What we’re most excited about playing this year
Happy New Year, folks!
Have you recovered from the all the 100+ hour RPGs that came out last year?
Well, I have good news and bad news for you.
The bad news is that there are still loads of great games coming out.
So come, join us, and see what’s on our personal wishlists for 2024.
Of course, these are only the games we know about right now.
For now, though, here are the 75 games we’re most looking forward to playing in 2024.
Honestly, I hope the old Prince dies in the end and Sargon becomes the new Prince of Persia.
Here’s hoping the early access version makes the roguelike loop compelling enough to keep coming back.
Andwhat a glow-upthey’ve received since their initial DS and 3DS debuts all those years ago.
But also to see how co-protag Kiryu’s final (?)
Sign me up for all the bonkers side stories, too.
I think it’ll deliver.
All without, crucially, spoiling the original’s vision.
Gimme gimme.
Well see how the final game turns out, but for now, everything here appeals to me.
Put down stones to make a path!
At this point, there’s no way it can live up to my expectations.
Which is entirely my own doing.
New diary series, here we come.
If Alone In The Dark 2024 is around the same level of good, Ill be happy.
Im very glad its getting another shot at stardom.
There’s nothing quite like the pawn system.
Loco Motive is the game for you.
The game was announced way back in 2010, but suspended when GSC Game World closed in 2012.
But then came Russias invasion of Ukraine, with real-life battles unfolding around the titular Chornobyl power station.
GSC Game World relocated to Prague, while some team members joined the fight against Putins troops.
Flock
Release date:Spring 2024From:Steam
Katharine:Flock ispure.
First is the mix of genres.
It’s a dedicated city-builder, but with huge Total War-esque tactical battles.
It results in very natural-looking towns and cities, and in motion it looks absolutely fantastic.
And finally, it’s all made by just one person.
And it looks and plays this good.
That’s just insane.
I’ve just been waiting for WASD movement in these games for a long time.
Even writing it out is giving me goosebumps.
Just let me play it hey.
I want to explore all the gorgeous new biomes and romance all the hot new characters.
And why wouldn’t I?
Just look at it!
It sounds fun beyond the looks, too.
And in the game etc.
But it’s looking very promising to my eyes, and I can’t wait to play properly.
If it’s even half as charming as Roki was, this is sure to be an autumnal treat.
Truly, 2024 is set to be a blessed time indeed.
Sign me the hell up.
Yes, just and thank you.
Based onwhat I saw at Gamescom last year, this is everything you could want from a Frostpunk sequel.
The first Frostpunk constantly provoked thoughts of morality and philosophy - something no other city-builder has done for me.
Here’s hoping Frostpunk 2 can manage the same.
The blurb says it has mysteries to probe, eerie vibes to experience, and multiple endings to discover.
I’m very curious about this.
And if nothing else, I’m always eager to muck about with shears.
The story followed Senua, a warrior who journeys into Hel to save the soul of her lover Dillion.
The Norse mythology was right up my street, and the use of binaural 3D audio was startingly effective.
I’m dead to the world.
All that matters is automation.
There’s no lore or story, no world-building, no diegetic items like circuit boards or iron plates.
Just shapes, infinite resources, free buildings, and an endless supply of tasks to perform.
But Shapez 2 transforms the game into 3D, with its resources spread across floating islands.
Sorry We’re Closed
Release date:2024From:Steam,GOG
Alice0:Sorry We’re Closedis cool.
And it’s cool.
Character designs are punky, trashy, sexy.
Accent colours are loud.
Weapons and effects are bold.
And oh, its layers of London are like Silent Hill by way of Persona and Paradise Killer.
God it looks great.
Thank Goodness Youre Here!
Honestly very stoked that there’s a sequel.
Fingers crossed it won’t be subject to another delay.
What mischief with the legendary Golden Idol bring with it this time?
We’ll find out later this year.
Thrasher
Edwin:I love 2016s Thumper because it hates my guts.
Instead of an insect, you play a primordial space eel that evolves as it overcomes obstacles and bosses.
Im keen to discover how the evolution gimmick affects the challenge.
Will more advanced space eels with extra frills be trickier to control?
Tiny Glade
Kiera:Tiny Gladehas been on my radar for some time now.
The game is essentially a cosy building sim without combat, management systems or quests.
You simply sit back and build pretty buildings in different glades just for the sake of it.
What’s not to love?
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2
Kiera:I loved the original Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.
It was janky and pretty much unplayable without the unofficial patch, but there was something earnest about it.
Given the tumultuous development history of the project, I’m cautious about getting my hopes up too high.
Sign me up to save the Mana Tree all over again; Ill be there.
World Of Goo 2
Alice0:I’m rarely super stoked about sequels.
Well, the makers of World Of Goo already did that.
Now they’re back together and I’m super stoked.World Of Goo 2!
World Of Goo 2!
At first, at least.
If it sticks the landing, this could be a Metroid-like for the ages.
Im super keen on seeing how its evolved over these four long years.
Alas, my lot is to look forward to it anyway.
The environments in the trailer looked cool, at least.
Kiera:My excitement for the next Dragon Age is tinged with a deep shame.
You see, I demolished Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age II but have yet to play Inquisition.
Naturally, my homework is to play it beforeDreadwolfeventually comes out.
I just can’t get enough of its sprawling, strange, untameable world.
Details ofShadow Of The Erdtreeare very thin on the ground at the moment.
But we do know that it’s a pretty massive DLC, enough to be called an expansion.
There’s no firm release date yet, but aretail leak suggests a February 2024 release.
Do it for Clive.
Do it for Torgal.
Do it for all of us.
You know you want to.
Leximan
Katharine:Now this one’s a keeper.
It’s proper magic.
Nightmare Operator
Alice0:I couldn’t tell you much of anything about this one.
The four-person Tokyo team behind Nightmare Operator call it “a retro-inspired action horror game”.
It looks like it’s set in a Japanese city.
I don’t even know if it’s coming this year.
A new game from Moon that isn’t an Ori game?
You have my attention.
Hopefully we’ll hear more about it very soon.
Another of those things is a meatpunk puzzle game set inside an undersea apartment.
Both of those aspects get screentime in the Steam demo heaven knows whats next.
You stock and run a tiny second-hand book shop, in a refurbished caravan, by the sea.
Do I really need to say more to pique your interest here?
Its striking pixel art looks fantastic, and I can’t wait to dive in.
Here’s hoping the PC version arrives at the same time as its 2024 Switch release.
The terrible things are towering kaiju.
And the fighting is arcadey violence in a special jet.
Whooshing between buildings while battling some sort of giant spider crab sounds great fun.
It’s all vague.
