New Releases: March 27-April 3, 2025

This week, Atomfall sends players to verdant dystopia while Croc: Legend of the Gobbos permits players to revisit the 1997 platformer. Meanwhile, visual novel fans are in for a treat, between the releases of Mojika – Truth Rears Its Ugly Head and Love, Elections, and Chocolate (pictured). Here’s the curated (AI slop has been eliminated) of what’s arriving on PC and consoles across the next six days:

PlayStation 4

Afterlove EP (digital, $19.99)
Blue Wednesday (digital, $14.99)
Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (digital, $29.99)
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (digital, $29.99)
Dreamless (digital, $TBA)
Distant Bloom (digital, $19.99)
Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark (digital, $29.99)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (digital, $9.99)
Rabi-Ribi Platinum Edition (physical & digital, $59.99)
Shadow of the Orient (digital, $9.99)
Sulfar (digital, $24.99)

PlayStation 5

Atomfall (physical & digital, $59.99)
Elements Destiny (digital, $TBA)
Instruments of Destruction (digital, $19.99)
Sports: Renovations (digital, $TBA)
The First Berserker: Khazan (digital, $59.99)
Vagrus: The Riven Realms (digital, $29.99)
XOut: Resurfaced (physical, $59.99)

Switch

Alice in Dinerland (digital, $9.99)
Anime Dance-Off – Dungeons and Dancers (digital, $9.99)
Battle Puzzle 2048 – Space Girls (digital, $2.49)
Blue Wednesday (digital, $14.99)
Bubble Ghost Remake (digital, $17.99)
Bubble Wizard Saga (digital, $3.99)
Caligo (digital, $7.99)
Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (digital, $29.99)
Chained Through Hell (digital, $7.99)
Colorizing: Sunrise (digital, $6.99)
Cookie Cutter: Overkill Edition (digital, $19.99)
Cozy Land (digital, $6.99)
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (digital, $29.99)
Cryken Part 1 (digital, $1.00)
Dagger Froggy (digital, $4.99)
Debug Girl (digital, $8.79)
Destind: Mr. Almost Right (digital, $34.99)
Distant Bloom (digital, $19.99)
Escape Game The House Under Rain (digital, $4.99)
Fantasy Jigsaw Puzzle (digital, $7.99)
Fight Legends: Mortal Fighting (digital, $12.99)
Forest Café (digital, $5.99)
Fuel Station Simulator (digital, $8.99)
GladMort (digital, $11.99)
Gun Shop Dealer Simulator (digital, $9.99)
Happy Hike (digital, $4.99)
Hungry Brain Challenge! (digital, $2.99)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (digital, $9.99)
Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries (digital, $15.29)
Kara Fantasy (digital, $5.99)
Kemono Heroes (digital, $14.95)
Korean Drone Flying Tour East River (digital, $7.19)
Korean Drone Flying Tour Muui-do (digital, $2.69)
Kumakichi&Nyanzou Birth ☆ Destruction God DX (digital, $29.80)
Lonestar (digital, $12.74)
Mahjong Cascade: Bamboo and Dragons (digital, $3.00)
Make it! Okonomiyaki (digital, $5.00)
Perfect Hand of Nostalpix (digital, $6.99)
Pet & Dog Simulator (digital, $9.99)
Polarity Remastered (digital, $16.84)
Psychiatric Prison Romance: Serial Killer Anime Boys Dating Sim (digital, $14.90)
Psychiatric Prison Romance: Serial Killer Anime Girls Dating Sim (digital, $14.90)
Shadow of the Orient (digital, $9.99)
Shopping Fever (digital, $3.99)
Sociable Soccer 25 (digital, $24.99)
Sol Dorado Heist (digital, $7.99)
Space Battle (digital, $2.99)
Space Truck Simulator (digital, $8.99)
Sniper Scope: Realistic Tactical Shooter (digital, $9.99)
Star Leaping Story (digital, $11.99)
Steampunch (digital, $4.99)
Supermarket Simulator 2024 (digital, $9.99)
The Eightfold Path (digital, $19.99)
The Running Toaster (digital, $9.99)
Tiny Lands – Deluxe Edition (digital, $12.99)
Twilight Monk (digital, $19.99)
Two-Sided Runner (digital, $14.99)
Unblock Now (digital, $8.99)
Urban Car Driver Simulator: City Explorer Challenge (digital, $14.99)
Wheel of Words: Crossword (digital, $3.99)
Which Way Up: Galaxy Games (digital, $14.99)
Zombie Blocks: Pixel Shooter Gun (digital, $6.99)

