We’re into August and which means the standard gaming season is quick approaching. However 2024 has very a lot been not like different years, drip feeding the massive weapons over latest months. However there are nonetheless loads of new gaming experiences to get excited by, with August 2024 seeing various tremendous thrilling launches on Xbox and Sport Go.
The largest? In all probability Star Wars. However which one, and do they ‘actually’ launch this month? Tell us your ideas within the feedback.
For now, we’ve settled on an inventory of 13 nice video games, all attributable to land on Xbox and/or Sport Go in the course of the month of August 2024. What’s going to you be enjoying?
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Star Wars followers are going to have a really gratifying August with the discharge of not one however two titles set on this universe.
Let’s begin with the primary to come back to Xbox in August – Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.
We’ve performed as goodie Cal Kestis, however now it’s time to take cost as morally doubtful bounty hunter Jango Fett as he shoots his method throughout the galaxy on a mission to seize a deranged darkish Jedi.
A 3rd individual action-adventure set earlier than the occasions of Star Wars: Episode II – Assault of the Clones, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a remake having initially been launched in 2002 onto the Gamecube and PlayStation 2.
We’re hoping that the sport’s had a significant improve to take full benefit of its next-gen launch and if the trailers have something to go by, it’s wanting promising.
Quriocity
Sticking with the area theme, our subsequent choose is Quriocity – a sci-fi metropolis builder recreation set on an alien planet.
As chief of the mission, your job is to construct the primary liveable location outdoors of Earth by creating cities in your human colonisers. With greater than a nod to the OG – SimCity, you’ll have to ensure your inhabitants are completely happy and wholesome and shield them towards the odd area catastrophe.
With 5 maps to select from set in varied biomes like freezing tundra or blazing sizzling desert, this appears to be like to be a recreation that may preserve you busy for the whole month and past.
CYGNI: All Weapons Blazing
We’re not leaving outer area simply but as a result of our subsequent recreation, CYGNI: All Weapons Blazing is a twin-stick vertical scrolling shooter that sees you taking down alien enemies in both solo fight or with a accomplice.
The debut recreation from developer KeelWorks, who promise: ‘CYGNI doesn’t search to reinvent Shoot ’em ups however to raise the style to ship the heightened sensations of a very next-generation expertise’.
We’ve been fortunate sufficient to have a fast play forward of its launch to see if it lives as much as this hype.
Volgarr the Viking II
Volgarr the Viking was a retro impressed 2D side-scrolling platformer launched in 2013 and is notorious for being extremely tough.
The barbarian king’s story now continues in Volgarr the Viking II with the addition of recent power-ups, types of magic, enemy sorts and a thumping new soundtrack.
Seize your longsword, don your helmet and count on this violent viking romp to be simply as difficult as the unique.
Eden Genesis
Our subsequent choose could be one other platformer nevertheless it’s removed from Volgarr the Viking II, each in time and elegance.
Set within the not-so-distant future, you play as Leah, a younger cyborg, in a plot with one thing to do with mega-corporations controlling the populace with physique modifications – the standard cyberpunk fare.
Eden Genesis guarantees fast-paced gameplay that requires fast reflexes and nerves of metal to outlive towards each environmental and enemy hazards.
Gori: Cuddly Carnage
We’ve been ready patiently for Gori: Cuddly Carnage, which was deliberate for launch final 12 months. It gives a barely totally different tackle a dystopian future the place humanity has been extinguished by a race of extremely harmful pets, who have been initially developed by a toy firm to be the final word in cute and cuddly companions.
Enjoying as one in every of mentioned pets – a hoverboard-flying killer cat, you’ll need to battle towards the ‘lovely military’. Is it a warning towards the evils of consumerism or only a gory combat-heavy romp?
We’ll allow you to resolve when the sport lastly hits Xbox throughout August.
Creatures of Ava
For those who like video games with a robust narrative then Creatures of Ava is a recreation to place in your wishlist.
You step into the sneakers of Vic, a 22-year-old nature adventurer, as she travels throughout the planet and its wealthy ecosystems, forming bonds with the (this time pleasant) creatures that reside there and utilizing their expertise to assist her on a mission to analyze a recurring an infection that’s threatening Ava’s inhabitants.
Suppose Pokemon however with an environmental commentary.
Steamworld Heist II
Was Steamworld Heist II designed to show us a factor or two about saving the planet?
Maybe, because the central premise is that the ocean has turned lethal, corroding the metallic limbs and mechanical hearts of the pirate steambots.
The most recent installment of the SteamWorld sequence sees you play as Captain Leeway joined by your ragtag crew as you interact in turn-based fight exploring and looting your method throughout the Nice Sea.
Kena Bridge of Spirits
Initially launched onto PlayStation and Steam again in 2021, Kena Bridge of Spirits is lastly heading to Xbox and we will’t wait to get caught into this third individual action-adventure recreation.
One other instance of a recreation with a cracking narrative, you’ll play because the eponymous Kena, a younger spirit information who makes use of her magical skills to assist deceased individuals transfer from the bodily to the spirit world.
Simply Crow Issues
We beloved Rain on Your Parade when it hit consoles in 2021 and so are excited to search out out that Unbound Creations have designed a brand new recreation within the type of Simply Crow Issues.
Trying fairly just like a more moderen favorite of ours – Little Kitty Huge Metropolis, Simply Crow Issues is a sandbox journey recreation the place you full duties in your animal associates as a way to show your price as the good crow within the metropolis.
Dustborn
We don’t envy video games designers having to provide you with unique concepts however Crimson Thread Video games are treating us to a novel type of fight in Dustborn – the power to weaponise phrases.
In Dustborn, you step into the sneakers of Pax, who’s accepted a job to ship a mysterious bundle via a reimagined Neo-Western America. Recruiting assist alongside the best way, and posing as a punk-rock band, you’ll go to various places, construct your staff, handle relationships, sort out missions, and overcome escalating challenges.
Age of Mythology Retold
For those who’re an Age of Empires fan then it’s greater than possible you’ve performed Age of Mythology, the 2002 launch from the identical staff.
Now this real-time technique recreation has had a makeover within the type of Age of Mythology Retold which is optimised for Xbox Sequence X|S and guarantees to mix the very best parts of the unique with fashionable real-time technique design and visuals.
Buying the Premium Version of the sport gives you 7 days early entry, which brings this launch into August – simply.
Star Wars Outlaws
And now we come to arguably the most important title to hit the Xbox in August – that second Star Wars recreation we alluded to at the beginning of this text – Star Wars Outlaws from Ubisoft.
This recreation appears to be like to be huge in additional methods than one attributable to the truth that it’s an open world action-adventure recreation set in area, which is a fairly large place. Taking the position of outlaw Kay Vess, you’ll chase, evade, struggle and take flight as you try to outwit your method via the galaxy’s crime syndicates.
We’ve got questions with ‘will or not it’s higher than Starfield?’ taking the highest spot – and we don’t have too lengthy to search out out.
And there we have now it – some 13 new video games set to launch on Xbox (and a few into Sport Go) throughout August 2024. There’s little doubt that this can be a sturdy month for brand spanking new recreation releases, in all probability the strongest for a short time, however you need to keep in mind that is simply the beginning of the standard gaming insanity that performs out for the subsequent few months.
So what’s subsequent? What’s coming in September? We’re not going to get forward of ourselves, however lastly we needs to be seeing the drop of Take a look at Drive Limitless Photo voltaic Crown. Chuck in some new Ace Lawyer, Funk Fusion, a remaster of Lifeless Rising and the arrival of some huge sports activities video games, and we’re not fairly certain how we’re going to suit all of it in.
