Our Most Wanted Games of 2024 – #30 to #26
thesixthaxis.comWe’re back from a little Christmas reprieve with another fistfull of games that we’re looking forward to playing in 2024. Whether it’s slowly driving through the wilderness, fighting alongside your ghostly loved one or trying to survive the start of the universe, there’s another intriguing set of games here.
PC – 2024
If you’ve seen one beat ’em up, you’ve seen them all, haven’t you? Not so with Mayhem Brawler 2. The sequel to the 2021 homage to 90’s beat ’em ups, Hero Concept’s sequel is throwing tons of new ideas into the mix, from roguelite and RPG elements to a wild time swapping mechanic!
Mayhem Brawler 2 takes place in two time periods 20 years apart and events running in parallel. You’ll be able to jump back and forth between Stellar and She Wolf in these two settings as you battle through Mayhem City. Throw in roguelite elements and endgame content and this should be a beat ’em up to enjoy for a good long time.
Quest, Steam VR – 2024
Thumper has gone down as an all-time classic of the rhythm action genre – branded as a ‘rhythm violence’ game – and especially for the VR versions that fully enveloped players in the dark visuals and brutalist soundtrack. Now there’s Thrasher.
While there’s a lot of similarities in terms of audiovisual tone, Thrasher looks to take a different direction with the gameplay. Here you’ll be using gesture controls to evolve a space eel from a worm up to a beast, racing to survive the universe’s rapid growth at the dawn of time.
A VR exclusive, the one mystery here is why this isn’t also coming to PSVR 2. Hopefully that’s something that can be sorted out soon.
PS5, XSX|S, PC – 5th March 2024
In the realms of video games, MudRunner was practically unique. A driving game where the idea isn’t to
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