We and our council of games industry luminaries ranked Helldivers 2 highly in our 2023 Most Wanted list, which is a small point of pride. The buzz around Arrowhead's 2024 co-op shooter wasn't nothing before it came out, but it was getting a whole lot less mainstream attention before it became PlayStation's fastest-selling game ever than after. Sometimes we can still call 'em.
And sometimes we can't—I'll never live down my prediction that Concord would be popular (and hopefully no one remembers how much I liked Brink)—but I think our hit radar is pretty well tuned on a team-wide scale. As we enter 2025, here are six games PC Gamer staff members think you should know about, because they might turn out to be bigger hits than the current hype levels indicate. (Though maybe not Helldivers 2-level hits.)
