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!
Everspace 2
Release Date: August 15 | Developer: Rockfish Games | Publisher: Rockfish Games
Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S (already available on PC)
Everspace 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
Moving Out 2
Release Date: August 15 | Developer: SMG Studio, DEVM Games | Publisher: Team17
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
Moving Out is back and wackier than ever, and now with ONLINE PLAY! Return to Packmore and use your moving skills across brand new dimensions and some old favourites. Help rebuild Smooth Moves and become an all-star F.A.R.T. (Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician)!
City of Murals
Release Date: August 16 | Developer: Robert Nally (Brotherly) | Publisher: Robert Nally (Brotherly)
Platform: PC
City of Murals is a cute and gross, action-platformer, rogue-lite. Explore a colorful world with violent and non-violent guns, special traversal abilities, and creatures that range from friendly to deadly. The world is competing to see who can live the longest. How long will you survive?
En Garde!
Release Date: August 16 | Developer: Fireplace Games | Publisher: Fireplace Games
Platform: PC
En Garde! is a swashbuckler action game! Battle graceless guards and nefarious noblemen in fast-paced fights full of spectacle. Use the environment, your wit and your blade to teach them all a lesson!
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Release Date: August 16 | Developer: Deconstructeam | Publisher: Devolver Digital
Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
Let’s Build a Zoo: Aquarium Odyssey (DLC)
Release Date: August 17 | Developer: Springloaded | Publisher: No More Robots
Platform: PC
Escape to a brand new AQUARIUM ISLAND and discover a world of seafaring beasts. Start a brand new zoo complete with adorable water splashing and ocean dwelling creatures, brand new themed shops and a whole host of new decorations to give your guests the ultimate aquatic experience!
Marble It Up! Ultra
Release Date: August 17 | Developer: Marble It Up, LLC | Publisher: Marble It Up, LLC
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
Marble It Up! Ultra is the pinnacle of marble platforming from the minds behind Marble It Up! and Marble Blast. World-class level design, buttery-smooth controls, gorgeous visuals, and exhilarating multiplayer – welcome to the ultimate marble experience!
Red Dead Redemption
Release Date: August 17 | Developer: Double Eleven | Publisher: Rockstar Games
Platform: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
A bundle containing ports of Red Dead Redemption and the Undead Nightmare expansion missing multiplayer components and including some parts of the GOTY release.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Release Date: August 17 | Developer: Mimimi Games | Publisher: Mimimi Games
Platform: PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Welcome to the Lost Caribbean! In this stealth strategy game, join a ghost ship with a living soul and assemble a cursed pirate crew. Embrace magical powers to defy the menacing army of the Inquisition, who stands between you and the mysterious treasure of the legendary Captain Mordechai.
Vampire Survivors (Nintendo Switch Release)
Release Date: August 17 | Developer: Poncle | Publisher: Poncle
Platform: Nintendo Switch (already available on Android, Xbox One, Mac, iOS, PC, Xbox Series X|S)
Mow thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you.
Cat’s Cosmic Atlas
Release Date: August 18 | Developer: RedDeer.Games | Publisher: RedDeer.Games
Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch
Gaze upon the stars and other celestial bodies. Cat’s Cosmic Atlas takes you through the Southern and Northern skies. Experience the most beautiful sights and learn a thing or two about the vast Universe that surrounds us.
Madden NFL 24
Release Date: August 18 | Developer: EA Tiburon | Publisher: EA Sports
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Experience the newest iteration of FieldSENSE in Madden NFL 24. More realistic character movement and smarter AI gives you control to play out your gameplay strategy with the confidence to dominate any opponent.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Release Date: August 18 | Developer: Sumo Nottingham | Publisher: Gun Interactive
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Take on the role of one of the notorious Slaughter family, or their victims, in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a third-person asymmetrical horror experience based on the groundbreaking and iconic 1974 horror film.
