New Releases: Nov. 28-Dec. 3, 2024

This week, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP scythes its way onto additional consoles, Snow Bros. Wonderland offers an injury-inducing snowball fight, while Antonblast delivers some unmistakable Wario World vibes. Japanese readers might be interested in The Sound of Spring is Just Like You (pictured), which follows a romance over four seasons. Here’s the full list of what’s arriving on PCs and consoles:

PlayStation 4

Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP (digital, $44.99)
Platform 8 (digital, $3.99)
Ravenswatch (digital, $29.99)
Snow Bros. Wonderland (digital, $29.99)

PlayStation 5

Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age (digital, $29.99)
Fly Corp (digital, $TBA)
MXGP 24: The Official Game (digital, $59.99)
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (digital, $39.99)

Switch

2weistein in Asban (digital, $18.00)
911: Prey (digital, $6.99)
Antonblast (digital, $19.99)
Bamboo Retro Run
Beyond Memories – Tale of the Lost Souls (digital, $2.99)
Broken Reality (digital, $14.99)
Cats Hidden in Bali (digital, $1.99)
Crown Wars: The Black Prince (digital, $49.99)
Crystal Breaker (digital, $13.49)
Cursed Feed (digital, $2.99)
Death Elevator (digital, $9.99)
Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age (digital, $29.99)
Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 – The Dead King’s Secret (digital, $14.99)
EGGCONSOLE The Scheme PC-8801mkIISR (digital, $6.49)
Fantasy Sword (digital, $2.25)
Food Courier: Bike Adventure (digital, $7.99)
Furious Bikers (digital, $4.99)
Glitch Blaster’s Waifu (digital, $4.99)
Glitch Hero (digital, $10.79)
Grand Rush: Highway Car Traffic Racing Simulator (digital, $9.99)
Heaven Impact (digital, $2.99)
Leo’s Fortune (digital, $6.99)
MiceGard (digital, $9.99)
Mission in Snowdriftland (digital, $8.99)
Monster Truck Arena: Battle Royale (digital, $7.99)
Om Nom: Run 2 (digital, $4.99)
Pet Clinic Simulator (digital, $4.99)
Pool Fever (digital, $4.99)
Pretty Girls Pop Match (digital, $5.99)
Rage Swarm (digital, $4.99)
Riviera: The Promised Land (digital, $29.74)
Shark Simulator : Ocean Predator Survival (digital, $4.99)
Sinvers on Wheels (digital, $5.56)
Sled Riders (digital, $4.99)
Snow Bros. Wonderland (digital, $29.99)
Sports Supermarket (digital, $7.99)
Steam Prison -Beyond the Steam- (digital, $40.15)
Tank vs Tank (digital, $9.99)
The Epyx Games – Sports Collection (digital, $9.99)
TOKYO PSYCHODEMIC (digital, $29.99)
W.A.N.D. Project (digital, $9.99)
Water Blast Shooter – Wet Gun (digital, $7.99)
ZXC (digital, $4.99)

Xbox One

Fly Corp (digtial, $TBA)
Glitch Hero (digital, $10.79)
Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP (digital, $44.99)
Penguin’s Road (digital, $7.99)
Ravenswatch (digital, $29.99)
ReactorX 3 (digital, $4.99)

Xbox Series S/X

Beyond Hanwell (digital, $29.99)

PC

30 Birds ($16.19)
Antonblast (digital, $19.99)
Beat the Humans ($TBA)
Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age ($29.99)
Enigma of Fear ($22.49)
Glitch Hero ($10.79)
LumineNight ($TBA)
Mosquito Simulator ($TBA)
MXGP 24: The Official Game ($44.99)
Sensei! I Like You So Much! ($TBA)
Snow Bros. Wonderland ($23.99)
Steam Prison -Beyond the Steam- ($40.15)
The Sound of Spring is Just Like You ($TBA)
W.A.N.D. Project ($9.99)
Witch and Council : The Card ($TBA)
Xtreme Club Racing ($4.19)

Rob’s pick: As much as I enjoy the challenge offered contemporary danmaku, I truly love early STGs like Gunhed/Blazing Lazers. I feel these pare the genre to the essentials, putting a single, formidable ship against a legion of enemies. As such, I’ll be picking up Terarin Games’ Crystal Breakers, which might be the closest we’ll get to seeing new PC Engine games.

Additional nostalgia might be mined from Mosquito Simulator. Before Sony got the blockbuster itch, they published wonderfully creative efforts like Zoom’s Mister Mosquito, where you played as a blood-drinking insect covertly gathering nourishment from an unsuspecting family. Lastly, I’ve been playing Snow Bros. Wonderland, which got remade into a 3D Kirby’s Blowout Blast-style score chase. Spoiler: Nick and Tom were Brits.

Ryan’s pick: Nostalgia takes the wheel this week with The Epyx Games – Sports Collection which is launching on Switch. One of the included games in this compilation is California Games which was one of two Atari Lynx games that I owned for quite some time before I got Batman Returns and Scrapyard Dog. I spent most of my time on the bmx portion of the game, where if you hit your back wheel just right on the edge of a jump you’d do an impressive number of somersaults on your bike before landing. Graphically the games in this collection may look dated for some, but there’s a lot of really fun and simple games to try if you like retro games.

Echoing Robert’s note about Mosquito Simulator, my brain immediately went back to 2000 where I saw the Mister Mosquito game demo on the PS2 when I was in Japan. It was pretty impressive as it was able to show off how advanced the PS2 looked when compared to PS1 3D graphics and rendering. To be honest, Mister Mosquito has a bit more charisma and appeal, but the music from this game had me cracking up, and I’m also curious to see how it deviates from the Sony title. For those interested, you can still buy Mister Mosquito for PS5 on the PS Store.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): Talk about nostalgia. I have such strong nostalgia for Snow Bros. I grew up playing the Game Boy cartridge to death – it was one I quite literally wore out. When Toaplan when out of business I assumed that that was the end of it and my memories of Snow Bros. would be those classic, classic arcade and handheld games.

But then came the remake of the arcade classic and now there’s this – an all-new and modern Snow Bros. adventure! Snow Bros. Wonderland isn’t perfect, but it has the Snow Bros. vibe in spades and is an enjoyable, interesting, joyful puzzle platformer. I’m so glad this somehow happened.

The other one I’m quite looking forward to is Steam Prison -Beyond the Steam-, which is a direct sequel to one of my favourite otome games in the last few years. Excellent setting, detailed story, wonderful, interesting questions – Steam Prison checked all the boxes and looked gorgeous while doing it. More of that is very welcome.