New Releases: Feb. 13th-19th, 2025

This week, The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II (pictured) delivers the second installment in the Calvard arc, Shujinkou offers dungeon crawling and optional language learning, while the King of the Monsters goes blocky in Godzilla Voxel Wars. Here’s the full list of what’s arriving on PC and consoles:

PlayStation 4

Dead Dragons (digital, $13.49)
Metal Suits: Counter-attack (digital, $19.99)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II (digital, $59.99)
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered (digital, $26.99)

PlayStation 5

Afterlove EP (digital, $17.99)
Berserk Boy (digital, $19.99)
Dead Dragons (digital, $13.49)
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (digital, $TBA)
Recall: Empty Wishes (digital, $14.99)
Shujinkou (digital, $59.99)
Snezhinka (digital, $11.99)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II (digital, $59.99)
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip (digital, $17.99)
Urban Myth Dissolution Center (digital, $17.99)

Switch

Afterlove EP (digital, $17.99)
Amber Isle (digital, $19.99)
Bioweaver (digital, $9.99)
Bumblebee – Search for Happiness (digital, $1.99)
Call of Sentinels (digital, $7.99)
Chibi Ninja Shino-kun Treasure of Demon Tower (digital, $6.99)
Crosswords: World Tour (digital, $4.99)
Dead Dragons (digital, $13.49)
Discolored 2 (digital, $17.99)
Doggy Up! (digital, $6.99)
Echoes of the Plum Grove (digital, $17.99)
EGGCONSOLE Arctic PC-8801mkIISR (digital, $6.49)
Girlfriend from Hell (digital, $3.99)
Godzilla Voxel Wars (digital, $14.99)
Guns of Fury (digital, $14.99)
House Mansion Flipper (digital, $7.99)
Leafy Season (digital, $4.99)
Learn & Play Collection (digital, $10.99)
Make it! Donut (digital, $5.00)
Matchmaker Agency (digital, $19.99)
Metal Suits: Counter-attack (digital, $19.99)
Puzzle & Summoner (digital, $2.07)
Recall: Empty Wishes (digital, $13.49)
Slasher: Origins (digital, $4.99)
Snezhinka (digital, $11.99)
Sokocrab (digital, $4.99)
Stunt Flyer (digital, $14.99)
The Beastmaster Princess (digital, $12.99)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II (digital, $59.99)
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip (digital, $17.99)
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered (digital, $26.99)
Truck Mechanic Sim 2025 (digital, $9.99)
Vampire Waifu Puzzles (digital, $1.99)
Witch of the Meta Loop (digital, $11.99)

Xbox One

Blood Hunting (digital, $24.99)
Bumblebee – Search for Happiness (digital, $1.99)
Dead Dragons (digital, $13.49)
Deep, In the Forest (digital, $6.99)
Doggy Up! (digital, $6.99)
Recall: Empty Wishes ($13.49)

PC

100 Romantic Cats (free)
Afterlove EP ($17.99)
Avowed ($69.99)
Cinema Simulator 2025 ($TBA)
Dawnfolk ($12.74)
Dball ($1.79)
Gunforged ($TBA)
Guns of Fury ($12.89)
Liminal Border Part III ($14.99)
Metal Suits: Counter-attack ($19.99)
Mini City: Mayhem ($TBA)
Mother ($8.99)
Never Second in Rome ($TBA)
Project Tachyon ($TBA)
Recall: Empty Wishes ($13.49)
Shujinkou ($59.99)
Slime Heroes ($TBA)
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding ($TBA)
Sodaman ($TBA)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II (digital, $59.99)
The Silent Kingdom ($TBA)
Tiny Pasture ($TBA)
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered ($26.99)
Void Climber ($4.49)

Rob’s Pick: For a long time, Broforce’s chaotic run-and-gun action was unrivaled. That changes with the release of South Korea-based Eggtart’s Metal Suits: Counter-attack, which sends players gunning their way through 2D stages swarming with enemies and explosives. Although you can’t cheese the bosses, all the bit-mapped bedlam is here. Similarly, Guns of Fury looks rather promising, channeling the mayhem of the Metal Slug series.

For those who aren’t as enamored by explosions, Shujinkou deserves your attention. One of the enticements is the Etrian Odessey-esque dungeon crawling. But far more noteworthy is how the game teaches Japanese. Even if you’re a Nihongo noob who’s never followed Mary and Takeshi’s exploits in the Genki textbooks, the game also functions as an educational tool – teaching katakana, hiragana, as well as words written out in romaji.

Ryan’s pick: Female protagonists with gray hair are my weakness, so my vote goes to PROJECT TACHYON this week. Visually the game reminds me ever so slightly of Strider which was released back in 2014, but instead of metroidvania mechanics it employs roguelike features. My hope is that it has some of the same appeal that Dead Cells has but with more of a sci-fi feeling. I really like this particular genre as I typically enjoy the games in small bursts, as it really does take a long time to memorize enemy and boss telegraphing to get proficient.

My honorable mention goes to Tiny Pasture this week as I really like the idea. Casually interacting with small pixel animals positioned at the very bottom of your screen when you are working on other things on the computer sounds like a fun idea, and having to lightly manage and interact with them from time to time could be a good way to help take a needed break when you’re super focused. If you like different experiences compared to a normal fullscreen game, give this one a look.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): I’ve become a bit of a tragic for The Legend of Heroes series, so naturally I’m in love with the latest release in it. Every time I start to wonder if the developers of tapped out of stories for their ever-evolving epic, they go and surprise me, draw me back in, and hook me totally. Trails through Daybreak II is exquisite JRPG action.

Speaking of “exquisite”, “good” and “JRPG action,” I’ve also got to cheer for Shujinkou. It’s a dungeon crawler, and it’s perfectly fine on that level alone, but as Robert says, it’s also a handy learning tool, especially for those early on in their Japanese language journey. The Duolingo Owl is well and truly dead with this slice of joy out there.

Finally, it is technically from the previous week, but it was a stealth drop via Sony’s State of Play, but I can’t wait to dig into the “bonus” Dynasty Warriors Roguelike that just landed. Less than a month after the superb Dynasty Warriors Origins, too… Koei Tecmo is spoiling us.