Upcoming Best PC Games in 2024

January 

• January 18 — Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown – PoP platformer spinoff (Epic)
• January 19 — Palworld (Early Access) – Open-world gun-toting Pokemon (Steam)
• January 23 — Lil’ Guardsman – If Papers, Please was Adventure Time (Steam)
• January 24 — Enshrouded (Early Access) – Valheim plus polygons (Steam)
• January 25 — Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth – Yakuza new and old (Steam)
• January 25 — Unforetold: Witchstone (Early Access) – Freeform CRPG (Steam)
• January 26 — Tekken 8 – next installment of the fighting series (Steam)

February

• February 1 — Granblue Fantasy Relink – Turn-based fantasy RPG (Steam)
• February 2 — Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League – Cape killing (Steam)
• February 2 — Persona 3 Reload – a P3 remake (Steam)
• February 8 — Helldivers 2 – Third-person starship troopin’ (Steam)
• February 13 — Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden – 1600s RPG (Steam)
• February 13 — Ultros – Psychedelic Metroidvania (Steam)
• February 14 — Solium Infernum – Grand strategy in Hell (Steam)
• February 16 — Skull and Bones – Ubisoft’s pirate game, maybe (Steam)
• February 22 — Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator – Green-thumbing (Steam)
• February 22 — Pacific Drive – Road trip survival sim (Steam)
• February 22 — Nightingale (early access) – Fae realm crafting survival (Steam)
• February 23 — Promenade – Cute cartoon platformer (Steam)
• February 27 — Wrath: Aeon of Ruin – Quake-like retro shooter (Steam)
• February 28 — Brothers A Tale of Two Sons Remake – Lads redux (Steam)
• February 28 — Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster – Katarn++ (Steam)
• February ?? — Islands of Insight – open world online puzzles (Steam)
• February ?? — Outpost: Infinity Siege – An FPS RTS with mechs (Steam)

March 

• March 5 — Expeditions: A MudRunner Game – Dirty trucks! (Steam)
• March 5 — Life By You – Life and building sim (Steam)
• March 7 — Crown Wars: The Black Prince – Medieval tactics (Steam)
• March 7 — Zoria: Age of Shattering – Fantasy tactics RPG (Steam)
• March 8 — Homeworld 3 – Sci-fi space RTS classic revival (Steam)
• March 20 — Alone in the Dark – 90s horror classic reboot (Steam)
• March 21 — Dragon’s Dogma 2 – Capcom’s open world fantasy (Steam)
• March 26 — Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles – open world city building and exploration (Steam)
• March 29 — Felvidek – Monochrome medieval RPG (Steam)
• March ?? — Acolyte of the Altar – Monster-hunting deckbuilder (Steam)
• March ?? — Lightyear Frontier (Early Access) – Chill mech farming (Steam)

April

• April 16 — Europa – Ghibli-inspired platforming adventure (Steam)
• April 23 — Tales of Kenzera: Zau – Bantu-inspired metroidvania (Steam)

June

• June 4 — Destiny 2: The Final Shape – The year’s D2 expansion (Site)

August

• Black Myth: Wukong – Action RPG from controversial dev (Steam)

September

• September 5 — Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl – The Zone awaits (Steam)
• September 9 — Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 – Astartes sequel (Steam)

