Who will win February 2025’s RPG Royal Rumble? Kingdom Come, Assassin’s Creed, Avowed or Monster Hunter? | Gaming

In recent years, some of gaming’s biggest breakout successes have been released during the post-Christmas lull between New Year and Spring. Traditionally, it’s supposed to be a quieter time on the calendar – where we’re all too full of turkey and trimmings and sated by games gifted over the holidays to have an appetite for anything new.

But for the last ten years or so, it’s been publishers’ secret weapon to cut through the noise and score a solid hit with an underappreciated gem that would otherwise get beaten out by bigger-name competition.

One of the first I can remember was Dying Light, a bone-creaking 10 years ago already, which broke records on release in 2015 as a new IP, perfectly pitched at the peak of both zombie and PS4-era open-world hype.

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