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Summer 2024 Recap: Almost Every Game Announced During Not-E3

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Summer Game Fest came and went earlier this year, but with so many games announced, it might be tough to remember which ones you’re waiting for to come out. As we enter the fall, I figured we’d help out the anxious gamer; below is every game announced during the festivities of Summer Game Fest—dutifully written descriptions of them all in 50 words or less.

All of them. 

Even most of the ones that got like a half-second shout out.

Why did I do it? Pure altruism, as well as a burning need to produce some sort of content or I’ll die. The games in question have been arranged in order of appearance during each program, though the programs themselves may be out of order.

Summer Game Fest

summer game fest 2024

LEGO HORIZON ADVENTURES
(
Trailer)

It’s HORIZON ZERO DAWN but cute and with Legos! Dress Aloy like a bee and enjoy the end of the world with a buddy. They literally have a song in the trailer called “Apocalyptic Dance Party” so this probably won’t get an extended miniseries on HBO. 

Coming Holiday 2025 to PS5, Switch, Epic Games, and Steam

NO MORE ROOM IN HELL 2
(Trailer)

Was there a NO MORE ROOM IN HELL 1? Anyway spooky zombie adventures with up to eight people and permadeath if you get got by the zambies. Made by the developers of CHIVALRY 1 and 2 so there’s a lot of weapon swingin’ and body part squishin’. Gross! 

Coming to Steam and Epic Games on Halloween

HARRY POTTER QUIDDITCH CHAMPIONS
(Trailer)

TERF wizard FIFA. Twitter is going to be extra annoying when it comes out so they made it a Day One release for PS+. 

Coming September 3rd 2024 to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Steam, and Epic

CUFFBUST
(Trailer)

The dude who made CHOO-CHOO CHARLES made a weird little SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION game where cute little alien dudes bust out of jail. Adorably bust out of jail, adorably beat up prison guards, adorably betray your friends, and adorably smoke fat spliffaroonies on the beach? Prison! It’s cute!  

Coming to Steam in 2025, maybe (It’s just one guy!)

STAR WARS OUTLAWS
(Trailer)

Play as a Han Solo-type in an open-world Ubisoft Star War. There’s a Lando Calrissian, they got Jabba and his little dorks, and even Jawas! Also you get a little guy. You want a little guy, don’t you? Of course you do. 

Available now for Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Windows

NEVA
(Trailer)

You and your wolf buddy have to Princess Mononoke this forest up good. It’s by the makers of GRIS so the wolf is probably going to leave you and it’ll be revealed to be a metaphor for your mom’s divorce. At least it’s pretty! 

Coming 2024 to PC, Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S

CIVILIZATION VII
(Trailer)

Civilization is back to make you hate Abraham Lincoln for building the Colosseum before you once again. 

Coming to consoles and PC on release, whenever that is

BLACK MYTH WUKONG
(Trailer)

Return to Monke as China’s legendary Monke King. “ENSLAVED: ODYSSEY TO THE WEST” whomst?? 

Available now on PS5, Steam, Epic, and WeGame

ASGARD’S WRATH 2
(Trailer)

VR, puzzle-y game. The title says Asgard but you’re definitely in ancient Egypt, so it might be a God of War Greece-to-Norway-type switcheroo. Meta made it so it comes free when you buy their new VR headset.  

Out now for Meta Quest 3

ONCE HUMAN
(Trailer)

Co-op survival shooter in a world where a surreal corruption made everything all goofy. Monsters made from bodies of monsters, black goop, zombies, and a plane that flaps like a bird. You see those creatures? They too were ONCE HUMAN. 

Available now from Steam and Epic

WARHAMMER 40K SPACE MARINE 2
(Trailer)

Turn on the lights, it’s looking a little Grimdark in here! Be a space marine from the Warhammer 40k universe and blow up a bunch of insect-like Tyranids. Join with your buddies for co-op or be one of the bad space marines and kill other space marines. I don’t play!  

Coming September 9th, 2024 to Xbox series X|S, PS5, and PC

METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO
(Trailer)

It’s a Persona game in a high fantasy setting. In a mixture of 3D gameplay and 2D cutscenes, make friends, awaken their not-personas (we’re calling them archetypes now!), and fight high fantasy evil. You’ll argue over who’s the best waifu and you know what? That’s okay.  

Coming October 11th, 2024 to Xbox Series X|S and Windows

BATMAN: ARKHAM SHADOW
(Trailer)

It’s another Arkham game but it’s exclusively for the Meta Quest 3. The Rat King is leading a proletariat revolution and Batman as an arm of the State has to stomp it out while a Smashing Pumpkins cover song (you can guess which) plays in the background. 

Coming Fall 2024 for Meta Quest 3

STREET FIGHTER 6: FATAL FURY
(Trailer)

Not a new game, but a few Fatal Fury characters are coming to STREET FIGHTER 6! That probably means a lot to fighting game fans, so enjoy that. Also M. Bison is coming back and he looks like he’s been living out of his car for a few months. 

Coming in Year 2 of DLC for STREET FIGHTER 6

TEARS OF METAL
(Trailer)

What if BRAVEHEART was a co-op roguelike that also played like Dynasty Warriors? What if it was also highly stylized and had a visceral animation style that was also weirdly cute, and switched from 3D to 2D between battles? That’s TEARS OF METAL, baby. 

Coming to Steam

DRAGON BALL: SPARKING! ZERO
(Trailer)

It’s another Dragon Ball Z Budokai Fighter with as many new characters and classic match-ups as there are formatting choices in the title. Engage in battles from the beginning of DBZ to Dragon Ball Super and possibly beyond. 

Coming October 11th, 2024 to Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Steam

DELTA FORCE HAWK OPS + DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK DOWN
(Trailer)

Two trailers, one game! DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK DOWN is a retelling of the Ridley Scott film/actual event in human history, and the campaign mode for DELTA FORCE: HAWK OPS. HAWK OPS is a free-to-play, hero-based shooter with mission objectives.

Coming to PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Mac, and Android. (Look, that’s what they said!)

FATAL FURY: CITY OF THE WOLVES
(Trailer)

It’s a new Fatal Fury! You didn’t think they’d put Terry Bogard in Street Fighter for nothing, did you? You fool. You utter rube. 

Coming early 2025 to PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Epic Games

MECHA BREAK
(Trailer)

Mechsuit-based fighter with designs by Junya Ishigaki, who has worked on mecha designs for Gundam shows and games like XENOGEARS, and Takayuki Yanase who has also worked on Gundam projects along with shows like EUREKA SEVEN and ARMORED CORE VI. Unique mech designs! Big Arenas! Shoot ’em up!  

Closed Beta coming this Summer to PC

MIGHTY MORPHIN’ POWER RANGERS: RITA’S REWIND
(Trailer)

Remember that retro Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game that came out a while back? Well, it’s that, but they’re doing Power Rangers this time, of the Mighty Morphin’ variety. Scroll to the side while beating up bad guys, command the Megazord in first person, and there’s a motorcycle level. Ay-yi-yi!

Coming to Steam

DEER AND BOY
(Trailer)

The boy has lost a parent. So has this baby deer. Get ready to develop strong feelings for a scared baby deer as they help each other solve puzzles and uncover the mystery of some purple goop that’s messing with nature. Also, the deer grows up and becomes magic.

