As streaming has allowed TV to take bigger swings and explore more niche stories than their big-budget, high-stakes counterparts on the silver screen, television has quickly become the Wild West. In recent years, we’ve seen everything from streaming spinoffs of blockbuster hits, to trashy reality TV, strike gold — making the question of what becomes a hit far more intriguing than what has the biggest marketing budget.

In 2024, Baby Reindeer went from an obscure Netflix miniseries to an Emmy frontrunner, Fallout went from yet another video game adaptation to rewriting what an adaptation could be, and The Penguin proved that superhero spinoffs could compete with the likes of The Sopranos. 2025 will surely include its own fair share of surprises. Here are Inverse’s 15 most anticipated series of 2025, from new stories to monumental endings.

In 2024, few genres thrived as well as the role-playing game. From Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth and Metaphor: Refantazio to big franchise returns in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Dragon’s Dogma 2, there were no shortages of meaty experiences to get lost in over the last 12 months.

But as 2024 comes to a close, it’s worth remembering that one of the year’s best role-playing games wasn’t from one of the well-established masters of the craft. Instead, it was created by ambitious fans looking to add a creative local spin to a beloved series. Fallout: London was far more than the average fan mod. This total conversion is a brand-new game built with the sturdy, fun-to-play bones of Fallout 4. The result wasn’t just one of the year’s finest, but easily the best game in the series in over a decade.