10 Most Anticipated Video Games Still To Come In 2025

5. Baby Steps

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Devolver Digital

Baby Steps is a physics-based walking simulator where players take control of Nate, a schlub who learns to put one foot in front of the other as he's transported to a strange land and tasked with summiting a mountain in the distance.

The game's challenge comes from having to precisely control each of Nate's steps throughout his journey, turning even basic traversal into a puzzle where failure is typically a slapstick-style pratfall.

Despite its thoroughly tongue-in-cheek tone, this is a genuinely gorgeous-looking game that seems to boast all the wit you'd expect from co-developer Bennett Foddy, responsible for eccentric cult classics such as QWOP and Getting Over It.

Plus, where else can you play a game that has its own bespoke, fully dynamic onesie soilage system? 

For anyone still craving airy open world exploration in the wake of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Baby Steps looks like a suitably bizarre rejoinder.

What it lacks in AAA bombast it more than compensates for with its sheer, unrelenting absurdity.

Baby Steps releases on September 8.

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