Summer slump? Not at all! Exciting Steam releases await you in the second week of July 2025, we’ll show them to you!
Yawning summer doldrums? No way! The second week of July 2025 has it all: We’re getting new releases for long-running hits like Rimworld and The Sims 4, nostalgic new editions of Tony Hawk and Patapon – and five other new titles to boot. So without further ado, let’s get straight to the most exciting Steam releases of the week.
Highlight of the week: RimWorld – Odyssey
(Genre: Build-up sandbox – Developer: Ludeon Studios – Release: July 11, 2025 (Steam))
After a long wait, the time has finally come: Ludeon Studios unleashes Odyssey, the fifth expansion for their acclaimed sci-fi building game Rimworld. The addon literally breaks all previous boundaries and sends your colony into the air.
The heart of Odyssey is the building your own gravship – a flying base that serves as both a mobile home and means of transportation. Instead of being tied to a fixed location, you can now travel the entire planet, land anywhere and explore over 40 new biomes. From glowing mushroom forests to war-torn ruins, completely new environments with exotic animal species are waiting to be discovered.
But the adventure doesn’t end on the planet’s surface: Your gravship can even fly into orbit, where you can search abandoned space stations and asteroids for valuable technology. In the process, an ancient machine intelligence awakens in space – a new threat that adds extra excitement to your expeditions.
More exciting Steam releases of the week
Thursday, July 10, 2025
- The Sims 4: Magic of Nature (DLC): In the new expansion for the life simulation game, everything revolves around a life close to nature and slightly magical. You can brew your own healing potions with collected herbs and mushrooms at the apothecary’s table, cure your Sims of curious ailments as a naturopath and live completely in harmony with nature in the idyllic new village of Innisgreen.
- Mycopunk (Early Access): What if mushrooms became the biggest threat to the galaxy? In this wacky co-op shooter from Devolver, you take on the role of junky combat robots who have to rid an entire planet of aggressive fungal infestation. Up to four players shoot their way through fast-paced missions, collect upgrades for their weapons and abilities and turn slimy spore monsters into sludge. Perhaps something for friends of Deep Rock Galactic?
- Every Day We Fight (Early Access): The alien groundhog greets you daily – in this turn-based tactical roguelite, you and your squad are stuck in a time loop. Humans and alien invaders are engaged in a perpetual war that always starts all over again the next morning. The gameplay mixes classic XCOM strategy with procedural missions and permanent improvements: You fight nasty aliens turn by turn, leveling up your soldiers and weapons over many
loops
in an attempt to eventually escape the time loop curse.
- Ground of Aces (Early Access): Here you are not on the front line, but in charge of an entire airbase during the Second World War. This construction game puts you in the role of a commander who manages a British airfield during the Battle of Britain. You build hangars and defenses, send your squadrons into daring air battles and must protect your base against attacks.
Friday, July 11, 2025
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4: Tony Hawk catapults you back to the early 2000s and lets you shred through iconic parks with the skateboarding legend and his crew once again – only in a modern remake. Following the success of the 1+2 remaster, PC skaters can now enjoy all the levels from parts 3 and 4 with polished graphics, butter-smooth controls and the usual first-class soundtrack. Kickflip, manual, revert – all the tricks from back then are at the start.
- PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY: Pata-pata-pata-pon! In this remaster collection, the PSP classics Patapon 1 & 2 finally land on the PC (and current consoles). The gameplay is unique: you lead your cute eyeball tribe into battle by drumming commands. Each beat (Pata, Pon, Chaka, Don) represents an action of your Patapon army. The result is a wonderfully quirky mix of rhythm game, strategy and cuddly visuals.
- STRIDEN (Early Access): This is where Escape from Tarkov meets Scandinavian end-time madness. Striden is a multiplayer extraction shooter that takes you to a war-ravaged Northern Europe. In teams of four, you plunder irradiated maps for valuable loot, build a radio mast and call in a helicopter for evacuation, while rival groups of players try to spoil your tour. The whole thing is spiced up with particularly weird special abilities: You can ride a cannon mounted on a battle-hardened moose, for example, or sic a mutated radioactive bear on your opponents
- Brickadia (Early Access): This creative sandbox construction kit aims to outdo Minecraft and Lego. Brickadia lets you (alone or online with friends) create huge worlds from virtual bricks with impressive freedom: thanks to powerful tools, you can build anything you want – from skyscrapers and functioning vehicles with engines to entire mini-games.
After looking really bad last week, there are fortunately some exciting titles coming out again this week – strategists in particular are getting two promising games with the new Rimworld DLC and Every Day We Fight. You can see which other games will be released in July in our monthly preview video above.