Coming to Steam

KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE 2: SAINTS AND SINNERS
(Trailer)

The ultra-realistic medieval narrative sim is back to delight your friend who knows a little more about the Austro-Hungarian empire’s military than you’re comfortable with. Like, he’s not outwardly racist, but his phone background looks like Aryan propaganda. Anyway, fight knights and clash swords in a world before plumbing. 

Coming 2024 to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC

SLITTERHEAD
(Trailer)

A cryptic body horror beat ’em up from the creator of Silent Hill, SLITTERHEAD looks gross as hell. A Tokyo cop, a runaway, and a stranger in a motorcycle helmet and trench coat fight gross body horror monsters. You ever hear of TOKYO GORE POLICE? Don’t look it up.  

Coming November 8th, 2024 to Xbox Series X|S, PS4 and PS5, Steam, and Epic Games

KILLER BEAN
(Trailer)

You might’ve seen these cult coffee bean shorts on the internet in the early 2000s, but now it’s a full-fledged roguelike with crazy Max Payne gunfights and ridiculous physics. Killer Bean slam-dunks a grenade into a group of bad guys in the trailer. There’s not much else to say.  

Early access in 2024

CAIRN
(Trailer)

French mountain-climbing game that looks like it’s got almost QWOP-like controls. Our heroine seeks to climb a Nepalese-looking series of mountains, and screams a lot while doing it. The game is also named after those hippie rock towers park rangers don’t want you to make. 

WANDERSTOP
(Trailer)

A cozy little game where you play as a former fighter who now helps to run a tea shop, doing chores and serving tea to adventurers. Sounds simple enough, but this is an Annapurna game made by the creator of THE STANLEY PARABLE, so it’s probably a metaphor for trauma.

Coming in 2024 to PS5 and Steam

UNKNOWN 9: AWAKENING
(Trailer)

An action-puzzler where a girl who can project herself into an overlapping dimension must stop a shadowy group looking to kill mysterious immortal sages, the titular Unknown 9. Hop into enemies’ bodies, use extradimensional powers, and get revenge on someone who’s wronged you. Just girly things!  

Coming Fall 2024 to PlayStation, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC

ENOTRIA: THE LAST SONG
(Trailer)

People are going to tell you this is Spanish. They’re wrong. It’s based on Italian Commedia dell’arte and I’m the only person licensed to tell you so. Anyway, you fight champions and take their powers by ripping their mask faces off in a medieval, Soulslike kinda deal. 

Coming September 19th, 2024 to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Epic Games Store, demo available for PS5, Steam, and Epic

THE FIRST DESCENDANT
(Trailer)

A stylish, futuristic looter-shooter with a Warframe-y vibe. Operators are equipped with exo-suits that provide specific abilities such as shields, stealth, speed, and special weaponry. Everyone gets a grappling hook, though, and tons o’ guns for the obsessive firearm collector within all of us.   

Available now on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Steam

SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS
(Trailer)

Woe betide the ignorant researcher who types “SonicXShadow” into Google search without specifying the “generations” aspect. It’s Sonic Generations but now there’s some classic levels starring Shadow the Hedgehog. Gotta go fast, gotta be edgy. You know how it goes. 

Coming October 25th to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Steam, and Epic Games

DUNE: AWAKENING
(Trailer)

We’ve had news about this survival MMO for a bit now, but at Summer Game Fest we learned that it takes place in a possible future where Timothée Chalamet’s character from the Dune movies (Paul Atreides, if you’re a nerd) was a girl. Seems sexist, but that’s Dune, baby. 

Coming to Xbox Series S|X, PS5, and Steam

BATTLE ACES
(Trailer)

What if a Real-Time Strategy game was fun? That’s what Battle Aces imagines through the use of unit decks to encourage strategizing before and during the game. It’s army vs. army of little robot dudes going at it for probably supremacy or something. Wait for the Beta for more info.

Coming to Steam

ALAN WAKE 2: NIGHT SPRINGS
(Trailer)

ALAN WAKE 2 has DLC starring different playable characters from ALAN WAKE, including Tim Breaker and Rose Marigold, plus Jesse Faden from CONTROLl. Sam Lake described them as “what-if” scenarios and you can bet they’re gonna be about as goofy as they will be terrifying.  

Available now

NEW WORLD: AETERNUM
(Trailer)

New expansion for Amazon Gaming’s MMO New World. If you’ve been playing NEW WORLD you probably know what’s coming, but I haven’t and they didn’t really explain anything in the trailer. All I caught was the “Where Is My Mind” cover if I’m being honest. 

Coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 15th

HONKAI: STAR RAIL
(Trailer)

Looks like there’s a new chapter for HONKAI: STAR RAIL. There’s talks of dream worlds, awakenings, and a character gets a new outfit. I couldn’t tell you what the base game is about but the more we say “Honkai: Star Rail” our SEO shoots through the damn roof. 

Available now

DARK AND DARKER
(Trailer)

A free-to-play PvPvE first-person dungeon crawler. Different classes and abilities combine to get to new levels of the dungeon. Do you claim the treasure you’re looking for, or do you climb deeper into the darkness and risk it all? 

Available now on Steam and Epic Games

KUNITSU-GAMI: PATH OF THE GODDESS
(Trailer)

An action-strategy game set against a mythical Japanese backdrop, KUNITSU-GAMI will have you directing fighters against folkloric demons while also giving you the option to stop time and readjust if need be. 

Available now on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Steam

HYPER LIGHT BREAKER
(Trailer)

As a successor to Heart Machine’s HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER, HYPER LIGHT BREAKER is a 3D, open-world exploration game with a full campaign co-op mode so you and your buddies can tackle the Hyper Light together. Still not sure what it is, but it worked for HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER.

Coming Late Summer 2024 to Steam Early Access

PARTY ANIMALS
(Trailer)

It’s kinda like GANG BEASTS but with cute little animal critters. PARTY ANIMALS has been out since last year, but it’s coming back around with more game modes and updates to make your next rag-doll beat-em-up sesh one you’ll talk about and hold grudges regarding for years.

Available now

SKATE.
(Trailer)

Whoa, they got Tim Robinson for this trailer! Neato! Anyway, they’re still making SKATE 4, which is now being called “skate.” The in-depth skateboarding sim is now announcing console playtesting starting this fall. Radical! 

Console playtesting coming this fall

PALWORLD SAKURAJIMA
(Trailer)

Your favorite Not-Pokemon game has a brand new expansion with the Sakurajima update. Travel to the Japan-like Sakurajima Island and experience all-new content, like new Pals, new subspecies, a new raid, new factions, new bosses, and a raised level cap.  

Available now

VALORANT
(Trailer)

It’s VALORANT and it’s coming to consoles this year. Weep, PC players. Weep for the lands you once loved, defiled by inferior, filthy console players. All you hold dear will turn to rot before you.  

Available now on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

SQUAD BUSTERS
(Trailer)

Still not sure what SQUAD BUSTERS is, but man, they spent a ton of money on Ken Jeong, Chris Hemsworth, Will Arnett, Christina Ricci, and Auli’i Cravalho to dress up like the characters and do some bits to a Nickelback song. Also that cardboard sign guy was in it?

