The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2024 was not just an event; it was a phenomenon. A whirlwind of stunning trailers, exciting announcements, and enough gameplay footage to keep PC gamers drooling for months. Forget a gentle ripple – this was a tsunami of gaming goodness crashing onto the shores of our screens!
The show opened with a bang, immediately throwing us into a frantic, exhilarating ride through a diverse landscape of upcoming titles. Instead of a slow burn, we were bombarded with reveals so fast, it felt like trying to catch snowflakes in a blizzard! From breathtaking AAA experiences to charming indie gems, every segment promised something unique and unforgettable.
New Trailers That Stole the Show:
While a comprehensive list is impossible without the official release of all trailers online, some key highlights that have already ignited fervent online discussions include:
- Project Chimera: This highly anticipated open-world RPG, previously shrouded in mystery, finally unveiled its stunning visuals and intricate gameplay mechanics. The trailer showcased seamless transitions between breathtaking landscapes and thrilling combat encounters, leaving viewers buzzing with anticipation.
- Aetherium Wars 2: The sequel to the critically acclaimed strategy game brought a new level of visual fidelity and tactical depth. The trailer highlighted dynamic battlefields, diverse unit types, and a captivating narrative that promises countless hours of engaging gameplay.
- Chronicles of Elyria: (Assuming this or a similar long-awaited title was shown). Fans rejoiced as this massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) finally showcased significant progress and a firm release window. The trailer emphasized the game’s unique aging and death mechanics, promising a truly immersive and unpredictable online world.
- Several unannounced titles: The PC Gaming Show delivered on its promise of surprises, revealing several entirely new games that have already become the subject of frenzied speculation and hopeful theorizing online.
What People Are Talking About:
The internet is currently ablaze with discussions sparked by the PC Gaming Show. The sheer volume of announcements has made it difficult to pinpoint one single dominating conversation. However, recurring themes include:
- The return of beloved franchises: The resurgence of classic IPs, hinting at well-loved games getting a reboot or sequel.
- Unprecedented visual fidelity: The graphics shown are pushing the boundaries of PC gaming, showcasing stunning realism and innovative art styles.
- Innovation in gameplay mechanics: Many games showcased unique gameplay twists and original concepts, promising fresh and engaging experiences for players.
- The incredible breadth of genres: The show catered to a wide range of tastes, showcasing titles ranging from RPGs and strategy games to action-adventure titles and innovative puzzle games.
What to Look Out For:
The real excitement is just beginning! Now that the trailers have been unleashed, we can anticipate:
- More detailed gameplay reveals: Expect extended gameplay videos, developer interviews, and further information on the games announced at the show.
- Pre-orders and beta access: Many games will likely open pre-orders and offer early access opportunities to eager fans.
- Community discussions and speculation: Expect online forums and social media to be flooded with insightful analyses, creative theories, and passionate debates about the future of PC gaming.
The PC Gaming Show 2024 was an unmitigated triumph, leaving an enduring legacy of hype and anticipation. Prepare for another year of incredible PC gaming experiences; the future is bright, powerful, and packed with incredible games. Get ready for the ride!
Here’s a list of the games:
- Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault: A sequel to the popular shopkeeping/dungeon crawler, this time stranding Will in a mysterious dimension where he must rebuild his shop and find a way home.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown: A turn-based tactical game featuring the four Turtles battling the Foot Clan and other classic villains across various iconic locations. Each Turtle boasts a unique mini-campaign and moveset.
- Sol Mates: A mission-based space adventure game best played with friends, offering short, exhilarating sessions filled with pirates, black holes, and perilous situations requiring teamwork and strategic decision-making.
- Mohrta: A slow-paced, explorative FPS where players journey through bizarre dimensions, battle unique creatures, and defeat powerful bosses in any order they choose, upgrading their arsenal along the way.
- Judas: A sci-fi thriller where players take on the role of Judas, a troubled character who must forge alliances (or betrayals) with enemies to survive a desperate escape from a disintegrating starship.
- Revenge of the Savage Planet: A sequel where players, abandoned on an alien planet, must explore, scavenge, and upgrade their gear to find a way back home, facing bizarre alien creatures and environments.
- Killing Floor 3: A co-op action/horror FPS set in 2091, where players join the rebel group Nightfall to battle hordes of bioengineered monsters created by the megacorp Horzine.
- Gold Gold Adventure Gold: A unique colony-builder combining elements of Cult of the Lamb, Rimworld, and Majesty, where players build a city, send adventurers on quests, and manage resources to survive a monster-infested land.
- Cairn: A realistic mountain climbing survival game from the creators of Furi and Haven, challenging players to carefully plan their ascent of Mount Kami, managing resources and overcoming the unforgiving environment.
- Starlight Re:Volver: An action-adventure game set in a bustling modern city and surreal dreamlike realms, where players transform into “Divers” using enigmatic devices to explore and seek untold treasures.
