Our Most Wanted Games of 2024 – #45 to #41
There’s plenty of horror in our second selection of upcoming titles. This batch of Most Wanted games coming in 2024 includes impossible moral quandaries in a Frostpunk sequel, straight up narrative horror from the makers of Until Dawn, and the terror of performance anxiety in one of the UK’s best panel game shows…. in VR!
Let’s dive in.
PC – 2024
Following up from the hit survival city builder, Frostpunk 2 leaps ahead from the age of coal to an era of oil extraction. You’d think that would signal a new renaissance for this grim world’s inhabitants, but you would be wrong.
A leading name in the gaming niche of tormenting players with moral quandaries and choices between only bad options, there’s high expectations for this one to expand the setting, the narrative themes and the challenges of surviving.
Steam VR, Quest – 2024
Taskmaster is easily one of the best comedy TV shows around right now, with Greg Davies and Little Alex Horne setting a clutch of hapless comedians weirdly wonderful (and usually very stupid) tasks each week. The results are almost invariably hilarious, thanks in large part to the banter between clips.
There’s been some really nice elements of the show, such as the online tasks set during lockdowns, or the boardgame, bringing the silliness into your home. And soon there will be Taskmaster VR on Steam VR and Meta Quest. Scallywag Games has a real challenge to try and capture the full freedom of what contestants usually get up to, but we’re keen to see them try!
PS5, XSX|S, PS4, XBO, NSW, PC – 23rd April 2024
Announced during The Game Awards, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is a game that’s filled with emotion. A personal project by Abubakar Salim – the voice of Bayek in AC Origins – and his team at Surgent Studios,
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