Available for mobile devices

MONSTER HUNTER: WILDS
(Trailer)

With a new Monster Hunter comes new environments, new monsters, and new monster-hunting mechanics. We’ll likely get more info as we move closer to the release date, but so far it looks like a lot of shooting critters in the desert. 

Coming in 2025 to Xbox Series S|X, PS5, and Steam

PHANTOM BLADE 0
(Trailer)

We’ve seen bits of PHANTOM BLADE 0 before, but it showed up to Summer Games Fest with a new trailer full of in-game footage that showed off the stylish swordfighting action along with enemies, mechanics, and other in-game weapons in this world that mixes Chinese martial arts with steampunk aesthetics. 

Xbox Showcase

Xbox Showcase 2024

DOOM: THE DARK AGES
(Trailer)

Doom Slayer before he was Doom Slayer was apparently working in a Ren Faire situation. With weapons, enemies, and locations straight out of a Mastodon album, Doom is back to go medieval on the denizens of Hell. Also he fights colossal enemies in a giant robot. Metal.

Coming in 2025 to Xbox Game Pass and PC

STATE OF DECAY 3
(Trailer)

Slay zombies and rescue survivors in the latest addition to the State of Decay series. Heartstrings may be pulled. Heartstrings will probably be severed.

Coming to Game Pass on release

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD
(Trailer)

The follow-up to DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION sees you gathering a group of fantasy ne’er-do-wells with special sets of skills to pull off some sort of job, or perhaps even a caper. Judging by the slowed-down cover of “Heroes” in the trailer, there will probably be some heroics involved. 

Coming Fall 2024 to Xbox and PC

STARFIELD: SHATTERED SPACE
(Trailer)

STARFIELD is getting some new DLC that’ll take players aboard an abandoned satellite and into the clutches of a terrifying space cult. Plus there’s some free content coming to the base game such as new factions, new bounties, and stuff made by fans you can decorate your li’l bases with.

DLC coming 2024, free content available now

FALLOUT 76: SKYLINE VALLEY
(Trailer)

FALLOUT 76’s first map expansion, SKYLINE VALLEY, is coming this summer, bringing with it all sorts of new content. Skyline Valley is home to Vault 63, which seems to be full of ghouls in various states of decay. Also they’ll let you play as a ghoul starting next year.

Available now

CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33
(Trailer)

A turn-based Western RPG battler with flecks of French culture, members of the Expedition must journey to The Continent to fight gross-looking beasts and eventually defeat The Paintress, who seems to be dooming people of specific ages every year. Kinda like Gen Z, am I RIGHT, folks???

Coming in 2025 to PC and Game Pass

SOUTH OF MIDNIGHT
(Trailer)

Remember the trailer for this game a year or so ago with the giant blues singer? Well now here’s some gameplay and plot! Our protagonist is searching a corrupted version of Louisiana’s bayous for her mom, and uses a Weaving magic to fight and explore the swamps. 

Coming 2025 to Game Pass and PC

WORLD OF WARCRAFT: THE WAR WITHIN
(Trailer)

A new expansion to WORLD OF WARCRAFT, THE WAR WITHIN seems to imply a battle for the very soul of the world of Azeroth. Interesting notes of finality, particularly the whole bit about “The Final Battle.”

Available now

METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER
(Trailer)

A next-gen remake of METAL GEAR SOLID 3 is coming to Xbox at some point. Use stealth to infiltrate Soviet territory, eat tree frogs, climb ladders. What a thrill!

SEA OF THIEVES: SEASON 13
(Trailer)

An Ancient Evil™ awakens and if you’d like you can partake of that evil. That Evil now comes with a sick fire-breathing warship and some skeleton friends to hang out with.

Available now

FLINTLOCK: THE SIEGE OF DAWN
(Trailer)

FLINTLOCK seems to be named for the apex of firearm technology this world is currently at. You’re on a mission to kill all the gods of this world, along with a cute furry critter who is also a god but seems to want to help you in this action Soulslike adventure. 

Available now on Game Pass and PC

AGE OF MYTHOLOGY RETOLD
(Trailer)

A next-gen remake of AGE OF MYTHOLOGY a la the remake of AGE OF EMPIRES 2. An RTS that focuses on different pantheons of gods, mythical monsters, and their devotees instead of specific civilizations. Prove once and for all your god is an awesome god.

Coming September 4 2024 to Game Pass and PC

PERFECT DARK
(Trailer)

The PERFECT DARK reboot is finally on its way. A first-person stealth shooter set in the near future, there’s also plenty of gunplay action, some parkour, gadgets to use, and bad guys to stomp on as you uncover what is probably a vast conspiracy.

Release date unavailable, but coming to Game Pass on Day One

DIABLO IV: VESSEL OF HATRED
(Trailer)

Looks like a new DLC for DIABLO IV! And that’s as far as I can tell! We’ve got a jungle setting, a stone that leaks goop, and a cursed woman in a race against time to not get strung up like a star on a Christmas tree.

Coming October 8th, 2024 to PC

FABLE
(Trailer)

Reboot of the Fable series, which has been making the rounds for a bit. Now there’s a bit more gameplay featuring swords, throwing knives, and slaying giant beasts, along with the implication of needing to stop a former hero gone bad. Also less Richard Ayoade.

Coming 2025 to Game Pass and PC

FRAGPUNK
(Trailer)

A neon-streaked, 5v5, hero-based shooter with a fun little twist: Players can create and activate cards that alter the game’s rules, such as tagging foes for instant death, dramatically altering the landscape, and even giving opponents big ol’ heads.

Coming 2025 to Xbox and PC

WINTER BURROW
(Trailer)

A 2D, isometric survival-crafter where a disillusioned city mouse returns to the tree stump home of her youth, except it’s winter and everything sucks now. Rebuild your home, craft cozy mouse clothes and weapons, and uncover what happened to your home. 

Coming Early 2025 to Game Pass and PC

MIXTAPE
(Trailer)

Some late ‘80s, almost John Hughes-y nostalgia mixed with surrealism. You and your teenage buddies are coming of age and your mixtapes have the power to bend reality. Featuring music from Devo, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Smashing Pumpkins, and Joy Division.

Coming in 2025 to Game Pass and PC

MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2024
(Trailer)

FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2024 brings with it a series of career modes, with missions including everything from commercial flights, to search and rescue missions, to air racing, and even hot air balloons. Basically if it goes in the air, you’ll find it in here. Your dad will love it. 

Coming November 19th, 2024 to Game Pass and PC

LIFE IS STRANGE: DOUBLE EXPOSURE
(Trailer)

Max Caulfield is back, and after going away to college she’s bringing her powers back for one last job. Jump back and forth between two timelines in order to solve and prevent the murder of her friend Safi before it’s too late.

Coming October 29th to Xbox and PC

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE
(Trailer)

Another story trailer for INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE. There’s more environments to travel to as you search for the secret of the Great Circle, like Egypt, Italy, the rainforests, and the Himalayas. Also you can bonk bad boys with banjos. 

Coming 2024 to Game Pass and PC

WU CHANG: FALLEN FEATHERS
(Trailer)

A monster hunter fights beasts and baddies throughout a China inspired by wuxia cinema and possibly Soulslikes. The monster hunter is also slowly turning into a monster due to a familial curse, which is not ideal, even if you’re not a monster hunter. 

