The Future Games Show at gamescom 2025 aired on August 20, 2025, with David Hayter and Maggie Robertson hosting the main showcase. Its broad slate mixed new reveals and world premieres with gameplay and story trailers, developer interviews, demos, release-date news and updates to existing games. Here is the lineup in show order, with announcement-era dates clearly distinguished from present availability.
How the 2025 showcase was structured
The digital main show was distributed across Twitch, YouTube, X, TikTok, GamesRadar, BiliBili, ESR and other platforms, according to the official Future Games Show broadcast listing. The broadcast description said FGS Live from gamescom would follow immediately; that companion program was hosted by FGS presenters Jules and Nathan, not the main-show hosts. A separate FGS Best of gamescom format was scheduled for Sunday, August 24.
The lineup was not a list of newly announced games alone. It included first reveals, follow-up looks at known titles, interviews, demos, release-window updates and the Ones to Play montage. The categories below describe the kind of segment each title received, not a claim that every appearance was a world premiere.
Opening and early-show announcements
- Hell Let Loose: Vietnam — revealed as a new entry in the multiplayer series. Epic Games Store’s event highlights described a 1965 setting, teams of 50 players and a 2026 release window; those are announcement-era details, not confirmation of the game’s current schedule or availability. Epic Games Store’s showcase highlights.
- Edge of Memories — received a gameplay trailer.
- Den of Wolves — featured gameplay and a developer interview.
- Skate. — appeared in a developer interview.
- 1348 Ex Voto — was revealed.
- Resident Evil Requiem — featured a developer interview.
- Goddess of Victory: Nikke — showed a collaboration with Resident Evil.
- Hell is Us — received a story trailer. GamesRadar’s event recap reported a September 4, 2025 release date for PC, PlayStation and Xbox at the time of the showcase.
- The Blood of Dawnwalker — received a deep-dive segment.
- Deer & Boy — appeared with a gameplay trailer.
- DarkSwitch — showed gameplay and a demo.
- Lost Rift — received a release-date trailer.
- EverSiege: Untold Ages — received a release-date trailer.
Mid-show reveals, updates and release news
- Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road — appeared in the mid-show slate.
- Dreams of Another — featured a developer interview.
- 13Z: The Zodiac Trials — appeared in the lineup.
- Pizza Bandit — announced an early-access date.
- Recur — appeared in the lineup.
- Servant of the Lake — Rusty Lake’s newly revealed game was described as planned for PC and mobile in 2026.
- Hyper Light Breaker — showed its Double Down update.
- BPM: Bitcrushed — was revealed.
- Hotel Barcelona — featured a developer segment.
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin — received a gameplay showing.
- Cronos: The New Dawn — featured a deep dive.
- Town to City — announced an early-access date.
- Fellowship — announced an early-access date.
- Dome Keeper — showed a multiplayer mode.
- Discounty — appeared in the slate.
- Tormented Souls 2 — received a release-date announcement.
- Gods, Death & Reapers — was revealed.
- Styx: Blades of Greed — received a gameplay showing.
- Anno 117: Pax Romana — appeared with a trailer.
Closing slate and world premieres
- Ones to Play — the montage featured Aethermancer, Twinkleby, Morsels and Woodo.
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator — announced for consoles.
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord – War Sails — showed its DLC.
- Wild Blue — received a gameplay reveal.
- Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori — received an overview segment.
- Bounty Star — announced its release date.
- Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree — received a gameplay showing.
- Shape of Dreams — announced its release date.
- Reach VR — appeared with a trailer.
- Little Nightmares III — showed a walkthrough of the Carnevale chapter. GamesRadar reported an October 10, 2025 release date for PC and consoles at the time.
- Lost Hellden — appeared in the closing slate.
- Serial World — was revealed.
- Phantom Blade Zero — featured a developer deep dive.
- Witchspire — was revealed, with PC early access planned for 2026 according to GamesRadar’s event recap.
- Active Matter — appeared in the closing slate.
- Pragmata — featured a developer interview about Capcom’s puzzle-hacking action game. The event recap gave a 2026 release window for PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
- Halloween: The Game — received a world-premiere trailer. GamesRadar described it as a stealth horror game based on John Carpenter’s 1978 film, with PC, PlayStation and Xbox named for 2026.
What the showcase’s release dates mean now
The dates and platform descriptions above are what event coverage reported in August 2025. A date that has passed does not by itself establish whether a game launched, and a planned window can change. For current release status, check each game’s official page or storefront listing rather than treating the showcase recap as a live availability tracker. The GamesRadar+ recap and Insider Gaming’s ordered roundup provide event-era context and, in many cases, links to the individual showcase videos.
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Across its opening, mid-show and closing segments, the program moved between established series—including Resident Evil, Little Nightmares, Anno and the truck simulators—and newly revealed projects such as 1348 Ex Voto, Servant of the Lake, Witchspire and Halloween: The Game. The format was a varied showcase, not a single-franchise presentation or a roster made up entirely of premieres.
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