Geoff Keighley’s annual Summer Game Fest showcase had a number of large moments, together with a serious displaying from Capcom, some sharp-looking indie video games from well-known builders, and a inventive tie-in between Hitman and James Bond by IO Interactive.
Discover a choice of 10 key SGF 2025 highlights under, together with all-new reveals and a number of worthwhile updates on already-announced video games.
Finish of Abyss
Created by Part 9 Interactive, a Malmö-based studio of builders who labored on the Little Nightmares video games, and printed by Epic Video games itself, this was the horror spotlight of SGF. In Finish of Abyss, a fight technician explores a facility that is riddled with fleshy monsters, in what seems to be slightly like a twin-stick survival horror shooter.
New pathways will emerge in the recreation as gamers turn into stronger, suggesting one thing of a Metroidvania construction. This one does not have a selected launch date but past 2026, however it’s coming to Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
Lego Voyagers
This two-player Lego recreation from the builders of Lego Builders Journey left an impression with a easy however excellent pitch: what if you happen to performed as a single Lego brick, and the total recreation was constructed round that notion?
Anybody nonetheless craving high-value co-op experiences for sofa play after ending this 12 months’s fantastic Break up Fiction ought to preserve this beautiful-looking recreation on their radar. It is coming to PC and consoles, together with the authentic Nintendo Change, and might be playable both regionally or on-line (with just one buy vital for the latter).
Mina the Hollower
Mina the Hollower, the long-awaited new recreation from Shovel Knight developer Yacht Membership Video games, obtained a launch date of October 31, 2025 throughout SGF. This trailer will set off fireworks for anybody aware of its inspirations: Hyperlink’s Awakening and the different Game Boy Shade Zelda video games, for instance, in addition to the side-scrolling adventures of the Castlevania sequence.
Marvel’s Deadpool VR
Fairly so much of licensed video games made the reduce on this Summer Video games Fest (who may’ve predicted that this 12 months’s livestream would provide viewers a real-time technique recreation tie-in to Game of Thrones, a TV present that ended unceremoniously in 2019?). Meta’s large reveal at SGF was Deadpool VR, one other superhero-themed unique coming to Quest 3, following final 12 months’s killer app Batman: Arkham Shadow.
This recreation stars Neil Patrick Harris as Marvel’s Merc with a Mouth, and comes from ‘Splosion Man developer Twisted Pixel. As ever, Deadpool’s delivered-via-sledgehammer meta humour is one thing of an acquired style, but the latest historical past of popular culture would counsel it is by no means been more widespread.
Deadpool VR’s first-person fight and storytelling look genuine to the character, which is both a dream come true or a dwelling nightmare, relying on who you ask. It launches solely on Quest 3 and 3S in late 2025.
Unwell and Mundfish’s push into publishing
Mundfish, the newest developer to maneuver into publishing, had a giant presence on this 12 months’s SGF livestream. That included a colourful-if-muddled trailer for Atomic Coronary heart 2, a follow-up to its 2023 hit FPS.
However maybe more attention-grabbing was the horror-themed FPS Unwell, the debut recreation from studio Staff Clout. What might be more horrifying than being chased by dozens of decaying bald males, and sometimes, some fetid-looking evil big infants? This recreation will launch on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, however it does not have a launch date but.
Scott Pilgrim EX
Contemplating the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels ended 15 years in the past, the longevity of a narrative a few down-on-his-luck 20-something combating all his new associate’s exes in sequence continues to amaze. This religious sequel to 2010’s acclaimed Ubisoft tie-in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game sees Scott and six of his friends teaming as much as struggle three totally different warring gangs who’ve taken over Toronto.
Developer Tribute Video games (creators of the sensible Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge) includes employees who labored on that prior Ubisoft title. Pleasingly for followers, too, sequence creator Bryan Lee O’Malley is behind the story on this venture. With four-player co-op half of the combine, Scott Pilgrim EX launches in 2026.
On line casino Royale’s Le Chiffre involves Hitman: World of Assassination
With IO Interactive’s James Bond recreation First Mild not arriving till 2026, this reveal was an actual deal with for followers of 007, and a enjoyable stopgap. Actor Mads Mikkelsen joined IO’s Hakan Abrak on-stage in asserting that his On line casino Royale villain Le Chiffre has been added to Hitman: World of Assassination’s Paris degree as a limited-time Elusive Goal. Gamers have till July 6 to take him out.
Blighted
Guacamelee studio Drinkbox is behind this visually trendy motion RPG, which seems to be prefer it’ll scratch the itch of anybody who obtained deep into Hades however needs one thing with a contemporary twist (or co-op) to play. The setting is described as a ‘psychedelic western nightmare’ by the builders, and a ‘blighted’ mechanic alters the issue of the recreation dynamically relying on how the participant is. It is coming quickly to Steam.
Stranger Than Heaven
First unveiled final 12 months as Undertaking Century, this deeper take a look at the subsequent venture by Like A Dragon developer RGG Studio confirmed off the recreation’s 1943 interval Japanese setting, in addition to its fight and different gameplay components like ethical selections (of the Xbox 360 period ‘spare/kill’ selection).
Contemplating the final trailer was set in 1915, it will seem to counsel the recreation takes place throughout a number of a long time. It is thrilling to see this studio attempting one thing slightly totally different, even when some of the elements are superficially related.
Resident Evil Requiem
The reveal of the ninth mainline Resident Evil recreation closed the livestream with a bang. Requiem is barely laborious to know from this primary trailer, maybe by design: the protagonist is an agent referred to as Grace Ashcroft, and we see a number of glimpses of the ruins of Raccoon Metropolis amid the horrors on this teaser.
Little question Capcom will steadily put the items collectively in the run-up to its February 27, 2026 launch date on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. It firmly seems to be like a stylistic follow-up to the first-person hits Resident Evil 7 and Village. On-stage, it was promised the recreation will characteristic “high-stakes cinematic motion” in addition to survival horror.