You should know the deal by now: In our post-E3 world, we turn our attention to Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest.
This year’s show didn’t have as many explosive new announcements, but it did manage to save one of the most exciting ones for last. Before that though, there were a ton of games. Let’s get to them!
Mortal Shell 2 kicked off this year’s Not-E3 festival. With a spooky, gothic, violent, and bloody style, and, yes, oh god yes, a song from none other than black metal band Behemoth, this one looks like it’ll be for us savages for sure.
This Fortnite event kicks off tomorrow if you just can’t get enough of Epic’s battle royale collab with Star Wars.
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach arrives at the end of this month. Legendary director Hideo Kojima took to the stage to discuss what he hopes players take away form his new game. Mentioning that DS1 released just before the pandemic, he indicated that DS2 was made with this global catastrophe in mind, suggesting that it aspires to remind us to reflect on our connections to one another.
Conquest, destruction, medieval society, and plenty of armor and weapons are front and center in Chronicles: Medieval, expected to release in early access in 2026.
Sonic may not technically need wheels to go fast, but he sure does love them. If the new Mario Kart doesn’t do it for you, Sonic’s latest racing game might be worth checking out. It even has Hatsune Miku, Ichiban Kasuga from Yakuza, Joker from Persona, and an upcoming Minecraft collab.
Making sure we weren’t without trailers of cool dudes slashing and stabbing cool-looking monsters, this glimpse of Code Vein II showed off the upcoming RPG.
Featuring some unnerving abandoned environments infested with monsters, End of Abyss showed off some of its intriguing top-shooter gameplay that seems to be full of mystery.
Classic cartoon vibes with first-person shooter gameplay is something I didn’t know I needed? This looks like an undeniably-fun time.
A fancy cinematic trailer gave us our first look at this RTS take on the Game of Thrones franchise.
WIth some gorgeous sci-fi visuals, Atomic Heart II showed off its strange but-oh-so-violent world. The sequel promises more player freedom and more focused RPG mechanics.
From the developers of Atomic Heart, Atomic Universe treats us to another massive sci-fi world with some outrageous-looking characters and a giant cube that’s got at least one character really obsessed.
Following the recent reveal of this 2D beat ‘em up, Summer Game Fest 2025 showed off some more gameplay and revealed two new playable characters: She-Hulk and Rocket Raccoon.
Today’s event was also another opportunity to take a look at the dark fantasy world of Onimusha. I’m not sure how you block a club attack from a creature several times your size with just a katana, but it sure looks fun to play! It’s due out on new consoles next year, 2026.
If you’ve always been disappointed that gaming didn’t have enough puppets, I think you’ll be pleased to check out Felt That Boxing.
Billing itself as a murder mystery action game, Killer Inn will see players take on the roles of lambs and wolves in their efforts to stay alive while also solving some murder mysteries.
We finally have a release date for Arc Raiders. Expected out October 30, 2025, today’s trailer showed off more of the game’s enormous world, and while it was short on showing any of what looked like real gameplay, it does look worth checking out when it arrives later this year.
Out this month, Dune Awakening got a world premiere trailer at today’s event, giving us another look at the wild world of Dune as brought to life in this MMO.
Legions of terrifying monsters might have met their match with these protagonists. It’ll have to do a lot of work to distinguish itself from other soulslikes.
Featuring some gorgeous art styles, Mio: Memories in Orbit looks as pretty as it does fast.
If you’ve been enjoying the recent trend of handmade art and stop-motion animation, Out of Words looks right up your alley.
Taking us back to the very origins of the Sicilian mafia, Mafia: The Old Country showed off even more of its gritty crime story set in the 1900s.
If previous Lego games had you a bit burnt out on the usual rotation of whatever popular franchise they’ve collaborated with this time, you might want to check out the strictly Lego-themed experience of Voyagers. It’s not only adorable, but it’s surprisingly fresh.
