Upcoming Video Game Releases (2024 & Beyond)

[RIPPA]

As per usual - release dates are more of a moving target. This is just a sampling of the stuff that is coming out (theoretically) in 2024. Also this list is not all encompassing

THINGS WITH ACTUAL RELEASE DATES

• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (January 18)
• The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered (January 19)
• Tekken 8 (January 26)
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (January 26)
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (February 2)
• Helldivers 2 (February 8.)
• Skull and Bones (February 16)
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong (February 16)
• Open Roads (February 22)
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (February 29)
• Alone in the Dark (March 20)
• Princess Peach: Showtime (March 22)
• Dragon's Dogma 2 (March 22)
• Rise of the Ronin (March 22)
• South Park: Snow Day! (March 26)
• Destiny 2: The Final Shape (June 4)
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (September 9)

THINGS WITH VAGUE 2024 DATES

• Cities: Skylines 2 (Spring 2024)
• Earth Defense Force 6 (Spring 2024)
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (Fall 2024)
• Hades 2 (Quarter 2 2024 - Early Access)

THINGS LABELLED AS JUST "2024"

• Ark 2
• Avowed
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• GreedFall 2: The Dying World
• Hyper Light Breaker (Early Access)
• Little Kitty, Big City
• Little Nightmares 3
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
• No Rest for the Wicked
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Star Wars Outlaws
• The Wolf Among Us 2
• Visions of Mana
• World of Warcraft: The War Within

[odessasteps]

My #1 is the Switch version of Paper Mario 1000 year door, whenever that is.

[JLSigman]

Other vague 2024 dates

Probably summer - Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail expansion. It will probably also include a graphical update, so I'm crossing my fingers I won't need a new computer to play it.

Still just 2024 - Grim Dawn: Fangs of Asterkarn and Titan Quest II

Edited December 31, 2023 by JLSigman
forgot about Titan Quest

[Death From Above]

Cannot wait to play Skull & Bones and see that you have no meaningful crew customization options whatsoever. Want an interesting gunnery officer? A cool bosun? No. But if you like customization we have cannons in black, black and silver, and black and gold! The choices are endless!

[Casey]

Bethesda said the Shattered Space expansion for Starfield is coming next year so there’s that too.

Fallout 4 next-gen upgrade is pushed to 2024 as well (no doubt to coincide with the TV show).

[Death From Above]

A few lesser known things I have wishlisted on Steam to keep an eye on them in 2024. I have zero idea if any of these will turn out well, they're just things that caught my eye whenever the last time I took a sweep of forthcoming Steam titles a few months ago.

Unforetold: Whichstone (CRPG, January 25th early access) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1064120/Unforetold_Witchstone/

Alliance of the Sacred Suns (Grand Strategy, 2024) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113400/Alliance_of_the_Sacred_Suns/

Robin Hood: Sherwood Builders (Adventure RPG, Q1 2024) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159420/Robin_Hood__Sherwood_Builders/

Monomyth (Dungeon Crawler, "soon") https://store.steampowered.com/app/908360/Monomyth/

Big Kitty, Little City (Cat Based Content, 2024) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177980/Little_Kitty_Big_City/

Fallen City Brawl (retro beat em up, "soon") https://store.steampowered.com/app/1717190/Fallen_City_Brawl/

Mandragora (Metroidvania, "soon") https://store.steampowered.com/app/1721060/Mandragora/

Respawn (Action Roguelike, "soon") https://store.steampowered.com/app/1922940/Respawn/

Cook, Serve, Delicious: Re-Mustard! (remaster of Cook Serve Delicious 1, 2024) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2139040/Cook_Serve_Delicious_ReMustard/

Menace (Sci Fi Turn Based Strategy, 2024) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2432860/MENACE/

 

 

[Andrew POE!]

Pacific Drive is out on February 22, 2024.

Legend of Legacy HD Remastered Edition out on March 22, 2024. Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III/IV on PS5 out on February 16, 2024. Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak out on July 31, 2024 (supposedly). Unicorn Overlord on March 8, 2024. Granblue Fantasy: Relink out on February 1, 2024. Persona 3 Reload out on February 2, 2024.

TimeSpinner 2 might be out in 2024.

