The world of Video Games, be it as it may the past couple years a tumultuous world to work in, is still chalk full of upcoming titles that we here are excited as ever to play. Most are new to our lists, some make a return: but all are set in our sights to (hopefully) play in 2024. See below for our standout up and comers and hopefully you’ll be as hyped as we are!

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Demetri’s Top 5:

I want to make it clear that this is #5, not for a lack of enthusiasm on my part, but because like its protagonist this is an exceedingly fragile thing. Skate Story is going to live and die by how it feels to play. The presentation is absolutely gorgeous and the music in the trailer threatens to bring me to tears. I am ready to love this, I just need the skating to shred.

Kyle nominated this last year and now I guess it’s my turn, because fuck this thing looks incredible. This is exactly the kind of dungeon crawl that’ll have me punching air, drywall, birds, and anything else nearby as I flail in fear from what lurks within. The developer has stated that it may come out early this very year (though makes no promises) and I will be waiting with bated breath and un-shidded jeans.

We’ve made no secret of our excitement for this one. 10 Dead Doves was by far the most engaging horror demo in ages, promising surreal Siren-esque visuals in an Appalachian setting and every weird thing that entails. Mark, Sean, and Daniel are making a hell of a thing here and I will be there to experience it day 1.

Hypnospace Outlaw is one of my favorite games of all time, full stop. I love it so much that upon finding out about Dreamsettler’s existence I intentionally and purposely stopped paying any attention to it. I don’t want to see anything, I don’t want to know anything. I just want to lose myself to another internet headset beefbrain-inducing journey.

Every. Year. Until. It. Comes. Out.

Kyle’s Top 5:

As a fan of atmospheric, lore-driven titles but also dabbles in the less-beaten trails in gaming: Srok Godnosti is a surefire interest in my gaming year.  A PS1-style adventure following the role of a district police officer in a post-USSR region of Russia.  Deviate through tasks via the small town local residents and shape said town based on your decisions.  Will your decisions help or hinder?  Will you assert your district dominance or be a more understanding member of society?  What’s up with that big ass dog?  The status on Srok releasing this year is in the air as the Steam Trailer bills a 2022 release and the developer’s last post on Twitter/X was in 2023.  But this is my dark horse for release and review.

In the slew of multi-route, harem-coated, run-of-the-mill visual novels, you start to assess the developers and writers looking to break the norm with their spins on the ever popular genre.  As the goal of most titles is to get the girl of your dreams from the fleet surrounding you with them competing for your singular confession of love: what if you just…didn’t want that?  Dubbed the “Anti-Dating Sim,” your goal in I Just Want to be Single!! is to balance the friend zone long enough to graduate without any suitors being heartbroken over your stance of pacificity on relationships.  I’m always in the loop for a fun spin on the genre and this one is definitely on the radar!

If I could hand out an award for Best Looking Game of 2024, I’d just mail this to Cobysoft Joe and tell them to be surprised in 10 months.  Combine parts of Visual Novel, Monster Collecting, and Turn-Based RPG with a visual footprint that is Kaiju-sized: Dome-King Cabbage may look confusing based on pictures and description, but who cares?  This is by far one of the weirdest, prettiest, most Video Game-ass video games to grace the indie platform and I can only hope it does come out this year as I find myself once a week looking through the screenshots and just smiling at how cool this game looks.

This game, and I mean this with the absolute most respect, looks like a game my mom would’ve bought me years ago on a compilation disk with a few demos to shut me up about asking for something and I would’ve sat playing the same level for years and let it shape my entire background of enjoyment in video games.  This was me with Team Losi RC Racer and Daytona USA in the 90s and Parking Garage Rally Circuit will hopefully reunite that flame in 2024.  Sega Saturn-like graphics with a game premise that feels like something Sega would’ve actually done if console games weren’t $100 million to develop.   I can’t wait to run some filthy turns in a garage that could’ve made a cameo in Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.  I will post times and pimp them on Twitter/X.

The world of gaming provides an illustrious scale that’s horizon is only cut off by one’s imagination.  If you can dream it, if you can think it: you can make it into a game.  It’s these forays off the beaten path that always peak the most interest on our website and finding what could be that diamond in the rough is always a feat within the indie landscape.  INDIKA tells the story of a young nun on a journey of self-discovery in late 19th Century Russia with none other than the Devil by your side to guide.  Story-driven, overflowing with atmospheric intrigue and tension, and a keen eye for idealistic detail: INDIKA may be the game you may not have heard of but will be the one that demands your utmost attention and dares you to look away.  Whenever I get my hands on this in Q2 2024: you bet I’ll be doing nothing else but blissfully succumbing to the world of INDIKA.