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

[dosboot]

A thread for examining the new games of January! 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.

 

[Octopus Prime]

There’s a new Pokeyman.

I think I will buy it and poke men in it.

 

[Bongo]

I'm very interested to see what they're doing with Pokemon Legends Arceus. It gives me the impression that this is all the new ideas Game Freak felt were too risky to try out in the mainline series.

Really, though, according to these lists, February is when they are gonna step on the gas.

 

[q 3]

This was technically a December release, but apparently Transiruby came out and no one told me! It's a metroidvania by the developer of Fairune and Kamiko, so I would expect a combination of great 8-bit+ art and music and devious but fair action puzzling. It was announced years ago for Switch but instead got a stealth release on Steam with the Switch release set for sometime in 2022.