New Releases: July 10-16th, 2025

This week’s new releases range from nostalgic remasters, sports series staples, to heartfelt visual novels. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 lets players revisit two of the franchise’s popular entries. Meanwhile, Rewrite Harvest festa! (pictured) makes its long-awaited debut on PC, giving visual novel fans a chance to experience Key’s fan disk. Here’s the full list of games hitting PC and consoles for the week of July 10-16:

PlayStation 4

Bad End Theater (digital, $9.99)
Neon Noodles (digital, $19.99)
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster (digital, $29.99)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (physical & digital, $49.99)

PlayStation 5

Bendy and the Dark Revival (digital, $29.99)
Cats Away (digital, $29.99)
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition (digital, $26.99)
EA Sports College Football 26 (physical & digital, $69.99)
EDENS ZERO (digital, $59.99)
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (digital, $39.99)
Islanders: New Shores (digital, $8.99)
Patapon 1+2 Replay (digital, $29.99)
Ready or Not (digital, $49.99)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (physical & digital, $49.99)

Switch

3 Card Poker (digital, $5.99)
3 on 3 Soccer (digital, $3.99)
Ad Shoot (digital, $8.99)
Bad End Theater (digital, $9.99)
Bendy and the Dark Revival (digital, $29.99)
Best Served Cold (digital, $17.99)
Canine (digital, $7.99)
Cats Away (digital, $29.99)
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition (digital, $26.99)
EGGCONSOLE Zanac EX MSX2 (digital, $6.49)
Everdeep Aurora (digital, $19.99)
Fiz and the Rainbow Planet (digital, $9.99)
Flora & Fang: Guardians of the Vampire Garden (digital, $6.99)
Griffin (digital, $5.99)
Hogtie (digital, $12.99)
HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT (digital, $59.99)
Islanders: New Shores (digital, $8.99)
Jump Up 3D: Mini Basketball (digital, $5.99)
Korean Drone Flying Tour Buk-ri Dock (digital, $1.00)
Maze: Path of Light (digital, $7.99)
Neon Noodles (digital, $19.99)
Our Summer Festival 2 (digital, $16.50)
Patapon 1+2 Replay (digital, $29.99)
Scholar’s Mate (digital, $12.49)
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster (digital, $29.99)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (physical & digital, $49.99)

Switch 2

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (physical & digital, $49.99)

Xbox One

Bad End Theater (digital, $9.99)
Convenience Stories (digital, $13.99)
Magic of Runes: Hidden Object Game (digital, $9.99)
Mega Mall Story 2 (digital, $13.99)
Neon Noodles (digital, $19.99)
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster (digital, $29.99)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 (physical & digital, $49.99)

Xbox Series S/X

Bendy and the Dark Revival (digital, $29.99)
Choice of Life: Wild Islands (digital, $14.99)
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition (digital, $26.99)
EA Sports College Football 26 (physical & digital, $69.99)
EDENS ZERO (digital, $59.99)
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (digital, $39.99)
Greedland (digital, $10.39)
Ready or Not (digital, $49.99)

PC

Aurora Defense ($TBA)
Coreless ($TBA)
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition ($26.99)
EDENS ZERO ($59.99)
Everdeep Aurora (digital, $19.99)
Every Day We Fight ($19.49)
Ground of Aces ($22.49)
HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT ($59.99)
Ink Reverie ($TBA)
Islanders: New Shores ($8.99)
Occlude ($7.19)
Patapon 1+2 Replay (digital, $29.99)
Prison Boss Prohibition ($19.99, VR)
Rewrite Harvest festa! ($TBA)
Sector Unknown ($TBA)
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 ($49.99)

Rob’s pick: I’m enamored by the premise of Ad Shoot, where you play a protagonist who’s fed up with the relentless barrage of commercials. Compared to other vertical STGs, it’s kind of plain looking, but the ability to push back at corporate messaging counterbalances the simple aesthetics. With movie theaters subjecting patrons to 30+ minutes of fluff, digital streaming services interrupting their product-placement-filled programming, to non-stop push notifications and spam, an outlet for digital frustrations is desperately needed.

I’m also interested in Bad End Theater, a visual novel where the decision you make for a quartet of characters that ripple across interconnected storylines. It’s short, heartfelt, occasionally funny, and filled with over 600 illustrations, making it a perfect summer getaway. I’m always fascinated by cause and consequence, and exploring Theater has been thoroughly gratifying and probably the closest any visual novel has come to Kurosawa’s Rashomon.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): I have never played Neverwinter Nights 2. I loved the first, and all the D & D games from that era, but from memory NN2 was way too demanding of my PC, so I missed it when it was new and never got around to remedying that. So, I am very much looking forward to the game getting a release on Switch and giving me an excuse to finally knock it off the bucket list.

For a very colourful alternative there is no way I’m going to be able to pass on Patapon. I love Patapon so much. Devilishly clever rhythm games, blended with a spectacular emergent soundtrack. Pon Pon Pata Pon! I’ve actually only ever played Patapon on home console, never portable, but it clearly is a portable game, so it’ll have a better home on Switch than PS4. Pata Pata Pata Pon!

Ryan’s pick: The Tony Hawk series holds a ton of nostalgia for me so I’m definitely going with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 this week. These games had a lot going for them in that it made you feel like you were pretty good at the basics really quickly and then allowed you to continue to work on your skills, trying new ways to chain all your tricks together for a better score. The soundtrack for each game was also really diverse and really seemed to fit the skateboarding motif. My absolute favorite game in the series was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 on Dreamcast, with Rodney Mullen’s Special Grind Heelflip Darkslide being my go-to special move. There’s a lot to like about this series in terms of content, variety, and challenges, so it’s a solid pick up in my opinion.

I recall watching a demo of Patapon in Japan when it first came out on PSP and remembering how different the game was from other rhythm-based games in terms of the visuals and gameplay. I can see this one being an easy pick for Switch or Switch 2 as I typically prefer to play rhythm games on portable consoles. If it’s been a bit since you have picked up a rhythm-based game and are looking for something a bit different than the norm then please give this one a look.