Xbox One

Atomfall (digital, $49.99)
Blue Wednesday (digital, $14.99)
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (digital, $29.99)
GladMort (digital, $11.99)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (digital, $9.99)
Kemono Heroes (digital, $14.95)
Mars Survivor (digital, $4.79)
Shadow of the Orient (digital, $9.99)
Star Leaping Story (digital, $11.99)
Tunguska: The Visitation (digital, $39.99)

PC

AI Limit ($31.49)
Atomfall ($49.99)
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos ($29.99)
High Spirits ($TBA)
INAYAH – Life after Gods ($19.99)
inZOI ($TBA)
Karma: The Dark World ($22.49)
Love, Elections, and Chocolate ($TBA)
Mojika – Truth Rears Its Ugly Head ($TBA)
My Party Needs an Alchemist ($19.99)
PolyPine ($TBA)
SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered ($29.99)
Space Sprouts ($TBA)
Squirreled Away ($TBA)
Strongest☆Angel Zerachiel! ($TBA)
Sultan’s Game ($TBA)
The First Berserker: Khazan ($59.99)

Rob’s Pick: I thoroughly enjoyed Aokana – Four Rhythms Across the Blue, partially for its imagined athletic game but also due to Suzumori’s artistry. It was achingly beautiful to look at, but also many of the CGs helped to bring Masaya, Asuka, Misaki, Mashiro, and Rika to life. As such, I’ll definitely be indulging in Love, Elections, and Chocolate, which officially brings Sprite’s visual novel stateside for the first time since its 2010 release.

Last week, I mentioned Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark, a Maidvania which arrived on Steam in time a day before the console releases. Expectedly, I’m having a lot of fun with it, thanks to an expansive map and Kirika’s sub-machine gun. At present, the game neglects to impart some important details like which sub-weapons are needed to open gated-off areas. But that seems like an easy fix for the Inti Creates team.

Ryan’s pick: I always have room for another soulslike, so The First Berzerker: Khazan is my go-to game this week. There is a demo on PS5 which was where I first got a chance to play it, Overall, the game does a decent job of melding various unique mechanics from other games in the genre like withering down enemy guard blocking as seen in Lies of P, mixed with a bit of necessary blocking on the player side which was found in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. The boss in the demo felt like a pushover until it went Neo Bahamut on me in its second phase, so if you’re looking for something to tide you over until the release of the next Elden Ring DLC then give the demo for this one a try.

X-Out Resurfaced gets the honorable mention this week because I really loved a lot of the shmup games that were released on PC and Amiga back in the day. I missed the Steam release of the game last month, so now that it’s coming to PS5 this week it’s worth a look. One other final mention goes to the visual novel Mojika – Truth Rears Its Ugly Head. It seems a bit more psychological than most VNs out there and has a pretty unique style and visual feel. The subject matter may be a bit more heavy than usual, but I tend to enjoy these types of stories when compared to typical fanservice VNs.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): You know, I have never actually played I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, despite just about everyone I know having told me to play it at some point or another. The game has obtained one hell of a sense that it’s a masterpiece about it, and now that it’s on Switch I really have no excuse. I’ll give it a go.

On a (very) different note, I am a hardcore fan of the art that went into Aokana. I played it on Switch first and then, I’ll admit, I went and bought it on PC to because I wanted to see the… extras, with such an incredible artist behind them. When I realised that Love, Elections, and Chocolate has the same artist, I know where my eyes will be.