10 New Video Games You NEED To Be Playing (But Aren't)
Don't sleep on these incredible recent video games any longer.
2025 has been one hell of a stacked year for quality games so far, and no matter how much time we have in a day, there just isn't enough to play through every single one coming down the pike.
And so while most will have made time to play through buzzy behemoths like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Split Fiction, and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, it's inevitable that lesser-known titles end up falling through the cracks.
Yet despite not having the same marketing budgets or all-around hype, these brilliant games all rank among some of the very best released in 2025 so far.
From jaw-dropping AA games with clear AAA aspirations, to ingeniously designed puzzlers, breakneck racers, and some of the most brilliantly unexpected indies of recent years, these titles are all incredibly deserving of your time.
And so, if you can carve a few hours out of your busy schedule, gaming or otherwise, you should absolutely give each of these games a go.
Considering how little chatter most of them have mustered online, they're certainly deserving of your attention...
10. Bionic Bay
Let's kick this list off with the game probably most desperately in need of your eyeballs - the magnificent physics-based platformer Bionic Bay.
Players take control of an unnamed scientist as he fights to escape an ancient biomechanic world packed to the gills with traps, and while comparisons to iconic indie platformer Limbo are inevitable, Bionic Bay has some very distinct tricks up its sleeve.
Throughout the game the player will be able to manifest a number of abilities, such as slowing down time, hurling objects, flipping gravity, and most compellingly swapping places with an object in the environment.
Bionic Bay isn't hugely punishing as these sorts of platformers go - aided by a brilliant checkpoint system - but it's just-tricky-enough, while immersing players in an eye-wateringly beautiful pixel art world.
Oh, it's got hilariously wild ragdoll physics every time you die (which you will, a lot).
Yet despite receiving strong reviews, Bionic Bay peaked at a depressing 189 concurrent players on Steam and basically evaporated into the cultural void within days of its release, when it should really be part of the Game of the Year conversation.