New PC games 2024 with dates to be announced

• 33 Immortals – Co-op roguelike with up to 32 friends (Epic)
• Alliance of the Sacred Suns – 4X Space Strategy (Steam)
• Aloft – Crafting survival in the sky (Steam)
• Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator – life-saving sim (Steam)
• Anger Foot – Kick-heavy FPS (Steam)
• Ara: History Untold – Civ-like 4X strategy (Steam)
• Ark 2 – More dinosaurs, plus Vin Diesel (Steam)
• Ascent of Ashes (Early Access) – dystopic colony sim (Steam)
• Avowed – Obsidian’s first-person fantasy RPG (Steam)
• Baby Steps – Bennett Foddy’s next torture engine (Steam)
• Baladins – Bardic co-op RPG (Steam)
• Beastieball – Pokemon but volleyball (Steam)
• Bellwright (Early Access) – Medieval management and survival (Steam)
• Beyond These Stars – City builder on a space whale (Steam)
• Blue Protocol – Online anime action RPG (Steam)
• Botany Manor – Plant-tending walking simulator (Steam)
• Bounty Star – Mech combat meets farmsteading (Steam)
• Breachway – Space dogfight deckbuilder (Steam)
• Broken Roads – post-apoc Australia RPG (Steam)
• Bugaboo Pocket – Entomology life-sim (Steam)
• Capes – turn-based superhero tactics (Steam)
• The Casting of Frank Stone – Until Dawn devs do Dead by Daylight (Steam)
• Corpus Edax – Immersive sim with punchy physics (Steam)
• Crashlands 2 – Open world crafting RPG (Steam)
• Creature Keeper – Real-time combat creature collector (Steam)
• Critter Cove (Early Access) – Castaway Animal Crossing (Steam)
• Demonschool – High school demon-fighting tactics RPG (Steam)
• Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age – Steampunk 2v2 2D fighter (Steam)
• Distant Bloom – Cozy alien planet restoration (Steam)
• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami – Waterfowl fact-finding (Steam)
• Dungeons of Hinterberg – Cel-shaded Alps action RPG (Steam)
• Earthblade – Action-platformer from Celese devs (Steam)
• Earth Defense Force 6 – EDF! EDF! EDF! (Steam)
• Earth from Another Sun – Open world galactic scifi sandbox (Steam)
• Echoes of the Plum Grove – A cozy life sim (Steam)
• Fields of Mistria – Magical girl life sim (Steam)
• The First Descendant – Nexon looter shooter (Steam)
• Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn – Soulslike for musket fans (Steam)
• Frostpunk 2 – Grim, snowy city management (Steam)
• Galacticare – “Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor” simulator (Steam)
• Gatekeeper – Top-down Risk-of-Rain-like (Steam)
• GI Joe: Wrath of Cobra – Throwback beatemup (Steam)
• Gray Zone Warfare – an Arma-like FPS (Steam)
• Greedfall 2: The Dying World – Fantasy flintlock RPG (Steam)
• Harold Halibut – Claymation space story (Steam)
• Horizon Forbidden West – Another Aloy adventure (Steam)
• Hyper Light Breaker (Early Access) – Hyper Light Drifter co-op sequel (Steam)
• Indika – Psychological adventure as Russian nun (Steam)
• Iron Meat – Gnarly Contra-like side-scroller (Steam)
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space – Asymmetrical horror throwback (Steam)
• Light Odyssey – Top-down boss rush Souls-like (Steam)
• Little Nightmares 3 – Frightening platforming (Steam)
• Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP – Remake of the zombie hack-n-slash
• Lost Isle – Procgen fantasy survival (Steam)
• Lost Records: Bloom and Rage – Life is Strange meets Yellowjackets (Steam)
• The Lost Wild – Dinosaur survival horror (Steam)
• MechWarrior 5: Clans  – Bad guys of Battletech (Steam)
• Men of War 2 – WWII RTS with co-op (Steam)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio – Fantasy RPG from Atlus (Site)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 – Next iteration of Flight Sim (Site)
• Mika and The Witch’s Mountain – Zelda meets Kiki’s Delivery Service (Steam)
• Mirthwood – Sandbox fantasy life sim RPG (Steam)
• Multiversus (full launch) – WB’s platform fighter relaunch (Site)
• Nivalis – Cyberpunk slice-of-life (Steam)
• Paper Trail – Puzzles in a foldable world (Steam)
• Penny’s Big Breakaway – 3D yoyo platformer (Steam)
• Pepper Grinder – 2D drill-based burrowing platformer (Steam)
• The Plucky Squire – Colorful storybook escape adventure (Steam)
• Pragmata – Outerspace action adventure (Site)
• Reka – Witchy woods crafting (Steam)
• Replaced – Sci-fi action platformer (Steam)
• Republic of Pirates – City builder for freebooters (Steam)
• The Rise of the Golden Idol – Detective adventure set in the ’70s (Steam)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 – Psychological action sequel (Steam)
• Skate Story – Surreal skateboarding (Steam)
• Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley – Moominverse adventure game (Steam)
• Songs of Conquest – Turn-based fantasy strategy RPG (Steam)
• Songs of Silence – Fantasy RTS with turn-based management (Steam)
• South Park: Snow Day – The next South Park RPG
• SpellRogue (Early Access) – Deck-building wizard roguelike (Steam)
• Star Wars Outlaws – Open world scum and villainy (Site)
• Still Wakes the Deep – Oil rig horror from Chinese Room (Steam)
• Stormgate – New RTS from ex-Blizzard devs (Steam)
• Streets of Rogue 2 – Immersive roguelike sandbox (Steam)
• Summerhouse – Casual building designer (Steam)
• Surviving Deponia – More Deponia, now a colony sim (Steam)
• Tales of the Shire – A wholesome Hobbit life sim (Site)
• Tempest Rising – Archetypal base-building RTS (Steam)
• Thrasher – Rhythm game follow-up to Thumper (Steam)
• Tiny Glade – Medieval building toy (Steam)
• Trash Goblin – Casual trinket upcycling (Steam)
• Tribes 3: Rivals – Tribes returns from free-to-play (Steam)
• Unrailed 2: Back on Track (Early Access) – Chaotic railroad co-op (Steam)
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 – Revamped RPG (Steam)
• Visions of Mana – A new RPG in the Mana series
• Voyagers of Nera (Early Access) – Ocean-going survival (Steam)
• Wild Bastards – Space western roguelike FPS (Steam)
• Windblown (Early Access) – New roguelike from Dead Cells devs (Steam)
• World of Goo 2 – Slimy physics puzzle sequel (Site)
• Zenless Zone Zero – Genshin dev dungeon crawler (Site)

