When it comes to game releases, November can sometimes be a slow month. When it is, there’s a reason for it: There’s a heavy hitter coming and everyone wants to get out of the way. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 hits this month, which is why September and October were pretty jam-packed this year.
Even so, there’s a bunch of stuff hitting aside from Call of Duty—puzzle games, VR games, racing games, and more. There are also some updated versions of pretty great games coming: Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2 are coming to Nintendo Switch 2, while Fallout 4 is getting an Anniversary Edition, which collects all the DLC and game content into one pack.
Here’s a look at what we’re looking forward to in November.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Release Date: November 6, 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2
If you dug Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity but wish it had offered a canonical story, you’re going to love Age of Imprisonment. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment offers improved combat and brings in a story that makes it an officially canonical prequel to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
Building off of Tears, Age of Imprisonment features battles on the surface and in the Depths, and also features some Zonai devices—though don’t expect the building of Tears here. Age of Imprisonment also has Zelda herself taking the lead, making this a true legend of Zelda.
Lumines Arise
Release Date: November 11, 2025
Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, PS VR2
The music-powered action-puzzler Lumines is back with Lumines Arise, the first totally new entry in 14 years. This game features 35 new levels, 60 training levels, a bunch of new challenges, and leaderboards updated daily—which we’re hoping won’t be hacked and filled with impossible scores immediately.
Lumines has been an addictive game since the first one hit PSP two decades ago, and this one is likely no different. You can also check this one out as a demo on Steam and PS5, and it’s one of the few new games to support PS VR2.
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 likely tells you everything you need to know before picking this game up. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the latest in the Black Ops series, and features a new campaign set in the year 2035, acting as a direct sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and bringing back familiar characters. There’s also a zombie mode, of course, and multiplayer now includes two 20v20 “skirmish” maps, alongside 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’ll take on the role of a young swordmaster who fights in Wuxia style-—that is, to say, a fantastical version of Chinese martial arts most often seen in Chinese Wuxia films. The team advertises over 150 hours of solo gameplay, as well as four-player seamless co-op.
As 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 free is a good entry price for that.
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. This game is being released exclusively on Meta Quest 3/3S, and features both ranged and melee combat—and, importantly, an utterly shattered fourth wall. Even the advertising for this game has been on-tone for Deadpool, and we’re expecting 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. Over two decades later, it’s back for more. This game features 20 characters and offers racing, combat, exploration, and field event modes. It’s weird that Nintendo is once again releasing a character-driven racing game just months after Mario Kart World, but we’re not complaining. Air Ride was a blast, and we’re betting 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 both ways to get to the arcade or video rental store, licensed games were the absolute worst. They barely resembled their cinematic counterparts, not least because they didn’t look that much like them. Games like Jurassic Park would end up making you shoot hundreds of velociraptors, making it hard to feel like you were in the film rather than just a platformer reskinned to look like some things from it.
Terminator 2D: No Fate retains the 16-bit look of so many of those games, but takes you through scenes as the T-800, and Sarah and John Connor, with scenes pulled from the movie. Perhaps most interestingly, though, the game features multiple endings and new “what if” style scenes—like “What if the T-800 had mercilessly gunned down all those police at Cyberdyne HQ?”—and lets you play those out with consequences. This might be what we’d been hoping for back in the 90s: a slick, authentic-feeling licensed game.
