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Alien: Isolation 2 (Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
The sequel to the 2014 horror game from the British developer Creative Assembly: this time you have to escape from a xenomorph in a world that has been ravaged by a storm.
The Wicked Magpie (2027) (PC, Xbox)
A small bird with broken wings and a stray sheep go off on their own, fascinated by a piece of a fallen star.
Resident Evil Veronica (2027) (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
Capcom’s latest resurrected zombie game is Code 2000: Veronica, shown here in first-person rather than third-person perspective. Every RE reform to date has been a mess, so expectations are high.
Mighty Cuphead Adventure (Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
A 1980s platform shooter that looks straight out of the NES/Mega Drive, from the makers of the epic 1920s-animation tribute Cuphead. (Game fans will also be happy to know that development has begun on another new Cuphead game, and that the announcement was made with a Cuphead doll in a business suit.)
Apple Crumble (PC)
It’s your grandfather’s birthday and your family is here – to kill them. This Knives Out recipe for inspiring British closets comes from the makers of Duck Detective.
God of War: Laufey (PlayStation)
The first blockbuster game in which we play a very angry woman: Kratos’s wife, Laufey, who lives after death and a whole group of other gods and goddesses. Combining a talking sword with a gelatinous cube.
Magicians: Deal’s Deal (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
A kind of violent vaudeville production in which a magician must escape from hell, taunted at every turn by the darkest Satan and his minions. Bioshock and Dishonored script.
Gen Atlas (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
The first game in ten years from Fumito Ueda, the creator of the scene PlayStation games Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian. It has a similar style to the game, where you control giant robots from their removable heads. I’m looking forward to Pacific Rim but it’s a change of heart.
Crossfire (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
A sci-fi military action game in the style of The Last of Us, from the developer That’s No Moon, in which two opposing pilots must form an alliance to survive.
Control Resonant (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
In this game, you are an employee of the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret agency of the US government that is responsible for keeping track of supernatural threats in a brutal prison in Manhattan. Except that everything from the same area that they try to have is now free, and you have to deal with it.
Team War 3 (2027) (PC, PlayStation)
It’s about time someone tried to change the massively multiplayer online game that World of Warcraft still has a firm grip on. Guild Wars’ colorful visuals make a pleasant contrast to the crumbling world of online multiplayer games.
Virtua Fighter Crossroads (PC, Xbox)
From Yakuza / Like a Dragon developers RGG Studio, this Sega remake sees you on the run from the Chinese mafia – half fighting game, half adventure, and shades of Shenmue (which started as a Virtua Fighter game).
1666 Amsterdam (PC)
French artist/director Patrice Désilets presents an improbable play about witches set in early modern Europe, but the robed women fight demons instead of collaborating with them.
Final Fantasy VII Revelation (2027) (Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
The long-awaited final installment of the Final Fantasy VII Remake, in which Cloud and his carefully assembled team face off against Sephiroth. The culmination of a six-year project breathing new life into a seminal game.
In the Wind (PC)
Apparently inspired by both Kiki’s Delivery Service and Pixar’s Luca, in this game you receive an inheritance to deliver to a family and have to fly/see around the islanders on a scooter or in a plane to get the goods to their destination.
Fable (2027) (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
Man, this fantasy game has been brilliant. It seems to have abandoned the humor of the old game in favor of something more ambitious (and irreverent).
Weapons: E-Day (PC, Xbox)
Now back on Xbox only, the long-awaited prequel is about the day when underground aliens rise to destroy humanity.
Clutch (PC, PlayStation)
It’s been a long time since we had a driving game with a story! This is an open-world racing game, set in Monaco and the French Riviera, a story about a young driver in a seemingly extreme race for the pleasures of the super-rich. The amount of space around is equal to the traffic. With Peter Serafinowicz and Little Simz.
Until Dawn 2 (PlayStation)
A group of young idiots are on a tropical island making a documentary about the bad things that happened there. Unsurprisingly, this doesn’t end well: your decisions determine who lives and who dies.
The Lost Wild (PC, PlayStation)
The dinosaur survival game of every kid’s nightmare – it looks like you’ll be spending a lot of time avoiding weird monsters while ducking under things that don’t protect their jaws.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (2027) (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
A remake of Lara Croft’s first adventure, starring Alix Wilton Regan as the next iteration of the legendary heroine. The world’s largest sports video game.
The Thread of Time (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
I was very impressed with the indie visual tribute to Chrono Trigger and other Japanese RPGs of the 90s, which its creators respect. His band of heroes runs through human history, from prehistory to the present.
Red Kiss (PC)
Vampires are on the run in 1989 Berlin – and you’re one of them, running a brothel. An underground/subterranean game with words to match.
Exodus (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
From some of the from the key people behind the sci-fi drama Mass Effect comes a new space game that looks… well, like Mass Effect. You are an adventurer traveling the world abandoned by an ancient alien race, looking for the technology that can save your world. It’s hard to say at this point if it will be written as vividly as it was inspired, but one of the characters was an obedient octopus and the other was an elephant, so there’s hope ahead.
Silent Hill: Townfall (PC, PlayStation)
Perhaps the most promising of the many horror games shown at the summer shows, this psychological horror game is set on a Scottish island and looks deeply (and impressively) terrifying.
The Wolf Among Us (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
After years of hellish development, this comic book adaptation comes from the reinvented Telltale. Sports.
Crazy Taxi: World Tour (2027) (Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
Sega’s crazy driving game is back after a long hiatus – lastly with its original soundtrack from Offspring. It’s 1999 again.
Wardogs (PC)
100 fighting games for those who appreciate online shooters already – i.e. not shooters or fighters, but tactical war games. Old school Battlefield vibes.
The Lift: Supernatural Handyman Simulator (2027) (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
Change buildings, assemble modules, rebuild furniture, clean and discover what happened in the world in a beautiful post-communist place that it is your job to restore.
Clockwork Revolution (2027) (PC, Xbox)
InXile’s new game looks very interesting, like Peaky Blinders except for steampunk – another traditional Dishonored game. Time-traveling criminals travel through time to disrupt the power in their treacherous city.
Person 6 (PC, PlayStation, Xbox)
There was only a small glimpse of what was to come in Atlus’ games, in which young people use their imaginations to fight evil (often controlled by adults). But the previous games’ line is enough to inspire excitement.
No Spirits at the Grand (PC, Xbox)
Restore a run-down old hotel in a run-down British town, befriend the innocent local policeman and meet all the locals. Also: there are big shadow-spiders to shoot, and everything is possible very much amazing after dark.
Vivarium (2027) (PC, Xbox)
A summer memory game that looks like a children’s manga from the 1970s, set in the countryside where people mingle with wonderful creatures. Comparisons to Ghibli are inevitable, but fans of Japanese PlayStation games have also seen the Boku no Natsuyasumi documentary.
Penguin Colony (PC, Nintendo)
Horror from a new perspective. The adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s novels At the Mountains of Madness and A Shadow Out of Time sees you through the eyes of a penguin, as people come to the Antarctic in search of the most powerful thing in the universe.
