Five Top Upcoming Adventure Games – October 2025

Trailer compilation of this month's most anticipated new releases

October has become the new "holiday season" for adventure games, so while the kiddies can look forward to their candy on Halloween, we can feast all month on great new releases! Of course, that means some very difficult decisions to narrow down to JUST a top five. This could easily be a top ten and still require some painful cuts. But there's no arguing with a lineup that includes a gorgeous Disney-esque fantasy horror, a stunning new game from Lee Petty and Double Fine, the opening installments of an episodic Telltale-styled superhero adventure, a legitimately creepy game from the jokesters behind The Darkside Detective, and the long-awaited return of adventure gaming's beloved boy wizard. 

What's left out? Hoo boy. Try a delightful-looking new Peanuts adventure starring Snoopy and the gang, a tongue-in-cheek classic-styled spy adventure, an angry rabbit's search for missing carrots, a South American-inspired magical realist adventure, riddles and puzzles galore both single-player and co-op, and of course plenty of spooks and chills just in time for All Hallows' Eve. (And even that's far from all.)

Whatever your flavour, there's something here for everyone in October's smorgasbord of goodies. 

Featured this month:

Bye Sweet Carole    
Keeper    
Dispatch (Episodes 1 & 2)
The Séance of Blake Manor    
Simon the Sorcerer: Origins   

Other notable releases due out in October:

Mutants Ate My Carrots   
Murder Is Game Over: Murder Otaku   
Splittown 
Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs   
Emotionless: The Last Ticket    
SOPA: Tale of the Stolen Potato    
Little Nightmares III    
Midnight Swamp    
Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club    
NubiaPhobia    
Next of Kin: Fidelity   
Escape Simulator 2   
My Father Lied   
The Jester and the Madman   
Riddlewood Manor     
Bulb Boy 2: Jar of Despair   
Ayasa: Shadows of Silence