Death Howl. Games of December 2025. We end the year with two Japanese gems and an old-school platformer

• Sleep Awake
• Elden Ring: Nightreign – The Forsaken Hollows
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
• Octopath Traveler 0
• Routine
• Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow
• Angst: A Tale of Survival
• Frostpunk 2: Fractured Utopias
• Death Howl
• Terminator 2D: NO FATE
• A few more December gems

Death Howl

Release date: December 9, 2025

Isometric card game with unusual graphics

Have you played Mind Scanners? Its creators have made another game – Death Howl. This time, they're inviting us to a Nordic kingdom where we'll use cards to try and survive and beat the blues. The main character – Rio – ventures into the land of spirits to resurrect her son. The trip won't be easy, and we'll go through a whole rollercoaster of emotions along the way.

Nordic vibes from a Danish studio

In Death Howl, we're gonna explore the spirit world in a non-linear way, picking up ingredients along the way. From these, we will craft cards, which we will then use in turn-based battles. Various gameplay styles are at our disposal, so there is no single way to build a deck. The whole thing is spiced up with a really unique and one-of-a-kind design.

1. Death Howl in our encyclopedia