If 2023 was a crazy year for video games, with more than a dozen games that obtained a score above 90 on Metacritic (average of scores distributed by the press to a game), 2024 promises to be extremely rich also before the arrival in particular of GTAVI in 2025.
While you wait for their availability and so you want to quickly complete last year’s flagship games, here are our ten games not to be missed in 2024.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
While we are still waiting for the remake of Prince of Persia the forgotten sandsUbisoft presented a rejuvenated version of its famous thirty-year-old hero in the summer of 2023. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown It takes on new life with a new protagonist, Sargon, with a modern look, all wrapped up in a more edgy visual approach.
The game signed by Ubisoft Montpellier, however, takes up the codes of the saga, the side platform game, exploration game style mini-games, combat and puzzles to solve puzzles and progress. And we also find the power of time improvement to go back. A Proust madeleine with its old reflections for the older ones, a nice discovery in the spirit of the times for the younger ones.
Available January 18 on all consoles.
Tekken 8
All the historical fighting games are back. After street fighter 6 AND mortal kombat 1, Tekken 8 completes the trilogy. The game created by Katsuhiro Harada celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2024 and is renewed without straying from its roots. We still find their arenas and fights in 3D, emblematic characters from the Mishima and Kazama families, newcomers, powerful blows that mix martial arts and superpowers for solo or duo fights.
Inside Tekken 8, the story follows the defeat of Heibachi. The world has been plunged into chaos led by Kazuya and his G Corporation. His son Jin Kazama, possessor of the demonic gene, tries to stop him. In addition to the story mode, Tekken 8 It is also enriched with a single-player Arcade Quest mode to remember the arcade culture and community of yesteryear.
Available January 26 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC: Demo available on PS5, available for Xbox Series and PC.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Antea Duarte and Red MacRaith are banishers, ghost hunters who protect the living. They are also lovers. So, when Antea dies on her mission and turns into a spirit she was hunting, Red enters the battle to try to free her from the supernatural creatures that are hunting her and bring her back to life, while she tries to protect the inhabitants of New Eden. A dilemma for the banisher who must know who to sacrifice from her love or her mission.
In this action game set in late 17th century North America, every action has consequences in the story. Each hero can be played with their own attributes (weapons or spiritual powers) to also investigate an ancient secret.
Available February 13, 2024 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC.
Pacific Unit
Would you like to travel the desert and apocalyptic roads of the Olympic Exclusion Zone? So get behind the wheel of Pacific Unit for a dark road trip in the northwest of the United States and try to cross the 300 m high walls that close a landscape prey to strange paranormal phenomena and where nature is the victim of a strange mutation after cataclysmic events.
Your only ally: a slightly outdated truck that you have improved to survive in a hostile environment. It’s up to you to take care of it and take care of it yourself if you want to get through it.
Available February 22 on PS5 and PC.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
The most anticipated sacred game of 2024 at the latest Game Awards, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is the continuation of Remake of FF VII, but it is presented as a completely new part of the initial game. Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Aerith and Red XIII flee Midgar and set out in search of Sephiroth, straight from Cloud’s past to control the world. They will be able to count on new supports: Yuffie, elite shinobi of Wutai, Red XIII, a creature with a flaming tail, and Cait Sith, a mocking robotic cat.
The return of the universe mixing science fiction and fantasy, and in which the combats promise even more power. Early fans will find familiar environments, but even more beautiful and detailed. FF VII Rebirth is enriched with dozens of hours of additional content and mini-games, as well as multiple side quests to learn more about the people of the planet.
Available February 29, 2024 exclusively on PS5.
Black Myth: Wukong
The myth of Monkey King Sun Wukong comes to life in this visually sumptuous game. Black Myth: Wukong is inspired by The journey to the west, a successful novel tinged with Chinese mythology. In this action and role-playing game, the hero undertakes a long journey across the country and will face numerous enemies and legendary creatures from Asian folklore, using a stick.
An a priori demanding combat game, of the type like souls, in which the hero can take on the appearance of giant monsters or insects to escape from their enemies.
Available August 20, 2024 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC.
Princess Peach: Show time!
For the first time, Princess Peach is the Switch heroine. Since 2005 and Super Princess Peach, she has no right to her own game. She will take revenge on Show time!an adventure game in which you will multiply transformations and costumes to defeat an enemy, which this time is not Bowser, but Syrah and her Evil Cluster.
With musketeer-style swords, cream pies or kung-fu holds, Peach is there to fight in this platform game, helped by Stella and the power of the ribbon.. He must save the artists of the Théâtre de l’Etincelle.
Available March 22 exclusively on Nintendo
Rise of the Ronin
Another fighting game set in the magnificent settings of Japan of yesteryear, Rise of the Ronin features a ronin, a former samurai excluded from society, in the late 19th century and Edo era, after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. After oppression, the country seeks to modernize and your ronin will travel the country, on horseback or by glider, to defeat his adversaries, using different weapons.
Available March 22 exclusively on PS5.
Star Wars Outlaws
Another Star Wars game, without a doubt. But it’s a game where, for once, you won’t be playing as a Jedi. Inside Star Wars Outlaws, Kay Vess is a bounty hunter-style outlaw who travels the galaxy on missions of all kinds.
The story takes place between The Empire Strikes Back AND Return of the Jedi. The heroine will be able to count on Nix, her accomplice and her ND-5 robot on board her ship. There we will find the foundations of the universe. Star Wars, combat and exploration specific to Ubisoft games. A rebel with assertive humor, worthy heir to Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and other Indiana Joneses.
Available in 2024 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC.
The Senua Saga: Hellblade 2
The Ninja Theory game should finally arrive, after years of waiting. Bring Senua, a tormented heroine, back to life in a devastated Iceland, imbued with mysticism and Norse mythology. Senua faces fantastic creatures and enemies of all kinds. A visually sumptuous game, designed under Unreal Engine 5, that also talks about mental illness.
Available on Xbox Series and PC in 2024.
You can’t miss it either…
The first quarter is already full of news: starting in January the new Playstation exclusive arrives The last of us 2 remastered (January 19), but also the crossed out Like a dragon: infinite wealth and his yakuzas (January 26). third person shooter Miscellaneous Hell 2 returns on February 8 with multiplayer combat, weapons and bomb drops.
Long expected, even unexpected, Skull bones has finally scheduled its boat races for February 16. Rejected several times, Alone in the darka reimagined survival horror game from 1992, will arrive on March 20. dogma dragon 2 and its mystical-fantasy-medieval atmosphere have been scheduled for March 22. Last important match not to be missed with a fixed date: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marinesa hack’n’slash shooter, expected for September 9.
Source: BFM TV