Coming 2025 to Game Pass and PC

AVOWED
(Trailer)

An action RPG where your task is to either eliminate a plague called the Dream Scourge from the Living Lands frontier for your empire, cull those who war over the Living Lands, or empower yourself with the Dream Scourge. Stuff’s got ANNIHILATION vibes, so be careful what you choose. 

Coming 2024 to Game Pass and PC

ATOMFALL
(Trailer)

Feels like a Welsh Fallout, with British soldiers maintaining a grip on a small village during an atomic disaster. Large 1960s robots patrol the streets for the crown while druidic rituals are practiced in secret, possibly augmented by the aforementioned nuclear disaster.

Coming 2025 to Game Pass and PC

ASSASSIN’S CREED: SHADOWS
(Trailer)

It’s them dang ol’ Assassins and their dang ol’ creed! Naoe is a shinobi in feudal Japan looking for revenge, and Yasuke is a samurai retainer to Oda Nobunaga looking to punish those who would prey on the weak. Two Assassins, two playstyles, one creed, baby. 

Coming November 15th to Xbox and PC

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: HEART OF CHERNOBYL
(Trailer)

Hey did you know that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stands for Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers, and Robbers? There’s a lot of all of that happening in the rusted-out remains of Chernobyl as you and your buddies try to eke out a living as mercenaries and guides.

Coming September 5th, 2024 to Game Pass and PC

GEARS OF WAR: E-DAY
(Trailer)

Gears of War is back with a prequel examining the beginning of the Locust emergence (that’s the “E” in “E-Day”). Marcus and Dom are just two bros who just wrapped up one war to begin another for the future of humanity. Expect some heavy foreshadowing! 

Release date unavailable, but Day One with Game Pass.

Ubisoft Forward

Ubisoft Forward 2024

XDEFIANT
(Trailer)

Ubisoft’s Super Shoot Bros. is getting a GSK faction from Rainbow Six Siege, along with new maps also inspired by R6S. 

SKULL AND  BONES
(Tailer)

Season 2 of SKULL AND BONES brings a new story and new Sea Lords, along with new boats, new sea monsters, and some new time-limited events and QoL changes. Plus, you’re getting solo and PvE modes along 5 vs. 5 PvP. And in Season 3 you can fight a dragon.

New season available now

PRINCE OF PERSIA
(Trailer #1, Trailer #2, Trailer #3)

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE LOST CROWN is getting a special challenge mode and a story DLC, MASK OF DARKNESS. The Rogue Prince of Persia is getting a new level, The Temple of Fire. And they’re remaking PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME. 

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE LOST CROWN DIVINE TRIALS available now. MASK OF DARKNESS coming September 2024, THE ROGUE PRINCE OF PERSIA Temple of Fire update available now, PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME coming 2026

ROCKSMITH+
(Trailer)

You bet your ass they still have ROCKSMITH. You can try it for free now on PlayStation and learn to play “Wonderwall” more efficiently than ever before.

Available on PS4, PS5, PC, Android, and the App store

AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA
(Trailer)

All you Avatarheads are getting a new story pack known as The Sky Breaker. The Na’vi celebration for fending off human incursion is cut short by yet another human incursion. When will they/we learn!

Available now as part of the season pass

THE CREW: MOTORFEST
(Trailer)

Season 4 will feature a new playlist, Donk vs. Lowrider. Season 5 will see the introduction of Maui in addition to Oahu. Drivers will also get a new playlist for Season 5, Made in Japan Vol. 2. Also a new Chase mode is coming! 

Season 4 available now, Chase and Takedown mode coming November 2024

ANNO 117: PAX ROMANA
(Trailer)

The historical city builder heads to the Roman empire, giving governors the option to build a city in the heart of the Empire, or in the strange new Celtic lands. 

Coming 2025 to Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Epic Games store

Devolver Direct

CULT OF THE LAMB
(Trailer)

Wanna play CULT OF THE LAMB with a friend? Now you can. Local co-op is coming in CUL OF THE LAMB: UNHOLY ALLIANCE.

Available now

THE CRUSH HOUSE
(Trailer)

A stylized 3D adventure in bright pastels that lampoons cultural titans such as The Real World and Love Island, THE CRUSH HOUSE is a steamy reality show with a mysterious and unsettling secret.

Full game and demo available now

TENJUTSU
(Trailer)

A pixel-art roguelike brawler, TENJUTSU has you cleaning up crime in an expansive city. Runs are different depending on which gang you take down in which order. Earn money to beef up bonuses and shops in the next sector. From the designer of DEAD CELLS! 

THE TALOS PRINCIPLE 2
(Trailer)

Described as a three-part coda to the TALOS PRINCIPLE 2, ROAD TO ELYSIUM looks deeper into the development of the robots from THE TALOS PRINCIPLE 2. ORPHEUS ASCENDING, ISLE OF THE BLESSED, and INTO THE ABYSS all present crazy new puzzles and will continue stories from the base game.

Available now for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC

ANGER FOOT
(Trailer)

A first person beat-em-up for sneakerheads. Each pair of sneakers gives you different abilities as you kick and shoot your way through levels full of balaclava-clad baddies.

Available now

POSSESSOR(S)
(Trailer)

A new game and new world from Heart Machine, developer of HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER and HYPER LIGHT BREAKER. A moody, side-scrolling beat-em-up with a story that develops depending on where you head next in the overworld. Punctuated by neon lights and oozing with neo-noir sensibilities.

Coming 2025

Day of the Devs

Day of the Devs 2024

BATTLE VISION NETWORK
(Trailer)

A turn-based, match-three puzzle fighter in space! Each team has a leader with special abilities that you can use to dominate the competition to the delight of the spacefaring public.

Coming 2025 to Steam and Netflix Games

PETAL RUNNER
(Trailer)

A slice-of-life RPG with graphics inspired by early GameBoy games like Pokémon. Deliver special generators that create pets using flowers and calibrate them with quick little minigames. Make friends, uncover secrets, and vibe to the chiptune beats.

KARMA: THE DARK WORLD
(Trailer)

Put David Lynch and George Orwell into a Blender and season it with David Cronenberg and you get this game. Your job is to investigate the memories of people for your dystopian overlords, switching between memories and reality as your body deteriorates. Kind of like real life.

Coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and GoG

UFO 50
(Trailer)

The creators of SPELUNKY and SPELUNKY 2 couldn’t come up with a follow-up title, so they got some pals together to make 50. UFO 50 is a collection of 50 games ranging from ‘80s arcade games to early ‘90s console games from fictional company UFOSoft. Find your favorite!

Coming to Steam September 18th, 2024

COZY GROVE: CAMP SPIRIT
(Trailer)

A cozy little wholesome game where you spread kindness on a haunted island full of ghost bears. Do nice things for your neighbors to advance the story while catching fish, making animal friends, and growing your campsite. It’s like a DON’T STARVE but nicer!

Coming to Netflix Games

KOIRA
(Trailer)

You’ve woken up in a forest during winter and rescued a puppy caught in a trap. Now you and the puppy must bond, explore the forest, and rescue other woodland critters. No dialogue, no text, only music and sounds. If you need a chill, cute game, this is it. 

