Keep your eyes on the next months of 2025 for the upcoming Nintendo games. With Switch 2 approaching arrival and backward compatibility, players will surely enjoy the new titles. Here are some of the new Nintendo games to add to your wishlist.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (2025)
It has been years of anticipation for players since the complete development reboot in 2019. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond finally nears its completion after its previous announcement way back in 2017. Nintendo shifted the development of the title to Retro Studios, the original team behind Prime Trilogy. This ensures the quality that fans loved from the franchise.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond showed a proper first look at the game in June 2024, confirming its official subtitle. It also officially announced the 2025 release window of the game, marking the return of Samus Aran to an immersive first-person adventure style. The game took a while after experiencing numerous delays. However, it remains to be one of the most anticipated upcoming Nintendo game releases.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Late 2025)
Pokémon keeps rising in popularity following the success of Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Game Freak is on its way to bring another Pokémon adventure, Pokémon Legends: Z-A. They revealed this during the 2025 Pokémon Day showcase, confirming the game to take place within Lumiose City in Kalos region.
However, unlike previous Legends titles, this won’t focus on the wide-open wilderness. Rather, it’ll center on urban redevelopment bringing people and Pokémon into the cityscape. It also revisits the beloved X and Y generation for a fresh perspective and gameplay mechanics. The Pokémon Legends: Z-A will come out in the later months of 2025.
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (May 21, 2025)
One of the 3DS’s most beloved titles, Level-5’s Fantasy Life, is coming back with Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. It combines adventure storylines with life-sim mechanics for a “slow-life” RPG play. Players can build a life and city amid a deserted island and explore the mysteries of the past.
This game will let you switch between 14 different “Jobs” or professions and explore randomized dungeons. You can also make friends that will help you advance on your journey. Its release is on May 21, 2025, to players’ delight, providing a blend of RPG adventure and life simulation. It seems like a perfect escapist experience for Nintendo fans.
Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game (July 29, 2025)
The cozy gaming meets a new look in Middle-earth with Tales of the Shire. It is set in the iconic world of The Lord of the Rings, providing a relaxing farming and life simulation game. It lets you create your hobbit in a peaceful time in Middle-earth. You can spend your days farming, cooking, and socializing with some of the hairy-footed neighbors.
Early footage released showed famous characters like Gandalf to pump up excitement. It seems that the game has a wider connection with Middle-earth lore. Now, it’ll be a game where fans of relaxing games and Tolkien’s beloved world can match. Tales of the Shire allows players to live their hobbit dreams as it launches on July 29, 2025.
RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army (June 19, 2025)
Developer Atlus continues its streak with master gameplays after impressive 2024 releases, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance and Metaphor: ReFantazio. In June 2025, Atlus will launch RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army. This reimagines the 2006 PS2 game of demon-summon detective named RAIDOU Kuzunoha XIV into the modern era.
Players control the teenage detective living in 1931 Japan, with the ability to summon demons to solve mysteries and fight against supernatural threats. This remaster will include significant upgrades, along with enhanced graphics, voice acting, and battle mechanics. Many are definitely looking forward to this release given the quality remasters and RPGs of Atlus.
Conclusion
That is all for some of the upcoming Nintendo games in 2025. Definitely, there is an extensive range of varieties among these new titles from remasters, RPGs to simulators. They all offer a different experience to players that they have to look forward to as the release approaches. So which of these titles are you excited to try?
