Our Most Wanted Games of 2024 – #40 to #36
For this latest batch of five games coming in 2024, we have everything from intense anime fighting game, through to peaceful world exploration and puzzle solving. Let’s dive in!
PS5, PS4, NSW, PC – 25th January 2024
In the finest of Japanese and fighting game traditions, the Under Night In-Birth series has done its very best to avoid slapping a number on the end with a full sequel. Originally debuting in arcades in 2012, Exe:Late brought major revisions and console releases, with Exe:Late[st] and Exe:Late[cl-r] bringing further revisions and improvements. But French-Bread and Eccole Software are finally obliging fans with a full, numbered sequel in 2024.
Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] will be the final chapter in the Hollow Night storyline that the original story began, but more important will be the revamped battle system with an expanded move list, new character abilities, balance changes to the new and returning characters, and the implementation of rollback netcode.
PS5, XSX|S, PC – 15th March 2024
Outcast: A New Beginning revives the world and setting of the 1999 cult classic original. Developer Appeal Studios is seeking to really reinvent what it means to be an open world game by crafting a setting that will meaningfully grow and offer you opportunities depending on your actions.
You’ll be helping the native Talan lead a resistant fight against hostile robot invaders, fostering settlements to regrow, and then having the chance to, for example, hatch an egg found in the wild, nurture the offspring within, and then ride the giant flying creature it turns into into battle against the robots once more.
PC – 18th April 2024
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