Guide: These 11+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out Next Week (11th-17th August)

The launch calendar is gearing up to turn seriously crowded, yet it won’t be happening the following seven days. Still, we’re undeniably nearing summer’s close, given the hefty line-up dropping this time around.

In sheer commercial terms, the headline arrival is Madden NFL 26, bound to rank among the year’s top sellers. For this readership, however, eyeballs will likely lock on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.

Here are every incoming PS5 and PS4 release for the next week.

New PS5, PS4 Games Next Week (11th–17th August)

• Echoes of the End (12th August – PS5): “Echoes of the End is a cinematic third-person action-adventure. It fuses an intimate, character-centric narrative with pulse-pounding magic and swordplay, nimble traversal and brain-teasing puzzles. Drawing inspiration from Iceland, the saga delivers a mature, immersive odyssey inside a spectacular and wholly original fantasy realm.”
• Fresh Tracks (12th August – PS5): “Leap, weave and battle to the beat of the gods in this high-octane rhythm–skiing hybrid. Negotiate hazards and hostile foes while gliding ever deeper into the gloom enveloping the wintry realm of Norwyn.”
• Ra Ra Boom (12th August – PS5, PS4): “Prep for frantic four-player co-op mayhem! Ra Ra Boom catapults you to a future Earth swarming with rogue AIs. Level up your ninja cheerleader, clobber waves of foes, blast, bash and carve a path through the pandemonium!”
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (12th August – PS5): “Following the award-winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua embarks on a brutal struggle for survival amid the myths and pain of Viking-era Iceland. Determined to rescue the oppressed, she wages war against both external cruelty and her own inner darkness.”
• Dorfromantik (14th August – PS5, PS4): “Start Dorfromantik armed only with a randomly shuffled stack of hex tiles. Draw, slot and twist each tile into the ever-growing tableau. Forests, hamlets and rivers merge into sprawling combos; the tighter the fit, the bigger the score.”
• Lost Twins 2 (14th August – PS5): “Re-order the world. Reunite the twins. Rekindle the wonder.
  Abi and Ben are astray—but not alone. Shift whole landscape chunks to shepherd them through a handcrafted puzzle adventure radiating cozy vibes and sly surprises.”
• Madden NFL 26 (14th August – PS5): “EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 26 taps a fresh machine-learning engine, distilling nearly ten years of real NFL data into explosive, theatre-worthy moments. Expect bespoke player behaviors, coach-style adaptive counters and traits sculpted from the league’s playbooks.”
• Midnight Murder Club (14th August – PS5): “Accept your invitation to the Midnight Murder Club—an exclusive society that hands you a gun, a flashlight and plunges you into candle-lit mansion halls. Wear your mask, team with friends and navigate deception, perception and precision gunplay, where every second counts in pitch-black tension.”
• Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol 1 (14th August – PS5, PS4): “The Toaplan label is iconic. This curator of arcade shooters birthed genre pillars that defined the ’80s and ’90s scene and continue to thrill today.”
• Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol 2 (14th August – PS5, PS4): “Toaplan is legendary. These creators produced some of history’s greatest bullet storms—cornerstones that inspired droves of developers, still razor-sharp decades later.”
• Bendy: Lone Wolf (15th August – PS5): “Step inside the inky nightmare of Bendy: Lone Wolf®, a white-knuckle survival escapade rooted in Joey Drew Studios’ warped, rubber-hose hellscape. As the lonesome wolf Boris, dodge cartoon horrors, lethal traps and the ever-hunting Ink Demon in corridors that shift by the hour.”

Which PS5 and PS4 titles are on your next-week wish-list? Drop your picks in the comment area beneath.