Demo coming Summer 2024

ARRANGER: A ROLE-PUZZLING ADVENTURE
(Trailer)

A cute puzzler with a unique movement mechanic: Everything in the game is on a grid, and when Gemma, our hero, moves up or down, everything on the same row or column moves with her. Use this to explore her little town, uncover mysteries, and, darn tootin’, solve puzzles.

Available now on PS5, Steam, Epic Games Store, Nintendo Switch, and Netflix Games

FEAR THE SPOTLIGHT
(Trailer)

This is one of Blumhouse Games’ first releases, so it’s gonna be a spooky time. This low-poly Silent Hill-esque adventure has Viv looking for her friend Amy, who disappeared after the two snuck into their high school for some good ol’ fashioned Ouija board fun. 

Coming to PlayStation and Xbox systems, Nintendo Switch, and Steam

SCREEN BOUND
(Trailer)

This one is for anyone who’s ever tried to walk and play a GameBoy at the same time. Control a little dude on a GameBoy-type 2D handheld to navigate a mirror-image 3D world. Keep track of both worlds to solve puzzles and advance.

ZOOCHOSIS
(Trailer)

It’s like a Zoo Tycoon met FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S and a heaping helping of THE THING. Something’s messing up these zoo animals, and as the new night zookeeper, you’ve got to keep them from mutating and not get murdered in the process in this atmospheric creepfest.

WHILE WAITING
(Trailer)

A lot of life just kinda feels like waiting for things to happen, and now there’s a game about it. There’s a lot of waiting in this hand-painted game, and you can either do that or engage in little minigames and challenges to break up the monotony. 

PSYCHOROMA
(Trailer)

Cyberpunk horror focusing on identity and the loss of it. Haze has amnesia and doesn’t know who they are, but things around them are getting too messed up to think about that too much. Scroll to the side in this spooky retro thriller.

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
(Trailer)

You literally play as a building that develops relationships with other buildings in this lo-fi slice of life. Bounce around an island and meet apartment complexes and windmills to make friends with. Discover chests named Chester that are all part of a polycule. This is ridiculous.

A LITTLE TO THE LEFT: SEEING STARS
(Trailer)

The hit game about arranging stuff gets a DLC with 35 more levels and five bonus levels. Find multiple solutions to unlock stars based on how you arrange the items. Some items can fold, some items can spread for a variety of possible solutions.

Available now

HELLO AGAIN
(Trailer)

Stranded on the island you were meant to deliver to, a ferret postal worker is stuck in a 12-hour time loop and must uncover the mysteries of the island, the loop, and the puzzles that govern them both. It’s a little bit Animal Crossing, little bit OUTER WILDS.

Coming 2025

TOM THE POSTGIRL
(Trailer)

Tom’s job is to deliver packages, but she’s also a big fan of spying on the weird villagers she delivers to. A creepy-yet-cute little point and click with hand-drawn, almost-Edward Gorey-looking illustrations, help Tom decide to be a voyeur or vendor. Of mail.

AFTER LOVE EP
(Trailer)

Rama lives in Jakarta with his girlfriend until she tragically passes, leaving behind an unfinished EP. As he navigates grief, music, and self-discovery, he begins to hear her voice wherever he goes. A heartfelt, semi-autobiographical point and click with music by L’Alphalpha and a distinct art style.

Coming October 2024

PHOENIX SPRINGS
(Trailer)

Search for your brother in the uncanny oasis of Phoenix Springs by connecting thoughts and concepts to use in conversation and interact with the world. A mixture of 2D animation and 3D modeling along with a striking color palette also lends to the eerie vibes. Like rotoscoped, but not?

Coming September 16th, 2024 to Steam

TIDES OF TOMORROW
(Trailer)

You arrive on an artificial pleasure island infested with crooks and ne’er-do-wells and get mistaken for someone else who looks like you. Fortunately you’re gifted with visions of what your friends have previously done and can act based on their past actions. Kinda like the end of OXENFREE, I think?

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AMONG THE WILD
(Trailer)

Run a cozy little farm by yourself and your Princess Mononoke mask in an idyllic forest teeming with strange, oval-shaped little critters. Domesticate and raise the little dudes while growing and harvesting crops and fending off farm disasters in this first-person farming sim.

STAR BIRDS
(Trailer)

Meet the Star Birds! They’re birds in space and they need your help to claim nearby asteroids. Harvest resources and build factories to advance your technology and power their claim to galactic empire. They’re little cartoon birds of indeterminate species, how much trouble could they be? 

 Coming 2025 to Steam

LORN VALE
(Trailer)

Play as a hardened wastelander in a vast, uh, wasteland with a mysterious past. Build your camp, travel the wastes, and collect bounties in this isometric, pixelated desert. Craft weapons, explore dungeons, or simply make some trades to survive the harsh environs.

Coming 2025 to Steam

ALE ABBEY
(Trailer)

Ale Abbey puts you in the frock of a friar looking to found a monastery that mostly brews a ton of beer. Perfect your recipes to increase sales and grow your operation while hiring workers, recruiting nuns and monks, and trying not to get attacked by disgruntled peasants.

Coming 2024 to Steam

STREETS OF ROGUE 2
(Trailer)

A sequel to the original roguelite chaos simulator, it’s time to uncork the bottle of insanity once more and cause havoc in the streets any way you can. I don’t know how exactly pixel graphics get improved while still remaining pixels, but this slick little game promises hours of destruction.

Available now for Steam Early Access

WANDER STARS
(Trailer)

You know how anime characters in the ‘80s would perform their special attacks by screaming the name aloud? Well Wander Stars is a turn-based RPG and a love letter to ‘80s action anime, so that’s how you string your attacks together. It looks like you’re playing a dang anime.

Demo available now on Steam

SOUTHFIELD
(Trailer)

A chaotic farming simulator, like if GANG BEASTS had a STARDEW VALLEY mode. Sprint around your growing farm like a madman, watering and planting with reckless abandon. Journey into the world where physics is stupid to explore and find more crops to sprint around. 

Early Access available now on Steam

STEEL SEED
(Trailer)

A robo-brawler with a labyrinthine plot involving robo-kingdoms, robo-betrayal, and securing your robo-destiny. Everyone’s a robot is what I’m saying here. Anyway, you’ll also sneak, slide, and swordfight your way to get to the bottom of this robo-upheaval.

Coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Epic Games Store

FALLEN ACES
(Trailer)

There’s probably a reason why this game has the same sort of gimmick as that Mouse game, as both are classic DOOM-style shooters with graphics replicating vintage animation. Aces, however, is more akin to Dick Tracy comics than Fleischer cartoons. Uncover a conspiracy. Beat up goons. Prevent gooning. Hee hee.

Episode One available now on Steam

STORMGATE
(Trailer)

Perhaps you’ve heard of this RTS that claims to carry on Blizzard’s work with the Starcraft and Warcraft series. Perhaps you’ve grown accustomed to the Human and Infernal armies already available. But you’re probably not ready for the angelic yet techno-centric Celestial race that’s coming. ‘Cause they are coming.

Available for pre-purchase now, demo available on Steam

MARS TACTICS
(Trailer)

In the future we’ve begun to colonize Mars. But as one might expect, capital and labor are butting heads. When a strike turns violent, play as either the workers or the corporation for domination of Mars. Customize your equipment and your tactics to win control of the Red Planet.

