The biggest games releasing in November 2025

When it comes to game releases, November can sometimes be a slow month. If so, there’s a reason for it: a heavy hitter is coming and everyone wants to get out of the way. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is coming out this month, so September and October have been quite busy this year.

Yet there are a lot of other things besides Call of Duty: puzzle games, VR games, racing games and more. There are also some updated versions of some pretty awesome games coming: Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2 are coming to Nintendo Switch 2, while Fallout 4 is getting an anniversary edition, collecting all the DLC and game content in one package.

Here’s a look at what we’re looking forward to in November.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Captivity

Release date: November 6, 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2

If you dug Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity but wished it had offered a canonical story, you’ll love Age of Imprisonment. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment features improved combat and brings with it a story that makes it an officially canonical prequel to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

Age of Imprisonment builds on Tears, offering combat on the surface and in the depths, and also includes some Zonai devices, but don’t expect Tears to be built here. In Age of Imprisonment, Zelda herself also takes the lead, making this a true Zelda legend.

Lumines are created

Release date: November 11, 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, PS VR2

The music-driven action puzzle game Lumines returns with Lumines Arise, the first all-new entry in 14 years. This game contains 35 new levels, 60 training levels, a lot of new challenges and leaderboards updated daily. We hope these aren’t immediately hacked and filled with impossible scores.

Lumines has been an addictive game since the first game arrived on the PSP twenty years ago, and this is likely to be no different. You can also check this out as a demo on Steam and PS5, and it’s one of the few new games that PS VR2 supports.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Release date: November 13, 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam, Battle.net), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

It’s Call of Duty, and that probably tells you everything you need to know before picking up this game. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the latest in the Black Ops series and features a new campaign set in the year 2035, which acts as a direct sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and brings back familiar characters. There’s also a zombie mode, of course, and multiplayer now includes two 20v20 ‘skirmish’ maps, in addition to 13 new (and three returning) 6v6 maps.

Where winds meet

Release date: November 14, 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam/Epic), PS5

Where Winds Meet is a free-to-play action-adventure RPG set in 10th century China. You take on the role of a young sword master who fights in Wuxia style, that is, a fantastic version of Chinese martial arts most often seen in Chinese Wuxia films. The team is touting over 150 hours of solo gameplay, as well as seamless four-player co-op.

Since this is a free-to-play game, it remains to be seen how the monetization aspects of the game affect the gameplay itself. Visually, though, this game looks like a real treat, and for that, free is a good entry price.

Marvel’s Deadpool VR

Release date: November 18, 2025
Platforms: Meta Quest 3 / Quest 3S

Ryan Reynolds was busy being Ryan Reynolds, so Neil Patrick Harris steps in to voice the Merc with a Mouth in this superhero VR game. Releasing exclusively for Meta Quest 3/3S, this game features both ranged and melee combat – and, most importantly, a completely shattered fourth wall. Even the advertising for this game was tailor-made for Deadpool, and we expect the game to do the same.

Kirby Air riders

Release date: November 20, 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2

The last time we heard about a Kirby racing game was 2003’s Kirby’s Air Ride. More than two decades later, it’s back for more. This game features 20 characters and offers racing, battle, exploration and field event modes. It’s strange that Nintendo is releasing another character-driven racing game just months after Mario Kart World, but we’re not complaining. Air Ride was great, and we bet Air Riders will be too.

Terminator 2D: No Fate

Release date: November 25, 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam/Epic), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch/Switch 2

Back in the day, when we had to walk uphill in both directions to get to the arcade or video store, licensed games were the absolute worst. They barely looked like their cinematic counterparts, not least because they didn’t look all that much like them. Games like Jurassic Park end up having you shoot hundreds of velociraptors, making it difficult to feel like you’re in the movie, rather than just a platformer that looks like some of the stuff from the movie.

Terminator 2D: No Fate retains the 16-bit look of so many of those games, but takes you through scenes like the T-800 and Sarah and John Connor, with scenes from the film. Perhaps most interestingly, the game has multiple endings and new ‘what if’ style scenes, such as ‘What if the T-800 had mercilessly shot all those police officers at Cyberdyne HQ?’, and lets you replay them with consequences. This is perhaps what we were hoping for in the 90s: a slick, authentic-feeling licensed game.