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

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A thread for examining the new games of October! 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.

 

[Pajaro Pete]

Inscryption, a deck building spook 'em up from the devs of The Hex. The Hex went in a really interesting direction, but even if this ends up being, like, literally just the thing it looks like in trailers without any radical twists I'll still be down.

Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars, a card-based RPG from the mind of Yoko Taro. Serving Crimson Shroud with a higher music budget. (Demo available on eShop now!)

 

[Violentvixen]

Jackbox 8 comes out this month it looks like and those are always a good time. Animated GIFs!

Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars, a card-based RPG from the mind of Yoko Taro. Serving Crimson Shroud with a higher music budget. (Demo available on eShop now!)

Oh nice, I didn't realize this had a demo. I was curious about it during the Direct.

 

[Juno]

Definitely going for Metroid Dread

Also may get Voice of Cards as well, the demo was interesting.

 

[q 3]

Besides Metroid Dread (?!) I grudgingly decided to take one for the team and check out Caligula Effect 2, based on the first one being better than a Persona knockoff with a bunch of interesting but poorly-realized ideas and problematic but seemingly well-meaning LGBTQ content. So room for improvement, optimistically! Plus it goes pretty wild with the virtual world scenario which it uses as an excuse to include all the stock pretty anime high schooler characters except they're actually, like, depressed 20-to-80-year-olds

 

[Pajaro Pete]

Oh yeah, Swery's The Good Life is releasing this month too, but that's definitely a Wait And See project

 

[WildcatJF]

Metroid Dread is a definite. Not sure about anything else at the moment.

 

[Sarge]

Surprising no one, Metroid Dread. I really enjoyed both takes on Metroid II, and I'm curious to see what MercurySteam has cooked up this time.

 

[WisteriaHysteria]

Looks like another dry month. That's ok!

 

[MCBanjoMike]

My son got up this morning and wrote Metroid Dead's release date on the calendar in the kitchen, so it looks like we'll be playing that one! I am cautiously optimistic, emphasis on the caution. Sure would be nice if it was great, anyway!

 

[gogglebob]

Metroid Dread is the first "next" Metroid in 19 years, so I may as well give that a shot.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is Smash Bros with Ren and Stimpy. I really cannot see ignoring that.

 

[Octopus Prime]

Dread doesn’t even need to be mentioned.

Roar of Dragons also looks interesting, but not something I can’t afford to wait on

 

[Voncaster]

A big month for me:

Back 4 Blood. Its a new Left 4 Dead game.

Tormented Souls (PS4 Version). A survival horror game that appears to want to imitate older Resident Evil games and Silent Hill games. Reviews have been good. I'm looking forward to it.

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. Pokemon Snap but survival horror? I've never played a fatal frame game but have always wanted to. Seems like a good place to jump in.

At some point I will pick up Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes game, but I can wait till it goes on sale. Dark Pictures games are adventure games in the vein of Until Dawn. Very fun to play with friends.

 

[Bongo]

Yo this quarter is fucking stacked with amazing-looking games including most notably Metroid Dread, but the demo convinced me to make room for Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars.

The game's got card graphics, but mechanically speaking there's not really anything card-like about it. In what is a positive for me, but a disappointment to dads everywhere, you don't do any deckbuilding. Rather, it's a very classic JRPG that has cards and other skeumorphic game pieces for all the graphics.

I might or might not end up picking up Back 4 Blood this year. My gaming PC isn't set up for keyboard + mouse at the moment and I'd need new furniture to change that, but I feel like that's what I'd want for the authentic spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead (directed by the original developers, it has the same relationship that Bloodstained does to Castlevania).

 

[4-So]

With Battlefield 2042 pushed back to November, looks like Metroid Dread is it for the month. I'm interested in Far Cry 6 but like every other game in that franchise, I'm likely to wait until it's $20 or less since they've never been worth launch price. Might double back and hit up Tales of Arise from last month, provided I can finish out Deathloop and Dread.

 

[Aleryn]

Another hope for Metroid Dread. May forced melee counters and restrictive exploration be a thing of the past. Gonna wait and see how you all feel about it.

 

[Octopus Prime]

Just learned that Evil Tonight is coming to Switch next week; I’ve loved and shilled for DYAs entire catalogue so far and this one looks to be Resident Evil and Zelda mashed together. Not unlike their previous title Vivette, but with more combat