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What’s coming out this year?
All the games that didn’t come out last year!
Ha ha, let’s laugh off those mince pies.
But it’s not far from the truth.
But will they be the biggest releases this year?
After all, it’s not often we get a newBethesda Game Studiosgame that isn’t a Skyrim re-release.
But blockbusters are one thing, and a good year of gaming far from depends on them.
And don’t get us started on Thirsty Suitors.
There’s even a new Advance Wars game.
What more do you want?
And here’s what they said.
I also loved the relationship between its sibling protagonists, poignantly expressed by way of collectible flowers.
- Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp
Due in the spring on Nintendo Switch.
How you have been missed.
- Chris Donlan
Baldur’s Gate 3
Aiming for 2022 on PC (and Stadia don’t forget).
Console versions will likely follow at a later date.
- Bertie
Bayonetta 3
Coming to Switch sometime in 2022.
Bayonetta 3 will be worth the wait, I reckon.
And considering the game was announced years ago, that’s saying something.
It offers a vast city to explore and a range of hipsters to skate around as.
The cel-shading looks beautiful and the right composer is on board.
Can the team offer up the same brilliant sense of place as the original games?
But as the Steam page suggests: “You will encounter a lot of weirdos.”
Citizen Sleeper
Due sometime in 2022 on PC.
AfterIn Other Waters, I’m convinced that anything by Gareth Damian Martin is worth a look.
This is someone making games that are slightly different, and they’re gorgeous, mysterious and delicately powerful.
Citizen Sleeper sounds fascinating: an RPG played out in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism.
You are a worker who is worked to the bone.
But what are you working for, and why?
When will you wake up?
Clash Mini
Already available on Android and iOS insome European countries, but not the UK or US yet.
Cursed to Golf
Due Q4 on PC.
Golf in a series of platforming dungeons?
As you battle to escape the underworld?
(Or Golf Purgatory, which sounds just as bad.)
Power-ups and weird obstacles and a never-ending series of neat gimmicks?
Cursed to Golf sounds absolutely wonderful - and publisher Thunderful has exquisite taste, so there’s that too.
Darkest Dungeon 2
Available in early accesson the Epic Games Store now.
Full release potentially this year.
The key to it being really great will be in the balancing.
The only real question is, ‘How long will it be there?’
Anyway, here’s hoping!
Dordogne
Due sometime in 2022 on PC and Switch.
Games about memory, games about houses - Dordogne is in very good company.
And it looks brilliant.
Elden Ring
Due 25th February on PC, PS5/4, Xbox Series S/X, and Xbox One.
Is there a more eagerly awaited game this year that Elden Ring?
If the recent Edge cover story didn’t get you excited nothing will.
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Due in the spring on PS5 and PC.
Karate meets magic - a concept that we’re always excited to hear about.
Karate meets magic, apparently, as you use your paranormal powers to sort this mess out.
God of War Ragnarok
Due sometime in 2022 on PS4 and PS5.
It seems likely that the team will pull off a similar trick here.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Due on PC and Switch, we hope, this year.
Horizon: Forbidden West
Due 18th February on PS4 and PS5.
I’ve got a soft spot for Horizon.
I have faith, though, and we don’t have long - February 18th - to wait.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Due in the spring on Switch.
What if The Last of Us was really cute?
The latest Kirby game promises to answer this question.
And it looks chunky and beautiful too.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2
Due sometime in 2022 on Switch.
How do you top Breath of the Wild?
- Tom Phillips
Little Cities VR
Due in the spring on Oculus platforms.
Clear art and bright colours only sell the dream further.
This follow-up promises freer levels and real-time elements to the mix.
Marvel in the hands of the people who brought you the recent XCOM games?
This looks as tactical and satisfying as you might expect, but also a little weirder too.
In between battles you knock around a large hub, uncovering secrets and chatting to other superheroes.
A fascinating prospect, all told.
Metal: Hellsinger
Due sometime in 2022 on PC, Xbox Series S/X, and PS5.
What if you slayed to the beat?
Get ready to mosh.
Moss: Book 2
Due in the spring on PlayStation VR.
Demons, dinosaur-things, Victorians?
There seems to be something in Nightingale to confuse everybody.
