Don't have two hours to spare to watch the livestreamed kickoff event. No problem. simply skim through this page to catch up on all the announcements.
Aliens Dark Descent showed off a heavily cinematic trailer that featured the titular aliens and strongly evoked James Cameron's movies. Brief gameplay scenes showed a squad of marines shooting at Xenomorphs from an isometric perspective. Coming in 2023 to Xbox and PlayStation consoles as well as PC.
The Callisto Protocol was the first of many Summer Game Fest games to bring up strong Dead Space vibes, right down to the camera angle. A brief trailer and gameplay demo highlighted the "extra gore" including ghost-like enemies and the protagonist getting chewed up by the blades of a giant fan and a motorized gear. Coming December 2 to consoles and PC.
Flashback 2 is a sequel 30 years in the making, bringing the original 2D puzzle platformer from 1992 to a new generation. The game was announced last month, and a very brief teaser showed hard-to-parse scenes with a lot of careful walking to the right and a 3D motorbike section. Coming to PlayStation and Xbox consoles as well as PC in winter 2022, followed by the Switch in 2023.
Fort Solis features the vocal talents of Troy Baker as a medical officer in the titular fort, where something horrible is happening on a lonesome planet where assistance is not close at hand. The thriller is described as "Dead Space meets Duncan Jones' Moon" with a focus on discovery and many different modes of traversal. No announced release date yet for this Steam release.
Stormgate pre-rendered cinematic trailer featured a lonely archeologist finding a powerful shield on a seemingly deserted planet. But when she's attacked by huge, winged demons flooding through a "stormgate," she needs to hide behind that shield while receiving some assistance from a soldier in a railgun-equipped mech suit. A developer of the free-to-play real-time strategy game promised "no play-to-win," and players can register now for a planned 2023 beta.
Highwater comes from the makers of Golf Club: Wasteland, and takes place in a similar world ravaged by climate change. The "narrative-driven isometric survival game" will feature a protagonist taking a motorized raft through the ruins of civilization, taking on armed guards in turn-based combat as they try to sneak onto a rocket to a better world. Coming in 2022.
Goat Simulator 3 is not a typo; that's the name of this first sequel to the ridiculous 2014 breakout hit. A cinematic trailer for this follow-up sees multiple goats causing absolute chaos behind a jogger on a boardwalk, firing rocket launchers, and driving vehicles. Coming in fall 2022 to the Epic Games Store.
Midnight Fight Express stood out from the Game Fest crowd as a game developed by a single person: a father from Poland. The isometric action featured the requisite brawling, dodging, and shooting in some stylish environments. A demo is live now on Steam ahead of a planned August 23 launch.
Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero are anime-infused action RPGs coming to the "Hoyoverse." The short trailer seemed reminiscent of games like Genshin Impact and Nier Automata, with a lot of lore that will likely make sense to people who are already immersed in the world of these games. Honkai: Star Rail is already available in beta, while Zenless Zone Zero has just started development.
One Piece Odyssey looks like an overwrought RPG set in the world of the long-running manga and anime. Coming in 2022 to PlayStation and Xbox consoles as well as Steam.
Layers of Fears is the follow-up to Bloober Team's Layers of Fear, appropriately enough. The "psychedelic horror chronicle" features a lot of screaming about misery, suffering, sadness, guilt, fear, and hatred, if the trailer is anything to go by. Coming to the PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and PC in early 2023.
Witchfire is finally nearing its early access release on the Epic Games Store after its 2017 announcement. A new gameplay trailer featured a lot of demons coming through portals and a first-person protagonist shooting them with a revolver. Coming to PC as an Epic Games Store exclusive to start.
Routine was first announced way back in 2012 and is now getting a "re-reveal" in a new trailer. That trailer shows another game with a heavy Dead Space vibe, complete with a gun featuring a huge targeting viewscreen, as well as large bipedal robots. Coming to PC and Xbox consoles eventually.
American Arcadia is set in a thinly veiled Epcot parody where citizens live in paradise that's streamed to viewers 24/7. But when your protagonist gets less popular with those viewers, he has to escape paradise or be killed in a futuristic puzzle platformer. Coming soon to PC and consoles.
Nightingale is a Victorian-infused take on a survival game, where players travel through portals to new procedurally generated worlds in order to gather resources and "stay fed, dry, and rested." Crafting new realm cards takes you through new portals where you will encounter new threats. Coming to PC early access on July 27.
The Last of Us: Part 1 is getting yet another remaster, this time "built from the ground up" for PC and PS5 and launching September 2. Naughty Dog is also working on a multiplayer game set in a new city in the Last of Us universe, with a story that promises to be "as big as any single-player mode" and tell a story in a "very unique way."
Other announcements
- Guile will be playable in the recently announced Street Fighter VI, and now he has facial hair.
- A new gameplay demo for Modern Warfare 2 showed off the game's much-hyped wind and water tech, which can shift cover for both you and your enemies unexpectedly.
- A Marvel Midnight Suns teaser showed off Spider-Man as a new playable hero, alongside a bunch of other familiar Marvel characters that were borderline unrecognizable in their new costumes. The tactical RPG is coming October 7 to PlayStation and Xbox consoles, as well as PC, with a Switch version planned for later.
- Cuphead's "Delicious Last Course" DLC will finally launch on June 30, and a new gameplay trailer captured the original game's classic animation and run-and-gun gameplay.
- Neon White is hitting Steam and Switch with its anime-infused, "heavenly single-player card-based speedrunning FPS for freaks by freaks" on June 16.
- Casey Jones will be the seventh playable character in TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, which now features a six-player mode (online, offline, or mixed) and will also launch June 16 across consoles and PC.
- Supermassive's The Quarry launches tomorrow as a spiritual successor to Until Dawn, with cinematic horror that doesn't seem to take itself too seriously.
- You can download Saints Row: Boss Factory for free right now on consoles or PC and dive into its deep well of character customization options to make an avatar for the upcoming Saints Row launching August 23.
- Warhammer 40K Darktide will launch on PC and Xbox consoles September 13, featuring the same kind of four-player first-person shooting-and-magic action against massive hordes of beasts from the popular tabletop RPG series.
- A new Gotham Knights trailer showed off some of Nightwing's plethora of melee moves ahead of the game's October 25 release.
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