October 2024 New Games Thread

[Violentvixen]

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 are lists of upcoming games:
  • Giant Bomb
  • Wikipedia

Here are the subscription service lists for this month:

Gamepass

• South Park Fractured But Whole (October 16)
• MechWarrior 5: Clans (October 17)
• Donut County (October 17)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (October 25)
• Ashen (October 29)
• Dead Island 2 (October 31)
• Here's a list of all 2024 Gamepass games that seems to be well-maintained

PS+

• WWE 2K24
• Dead Space
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• The Last of Us Part 1

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.

 

[MetManMas]

I'm gonna be playing the Silent Hill 2 remake. I admit, game's already divisive as hell given who's developing it (Bloober Team with its poor track record on how it handles mental health), but as someone who never got far in the original and is unlikely to get a proper PS2 emulation setup anytime soon, I'm still interested in checking it out.

Will try streaming (no commentary) or at least taking some videos of the game, too.

 

[Violentvixen]

Date Everything looks completely stupid and silly and delightful and has Sun Wong Cho voicing stuff and I think it'll be great fun. Comes out October 24th. I think my main debate will be Switch or Steam, I see potential for some very silly mods/DLC that the Switch version may not get.

I am intrigued by Sonic X Shadow Generations this month, but probably won't be picking it up for a while. I really liked Sonic Generations on 360 but the new Shadow stuff looks bonkers.

I just downloaded the demo for Metaphor: ReFantazio, which comes out this month, last night. Turn-based fighting monsters, and the intro is hinting at a deeper mystery to the world. I don't think I have time to dive into a new RPG until early next year but might check it out then.

Wingspan's digital version is coming to PS4/PS5 this month and I so highly recommend it. Probably the best digital version of a board game I've played and beautiful music.

Games coming out this month that I feel like I heard about but can't remember anything about right now:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
- Wildermyth

 

[Octopus Prime]

Topping my list this month is
Sky Ocean which isn’t a new Skies of Arcadia, but, dammit, at least someone is trying.

Wildermyth is an SRPG with a truly, outrageously bonkers level of branching paths for the story.

Slay the Princess is getting a greatly expanded console release that adds a heap of new stories and content and is otherwise kind of a Stanley Parable thing except as a text adventure where you have to kill a Princess and that Princess is good at making that a difficult task

 

[Voncaster]

Silent Hill 2
is the big one for me. Its my most anticipated title of the year (Even more than FFVII).

Once I finish Silent Hill 2 I may play Ys X. I really liked Ys VIII but I did not like Ys IX as much. I'm hoping Ys X captures that Ys magic again for me.

 

[gogglebob]

Coming at the end of this week is SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game. It looks like a Goat Simulator-esque mayhem adventure, but made for kids with a familiar property. And kids love mayhem! I don't exactly see it as an "appointment" game that I have to play on day one, but I am anxious to play it. I am a mayhem-enjoyer as well.

(Also, TT alum Lakupo and the PHL Collective is responsible for this, and I support both TT'ers and Philadelphia-based development)

 

[Neo Skimbleshanks]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Oct 31st. Most action-y DA game yet. Who knows how playing it will actually feel but it seems closer to what I like about Dragon Age (Dragon Age II) and Mass Effect.

 

[WildcatJF]

This month is getting physical releases for some games that have been out for a bit: Pepper Grinder and Alan Wake 2.

 

[4-So]

The Diablo 4 expansion Vessel of Hatred is on the docket, already downloaded and ready to go. Also thinking about grabbing the FInal Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection on physical, which seems to be in abundance unlike when the titles launched and the relatively few physical copies quickly sold out on Square's website. Both of those are out on October 8th.

Outside of those two, Neva is out on October 15th. It's from the people who made 2018's Gris, which is frankly all I really need to know.

 

[WildcatJF]

I will probably double dip on Neva (I keep forgetting it's out so soon).

 

[YangusKhan]

Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven

 

[MetManMas]

I got it a while back on Android, but Refind Self just came out on Switch a few days ago.

Without going into any major spoilers, it is basically a personality test of sorts in sidescrolling 2D adventure game-like form (talky, not fighty). You have a limited amount of time, spend it as you will.

 

[Issun]

I am also excited for Neva.

But my avatar should tell you what I'm most excited about. Life is Strange: Double Exposure is a game that, since it was announced I've gone from concerned ambivalence to cautious optimism. For those who don't know, the original protagonist, Max Caulfield is back, older, doing her art and using her powers to save a friend again despite the events of the first game teaching her that this is a Very Bad Idea. I m really interested to see how Deck Nine handles this, and as long as they continue the character-driven drama the series is known for and don't muck things up too much I will probably enjoy it.

Of course the elephant in the room is how much of a certain character will be in the game if you chose a certain ending in the first game and all evidence in trailers and Deck Nine's previous efforts point to a non-zero amount but that hasn't stopped a significant portion of the fanbase from going off the rails about it. As fanbases do.

 

[q 3]

Oh no where's Kate??

 

[Violentvixen]

Oh something else we might pick up is a new Jackbox game pack, Survey Scramble. I struggle with these "predict what other people think" games but my spouse loves 'em and this could be fun with a group.

Edit: Also added some more Gamepass games to the OP as a bunch more were added. I already have Donut County on Steam but that's a fun one.

 

[Purple]

The Factorio Space Age expansion just came out, like, an hour ago.