Like the first three months of 2025, April is packed with enthralling new titles to entertain video game lovers of diverse genres and tastes. From magnificent worlds of fantastic creatures to mysterious arcades teeming with head-clotting puzzles, riveting journeys await gamers to buckle up their gears and forget the track of time. Here is the list of the most anticipated titles to be released this April.
8 Most Hyped Video Games Scheduled for Launch in April 2025
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The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered
It’s been four years since The Last of Us Part 2 had its big release on PS4, inviting gamers to the horrid and hopeless world of Ellie, a 19-year-old girl who throws herself into chaos to seek her revenge, and Abby, a fighter gone berserk after her father’s death, confronting each other from their conflicting moral grounds.
The game won hearts by unfolding one of the most intriguing stories in gaming history that embarked players on an intense, action-packed, and emotionally gripping adventure. Now a remastered edition of the game is set for release on Apr 3, 2025, by Sony Interactive Entertainment—the sole publisher of the franchise. The remastered version will reintroduce the No Return roguelike mode from the first installment but a three-level additional story this time and a guitar-playing mode.
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South of Midnight
Compulsion Games, the famous name behind accoladed games like Contrast and We Happy Few, is all set to launch its third psycho adventure title, South of Midnight, on Apr 8, 2025.
The new title extends Compulsion’s profile as a modern gothic storyteller and unpacks a few unique combat gestures, blending the elements of real and magical worlds. Gamers play as Hazel, a southern adventurous girl seeking her mother and resolving issues from her past on her journey home after being washed away by a hurricane to an unreal swamp full of sneaky monsters, foul creatures, and deadly macabre.
Descenders Next
Descenders Next is a treat for the sports gamers who love to suffocate out of thrills while racing down hills, evading obstacles on the course, derailing and adjusting back and forth, somersaulting in freestyle, collecting rewards and trying to save the last life until making the next stage. A map full of mountains unlocks a greater challenge every time a player reaches the finish line.
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Gripping in graphics, mesmerizing in scenic executions, and intensive with the adrenalin rushed by motivating background music, Descenders Next, developed by RageSquid, will rock the world of sprint lovers on Apr 9, 2025.
Blue Prince
Blue Prince, developed by Dogubomb—a freelance developer company working in Hollywood—is a head-buzzing puzzle game set in a mysterious manor of sprawling chambers. Releasing on April 10, the game confines players to their chosen room until they solve all its mysteries and choose the next.
Players must make moves through 45 distinct rooms that diurnally shuffle their positions and veil under riddles. On their way to room number 46, they unburden every room of their secrets, often solving imperceptible political puzzles and murders. The depth of each puzzle will take hours to days to explore, requiring players to collect keys, pieces, and notes and connect the cues.
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