New Releases: May 1st-7th, 2025

This week, Peglin brings its pachinko-inspired roguelike play onto PlayStation and Xbox. Meanwhile, Captain Blood finally makes it ashore, after being lost at sea since the game’s debut showing at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo. If neither of those sound interesting, Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening (pictured) might not have a proper localization. But it’s got the looks. Here’s a full list of what’s arriving this week for PC and consoles:

PlayStation 4

Arcade Archives: Super Xevious (digital, $7.99)
Captain Blood (digital, $24.99)
Despelote (digital, $14.99, $13.49 PS+)
Peglin (digital, $19.99)

PlayStation 5

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (digital, $59.99)
Cato: Buttered Cat (digital, $10.79)
King Arthur: Legion IX (digital, $19.99)
METAL EDEN (digital, $TBA)

Switch

1-2-3 or 4-5-6 (digital, $3.00)
2weistein in Rongerland (digital, $18.00)
Beyond Memories – Tales From the Heart (digital, $2.39)
Captain Blood (digital, $24.99)
Cato: Buttered Cat (digital, $10.79)
Cryken part2 ((digital, $1.46)
CybeRage: Definitive Edition
Earth Saver (digital, $6.99)
EGGCONSOLE Mirai PC-8801mkIISR (digital, $6.49)
Escape Game The Nostalgic Café (digital, $4.99)
Farmyard Survivors (digital, $4.99)
Fit and Fry (digital, $4.99)
Garden of Merging Numbers (digital, $3.59)
Golf Up Tropical
High On Life (digital, $39.99)
Hood Story: Kaito Yamazaki (digital, $17.99)
Hundred Fires: The Rising of Red star -Complete Edition- (digital, $9.99)
Hypotheses on the Symmetry between Vision and Hands (digital, $1.99)
Jack Barau (digital, $12.99)
Korean Drone Flying Tour Sogeumgang (digital, $4.49)
Nico Saves The State
Reel it! Fishing (digital, $9.80)
Shotgun Cop Man (digital, $9.99)
Skating Rink Story (digital, $12.60)
Spellcaster University (digital, $15.99)
Stasis Valley (digital, $9.99)
Stratogun (digital, $10.99)
Submarine Survivor (digital, $4.99)
The Meownth (digital, $9.99)

Xbox One

Boxing Gym Story (digital, $13.99)
Captain Blood (digital, $24.99)
Despelote (digital, $13.49)
Dream Town Island (digital, $13.99)
Golf Up (digital, $6.99)
Helix Jump (digital, $3.99)
Peglin (digital, $19.99)
Spellcaster University (digital, $15.99)
The Pyraplex (digital, $13.99)

PC

Back from the other world, I missed love ($13.49)
Captain Blood ($24.99)
Deck of Haunts ($TBA)
Despelote ($13.49)
Dice with Death ($TBA)
Little Sim World ($22.49)
METAL EDEN ($TBA)
Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening ($15.29)
Savara ($TBA)
Shotgun Cop Man ($9.99)
Sirocco (free)
The Horror at Highrook ($17.99)
To Pixelia ($13.49)

Rob’s pick: I’m deeply intrigued by Hundred Fires: The Rising of Red Star. Not only does it look like a D-grade knock-off of Metal Gear Solid, but the publisher’s screenshots didn’t even bother to remove the Windows activation nag. But enough punching low, let’s talk about scaring folks with cards. Yes, Deck of Haunts looks like an interesting twist on the old tower defense formula. I’m always up for some digital disobedience and a bit of innovation is welcome, too.

I might have to give Back from the Other World, I Missed Love a try. I feel like I need to experience one of these FMV harem games to broaden my perspective and get stepped on by a sexy Demon King.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): I am genuinely fascinated by Captain Blood. A lost game from the early 2000s that has been for some reason resurrected? Cool. Sharing the name with a 1922 historical novel and classic Errol Flynn film? That certainly has my attention. The promise of flashy combos and big action in an exotic Caribbean setting? Well, that bit might be a bit well-trodden, but some classic ideas are classic for a reason. This is, simply, a fascinating project and, sure, it might be utterly terrible, but it might also be a glorious throwback to a different era of game design. Fingers crossed.

Elsewhere, The Horror at Highrook looks like a really sweet little blend of tabletop experience and digital card game. I mean I remain a sucker for Lovecraft, Poe and Stoker, which were all influences on this game according to the developer, so they’re speaking my language, and I do like the dark fantasy blended with Hero Quest vibe of the tabletop art. This could easily become a game I spend a lot of time with.

Ryan’s pick: Admittedly I haven’t been the best FPS player lately, but METAL EDEN looks promising. The one thing that I am pretty particular about is the framerate with this genre, but from what I’ve seen so far animations and gameplay look quite smooth. Thematically, I typically prefer horror for this genre, but I can still appreciate cybernetic warfare gibs, so here’s to giving this a go on Steam.

I must give an emphatic runner-up nod to the Hundred Fires: The Rising of Red star -Complete Edition-. I have been secretly anticipating the re-release of MGS 3: Snake Eater so this self-described delirious, absurd, and ridiculous story should hopefully be more than enough to keep me entertained until then. I will also continue my playthrough of recently released Blue Prince this week. Lately GamePass has had a lot of great games, and this one has really been a lot of fun.