New Releases: June 13th-19th, 2024

This week, the Kingdom Hearts franchise arrives on Steam, Mushoku Tensei (pictured) gets adapted into a role-playing game, and Monster Hunter Stories arrives on a new batch of consoles. Here’s the full list of what’s scheduled to arrive across the next six days:

PlayStation 4
#Blud (digital, $TBA)
Glyphs of Gitzan (digital, $4.99)
Magical Drop VI (digital, $29.99)
Monster Hunter Stories (digital, $29.99)
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin (digital, $39.99)
Monster Hunter Stories Collection (digital, $59.99)
Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation Quest of Memories (digital, $44.99)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (digital, $59.99)

PlayStation 5
Crime Boss: Rockay City (digital, $39.99, PS+ Extra)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (physical & digital, $59.99)
Still Wakes the Deep (digital, $34.99, $31.49 PS+)

Switch
Anime vs Evil: Apocalypse (digital, $24.99)
Astrune Academy (digital, $13.49)
Bug & Seek (digital, $14.99)
Bumper Kitty (digital, $2.49)
Chopper Strike (digital, $0.99)
Cozy Jigsaw Puzzle (digital, $4.99)
Cyberpunk City Tycoon (digital, $8.99)
Echo Generation (digital, $24.99)
EggConsole: Sorcerian PC-8801mkIISR (digital, $6.49)
Fit My Zoo (digital, $11.99)
Forest Fantasy (digital, $4.99)
Froggy Bouncing Adventures (digital, $4.99)
Glyphs of Gitzan (digital, $4.99)
Hidden Cats in Paris (digital, $2.99)
Monolith (digital, $14.99)
Monster Hunter Stories (digital, $29.99)
Mushoku Tensei jobless reincarnation Quest of Memories (digital, $44.99)
Neon Noir (digital, $6.99)
Path to Purge (digital, $10.49)
Railbreak (digital, $4.99)
Railway Islands 2 (digital, $4.99)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (digital, $59.99)
Tiny Little Farm (digital, $9.99)
Urban Trace: Parkour Simulator Pursuit (digital, $9.99)
Willy’s Wonderland – The Game (digital, $4.99)

Xbox One
#Blud (digital, $TBA)
Astrune Academy (digital, $13.49)
Dead Station 2 (digital, $4.99)
Detective – Minerva Case (digital, $8.39)
Glyphs of Gitzan (digital, $4.99)
Horror Tales: The Beggar (digital, $13.59)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (physical & digital, $59.99)

Xbox Series S/X
Crime Boss: Rockay City (digital, $39.99)

PC
#Blud ($TBA)
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora ($TBA)
Cats and Seek : Kyoto (free)
Chocolate Factory ($TBA)
Clothing Store Simulator ($TBA)
Don’t Shout Together ($TBA)
Echo Generation: Midnight Edition ($24.99)
El Dorado: The Golden City Builder ($TBA)
Go-Go Town! ($TBA)
Horror Tales: The Beggar ($13.59)
Kingdom Hearts – HD 1.5+2.5 Remix- ($34.49)
Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue ($41.39)
Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind ($41.39)
Messy Up ($TBA)
Monster Hunter Stories ($29.99)
Mushoku Tensei jobless reincarnation Quest of Memories ($44.99)
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance ($59.99)
Still Wakes the Deep ($34.99)
SunnySide ($TBA)
Taskmaster VR ($TBA)

Rob’s pick: Lazy publisher cash grabs have made me skeptical of the game reboot/redux/remaster. And lately, Atlus’ eagerness to iterate on almost every one of their accomplishments, rather than develop new experiences, hasn’t reduced my suspicions – especially when DLC escalates the price point. But this week’s release of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance really can’t be faulted. While I thoroughly enjoyed the original release, Atlus’ has listened to those who weren’t happy with the story and made enough variations to justify the creation of an alternative route.

Canon of Vengeance, the new storyline, twists things in unforeseen ways, playfully subverting your expectations if you’ve already made your way through the original route. And given how tragically rare surprises have become in this industry, Vengeance is worth your time this week (and likely the remainer of June).

Ryan’s pick: Isekai anime are a household staple in my realm, and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation sticks out as one of the best in the genre for me. While it’s not as crass as Konosuba, it makes up for that deficit with some really memorable characters and through worldbuilding and storytelling. I’ll typically tread lightly around anime series adaptation games, however the fact that this game is a dungeon crawler really helped to lock this one as my pick this week. Available party members are a lot of the really popular characters from the first season, so put Mushoku Tensei jobless reincarnation Quest of Memories on the radar.

Don’t Shout Together has a pretty creepy VHS and found-footage style that provides an uneasy level of realism to the visuals. One primary mechanic is time progresses as you move, and you need to attempt to escape the level with a party. There are monsters throughout each level that can kill you and serve to provide various jump scares as you explore. Coupled with this is the other main mechanic that if you or any teammates scream (into the mic), a bomb around your character’s neck explodes in the game, and the entire party loses. It seems like a fun one to play at night with the right audience. Slenderman definitely made me yell out loud, so I feel like this one could be a fun test of endurance and self-control.

Matt S’ pick (editor, DigitallyDownloaded): Shin Megami Tensei V might not have had the impact that, say, Persona 5 did, but it was a very, very good game in its own right. Given that Vengeance adds another 80-hour narrative arc, and innumerable other improvements, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t play the newer version. Also, Mermaid’s not in HD. Oh, my, Mermaid.

Elsewhere, Monster Hunter Stories is the “light and bubbly” take on the infamously challenging action games, and a delight to play when you’re not in the mood of the hardcore.

Finally, I’m quite keen for El Dorado: The Golden City Builder. I’m in the mood for a city builder, for one thing, as it has been a while since I played one. But also, the mystique of El Dorado fascinates me, so I’m keen to see how that translates in this game.