Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025: Highlights and trailers from the show
3.20.2025
By Dave Tach, Contributor
Below, you'll find highlights from the show. Check out the Future Games Show hub on the Epic Games Store for more.
Bionic Bay
Developers Mureena and Psychoflow Studio are teaming up to create Bionic Bay, a physics-based platformer set in beautifully atmospheric and detailed worlds, so many of which were on display in a short trailer that surprise announced its availability.
Perhaps its biggest twist is the Swap mechanic, which we saw during the show today, which lets players move, defend, attack and control gravity. Check out the trailer to see Swap in motion, like when we saw a player swap positions with a faraway object to avoid gunfire.
Bandit Trap
Bandit Trap, a 3-versus-1 multiplayer game from developer PICOMY, looks as fun as its premise.
You can either play as one of three Bandits, whose job it is to break into the Trapper’s house, or you can play as the lone Trapper, who gets to set up the titular bandit traps to keep the robbers at bay. Today’s trailer is a recruitment video for the Bandits, who need to loot 10 treasures and escape without catching on fire or being ejected into the stratosphere.
Check out the cartoony, slapstick-inspired humor of Bandit Trap in the Epic Games Store and add it to your wishlist.
Chains of Freedom
A charred and dystopian Eastern European world (with dragons?!) and turn-based tactics were on display as Chains of Freedom arrived during the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025.
You’ll lead an elite military squad equipped to destroy its enemies and uncover a vast web of mystery that includes a wild scientist, mind-control serum, and untold conspiracies. There was plenty of gameplay in today’s trailer, showing both action and stealth in a derelict world. And beyond it all is a mysterious entity named Svetlov.
Developer Nordcurrent’s game is scheduled for a 2025 release, and you can add Chains of Freedom to your Epic Games Store wishlist now.
Cloudheim
Cloudheim, the co-op-focused action role-playing game from Noodle Cat Games, made an appearance at the show today with a video focused on the game’s physics-based combat.
Set in a post-Ragnarok world where your actions shape the future, Cloudheim distinguishes itself with a combination of allies, combo-heavy combat, weapon crafting, and more. Check out the video to show how the combat system is designed “to juggle your enemies” and “set up combos to maximize damage.” You can also see how the weapons and classes fit into the combat — and switching classes is as easy as switching weapons.
You can add Cloudheim to your Epic Games Store wishlist now ahead of its release this year. Cronos: The New Dawn
A developer diary for Cronos: The New Dawn — an upcoming survival horror game from Bloober Team with a time-travel twist — showed the struggle for survival in the game’s alternate reality version of 1980s Poland.
The gameplay highlights followed a Traveler — that’ll be you — sent back in time to uncover the mystery of the rift in a dark and dangerous world full of hideous monsters made of grotesque human flesh.
The game is scheduled for a 2025 release, and you can add Cronos: The New Dawn to your Epic Games Store wishlist now.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based role-playing game from the developers at Sandfall Interactive.
It follows the heroes of the titular Expedition 33, whose treacherous mission has them confronting the Paintress and preventing her from painting the deaths of untold people ever again. The trailer shown during the show was all about Maelle, the character that hosts Jennifer English voices. It’s all about her joining the hunt and unleashing incredible power against her enemies with, as she puts it, “finesse and grace.”
For more on the game, be sure to read our hands-on impressions of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which taught us how its turn-based combat pays homage to all-time great JRPGs.
You can pre-purchase Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in the Epic Games Store ahead of its upcoming April 24, 2025 release.
FBC: Firebreak
FBC: Firebreak is a co-op first-person shooter set in the mysterious world of developer Remedy Entertainment’s Control.
Players take on the role of a Firebreak team member. They’re first responders for the supernatural circumstances that take place in the Federal Bureau of Control headquarters. As one in a team of three, you can customize your kit with tools and weapons and support your crew.
Today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025 showed off the game’s fast-paced combat for the first time. It shows conventional weapons like shotguns and grenades equipped to contain an outbreak of yellow sticky notes and the zombie-like Hiss enemies.
You can add FBC: Firebreak to your Epic Games Store wishlist ahead of its summer 2025 release.
