New Releases: August 14-20, 2025

This week, Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 & 2 bundle some of the most influential shooters from the arcade golden age. Meanwhile, Iwakura Aria brings a slow-burn visual novel steeped in psychological intrigue, while Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution (pictured) finally emerges from her decades-long slumber to deliver a new platforming adventure. Here’s the full list of games launching across PC and consoles for the week of August 14^th through the 20^th:

PlayStation 4

Bendy: Lone Wolf (digital, $19.99)
BrokenLore: Don’t Watch (digital, $TBA)
Dorfromantik (digital, $19.99)
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution (digital, $19.99)
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.1 (digital, $34.99)
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.2 (digital, $34.99)

PlayStation 5

Delta Force (digital, free to play)
Hide the Corpse (digital, $TBA), PS VR2)
Lost Twins 2 (digital, $19.99)
EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 (physical & digital, $69.99)
Midnight Murder Club (digital, $19.99)
Sword of the Sea (digital, TBA)

Switch

1989 After the War (digital, $5.99)
Bendy: Lone Wolf (digital, $19.99)
Bunkers 1944 FPS (digital, $9.99)
Cats in Cozy Rooms (digital, $4.99)
City of Springs (digital, $4.99)
CORE.SYS (digital, $4.99)
Crossout Legends (digital, free-to-play)
Curse Rounds (digital, $4.99)
Demons Are Coming! (digital, $2.99)
Discounty (digital, $15.99)
EGGCONSOLE Brandish Renewal PC-9801 (digital, $7.16)
Ghost Master: Resurrection (digital, $29.99)
GOST of Time (digital, $7.99)
Hop ‘n’ Marty (digital, $9.99)
Iwakura Aria (digital, $35.99)
Learn to Play – Jungle Frog (digital, $1.99)
Mad Skills BMX 2 (digital, $9.99)
Mind Over Magnet (digital, $12.49)
Kimono Cats (digital, $8.99)
Korean Drone Flying Tour Anyang-si (digital, $1.00)
Off (digital, $14.99)
Re:Play (digital, $6.99)
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution (digital, $19.99)
Super Darling Panic (digital, $4.77)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (digital, $19.99)
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.1 (digital, $34.99)
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.2 (digital, $34.99)
Tokyo Racer X (digital, $9.99)
Zumba – Treasure of the Marble Sea (digital, $2.49)

Switch 2

Drag x Drive (digital, $19.99)
EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 (digital, $69.99)

Xbox One

Bangman (digital, $4.99)
Bendy: Lone Wolf (digital, $19.99)
BrokenLore: Don’t Watch
CritterGarden (digital, $9.99)
Demons Are Coming! (digital, $2.99)
Dorfromantik (digital, $19.99)
Dream Park Story (digital, $13.99)
Golden Knight ($9.49)
GOST of Time (digital, $7.99)
Heart of Ice by Dave Morris (digital, $3.99)
Mind Over Magnet (digital, $12.49)
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution (digital, $19.99)
Silver Screen Story (digital, $13.99)
Ukko & Guara: Stellarbound ($12.99)

Xbox Series S/X

Black Myth: Wukong (digital, $59.99)
City of Springs ($8.99)
Delta Force (digital, free to play)
EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 (physical & digital, $69.99)
Girls of the Tower (digital, $14.99)
Relic Hunters Legend (digital, $23.99)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (digital, $19.99)
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.1 (digital, $34.99)
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.2 (digital, $34.99)
Zumba – Treasure of the Marble Sea (digital, $2.49)

PC

Bendy: Lone Wolf ($19.99)
Dice Gambit ($21.24)
Discounty  ($TBA)
EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 ($69.99)
Hidden Pass ($14.99)
Inkshade ($17.99)
Island Notes ($TBA)
Iwakura Aria ($35.99)
Labyrinth Flowers ($TBA)
Lost Twins 2 ($19.99)
Monster Mop Up ($9.74)
Off ($14.99)
Ovis Loop ($13.59)
Planetary Life ($TBA)
Raygun Gadabout ($TBA)
Robert on Earth ($TBA)
Ship of Heroes ($TBA)
Stellar Code ($TBA)
Supraworld ($TBA)
Sword of the Sea ($TBA)
The Dark Queen of Mortholme ($TBA)
Voxelgram 2 ($8.99)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition ($26.99)
Whispers from the Star ($TBA)

Rob’s pick: If you don’t mind the lack of historical materials, the two Toaplan Arcade Collections catalog the bulk of the developer’s body of work. The emulation is solid, the accessibility options ample, so I just wish that Bitwave would have made a single, cohesive collection instead of splitting the anthology up. The day physical museums adopt this marketing practice will been when I’ll head to the hills to live with wolves.

Yes, I know cozy sims are nearly as ubiquitous as internet brainrot. But Discounty’s task of running a store in small town offers a nice break from the typical agrarian duties. Oddly, the daily routine of putting in the nightly orders, stocking the store, and ringing up customers has a soothing rhythm and a bit of deviation from things. For now, this might be the best interactive equivalent of Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): Shantae! Shantae is back! I love Shantae so much. It’s not like we get that many games set in a very 1001 Arabian Nights setting, complete with sexy genies and exotic adventures. It’s an incredibly underused fantasy setting while developers continue to reach for the same grim European fantasy over and over and over again. I like European fantasy too, but sometimes you just want a different flavour to vanilla, ya know? But on the other hand, that dearth of Arabian Nights stuff just means Shantae gets to stand out, and I really can’t wait to give Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution a spin. Especially since this was very nearly a lost game (it started life as a Game Boy Advance project but was cancelled and is only getting its first-ever release now).

I’m also very keen on Iwakura Aria, which was billed as belonging to the same tradition as Raging Loop and House in Fata Morgana and… yeah, if you liked those horror visual novels, you’re going to want to give this one a go too.