GTA 6 Is Delayed to 2026 – Here Are the Awesome Games Coming in 2025 You Can Play Instead

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The happening we each knew was going to hap has yet happened: GTA 6 has been delayed. Originally scheduled for merchandise during 2025, what is astir surely the astir anticipated crippled of each clip is present owed to get connected May 26, 2026.

But that doesn’t mean that 2025 is going to spell down successful past arsenic a disappointing twelvemonth for games. Far from it! Already this twelvemonth we’ve had immoderate phenomenal releases successful the signifier of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Blue Prince, and Split Fiction, and determination are plentifulness much successful the pipeline. Dozens of them, successful fact. There’s Ghost of Yotei if you request a 2nd samurai hole this year, Borderlands 4 for your co-op chaos needs, and adjacent a marque caller console and accompanying games from a small institution called Nintendo.

Here’s everything you person to look guardant to successful the remainder of 2025 that doesn’t person the words “Grand Theft Auto 6” successful the title.

What’s next?

With GTA 6 primitively scheduled for aboriginal successful the year, you astir surely hadn’t made immoderate abstraction successful your gaming calendar implicit the adjacent mates of months. But conscionable successful lawsuit you did, determination are immoderate monolithic drops imminent. Doom: The Dark Ages arrives connected Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC connected May 15, and looks to beryllium an unthinkable goth reimagining of the shooter we cognize and love. Following not agelong aft is thing for each the Souls fans, arsenic Elden Ring Nightreign drops connected May 30 for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. This one’s a co-op roguelike, truthful marque caller territory for FromSoft, but if you’ve been looking for a faster instrumentality connected the studio’s halfway formula, past it could beryllium the mainstay of your multiplayer nights for the foreseeable future.

Skip guardant a period into June and you tin strap successful for Hideo Kojima’s adjacent chaotic escapade in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Arriving connected June 26 exclusively for PS5, its trailers are already packed to the brim with chaotic and weird ideas, truthful we’re expecting this 1 to propulsion the envelope overmuch further than its FedEx simulator predecessor. Talking of games wherever its hard to locomotion implicit ample surfaces without things going horribly wrong, Dune: Awakening lands connected PC connected June 10. Watch retired for the sandworms and portion plentifulness of water, please.

Switch 2

With GTA 6 present gone, the biggest lawsuit of the twelvemonth is unquestionably the Nintendo Switch 2. The caller console launches connected June 5, alongside its archetypal large game: Mario Kart World. Also releasing connected the aforesaid time are the Switch 2 editions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, truthful you’ll beryllium capable to play those classics astatine overmuch amended resolutions and framework rates. Then there’s the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, the console’s mini-game based tutorial, arsenic good arsenic a clump of 3rd enactment games coming to the system, including Hogwarts Legacy, Spit Fiction, Street Fighter 6, Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut, Cyberpunk 2077, and – of people – Fortnite.

June is conscionable the start, though, arsenic conscionable a fewer weeks aboriginal Donkey Kong Bananza volition get connected July 17 to guarantee the Switch 2 isn’t without its mandatory 3D platformer. And from what we've seen truthful far, it looks worthy going bananas for. Later successful the year, you tin besides look guardant to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Pokemon Legends: Z-A and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. Oh, and a small crippled called Hollow Knight: Silksong, which seemingly truly volition get connected Switch 2 and everything other this year.

Big Hitters

It wouldn’t beryllium the extremity of the twelvemonth without a 3 oregon 4 months of large hitters starring into the Christmas holiday. While not formally announced yet, we’re definite to get a caller Call of Duty arsenic good arsenic EA Sports FC 26 astir that time.

September volition spot the motorboat of 2 monolithic shooters: Borderlands 4 connected the 12th, and Marathon connected the 23rd. You cognize what kooky convulsive amusive to expect from Borderlands, but this clip the weapon drops are promised to beryllium adjacent better. Marathon is much of an unknown, but an extraction shooter from the minds down Destiny is surely thing to support an oculus on.

PlayStation’s long-awaited Tsushima follow-up, Ghost of Yotei, volition get connected October 2, and bring with it a communicative of vengeance against a radical of shadowy masked samurai – hopefully this year’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows lone near you wanting adjacent much of that plotline.

There volition apt beryllium a fewer others to get excited about, too. While we person nary confirmed dates, we’d expect highly anticipated games scheduled for 2025, similar The Outer Worlds 2 and Crimson Desert, to besides get successful the past conception of the year.

2025 Release Timeline

That’s acold from everything connected the horizon. For a larger database of things coming this year, instrumentality a look astatine our timeline of the biggest games confirmed to beryllium coming successful the year’s remaining months.