New Releases: Feb. 27-March 5, 2025
This week, Monster Hunter Wilds clomps its way onto console and PC, while Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter scampers onto Sony hardware. Meanwhile, Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (pictured) is ready to rekindle memories for digital dualists. Here’s the complete list of what’s arriving:
PlayStation 4
Arcade Archives – Dead Connection (digital, $7.99)
Carmen Sandiego (digital, $29.99)
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit (digital, $19.99)
Dreamless (digital, $TBA)
Glover (digital, $19.99)
Let’s Cook Together 2 (digital, $24.99)
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter (digital, $24.99)
War Robots: Frontiers (digital, free to play)
PlayStation 5
Age of Mythology: Retold (digital, $49.99)
Dwerve (physical & digital, $34.99)
Monster Hunter Wilds (physical & digital, $69.99)
Morsels (digital, $TBA)
PGA Tour 2K25 (physical & digital, $69.99)
Switch
Antipaint (digital, $7.99)
Art of Glide 3 (digital, $3.99)
Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket Horror (digital, $7.99)
Blackbeard’s Treasure (digital, $7.77)
Bullet Hell Action Roguelites (digital, $14.23)
Call of Warzone (digital, $11.99)
Carmen Sandiego (digital, $29.99)
Cat Spotting Challenge! (digital, $2.99)
Destino Indomable (digital, $12.49)
Double Dangerous (digital, $5.99)
Escape Game: The Painting Mansion (digital, $4.99)
Everhood 2 (digital, $20.00)
Fable of Fairy Stones (digital, $12.00)
Foto Boy: A New Job (digital, $5.99)
Freddy Farmer (digital, $4.99)
Glover (digital, $19.99)
Hentai Waifu 5 (digital, $8.49)
Heroes of Loot: Gauntlet of Power (digital, $13.99)
Him, the Smile & Bloom (digital, $26.99)
Justice Ninja Casey (digital, $5.99)
LAPIDARY: Jewel Craft Simulator (digital, $6.39)
Lost and Hound (digital, $15.00)
Monster Blast Infinity (digital, $9.99)
My Night Job (digital, $12.99)
Mycelium Heaven (digital, $9.99)
Overtop (digital, $4.99)
Party Poppers (digital, $13.50)
Prison Loop (digital, $3.99)
The Bodycam Shooter (digital, $7.99)
The Bad Parents (digital, $7.99)
The Zebra-Man! (digital, $11.24)
Vaulting Champions (digital, $4.99)
Vertical Kingdom (digital, $17.99)
VoidCraft Island Chronicles: Sky Survival (digital, $7.99)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (digital, $49.99)
Xbox One
Carmen Sandiego (digital, $29.99)
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit (digital, $19.99)
Glover (digital, $19.99)
Paper Plane Arena – Shamans (digital, $9.99)
Prison Loop (digital, $3.99)
War Robots: Frontiers (digital, free to play)
PC
Air ($TBA)
All on Board! ($9.99)
Art is Rifle ($16.59)
Carmen Sandiego ($29.99)
Everhood 2 ($TBA)
Faceminer ($TBA)
Grimoire Groves ($TBA)
Grind Rush ($15.99)
Haydee 3 ($TBA)
Henpri ($TBA)
Him, the Smile & Bloom ($26.99)
Knights in Tight Spaces ($TBA)
Legends of Heropolis DX ($TBA)
Merchants of Rosewall ($TBA)
Mini Bash ($6.99)
Monster Hunter Wilds ($69.99)
Moon’s Creed ($TBA)
Never Experiment On Cats! ($8.99)
PGA Tour 2K25 ($69.99)
[REC] Desolation ($3.19)
Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings ($TBA)
Shift’n Slay ($9.59)
Songs of Life ($TBA)
Star Crafter ($TBA)
Two Point Museum ($29.99)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection ($49.99)
Rob’s pick: I’m a sucker for retro anthologies, especially when a studio like Digital Eclipse crafts a museum-like experience with developer interviews and archival material. Sadly, Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection doesn’t offer those, but it does have a comprehensive collection of the franchise’s Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance titles. In this case, the completeness offsets the lack of curation. Just make sure you know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh! first before diving in. The early games lacked tutorial.
Like Ryan, I love visiting the simulated links golf games, or at least I did. A solid portion of my play time occurs on the go, so always-online titles are always off-limits for me, and that’s the way golf games have gone. While you can play many of PGA Tour 2K25’s modes offline, there are dumb restrictions that prohibits players from setting the time of day or weather conditions without a constant internet connection.
Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): I might not be the world’s biggest fan of Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I like it enough to be all kinds of excited for Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection. There are more than a dozen games in there! Does the quality vary? Oh, very much so, but they are classic TCGs in video game form and as someone who has played the GBC Pokémon TCG on repeat ever since it landed on the Switch online service, I’m itching to have more of that action on my OLED.
I’m also keen on checking out Monster Hunter Wilds. I’m terrible at Monster Hunter, so if you ever see someone hanging right back in the group, out of the way, and letting everyone else do the fighting, then you should know it’s probably me and, yes, I go take advantage of other players defeating the monsters for me so I can make progress. But I love the presentation of this series, the characterisation, and the overall design of the games. So, I’ll get sucked in all over again with this one, no doubt.
Ryan’s pick: Admittedly sports games typically are a hard pass as I find them to be pretty repetitive and I don’t follow the sports enough to be fully vested. Golf games, on the other hand, are the exception. I have the old Tiger Woods golf games to thank for this, as many of those games in the early 2000’s era were really, really good. I’m going to go with PGA Tour 2K25 as the games are pretty relaxing and once you get used to them they can be a different type of Zen.
I’ve tried countless times to get into Monster Hunter games but always felt like I was missing something with the series. This time I think I need to do some more homework, as I know that there is a sea of depth to these games in terms of weapons, and how to thwart the monsters. Admittedly my time spent on the PSP version many years back was lackluster, but I did give it the college try on more recent versions and managed to have marginal success. I somehow need to transfer the same drive that makes me face the same FROM Software boss over and over and convert that into studying the telegraphing of monsters in this game.