Coming soon to Steam, Epic Games Store, and GoG

TOADS OF THE BAYOU
(Trailer)

A grid-based strategy game like INTO THE BREACH, but also a deck-building strategy game like… deck-building strategy games. With toads! In Louisiana! Curious. Build your deck and deploy your strategies to defend your bayou from invaders. Choose your hero and play your beautifully illustrated cards. It’ll keep you ribbited.

Coming October 2024 to Steam

THE SUMERIAN SIX
(Trailer)

It’s a little bit WOLFENSTEIN, a little bit XCOM, and a teeny bit THIEF. It’s WWII and some Nazis are working on a portal to another dimension, so it’s up to you and your band of misfits to infiltrate their bases and silently sabotage their plans. 

Coming 2024, demo available now

ALL SYSTEMS DANCE
(Trailer)

What do you do when you’re trapped on the island of an evil corporation and forced to bring value to shareholders? You dance, of course. You dance so good that the corpo robots have no choice but to recognize your sentience. It’s a battle for your life. A dance battle. 

FUMES
(Trailer)

Create and customize your post-apocalyptic war rig through the wasteland. Race other junkers, make deliveries, and avoid giant mechanical abominations. It is not MAD MAX. Stop calling it MAD MAX. Other games can have wastelands and beat-up super cars.

Coming to Steam

SULFUR
(Trailer)

Crawl through dungeons infested with goblins and other weird little dudes with your secret weapon: tons of firearms. 

Demo available now

PHANTOM LINE
(Trailer)

There’s a civil war raging between Red and Blue factions, but that’s not your problem. Your problem is the interdimensional anomalies that must be contained. Squad up and enter Lynchian pocket dimensions to take them down, or whatever the voice on the other line needs you to do.  

KILLING FLOOR 3
(Trailer)

The Zeds are back and they want you dead. With improved hitboxes, more danger, and plenty of blood and guts, every frame of KILLING FLOOR 3 looks like the cover of a power metal album. Lock, load, and lacerate your way through the new improved Floor de Killing.

COPA CITY
(Trailer)

You’ve played soccer, you’ve managed soccer teams, now get ready to organize a soccer match. Prevent hooliganism as fans from all over pour into your city and converge on your stadium. Manage the locker room, the seating, and the outside entertainment all in the name of a good soccer match.

Coming 2025 to Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC

TEMPOPO
(Trailer)

Your singing, musical plants have been blown away in a storm, and the only things that can get them back are your bouncing buddies known as Tempopo. Solve puzzles and keep to the beat to wrangle your singing flowers and bring them back to your garden.

Coming to Xbox One and Series X|S, Switch, and Steam

LAST MOON
(Trailer)

Explore the land of If your way. Fend off monsters, level up, and customize your character’s fighting style just how you like it. Also play local co-op with your friends! This top-down fantasy dungeon crawler is sure to, uh, have some dungeons for ya.

Demo available now on Steam

I AM YOUR BEAST
(Trailer)

From the makers of EL PASO, ELSEWHERE comes a stylish FPS with an equal focus on stealth and swift, decisive combat. Sneak around a snowy mountain range and dispatch agents as Harding, using the environment as well as your own skills to show who’s hunting whomst.

Coming to Steam

CATACLISMO
(Trailer)

Build your fortress and rally survivors in this medieval tower defense game. Little beasties have devastated the population, but you and your bannermen are here to make your stand against them. Raise a fortress, rescue and recruit survivors and soldiers, and build your firepower to stand tall against the ghoulies.

Available now

LEVEL ZERO: EXTRACTION
(Trailer)

It’s a simple mission: get into the space base, extract from the space base, weapons-free. Except there’s another squad in the space base, also trying to do that. Also there’s a whole squad of aliens looking to wipe out everyone. Good luck, champ! 

Open Beta now available

CITIZEN SLEEPER 2: STARWARD VECTOR
(Trailer)

The Sleeper is back and running contracts in the vastness of The Belt. Use TTRPG mechanics to scrap and scavenge to keep your space lights on and fulfill your tasks. Recruit crew members with their own special skills and their own special problems. Nothing ever goes right in the belt! 

Coming 2025

DEMONSCHOOL
(Trailer)

Welcome to Demonschool, and class is in session. A grid-based strategy game where you and your classmates square off against eldritch abominations in the name of higher education. If you like cults and cosmic horror, this is the strategy game for you. Freak.

Coming Friday the 13th, September 2024 to Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Steam, and Epic Games Store

UNRAILED 2: BACK ON TRACK
(Trailer)

UNRAILED is back to challenge you with real-time resource gathering and track-laying on a procedurally-generated voxel map. Now with Terrain Conductor mode, you can build your own maps and challenge your friends to see who is the most useful engine of them all.

Coming to Steam

SPACE STATION 14
(Trailer)

Compete to capture the intelligence or complete some other objective above this action-packed, sprite-filled multiplayer. Use your brains and your brawn to lay traps, counter the enemy and secure victory aboard a space station. Also it’s open source, if you’re a big enough nerd to appreciate that.  

Coming to Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux

UNBEATABLE
(Trailer)

This trailer did the work for me here, it’s “a game where music is illegal and you do crimes”. Hell yeah. It’s a rhythm-based brawler where you and your band of anime teens take on The Man in the name of rock ‘n’ roll. HELL YEAH.

Coming to Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S

ODINFALL
(Trailer)

Unleash the power of Viking Power Metal in this bullet HELHEIM. You and your buddies have been imprisoned by the gods of Valhalla, and the only way to escape is by defeating Odin. Each character has their own unique design and abilities to free yourself from Odin’s grasp.

Coming to Steam, demo available now

CORE KEEPER
(Trailer)

Collect your friends and traverse challenging biomes in this pixel-based side-scroller. With different environments at each level, different abilities to determine how you play, and a lovely home base where you can grow powerups for the next run, can you uncover the secret of the core? I believe in you.

Available now for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and Steam

STRIDEN
(Trailer)

An alt-history struggle for survival in a timeline where in the ‘70s, Scandinavia was the victim of multiple tactical nukes. Fight for resources and strengthen your fortress before the irradiated air or the irradiated bear get the better of you. Yeah, you read that right. 

Available now on Steam

DEATHSPRINT 66
(Trailer)

It’s a racing game without vehicles. Don an exosuit and try not to die as you sprint, wall-run, jump, and slide through a far-future death gauntlet to achieve glory and also that “not dying” thing I mentioned earlier. 

Coming to Steam

CRESCENT COUNTY
(Trailer)

What’s a broke-ass witch with an affinity for motorbrooms to do? Get a job as a courier of course! And supplement your income with illegal motorbroom street races. Run errands for the citizens of the town you just moved to and upgrade your bike while maintaining your relationships. Witch please!!!

Coming to Steam and Xbox

FORGOTTEN SEAS
(Trailer)

Become a pirate lord as you craft your ship, build your fortress, and sail for treasure and glory in FORGOTTEN SEAS. Notable for its ship-in-a-bottle crafting mechanic and base-building, you’ll also command a crew, fight naval battles, and swordfight your way into legend. 

Early Access available now

MOON MYSTERY
(Trailer)

Bad news, gang: The moon is messed up. Only Sam Walker remains and he’s got to collect weaponry and vehicles to fortify his base of operations and discover the mystery on the moon, or the MOON MYSTERY, if you will.

