October 2023 New Games Thread

[Violentvixen]

Thread concept:
The basic idea is to list new games that you are interested in, as well as games you are potentially curious about or want to give wider attention to. You can briefly describe them or ask other people to help fill you in. The hope is that regular threads like these can act as a collective filter/discovery mechanism to help people decide what is worth checking out.

"New games" means any new title that is being released or ported this month in any capacity (not "backlogs/what you are playing this month"). The angle here is sharing your anticipation and promoting game discovery (as opposed to sharing comments about a first playthrough in progress - that belongs elsewhere).

• If you want a handy list that covers most of the major upcoming games of the month, here's a few text lists of upcoming games:
  • Giant Bomb
  • Game Informer
  • Wikipedia

Here are the subscription service lists for this month:

Games with Gold

• Is no more! It changed to Gamepass core in September with a set library of games.

Gamepass

• October 3 Gotham Knights Series X|S, PC, Cloud
• October 3 NHL 24 (10-hour free trial) Console
• October 3 The Lamplighters League Series X|S, PC, Cloud
• October 4 Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Xbox Series X|S
• October 10 Forza Motorsport Series X|S, PC, Cloud
• October 24 Cities: Skylines 2 PC
• October 26 Mineko's Night Market Console, PC, TBD
• October 31 Headbangers Rhythm Royale Console, PC, TBD
• October 31 Jusant Series X|S, PC, Cloud

PS+

• The Callisto Protocol
• Farming Simulator 22
• Weird West

Feel free to post other lists or list videos that you find useful.
If there is already a thread on TT about a game, please add a link to it.

Final request: If you are the first person to mention a game please provide (at minimum) a short sentence description. (If it is a very big AAA release though, then don't worry about it.) This is a good convention that makes the thread more useful as a discovery mechanism, and especially helps out anyone who doesn't follow the news as closely as you.

 

[Octopus Prime]

Oh this is an expensive month

Mario Wonder is a brand new 2D Super Mario game so it’s a gimme

Sonic Superstars, likewise, is a new 2D Sonic game, so it is just as much of a gimme

Wargroove 2 is the sequel to what is possibly the best Advance Wars styled game I’d played since Days of Ruin, and it’s adding in a bunch of new modes that look hella fun.

Metal Gear Solid Master Collection puts the MSX and PS1 Metal Gears on a portable system. Which is all I demand from society and the world. It also has the NES and PS2 games which I appreciate at least.

World of Horror is a kind of RPGier take on the old MacVenture games like Shadowgate and The Uninvited, I’d been looking forward to it since seeing Fyonn gush about it on Discord

 

[Violentvixen]

Mario Wonder comes out October 20th and we know a lot of people on here will grab that one! Thread is here. I know my spouse is getting this especially since we head to Japan that day and it seems like a great thing to have on the flight.

Also on October 20th Cattails: Wildwood story comes out on Steam. I don't know why I enjoyed the first game so much but I did! The art is resoundingly okay pixel art and the controls are kinda janky but there was something really enjoyable about it. So I'm excited for this game, but will likely wait until it comes to Switch in 2024 as it was a very good portable game.

Sonic Superstars comes out October 17th and I'm curious about it but will wait for reviews. I'm really hoping the 4 player co-op is as fun as it looks.

Dave the Diver comes to Switch on October 26th. I've heard good things but haven't played it myself, it's wishlisted for now and is likely to site there for a while until I clear out my backlog a bit.

 

[WildcatJF]

Super Mario Wonder and Trip World DX should be it for October for me. Altho the physical of Mineko's Night Market is hitting late October, so that'll count too I suppose, haha.

 

[4-So]

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the only must-buy on my list for October.

Assassin's Creed Mirage - More AssCreed. If you know it, you know it, except this one has been described as a kind of soft reboot. It apparently aims to mimic the first few games while updating the gameplay formula to be less plodding than the early games. The extensive open world of the past three games appears to be gone (relatively speaking, Mirage still looks big). I enjoyed Origins, loved Odyssey, but I have nothing good to say about Valhalla. I think I'm down for a tigher experience, so I'm curious what people think of this one. And for those who mostly like the AC games for the historical value, this one appears to have one of those History modes, so you can wander around Baghdad without the whole stabbity-stab parts.

