Each week there are plenty of new games coming out. Although with so much going on it can be hard to keep track of them all. Thankfully Checkpoint is here to sift through them all and bring you our highlights of the week.
So let’s jump in and have a look at what’s coming out in gaming this week.
New World
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure / MMO / RPG
Platforms: PC
“Explore a thrilling, open-world MMO filled with danger and opportunity where you’ll forge a new destiny for yourself as an adventurer shipwrecked on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Endless opportunities to fight, forage, and forge await you among the island’s wilderness and ruins. Channel supernatural forces or wield deadly weapons in a classless, real-time combat system, and fight alone, with a small team, or in massed armies for PvE and PvP battles—the choices are all yours.”
In Sound Mind
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Action / Horror
Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X
“As you awake in the corridors of an inexplicable building, you find the environment takes on a life of its own and leads you to discover a series of victims, all exposed to the same experimental chemical. In your search for answers, bizarre visions emerge and introduce a host of imposing horrors…and a cat named Tonia.
From the creators of the cult classic Nightmare House 2 comes In Sound Mind, a witty first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles and unique boss fights. Traverse a series of unsettling memories as you journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.”
ConnecTank
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Action / Strategy
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch
“ConnecTank is an action game for one to four players where you step inside a big honking tank. Link conveyor belts together, craft ammo, and put out fires as you battle rival tanks to help Finneas Fat Cat deliver packages. Build new tanks and take jobs in an ever-changing world.”
AWAY: The Survival Series
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5
“Play as a tiny sugar glider in your very own nature documentary. Glide among the trees, fight dangerous predators, and explore beautiful environments as you embark on a high-flying journey to save your family.”
Alchemic Cutie
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Adventure / RPG
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X
“Alchemic Cutie is a wholesome relaxing RPG set on colorful Wimba Island. While taming wild jellies, you’ll meet villagers, enter jelly compeitions and uncover the secrets of the island.”
Knockout Home Fitness
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Sport / Training / Fitness
Platforms: Switch
“Grab a Joy-Con™ in each hand and get ready to achieve great results with martial arts workouts developed specifically for the Nintendo Switch™. Knock out inactivity with short and intense calorie-burning exercises using punches, elbows, knees, kicks, and more to get a full body workout in half the time!”
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot – The First Cases
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Adventure / Mystery
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch
“Discover the early cases of the legendary detective Hercule Poirot. In his early years as a detective, Hercule Poirot is invited to a reception by the influential Van den Bosch family, for the announcement of their daughter’s engagement. But tensions amongst the guests run high as a snowstorm descends on the town, trapping everyone inside the manor. The happy event is soon marred by the murder of one of the guests…”
Lemnis Gate
Date: 28/09/2021
Genre: Action / FPS / Strategy
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
“Lemnis Gate is a time-warping, turn-based, multiplayer combat strategy FPS. Over five alternating turns taking place in a 25” time-loop, you are called to master the unique abilities of a varied cast of deep-space operatives and outskill, outsmart, and outmanoeuvre your opponent in mind-bending, four-dimensional battles.”
Centipede: Recharged
Date: 29/09/2021
Genre: Action
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch
“The original bug-blasting arcade game is back! Centipede: Recharged has been reimagined for modern gameplay, with vibrant visuals designed for modern screens, a 16:9 field of play, and an original soundtrack from award-winning video game composer Megan McDuffee.
Aim for a high score in the old school arcade mode and earn bragging rights with your name at the top of the leaderboard. Or test your skills and rank on the boards in one of 30 intensely creative challenges, which twist the gameplay in new and exciting ways. A dozen new power-ups can give you an edge by introducing abilities like screen-clearing explosions, rail guns, and even slowing down time. Every mode and level is playable in local co-op mode with a friend.”
Dap
Date: 29/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure / Horror
Platforms: PC
“Dap is a horror-action-adventure about gathering and protecting a pack of fragile creatures called Daps. Lead your Daps to safety through an eerily beautiful world, fighting off threats, solving puzzles, and avoiding the infection that twists your companions into something alien and terrifying…”
A Juggler’s Tale
Date: 29/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure / Puzzle
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox, Switch
“Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?”
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Racing
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch
“Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.”