A top down beat ‘em up seems like the perfect genre for taking Spongebob out for a violent spin, don’t ya think?
There sure are a lot of soulslikes out there. Today, we got a look at Lies of P’s new DLC, which was released during the event.
There was something just delightfully macabre about today’s trailer for Fractured Blooms. Yes, it looks like it features some garden and cooking simulation, but also seems to be like P.T. crossed with one of those games.
If you’ve enjoyed building dino parks only for them to disolve into absolute carnage, then Frontier Developments has yet another game for you with Jurassic World Evolution 3 and it looks pretty awesome.
With an adorable mousey protagonist and gorgeous retro-themed vibes, Mina the Hollower looks like it begs to be played in the dark, on a glowy CRT (if you can find one, that is).
Ever wanted to play as Deadpool? In VR? Well, if the second part doesn’t excite you, I dunno what to say. There’s a VR Deadpool game on the way, featuring Neil Patrick Harris as the titular character!
Dying Light is a good time. And while this new game looks a little grittier, the same epic parkour moves I’ve loved from the first ones look better than ever before. Dying Light: The Beast arrives on August 22, 2025.
Mixtape looks like a glorious ode to teenage hooliganism in days gone by, with a stellar soundtrack of licensed tunes.
Clearly taking some inspiration from Hades, Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree looks to be a roguelike bursting with charm and personality.
Lots of punching, shooting, and just all-out action seems to be the appeal of Acts of Blood, and it sure does look fancy.
If you enjoyed TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge and have been sorerly missing a Scott Pilgrim game, this is well worth keeping an eye on.
In this trailer we were exposed to yet another cover of “Mad World,” which we may or may not have needed. But we also saw some neat espionage-laced, explosive action...with apparently a Hitman crossover? Pretty neat!
While we didn’t get any footage of Io Interactive’s upcoming James Bond game, we did get a peek at Hitman’s inclusion of LeChiffre, the antagonist from Casino Royale. This new assassination target is expected to hit Hitman later today, with special rewards in 007 First Light for those who take him out within the next 30 days.
If you’re in the mood for even more non-franchise-themed Lego, especially the co-op variety with tons of mini-games, then Lego Party! might be worth checking out.
A 20-player team shooter set in space, Wildgate looks set to offer a colorful and expansive universe to blast your way through.
Mix up some lush art direction with vicious-looking brawls with monsters and you have Blighted.
With some of the most impressive and gory visuals shown off tonight, ILL demands you be ready to shoot at a lot of grotesque and miserable creatures.
This game is finally coming out on July 1, 2025. Mech fans rejoice.
Imagine, if you will, that insects had their own industrial revolution and now have technology that far exceeds that of us silly humans? That seems to be the premise of this upcoming action game, and it looks pretty unique and slick, too.
Capcom showed off a new trailer for the latest season of Street Fighter 6, featuring Kenny Omega cosplaying as the game’s upcoming characters. With the game’s new season, we can finally expect Sagat, C. Viper, Alex, and Ingrid to join the roster.
I get Team Fortress meets Deathloop vibes from this character shooter, expected to arrive on Steam in 2026.
What?? Another soulslike? Say it ain’t so. We saw at least six of them showed off during tonight’s event, though this one’s environmental design is notably very pretty.
We only saw a glimpse of the gameplay for this one, but man do I want to see more of Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deciever in action.
This bleak third-person roguelike sports gorgeous animation reminiscent of early cartoons.
This Halo-inspired free-to-play shooter is out now.
Like a Dragon developer Ryu Go Gotoku Studio showed off its upcoming brawler, set in 1943. Come for the noir-ish period vibes, stay for some new characters.
Capcom toyed around with us throughout the show, leaving us to worry we’d see nothing new from the legendary Resident Evil series. Thank goodness that wasn’t true, because RE9 looks set to take the series in some bold, unexpected places. It arrives on February 27, 2026.
And that wraps up our rundown of everything interesting we saw at today’s Summer Game Fest.
