Poll: Which Xbox Developer Direct 2025 Reveal Are You Most Hyped For?

It should be a good show!

by Fraser Gilbert 7:30pm

Poll: Which Xbox Developer Direct 2025 Reveal Are You Most Hyped For?

We've finally got the confirmation of an Xbox Developer Direct event for 2025, and the good news is that it's only a couple of weeks away! We also know what's going to be included, with four titles featured in all.

Three of these have been named in the form of DOOM: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight and the third-party Xbox Game Pass title Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, while the fourth is a "surprise" that's being kept firmly under wraps.

You'll find some of our speculation on what that "surprise" might be elsewhere on Pure Xbox:

Regardless of the surprise, it looks like we're going to be in for a great show. DOOM is an obvious one - if it's anything like DOOM 2016 or DOOM: Eternal (which it certainly appears to be), it's surely going to go down a treat this year.

It's harder to get a vibe about South of Midnight, which is the next release from We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games, but we're certainly hoping it lives up to its potential. Expedition 33 is the wildcard in many ways as it's not an Xbox first-party title, but it still could end up being the highlight of the show for a lot of Xbox fans.

So, let's get some votes in, shall we? Which Xbox Developer Direct 2025 reveal are you most hyped for as things stand? Let us know down in the poll below, and feel free to elaborate in the comments section as well.

What did you pick? Come and share with us in the comments!

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.

1
FarmDog08
7:33pm

Expedition 33 all the way and its not even close!

2
RBRTMNZ
7:33pm

Doom Eternal is one of my favorite games ever. I’m so excited for Dark Ages.

I hope the surprise is the rumoured oblivion remake it would be great to play through the game again!

I’m most excited for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It looks so good! And I love how it’s so inspired by JRPGs, since JRPGs are my favorite genre of games. I’m also very excited for South of Midnight, as South of Midnight looks very unique and interesting too. Plus, seeing what the surprise game might be is also very interesting.

5
Paulbuck28
8:15pm

doom the dark ages and south of midnight for me

6
Altaria_97
8:24pm

I doubt it, but I want the surprise to be Forza Horizon 6.

7
Elbow
8:26pm

I want South of Midnight to be good, but I still don't have faith in the combat. It looks incredibly weak from shown footage. Hopefully that will be changed, but Compulsion games have always been sloppy even with best intentions, so we'll have to see.

8
BacklogBrad
8:40pm

I am very curious what the surprise is but I am also confident that doom's segment will be the coolest part of the show.

9
Llamageddon
8:47pm

I don't care what the surprise is as I'm looking forward to all 3 of the other games. Not a fan of turn based combat but there is something about Clair Obscur that has really piqued my interest.
Going to be an absolute banger of a show I reckon.

10
Lup
9:24pm

Expedition 33. Don't care about the others, although South of Midnight looks kinda interesting.

11
Balaam_
56m ago

ID feels the need to force multiplayer trophies/acheivements on those who have less than no interest in mp and are only here for the single player, so I have no interest in that by way of recompense. South of Midnight looks…interesting, but it could easily end up being mediocre. Expedition 33 looks like the turn based RPG greatness all recent FF’s should have been, instead of that low-intellect real time slop so that one has me most excited. I’m curious as to what the secret reveal is, but that could go either way. Might be cool, might be some rinky dink throwaway nothing of a game.