Our Most Wanted Games of 2025 – #20 to #16

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There’s a good bit for Xbox fans in this set of five Most Wanted 2025 games, with a pair of exclusives that are coming from Compulsion Games and Playground Games respectively. Sure, we might have doubts about whether they’ll stay as exclusives for very long, these days, but they should be a good reason to pick up an asymmetrical gamepad… or boot up your gaming PC.

PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, PC – TBC

Morphing out of the DLC plans for Dying Light 2, Dying Light: The Beast has grown into a standalone game, bringing back the fan favourite protagonist from the original game, Kyle Crane. It’s been thirteen years since we last saw him, and he’s now exploring the post-apocalyptic Castor Woods, a region filled with both human factions and monsters.

Kyle himself is no longer truly human, the zombie DNA fully merging with his own to provide some major new powers – he is the titular Beast, if you hadn’t guessed.

We got to go hands on back at Gamescom 2024, and you can check out our preview impressions here.

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 4th March 2025

Having revolutionised healthcare and teaching across Two Point County, where to next for this tongue-in-cheek management sim series? Well, why not dust some old bones and tomes in the museums of this world? Also… ghosts?

Two Point Museum is bringing plenty of new ideas to the table, as you build out museums around each theme, soak in all of the pun-laden artefacts and beings that you can exhibit, and curate entertaining tours to inform and enlighten your visitors… and convince them to toss a coin into your donation pitcher.

We’ve played the opening few levels and had a grand time digging into the new setting. Read our Two Point Museum preview here.

XSX|S, PC – 2025

Coming from Compulsion Games, the makers of We Happy Few, South of Midnight looks to be something rather different, whisking us away to the fantasy world of Prospero and confronting our heroine Hazel with giant sea monsters.

The game features an almost claymation visual style, blending