It's been an amazing year for video games, with exciting titles like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Doom: The Dark Ages making a splash. July is no exception, with new releases dropping for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and the Nintendo Switch 2.
July's most notable exclusive is Donkey Kong Bananza. The next-gen Nintendo platformer sees the big gorilla teaming up with singer Pauline to smash through an underground world. And if you're itching for a sports game, consider the new EA Sports College Football 26 or the throwback Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4.
Don't skip over last month's games, though. Mario Kart World's multiplayer kart racing mayhem still has me chasing that Knockout Tour high. Meanwhile, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach gave us a tale of post-apocalyptic interconnectedness that only Hideo Kojima could deliver.
Read on to see what you should pick up this month, and swing by our 2025 video game calendar to see the other titles coming down the pipe later this year.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 4, 2025
- Rating: E 10
Silksong is the sequel to the critically acclaimed indie hit Hollow Knight. You play as Hornet this time around, who is faster and more agile than Knight from the original. Hornet's unique healing abilities let you adopt a much more aggressive playstyle. New grappling moves and mobility enhance the exploration and traversal, too.
Cronos: The New Dawn
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 5, 2025
- Rating: M
Developer Blooper Team has yet another horror game to keep you on your toes. The New Dawn is a third-person survival-horror title with a decidedly more action-focused experience than the studio's previous releases, namely The Medium and the Silent Hill 2 Remake. You play as a time-traveling agent who guns down mutated monstrosities called Orphans in the future's wastelands.
Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 5, 2025
- Rating: T
This Daemon X Machina sequel takes place hundreds of years after the original game, on a newly colonized world called the Blue Planet. You still take part in intense mech-based combat, but Titanic Scion is set within an open world environment. Co-op multiplayer is available if you want to tackle the game with a friend.
Borderlands 4
- Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 12, 2025
- Rating: M
Dive into planet Kairos as one of four new Vault Hunters and scour the world for alien treasure. Like its predecessors, Borderlands 4 lets you tackle this first-person looter-shooter in four-player online co-op or two-player split-screen action. It also features a seamless interconnected world with no loading between major zones, so you can explore all four of Kairos' distinct biomes much more freely.
Dying Light: The Beast
- Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 19, 2025
- Rating: M
The Dying Light series offers tense survival-horror and thrilling parkour movement, giving you an agile protagonist to control and deftly evade relentless zombie hordes. Set 13 years after the original game, you once again take on the role of Kyle Crane, who is now a monstrously altered man who can outrun monsters or channel his inner beast to tear them apart.
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS5
- Release Date: Sept. 19, 2025
- Rating: T
The Legend of Heroes is a monumentally expansive RPG series from developer Nihon Falcom. Breaking into the series can be a daunting endeavor, but Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is here to ease you into it. This remake of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky has 3D visuals and two game modes: classic turn-based combat or real-time action.
Silent Hill f
- Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 25, 2025
- Rating: M
Silent Hill f takes horror fans to 1960s rural Japan, where a high school student finds that her quaint, quiet hometown has been consumed by a mysterious, monster-haunted fog. Clash or avoid these supernatural foes, solve brain-bending puzzles, and scour every nook and cranny for clues.
Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PS5
- Release Date: Sept. 26, 2025
- Rating: T
While its predecessor was designed as a live-service mobile game, this new entry in the Atelier Resleriana subseries is a standalone, offline title. It's a return to form, featuring classic turn-based combat, exploration, time management, and a robust item-crafting system.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 25, 2025
- Rating: E
Step aside, Mario: the Blue Blur returns this month with a fresh spin on kart racing. CrossWorlds takes elements from previous Team Sonic Racing games, while adding a new interdimensional travel system to shake things up. The leading racer determines the path for the second lap, making races much more dynamic. The game launches with 23 characters, but Sega announced many DLC guest characters, such as Pac-Man and SpongeBob.
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
- Release Date: Sept. 30, 2025
- Rating: T
The Ivalice Chronicles is a remaster of the 1997 PlayStation tactical RPG that also contains elements from the enhanced PSP port. It offers a classic mode based on that PSP port and a new mode that polishes the visuals and UI, adds new battle speed and difficulty settings, and overhauls the dialogue. If you dig Final Fantasy Tactics, consider this the definitive version.