[RIPPA]

So like a lot of other things - the second Mickey Mouse (technically Steamboat Willie did but you get the point) entered public domain a game was announced called Infestation 88

Immediately the devs took heat for the name being anti-Semitic

The game will now be called Infestation: Origins with the team saying they just referencing that the game was set in 1988 and they didn't know about all the pesky connections to the Nazis

[SirFozzie]

I really should have done this on my defunct blog, but here's my 24 games I'm looking forward to in 2024: (Note: @Death From Above has a lot of the same games as me on the list, but since I go into more detail, I'm probably going to split it up into several posts)

 

Sports Sequels:
We're going to start with the usual sports strategy games:

1) Out Of the Park Baseball (although I'm hitting my saturation point with perfect team getting most of the attention)

2) Football Manager 25 (very interested in seeing the new engine, and see where they go going forward

3-6)Draft Day Sports (Pro and College Basketball, Pro and College Football): Not sure why I haven't pulled the trigger yet on the couple available on Steam (At this point, a game has to really grab me to be through the publisher's website, the ease of updating on Steam etcetera is such a value add), but I think once the full lineup of 2024 games are out there, I'll swoop in on the lot once they are on sale

7) Front Office Football 9: Yeah, another game that I should have bought by now, but I didn't have unlimited gaming time

2024 Strategy Games (Part 1)

These are games that at least are scheduled to be released (either a full release or come out in early access) in 2024. Several of these, I'm not sure about, but liked what I saw in previews (from the PC Gamer most anticipated show)

8 )  Unforetold: Witchstone (Early Access January 25th) This one looks to hit the Baldur's Gate 3 neurons here, as it has the guiding light behind the creation of the Forgotten Realms (Ed Greenwood, Elminster himself). They recently released an update showing off the consequences and faction system. I don't know much about the actual game play, so I'll definitely be looking at people trying the game out when it hits early access (Note: Early Access is just that, a lot of the late game stuff is not created yet, and waiting for player feedback)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1064120/Unforetold_Witchstone/

9) Alliance of the Sacred Suns: Release Date: "2024"  A Grand Strategy game where you play a young Emperor. I would compare it to Crusader Kings, but there's a big catch. When your Emperor dies (be it from assassination, combat, or even old age), your game is done. I'm worried that will cause certain strategies to be overdone, as you try to constantly snowball instead of having that build/consolidate/build/consolidate rythym that most Grand Strategy Games have,  and really misses out on the sweep of history that Grand Strategy Games can bring. But I'm willing to give it a look-see and see how well the interpersonal relations are, and the gameplay.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113400/Alliance_of_the_Sacred_Suns/

10) Zoria: Age of Shattering (March 7th, 2024, Demo currently Out)   I honestly don't know much about this, but it looks like a BG3-like. From the steam description: [I]A squad-based tactical RPG with fluid turn-based combat, outpost, and followers management, set in the expansive fantasy world of Zoria. Lead a team of four heroes with their unique skills and perks. Every team member contributes to undertaken battles.[/i]

Well. A bit engrish there at the end, but still, there's a demo out, so people will be able to see how it feels before its March release. The company that's making this also made Gamedec which was a highly praised indie title, so let's see how it goes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159090/Zoria_Age_of_Shattering/

11)Revolution: The Spark (COMING SOON)

A steampunk turn based strategy/Tactical RPG, this looks interesting, as you play a military veteran whose brother is kidnapped by the dictatorial government's men, and you can possibly lead a revolution to free him and overthrow the government. I have concerns about the amount of game play (the game says while there are 25 people you can get as allies, there are "nine hand-crafted steampunk locations to explore", so I'm hoping that it's just not a series of battles over and over again in the same location.

The designer/publisher of this game doesn't have any track record to go by (they have five games in "To Be Announced or Coming Soon", so this will definitely be a wait to see how the game is received, but hey, tactical RPG's are my thing, so...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1334230/Revolution_The_Spark/

12) Broken Roads (Coming Soon, Listed by publisher as "Early 2024")

This looks to hit the Fallout/Wasteland style isometrical post-apocalyptic vibes. Set in Australia (god, normal Australia is bad enough with all the poisonous species, what fresh hell is post-apocalyptic Australia?) In development since 2019, this game looks to clock in about 30 hours of game play (the developer recently said there is almost 400,000 words in dialogue)

It got some recent hype amongst gaming sites I visit. It won't be a purchase sight un-seen, but I'm rather interested to see how that goes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1403440/Broken_Roads/

 

 

 

 

Edited January 3 by SirFozzie

[SirFozzie]

Strategy Games (PART TWO)

13) Espiocracy (Release Date:2024)

It's hard to describe this game. It's like a post-WWII history game, except you play it as a nation's intelligence agency. I'll post from the game's description and then follow it up with my own notes:

As the world recovers from the devastation of World War 2, new alliances are already being drawn. Relations have begun to deteriorate between the two superpowers, and new political ideologies have taken hold. From the division of Germany to the Italian Referendum and Czechoslovak elections, tensions are building, and your agency fights at the front lines of a silent war.
 

