Top 10 from SGF 2025

This year's Summer Games Fest had something for everyone, which made picking a top 10 extra challenging this year, but we try our best below

10. The Cube (Developer: Mudfish)

While Atomic Heart didn't grab me, as it's successor making the list probably gives away but The Cube really caught my eye. The concept of a massive box with it's own eco-system spawning above earth was interesting enough, when Geoff concluded that it would be an MMO shooter the gears really started to turn. He also revealed that the cube will shift and morph regularly, changing the experience regularly, which while new idea for an MMO, could have limitless potential if done right. One to watch.

9. Mouse: P.I For Hire (Developers: Fumi Games)

ANOTHER GIG FOR TROY BAKER!?! In all seriousness, I love that they are leaning into the bit and Troy seems to ham it up even more for this latest role. Funnily enough it doesn't look far off of Troy's last game Indiana Jones and Steamboat Willie had a baby and this is what we were left with. Great looking old timey animation style, playing as a mystery solving mouse and voiced by one of the all time greats? Sign me up.

8. Death Stranding 2 (Developer: Kojima Productions)

A wild Kojima appears! While this particular reveal didn't tell us very much (it was just a cutscene and a few questions for Kojima) I am already invested in Death Stranding 2 from all the bits and pieces we have seen so far. This trailer did little to curb that enthusiasm as we are introduced to Neil in what looks to be a therapy session before it turns into an unexpected family reunion. This less is more approach does a good job of giving us a thread we will want to find out more about so close to release day.

7. Mafia: The Old Country (Developers: 2K Games)

Much like Death Stranding, we didn't get alot of gameplay here but once again with the release in August and a gameplay trailer already being out, 2K wanted to flesh out 1940s Sicily. It fully introduces us to the player character: Enzo Favra, who starts the game working in the family stable before joining the Cosa Nostra. Enzo's loyalty to the family is tested along with his feelings for the Don's daughter as 2K looks to set the stage before the games' impending release.

6. Scott Pilgrim EX (Developers: Tribute games)

Full disclosure, I am a Shredders Revengeaholic. It was a tough ask to pick between Marvel Cosmic Invasion and this heater but it is as they say, absence makes the heart grown fonder. It has been far too long since we have had a good Scott Pilgrim game and given this has been written by original author Bryan Lee O'Malley and created by the resurrecters of arcadey beat em ups, this is almost guaranteed to be great.

5. Acts of Blood (Developers: Fajrul FN)

Indie developers took Summer Games Fest by storm this year and this was my pick of the bunch. I also can't help but think this game is a direct result of Gareth Evans. Made by Indonesian developers and clearly strongly influenced by his coupe de gras: The Raid, I mean your fighting you're way up a high rise flat and using parkour to get higher for Christ sake. The fighting style seems to strongly reassemble Pencak Silat, native to Indonesia, which was brought to Martial Art movie prominence by the likes of Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim, both in The Raid. It also seems to have taken ques from the old and the new of gaming with titles like Sifu coming to mind as well as older goldies like Jackie Chan: Stuntmaster. Just a huge bit of me and if I wasn't clear before, WATCH THE RAID.

4. Stranger than Fiction (Developers: Ryu Ga Gotoku)

The atmosphere of this electric trailer had me thinking the guy was gonna chuff a cig in a smoke filled club and just leave before we seen the title. We thankfully got a little more to sink our teeth into from the Yakuza devs who went on to reveal the title to be Stranger than Heaven (do these guys ever miss). We are then taken on a tour of 1943 Tokyo as you run into the sort of trouble we have come to expect on these streets, in a stunning game world still adjusting to wartime.

3. Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver (Developers: Brass Lion Ent)

The trailer barely revealed a stitch about the game other than that the Mythical Wu-Tang Clan (Rza, GZA, the ODB, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killer and the METHOD) have disappeared and you must find them. Jokes aside, I am just a massive Wu-Tang fan so a game with their music as the entire soundtrack would have had me intrigued but given it is a hack and slash animated in into the Spider-Verse style, I am even more invested in what this game could become.

2. Onimusha: Way of the Sword (Developers: Capcom)

Capcom just can't stop winning, and this year was no exception. We get an extended look at the new Onimusha, reintroducing us to the protagonist: Musashi, as he carves his way through a cursed world. The game looks to be taking a lot of queues from recent soulslikes with the combat looking seriously meaty and challenging. We also get a glimpse of who appears to be your main rival throughout the story as you cross swords towards the end of the trailer. No concrete release date yet but it seems to be coming along nicely.

1. Resident Evil 9: Requiem (Developers: Capcom)

Capcom are at it AGAIN. Not only did they spend half of SGF pump faking us, first with the Lady Dimetrescu actress telling us there is a sale on all RE games, singing happy birthday to the franchise before giving us a toast with a glass of wine, telling us to expect more soon, they had us all believing we weren't seeing a stitch. So, naturally, Capcom close the show with a three minute trailer and an exact release date. We follow Grace Ashcroft, an FBI analyst sent on a mission to an abandoned hotel in Racoon City to solve a mystery that claimed the life of her mother and nine others. Things obviously don't go to plan as she is kidnapped and you must fight you way out of the eery, corpse of a building that is absolutely swamped ith terryfying monsters. February can't come quick enough.