The Coolest Games from Tokyo Game Show 2025

Ananta, previously known as Project Mugen, may have drawn the largest crowd at all of TGS, with lines filling up, and entire thoroughfares clogging as passersby stopped to watch the chaos unfold. The cell-shaded graphics over an open-world city with cars and guns have drawn comparisons to an anime GTA, which is apt, but when characters start smashing bad guys with tendrils and swinging through the city like Spider-Man, it becomes something altogether different, weirder, and awesome.

The demo opens with our character, Chenxiu, being attacked by a swarm of goons outside of a restaurant. The combat is reminiscent of the modern Arkham or Spider-Man games (almost shamelessly so), with punches, dodges, and counters leading to nasty (in a good way) takedowns. Chenxiu has some sort of tendril-based power, occasionally stretching out Venom-Like whips as he fights. After a few rounds of beating down bad guys, a sports car with a cat-eared lady behind the wheel crashes through the scrum, picking up Chenxiu in the process. 

The fight turns into a car chase against dozens of motorcycles and spike-covered SUVs that would look at home in a Mad Max movie. At first, we are shooting out tires, gunners, and drivers as the passenger, then switch seats and race along a construction site, exploding those motorcycles as we run into them. Eventually, we swap back to the passenger seat, get flung out of the vehicle, and take down an evil semi in a series of quick time events. 

The demo is as bonkers as it is fun, and, alongside the obvious GTA and Spider-Man inspiration, it’s reminiscent of a bit of a high-budget, modern take on Crackdown. If that “yes, and” design philosophy can work as well in a full game as it did in this short sample, then PlayStation, Windows, and mobile gamers are in for a helluva good time when this arrives, though a date has yet to be announced.