Last night, Xbox held their 10th annual ID@Xbox games showcase and revealed a bunch of great new games coming to PC. There were gorgeous platformers, retro RPGs, party games, Silent Hill-esque spook ‘em ups, and even a playable documentary. There's loads to chew on, so I've rounded up some of my personal favourites for your perusal.
Hellboy: Web Of Wyrd was announced late last year as an action roguelike starring our titular horn-headed demon friend, and we now have our second look at the game. Web Of Wyrd is set within the comic book’s canon and features a story written by the series creator Mike Mignola, with the late Lance Reddick voicing our main man. Striking shadows and bold dashes of colour seem to recreate the comic’s artwork well enough too. So all in all, the seems like a dream for any Hellboy zealots.
Like clockwork, Jackbox Party Pack 10 is coming out later this year, and the team just announced two new games coming to the daft multiplayer collection. Hyponotorious (4-8 players) puts you in the shoes of a hypnotised stage show contestant, and Timejinx (1-8 players) has you travel through the decades to answer trivia questions. Though that might lead to some dangerous butterfly effects. You can find out more on Jackbox Games’ website.
I didn’t expect the developers behind the time-and-space-bending horror Paratopic to be working on something as uptempo as Roman Sands RE:Build, but we now know it will be out on PC later this summer. The game traps us in a summery apocalypse resort where we either need to escape or wait until the sun swallows us whole. The team at Arbitrary Metric say it mixes visual novel, puzzle, horror, and survival sim elements, and that overwhelming blend is on display in the newest
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