Earth Defense Force 2025 is an action -adventure third-person shooter video game developed by Sandlot and published by D3 Publisher. It was released on July 4, 2013 in Japan, February 18, 2014 in North America, February 21, 2014 in PAL, April 2, 2015 in Japan, December 8, 2015 in North America, February 12, 2016 in Europe, July 7, 2016 in Australia, and July 18, 2016 worldwide for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and PC.