This year’s Summer Game Fest Play Days event offered several hands-on opportunities with games big and small that are coming out this year. Here’s the cream of the crop! This year’s Summer Game Fest was a great reminder of why we all enjoy video games – just as we needed it most. After an unfortunate stream of developer layoffs, studio shutdowns, and tumultuous live service game launches up until now, getting to actually go hands on with several exciting 2024 releases reinstalled faith in me that this is a medium still worth being excited – and perhaps most importantly, optimistic – about.
New announcements such as Doom : The Dark Ages, Civilisation 7, and Gears of War: E-Day may have clinched the headlines, but there’s plenty of 2024 titles worth keeping an eye on too. If you’ve been paying attention to our recent coverage, you’d have already read my thoughts on why Astro Bot and Lego Horizon Adventures are putting the ‘play’ back in PlayStation , Star Wars Outlaws is the Uncharted of the Star Wars universe , and why Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 looks extremely promising for Activision ’s series. However, there were plenty of other games I played at Summer Game Fest that ensured 2024 shows no sign of slowing down.
Here’s six of the best upcoming games I saw. 2016’s Hyper Light Drifter has gone down in history as a proper modern indie classic. Its 8-bit visuals, atmospheric soundtrack, and mysterious story indicated a world with a lot more to offer; a.