INDUSTRIA 2
INDUSTRIA 2 is a first-person adventure game with a heavy emphasis on narrative from developer Bleakmill.
Players will take on the role of a woman estranged in a parallel dimension, where she has to scavenge and fight to survive — all while outwitting a crazed AI and trying to find her way home.
Today’s trailer took us on a tour of a dark and dangerous world. The protagonist clearly wanted to avoid a fight, but the creepy, subterranean, robot-like enemies were too numerous. With the help of a friend, she escaped, and we spend the rest of the trailer seeing a world that’s like our own but also way worse.
You can add INDUSTRIA 2 to your Epic Games Store wishlist right now. The first game in the series, Industria, is available to purchase now in the Epic Games Store.
KINGMAKERS
Developer Redemption Road’s Kingmakers puts players on a medieval battlefield and equips them with modern weapons and puts them in pickup trucks to mow down the troops.
Whether you’re playing alone or in co-op, Kingmakers is built on massive battles with armies that number in the thousands. And as the battles unfold, you can switch between giving orders to direct the action and joining the bloody battlefield. Every building is navigable and destructible, from taverns to castles, according to a video from the developer. The video leaned hard into Kingmakers’ Unreal Engine 5-powered destruction, like taking down a castle with a tank.
If you like what you see and wouldn’t mind traveling back 500 years to kill knights with an AK-47, add Kingmakers to your Epic Games Store wishlist.
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree is a side-scrolling Metroidvania game inspired by Dark Souls coming to the Epic Games Store on April 17, 2025.
Today’s trailer showed the game’s painterly art style, glimpses of the wildly expansive skill trees and mystery that surrounds the ruin that envelops the world. For more on the game, check out our hands-on impressions with three of Mandragora’s classes.
You can pre-purchase Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree right now in the Epic Games Store.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is an action role-playing game with roots as medieval as they are strategic from developer TaleWorlds Entertainment. The big news: A naval warfare update called War Sails will launch on June 17, 2025.
Check out the trailer for some breathtaking pre-rendered movies showing off medieval naval warfare with everyone from knights to Vikings.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is available now on the Epic Games Store.
Revenge of the Savage Planet
Revenge of the Savage Planet from developer Raccoon Logic Studios once again makes players marooned and redundant, setting them off on a planet-hopping adventure.
Today’s trailer was an over-the-top full-motion video advertising bizarre in-universe careers, like becoming a crash test dummy designed to feel all kinds of pain. For more on the game, be sure to read our impressions and interview with Creative Director Alex Hutchinson, who told us, “We wanted to get back to the day that, when you bought a game, you weren't quite sure what it was going to be, as opposed to everything being controlled and similar to each other.”
You can add Revenge of the Savage Planet to your Epic Games Store wishlist right now. You can also pick up the first game in the series, Journey to the Savage Planet.
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
A trailer showing during today’s event revealed that System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be released on June 26, 2025.
The remake from developer Nightdive Studios looked slick and retro in its new trailer. And it’s just as creepy as the 1999 original that inspired later games like those in the BioShock and Deus Ex series. Check out the trailer to see how faithfully the remake will bring the game and the starship Von Braun onto modern hardware.
You can add System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster to your Epic Games Store wishlist now.
The Last Caretaker
In The Last Caretaker from developer Channel37, it’s your job to bring humanity back from the brink of extinction, and a world premiere trailer follows a lonely robot in a wet and hostile world.
In the larger game, you’ll traverse the ocean (and you’ll see plenty of that in the trailer), while crafting and surviving and exploring the open world as The Last Caretaker, a heroic robot awakened after centuries of sleep.
You can add The Last Caretaker to your Epic Games Store wishlist right now.
Karma: The Dark World
A trailer for Karma: The Dark World, developer Pollard Studio’s first-person psychological thriller, premiered during the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025, showing off its deeply cinematic presentation.
Set in East Germany in 1984, you play as an agent of the Thought Bureau who specializes in invading the memories of those you interrogate. As the trailer makes unmistakably clear, these are dark and dangerous places full of pain and monsters.
You can add Karma: The Dark World to your Epic Games Store wishlist today ahead of its March 27, 2025 release.