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.
Furnish Master
Date: 20/02/2024
Genre: Simulation, Sandbox
Platforms: PC
“Furnish Master is a relaxing game about furnishing apartments, houses, commercial estate and even outdoor territory! It all comes with economic elements. Besides furniture, you can buy new properties, which will earn you extra money so you could buy more places, more furniture to realize your design dreams!”
Balatro
Date: 20/02/2024
Genre: Roguelike, Card Game
Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch
“The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.”
The Lost Legends of Redwall: The Scout Anthology
Date: 20/02/2024
Genre: Platformer
Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
“A narrative puzzle-adventure game based on Brian Jacques’ Redwall™️ book series. Vicious searats are invading the once peaceful Mossflower wood and it’s up to the Lilygrove Scout Corps’ newest recruit to save the day. Play as Sophia or Liam on their adventure to Redwall Abbey!”
(Also check out The Lost Legends of Redwall: Feasts & Friends, coming to PC after being released on Mobile last year)
Diets & Deities
Date: 20/02/2024
Genre: Rhythm
Platforms: PC
“The rhythm cooking game you can taste! Discover the music and recipes from diverse cultures as you dodge to the beat and uncover the flavours of the universe. You play as Nephele, the first (and potentially last) deity created in a millennia and it’s up to you to dance and dodge your way through forgotten cultures, move to the beat, and eat your weight in long-lost dishes.”
Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance
Date: 20/02/2024
Genre: Strategy, RTS
Platforms: PC
“Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it’s an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.”
Slave Zero X
Date: 21/02/2024
Genre: Hack ‘n’ Slash
Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
“Slave Zero X is a stylish 2.5D character action game set in the biopunk world of Slave Zero (1999). Run & Slash your way through a dystopian future in this character action game which will resonate with fans of Devil May Cry, Strider, and Guilty Gear.”
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story
Date: 21/02/2024
Genre: RPG
Platforms: PC, Switch
“Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is a crafting RPG set in the whimsical world of Bandle City. After a party goes wrong, the portals that connect your home collapse and throw everything into chaos! Using your knitting magic and backpack house, restore the portals to reunite Bandle City.”
Last Epoch
Date: 21/02/2024
Genre: Action RPG
Platforms: PC
“Uncover the Past, Reforge the Future. Ascend into one of 15 mastery classes and explore dangerous dungeons, hunt epic loot, craft legendary weapons, and wield the power of over a hundred transformative skill trees. Last Epoch is being developed by a team of passionate Action RPG enthusiasts.”
Pacific Drive
Date: 22/02/2024
Genre: Adventure, Survival
Platforms: PC, PS5
“Pacific Drive is a first-person driving survival game with your car as your only companion. Navigate a surreal reimagining of the Pacific Northwest, and face supernatural dangers as you venture into the Olympic Exclusion Zone. Unravel a long-forgotten mystery while learning exactly what it takes to survive in this unpredictable, hostile environment.”
Solium Infernum
Date: 22/02/2024
Genre: Grand Strategy
Platforms: PC
“Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne?”
Sons Of The Forest
Date: 22/02/2024
Genre: Horror, Survival
Platforms: PC
“Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator. Survive alone, or with friends. Share items and work together to build defenses. Bring back-up to explore above and below ground”
Promenade
Date: 23/02/2024
Genre: Platformer
Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
“Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this game inspired by Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro and Mario Odyssey.”
Pacific Drive
If you thought a CAR-PG was a unique idea, wait until you check out this CARvival adventure. Dealing with the supernatural with only your trusty car by your side, with dangers looming whenever you have to leave the vehicle to explore? That sounds like a dangerously fun time and quite a thrilling prospect that we can’t wait to test drive for ourselves.
Be sure to check out our previous 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
Luke Mitchell
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Luke spends his time making radio, playing video games, binge-watching TV, getting unreasonably invested in wrestling, hosting bear events and hanging out with his beautiful pets.
