EARTH TO EARTH

MAPFRIEND makes a game out of Google Earth

GARBAGE DAY

Bin there, dumped that in SUNSET SHIFT

DEAD ON ARRIVAL

Souls-like Metroidvania meets monotony in GHOST SONG

SINK OR SWIM

Beginning at the end in soggy citybuilder FLOODLAND

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES

EVIL WEST pits cowboys against vampires in a beefy brawler

ALL GORE

Walk down gaming’s moodiest corridors in THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

IRON MAN MODE

MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS successfully morphs XCOM into social simulation, somehow

RADIOTHERAPY

SIGNALIS is one of the best psychological sci-fi chillers in years

SHOTS IN THE DARK

Bash heretics to save a wonderfully horrible world in WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

HORDE MODE

Fight hundreds of alien monsters at once in the bigger, meaner SPACE MARINE 2

Redfall

Arkane enters the fray of cooperative shooters, with a vampiric twist. The genre has become a little more crowded with 2022 having brought us Back 4 Blood and the sublime Warhammer 40,000 Darktide, but Redfall has a few extra tricks up its sleeves to potentially help it sink its fangs into the competition.

Hyper Light Breaker

A new game set in the post apocalyptic world of Hyper Light Drifter, taking the series into 3D with a rogue-lite adventure that can be played cooperatively with friends.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

A blatant spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk embodies the style and pace of the classic skating game, but puts more emphasis on player expression.

STALKER 2

STALKER was the original open world FPS and once wowed us with its unscripted skirmishes and distinctly Ukrainian brand of horror.

Nightingale

Onetime Bioware boss Aaryn Flynn is the persistent force behind Nightingale, a survival and crafting game that goes unusually deep when it comes to worldbuilding.

Terra Nil

The citybuilder, as first established by Will Wright, was about taking a green Californian field and turning it into a fume-belching industrial hellscape.

The Invincible

This retro-future science-fiction game, based on a novel of the same name, looks like it could be a serious sleeper hit next year.

Teslagrad 2

A decade since the first game, this gorgeous looking platformer puts players in the role of Lumina, a young who has been left 'Teslamancer', stranded after her airship crashed.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

This sequel to the beloved, hand drawn hack and slash platformer is as highly anticipated as it gets.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

As the Gotham Knights fumbled their catch of the DC team-up ball, it's up to the Suicide Squad to pick up and run with this metaphor that should have ended several words ago. Interestingly, this game follows neither the movies (not the well-received James Gunn one, or the one with Jared Leto's 'Ooh, I'm mad, me' Joker), nor the comics. It's going to tell its own story, with its own version of the Squad.

Wild Hearts

Lush environments, fantastical creatures that can be harvested for loot, enormous beasts that are best tackled in a small team... it's easy to compare this to Monster Hunter with good reason.

Diablo 4

Regardless of whether you've been looking forward to this for the last three years or not, we can surely all agree that a game where one of the characters can turn into a bear is worth a second look.

Atlas Fallen

The world of Atlas Fallen is ruled over by a cruel god, who demands that its people harvest and offer up 'essence' to it.

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

The success of Dark Souls and Elden Ring flew in the face of received AAA wisdom - proving that big budget games can be difficult, obtuse, and trusting of their players, yet still find a huge audience.

Skull and Bones

Another throwback to an early period in Assassin's Creed's evolution, Skull and Bones has had a much longer and stormier journey than Mirage.

Assassin's Creed Mirage

MIRAGE IS THE BETTER OPTION: A RETURN TO STEALTH, URBAN PARKOUR. AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Resident Evil 4

After the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, the legendary fourth game is getting the same treatment, reimagining the lauded classic as something shinier and faster paced.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

The Final Fantasy VII remake saga continues in Rebirth, following a story that, at this point, has diverged significantly from the path of the original game.

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter is back in its best shape in some time, sporting a big roster and tight yet accessible mechanics that should land with series stalwarts and new fans alike.

Final Fantasy XVI

The latest entry in the never-ending series takes players to a medieval fantasy world where kingdoms use big crystals and the summoning of weird monsters to maintain their power.