What to Expect From Xbox in 2025

IGN : From Avowed to Doom: The Dark Ages to the long-awaited arrival of Fable (we hope!) and more, here's a look at what we expect from Xbox in 2025.

[ThinkThink]

2025 is packed with State of decay 3, perfect dark, everwild, fable, south of midnight, towerborne, Avowed, The Outer worlds 2, doom, Gears of War: Eday. Plus theres rumors of an Oblivion remaster and Forza Horizon 6 at the end of the year. Surely some of these will need to push to 2026, but even if half of them make 2025, that's a solid line up for xbox next year.

[Obscure_Observer]

"2025 is packed with State of decay 3, perfect dark, everwild, fable, south of midnight, towerborne, Avowed, The Outer worlds 2, doom, Gears of War: Eday."

I personally believe that Gears E-Day, Perfect Dark, State of Decay 3 and Everwild will be 2026 and beyond releases.

2025 is already packed with at least SIX first party games: Avowed, Towerborne, South of Midnight, Doom, The Outer Worlds 2 and a new COD game.

Not to mention the day one third party games on Gamepass like: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Eternal Strands, Atomfall, Mixtape, Hollow Knight Silksong, The Alters and 33 Immortals just to name a few. O.o

Xbox is absolutely packed and Gamepass is just to good to be true.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Gears of War: E-Day launching in 2026 would be fitting for the franchise’s 20th anniversary.

[SonyStyled]

I had hopes that Xbox would turn things around and finally, the games are coming! Not sure what you mean by first party as the games are coming to every platform. They are third party games, which is great for gamers (and MS gaming division) but not great for the Xbox console. The console space is a lot smaller with MS going the SEGA route

[ThinkThink]

@SonyStyled first party means owned and operated by microsoft in this case. While i anticipate most of the bethesda games will make their way to playstation and switch 2, xbox will continue to still have at sizable library of console exclusives. For example, how many of those 15 or so xbox games mentioned for 2025 mentioned in this thread are coming to playstation or switch? 3 or 4? MS already said they would honor previous franchises like doom, outer worlds, etc. So that playstation isn't left out. I mean, if they go the sega route on day, that's great for everyone, but I feel you guys are setting yourself up for disappointment if you think it's happening any time soon. Maybe if their next gen tanks, they will consider it? Something to root for. 😀

[GotGame818]

South of Midnight looks way better than I expected! It has a modern Beyond of Evil feel! Graphics look pretty good too! Forza I'm kinda burnt out on, but hope they revitalize it, it is a beautiful game! New Gears, yes please! I have never played Fable, Avowed looking great, etc 2025 is stacked!

[BehindTheRows]

Gears: E-Day was not given a 2025 release date. In fact, I’d bet most of that won’t release in 2025.

[lelo2play]

Many interesting games from Microsoft for 2025...

[Hofstaderman]

To go third party mutiplatform whilst announcing additional games for PS5 at their showcase. As per Satya and Phil. There is no red line...

[anast]

Avowed is already DOA.

[RaidenBlack]

Won't be .... its geared more towards AA RPG fans, than AAA God of War Ragnarok speedrunners.
It'll be a 7.5~8.5 game, imo.
But what makes you say 'DOA' ?

[InUrFoxHole]

Why do you think that?

[MetroidFREAK21]

Whatever comes to PS5, I'll be sure to snag a physical copy for (Doom for example) Perfect Dark has my attention, as does Avowed and Fable for my Series S

[Miacosa]

Will go full 3rd party publisher by the end of the year maybe with a delay in release for other platforms if not eventually day one.

[goken]

Xbox line up looks pretty awesome.Though a little late in the day. But good to see xbox getting their development act together.

[LoveSpuds]

They haven't got there development act together though, they simply bought half of the industry up. These games would still have released and would have been accessible to Xbox players anyway, except now, Xbox get to profit for doing fuck all in the way of creative effort within the industry.

[Lightning77]

Sorry but Sony probably would of money hatted half those games anyway if MS didn't buy those. At least some of those are multiplat releases under MS.

[Elda]

From XB summer showcase I saw some really interesting games that I will be hopefully playing from beginning to end through Gamepass. That is South Of Midnight & the multiplats Doom:TDA & Expedition 33 along with some other games mentioned at the XB summer event.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Can’t wait to try all these games out on my 5090 (if I can get one). 2025 should be a great year for Xbox I hope.

[LikAChicken]

Same. Saved for it and ready to pull the trigger once it's out.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

I put aside 2500 hopefully that will be enough. I refuse to spend a penny more. Whoever said PC gaming is not expensive is out of their mind lol.

[SonOfOsiris]

Nothing, rip Xbox

[dveio]

I am still having a hard time acknowledging IPs like Doom, CoD, etc. as Xbox "first party".

In terms of ownership they are. Sure.

But so many IPs have always been around. They were born and always distributed as multiplatform titles.

I'd rather have Xbox bring up some new IPs, new stuff, something that's not just technically first party with inevitable 3rd party DNA that were business-wise only taken over by Microsoft due to revenue slipping into red numbers.

[MrDead]

So, what games that weren't already coming to Xbox are now coming to Xbox after spending $80 billion?

This entire thing has been a disaster for everyone except shareholders and CEO's, thousands fired to bring Xbox nothing new and going full third party. Just a bunch of scumbags consolidating and homogenising a huge part of the industry to enrich the few.

Don't forget to support the devs and buy the games, MS will have no issue with even more "downsizing" if not.

[MaximusPrime_]

2025 could be a year of more Xbox games coming to PS5. As MS struggles, could they follow Sega's example, go software only?

[Lightning77]

They're already gearing up for their next Console. Even their supposed controller features got leaked.

[__y2jb]

This is the year they abandon hardware altogether but they will claim that they haven’t.

They will continue to limp on with Gamepass for another few years but if it fails to grow then I think they sell up and leave. Microsoft have zero interest in being ‘just a game publisher’

[InUrFoxHole]

Xbox is crushing it. Best part is that all gamers can share in the line up