3 Best Game Releases in The Past Week From 21st July 2025 To 27th July 2025
The weather is erratic, in classic summer fashion, and whether you’re escaping the intermittent summer showers or hiding from the UV death rays of the summer sun, at least you have the reliability of epic game releases to provide you with entertainment.
Continuing the pattern as the holidays see more people off work and off school with all manner of silver and gold burning holes in their pockets, there have been a lot of particularly good game releases in the past week. But which ones are worth spending your precious coin on? Which are going to give you the best bang for your buck?
#1: Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
It’s probably safe to say that soulslike game releases are making a bit of a comeback this year, and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is definitely not missing that boat. With the likes of Lies of P and Elden Ring: Nightreign to contend with, Wuchang really has its work cut out for it to stand out, and boy, does it take that challenge seriously, with gloriously unique visualisation, fantastic enemy movement coding and one of the best skill tree set ups that we’ve seen in the genre.
The premise of this game release’s story is simple but strong, our primarily silent protagonist has come down with a case of literal bird-flu and is traveling the world beating up monsters whilst trying to find a cure for herself. As the disease progresses, she loses more of her memories, and by extension, herself, so it’s imperative that she holds on to whatever identity she sees in herself in the present moment. One of the coolest and most immersive things about this game is the way that people react to her like she is a terrible omen of death everywhere she goes, as the disease leaves visible feathers sprouting from her skin.
With all soulslikes, one of the most important things to pay attention to is the difficulty, and honestly, this title is a little hit and miss. It’s not so much a smooth ride defeating gradually more difficult enemies and learning new skills that are then tested by the next lot, but a chaotic mash-up of easy-as-pie one-hit kills followed by the sort of bosses that make you want to throw your controllers through your screens and leave your protagonist to become KFC’s next poultry mascot.
Luckily, the skill tree flexibility more than makes up for the erratic enemies that crop up across the map, allowing you to build your character using offensive abilities paired with the weapons you equip and disciplines that act as supports to enhance both your movements and your own style of gameplay. The choices you can make are almost limitless, meaning that no two Wuchang protagonists will look the same at the end of the game, and no two bosses will be beaten in quite the same way, which will make watching the subsequent speedruns of this game very interesting indeed in the future.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is available to play on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC as of 24th July 2025.
#2: Luto
People have been playing demos of this game release for two full years, and finally, as of 22nd July 2025, the finished version is ready to chill your spine as a real and very welcome relief from the erratic summer weather.
The game sets an incredibly tense tone right from the get-go. You play as Sam, a guy with some serious family history to dig up as you move through his house of horrors, and it does not spare you any quarters in the scare factor department as his front door starts banging, the door handle frantically rattling as someone fights to get in.
Played primarily through a first-person perspective, the game uses the standard light manipulation and sound optimization to make the experience truly harrowing. What is interesting about this game is the particular way it uses clutter to create unsettling angles, a technique used in professional horror stories like The Woman in Black.
This game release does follow the typical psychological horror formula of having the main character’s movements limited speedwise to increase the intimidation factor of unfolding events and the sense of ‘no escape’. Sam will walk calmly around his house while being harassed by the constant, aggressive knocking from the person outside, and if he does sprint, it’s with the lazy gait of the modern, unskilled Average Joe.
Despite this, however, the reaction time to frights is absolutely expert and makes this game stand out. As he opens a closet in the living room to find a ghostly figure, Sam slams that door shut again with enough speed to make the player wonder what on Earth just happened. Similarly, if he sees something sinister peeking around a corridor corner, he tenses and stops, just like someone would if they saw something like that. Or maybe that’s just those of us who suffer with that irritating Freeze response in the face of obvious danger.
The game is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
#3: Killing Floor 3
If all you need is a pretty straightforward but immersive game with sci-fi-inspired graphics and gratuitous yet satisfying blood splatters every time you defeat a Zed, then this is the game release for you. The high-quality game development shines through the minute you surface in the first infested area, and the fact that Killing Floor 3 has been engineered for someone with the attention span of a flea means that the game is hard to get bored with, despite its simple premise.
The story is more or less optional, with loose missions to complete as you move through each infested area, but it is also enough to keep you invested in the sense of progress the game gives you if you do choose to engage. It very much plays like a modern-day DOOM, and we’re not exactly going to say no to that.
Character design is a massive strength for this game release, giving you a diverse range of characters to choose from with varying skills to give you a unique experience. If you’re the sort of player who likes to go around with the heavy artillery, hitting enemies with cannon-sized ammo to watch them explode, there’s a character for that. If you’re more of the stealth and speed type with katanas drawn and dreams of ninja stardom, there’s a character for that. The enemies, too, are well-designed to engage the player in different styles of gameplay and to provide a good range of difficulty as you shift from area to area.
Killing Floor 3 was released on 24th July 2025 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC.
The Art of Destruction
It really does seem to be about getting ‘bang for your buck’ this week with all our choices being centred around murder or death in one way or another but that doesn’t mean that some honorable mentions shouldn’t go out to: Abiotic Factor, released 22nd July 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC, Wild Hearts S, released 25th July 2025 for Switch 2, and The King is Watching, released 21st July 2025 for PC.
Do you think that we’ve been too obsessed with the jump scares or the blood splatters this week? What was your favorite game release? And what will next week have in store as we roll into August 2025?
