A grand overview of what’s in store for PC games next year
On the off-chance that you missed the live show, fear not. We’ve sacrificed our sleep to round up every little thing that was trailered or announced at this year’s Game Awards. Take a look at everything that’s on the games horizon, and let us know what you’re looking forward to the most in the comments below!
All the Game Awards trailers and announcements for PC
Oh look at that!Vampire Survivorsis out on mobile. Yep, that sounds like an extremely smart move. The simple-but-satisfying reverse-bullet hell has utterly captivated the WASD fingers of a great many players since it released early in the year, and there’s really no reason why those four WASD fingers can’t be condensed down into just one or two touchscreen digits.
Hellboy: Web Of Wyrd is a roguelite action-adventure and hell, boy does it look rad. The comic book-style art on show in the trailer is a visual treat, and those weighty punches thrown by Hellboy have also caught my attention. While the trailer doesn’t reveal too much beyond the titular hero throwing down against a demonic hound, the Steam store page explains that Hellboy is trying to find his missing colleague, who went missing in a mysterious building known as the Butterfly House. The Butterfly House acts as a gateway into the Wyrd, which takes you to a variety of locations that are presumably weird. That’ll explain the roguelite part, then. There’s no release date yet, but it’ll launch on PC and consoles.
Well, this certainly looks creepy. Post Trauma is a new horror game from Red Soul Games which harkens back to the era of fixed camera angles. I may be way off with this perspective, but from the trailer it looks like some of the key selling points of the game include wading through a pool of blood, contemplating a pulsating plant, contemplating a wall of marble sculptures, contemplating a wall of alien vines, contemplating a wall of monitors, contemplating a wall of clocks… Basically lots of looking at walls filled with weird shit. Looks pretty interesting!
Did I just hear right, and the setup for the story of Scars Above is that the player character was transported to an alien world by a… A metahedron? Well… Alright then.
The trailer certainly makes the game look fairly promising. It’s a third-person shooter in the vein of something like Control, but with a load of flashy-looking weapon-crafting, and some pretty intimidating creatures to shoot those freshly crafted guns at. I particularly liked the bit where the player shot the ice so that it would break and the creature would fall into the water below. The game is releasing on 28th February, but you can play the demo right now on Steam.
Relic Hunters Legend is a cartoon top-down shooter about beating up evil ducks and hunting for loot. I guess that is the job of the titular Relic Hunters, and it seems like up to four players can squad up for the thrill of looting and shooting. No word on a release date just yet, but you can sign up for the playtest now over on Steam.
A new game mode is arriving more or less immediately to Among Us: Hide And Seek! Or rather, Hide N Seek. Just to be cool. Or kewl.
The trailer switches between cinematic animation and in-game moments of the big-toothed long-tongued Amongster hunting down and slaughtering the other crew members with gusto, while the others attempt to complete tasks about the ship in familiar fashion. It does seem like a blast.
Sad Cat Studios brings us a very stylish and sombre new look at their upcoming game, Replaced. It’s not the first we’ve heard of the game, but itisthe first I’ve heard of it. Is this what pixel art games look like now? Man. Amazing what good lighting can do, eh?
Per the Steam page, Replaced puts you in charge of R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, trapped in an alternate 1980s America. The fighting in the trailer looks particularly cool. Very stylish. Some put a lot of time and love into those execution animations.
After a “brief" intro from Geoff Keighley, the first trailer of the main show treated us to a look at Hades 2, a sequel to the smash-hit from Supergiant Games. The gameplay looks familiar to what you already know and love, but the brief story snippets we got revealed that the protagonist will seemingly hunt for Chronos, the God of Time. No release date for this one, but rest easy folks. Hades 2 does exist.
From the creators of Bioshock (you can tell from the first-person “ARGHH LOOK AT THIS THING I JUST WILLINGLY DID TO MY HAND" animations) comes the world premiere of Judas. Take a look at the trailer above, and then tell me you didn’t like the bit where the big friendly robot dinosaur laid down and became a ship that the player then boarded.
From the sheer number of good-looking characters talking into a first-person player camera, it looks like they’re trying to capture some of that immersive next-gen feel of Cyberpunk 2077, with its seamless first-person cinematics. According to Geoff, everything we saw in the trailer was in-engine. It sure does look promising, though can’t say we know much more about it so far.
Rocksteady’s new Suicide Squad trailer showcases a bloodthirsty Batman stalking the shadows of Arkham Asylum to take down Harley And Co. And it also doubled as a lovely, rather touching tribute to the late Kevin Conroy. Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League launches on 26th May, and it looks like they’re gearing up to turn the Batman (known amongst friends by his nickname, “Vengeance") into one of the most intimidating villains you’ll come across next year.
A new trailer for Dune Awakening, the upcoming survival MMO based on that book about lots of sand, gave us a fresh look at what to expect in Arrakis. The clip shows those awesome insect ships flittering about above the dunes, along with a big sandworm bursting out of the ground. Are the sand worms going to be reduced to mere world bosses that we slap hundreds of times for loot drops? That seems like a surefire way to ruin the mystique, but there’s little to show what it’ll actually look like when we get to play. A quick look at other info released on the Steam store page reveals some more details about the gameplay, hinting at battling other clans to control the spice trade. There’s no release date just yet, but the trailer did end with a brief mention of an upcoming beta.