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Choose one of 74 countries and lead its intelligence agency from the start of the Cold War. Whether your chosen nation loses a war, suffers a coup, or has a change of leadership due to foreign actions, your agency remains resolute, working to further your country’s interests through the twists and turns of the 20th century and beyond.
Prepare for nuclear brinkmanship, the Space Race, decolonization, and the instability and proxy wars that follow as you navigate a world balanced on a knife edge.

Deploy foreign and domestic agents to manipulate public opinion, support and establish political factions, stoke the flames of independence, ignite proxy wars, and shatter the status quo with coups. Your country’s leader may request your input on major decisions such as invading a neighbor or forming an alliance, and you can use your influence to trigger wars or turn the tide of diplomatic negotiations.

 

This sounds great. There's one problem however, it's being done by the Long War team. I loved the idea of their last game, Terra Invicta (a grand strategy game that touches on the same manipulate nations set) but feature creep means that there's a whole space warfare game as well as weekly actions on the local level that just created a huge wall for me to bounce right off. Sometimes, less is more. So, I love the idea again, but they really need to show a sense of what adds to the game and what is busywork. Looking at the Development diaries, I'm not sure they've learned their lesson (Link to diaries: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1670650/discussions/0/3183486955467718303/ )

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1670650/Espiocracy/

14) Sovereign Syndicate (January 15th, 2024)

This is such a weird jumble. I love the setting (Victorian Steampunk London). The game had a demo that was well received back in October. The worries for me are two fold: One, the game has a feel like the Lamplighter's League, and that didn't find a huge audience (causing Harebrained Schemes, the developer to dissolve their relationship with Paradox (which was really one of the things that brought me down in 2023). The other thing is that instead of dice, it uses Tarot Cards for its resolution system. That could be a wall for folks. I'm going to have to watch the video they have of someone playing the demo.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1674920/Sovereign_Syndicate/

15) Solium Infernum (February 14th, 2024)

Grand Strategy in hell. What's not to like? (well, besides Hell itself). The remake of a beloved strategy game features the Archfiends plotting against each other to seize the vacant throne of hell. This game is probably going to be huge in multiplayer, as orders are done in a simultaneous turn structure. You can play one of 8 archfiends (I do hope they add a create-your-own later, because it seems like each different archfiend will play a certain way). The 2009 release managed to build a world where you had to play to your opponents tendencies just as much as playing your own faction, and it seemed almost Diplomacy-like in amounts of backstabbing, strategies and counter-strategies (as to be expected in Hell).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893810/Solium_Infernum/?curator_clanid=32981460

16) Capes (EARLY 2024)

Superhero X-Com. To reuse a phrase.. what's not to like? The demo's been out for quite a while, and it's very interesting to see. The villains conquered a city, and made it illegal to have superpowers. That's not going to stand, of course. Form a team of heroes and take back the city! One nice thing is that while you're limited to four heroes in a mission, each hero gets a unique team-up ability from each of their allies. Again, Superhero Turn Based Tactics are definitely my thing. Now if they only had "Create a hero"...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2081080/Capes/

17) Menace (2024)

This is more of the tactical-army game, as you lead a strike force against aliens in this one. From the creator of Battle Brothers, it's going to be very interesting to see how this plays. I'll copy the game description:

Command a strike force of marines, mercenaries, and criminals in a distant system, cut off from the Core Worlds. At the lawless frontier, the Wayback system is controlled by pirate warlords, questionable corporations, and fractured planetary governments who struggle for a new order. Though you initially lead your strike force of marines from aboard the strike cruiser TCRN Impetus, you'll quickly need to unite the disparate locals under your leadership to defeat an unknown threat. Fielding tanks, mechs, and infantry squads with a massive selection of equipment to choose from, you’ll train your troops, plan out operations, and engage in deadly tactical battles.

