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!
I Doesn’t Exist
Release Date: September 12 | Developer: Lual Games KIG | Publisher: Lual Games KIG
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art and AI.
Eternights
Release Date: September 12 | Developer: Studio Sai | Publisher: Kowloon Nights
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC
Eternights is a dating action game where you try to make the most out of life during the apocalypse. Monday: Go on a date. Tuesday: Clear dungeon. Friday: Freak out! The clock is ticking!!
Mythforce
Release Date: September 12 | Developer: Beamdog | Publisher: Aspyr Media
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S (already available on PC)
Inspired by beloved 80s cartoons, MythForce unites swords & sorcery with gripping 1st-person combat in a roguelite adventure fit for Saturday mornings. Brave the dungeon alone or join forces with friends to take on an ever-changing Castle of Evil!
Nour: Play with Your Food
Release Date: September 12 | Developer: Terrifying Jellyfish | Publisher: Panic
Platform: PlayStation 4, Mac, PlayStation 5, PC
Nour is an experimental food art game designed to make you hungry. Free from the constraints of scores, time limits, and realism, Nour lets you play with your food as if you’re a kid again, with no mess to clean up.
The Isle Tide Hotel
Release Date: September 12 | Developer: Wales Interactive | Publisher: Wales Interactive
Platform: Android, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Mac, iOS, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
A live-action mystery FMV game, where you make decisions for a father that must rescue his teenage daughter from an eclectic cult before their final night at the Isle Tide Hotel. Save Eleanor Malone by making decisions, collecting clues, solving puzzles and unlocking hidden scenes and endings.
Super Bomberman R 2
Release Date: September 13 | Developer: Konami | Publisher: Konami
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
A sequel to Super Bomberman R, featuring an expanded story mode, and a new “Castle” battle mode which has one group teaming up to build castle defenses while the other attempts to breach the castle and take the treasure.
Gravity Oddity
Release Date: September 13 | Developer: Invincible Cat | Publisher: Invincible Cat
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch
Defy gravity and warp your way through a procedurally generated galaxy in this roguelike space adventure. Put on your gravity boots and ready your teleport gun to find the best approach to defeat your enemies and loot their spaceships.
Gunbrella
Release Date: September 13 | Developer: doinksoft | Publisher: Devolver Digital
Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch
Gunbrella is a noir-punk action-adventure set in a world dependent on a rapidly diminishing natural resource. Players take the role of a gruff woodsman on a quest for revenge, armed with the mysterious Gunbrella: a firearm that doubles as an umbrella. His investigation becomes entangled with the inner workings of ghouls and gangsters, cops and cultists, and the fallout of corporate exploitation.
Land Above Sea Below
Release Date: September 13 | Developer: Glasscannon Studio | Publisher: Skystone Games
Platform: PC
Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero – Part 1: The Teal Mask
Release Date: September 13 | Developer: Game Freak | Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Nintendo Switch
In this year’s annual school trip, students from various schools – including you! – will be sent to the land of Kitakami, where people live at the feet of tall, towering mountains and the tranquil landscape is teeming with nature unfamiliar to Paldea, flourishing among rice paddies and apple orchards. At this time of year, the villages hold festivals, bustling with all kinds of stalls and stands. Make new friends and meet new Pokémon as you unravel the old legends of Kitakami.
Summum Aeterna
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Aeternum Game Studios | Publisher: Aeternum Game Studios
Platform: Nintendo Switch (already available on PC)
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging 2D hand-drawn action platformer, a Metroidvania with thrilling combat that will keep you on the edge of your seat and heart-stopping platform sections that will put your skills to the test. Become the King of Darkness in an epic journey through 16 connected areas.
The Crew: Motorfest
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Ivory Tower | Publisher: Ubisoft Entertainment
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Welcome to Motorfest! Join a one-of-a-kind festival and enjoy the best experiences car culture has to offer in a beautiful Hawaiian open world.
Ugly
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: TEAM UGLY | Publisher: Graffiti Games
Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox
Ugly is a psycho-dark fairy tale with new mechanics. You will have to swap the main character with his own reflection to solve puzzles, defeat bosses and discover all the secrets in a palace where nothing is what it seems.
Ad Infinitum
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Hekate | Publisher: Nacon
Platform: PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Ad Infinitum is an atmospheric single-player horror game, which puts you into a World War I setting seen through a first-person perspective. You find yourself in the trenches of a forlorn battlefield where your are being hunted by vicious creatures. Solve puzzles to clear pathways and sneak through trenches to hide from vicious creatures. Avoid dangerous threats and try to escape this world of pain and death. Besides the realistic graphics, the game features a stealth system, puzzle-solving and exploration of the vicious game world which all culminates in a subtle yet intense story.
AK-xolotl
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: 2Awesome Studio | Publisher: Playstack
Platform: PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
he cutest, deadliest and only top-down roguelike shooter featuring AK-wielding axolotls. Blast your way through the animal kingdom with an arsenal of kick-ass guns, mighty power-ups and even raise an army of trigger-happy baby axolotls.
Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster
Release Date: September 14 | Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Two RPG masterpieces return. Originally released for the Nintendo GameCube, Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean and Baten Kaitos Origins are back with improved graphics and new features to aid game progression, making them even more accessible for new players.
Deceit 2
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: World Makers | Publisher: World Makers
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Deceit 2 is the follow up to the social horror survival game Deceit. Along with all-new content, overhauled characters, and gameplay innovations, Deceit 2 will also mark the franchise’s debut on consoles, with an upgrade in graphics.
Dune: Spice Wars
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Shiro Games | Publisher: Funcom
Platform: PC
Dune: Spice Wars is a real-time strategy game with 4X elements, from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis. Best your opponents through political intrigue, crush them in combat, and undermine them with your network of illusive spies.
Heavy Duty Challenge®: The Off-Road Truck Simulator
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Nano Games S.A. | Publisher: Aerosoft GmbH
Platform: PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X|S
Heavy Duty Challenge is an extreme off-road simulation game. Drive a wide selection of huge and powerful trucks, overcome multiple, massively challenging terrains, and reach the top of the leaderboards to become an ultimate champion of truck trials.
Inspector Gadget: Mad Time Party
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Smart Tale Games | Publisher: Microids
Platform: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
Go Go Gadget! Become the famous Inspector Gadget and have fun with your friends in this brand-new adventure!
Monster Hunter Now
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Niantic Labs | Publisher: Capcom
Platform: iOS, Android
Monster Hunter Now is an AR mobile spin-off of Capcom’s Monster Hunter series. Developed by Niantic (responsible for Pokemon GO), it lets the player hunt monsters in the real world.
Solar Ash
Release Date: September 14 | Developer: Heart Machine | Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
Platform: Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S (already available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC)
Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters. The Void beckons…
NASCAR Arcade Rush
Release Date: September 15 | Developer: Team6 Game Studios | Publisher: GameMill Entertainment
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S
The NASCAR Beasts are Unleashed!
