your self, or make your entire pals play terrifying horror video games with out spending a ton of cash.
Notice: The entire video games listed under are conventional or “Web2” video video games. None have crypto or blockchain components, 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 + Collection 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 seems to be designed to take you again to these days as you choose from 15 characters to combat towards 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 can even workforce 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 recreation that lasts for about 4 hours. You play as a school scholar who goes to work on a farm for 14 days, and issues rapidly get bizarre. This recreation has some violent and grotesque imagery, so look into it earlier than you dive in. Valve declined to host this recreation because of a few of its content material, sparking an enormous controversy within the course of, however you’ll find it on quite a lot of different platforms like GOG, Epic Video games Retailer, and extra.
Sleep Awake
Launch Date: December 2, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S
Sleep Awake comes from the sport publishing arm of horror big 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 recreation, and the visuals combine in psychedelic imagery and live-action sequences to make for a novel 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 gives a extra open world map, which is large enough that Samus has her personal sci-fi bike to get round on. This entry additionally gives extra modernized controls, and you may even use the Swap 2 Pleasure-Con mouse characteristic if you’d like, although it stays to be seen how that works virtually.
That is additionally apparently a contemporary begin for the collection narrative, that means that you do not have to return and play a recreation 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 authentic Swap, too.
Octopath Traveler 0
Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: Nintendo Swap, Nintendo Swap 2, PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, PC (Steam)
Octopath Traveler 0 is all about ranging from zero. As an alternative of choosing from a collection of present heroes, you will create your hero from scratch. Your city is destroyed early within the recreation, and also you and your allies should rebuild it from the bottom up. Storywise, this role-playing recreation tells the story additionally seen within the cell recreation Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, however with higher depth, together with fleshed-out characters, voice performing, and a reworked plot.
Routine
Launch Date: December 4, 2025Platforms: PC (Steam), Xbox Collection 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 recreation 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
Positive, you’ll be able to skate only for the sake of it. However what should you might skate with objective? 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 reside out the fantasy of being a talented skater (every in their very own manner), Skate Story is an summary expertise with dazzling wireframe and polygonal imagery.
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