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Summer Game Fest highlights: 34 new video games to look out for, from Alien Isolation to Crazy Taxi
Hundreds of video games were shown at June’s annual bonanza. After watching more than 15 hours of showcases, our video games editor picks the highlights
TL;DR
- Alien: Isolation 2 is a sequel to the 2014 horror game, set on a storm-ravaged colony world.
- Resident Evil Veronica is a first-person remake of the 2000 game Code: Veronica.
- Mighty Cuphead Adventure is an 80s-style platform shooter from the makers of Cuphead.
- Apple Crumble is a British locked-room mystery game inspired by Knives Out.
- God of War: Laufey puts players in the role of Kratos's wife in the afterlife.
- Gen Atlas is the first game in a decade from Fumito Ueda, featuring gigantic robots.
- Control Resonant involves an operative from the Federal Bureau of Control dealing with loose supernatural threats.
- Guild Wars 3 aims to evolve the massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre.
- Virtua Fighter Crossroads combines fighting game and story adventure elements, set in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon universe.
- 1666 Amsterdam is a game about witches battling demons in early modern Europe.
- Final Fantasy VII Revelation is the concluding part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake project.
- Fable appears to have a more ambitious tone than its predecessors.
- Gears of War: E-Day is a prequel covering the day aliens emerged.
- Clutch is a cinematic open-world driving game set in Monaco and the French Riviera.
- The Lost Wild is a dinosaur survival game focused on avoiding large beasts.
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a remake of the first Lara Croft adventure.
- Threads of Time is an indie tribute to 90s Japanese RPGs, with heroes traveling through human history.
- Red Kiss is a vampire game set in 1989 Berlin.
- Exodus is a new space-game from key Mass Effect developers, involving exploration of alien worlds.
- Silent Hill: Townfall is a psychological horror game set on a Scottish island.
- The Wolf Among Us returns after years in development hell.
- Crazy Taxi: World Tour is a revival of Sega's driving game.
- Wardogs is a 100-player tactical war game.
- The Lift: Supernatural Handyman Simulator involves renovating a facility and uncovering its secrets.
- Clockwork Revolution is a steampunk game involving time-traveling rogues.
- Persona 6 is the next entry in Atlus's stylish RPG series.
- There Are No Ghosts at the Grand is a game about restoring a hotel, with supernatural elements.
- Vivarium is a game about summertime memories, with humans and fantastical creatures.
- Penguin Colony is a horror game from the perspective of a penguin, based on H.P. Lovecraft novellas.