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.

Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty

Date: 28/08/2023
Genre: Turn-Based Tactics
Platforms: PC

“Prove to have a true Strategic Mind! Spirit of Liberty will put your strategic planning skills to the test. It’s a hardcore, turn-based, historically accurate strategy game set in WWII. Lead Finnish forces against an overwhelming threat through the Winter War, Continuation War, and Lapland War.”

Untamed Tactics

Date: 28/08/2023
Genre: Turn-Based Tactics
Platforms: PC

“Untamed Tactics: The Beginning is a Tactical RPG set in a procedural world of colorful animals. Relive the legend of Greycoat’s escape into the untamed Wilds in a tale of lost honor and finding a new home as you fight, talk, and think your way through this beautifully illustrated adventure!”

Samba de Amigo: Party Central

Date: 29/08/2023
Genre: Rhythm
Platforms: Switch

“It’s time to shake it on center stage in this vibrant rhythm action game. Amigo and his friends are back in Samba de Amigo: Party Central!
Pick up your maracas and groove to 40 hit songs from the world’s most popular genres, with even more arriving as post-launch DLC!”

Goodbye Volcano High

Date: 29/08/2023
Genre: Narrative Adventure
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5

“Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of an era. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.”

Sea of Stars

Date: 29/08/2023
Genre: JRPG
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch

“Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.”

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle

Date: 29/08/2023
Genre: Horror
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

“Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of H.A.D.E.S. unit and prepare to face the true horror.”

Under The Waves

Date: 29/08/2023
Genre: Narrative Adventure
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

“Stan, a professional diver in the North Sea, is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss during an extended mission underwater. Stuck in his self-imposed solitude, he starts to experience strange events and will have to make the most significant choice of his life…”

Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot: The London Case

Date: 29/08/2023
Genre: Detective Adventure
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch

“From the brilliant mind of the BAFTA Award-Winning studio, Blazing Griffin, get ready in 2023 for a new adventure as the famous detective Hercule Poirot travels to London for a seemingly simple task of delivering a painting for an exhibition, that will be unfortunately stolen during the grand opening.”

Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy

Date: 31/08/2023
Genre: Action Platformer
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch

“The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!”

How 2 Escape

Date: 31/08/2023
Genre: Puzzle
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch

“How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. “Talk together. Help each other.” will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.”

Pocket Bravery

Date: 31/08/2023
Genre: Fighting
Platforms: PC,

“Inspired by classic fighting games from the 90’s such as Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters, ‘Pocket Bravery’ channels the ‘Neo Geo Pocket’ aesthetic for a modern fighting game with a retro twist!”

Tenebris Pictura

Date: 31/08/2023
Genre: Adventure
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

“Presenting Tenebris Pictura, an ultra-corporeal action adventure brought to you by the creators of Megaton Rainfall. You’ll be plunged back to the Victorian era, playing the role of a paranormal investigator with psychic abilities who has landed in a misty, convoluted island, brimming with mystery. You were invited there by an old friend, to investigate his daughter’s disappearance. Before long, you’re embroiled in a supernatural mystery linked with a shady sect, and sightings of extra-terrestrial beings that appear to have escaped from a strange collection of paintings with dubious origins.”

OU

Date: 31/08/2023
Genre: Adventure
Platforms: PC, Switch

“Between somewhere and someone.” U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.”

Tiny Witch

Date: 01/09/2023
Genre: Cozy
Platforms: PC

“Manage a minion store where demanding clientele are always at your door! As a little witch, mix the right resources to create minions so that your dungeon master clients walk away happy.”

Be sure to check out last weeks Coming Out to see what you may have missed!

What new titles coming out are you most excited for this week? Let us know!