Every year, Gamescom is one of the biggest conventions for all of gaming. Lasting about a weeklong in Cologne, Germany, Gamescom allows attendees to try out demos from over 1000 different studios, while people viewing from home get new game announcements and behind the scenes looks at the upcoming games. This event announces all the biggest games, expansions on existing games, and movie/TV adaptations of games that can be expected in the coming year. Of course, 2025 was a bigger and better event than prior years, with dozens of major announcements and gaming surprises for fans to look forward to playing. In alphabetical order, here are all of the major announcements from Gamescom 2025:

  • Absolum – A fantasy cartoon rogue-like.
  • Age of Empires 4 – The first new game to this action-packed real-time-strategy franchise in a while, coming in November 2025.
  • Arknights: Endfield – An action RPG with strategy game elements.
  • Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes – A space themed real-time-strategy game (RTS).
  • Black Myth: Zhong Kui – A Chinese mythology-based game and the sequel to the souls-like internet sensation Black Mythic: Wukong.
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – A new game for this massive FPS franchise.
  • Cinder City – A post-apocalypse MMO mixed with third-person shooter.
  • Cronos: The New Dawn – A new horror game.
  • Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven – A DLC to this top-down rogue-like coming in 2026.
  • Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion – A mech piloting RPG coming in September 2025.
  • Death By Scrolling – An UNDERTALE-like top-down puzzle game.
  • Enshrouded: Wake of Water – A free expansion to this survival crafting RPG.
  • Europa Universalis V – A Civilization-like strategy game.
  • Everwind – A survival crafting RPG with a familiar Minecraft-like graphics style.
  • Fallout Season 2 – The second season of the hit show on Prime TV coming in December 2025.
  • Fortnite x Squid Game – A crossover between these two massive franchises.
  • Ghost of Yotei – A long awaited souls-like RPG that is coming in October 2025 and has free DLC coming in 2026.
  • He-Man and Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction – A reboot of the retro arcade games.
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong – The rumored, highly-anticipated action platformer, coming in 2025.
  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of the Giants – A DLC for this game.
  • inZOI: Island Getaway – A DLC for this life-simulating ultra realistic game.
  • John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando – An interest, tough new take on co-op zombie shooters.
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: Legacy of the Forge – A DLC for the game that introduces blacksmithing in September 2025.
  • La Divina Commedia – A third-person souls-like game.
  • Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight – A lego Action-RPG batman game.
  • Lords of the Fallen 2 – A second game for this souls-like series.
  • Monster Hunter Wilds X Final Fantasy 14 – A crossover between two massive gaming franchises.
  • Moonligher 2: The Endless Vault – A new game to this dungeon crawler rogue-like series.
  • Ninja Gaiden 4 – A new game for this hack-and-slash RPG franchise coming in October 2025.
  • Onimusha: Way of the Sword – A Japanese mythology souls-like game coming in 2026.
  • Project Spectrum – A shooter horror game with a mix of PvP and PvE elements.
  • PVKK – A base-defending game set on other a variety of planets coming in 2026.
  • Resident Evil Requiem – Building on the thriller RPG franchise of Resident Evil to be released in February 2026.
  • Road Kings – A truck driving simulator with extra hazardous conditions.
  • Routine – A survival horror game coming in late 2025.
  • Sekiro: No Defeat – An anime adaptation for this popular souls-like game.
  • Silent Hill f – A new game to this horror game series.
  • Swords of Legends – A Chinese mythology-based souls-like.
  • The Darkest Files – A lawyer RPG about prosecuting Nazis post-World War 2.
  • The Outer Worlds 2 – A new game for this sci-fi game that brings AI companions into the mix, coming in October 2025.
  • Unbeatable – An anime-style rhythm game coming late 2025.
  • Valor Mortis – A French historical fantasy RPG.
  • Void/Breaker – A rogue-like PvE FPS.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 – The next installment of the real-time-strategy version of this franchise coming in 2026.
  • World of Tanks: HEAT – New tanks, abilities, and game modes for tank warfare fans.
  • World of Warcraft: Midnight – The next expansion of World of Warcraft and part two of the World Soul Saga.
  • Zero Parades – A stealth/spy-based RPG.