COSMICY,most amazing games of 2021

BLEEDING EDGE

Bleeding Edge is that the newest game from Ninja Theory, one among six studios scooped up by Microsoft in 2018 to form Xbox and Windows PC games. Ninja Theory is the studio behind well-regarded titles including Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and DmC: Devil May Cry. The new game may be a melee-based multiplayer title during which teams of stylized combatants go head-to-head in 4-vs-4 battles, featuring a vicious array of weapons. It’s out on March 24

CARRION

Carrion may be a horror game where you play the monster. It’s a Metroidvania game in which you take on the role of a slithering tentacled monster that moves from room to room, eating scientists and growing, blob-like. We saw the game at E3 and enjoyed its premise, as well as its satisfying monster animation. It’s coming out on Xbox One and Windows PC via Steam sometime in 2020.

CRUSADER KINGS 3

The next installment in Paradox Interactive’s 15-year-old grand strategy franchise is arriving next year on Windows PC. Once again, players scheme and strategize as they build a medieval dynasty. This time, we’re promised a map four times more detailed than the one in Crusader Kings 2 and 3D-rendered characters. Crusader Kings 3 takes place from the Viking Age through to the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul. As within the important medieval world, leaders can create cadet branches of their dynasty, usually via marriage negotiations and thus the location of a well-liked bastard. These can be brought to heel, when necessary

THE DARK PICTURES ANTHOLOGY: LITTLE HOPE

Developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope is the second entry in an interactive horror series, following 2019’s Man of Medan. Set in a spooky small town, the game features scary tropes including a creepy doll and a clawed creature hiding in the shadows, ready to pounce on terrified locals. It’s beginning on PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One.

DREAMS

Media Molecules’ Dreams is analogous to the united kingdom developer’s much-loved LittleBigPlanet series, which the studio created within the PlayStation 3 days. Once again, it’s as much about creating as it is about playing. Along with a single-player campaign of stages authored by Media Molecule, Dreams offers an expansive suite of level creation tools for budding game designers. But where the LittleBigPlanet games were limited to a side-scrolling 2.5D perspective, Dreams on PlayStation 4 lets you build in full 3D, which vastly increases both the possibilities and the complexity of what is possible. A limited version of the game was made available in early access in April 2019 and has yielded some remarkable user-made stories, but the full release is slated for February 14 on PlayStation 4.

DYING LIGHT 2

Techland’s Dying Light 2

 refines the first game’s first-person parkour action gameplay, with attention on swiftness and skill. Once again, a hardy protagonist must leap across rooftops, trying to avoid direct engagements with zombies. Useful items, like hooks and paraglider wings, can help. The game’s city-based location is made in such how that higher elevations are less dangerous than lower floors. Dying Light 2 is coming out in the first half of 2020 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One.

GODFALL

First shown at The Game Awards in December, Godfall is the first game confirmed for PlayStation 5, and is scheduled to launch alongside the new console in late 2020. Developed by Counterplay Games and published by Gearbox, it’s a gothic-look third-person looter-slasher with stress on multiplayer. As well as PS5, it’s also coming to PC via the Epic Games Store.

GRIFTLANDS

GRIFTLANDS is a deck-builder RPG from Klei, the team behind much-loved hits including Don’t Starve and Oxygen Not Included. Players use their cards in conversation-style battles that solve specific narrative tasks, like rescuing a hostage. It’s available on Windows PC in alpha form on Epic Games Store, with Steam availability, and early access phase, planned for July

 

GROUNDED

Obsidian Entertainment is best known for role-playing games like The Outer Worlds, one of the best games

of the last 12 months. But Grounded takes a special route; it’s a cooperative survival game that shrinks players down and sets them loose in their own backyard, Honey I Shrunk the Kids-style. Four characters explore a world populated by ants, ladybugs, fireflies, and hunting spiders. It’s coming out as an early access title, this spring, on Windows PC and Xbox One.

HALF-LIFE: ALYX

The future of Valve’s Half-Life series has been a running joke almost since the release of Half-Life 2 in 2004. Valve’s November announcement of Half-Life: Alyx was some way short of the yearned-for “Half-Life 3,” but it’s something. Set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, the VR exclusive will tell the story of established franchise character Alyx Vance and her father Eli as they form a resistance to require on the invasion of the alien force referred to as the Combine. The first-person exploration, combat, and puzzle game are going to be released March 2020 on Steam, and is compatible with all PC-based VR headsets.

HALO INFINITE

Microsoft’s Series X console launch next fall will arrive alongside Master Chief. Halo Infinite takes place after Master Chief has been asleep and his forces have already lost the war. Developer 343 Industries promises an emphasis on open exploration, which we’re guessing will take advantage of Series X’s much-vaunted capability

HUMANKIND

Developed by Amplitude, Humankind

 is a turn-based strategy game that places the player responsible for a growing civilization. As players settle cities, build units, explore, and fight, they combat the cultural auras of varied empires throughout history. It’s being published by Sega for Windows PC