More upcoming games

While these aren’t committed to 2024, they’re headed our way and could easily settle into a 2024 release date in the future.

• Ad Infernum – Immersive sim horror in demonic gas station (Steam)
• Arknights: Endfield – Action RPG spinoff of the mobile gacha game (Site)
• Blade – Third-person Marvel action game from Arkane (Site)
• Cart Life – Street vendor life sim (Steam)
• Chrono Odyssey – Fantasy MMO (Site)
• Crimson Desert – Singleplayer RPG from Black Desert devs (Site)
• Den of Wolves – Co-op fururistic heist game from Payday devs (Steam)
• Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero – Dragon Ball-series fighting game (Steam)
• Echo Generation – 80s voxel adventure with turn-based combat (Steam)
• Edge of Sanity – 2D lovecraftian survival horror (Steam)
• Everywhere – A vague metaverse dream from GTA producers (Site)
• Exoborne – Extraction shooter with a sci-fi apocalypse vibe (Steam)
• Exodus – Time-traveling sci-fi action RPG with Mass Effect vibes (Site)
• The First Berserker: Khazan – ARPG based on Dungeon & Fighter series (Steam)
• Flock – Co-op sky-shepherding and bird-shearing (Steam)
• Harmonium: The Musical World – Musical adventure with deaf protag (Site)
• I Am Jesus Christ – First Person Savior (Steam)
• Jurassic Park: Survival – Action-adventure set right after original film (Site)
• Kemuri – Urban fantasy parkour from Ikumi Nakamura’s new studio (Site)
• Last Sentinel – Dystopian action game by Lightspeed Studios (Site)
• Light No Fire – Survival exploration on Earth-sized map (Steam)
• Lysfanga – Time clone action tactics (Steam)
• Mecha Break – Multiplayer mech combat (Steam)
• Metal Slug Tactics – classic run-n-gun goes tactics RPG (Steam)
• NAIAD – Vibrant underwater exploration as a sea nymph (Steam)
• Nemire – Undead army tactics RPG (Steam)
• Nighthawks – A vampire RPG from adventure game veterans (Steam)
• No Rest for the Wicked – Top-down ARPG from Ori devs (Steam)
• OD – Hideo Kojima’s latest, collaboration with Jordan Peele (Site)
• Off the Grid – Blomkamp Battle Royale (Site)
• QubiQuest: Castle Craft – Voxel-based castle building and defense (Steam)
• Reveil – First-person puzzle thriller (Steam)
• R-Type Tactics I – II Cosmos – Tactics spinoff of side-scroll shooter (Steam)
• Ruffy and the Riverside – Colorful character platformer (Steam) 
• She Dreams Elsewhere – Retro-surreal adventure RPG (Steam)
• Stellar Blade – Flashy scifi hack-and-slash (Site)
• Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown – Open world driving in Hong Kong (Steam)
• Witchbrook – Wizarding school life sim (Steam)
• Wrestle Story – turn-based pro wrestling RPG (Steam)