This is a survival and crafting game with a focus on combat, by the looks of things.
Tool up, find friends, and take on massive beasts in this gaslit fantasy oddity.
One to keep an eye on.
OlliOlli World
Due 8th February on PC, PS5/PS4, Xbox Series S/X, and Switch.
The OlliOlli skating games head into three dimensions - sort of - with this colourful and pleasantly goofy game.
Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals
Due sometime in 2022 on PC, PS5/PS4, and Switch.
All the more interesting then that Oxenfree 2 is a follow-up from a distinctly different perspective.
- Malindy Hetfeld
Pokemon Legends Arceus
Due 28th January on Switch.
Yet I can’t stop my Pokemon loving heart from counting down the days till this game is released.
Redfall looks pretty wonderful.
This is Arkane developing, so there’s a classiness to the goofball splatter.
Violent, colourful and moreish, this seems like videogame fun of the very highest order.
Look at the classes, m8!
you could choose to be a cryptozoologist and inventor or someone who knows telekinesis!!
Saturnalia
Coming soon to the Epic Games Store.
Sea of Stars
From the team behind the brilliant retro-themed action game The Messenger comes Sea of Stars.
What a beautiful thing.
Sephonie
Due early in 2022 on PC.
Along the way they must confront their own memories, given tangible form by an eldritch underground intelligence.
I am all agog.
- Edwin Evans Thirlwell
Sifu
Due 8th February on PC and PS4/PS5.
The whole thing’s beautiful, too, with distinctive characters and fantastic animation!
This is a game made with care and class, by the looks of things.
Somerville
Due sometime in 2022 on PC, Xbox consoles, and it will be on Game Pass.
Shredders
Due February on Xbox Series S/X and it will be on Game Pass.
Oh gosh, Shredders looks wonderful.
Splatoon 3
Is that a grappling hook?
Is that an underground city?
Is that some sort of crossbow?
Splatoon 3 is going to rule, isn’t it?
But it also promises continuity - a return to one of the most satisfying multiplayer games around.
Very exciting, basically.
Starfield
Due 11th November on PC, Xbox Series S/X, and it will be on Game Pass.
There will be no dodging the hype of Starfield as it approaches launch this November.
And beneath it all, a question: Will it be any good?
The chances are “yes”, but how good?
Expect its approach to be deafening.
Star Trek: Resurgence
Due in the spring on PC, PS5/PS4, and Xbox Series S/X.
Star Trek has been waiting for video games to catch up, I think.
This isn’t a straight up blaster or even a fancy game of naval combat set amongst the stars.
Explore the cosmos, meet interesting people, and maybe don’t shoot them for a change?
Stray
Due early 2022 on PC and PS5/PS4.
Those cute little paws!
The little noises they make when they jump for ledges!
The way they push objects off ledges!
And actually, they’re perfect vessels for exploration.
And it’s that refreshing allure of experiencing a world differently that makes Stray so exciting.
So yes, I’m excited - so excited I may spray.
Terra Nil
Coming soon to PC.
But what if our job was to clean up after ourselves?
- Malindy Hetfeld
Thirsty Suitors
Coming soon to PC (other platforms may be yet to be announced).
Thirsty Suitors was hands down the best reason to sit through last year’s Game Awards.
An adventure through culture, relationships and family pressures.
It is going to be fabulous.
Triangle Strategy
Due 4th March on Switch.
We need more turn-based tactics games, don’t we?
Well 2022 could be quite a year.
SET FIRE TO STUFF!
We Are OFK
Due sometime in 2022 on PC and PS5/PS4.
And the story promises lovely observational writing and glittery sugar pop.
Timemelters
Aiming for an April 2022 release on PC.
Timemelters - formerly Wicca - is still the most exciting prospect.
Tunic
Due 16th March on PC, Xbox Series S/X, and Xbox One.
It’s top-down Zelda, but you’re a fox.
Venba
Venba cannot come soon enough.
Cook dishes, discover lost recipes, and travel deep into a story of loss and love.
Family, tradition, and the challenges of 1980s life all combine, and we cannot wait.
Zenith: The Last City
Due sometime in 2022 on PSVR, Oculus headsets, and Steam VR.
