Talking Time curates August games: What are you anticipating? What's worth checking out?

[dosboot]

A thread for examining the new games of August! Share your personal picks, interesting curios, and not quite there possibles...

Did you discover some small game that not everyone knows about?
Share that and let us know what it is about!

Already know a thing or two that interests you?
Make a list of your interests and/or possibles!

Don't know what's so great about an upcoming game you keep hearing about?
Ask here!

Don't follow gaming news that closely and just want to passively see what BigGames™ people care about?
This is the place!

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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
  
  Feel free to post other lists or list videos that you find useful.
  
  
• 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.

 

[gogglebob]

Is Psychonauts 2 really releasing at the end of the month? Because if it is, that is my game of the month.

As requested, I will now provide a succinct description of Psychonauts: it may come from some good brains, but, unfortunately, it has the insanity of a manatee.

 

[Violentvixen]

Well, I was going to say Skatebird but apparently they just delayed it to September a few days ago. It's a curiousity rather than a must-buy but the demo was amusing.

 

[gogglebob]

I am similarly excited for Skatebird, September or no. For anyone curious, it is basically Tony Chickenhawk Pro Skater.

 

[Droewyn]

Nothing's particularly jumping out at me, which is fine, considering it'll probably take a year and a half to get through all the games I bought in July!

 

[Octopus Prime]

Ruling out any surprise eShop releases, I'm in the same boat

 

[Sarge]

Open to hearing about awesome stuff, but it sure does seem pretty light for this month.

 

[Torzelbaum]

Might be a good time to play through your pile while you wait for something in the coming months.

 

[Sarge]

Might be a good time to play through your pile while you wait for something in the coming months.

Yeah, not like I don't have a significant backlog already! (I'll probably be playing Blaster Master Zero 3 when my copy ships from Playasia, and I just dumped 20 hours into Blasphemous, a game from 2019.)

 

[Violentvixen]

I just got an email that a very niche game I'm interested in came out today, Svoboda 1945: Liberation. I played the demo during LudoNarraCon this spring and was really intrigued and the mechanics seemed to work well. A lot of the attraction for me is hearing so much Czech spoken when I'm trying to pick the language back up, but I'd still give it a look and see if it interests you!

Here's their official synposis:

You are sent to a small village of Svoboda near the Czech-German border to investigate an old feud. You soon realize the case is linked to World War II and the rise of the communist dictatorship that came after. During the investigation, you discover a photograph of your grandfather. What was he doing here? Was he somehow involved in the violence? Find out the truth and complete his story.

Talk to people who saw the horrors of war first-hand in our in-depth dialogues where every choice matters. How to approach someone who lost a friend on the battlefield? Or a woman who was expelled as a child, returning for the first time to see the place where she grew up?

Also from poking around their Twitter, it's only a four person team and two of them are women which is very cool! (Note: terrible robot English dub on that video).

 

[Sarge]

If I'd known Axiom Verge was coming out this month, I'd have listed it here. Probably waiting for the inevitable physical release, though.

 

[Seven]

This is late, but I'm looking forward to No More Heroes 3 and NIS Classics Volume 1 next week. The No More Heroes games were some of my favorite titles on the Wii and I've been replaying them on my Switch in anticipation of this new entry. As for NIS Classics Volume 1, I'm excited to finally get the chance to play Soul Nomad and I'm hoping this does well enough that we'll see a Volume 2 with GrimGrimoire.

 

[Violentvixen]

Oh, another curiousity one for me is Keywe. You're a kiwi running a post office, with an octopus, and some emus are assholes and there's couch co-op and you can put goofy hats on the kiwis. Looks like it comes out on the 31st for lots of platforms.

It looks charming and like a fun co-op thing, but seems like it could also easily swing to be frustrating to play so going to see how reviews go.

 

[Violentvixen]

Oh, another curiousity one for me is Keywe. You're a kiwi running a post office, with an octopus, and some emus are assholes and there's couch co-op and you can put goofy hats on the kiwis. Looks like it comes out on the 31st for lots of platforms.

It looks charming and like a fun co-op thing, but seems like it could also easily swing to be frustrating to play so going to see how reviews go.

Following up because we just rented this and I love it! Really fun to play as co-op, and hectic and cute in fun ways. Also it shouldn't be as fun to dress up your Kiwi as it is.

If you wanted to play with kids I will note that a decent amount of reading is required, there's no complicated words but you do have to collect pieces of words that have been torn apart, or substitute letters that have been swapped, etc.

Still, really recommend it and will likely be buying it.