8 Most Anticipated Video Game Releases Remaining in 2024

Hoo boy, the year 2024 really flew by, didn’t it? (Yeah, I try to compartmentalize it.)

With the holiday season on the horizon, I thought it would be only right to take a look at the remaining schedule of major video game releases for the rest of the year. After all, once the leaves finally turn and it’s cold outside, there’s nothing better to do than enjoy a great gaming experience on your couch.

Consider this a thoughtful gift to yourself. You are welcome.

Note: This is not an exhaustive list. If I missed something you’re looking forward to, I didn’t mean it as a personal attack. (Be kind! It’s subjective!) This is more of a general, comprehensive look at major upcoming games that I’ve deemed worth playing and/or trying during the remainder of 2024 before the ball does not fall on January 1st. This is also NOT a ranking. This is in chronological order of releases through the end of December.

Still, from beloved horror callbacks to rewarding open-world fantasy gameplay, we hope there’s something for everyone.

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Release date: October 8, 2024

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Windows

Why it’s worth playing: It is a full-fledged remake of the classic 2001 survival horror game of the same name. Once again, you play as widower Jake Sunderland. Once again, a strange letter from your deceased wife lures you to the town of Silent Hill, where all kinds of horrors await you. It is also the first new opus of the silent Hill series in over a decade. The original’s combat system was admittedly a bit cumbersome, so that too was torn down and rebuilt.

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Release date: October 17, 2024

Platforms: Nintendo Switch

Why it’s worth playing: Here we have the latest jam-packed entry in Nintendo’s hit board game series. And it’s bigger and more full of gifts than ever. If you have played a Mario Party Going in before, at any point in the last quarter century, you get the general idea. You move around a giant virtual board that presents various environmental hazards with your friends and family, and once per turn you engage in wild and chaotic mini-games. Jamboree promises five unique new game boards (seven in total), over 110 mini-games, and interesting new modes like Koopathlon — Mario Party Compete in a decathlon focused entirely on winning mini-games.

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Release date: October 18, 2024

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4/5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Why it’s worth playing: Personally, I’m a big fan of vintage beat ’em ups where you just mash buttons in an artistic world and sometimes hope for the best. Mutants Unleashed promises that precious feeling where you can play alone or in two-player co-op with one of the titular turtles. The story is also essentially a sequel to the hit 2023 film. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhemwhich is worth tackling on this front alone.

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Release date: October 25, 2024

Platforms: PlayStation 4/5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Why it’s worth playing: Perhaps the most popular video game shooting series ever, Black Ops 6 is the first installment in the series in over four years. This also means that it has had the longest development cycle of all the previous ones. Call of Duty game, leaving room for a potentially high level of finish and refinement. Set around 1991 – the year the Soviet Union fell – the story seems intriguing enough as the franchise moves closer and closer to modern times. If the story isn’t for you, the controlled chaos of multiplayer will probably be your jam, which, of course, will also have a separate and valuable Zombie mode. And you guessed it, you’re fighting hordes of zombies inside.

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Release date: October 25, 2024

Platforms: PlayStation 4/5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Why it’s worth playing: Sonic may be an overly goofy cartoon character dreamed up by an out-of-touch marketing consultant in the early 1990s, but damn, his platform games are an absolute blast when they arrive. Sonic X Shadow Generations should be no exception in this regard. The game features a mix of 2D and 3D gameplay, and players can seamlessly switch between new Shadow Generations and a 2011 remaster Sound generations. If you like blurry, fast-paced games that require lightning-fast reflexes, then this is probably for you.

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Release date: October 31, 2024

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox Series X/S

Why it’s worth playing: A direct sequel to that of 2014 Dragon Age: InquisitionThe Veilguard also picks up 10 years after this story. This time around, the treacherous mage Solas has begun to tear down the Veil – a barrier that protects the main kingdom of Thedas from the dangers (namely demons) of the magical world known as The Fade. You play as Rook, whom you customize as you wish in a true RPG mode while assembling a group of colorful characters to save The Veil and save the world. Everyone is counting on you. Good luck and no pressure.

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Release date: November 7, 2024

Platforms: Nintendo Switch

Why it’s worth playing: When Nintendo takes the role-playing game with its flagship franchise, it’s usually worth the detour. In Brothership, you take the lead as Mario and Luigi, using the brothers in creative, cooperative gameplay where both plumber brothers move and attack at the same time. It’s gritty, wholesome, and dynamic in all the best ways you’ve come to expect from Nintendo. Unfortunately, the game is only a single-player experience (it would have been fantastic with another person!). But it’s still quite intriguing.

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Release date: November 14, 2024

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Windows, Nintendo Switch

Why it’s worth playing: Finally! THE Horizon video game series gets the Lego treatment. Do I really need to say more? Okay, fine. If you’re not familiar with Aloy’s adventures in a post-apocalyptic Earth reduced to general “civilized” tribalism, you’re in for a treat. Except, you know, probably without all the sinister “save the world” aesthetic, since it’s a game also designed for kids. But if you like whimsical platformers and collections with a hint of jokes and charm that Lego games usually offer, then Horizon Adventures should be for you.