New Releases: April 17th-23rd, 2025

From LUNAR Remastered Collection’s remastering of two PlayStation JRPGs, Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate revision of the Xbox 360-era brawler, and Jeff Minter’s remake of I, Robot, there’s quite a few familiar titles on this week’s schedule of new releases. Here’s the curated (AI slop has been excluded) list of what’s arriving on PC and consoles across the next six days:

PlayStation 4

Hegzis (digital, $4.99)
I, Robot (digital, $13.49)
Leila (digital, $11.69)
LUNAR Remastered Collection (digital, $49.99)
Orphans (digital, $16.99)
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate (digital, $24.99)
Vinebound: Tangled Together (digital, $4.99)

PlayStation 5

Bionic Bay (digital, $19.99, $17.99 PS+)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (physical & digital, $69.99)
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree (digital, $39.99)
Once Upon a Puppet (digital, $29.99)
Rusty Rabbit (digital, $19.99)
Sunderfolk (digital, $49.99)
Steel Seed (digital, $TBA)

Switch

Bubble Wizard II Saga (digital, $3.99)
Chessarama (digital, $14.99)
Chippy’s Stash (digital, $4.99)
Cozy Stitch Puzzle (digital, $6.99)
Dragons Legacy : Monsters Lair (digital, $7.99)
EGGCONSOLE Dinosaur PC-8801mkIISR (digital, $6.49)
Hegzis (digital, $4.99)
I, Robot (digital, $13.49)
Korean Drone Flying Tour Jebu-do (digital, $5.39)
Leila (digital, $11.69)
LUNAR Remastered Collection (digital, $49.99)
LunarLux (digital, $19.99)
Masters Bowling (digital, $9.99)
Maths Pals (digital, $6.99)
Mini Hockey Cup (digital, $1.99)
Necroking (digital, $5.00)
Old Skies (digital, $19.99)
Only Up! (digital, $4.99)
Orphans (digital, $16.99)
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate (digital, $24.99)
Pool With Me (digital, $6.99)
Rusty Rabbit (digital, $19.99)
Sacre Bleu (digital, $14.99)
Skies Above (digital, $7.99)
Sneaky All-Nighter (digital, $5.00)
Snow Squall Grip (digital, $9.99)
Sunderfolk (digital, $49.99)
Tempopo (digital, $19.99)
Thought Experiment Simulator (digital, $6.99)
Thrill Penguin (digital, $4.99)
Vinebound: Tangled Together (digital, $4.99)

Xbox One

Biz Builder Delux (digital, $13.99)
Café Master Story (digital, $13.99)
Hegzis (digital, $4.99)
I, Robot (digital, $13.49)
Kemco RPG Selection Vol. 4 (physical & digital, $39.99)
Leila (digital, $11.69)
LUNAR Remastered Collection (digital, $49.99)
Orphans (digital, $16.99)
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate (digital, $24.99)
Tempopo (digital, $19.99)

PC

Another Try 2 ($TBA)
Asura the Striker ($14.99)
Bionic Bay ($17.99)
Block Fortress 2 ($17.99)
Chasmal Fear ($17.99)
Escape the Mad Empire ($TBA)
Gorn 2 (19.99, VR Required)
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club TOKIMEKI Roadmap to Future ($TBA)
LUNAR Remastered Collection ($49.99)
Maliki: Poison of the Past ($TBA)
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree ($39.99)
Neighbors: Suburban Warfare ($9.99)
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate ($24.99)
Rusty Rabbit ($19.99)
Sacre Bleu ($14.99)
Short Snow ($TBA)
Steel Seed ($TBA)
Super Technos World ($29.99)
Tempopo (19.99)
White Knuckle ($11.69)
Wizdom Academy ($19.79)

Rob’s Pick: For a second, I thought Juzo Itami’s 1985 film got an interactive adaptation. But I don’t think the industry is quite ready to explore the intersection of food and sex, so I’ll continue to wait for Tampopo: The Game. That said, I have been revisiting the last millennium, courtesy of the LUNAR Remastered Collection. By the late 1980’s, the TurboGrafx-CD/CD-ROM² showed that the storage capacity of CDs could revolutionize genres. Not long after, the Lunar games seized this potential, allowing for role-playing games to include voice and full-motion video. I miss when technical innovations didn’t feel like a marketing gimmick.

I’m one of those weirdos who can’t get enough of Jeff Minter’s arcade-style games. As such, I’m eager for his reimagining of 1984’s I, Robot. I feel most developers might downplay the struggle between “Unhappy Interface Robot #1984” and the giant vigilant eye named “Big Brother”. Even if the Yak doesn’t add anything to the Orwellian premise, we can count on trippy visuals to help forget about its persistent gaze, right?

Ryan’s pick: I completely missed Phantom Breaker series when it was released in 2011 on Xbox 360, so Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate gets the stamp of approval this week. Beat-’em-ups are one of my all-time favorite genres and what makes this one a bit unique is that battles are a bit like a fighting game. There’s no shortage of characters available either, with 38 in the roster. There’s also a demo for the game on Steam, so if you’re curious please give it a look.

Two additional Steam releases looked interesting, the first being the first-person climbing game White Knuckle. Graphically for me it gives off a Quake aesthetic and is a speed climbing game that employs a bit of roguelite mechanics. Visually there’s plenty of nostalgia with the graphic style and could be fun for FPS fans. The final nod goes to – ASURA THE STRIKER -. Space Harrier II was one of my favorite Mega Drive games and I absolutely loved it to death as well in the arcades. This game is a modern take on this genre and overall the visual effects, enemies, and main protagonist visually are impressive. If you are an arcade aficionado, then please try this one out.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): Lunar is one of the most deserving JRPG properties out there that deserves to be so much more than “just” a handful of titles, most of which are firmly retro today. The storytelling, the quality of the adventure and just the overall experience all stand up against any of the JRPG series that have a dozen or more entries. If for whatever reason you haven’t seen them for yourself, this collection will get you caught up nicely.

The other one to keep an eye out for is Tempopo – its Witch Beam’s latest, one of Australia’s finest indie developers, and if Chu Chu Rocket crossed with Toad’s Adventure sounds good to you… well, you’re really not going to want to miss this one.