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Following six straight years of yearly games created by Milestone, the official Monster Energy Supercross series took an unexpected break in 2024.
Instead, there was endorsed DLC for the ever-evolving MX vs ATV Legends platform and silence from the Italian development team.
But, the franchise will return, it just took some time away to be rebuilt, first announced back in September.
The first version will be Monster Energy Supercross 25 and it now has a release date: 10th April 2025, thanks to a post on Xbox Wire by Game Director Sebastiano Stefanetto.
While it will use the Unreal Engine codebase, much like its predecessors up to 2023’s Monster Energy Supercross 6, it promises an updated version, with UE5 lesson taken from the outfit’s recent Monster Jame Showdown game.
Consequently, it will only be released on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S devices, jettisoning the older PlayStation 4 and Xbox One for the first time.
The ‘ground-up’ refresh includes new bike physics and malleable, changeable, dirt ruts alongside the real-world motorcycles, riders, sponsors and tracks from the 2025 season – historically, the games are a season behind (6 was released in 2023 with 2022-season content).
The creators are claiming that the tracks are closer to reality than previously – not only using photographs but this time working with event organisers to secure circuit blueprints.
In air – jumps are a big feature of Supercross racing, alongside how a rider moves the bike to affect airflow – rider control will now be done with an analog stick system, and the rider weight physics are said to be comprehensively revised.
One of the critiques of past games has been the unpredictable performance of your AI-controlled rivals, with Milestone once again (see, MotoGP) touting a ‘Neural AI’ system.
Details on an updated career mode are set to be shared closer to release.
Monster Energy Supercross 25 at a glance
- Release date: 10th April 2025, digital and physical.
- Three days ahead of 10th April when purchased in a set way, to be announced
- Official real-world 2025-season Monster Energy Supercross roster
- Unreal Engine 5 technology base
- New rider physics, air control, AI system and track deformation
- Current-gen devices only
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