Coming to Steam and Epic Games Store

GI JOE: WRATH OF COBRA
(Trailer)

The preferred video game adaptation of Saturday morning cartoons seems to be side-scrolling beat-em-ups. You and up to three other Joes will punch, kick, slash, and fire legally-not-bullets at legions of Cobra soldiers to defend America, or something.

Demo available now on Steam

EVERHOLM
(Trailer)

You’re Lily! You’re a little witch who has lost her sister, and she’s probably in some messed-up other dimension. While you look for her there’s also a farm to maintain, so you’ve got to balance harvesting crops with rescue work while you solve the mystery of Everholm.

Demo available now on Steam

SHELL RUNNER
(Trailer)

A tactical 3D shooter. Pay for your runner, pay for their equipment, and set them loose in cyberpunk arenas to earn more money and equipment. Life is cheap, so why not splurge! 

Demo available on Steam

RENAISSANCE KINGDOM WARS
(Trailer)

Just what it says on the tin. Build your Renaissance city-state from the fields to the streets to the castle fortress. Lead armies against other kingdoms and defend yourself from enemies as you build your reputation from a lowly mercenary to a grand emperor.

Coming to Steam

DEBTOR’S CLUB
(Trailer)

You’re a tax collector in a shady city hall, and you have to figure out the right way to get the proper return on your investments, be it artificially promoting the restaurant you gave a loan to, manipulating the police during a bank robbery, or some other crazy scheme. 

Demo available on Steam

THE LAND OF THE MAGNATES
(Trailer)

So you know how in DnD bards cast magic through the use of their instruments? That’s basically what’s happening here. There’s a secret to uncover and a journey to be traveled, and it’s just you and your lute against the world, baby. Play notes, cast spells, uncover the truth. 

Demo available on Steam

CAT QUEST 3
(Trailer)

Cats may hate water, but they’re really good at being pirates. Customize your kitty cutthroat with outfits, weapons, and special bonuses to suit your playstyle. Explore dungeons and customize your ship to get stronger abilities. Fight bosses until you’re the most ferocious feline on the sea.

Full game and demo available now on Steam

GO GO TOWN
(Trailer)

Tourists are coming to your town and it’s your job to make sure they have a great time. Build all sorts of amenities like dance clubs, arcades, and even outdoor exercise spaces to build good vibes and friendships. Invite friends to your town and take part in the fun yourself!

Available now for Early Access

STAR TRUCKER
(Trailer)

It ain’t easy haulin’ freight across the known galaxy, but it’s a job, plain and simple. Pilot your big-rig spaceship from point A to B while avoiding cosmic hazards and getting hassled by the space cops. Upgrade and repair as needed to get that cargo where it needs to car-go. 

Out Now

ESCAPE FROM TARKOV
(Trailer)

Wait a minute, comrade, this game has been around for a while! Shut up, fool, it’s only been in beta! But now its 1.0 update is coming, and it’s ready to go gold. Compete against three-man squads for guns and resources to be the victor that finally escapes from Tarkov.

SPLODEY
(Trailer)

Kinda like CELESTER or a Prince of Persia, but you’re a wizard who only knows how to do ‘splosions. There’s no jump button, so you’ll have to figure out just how to tame your explosive power to navigate the platforming peril and climb the wizard’s tower.

Out now on Steam

83
(Trailer)

Plan ambushes and protect your convoys in this “Cold-War-Gone-Hot” shooter. Designed for massive player counts, work together with your army and use strategy to win the day.

Available on Steam

MULLET MADJACK
(Trailer)

A first-person DOOM-style shooter in a neon-soaked ‘80s-inspired cyberpunk dystopia. You have limited time to clear rooms and take down your bounties as Mullet Madjack. Successful and stylish kills buy you more time, and you can call in special weapons to get the job done. 

Available now on Steam

GENERATION EXILE
(Trailer)

After a colony ship meant to forge a new home away from Earth is almost wiped out, it’s up to you to pick up and rebuild in the closed ship ecosystems. Construct habitats, build factories, and grow resources while balancing the personalities of the remaining scientists and colonists. 

Coming to Steam

REKA
(Trailer)

It’s just you and your Baba Yaga chicken house against the wilderness. As the local witch of the woods you can build your house, decorate it as you see fit, and go foraging for supplies to brew potions to share with local villagers. 

Early Access available now

BLUE PRINCE
(Trailer)

On Mt. Holly there’s a large, mysterious manor with shifting rooms and unpredictable floor plans. Behind every locked door you can choose what type of room lies beyond it, and use a combination of strategy and puzzle-solving to unlock the mysteries within and reach the fabled Room 46. 

LOK
(Trailer)

Using a magic crossword puzzle, interact with the LOK creatures, whose language brings them to life. Different words have different effects, and it’s up to you to discover those effects and spread the LOK creatures’ civilization throughout their little crossword world.

Available now on Steam

TACTICAL BREACH WIZARDS
(Trailer)

Imagine a grid-based XCOM, but all the soldiers are wizards with less-than-perfect abilities. Command a group of special ops spellcasters in a turn-based strategy game and use their strange abilities to save the world from the chaos of competent battle wizards.

Available now on Steam

ALOFT
(Trailer)

A survival-crafting game set in the sky. Build your home base, start a farm, and explore the skies aboard your very own sky island. Hang out with friends and explore other sky islands while fighting against a race of fungal monsters spreading rot all over the dang place. 

Multiplayer demo available now on Steam

HOTEL GALACTIC
(Trailer)

Inspired by classic Studio Ghibli films, you are a former space captain who has been asked to help run an intergalactic hotel. Build the hotel from the ground up, choose rooms, and make your weird little guests have the best time they can.

Coming to Steam, Kickstarter funding has begun

STILL WAKES THE DEEP
(Trailer)

It’s a rough day at work after you’re fired from your gig at an offshore oil rig. The police have shown up and now your coworkers are being picked off one by one by a malevolent otherworldly force. Now you must escape before you become as desiccated as they are.

Available now for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass, PS5, Steam, and Epic Games Store

INTO THE DEAD
(Trailer)

During Texas summers, it’s not the heat that’ll get you, it’s the scores of undead shuffling through the streets. Rally survivors, gather supplies from ruins, and craft weapons that’ll keep your party safe as you try to survive Greg Abbott’s Texas. Just kidding, this is set in the ‘80s.

Coming to Steam, demo coming October 2024

DWARF FORTRESS
(Trailer)

After about a decade in open beta, this expansive construction and management sim is getting a new adventure mode, and will be bringing tutorials and demigods this summer.

CAVES OF QUD
(Trailer)

Its 1.0 patch is coming this year! And the Spring Molting patch is available now! Wowee!

STREETS OF FORTUNA
(Trailer)

A procedurally-generated city simulation, this Romanesque city provides endless avenues to live out your ideal life. Be a humble artisan, a wealthy trader, or a no-good, dirty, rotten thief. They’re your lives, live them how you want! 

Coming to Steam

GRIT AND VALOR: 1949
(Trailer)

In an alternate timeline where not only did the Nazis invade England, they did it with massive mech squadrons, you are the last line of defense for the English Isles. Build your ultimate mech squad, deploy, and redeploy in this tactical RTS roguelite.