So it sounds more like a TBS game then an RPG, although you'll definitely have to do some tactical decisions that might be considered RPG=ish

as an aside: The publishers of this game, Hooded Horse, were responsible for two other games on this list (they're also publishing Alliance of the Sacred Suns and Espiocracy. There's other games I'm interested in, but didn't make the list of 24: Manor Lords, which has been in early access forever, Beyond These Stars, where you build a city on the back of a giant space whale (Discworld-ish), Hexxen:Hunters (18th century Hunters vs Hell turn based tactical RPG, and Capital Command (where you take the helm of a warship in a sandbox campaign). Guess as a publisher, they'll be busy (there's a half-dozen other games with a 2024 release date that are nearly all tactical based games)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2432860/MENACE/

18) New Arc Line (2024)

This game gives me Arcanum vibe. a Game that focuses on the conflict between steampunk and magic. Dwarves, Elves, Monsters and magic meet Steampunk gadgets, zepplins and the like. They're going to be running a closed private playestst soon. Going to be very interesting to see where this goes: This is coming from a Ukranian development team (Dreamate). I might have to try to get in the playtest and see what they've got.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2458310/New_Arc_Line/

 

Odds and ends

19) THE FINALS (out now)

Look, I'll be 50 in August. There's no way a fast paced twitch reflex game with destructible environments should be on my list.

Yet, here we are.

I've watched this, and the environmental changes are great, they keep maps from feeling same-y, and it is very much a game that rewards aggressive game play (to earn money, you have to take control of a vault, and score it via a time based "cashout" while defending against the other teams, who know where you are. I loved the videos of it I've seen on twitch, but this MAY be a "more fun to watch than actually play game"

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073850/THE_FINALS/

20) Mechwarrior 5: Clans (2024)

I've played the base game, and it left me.. wanting. It's graphically brilliant, the storyline should be good, but.. there's just something missing. Especially with the waves of vehicles and helicopters/vtols/aerospace, it feels more like a bullet hell shooter at times. But, I managed to grab this, just in time for the Clans to be announced, where you play as one of the Clans invading the inner sphere. Interestingly enough, you play as the Smoke Jaguars, one of the.. harsher clans out there (I won't get into Battletech history, but I could gush all day about the Battletech universe). Be interesting to see how this turns out.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2000890/MechWarrior_5_Clans/

21) Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (out now)

I have the base game, but not yet the add on. It comes off as really good, and to be fair, Cyberpunk has come a LONG way from the release version. I'm just.. I dunno.. cyberpunk'd out? That's the only reason I haven't purchased it already. But, I have a feeling at some point in 2024 I'll get back into it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2138330/Cyberpunk_2077_Phantom_Liberty/

22) P3 Persona 3: Reload (Feb 2, 2024)

Can you believe I've never got into the Persona series? A friend of mine who is big into it told me that 3 was the best of the bunch, and I should play that before I played P5 Royal.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2161700/Persona_3_Reload/

 

23) Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (January 25th, 2024)

Another series that I should like, but have bounced off in the past. It seems like this is going to be the Like a Dragon/Yakuza cross-universe mash up. Looks, weirdly interesting?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2072450/Like_a_Dragon_Infinite_Wealth/

24) Reduce the Pile of Shame (Ongoing)

Ok, you got me. This isn't a 2024 game. Instead, it's for all the games that I have on my backlog that I should have played in past years, but haven't.. and my regulars: Xenonauts 2, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, Victoria 3, Pathway, more Baldur's Gate, More Rogue Trader, Expeditions: Rome, Old World.. plus all the games coming out that I've missed, the WoW update, Overwatch 2.. safe to say I'll be busy and hoping to reduce my backlog, not grow it

 

 

 

Edited January 3 by SirFozzie

[SirFozzie]

Oh, and EA Sports College Football. OF course. If it comes out *worries*

[A.M.B.]

Off the top of my head the big one is the Elden Ring DLC. I’ll probably do a new playthrough when the release date is close. At this point I’m expecting it to be huge and have no issue with how long the wait has been since FromSoft never has disappointed me. Behind that is the P3 reload (whoever said play it before P5 is wrong, just play the best one with the most QOL features first). I liked 4 but 3 was just a little too dated to get into. Namely the choice between no control of teammates in the PS2 version, or the lack of movement around the world in the “improved” PSP version. 
 

I’ve been intrigued by Eiyuden Chronicle, the Suikoden spiritual successor, but I somehow am not convinced they can come close to capturing the magic of 2. Hope I’m wrong. Also the remakes of 1 and 2 are coming out and I’m debating whether I want them. 
 

concernedape’s next game Haunted Chocolatier is interesting, Stardew Valley was everything I could ask for as someone who loved Harvest Moon growing up, we’ll see if this has the same level of quality or if it’s too different and will suffer from comparisons. 

