Best New Games Releasing This Week: December 29 – January 4

By Daniel Burrows "Windfell_" New Game Releases
29 December 2025 no comments

Explore the best new games releasing this week and discover your next favorite game today. Compare game key prices and purchase your games at lower prices.

Major Game Releases of the Week

Carnival Massacre

Fight your way through a cursed theme park in Carnival Massacre, as Harley, a young girl who battles classic survival tropes and four deadly ringleaders to rescue her missing sister in this retro-styled survival horror nightmare. Master your inventory and solve lethal puzzles to escape a nostalgic hellscape that dominates your senses with pure PS1-era dread.

M.A.U.S.

Obliterate a relentless robotic horde as the ultimate mechanized defender in M.A.U.S., a high-octane action platformer that captures the raw energy of 16-bit sci-fi. Adapt your arsenal on the fly and storm through alien ruins to save the city of Victoria from total destruction.

StarRupture

StarRupture is a co-op, open-world base-building survival game, where you construct a massive industrial complex on a volatile planet where catastrophic star ruptures constantly tear the world apart. Automate your defenses and blast through alien hordes to survive an ever-changing environment that combines complex logistics with brutal first-person combat.

• Carnival Massacre (29/12 PC)
• M.A.U.S.l (2/1 Nintendo Switch)
• StarRupture (6/1 PC)

Monday, December 29

Carnival Massacre

Friday, January 2

M.A.U.S.

Tuesday, January 6

StarRupture

Daniel Burrows "Windfell_"

Fueled by a passion for gaming and the ever-evolving world of gaming news, Daniel loves connecting with seasoned and new players to bring games to life on the page, exploring their narratives and gaming trends. A self-published fiction and fantasy author, Daniel has nearly 20 years of experience writing gaming news and a love for storytelling that drives his enthusiasm to deliver breaking news, in-depth analysis, and industry innovations. You will find him in-game as "Windfell."