New Releases: May 8th-14th, 2025
Caves, Cuties, and Claymation
This week, Death end re;Quest CodeZ delivers grisly dungeoneering, Revenge of the Savage Planet offers another satirical sandbox for exploration, while Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou 2 (pictured) forces its male protagonist into concealing his identity at an all-female designer school. Here’s the complete list of what’s arriving on PC and consoles this week:
PlayStation 4
Death end re;Quest CodeZ (physical & digital, $49.99)
Labyrinth of the Demon King (digital, $19.99)
Little Kitty, Big City (digital, $19.99)
Moe Waifu H Push-Box (digital, $4.99)
Revenge of the Savage Planet (physical $49.99, digital, $39.99)
Spiritfall (digital, $19.99)
What Comes After (digital, $7.99)
Wings of Endless (digital, $12.99)
PlayStation 5
Death end re;Quest CodeZ (physical & digital, $49.99)
Empyreal (digital, $29.99)
Palia (digital, free to play)
Pixelshire (physical, $29.99, digital, $TBA)
Revenge of the Savage Planet (physical $49.99, digital, $39.99)
Sir Whoopass: Immortal Death (digital, $TBA)
Spirit of the North 2 (digital, $24.99)
The Midnight Walk (digital, $39.99)
The Precinct (physical & digital, $39.99)
Switch
Bearnard (digital, $11.99)
Cat & Rabbit Pizza Farming (digital, $9.99)
Chaos Galaxy 2 (digital, $19.99)
Dunk Dunk (digital, $14.99)
EGGCONSOLE Rune Worth PC-9801 (digital, $7.16)
Ellphaser (digital, $4.99)
Final Zone (digital, $5.99)
Kill The Emoji 2 (digital, $2.49)
Kitten Lost Her Box (digital, $2.99)
Korean Drone Flying Tour Garorim Bay (digital, $2.40)
Labyrinth of the Demon King (digital, $19.99)
Linea: An Innerlight Game (digital, $5.32)
Mirage: Ignis Fatuus (digital, $16.99)
MOMIBOSU (digital, $15.00)
Ninja Fight (digital, $1.99)
Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 (digital, $29.99)
Spiritfall (digital, $19.99)
Strings Theory (digital, $14.99)
Super Engine GT Turbo SPEC (digital, $4.99)
The Abandoned Planet (digital, $14.99)
Trash is Fun (digital, $3.74)
Undivine (digital, $8.99)
Wings of Endless (digital, $12.99)
World Cup Soccer 2026 (digital, $7.99)
Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade (digital, $29.99)
Xbox One
CyberCorp (digital, $15.99)
Eyes: The Horror Games (digital, $3.99)
Revenge of the Savage Planet (physical $49.99, digital, $39.99)
Undivine (digital, $8.99)
What Comes After (digital, $6.39)
Wings of Endless (digital, $12.99)
PC
Cash Cleaner Simulator ($13.49)
Chambers ($TBA)
Chronomon ($TBA)
Creature Keeper ($13.49)
Darfall ($21.24)
Equinox: Homecoming ($24.99)
Gunbot Diplomacy ($TBA)
Hotel Owner Simulator ($8.99)
Labyrinth of the Demon King (digital, $19.99)
MagicCar of Delicious ($TBA)
Midnight Special ($7.99)
Pixelshire ($16.99)
Revenge of the Savage Planet ($16.99)
Rhythm Witch: Beat Death ($TBA)
Rift Riff ($TBA)
Spirit of the North 2 ($22.49)
Tank Squad ($17.99)
The Midnight Walk ($35.99)
The Precinct ($TBA)
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou 2 ($TBA)
Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade ($TBA)
Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall ($22.49)
Rob’s pick: The first two Death end re;Quest titles were solid HorroRPGs where you wandered through gloomy, moderately detailed 3D environments. For the third installment, CodeZ shifts the perspective to a cartoonish Mystery Dungeon-style adventure, with Sanity replacing your ever-dwindling Hunger statastic. Although the gruesome, Argento-esque death scenes are still present, dungeoneering has some unnecessary annoyances. At least Makoto Kedouin’s (Corpse Party) script has enjoyable moments, with some entertaining assessments about everyday life between the more predictable parallel world prattle.
Instead, I’m having more fun reconnoitering Labyrinth of the Demon King’s low-fi, but surprisingly expansive environments. Built on Unreal Engine 4, developer J. R. Hudepohl’s grim dungeon crawl channels the dithered look of the PlayStation One-era. While today’s 4K games often strive for rich fidelity, the visual ambiguity forces your find to interpolate the details, making every claw-handed fiend look unnerving.
Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): I haven’t yet played the third Death end re;Quest yet, and while Rob’s caution above has me a little concerned, I’m still looking forward to giving it a go. I do like horror and I like Mystery Dungeons. I’m going to find something to like about this, even if it’s not perfect… right? Right?
But in a rare moment where I totally agree with Rob, I must also say that I’m looking forward to Labyrinth of the Demon King even more. Want to know why? Because it looks a little like King’s Field, is why. As I like to tell everyone who will listen to me (it’s not many people), I was a fan of the Souls series before Souls was invented and I’ve been waiting for FromSoftware to dust King’s Field off for a while now. In lieu of that… well, there’s stuff like this.
Ryan’s pick: Gumby must have been my first introduction to claymation a long time ago, and after that it was Mr. Bogus and the California Raisins. Claymation and stop-motion for me has always been kind of strange but in an awesome way, and that’s what I love about it. The Midnight Walk gets the official pick for being pretty unique for the character and enemy design, plus all the landscapes have been animated using real clay and stop motion. This one looks slightly endearing, with a mix of horror, so if either of those work for you then give it a look.
Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage in the 90’s started my appreciation for humorous FPS games, so my honorable mention goes to Chambers on Steam this week. Graphically it reminds me of the original Quake, so if you aren’t into retro FPS style games then you may want to pass. It just seems like a pretty out-there premise involving cowboys and revolvers. I’m fully not expecting a riveting narrative, but I am hoping for some laughs. In a quick parting note, I also am really happy about the Diablo IV + Berserk collaboration. It’s pretty awesome to cruise around as either Guts or Griffith with the cosmetics from the Shop, but they do come at a price. In general though, for fans of Berserk it’s really cool to see a collaboration like this happen.