Mary Skelter Finale
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Action / RPG
Platforms: PS4, Switch
“The last installment of the dungeon-crawling RPG trilogy reaches its stunning conclusion! Will the Blood Maidens finally get their happily ever after?
Jail – a living prison for humans, buried 666 meters underground. It appeared suddenly several decades ago, giving birth to monsters called Marchen and patrolled by madness-inducing Nightmares. A group of prisoners, Jack and the Blood Maidens, were reincarnations of fairy tales who dared to escape. They climbed from the bottom of the tower up to the surface, filled with hope…
But outside were thousands of corpses soaking in a sea of blood. There stood beings known as Massacre Pink, smiling. In that moment, hope was destroyed. The group was torn asunder, with Jack and the Blood Maidens scattered to their own paths. Separated, they are each drawn to the devouring Jail that floats in the sky…
This is the finale to the tale of the Blood Maidens.”
Bonfire Peaks
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Puzzle / Platformer
Platforms: PC, Switch, PS4, PS5
“Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.”
The Eternal Cylinder
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One
“In The Eternal Cylinder, players control a herd of adorable creatures called Trebhums and must explore a strange alien world filled with exotic lifeforms, surreal environments, and the constant threat of the Cylinder, a gargantuan rolling structure of ancient origin which crushes everything in its path. In this unique alien ecosystem, real-time world destruction, animal AI, and organic exploration and puzzle design all combine to deliver an unforgettable adventure.”
Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch
“Wield the sonic screwdriver as you join the Thirteenth Doctor (voiced by Jodie Whittaker) on a quest to save the universe, and meet the Tenth Doctor along the way (voiced by David Tennant in a guest appearance).
Experience an unforgettable adventure through space and time, face terrifying monsters and solve a mind-bending mystery!”
The Last Friend
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Action / Strategy
Platforms: PC, Switch
“Doggone tired of the typical brawler or tower defense that is all bark and no bite? Then join Alpha and T. Juan on a dynamic adventure that has you battling hordes of baddies and bosses on their mission to save all the Doggos!”
Aeon Drive
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure / Platformer
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch
“Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city – and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.”
Industria
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Action / Adventure
Platforms: PC
“INDUSTRIA is a first-person shooter that takes you from East Berlin into a parallel reality, shortly before the end of the Cold War. On the search for a missing work colleague, you decypher a dark past in a mysterious parallel dimension.”
Melty Blood: Type Lumina
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Action
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch
“This is the latest addition to the series of 2D fighting games based on TYPE-MOON’s visual romance novel, Tsukihime. The curtain rises once more on dramatic battles played out with familiar characters from Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-.”
Rogue Lords
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: Strategy / RPG
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch
“The first roguelike in which you play as the devil, which means you can change some of the game’s rules to your advantage! Run after run, manage your team of famous evil geniuses as they encounter unforeseen events and turn-based combat. Unlock new skills, create powerful synergies and use your powers to turn the situation in your favour at critical moments. Only by collecting ancient artefacts can you finally take your revenge on the Demon Hunters.”
Astria Ascending
Date: 30/09/2021
Genre: RPG
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch
“Explore a vast world on the brink of chaos in a mature, emotional JRPG. Experience an epic story with rewarding, turn-based combat and expansive customization rendered in glorious 4K hand-drawn visuals.”
FIFA 22
Date: 01/10/2021
Genre: Sports
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
“Powered by Football™, EA SPORTS™ FIFA 22 brings the game even closer to the real thing with fundamental gameplay advances and a new season of innovation across every mode.”
A Juggler’s Tale
This is a big week full of wonderful looking releases, but alas we can only choose one! A Juggler’s Tale looks very reminiscent of puzzel games like Inside or Little Nightmares, but with a far more fanciful and jovial air to it. Though it still looks like it may still tug at our heart strings, this is one game we’d like to puppeteer.
Be sure to check out last week’s Coming Out to see what you may have missed!
What new titles coming out are you most excited for this week? Let us know!
About the Author
Vivienne Wright
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Artist, creator, streamer and chaos bean, Vava is always laughing and rarely pessimistic. You can usually spot them playing Genshin Impact on Twitch weekly, dreaming up new worlds in D&D, consuming horror and fantasy content or sleeping in a blanket burrito.