Well how about that! You can play the Forspoken demo on PS right now, and find out once and for all whether the dialogue truly isthat bad. With each new trailer I see, I do feel a little more excited. And I’ll be honest, it’s almost entirely down to the lovely particle effects of the dozens of magical spells you can wield as Frey, the main character. But the movement also looks slick as hell. Good movement always helps.
The rumours of Kojima’s next game popping up at The Game Awards were confirmed with a new trailer for Death Stranding 2, which opened with a shot of lots of people walking in a convoy across some sand in true Death Stranding fashion. There’s no gameplay to see here, but the story trailer went on to show Lea Seydoux riding a bike away from some very angry soldiers while trying to protect a young baby. That ultimately ends in a very fiery wreck, before jumping back to show us a look at her staring at a massive mech with protagonist Sam Porter Bridges. He’s off to start a new journey, which means more walking around while hauling goods! It’s a vague trailer, as you might expect from a Death Stranding trailer, and Kojima came out after to say that he can’t confirm many specifics. That’s even more vague, but one thing’s for sure: Katharine’s very excited about spending more time with the BB Boys.
Also unless my ears deceive me, you’re gonna be bossed around by Gina Torres in this game. So yep, that’s more or less an instant purchase from me.
Tekken 8 got a very quick trailer showing off plenty of characters that you can expect to master, and they’re all very muscular. Seriously, there are so many muscles in this trailer, just muscles popping out of biceps left, right, and centre. If anything, this trailer showed me that I don’t really understand Tekken, because there was a demon flying about. That threw me off, but if it excites the Tekken fans, then that’s all that matters! Tekken 8 doesn’t have a release date just yet, but that just means you’ve got plenty of time to admire all of those muscles in the trailer above.
No word yet on a dedicated release date, but as before, you can sign up on the website for a potential chance to play the game early in a series of closed beta tests. Gwan, just look at those crazy creatures. Look at those top hats. This game’s gonna be great.
Airship Syndicate, the devs behind Battle Chasers: Nightwar, are hoping this new trailer will get you raring to drop into the world of Evernor in their upcoming action-RPG, Wayfinder. The trailer shows off a bustling village or two, some very Torchlight-esque character designs, and a fight against a big hulking mechanical construct in a great hall. Apparently you can also buy and develop an apartment over time too, which sounds pretty swell.
Our very first look at Bandai Namco’s upcoming MMORPG Blue Protocol features some really marvellous staring out at vistas, in addition to all the larger-than-life fighting and ability effects that we expected. A pre-recorded pre-trailer vid also announced that Bamco were partnering with Amazon Games, presumably to help bring Blue Protocol to as many players as possible with a ginormous marketing budget.
Who doesn’t love to watch a city get torn apart by an alien attack? Not including the inhabitants, of course. Next up in The Keighley Awards was a trailer for Transformers: Reactivate, a co-op action game made by Splash Damage, the devs behind Gears Tactics. The highly cinematic trailer didn’t give us a great idea of what the game might actually look like, but it wouldn’t be the first time a good Transformers game suddenly arrived out of nowhere and shocked everyone.
DontNod are up next with a new trailer for action-RPG Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. It’s a far-cry from their days on Life Is Strange, as we see a hunky lad smack some monsters around in a snowy landscape. It’s all very vague for now, but the characters do drop some lore while sat around a table. The baddies seem to be called Ghosts, and I suppose your job will be to banish them? Yes, yes that sounds right.
I know absolutely nothing about Crash Bandicoot except that I probably hate it. Alas, I’ll probably have to end up learning more about it, because apparently if there’s any way to make me interested in a franchise, it’s for them to release a competitive multiplayer brawler. Check out the trailer for Crash Team Rumble above.
The Lords Of The Fallen is up next, and cor it looks quite cool. There’s something about using the bones of a long-dead monster as a ramp that gets me excited, and this trailer certainly had lots of monsters that were big and dead. Or at least, one of its worlds did, as The Lords Of The Fallen lets you explore two parallel worlds while hunting Adyr, the villain set to return from the original. Along the way, you’ll get to kill plenty of big monsters yourself, and the new trailer also showed off plenty of its soulslike combat. Get a look at some of the bosses you’ll fight in the trailer above.
If you recently went back to Cyberpunk 2077 after watching Edgerunners, then you’ll be excited to see the new trailer for upcoming expansion Phantom Liberty. We didn’t get a huge look at what to expect, but they did reveal a new character named Solomon Reed, a New United States of America FIA agent played by Idris Elba. Between this and Death Stranding 2, those who like seeing actors from the movies in your games must be having a great show.
Perhaps some people might not have been rather surprised when that FromSoft logo appeared halfway through a very un-Souls-like trailer, but I sure was. I know very little about the Armored Core series except that it’s more or less the main thing that FromSoftware was known for before they released a little-known game called Demon’s Souls.
And that’s everything! Whew. Look at that. It’s 5am. We’re gonna go sleep now.
