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.

One More Island

Date: 16/05/2022
Genre: Simulation
Platforms: PC

“The Queen of the Old World calls upon you! As Her Majesty’s domain expands, we require a capable administrator to guide Her latest colonies to prosperity. We will provide you with ships, colonists, and other tools necessary to tame these wild, virgin lands, and turn them into a prosperous colonial enterprise, all under the Queen’s watchful eye.

Naturally, the Crown will expect you to share the bounty of these new lands, pay your taxes on time, and continue expanding the boundaries of Her Majesty’s colonial possessions. Obedience may earn you rewards,but refusing to pay your dues or worse, declaring independence, will have dire consequences. So, governor. Are you ready to colonize One More Island?”

Tru Or Die: Chiraq

Date: 16/05/2022
Genre: Action / MMO / RPG
Platforms: PC

“Tru Or Die Chiraq, is a Multiplayer Roleplaying Survival Hood Game.”

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong

Date: 19/05/2022
Genre: Adventure / RPG
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch

“What if vampires were real? What if these bloodthirsty predators lived hidden among us, meticulously and skilfully hatching ancient conspiracies? And what if you became one of them?
In Vampire: The Masquerade, you play as these alluring monsters in a sophisticated world where the lines between the real and supernatural are always blurred.

Hazel Iversen, the Swan, is the new Prince of the Boston Camarilla. An iron hand in a velvet glove, she intends to assert her power and respect the Masquerade, the vampiric law designed to ensure humans never learn of the existence of these creatures of the night. But nothing works as planned. With rumours of plots, murders and power struggles, you must work in the shadows to protect your Sect in a frantic investigation that plunges Boston into chaos.”

Eternal Threads

Date: 19/05/2022
Genre: Adventure / Indie
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One

“Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

As an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event.”

Deadcraft

Date: 19/05/2022
Genre: Action / Simulation
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch

“Welcome to DEADCRAFT, a new twist on the zombie survival-action genre!
In a world ravaged by a deadly virus, half-zombie Reid must survive not only by taking an axe, weedwhacker— anything he can get his hands on—to hordes of the undead, but by growing some zombie followers of his own.

Choose your allies and enemies wisely as you try to make it through the apocalypse alive!”

Decision: Red Daze

Date: 19/05/2022
Genre: Action / Strategy / RPG
Platforms: PC

“Decision: Red Daze is an isometric action RPG with a unique spin on survival and tower defense mechanics.

The Dust Bowl, once a ‘thriving’ society of corrupt politicians, rich property barons and everyday people who work for them ‘100% willingly’, has been overtaken by a mysterious phenomenon only known by survivors as the Red Daze. As the illness takes hold of the survivors and turns them into crazed and EXTREMELY dangerous mutated creatures, the worlds’ governments are running around like headless chickens. It falls to the few who remain to fend off the monsters in hopes of finding a way to eradicate the Red Daze once and for all.”

Golf Gang

Date: 19/05/2022
Genre: Action / Sports
Platforms: PC

“Golf Gang is a racing game. It’s a party game. It’s the fastest game of minigolf you’ll ever play! Blend precision with speed to dominate the green in 8-player online mayhem or hone your skills in a solo speed run.”

Snow Bros. Special

Date: 19/05/2022
Genre: Action
Platforms: Switch

“SNOW BROS. is an arcade game developed by TOAPLAN.
In this fun and easy-to-play adventure popular for gaming among couples and with friends, two snowball-hurling snowman brothers power their way through against various enemies.”

Dolmen

Date: 20/05/2022
Genre: Action / Adventure / RPG
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

“Dolmen casts players onto a hostile alien world known as Revion Prime.
Your job? Bring back samples of a crystal with particularly unique properties; the so-called “Dolmen”.
These crystals are capable of allowing interaction between realities, revolutionising space exploration and changing the known world forever.”

They Are Coming!

Date: 20/05/2022
Genre: Action / Strategy
Platforms: PC

“Ardennes, 1944. What the Americans call The Battle of the Bulge slowly peters out, as Nazi tanks run out of gas and are mercilessly pounded into the ground by Allied air force. Defeat prompts the Reich to unleash its Wunderwaffe in a desperate bid to turn the tide of the battle: Hungry, hungry zombies.

Or, well, a zombie. It’s up to you to gnaw and bite your way to victory, through allies, Nazis, and everyone else you meet. Once you’re done with that, spread the joy of undeath and liking for the delicate taste of brain beyond Ardennes (or World War II for that matter).

Who knows what delicious humans you’ll find in the modern times? Or even the future?”

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!