Each week, NextPlay brings you the newest games hitting digital stores and storefronts. While we can’t include every game released, we strive to highlight the ones that have caught our interest. So without further ado, let’s have a look at a selection of new games coming out this week!
Redfall
Release Date: May 2
Developer: Arkane Austin
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Platform: PC, Xbox Series X|S (launching on GamePass)
The quaint island town of Redfall, Massachusetts, is under siege by a legion of vampires who have blocked out the sun and cut the island off from the outside world. Trapped with a handful of survivors against diabolical enemies threatening to bleed the town dry, choose your hero from a diverse roster, grouping up with others to create the perfect team of vampire slayers.
Age of Wonders 4
Release Date: May 2
Developer: PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Publisher: Triumph Studios
Platform: Paradox Interactive
Rule a fantasy realm of your own design in Age of Wonders 4! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn.
Showgunners
Release Date: May 2
Developer: Artificer
Publisher: Devolver Digital, Good Shepard Entertainment
Platform: PC
As a contestant on a brutal reality game show of the future, you must survive a deadly urban environment packed with lethal traps, confounding puzzles, and murderous, heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
AFL 23
Release Date: May 4
Developer: Big Ant Studios
Publisher: Nacon
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC (Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One versions delayed until June)
AFL 23 is the most authentic video game football experience to date. Featuring the fully licensed 2023 AFL Premiership and AFL Women’s competitions and over 30 detailed stadiums, it’s time to play footy for real.
Ravenlok
Release Date: May 4
Developer: Cococucumber
Publisher: Cococucumber
Platform: PC, Xbox Series X|S
Ravenlok’s life takes a turn for the unexpected when she stumbles through a magical mirror into a troubled kingdom. Explore fantastical realms, meet mad characters and defeat dark monsters to end the Caterpillar Queen’s reign of terror. Your destiny awaits in an action-packed, coming of age adventure.
Hogwarts Legacy (PS4 & Xbox One)
Release Date: May 5
Developer: Avalanche Software
Publisher: Portkey Games
Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One (already available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC)
Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. You have received a late acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and soon discover that you are no ordinary student: you possess an unusual ability to perceive and master Ancient Magic. Only you can decide if you will protect this secret for the good of all, or yield to the temptation of more sinister magic.
Trek to Yomi (Physical Release)
Release Date: May 5
Developer: Leonard Menchiari
Publisher: Devolver Digital, Flying Wild Hog
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
As a vow to his dying Master, the young swordsman Hiroki is sworn to protect his town and the people he loves against all threats. Faced with tragedy and bound to duty, the lone samurai must voyage beyond life and death to confront himself and decide his path forward
