This Week’s New Games

By Garrett Martin | July 21, 2025 | 2:54pm

Video Games Lists this week's new games

This week’s new games include a cool cycling adventure, a co-op zombie slaughtering spree, and the console debut of a game formerly only available through Netflix. Here’s what Endless Mode will be playing this week; how about you?

Monument Valley 3

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Release Date: July 22

Ustwo’s latest puzzler finally comes to console after launching for mobile devices in December—and after leaving mobile devices earlier this month. That original release was through Netflix, which has since cut back greatly on games, removing 20 high profile titles from its app this month, including all three Monument Valley games. Monument Valley 3 was a Netflix exclusive, though, which means when it left the service this month it just left the world, for at least a little while. Tomorrow it returns for pretty much every current console, rescuing it from oblivion while making it playable in a way that doesn’t require a subscription to a completely unrelated streaming service. Our review runs later tonight, so check back around East Coast dinner time to see what we think about the new version of this seven-month-old game.

Wheel World

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Release Date: July 23

Messhof’s existential cycling game is pretty chill for a game about racing along the threshold of death itself. It’s cool aesthetic isn’t cold, though, with a warmth and richness of color that, when combined with its vaguely continental setting, makes it feel a bit like you’re playing one of those oversized European comic albums—you know, those slim coffee table looking ones that always have a guy that looks like either Tintin or Asterix on the cover, even though they’re only sometimes supposed to be Tintin or Asterix. What I’m saying is that Wheel World looks cool, and also sounds it, which isn’t a surprise for a game with original music from the Italians Do It Better synth-pop label. Its relaxed attitude and effortlessly cool demeanor doesn’t clash with its competition-focused play; even though racing can get pretty stressful, Wheel World will never make you want to bang your head against the wall the way a lot of racing games can. Expect our full review in a couple of days, but suffice to say this one should be on your map.

Killing Floor 3

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release Date: July 24

Tripwire, the Roswell, Ga.-based studio that gave us the surprisingly fun shark attack game Maneater, returns to one of its previous hits with the latest installment of its survival horror series Killing Floor. The super aggro shooter is awash with zombie blood and guts, as you can see in the trailer above, and although guns are definitely the focus there does seem to be some cool opportunities for environmental destruction—like that moment in the trailer where an industrial exhaust fan mulches up a tiny horde of undead like a blender. And you don’t have to go it alone; up to six players can squad up and shoot it out. So you and all your buddies can become Death, Destroyers of Worlds, together.

S.P.L.I.T.

Platform: PC
Release Date: July 24

Who doesn’t love a good mainframe console screen? The trailer for Mike Klubnika’s “short psychological horror game” S.P.L.I.T. indicates there’ll be more to it than reading block text on a black screen but even if there wasn’t I’m sold. I miss the days when all computer information seemed to hover above an endless dark void, especially since computers today feel like that void no matter how advanced and visual-based their interfaces have become. The trailer doesn’t give much to go on, and S.P.L.I.T. could head in any number of directions from the little bit we’ve seen. We look forward to following its lead later this week.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release Date: July 24

If you’re looking for your next hit of Dark Souls-style action after exhausting Nightreign—or if that game’s multiplayer focus just didn’t do it for you—consider Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. The actioner from the Chinese studio Leenzee bears a lot of that style’s hallmarks—it’s third-person, it’s big on parrying, its quasi-mystical setting looks vaguely medieval—but it’s got a “madness” mechanic that sounds interesting and it’s at least nominally rooted in a real time and place (the kingdom of Shu during the Ming dynasty) than any Souls game ever has been. We’ll have a full review of this one this week, too.