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

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A thread for examining the new games of January. (Holy smokes ya'll, it's 2021!) 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.

 

[Juno]

Probably nothing. I've got a whole bunch of games I've bought in the last month I haven't even cracked open yet. So I'll just be finishing Death Stranding, and then I'll get to 13 Sentinels and Ghost of Tsushima.

 

[Seven]

Unless there's a surprise indie drop there is nothing I'm looking forward to this month. Which is fine since it'll give me time to dig into my backlog before next month hits.

 

[Violentvixen]

Man, it feels like it's been a very long time since there was literally nothing on my list for a month.

 

[4-So]

I've followed Cyber Shadow since it was announced so I'm all over that. Beyond that, just playing some stuff picked up over the holidays.

 

[WildcatJF]

yeah, Cyber Shadow is the only January game I'm interested in that I know of. And I'll probably be holding off as I just bought a bunch of games.

 

[4-So]

Ah, I forgot that Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Complete Edition (that's a mouthful) is out on January 14th. I'll likely pick that up; played a whole 10 minutes of the original, never went back to it, and that 360 has been dead and gone for a while.

 

[Octopus Prime]

Cyber Shadow is the clear winner for me, too

But I ain’t gonna turn down Scott Pilgrim

 

[Violentvixen]

I just logged into GamePass and Cyber Shadow is on there! Excited to try it as it looks like the sort of thing I'll get frustrated by and quit so I wasn't planning to buy it.