Lords of the Fallen - Not to be confused with the game of the same name a few years back, this game appears to be another Soulslike. More deriative than Lies of P (as far as I can tell), which was more homage and mimicry, the game looks like "Demon's Souls, but again". Not a day one but I'm interested in what people are going to say about this one when they finally get their hands on it. If nothing else, it looks great. Very pretty.

 

[Bongo]

Like everyone else, I'll be playing Super Mario Wonder. It goes without saying, really.

I think I'm likely to pick up the whole entire Metal Gear Solid Master Collection (only volume 1 is out in October, though), because I don't even know if my PS3 still works.

I'm curious about Wargroove 2, because I felt like the first one was a fun and clever symmetrical turn-based strategy game, but still with plenty of room for improvement. I still haven't finished Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp (which is its closest competitor), though, so maybe I'll hold off a bit.

 

[Violentvixen]

Assassin's Creed Mirage - More AssCreed. If you know it, you know it, except this one has been described as a kind of soft reboot. It apparently aims to mimic the first few games while updating the gameplay formula to be less plodding than the early games. The extensive open world of the past three games appears to be gone (relatively speaking, Mirage still looks big). I enjoyed Origins, loved Odyssey, but I have nothing good to say about Valhalla. I think I'm down for a tigher experience, so I'm curious what people think of this one. And for those who mostly like the AC games for the historical value, this one appears to have one of those History modes, so you can wander around Baghdad without the whole stabbity-stab parts.

Oh wow this sounds worth checking out then. I loved the Ezio trilogy and then liked them less and less as they got (in my opinion) too big.

 

[4-So]

Oh wow this sounds worth checking out then. I loved the Ezio trilogy and then liked them less and less as they got (in my opinion) too big.

Agreed. Supposedly this one is about 25 hours or so, as opposed to the sprawling 100+ hour games the past few have been. More of a getting down to brass tacks instead of the patented Ubisoft Bloat.

 

[MCBanjoMike]

Super Mario Bros Wonder is day-one for me, I can't wait to see what Nintendo will do in the space of 2D Mario games in 2023. I think Alan Wake 2 also comes out at the end of the month? It sounds pretty cool from the previews, and Remedy's last game (Control) which was excellent, so I'm expecting good things.

 

[lincolnic]

Spidermans (okay fine, Spider-Man 2) is also coming out on the PS5 October 20th, and as a fan of the first Spider-Man and Miles Morales games, I'll be playing this...if I can ever tear myself away from Baldur's Gate 3.

 

[Kirin]

Agreed. Supposedly this one is about 25 hours or so, as opposed to the sprawling 100+ hour games the past few have been. More of a getting down to brass tacks instead of the patented Ubisoft Bloat.

Yeah, this is intriguing me. I was a big AC player from the beginning through Origins (I think I only missed the French one and a few spin-off titles) but petered out - not so much because I wasn't enjoying them still but more I just ran out of time for enormous open-world action-RPGs that don't have "Zelda" in the title. So a tight, 25-hour, "returning to its roots" experience with more emphasis on assassinations than just grinding through hundreds of encounters via numbers-go-up is definitely the best chance for pulling me back in.

Though... it's yet another thing where I may wait 'til I finally get around to upgrading to a PS5 to improve the experience.

 

[muteKi]

oh hey there's a new sonic game coming out

probably gonna try that one

 

[MetManMas]

If World of Horror was currently listed in the Switch eShop I'd already have it pre-ordered digitally.

 

[RT-55J]

Corn Kidz 64 on Steam

The unauthorized, kid-friendly version of the classic Stephen King thriller (or maybe not, maybe it's just a game about one-horned goatbabies)

store.steampowered.com

2023 is proving to be a landmark year for faux-N64 platformers starring weird little goat people

also:

Features
- very belated followup to ancient indie platformer "Lyle in Cube Sector"

i'm sold

 

[Violentvixen]

October 31 Jusant Series X|S, PC, Cloud

I didn't really look at this one when initially making this list, but @Becksworth pointed it out in the Steam thread. I played the demo and really loved it so definitely getting this on Gamepass.