This Week’s Hottest Game Releases (Oct 20–26, 2025): Ninja Gaiden 4, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and More

October 2025 has been stacked for games, and the week of October 20–26 is basically a mini-fall launch window all by itself. Three big sequels drop on the same day, a long-simmering vampire RPG finally crawls out of its coffin, and there are a couple smaller titles worth keeping on your radar. Here’s what’s hitting and why it matters.

Big releases, tight window

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Date: October 21, 2025 | Price: $59.99 | Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store)

Paradox is back with a full-on first-person ARPG set in a stylized Seattle, and this time you’re not a rookie—you’re Phyre, a 400-year-old elder vampire. Blood is power, so you’ll be hunting at night, balancing your hunger against the rules of the Masquerade, and navigating all the messy vampire factions that want a piece of you. Every choice sticks, with storylines and outcomes shifting based on how you play. If you want a moody, choice-heavy RPG where your decisions actually come back to bite you, this is the one.

Jurassic World Evolution 3

Date: October 21, 2025 | Price: $59.99 | Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam, Epic Games Store)

Back to the dino park grind—in a good way. Frontier’s third entry lets you synthesize, breed, and raise more than 80 prehistoric species, then design a park around them with expanded creation tools. You can nurture them into playful juveniles (until they get bigger and develop opinions), and build the dino resort of your dreams—or your insurers’ nightmares.

Ninja Gaiden 4

Date: October 21, 2025 | Price: $69.99 | Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam)

Hack-and-slash fans, here we go. Set in a near-future Tokyo where ancient enemies won’t stay buried, you play as Yakumo alongside series icon Ryu Hayabusa, carving through cybernetic ninja squads and nastier things from elsewhere. The combat is as flashy as ever, with new tools to master, difficulty and pacing you can tune to your liking, and a standout trick called Bloodbind Ninjutsu that lets you morph your weapons into something wild mid-fight.

Dispatch

Date: October 22, 2025 | Price: $59.99 | Platforms: PS5, PC (Steam)

AdHoc Studio is doing a choices-matter management game dressed up as a superhero operation. You’re a retired hero running a dispatch desk, assigning a crew of talented but very imperfect capes to crises around the city. Pick the wrong person for the job and, well, collateral happens—and characters will remember your calls. The structure is very TV: two episodes drop every week post-launch, starting October 22, so you’re essentially playing a serialized season as it releases.

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted

Date: October 23, 2025 | Price: $19.99 | Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, PC (Steam, Epic Games Store)

EA is padding October ahead of Battlefield 6 with a remaster that actually adds some meat. Replanted gives the classic an HD facelift plus local co-op and PvP. There’s a new Cloudy Day mode where sunlight is scarce, and a Hardcore setting literally called Rest In Peace if you want the game to rough you up. If you’ve got nostalgia for the original and want it with modern quality-of-life, this is easy to recommend.

Also out this week

• Painkiller (PC via Steam) — October 21, 2025 — $39.99. A fast, gore-forward FPS revival, not a simple reissue of the 2006 game. You’re stuck in Purgatory with a shot at redemption: take down fallen angel Azazel before he unleashes an army on Earth. New visuals, co-op support, and a perk-driven build system let you escalate from mortal to monster slayer.
• Super Fantasy Kingdom (PC via Steam) — October 24, 2025 — Price TBD. City builder meets nightly siege defense. You return to a ruined homeland, rebuild by day, then hold the line every night with a chosen guardian leading your forces. Between runs you bank glory to unlock more strategies, and the world hides secrets if you poke around instead of just turtling.

That’s the slate for October 20–26, 2025. Three heavy hitters pile into the same Tuesday, an episodic superhero sim rolls out like a weekly show, and a classic tower-defense favorite gets a proper refresh. What are you grabbing first?