What Games Will Be In 2025 Esports World Cup?

Now is 2025, and EWC is preparing for the 2025 esports events. Esports World Cup has successively announced the list of games with events, including MOBA games, FPS games, fighting games, and even chess games.

What Is Esports World Cup?

Just like Olympic Games in the sports world, with the increase in players, e-sports competitions have gradually entered the public’s field of vision. Esports World Cup is an internationally famous e-sports event. Although it is not as good as Olympics, it has the largest prize pool in e-sports competitions and the most popular e-sports events in all games.

In addition to watching the game, the audience participating in EWC can also enjoy more activities. For example, they can communicate with their favorite players or teams on the spot, or interact with them, or even play an entertaining game with them.

EWC was held for the first time in 2024 by Arab Esports World Cup Foundation, with a prize pool of 60 million US dollars. EWC is not a sudden event. Its predecessor was Gamers8 Festival, which was held in 2022 and 2023, and now it has become more formal.

EWC 2025 will be held in conjunction with ESL FaceI, the esports team that organizes Counter-Strike tournaments. EWC 2025 will have 25 tournaments, 9 of which have been confirmed. The remaining events will be confirmed in the next few days.

2025 Esports World Cup will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from June to August 2025.

Confirmed Games

In the 2024 event, more than 20 games participated in EWC to share the $60 million prize pool. The prize pool amount for this year has not yet been announced, but this year’s games will have more games than last year.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the latest game released in Call of Duty series and will be released in 2024. This game is not only the first game in COD series to be announced to join EWC, but also the first game on 2025 EWC event list.

This game can be run on Xbox, PlayStation and PC, and is a fast-paced FPS game. COD BO6 is set during Operation Desert Storm. This game is famous for its PVP mode and multiplayer cooperative mode against zombies. EWC winning mode is mainly team PVP mode.

Honor Of Kings

Honor of Kings is a mobile MOBA and the second event confirmed by EWC. This game was released by a Chinese developer in 2015. This game is one of the most popular MOBA games in the world, especially in some Asian regions such as China.

Honor of Kings can be run on IOS and Android systems. This game adopts a 5V5 structure, divided into three lanes: top, middle and bottom. The heroes controlled by players can be divided into several categories such as shooters, warriors, mages, tanks, etc.

Call Of Duty: Warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone is Activision’s second game to appear in EWC and the second game in the COD series. This first-person shooter game was released in 2020 and has a battle royale and looting mode. However, unlike the traditional battle royale mode, some Warzone modes allow players to respawn or encourage players to occupy resource points. Players can also customize their equipment and equip skills.

Free Fire

Free Fire is the second mobile game in EWC. This is a shooting game published by Singaporean developer Garena International and can be run on Android and iOS.

Free Fire is a simplified version of the battle royale game, which is somewhat similar to Fortnite. A total of 50 players compete against each other on an island and try to be the last one alive. A game lasts about ten minutes.

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter 6 is a fighting game produced and released by Capcom in 2023. Street Fighter series was first released as early as 1987 and has always been loved by fighting game players. Street Fighter 6 competition is also one of the most spectacular events at EWC 2024. It can be expected that it will be one of the protagonists of EWC 2025.

Street Fighter 6 can be run on multiple platforms. It has two multiplayer modes, Fighting Ground and Battle Hub, and the competition will be held in Fighting Ground.

DOTA 2

Dota 2 is the second MOBA game confirmed to participate in EWC 2025. This game was released by Valve in 2013 and still maintains its vitality.

Dota 2 has more than 126 characters. Both teams will control 5 heroes to collect resources on the map and eventually destroy the ancient buildings in the opponent’s base.

Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six is ​​a game produced and released by Ubisoft Montreal Studio in 2015. Players can fight in multiple modes, including defusing or planting bombs, rescuing hostages and occupying objective locations. This is a team-based shooting game that can interact intensely with the environment, including shooting through walls, breaking windows, and blowing up obstacles.

Competitive Online Chess

December 17, 2024 Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) and Chess.com announced that they will bring competitive online chess to EWC. This is somewhat surprising news for video game enthusiasts around the world, as chess is relatively traditional compared to complex video games. However, it also marks that EWC is gaining more and more attention.

Chess.com is a platform for chess enthusiasts around the world to gather, and Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen will also participate in EWC as an ambassador.

Crossfire

Crossfire is an FPS game released in 2007 with multiple game modes. It is also the next FPS game to join EWC. Crossfire has cultivated many game fans in China over the past 10 years, and it has become one of the most popular FPS games in the world. This event will make it truly global.

2025 is the second year of EWC, and more and more games will join this event. More importantly, EWC gives excellent gamers from all over the world a fair chance to compete, attracting the attention of global game enthusiasts. As long as EWC continues to be held, it may eventually become the Olympics of the video game industry.