New Releases: October 17th-23rd, 2024
This week, Dead Island 2: Ultimate Edition, Arizona Sunshine Remake, and A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead pit players against fearsome threats. Meanwhile, RetroRealms Arcade helps sustain the spookiness, with Evil Dead’s Ash and Halloween’s Michael Myers starring in their own 16-bit style action-platformers. For something slightly less ghastly, there’s Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Enhanced Edition (pictured). Here’s the complete list of what’s arriving on PC and consoles:
PlayStation 4
Anomaly Agent (digital, $14.99)
Arsene Lupin – Once A Thief (physical & digital, $39.99)
Blazing Strike (digital, $39.99)
Fae Farm (digital, $29.99)
Fear the Spotlight (digital, $19.99)
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem (physical & digital, $39.99)
Killing Time: Resurrected (digital, $24.99)
RetroRealms Arcade (digital, $24.99 each)
SINce Memories: Off The Starry Sky (digital, $35.99)
Super XYX (digital, $9.99)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (physical & digital, $39.99)
The Seed: Unit 7 (digital, $2.99)
Together We Live (digital, $9.99)
Unknown 9: Awakening (digital, $49.99)
Wildermyth: Console Edition (digital, $24.99)
While We Wait Here (digital, $4.99)
PlayStation 5
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead (digital, $29.99)
Arizona Sunshine Remake (digital, $29.99, PS VR2)
Awaken: Astral Blade (digital, $39.99)
Dead Island 2: Ultimate Edition (physical & digital, $69.99)
Fantasy Friends: Dream Worlds (digital, $29.99)
Kong: Survivor Instinct (digital, $24.99)
Potionomics: Masterwork Edition (physical & digital, $49.99)
Switch
Aery – Midnight Hour (digital, $6.99)
Alchemist: The Potion Monger (digital, $16.19)
Amelia’s Garden (digital, $9.99)
Arsene Lupin – Once A Thief (digital, $39.99)
ASTLIBRA Gaiden: The Cave of Phantom Mist (digital, $9.99)
Blazing Strike (digital, $39.99)
Blind – The Unseen Truth (digital, $9.59)
Dungeons 4 (digital, $44.99)
EGGCONSOLE Undeadline MSX2 (digital, $6.49)
Eternights (digital, $29.99)
Fantasy Friends: Dream Worlds (digital, $29.99)
Fear the Spotlight (digital, $19.99)
Football League Cup: Arcade Soccer Simulator (digital, $4.99)
Frogo Deluxe (digital, $6.99)
Fruit Party: Suika Casual Puzzle (digital, $4.99)
Garage Mechanic Simulator 3D (digital, $5.99)
Hatch Tales: A Heroic Hookshot Adventure (digital, $19.99)
Hentai Waifu (digital, $5.99)
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem (digital, $39.99)
Idle Command: Supply Frontline (digital, $4.99)
It Could Happen to You (digital, $4.99)
Killing Time: Resurrected (digital, $24.99)
Kingsgrave (digital, $9.99)
Little Legs (digital, $1.99)
LYNE (digital, $7.92)
MetroLand (digital, $4.99)
Moorhuhn Jump and Run ‘Traps and Treasures 3’ (digital, $6.99)
Pharaoh’s Riches (digital, $7.77)
Potionomics: Masterwork Edition (digital, $29.99)
Real Hentai (digital, $19.99)
Recolit (digital, $14.99)
RetroRealms Arcade (digital, $24.99 each)
Rookie Boxing (digital, $9.99)
Simply Cubic (digital, $2.99)
SINce Memories: Off The Starry Sky (digital, $35.99)
Speedollama (digital, $8.99)
Stick Combat – Fighting Platformer (digital, $7.99)
StormEdge (digital, $11.24)
Super Mario Party Jamboree (physical & digital, $59.99)
Super XYX (digital, $9.99)
Supermarket Grocery Simulator (digital, $9.99)
The Seed: Unit 7 (digital, $2.99)
Tales From The Arcade: Fartmania (digital, $4.99)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (digital, $39.99)
Tintin Reporter – Cigars of the Pharaoh (digital, $39.99)
While We Wait Here (digital, $4.99)
Wildermyth: Console Edition (digital, $24.99)
Ynglet (digital, $7.99)
Xbox One
Aery – Midnight Hour (digital, $6.99)
Arizona Sunshine Remake (digital, $29.99)
Arsene Lupin – Once A Thief (digital, $39.99)
Awaken: Astral Blade (digital, $39.99)
BeatRider ($TBA)
Fae Farm (digital, $29.99)
Fear the Spotlight (digital, $19.99)
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem (digital, $39.99)
Killing Time: Resurrected (digital, $24.99)
My Bakery Empire (digital, $6.39)
Potionomics: Masterwork Edition (digital, $29.99)
RetroRealms Arcade (digital, $24.99 each)
Super XYX (digital, $9.99)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (digital, $39.99)
Tinkertown (digital, $19.99)
Together We Live (digital, $9.99)
