Delayed to 2025: 8 Anticipated Games Pushed Back

• Avowed delayed to February 2025 for extra polish.
• Replaced pushed to 2025 to meet high standards.
• Terminator Survivors delayed to 2025 for better quality.
• Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 set for February 11, 2025.
• Little Nightmares 3 delayed to 2025 for quality assurance.

8 Games That Were Supposed to Come Out This Year but Were Delayed to 2025

Video game release dates are more a suggestion than a promise these days. Making games is hard, and audiences have never been busier and more fickle.

Still, it's disappointing when you find out that sci-fi shooter or fantasy adventure you've been waiting for won't be out any time soon. A lot of that disappointment is going around right now as a bunch of this year's notable releases have recently slipped to 2025.

Avowed

The recent retreat into 2025 began with Avowed. Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming action-RPG was set to come out this fall but will now hit in February instead.

Microsoft said the delay would give extra breathing room to its current slate of upcoming Game Pass exclusives and allow the studio more time to polish up the open-worldish game. The company keeps promising at least one big release a quarter, and the move might help it stick to that more closely.

Replaced

Next up was Replaced, another Xbox console exclusive. The often-delayed 2.5D retro-futuristic platformer was pushed to next year to ensure we meet the high standards we've set for ourselves, the development team posted on Twitter.

The game will still be playable at Gamescom later this month, but a new release window hasn't been set yet.

Terminator Survivors

Not to be left out, Terminator Survivors snuck in its own delay in August as well. Over the past few months, we've been really impressed by your enthusiasm and amazed by the response to our announcements, and we know how eagerly fans are awaiting Terminator Survivors, read a post on Twitter.

To realize our vision and to make sure to deliver the game that fits your expectations, we need some additional time. The open-world survival game was supposed to come out in Early Access in October. Now fans will have to wait until 2025 to get a taste of its reimagining of Skynet's robot takeover.

Other Major 2024 Blockbusters

Meanwhile, a lot of other major 2024 blockbusters still don't have specific release dates:

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Hopefully, none of them get sucked into a delay vortex either.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 got a surprising reveal earlier this year with the developers promising a bigger and bolder approach to the previous game's medieval RPG sim elements that embraced realism over fantasy.

The game was slated to arrive later in 2024, but developer Warhorse is now backing off that plan. A message from Warhorse Studios read an August 15 announcement: The official release date for KCD2 is February 11, 2025.

It's a long wait, but we have a lot to show you between now and release. In the meantime, the game will get a 20-minute blowout at Gamescom showing off its new systems and characters.

Little Nightmares 3

The third game in the 2.5D survival horror-puzzle platformer series, Little Nightmares 3, was revealed at Gamescom 2023 with a release window of this year. Unfortunately, Little Nightmares 3, which has a different developer from the first two, was one of the first games to ditch 2024.

The teams at Supermassive Games and Bandai Namco Europe have been working hard towards delivering the best experience possible for the next entry in the franchise, the team announced in March.

As much as we can't wait for you to return to the Nowhere, we also want to make sure we give the game the care and love it deserves. Quality is a top priority for us, and we know you feel the same way. For this reason, we've made the decision to shift the release of the game to 2025.

Transformers Reactivate

Another Game Awards announcement, Transformers Reactivate, debuted with a trailer in late 2022. A closed beta for 2023 was delayed until 2024, but there's still no official word on where the game is or what's going on with it.

Back in May, a Hasbro manager said he hoped to have more to share on the mysterious release in 2025. Fans took that as another unofficial delay. Splash Damage, the studio working on the game, has been facing financial struggles this year.

The Division Resurgence

Ubisoft's mobile revolution has stalled. The French publisher promised lots of spinoffs of its biggest franchises for portable touchscreens that still haven't panned out, and The Division Resurgence is one of them.

The third-person free-to-play shooter was recently pushed from 2024 to after March 2025. Rainbow Six Mobile was pushed out of this year as well. At least it's better than getting outright canceled.

Nivalis

Ion Lands released Cloudpunk in 2020, a lovely cyberpunk adventure about a flying car taxi driver who gets embroiled in a missing girl investigation and city politics. Nivalis is the studio's next game, an ambitious life sim that mixes the art and vibe of the first game with the social interactions and comforting routines of an Animal Crossing.

Unfortunately, it won't make the 2024 cutoff either. Nivalis will be launching in Spring 2025, Ion Lands announced in a Steam post this summer. Our city has taken on a life of its own, growing and evolving in ways we are eager to share with you. Ensuring that Nivalis provides the best possible experience is our priority. Your patience and support are invaluable as we navigate through this creative journey.