What's Your Most Anticipated PS5 Game for the Second Half of 2024? | Push Square

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Whether we want to believe it or not, we're now halfway through 2024. As we've written numerous times over the last few months, we think the first half of the year has been really good in terms of new PS5 games — although we'll admit that the summer has been rather dry, and as a result, we've found ourself looking towards the future.

We had originally planned on penning this Talking Point a bit sooner, but we wanted to wait until Summer Game Fest and its surrounding showcases had come to a close. After all, we did get a bunch of release dates during the various events, and it certainly helps to have a more definitive timeline for a discussion like this.

Indeed, the latter half of 2024 has filled out quite nicely in terms of the release schedule. From where we're sitting, things are looking pretty busy — but which PS5 games are you most looking forward to? While you have a think, feel free to read about the most anticipated titles of our editorial team...

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2: As a disgusting Warhammer 40,000 lore deviant (who has spent the last year listening to nothing but Black Library audiobooks), my most anticipated game, hands down, is Space Marine 2. It actually looks ludicrously good, with the attention to detail off the charts and the prospect of recruiting my IRL battle brothers for a three-player cooperative campaign incredibly exciting. Even the reasonably straightforward competitive offering looks cool, like Gears of War's multiplayer modes. I can't wait to take a chainsword to xenos, mutants, and heretics alike, a prayer to the God-Emperor of Mankind upon my lips.

The Thaumaturge: The Thaumaturge is an upcoming turn-based RPG set in Warsaw in 1905, with Poland under the grip of Russia's imperial tsardom. You play as a practitioner of Thaumaturgy, a mysterious art that allows adherents to summon Salutors, demonic, otherworldly beings, to fight by their side. The combination of alt-history with fantasy or sci-fi elements will always be like