[JLSigman]

FanFest means we got all the Dawntrail stuff.

First, the other new class if the FF6 inspired Pictomancer:

 

The new race is female Hrothgars:

 

And here's the extended teaser trailer for the expansion:

 

Now to start saving up for a new computer...

[Death From Above]

Adding a muscle mommy race? Yoshi P truly is the one old guy with his finger on the pulse of The People.

[RIPPA]

Reviewers have gotten some hands on time with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (looks to be about 10 hours) and they aren't exactly glowing words (IGN didn't like it, Eurogamer was probably more negative than positive but didn't totally bury it)

[RIPPA]

XBOX will be doing a Developer Direct next week (January 18)

They announced the following devs to be presenting

• Obsidian (Avowed)
• MachineGames (the Indiana Jones game)
• Ninja Theory (Senua'a Saga, Hellblade II)
• Oxide Games (Ara: History Untold)

[Andrew POE!]

There's rumors that Indiana Jones is coming out in 2024. Part of me wishes it was on PS5 too but Micro$oft gotta Micro$oft.

[Casey]

You can say the exact same thing about Sony.

[Andrew POE!]

On 1/10/2024 at 9:39 PM, Casey said:

You can say the exact same thing about Sony.

I guess. Sony really isn't doing as well as people may think despite PS5s selling like gangbusters. Microsoft could buy all of PlayStation from Sony if they want to and still have money left over. Who's to say that's not what they are planning on doing?

PlayStation miscalculated buying Bungie, who had to cut staff and delay Destiny 2: The Final Shape. According to the Insomniac hack, Insomniac has to sell over 100 million copies of Spider-Man to stay afloat. If that's the case for Insomniac, imagine what it's like at Sucker Punch or Naughty Dog or Sony Santa Monica.

Yes, PlayStation has great single player games that sell millions but they are losing money. They barely sell millions for PC versions too.

Microsoft meanwhile doesn't have to do anything. They don't even have to release anything that people have wanted (like Indiana Jones or Hellblade II or Avowed or Fallout 5, etc). They just buy developers and let them sit there and not use them (hence Micro$oft gotta Micro$oft). They have Call of Duty now - so they can just pull it from PlayStation at some point and that would be the death for PlayStation. They can just milk people for GamePass, barely do anything, rely on their Windows and cloud services for revenue, and they are fine.

Microsoft is playing chess while PlayStation is struggling with checkers.

 

Edited January 13 by Andrew POE!

[Robert S]

11 hours ago, Andrew POE! said:

(...)

Microsoft meanwhile doesn't have to do anything. They don't even have to release anything that people have wanted (like Indiana Jones or Hellblade II or Avowed or Fallout 5, etc). They just buy developers and let them sit there and not use them (hence Micro$oft gotta Micro$oft). They have Call of Duty now - so they can just pull it from PlayStation at some point and that would be the death for PlayStation. They can just milk people for GamePass, barely do anything, rely on their Windows and cloud services for revenue, and they are fine.

(...)

They can't for the next 9.5 years, right?

[Andrew POE!]

4 hours ago, Robert S said:

They can't for the next 9.5 years, right?

Supposedly. I'm not sure if that was a requirement from SEC for the Blizzard/Activision/King purchase or just a gentlemen's/prior agreement that Microsoft agreed to. I think it'll be sooner than that.

Probably by the time it happens, Microsoft will have bought PlayStation so it won't matter.

[The Old-Fashioned Gamer]

6 hours ago, Robert S said:

They can't for the next 9.5 years, right?

Correct. Microsoft sighted a contract to keep Call of Duty on PlyStation platforms for ten years.  It’s always possible there’s an out clause or a loophole, but presumably PlayStation wouldn’t agree to anything that makes it easy for Microsoft to break the contract.

[Andrew POE!]

Microsoft had their Developer Direct and Hellblade II finally has a blasted release date on May 21, 2024. Ninja Theory has made a career of over-promising and under-delivering so this is expected.  They also showed Indiana Jones & The Great Circle which supposedly is coming this year (likely 2025 but who knows, it'll probably be in the fall).

They also had Avowed and some strategy game and Visions of Mana.

[odessasteps]

Indiana Jones looked decent. The rest was all not for me.  The Civilization style game looked too "progressive" for someone who grew up playing Civ and Civ 2. 
 

 

Edited January 19 by odessasteps

[RIPPA]

Avowed