Most Anticipated Video Games Releasing in November 2024

October is sort of within the rearview, that means it is practically time to place the spooky games away and look towards the brand new month forward.

Besides we’ve a recreation from the director of the unique Silent Hill, a PC launch of a console basic with a beloved zombie-themed enlargement, a puzzle recreation about homicide, and a bleak post-apocalyptic sci-fi recreation for you this month. 

So perhaps we’ll simply sustain with the spooky video games. Don’t fret, although—the checklist additionally options Mario, Tetris, LEGOs, and a 2D platformer too. Here is essentially the most thrilling stuff coming to recreation storefronts and cabinets within the month forward.

Pink Lifeless Redemption

Launch Date: October 29
Platforms: PC (Epic Video games, Steam)

Positive, that is principally the November video games checklist, however Rockstar did not announce this until October 8. Pink Lifeless Redemption, the beloved western from the times of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 5, is lastly coming to PC greater than 14 years after its console launch. This PC model brings trendy options like 4K decision, ultrawide and tremendous ultrawide monitor help, and keyboard and mouse controls, and the port comes with the bottom recreation and the Undead Nightmare enlargement. This recreation was simply too large to go away off the checklist, regardless of it being a (shock) late October launch.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

Launch Date: November 7
Platforms: Nintendo Swap

Brothership is the most recent recreation within the Mario & Luigi collection of video games. In the event you observe the collection, you then’ll know this one stands out as a variety of firsts: the primary with absolutely 3D gameplay, the primary on a house console moderately than a devoted handheld, and the primary new title not developed by the earlier (now shuttered) studio, AlphaDream. Brothership carries the everyday tenets of the sport ahead as a single-player role-playing recreation. The brothers traverse the sport world on a “half ship, half island” vessel known as Shipshape Island.

Slitterhead

Launch Date: November 8
Platforms: PC (Epic Video games, Steam), PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Collection X/S

The remake of Silent Hill 2 was launched in October to largely constructive critiques, lastly giving Silent Hill followers one thing to unite round as a constructive for the collection. It is wild, then, that there is already one thing else for them to concentrate on. Slitterhead is a brand new survival horror recreation from Keiichiro Toyama, the director of the unique Silent Hill, and options music by Silent Hill 1-3 composer Akira Yamaoka. The sport is ready within the Nineteen Nineties within the notorious Kowloon walled metropolis, and options gameplay impressed by two of Toyama’s earlier video games, Siren and Gravity Rush.

The Rise of the Golden Idol

Launch Date: November 12
Platforms: MacOS, iOS, Android, Swap, PC (Steam), PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One + Collection X/S

Get out your pocket book, puzzle-heads, as a result of the Golden Idol is again. The Case of the Golden Idol, launched in 2022, was lauded for its intelligent puzzle design and distinctive visible model. Shade Grey Video games is again with Rise of the Golden Idol, which options 20 circumstances and is ready within the Nineteen Seventies. If the staff can meet the expectations from the unique, then that is going to be a puzzle recreation to recollect.

Tetris Perpetually

Launch Date: November 12
Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PC (Steam), PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One + Collection X/S

There is a sturdy argument for the concept that Tetris is the most effective recreation of all time, and Tetris Perpetually could be among the finest methods to expertise it. That is the third launch from Digital Eclipse in its Gold Grasp Collection, following The Making of Karateka and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. This launch is equally formatted as a digital museum, that includes not solely Tetris video games however a ton of historic info.

This contains issues like 90 minutes of documentary footage, scans of ads and images, and lots extra. The Tetris titles included are a recreation of the unique Electronika 60 launch of the sport, in addition to Hatris, Tetris 2, Tremendous Tetris 2, Tetris Battle Gaiden, Tremendous Tetris 3, Tremendous Bombliss, Tremendous Bombliss DX, and Tetris Time Warp.

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Launch Date: November 14
Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is a mouthful of a title, however it’s informative if you already know what it means. HD-2D is a visible model utilized by Sq. Enix on video games like Octopath Traveler and Stay-A-Stay that retains the basic pixel artwork model however affords detailed backdrops, lighting, and different visible prospers. Dragon Quest III is, chronologically talking, the primary recreation within the first Dragon Quest trilogy, adopted by Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest II—each of that are getting their very own 2D-HD remakes after this one. In the event you’re itching for a very old-school role-playing expertise, right here it’s.

LEGO Horizon Adventures

Launch Date: November 14
Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PC, PlayStation 5

We’re undecided who requested for a LEGO model of Sony’s Horizon collection, since LEGO video games are often primarily based on really mainstream, beloved licenses like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Batman. Longtime LEGO recreation developer TT Video games is just not even concerned on this title, with Guerilla Video games as a substitute creating it in cooperation with LEGO and Studio Gobo.

One standout characteristic in Horizon Adventures is that, for the primary time, all the pieces within the recreation is constructed from LEGO bricks. The earlier video games featured toy-style buildings, however many of the objects within the recreation weren’t truly issues you possibly can construct in actual life. We’re curious to see how the builders mix the kid-friendly nature of LEGO with the decidedly grownup post-post-apocalyptic (that is two posts) story of Horizon Zero Daybreak.

STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl

Launch Date: November 20
Platforms: PC, Xbox Collection X/S

The builders behind S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl have a tall order arrange for them. The S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. collection relies on the Russian sci-fi movie of the identical, which is in flip primarily based on the landmark Russian sci-fi novel Roadside Picnic, by which folks smuggle unidentified anomalies out of an space known as the Exclusion Zone. The primary Stalker remains to be beloved by followers for its uniquely harsh tackle first-person apocalypse survival. S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. 2 has 17 years of fan hype to stay as much as—to not point out some lingering dangerous buzz from its short-lived plan to make use of NFTs, which was axed in 2021 following massive backlash.

9 Sols

Launch Date: November 26
Platforms: Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S

9 Sols is already out on PC. Created by Pink Candle Video games, the developer of atmospheric horror recreation Devotion, 9 Sols steps away from 3D horror and into 2D platforming. The artwork combines influences of Taoism and cyberpunk, the developer says, whereas the gameplay facilities closely on deflection, taking inspiration from From Software program’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. That distinctive mix makes this an extremely demanding motion recreation price testing.

Edited by Sebastian Sinclair