3 Best Game Releases In The Past Week From 18th May 2025 to 25th May 2025

It’s been a long week and as Memorial Day rolls around, a conveniently placed Bank Holiday for the Brits, it’s finally time to sit back, relax, and take a look at the gaming industry’s top releases for the week gone by so you can have something new to sink your teeth into. It’s been an eclectic week for game releases, with new RPGs, action adventures, and a few expansion packs to consider. In an ideal world, we would all be millionaires and would be able to afford each and every one of these new releases, though who knows where we would find the time to play them all.

Alas, most of us probably aren’t millionaires, so for those that might need a hand deciding on what to spend those hard-earned coins on, keep reading, for here we have all the information on the 3 best game releases of the past week, from 18th May 2025 to 25th May 2025.

#1: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time

Released on 20th May 2025 for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC, Fantasy Life i is one game release that is already causing a stir. A sim-life RPG that follows the loose framework of offerings like Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley and Rune Factory, Fantasy Life i offers all the usual trimmings such as growing crops as a farmer, managing an independent household, and making friends with NPCs, however it’s the sheer versatility of the gameplay that has captured people’s attention. That, and it does what it advertises extremely well.

The game implements a job system where you can choose from 14 different classes, or ‘lives’, and can then choose to put the effort into whichever one most suits you as an individual, or all of them if you’re a bit of a jack of all trades. If that sense of free choice in the game isn’t enough, the story is compelling and eventually opens up more features for you to explore, including your own Animal Crossing-esque island that you can grow and attract inhabitants to.

The combat system for the game is easy-going and very much follows the principle of: say ‘yes’ to the player. Large enemies can be tackled no matter what the level, and if the player successfully dodges attacks, then no damage will be taken. The player is rewarded well for their own patience and tenacity, with level-up jumps and booty far beyond the current skill level. Fantasy Life i is a game that very much respects the enjoyment of its players and seeks to adapt to whatever play style is unique to them. Probably why so many people have had issues putting the game down to get on with their everyday lives this week.

#2: Deliver At All Costs

As previously stipulated, it’s been a long week. You want to play a game, but you don’t want anything too serious, no brain-taxing puzzles or emotionally heightened story beats. What you’re really looking for is something that should belong on r/oddlysatisfying, like GTA, but even GTA is a bit too high stakes for what you’re really after, and you want something funny. 

Enter Deliver At All Costs, a game unleashed onto the public on 22nd May 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. You play as Winston Green, a courier suffering from depression who takes on the job of delivering increasingly absurd cargo in his pickup truck across a late 50s cityscape. The game immediately gives off a Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom sort of vibe as Winston takes on his first few deliveries and decimates his way through apartment complexes, though it carries the finesse of GTA in that the destruction is far-reaching and satisfying.

The game is ridiculously forgiving, which some players can find irritating, but honestly, that easy-going attitude just adds to the game’s comedic value, particularly when you end up getting captured by the police only to end up with a slap on the wrist and a smirk-inducing comment from Winston along the lines of: ‘I guess I need to look into getting driving lessons.’

The game features play time both inside and outside the vehicle, with Winston being a parkour legend as a means to help him through his depression, but it’s the moments where he has something truly unique in his truck that the game really shines. When asked to deliver a bunch of helium balloons, for example, the gravity of the gameplay mechanics means that the truck ends up floating awkwardly whenever too much force is applied around corners or downhill. When transporting a nuclear bomb, the player is then forced to abandon the usual hot-dogging, for should one thing set it off, the face of the map is blown to Kingdom Come.

#3: Sea of Stars – Throes of The Watchmaker

The original Sea of Stars, released in August 2023, was actual fire. An immersive turn-based RPG, the game delivered on pretty much all aspects that you would expect it to, whilst carrying the nostalgic Final Fantasy vibe of pixel art during gameplay. Throes of The Watchmaker, DLC released for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X/S and One, Nintendo Switch, and PC on 20th May 2025, therefore, had a lot to live up to. Or it would, if the content weren’t completely free to play.

It would be a stretch to say that all free content is going to be a complete letdown because there are some real gems. However, most of the good stuff is hidden behind a pay wall, and of course it is! Time, effort, and a ridiculous amount of coding has gone into those productions, and of course, time is money. So it is an utter delight that Throes of the Watchmaker offers nearly 8 full hours of additional content, and a thrill that the content is actually engaging and completely in keeping with the themes, nuances, and aesthetic of the original game.

That doesn’t mean that Throes of the Watchmaker is just a straight-up continuation of the same story, however. The main characters are given a little bit more room to breathe in this DLC, and the player gets interesting insights into their personalities and personal traumas that make their interactions with the new party members a lot more interesting to watch. Both Zale and Valere receive a set of different skills due to the nature of the world the narrative ends up taking place in, and these make Throes of The Watchmaker feel like almost a brand new game or something of a sequel rather than just DLC, and free DLC to boot.

More Game Releases Where That Came From

Even though these are our top 3 best game releases for this past week, honorable mentions should be given to Monster Train 2, released on 21st May 2025, Blades of Fire, released 22nd May 2025, and Lynked: Banner of The Spark, released 22nd May 2025. With so many games to choose from, it’s hard to pick just three, so it might just be that we all need to get off of our backsides, put the games down for now, and go out into the world to seek our fortunes, especially when we consider that there will be more stunning releases to consider next week.

Well…maybe we will go out to seek our fortunes…right after we’ve mastered this job on Fantasy Life i…