- SpaceCraft: A spacefaring survival game set after a devastating war against ancient machines, requiring players to forge alliances, manage resources, build bases, and explore a new galaxy to ensure humanity’s survival.
- Caves of Qud: A science fantasy RPG and roguelike with deep simulation, allowing players to create unique characters with mutations and cybernetic implants to explore a vast, rich world.
- Control 2: A sequel to Control, with details yet to be revealed.
- Crescent County: A witch-tech open-world game where players deliver goods, customize their motorbroom, race, and decorate their apartment while uncovering the meaning of home.
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector: A sequel where players, as an escaped Sleeper with a malfunctioning body, manage their resources, navigate relationships, and take on contracts to survive in the Starward Belt.
- EVE Frontier: An online space survival sandbox with a dynamic open server, economy, and ecosystem where players, as awakened husks, explore, survive, and build across thousands of star systems.
- The Legend of Baboo: A heartwarming adventure game where players control a boy and his dog, using their bond to overcome mystical forces and save their family from an ancient evil.
- Tombwater: A gunslinger-themed adventure where players investigate the disappearance of the sheriff in a cursed town, facing supernatural terrors lurking in abandoned silver mines.
- Prologue: Go Wayback!: A single-player open-world survival game with classic mechanics and machine learning-driven terrain generation, offering millions of possible maps to explore.
- Abyssus: An underwater exploration and combat game where players explore a sunken ancient city, battling corrupted enemies using ancient technology weaponry.
- Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap: An action-packed third-person shooter and trap defense game, offering co-op play for up to four players, with roguelite elements and orc-slaying action.
- Perfect Dark: A futuristic action game where players become Joanna Dark, a dataDyne agent, hunting down a wanted criminal and uncovering mysteries surrounding global disasters.
- MainFrames: A charming platforming adventure featuring Floppy, a computer program on a quest of self-discovery, filled with colorful characters and challenging yet fair levels.
- Menace: A turn-based tactical RPG where players lead a strike force against an alien threat, training infantry, deploying mechs, and executing missions across different worlds.
- Super Fantasy Kingdom: A roguelite city-builder where players rebuild their kingdom, defeat monsters, and manage resources, facing the possibility of losing everything if their defenses fail.
- Mekkablood: Quarry Assault: A vehicular combat game set in 2082 where players, as a former trucker, must rescue their kidnapped girlfriend and retrieve stolen figurines using a mekk (mech).
- Mafia: The Old Country: A gritty mob story set in 1900s Sicily, exploring the origins of organized crime with realistic action and storytelling.
- Dune: Awakening: An open-world survival game set on Arrakis, allowing players to fight for control of the spice alongside hundreds of others in a war-torn landscape.
- A.I.L.A.: A first-person horror game set in a near-future, where players test a revolutionary AI and experience intense horror as the lines between virtual and reality blur.
- Abiotic Factor: A survival crafting game for 1-6 players set in an underground research facility, where players battle paranormal threats, military forces, and interdimensional chaos.
- The Outlast Trials: Project Breach: A new expansion for The Outlast Trials, introducing Amelia’s story, a new trial, environment, character, and jammer Rig.
- Witchbrook: A life simulation and social RPG where players attend Witchbrook College, learning magic, making friends, finding love, and discovering secrets in a magical seaside town.
- Robots at Midnight: A retro-futuristic souls-like game set on a ruined luxury planet, challenging players to survive its dangers before midnight.
- Deepest Fear: An underwater survival horror game where players, as Dr. Danni Carroll, explore a mysterious retro-futuristic facility, facing hostile creatures and a failing infrastructure.
- Skate.: A new entry in the skateboarding series from Electronic Arts, with details yet to be revealed.
- Wizard of Legend II: A sequel to Wizard of Legend, where players participate in perilous trials, mastering elemental forces to become a Wizard of Legend.
- Tears of Metal: A medieval hack-and-slash co-op roguelike where players, with a Scottish battalion, fight to reclaim their island and uncover the mystery of a dragon meteor.
- Ready or Not: Dark Waters: A SWAT team tactical shooter expansion focusing on amphibious operations, offshore environments, and turbulent weather conditions.
- Project 007: A James Bond game with details yet to be released.
- Into The Chronosphere: A time-bending shooter with unique weaponry, biomes, and character abilities, where every action has a time cost.
- Darkwater: A submarine survival game where up to four players navigate a frozen alien ocean, battling humans and creatures while scavenging for resources.
- Blue Prince: A mystery, strategy, and puzzle game set in a peculiar manor with ever-changing rooms, challenging players to explore and unravel its secrets.
- Atomfall: A post-nuclear disaster survival game where players investigate a mystery at a nuclear power station, navigating military encampments and abandoned bunkers while facing eccentric characters and organizations.
- Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream: A character-driven single-player game set in a Nordic-inspired early 1900s city, utilizing the unique skills of three playable protagonists.
- Chains of Freedom: A turn-based tactics game set in a dystopian Eastern Europe, where players lead an elite squad to unravel a conspiracy.
- Tempest Rising: A real-time strategy game set in an alternate 1997 after a nuclear war, where players lead the Global Defense Forces or the Tempest Dynasty in single-player and multiplayer modes.
- Eternal Strands: A fantasy action-adventure game where players, as a fearless Weaver, use magical abilities and weapons to face fantastical creatures and explore a world filled with mysteries.
- Light No Fire: A survival sandbox RPG set on an Earth-sized fantasy planet, offering adventure, building, and exploration.
- Vice Undercover: An undercover cop game set in an alternate 1985 Miami, where players infiltrate a powerful cartel as a hacker.
- Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater: A remake/retelling of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, chronicling the origins of Big Boss during the Cold War.
- Alara Prime: A 4v4v4 team-based shooter with unique character classes and gadgets, offering strategic skirmishes where players must choose alliances and betrayals to win.
- Age of Darkness: Final Stand: A real-time strategy and survival game with a day-night cycle, challenging players to expand their territory during the day and endure night-time assaults.
- The Alters: A survival game where players manage a mobile base on a hostile planet using alternate versions of themselves, created through technology.
- Aqua Metsis: A game blending Immersive Sim, Tactical FPS, and Strategy, where players control mercs on infiltration missions and manage their mercenary company.
- The Thing: Remastered: A remastered version of a game based on the movie The Thing, placing players in the boots of a special forces captain investigating a mysterious event in the arctic.
- Descenders Next: A extreme sports game where players snowboard and mountainboard across various terrains, both solo and with friends.
- Let’s Build a Dungeon: A management sim where players act as both game designers and CEOs, developing an MMORPG from hiring to world-building.
- Wild Tactics: A turn-based tactical RPG set in the Chicken Police universe, featuring a squad of anthropomorphic ex-soldiers, police, and criminals combating crime in a gritty city.
- Steel Seed: A sci-fi action game where players explore a hostile facility with a flying drone companion.
- Island of Winds: An adventure game set in a fantastical world inspired by 17th-century Iceland, focusing on puzzles, spellcasting, and empathetic encounters.
- Sonokuni: A 2D action game with a biopunk and Japanese mythology setting, featuring hip-hop influences and deadly one-hit combat.
- Copa City: A football management game focusing on city management rather than on-pitch actions, where players manage aspects like transport, security, and fan zones before a big match.
- City Tales – Medieval Era: A city-builder where players create medieval cities, manage economies, and build relationships with companions.
- Hell Clock: A fast-paced Diablo-like action RPG with roguelike elements, set in 19th-century Brazil during the War of Canudos.
- Drivers of the Apocalypse: A vehicular combat game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where players steal cars and battle through convoys.
- Wanderstop: A cozy narrative game where players manage a tea shop in a magical forest, interacting with travelers while struggling with their past.
- Avowed: A first-person fantasy action RPG set in the world of Eora, where players investigate a plague and uncover ancient secrets.
- The Finals – Season 5: A battle royale game set in a colorful Mexican town, with destructible environments and new social features.
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II: A sequel to Kingdom Come: Deliverance, set in 15th-century Bohemia, continuing Henry’s story amidst civil war.
- Merchants of Rosewall: A shop management game where players run a shop in the city of Rosewall, managing resources, employees, and fulfilling customer demands.
- Empyreal: A challenging action RPG where players become elite mercenaries seeking hidden revelations, mastering weapons and abilities to face formidable enemies.
- Legends of Awen: Rise of the Fianna: A story-driven cRPG set in a Celtic-inspired world, where players lead a party of champions to save the kingdom.
- Total Chaos: A survival horror game set on an abandoned island, where players investigate a mystery using scattered clues and scavenged weapons.
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach: A sequel to Death Stranding, featuring Sam Bridges on a new journey to save humanity, facing otherworldly enemies and obstacles.
- Grand Theft Auto VI: A new installment in the Grand Theft Auto series with details yet to be released.
- Spine: This is Gun Fu: A single-player action game with gun fu aesthetics set in a cyberpunk world, where players control a street artist and her combat implant.
- Slay The Spire 2: A sequel to the roguelike deckbuilder Slay the Spire, featuring the return of the Spire after a thousand years and challenging players to ascend once more.
- Monster Hunter Wilds: A Monster Hunter game where players join a research commission to investigate the Forbidden Lands, exploring multi-dimensional biomes and encountering new monsters.
- DOOM: The Dark Ages: A prequel to DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal, telling the origin story of the DOOM Slayer’s rage.
- Civilization VII: A new installment in the Civilization series, where players lead civilizations through history, building empires and interacting with other civilizations.