Coming 2025 to Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Switch, and Steam

RISE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL
(Trailer)

Sequel to THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL, solve more cases by linking together thoughts and concepts and filling in blanks. With the events of the previous game far in time’s rearview mirror, the influence of the idol is still being felt, and people are dying yet again. 

Coming to Steam, PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Netflix, demo available now

EVERY DAY WE FIGHT
(Trailer)

When aliens invade a sleepy coastal town and place most of the citizens into stasis, ordinary heroes must rise up in this XCOM-like tactics game. Grow stronger with each death thanks to a time loop and roguelite systems, and eventually go full Will Smith on the invaders.

Coming soon to Steam

TALES OF SEIKYU
(Trailer)

A slice-of-life management game set on an island full of Japanese yokai. Meet your neighbors, make friends, and poof into monsters every so often while discovering the secrets of this fantasy island.

Coming to Steam

ISLAND OF WINDS
(Trailer)

As an Icelandic witch and Balance Keeper, figure out what’s going wrong with your little coastal village. Inspired by Icelandic folklore, you’ll harness magic and ancient powers to defeat ancient monsters and make your little island a place Björk would definitely chill at. 

Coming 2025 to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Epic Games Store

AIRFRAME ULTRA
(Trailer)

Race hoverbikes to the death in this high-intensity, low-poly rumbler. Use all means at your disposal to win, whether that’s with massive laser gatling guns, grenades, or even if you have to hop off your airframe and take a lead pipe to some poor busta.

Coming to Steam

STORMFORGE
(Trailer)

These dang goblins and other beasties are wrecking your island. Given strength by a raging firestorm, grab your friends and take them down using might, magic, or, uh, m’arrows. Also you can build a neat little base to hang out at when you’re not cleaving foes in twain.

Coming to Steam

WINDBLOWN
(Trailer)

You and your two buddies live on a peaceful little sky island, but when that peace is threatened by a raging vortex and a ton of robots, you must train to become warriors of the sky. Connect with two others for co-op mode in this roguelike, hack and slash adventure.

Coming to Early Access 2024

WORSHIP
(Trailer)

It’s less CULT OF THE LAMB and more cult of the fam as you and your friends work together to recruit local villagers into your cult and use them to grow your influence by any means necessary. Defeat enemies and monsters to prove your faith and be rewarded.

Coming to Steam

GUNBOAT GOD
(Trailer)

You’re an amnesiac little blob guy with a gunboat and a goal: Defeat everything in your path. Complete special challenges using the gunboat’s weapons and abilities to advance through the game and earn the title that is also the title of the game. 

Future of Play Direct

ABYSS X ZERO
(Trailer)

Look, I’ll be damned if I tell you what this game is “about” about, but if you want to hack and slash your way through soldiers, robots, and robot soldiers as various anime girls with big swords in a world that looks like Megaman Legends, you’ve found your game. 

Coming to Steam

ZODIAC XX: LEO
(Trailer)

Another low-poly action game, you’ve become persona non grata to powerful people in the far future. The only way to seek answers is to pilot your spacefighter through a series of disorienting and G-force-inducing levels to a score that sounds like it was from one of those Toonami interstitials. 

BATTLE SUIT ACES
(Trailer)

A deck-building space opera about a group of pilots who stumble upon an experimental battle suit. Stack your deck with your friends and other upgrades and wage Gundam-like space battles at the turn of a card. Seems like there’s a fair bit of visual novel elements too. Ship your shipmates.

Coming to Steam

YOOKA-RE-PLAYLEE
(Trailer)

Your favorite spiritual successor to BANJO-KAZOOIE is getting a remaster, provided that your favorite spiritual successor to BANJO-KAZOOIE is YOOKA-LAYLEE. The Bat and Chameleon are back and promise a better look and feel than ever before. More updates are promised, but enjoy what ya got, ya moochers! 

Coming to Steam

NOVA HEARTS
(Trailer)

Full-time pals, part-time magical fighters work together to keep their city safe from orb-ish critters that are really messing things up in town. Beat them up in turn-based fights and once that’s done, fight the real final boss: interpersonal relationships. That’s right, we got ourselves some visual novel mechanics too.

Coming to Steam, Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation

A DATE WITH DEATH
(Trailer)

A visual novel about a couple united by flowers and the flower shop they’re sold at. The big one protects the shy little one, but the big one also has a silly side. I didn’t get much to work with, but the developers do have a Kickstarter for a DLC. 

Coming to Steam and itch.io December 9th, 2024

CROAKWOOD
(Trailer)

Design your homes and build yourself a little village full of little frog people living happily and hoppily in the swamp. Decorate the town, hold events, and just have a chill time taking care of your own little frog village.

Coming to Steam

COZY MARBLES
(Trailer)

A chill little marble course builder. Design a course, test it out, or change it as you’re testing it with any of the wilder marble building pieces. Design your own marble, hold marble races, and solve marble-based puzzles in a relaxed, cozy environment.

Coming to Steam

SANDARA: CITY OF A THOUSAND ECLIPSES
(Trailer)

A towering city in the desert is slowly sinking, and you must uncover its secrets before it’s too late. A card-based role-playing-game, build your deck with cards that match your personality and playstyle, then use them to solve challenges before the last sands of time slip away. 

Coming to Steam

AIRBORNE EMPIRE
(Trailer)

A city-builder set in the sky. Build your own floating city and explore the land beneath you, sending envoys and making trade with those stuck on the ground. But being in the sky also makes you vulnerable to sky pirates. You’ll be fighting those guys a lot.

Coming to Steam, demo available now

DUNGEON CLAWLER
(Trailer)

After losing so much at a casino that his hand was removed, an unlucky rabbit must fight through a dungeon to reclaim it. Take actions during fights by picking up items with a claw machine. Grabbing swords attacks, grabbing potions restores health, and so on. 

Coming to Steam, demo available now

N.O.D.E.
(Trailer)

Control a plucky little robot and navigate them through abandoned industrial sites. The robot can only be commanded by stringing commands together, however, so you’ll have to be specific how long to go forward and when to turn, even how long to break. Kinda has INSIDE vibes, but for programmers.

Coming to Steam, demo available now

COPYCAT
(Trailer)

Hoo boy, if you got choked up at any point playing STRAY you’re gonna have a rough time with this one. Control a stray cat in the Australian suburbs as it tries to find a home. Pounce, stalk, and defend yourself against dogs and other cats in this narrative adventure.

Coming to Steam September 2024

LIGHT ODYSSEY
(Trailer)

An isometric SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS, you play a little dude who has to defeat a bunch of really big dudes, most of whom are found at the top of really high platforms led to by labyrinthine raised paths. It’s certainly not gonna be easy. 

Coming to Steam 2024

SLAY THE PRINCESS: THE PRISTINE CUT
(Trailer)

The game with the heroic trope switcheroo is back with three new chapters. These chapters come with new princesses, new endings, and a new final ending. This all-new content is comin’ atcha fully voiced and with all-new art for the optimal moral quandary experience.  

Coming Fall 2024 to Steam, Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation

Steven Porfiri
Steven Porfiri is a Merry-Go-Round contributor that grew up on the dusty streets of Bakersfield, California with nothing but a dream and horrible anxiety. He hasn't seen a movie from the current year since 2008 and hasn't played a new game since 2012. You should trust his opinions. You can also find him over at Hard Drive.

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