What’s new in January 2025: 7 upcoming games worth checking out

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Table of Contents Freedom Wars Remastered (January 10) Hyper Light Breaker (January 14) Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (January 16) Dynasty Warriors: Origins (January 17) Eternal Strands (January 28) Sniper Elite Resistance (January 30) Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (January 31) More new games in January 2025

The new year is poised to be an excellent year for video games. If all goes according to plan, we’ll get a new Nintendo console, Grand Theft Auto VI, and other new games in beloved series like Borderlands, Doom, Fatal Fury, Mafia, Metroid Prime, Monster Hunter, and Assassin’s Creed. While the first month of the year doesn’t have many heavy hitters, January does establish a feeling that 2025 will be a year full of beloved series making comebacks. We’re getting remasters of beloved games like Freedom Wars and Donkey Kong Country Returns in addition to Dynasty Warriors: Origins, which will reinvent the Musou formula.

While you’re probably still recovering from working through your gaming backlog over the holiday, video game releases aren’t slowing down. To help you get a better idea of which particular games you should be keeping an eye on, I’ve rounded up seven of the most tantalizing games set to launch sometime during January 2025.

Freedom Wars Remastered (January 10)

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Freedom Wars has a reputation for being one of the best games ever released for the PlayStation Vita. It’s a cooperative action game where, as part of serving a 1,000,000-year prison sentence, players fight monsters called Abductors. Freedom Wars’ interesting take on a postapocalyptic world and creative ideas such as the grappling hook-like “Thorn” and programmable cyborg “Accessories” that fight alongside players resonated with a lot of people, but not much has been done with this IP since the original game’s launch on the PS Vita. Now, Dimps and Bandai Namco are trying