November 2025

November 2025: Sandbox News Wrap-Up

November brought turkey and a Thanksgiving-sized portion of new game releases at Sandbox! Here’s a quick overview of all the stories we shared over November 2025 ICYMI.

New Game Releases

  • Throw dice to unleash powerful combos against wacky enemies in a heckin’ challenging strategic experience built for quick runs and endless replayability in DOG WITCH, out now on Steam.
  • Asobism’s party-building, dungeon-diving, co-op roguelike Vivid World launched on Steam.
  • The wacky, medieval tavern co-op sim Restaurats released on Steam, bringing chaotic rat-based gameplay to players.
  • Start your engines – iRacing’s NASCAR 25 launched on Steam! Race with your favorite drivers in the most immersive NASCAR game yet with online multiplayer, a robust Career Mode, and much more!
  • tinyBuild dropped Pigeon Simulator, a flapping new co-op espionage and extraction game. Grab a flock of up to four players and battle dangerous anomalies now on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox PC & Game Pass Ultimate.
  • Crystal Dynamics surprised fans with Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition landing on Nintendo Switch 1 & 2! Experience Lara Croft’s emotional origin story, remastered with improved visuals and added control features, available on Nintendo platforms for the first time.
  • tinyBuild’s new open-world fantasy RPG Of Ash & Steel launched on Steam. Dive into the life of an adventurer and fix what plagues the island of Grayshaft on a journey with no quest markers and lots to discover!
  • Exterminate multiversal spiders with friends in the 1.0 debut of tinyBuild’s KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2, out now on PC, PS5, XSX & Game Pass – and coming in 2026 to Nintendo Switch.
  • Polden Publishing’s garbage-cleaning, card-collecting, bird-saving sim My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) launched on Steam.

Upcoming Game Releases

  • Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny announced it will come to Nintendo Switch 2 on December 5. The game will also receive an update on Nintendo Switch bringing the same performance enhancements to Switch 1 owners playing on Nintendo Switch 2.
  • The highly anticipated MMO FPS PIONER released its open beta and announced its Steam Early Access launch date of December 16!
  • At the OTK Games Expo, tinyBuild’s dino-action FPS Ferocious showcased a new trailer revealing the game will launch on December 4 on Steam!

New Game Updates

  • Expeditions: A MudRunner Game launched its Season 4 – “Amber Dusk” DLC, featuring new maps, trucks, specialists and more! Focus Entertainment also revealed this will be the final major content update for the game.
  • CRITICAL REFLEX’s Brazilian-folklore, found-footage horror adventure Drowned Lake launched its first open playtest on Steam and revealed a new trailer at the OTK Games Expo.
  • Following last month’s release on other platforms, Waltz of the Wizard‘s massive free “Skully’s Fantastic Failsupdate is out now for PlayStation 5 & PlayStation VR2.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2‘s new “Reclamation Update” launched on PS5, XSX and PC featuring a new PvE mission, loads of cosmetics and more.

New Trailers

  • All hell breaks loose in the first official gameplay trailer for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival from Saber Interactive, coming in 2026 to PS5, XSX and PC. 
  • Australia Did It – the genre-flipping action-strategy game from Mystic Forge & Rami Ismail – released a new trailer at the OTK Games Expo. Sign-ups are now open for the game’s first Steam playtest, coming later this December!

You can check out last month’s roundup here and follow us on LinkedIn here!

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