Most Anticipated Video Games Releasing in November 2024

October is nearly within the rearview, which means it is practically time to place the spooky video games away and look towards the brand new month forward.

Besides we have now a sport from the director of the unique Silent Hill, a PC launch of a console basic with a beloved zombie-themed growth, a puzzle sport about homicide, and a bleak post-apocalyptic sci-fi sport for you this month. 

So perhaps we’ll simply sustain with the spooky video games. Don’t be concerned, although—the record additionally options Mario, Tetris, LEGOs, and a 2D platformer too. Here is probably the most thrilling stuff coming to sport storefronts and cabinets within the month forward.

Editor’s observe: All the video games on this month’s record are conventional “Web2” video video games with no identified crypto or blockchain components. However you would possibly like ’em anyway.

Pink Useless Redemption

Launch Date: October 29Platforms: PC (Epic Video games, Steam)

Positive, that is largely the November video games record, however Rockstar did not announce this till October 8. Pink Useless Redemption, the beloved western from the times of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 5, is lastly coming to PC greater than 14 years after its console launch. This PC model brings trendy options like 4K decision, ultrawide and tremendous ultrawide monitor help, and keyboard and mouse controls, and the port comes with the bottom sport and the Undead Nightmare growth. This sport was simply too massive to depart off the record, regardless of it being a (shock) late October launch.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

Launch Date: November 7Platforms: Nintendo Swap

Brothership is the newest sport within the Mario & Luigi collection of video games. In the event you observe the collection, then you definitely’ll know this one stands out as numerous firsts: the primary with totally 3D gameplay, the primary on a house console reasonably than a devoted handheld, and the primary new title not developed by the earlier (now shuttered) studio, AlphaDream. Brothership carries the everyday tenets of the sport ahead as a single-player role-playing sport. The brothers traverse the sport world on a “half ship, half island” vessel known as Shipshape Island.

Slitterhead

Launch Date: November 8Platforms: PC (Epic Video games, Steam), PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Sequence X/S

The remake of Silent Hill 2 was launched in October to largely optimistic critiques, lastly giving Silent Hill followers one thing to unite round as a optimistic for the collection. It is wild, then, that there is already one thing else for them to deal with. Slitterhead is a brand new survival horror sport from Keiichiro Toyama, the director of the unique Silent Hill, and options music by Silent Hill 1-3 composer Akira Yamaoka. The sport is about within the Nineteen Nineties within the notorious Kowloon walled metropolis, and options gameplay impressed by two of Toyama’s earlier video games, Siren and Gravity Rush.

The Rise of the Golden Idol

Launch Date: November 12Platforms: MacOS, iOS, Android, Swap, PC (Steam), PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One + Sequence X/S

Get out your pocket book, puzzle-heads, as a result of the Golden Idol is again. The Case of the Golden Idol, launched in 2022, was lauded for its intelligent puzzle design and distinctive visible type. Shade Grey Video games is again with Rise of the Golden Idol, which options 20 circumstances and is about within the Nineteen Seventies. If the staff can meet the expectations from the unique, then that is going to be a puzzle sport to recollect.

Tetris Endlessly

Launch Date: November 12Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PC (Steam), PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One + Sequence X/S

There is a sturdy argument for the concept that Tetris is the very best sport of all time, and Tetris Endlessly could be among the finest methods to expertise it. That is the third launch from Digital Eclipse in its Gold Grasp Sequence, following The Making of Karateka and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. This launch is equally formatted as a digital museum, that includes not solely Tetris video games however a ton of historic data.

This consists of issues like 90 minutes of documentary footage, scans of commercials and images, and many extra. The Tetris titles included are a recreation of the unique Electronika 60 launch of the sport, in addition to Hatris, Tetris 2, Tremendous Tetris 2, Tetris Battle Gaiden, Tremendous Tetris 3, Tremendous Bombliss, Tremendous Bombliss DX, and Tetris Time Warp.

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Launch Date: November 14Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X/S

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is a mouthful of a title, nevertheless it’s informative if you already know what it means. HD-2D is a visible type utilized by Sq. Enix on video games like Octopath Traveler and Dwell-A-Dwell that retains the basic pixel artwork type however presents detailed backdrops, lighting, and different visible thrives. Dragon Quest III is, chronologically talking, the primary sport within the first Dragon Quest trilogy, adopted by Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest II—each of that are getting their very own 2D-HD remakes after this one. In the event you’re itching for a very old-school role-playing expertise, right here it’s.

LEGO Horizon Adventures

Launch Date: November 14Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 5

We’re unsure who requested for a LEGO model of Sony’s Horizon collection, since LEGO video games are normally based mostly on actually mainstream, beloved licenses like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Batman. Longtime LEGO sport developer TT Video games isn’t even concerned on this title, with Guerilla Video games as an alternative creating it in cooperation with LEGO and Studio Gobo.

One standout function in Horizon Adventures is that, for the primary time, every part within the sport is constructed from LEGO bricks. The earlier video games featured toy-style buildings, however a lot of the objects within the sport weren’t really issues you might construct in actual life. We’re curious to see how the builders mix the kid-friendly nature of LEGO with the decidedly grownup post-post-apocalyptic (that is two posts) story of Horizon Zero Daybreak.

STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl

Launch Date: November 20Platforms: PC, Xbox Sequence X/S

The builders behind S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl have a tall order arrange for them. The S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. collection is predicated on the Russian sci-fi movie of the identical, which is in flip based mostly on the landmark Russian sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic, through which individuals smuggle unidentified anomalies out of an space known as the Exclusion Zone. The primary Stalker remains to be beloved by followers for its uniquely harsh tackle first-person apocalypse survival. S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 has 17 years of fan hype to stay as much as—to not point out some lingering unhealthy buzz from its short-lived plan to make use of NFTs, which was axed in 2021 following huge backlash.

9 Sols

Launch Date: November 26Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S

9 Sols is already out on PC. Created by Pink Candle Video games, the developer of atmospheric horror sport Devotion, 9 Sols steps away from 3D horror and into 2D platforming. The artwork combines influences of Taoism and cyberpunk, the developer says, whereas the gameplay facilities closely on deflection, taking inspiration from From Software program’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. That distinctive mix makes this an extremely demanding motion sport price trying out.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair