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

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A thread for examining the new games of December! 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.

 

[WildcatJF]

My only planned game purchase is the Fire Emblem NES localization. Otherwise, I have a bunch of Limited Run stuff hopefully coming, but that doesn't count, lol.

 

[Violentvixen]

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2! The first one was a lot of fun so why not.

I looked through those release lists and was surprised to see that there's another Drawn to Life game coming out! Weird.

 

[WildcatJF]

Oh! Collection of SaGa is also coming out, but I'll probably be waiting until next year to pick that up.

 

[4-So]

Immortals Fenyx Rising is on the agenda for sure. It's basically what if Assassin's Creed Odyssey had been ran through a cartoon lens. I've also described it as a 2020 version of The Battle of Olympus. I've been following it since it was revealed as Gods & Monsters an age ago and I'm looking forward to it.

I have a few other things I'd like to pick up - Collection of SaGa, Dragon Quest 11 Definitive (PS4) - but between Immortals, AssCreedVikings, Demon's Souls, and WoW: Shadowlands, I feel like I'll be covered well into 2021, so those can wait.

 

[Falselogic]

Excited about Per Aspera a Mars terraforming game!

"Per Aspera is a planetary simulation game that combines hard science fiction and base building and takes the experience planet-wide. Step into the role of AMI, an Artificial Consciousness with the prime directive of terraforming Mars for human colonization.

FEATURES:​

• Balance a complex well of resources to build interconnected structures that span the entire planet.
• Customize your planet with branching research trees that allow players to tailor their terraforming plan — Develop new technologies, steeped in real-world science, to create a thriving interplanetary civilization.
• Cultivate relationships with your human colonists and ensure their continued survival on Mars’ unforgiving surface. How you choose to forge these relationships will impact how your mission concludes.
• Uncover the mystery of a threatening presence on Mars and defend your colonies from unknown and combative forces."

 

[Octopus Prime]

Monster Sanctuary looks like the Metroid/Pokémon mashup you didn’t think was possible, but is possible! And is coming out next week!

Collection of SaGa is a collection of the first three JRapGs i ever owned and by gosh, Adult Octo will succeed where Tiny Octo failed and beat em!