Unknown 9: Awakening (digital, $49.99)
While We Wait Here (digital, $4.99)
Wildermyth: Console Edition (digital, $24.99)
Xbox Series S/X
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead (digital, $29.99)
PC
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead ($29.99)
Arsene Lupin – Once A Thief ($39.99)
Assassin’s Creed Mirage ($24.99)
BeatRider ($TBA)
Blazing Strike (digital, $39.99)
Botworld Odyssey ($TBA)
Citadelum ($19.99)
Dunjungle ($TBA)
Half Billion: Love Choice ($TBA)
How to Build a Flying City ($TBA)
Kakenuke★Seishun Sparking! ($TBA)
Killing Time: Resurrected ($24.99)
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Enhanced Edition ($TBA)
Kong: Survivor Instinct ($24.99)
MechWarrior 5: Clans ($49.99)
Rivals of Aether II ($TBA)
Sniper Killer ($10.79)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed ($39.99)
Unknown 9: Awakening ($49.99)
Wild Planet ($TBA)
Rob’s Pick: I’m not sure if kataomoi (unrequited love) is a recognized sub-genre in visual novels, but it undoubtedly should be. Tidy romance is fine and all, but I relish a story where affections are a bit messier. This week, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien brings the muddled, with plot points that usually don’t appear in high school melodrama.
Cave and Compile’s STGs are paramount, but Toaplan’s shooters always came close. This week, Team Grybanser Fox pays homage to the studio’s projectile velocities and torrents of offensive firepower with Super XYX. Sure, it’s not quite on the level of Batsugun or Dogyuun, but the action is intense, the price is reasonable, and the footprint is small. Other genres might come and go, but STGs like this have a permanent spot on my Switch. Lately, I’ve been having some masochistic fun with Dunjungle which is like Dead Cells with the Monkey King. I love a game that lets players paint themselves into a corner which is what can happen if you force extra weapon upgrades.
Ryan’s pick: I had a lot of fun playing Arizona Sunshine II with a friend on his PS VR2. It was a bit of a progression in that the controls needed to grow on us a bit, but once we hit our stride the way you can interact with the environments, reload your guns by inserting clips, and all the funny commentary (and Fred references) made it a really memorable experience. The length of the game was also impressive, it took us at least 7 or 8 multiple-hour sessions or so to finish. This said, since I missed the first game, my official pick goes to Arizona Sunshine Remake. We were a bit bummed when we finally got to the end of the second game, so now we have a new prospect.
Two other quick mentions are for MechWarrior 5: Clans and Sniper Killer on Steam. The Mechwarrior series takes me back to MechWarrior II on my friend’s PC in the early 90s. There were so many moving parts that it was pretty intense to even get the mech to move where you wanted it to on a keyboard, but it was still a lot of fun figuring it out. I believe I chose Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries as a pick way back, so I’m definitely interested in seeing how the online coop works for this new installment. One final mention goes to Sniper Killer. The visual aesthetic reminds me of the mid-to-late 90’s FPS scene, so I’m in. Story-wise it’s pretty interesting in that you get to play the role of the sniper killer as well as other characters like the killer’s victims and the detective that is out to catch the killer.
Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): I am really looking forward to Arsene Lupin – Once A Thief. We get so many Sherlock Holmes games, but this is the first time we’ve had the great detective’s literary foil in a video game. I expect it will be a stock-standard Microids point-and-click adventure game and that’s really all I need to enjoy this one. I’m genuinely interested to see how the great gentleman thief and his antics translated to the video game format.
I’m also looking forward to playing Dungeons 4 for the first time. I do love the Dungeons games, but have preferred them on Switch, where I can get in a bit of hero-murdering trap setting while on the go. The Dungeons series has become reliably entertaining thanks to its very nerdy sense of humour, fun aesthetics, and simple – yet effective – strategy.
