Get Ready for 2024: Don’t Miss These 18 Exciting Games Launching in January and February

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Looking back (and forward): We had a mixed bag for highly anticipated games. On the one hand, we had outstanding titles like Baldur’s Gate 3, the System Shock remake, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Hogwarts Legacy to keep us happily occupied. On the other, Diablo IV, Starfield, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and The Walking Dead: Destinies failed to live up to expectations.

There is no reason to expect this year not to deliver a similarly mixed bag of hits and misses, but with 18 high-profile games coming in just the first two months, we have a quick sampling of the year to come.

Let’s take a moment to look at 2024’s early offerings…

• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• The Last of Us Part II Remastered
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
• Tekken 8
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• BlazBlue Entropy Effect
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink
• Persona 3 Reload
• Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
• Helldivers 2
• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
• Mario Vs. Donkey Kong
• Skull and Bones
• Nightingale
• Pacific Drive
• Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons Remake
• Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

January

January gets off to a late start with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown arriving on January 18. It has been about 14 years since the last entry in this franchise, and it’s hard to say how this 2.5D platformer will fare. Players don’t get to manipulate time like in earlier iterations, but the antagonist does. Furthermore, it’s not a sequel or a prequel to any of its predecessors, and features an unfamiliar new hero. Unfortunately, we saw how that worked out with the Saints Row reboot. You might want to hold off on this one until critics and fans have time to speak out.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered arrives the next day, January 19. But did we even need The Last of Us Part II in the first place? While it was a hit, with critics earning a 93 Metascore, users were less impressed, giving it only 5.8 out of 10. I lost interest in the game about halfway through, so it seems like an unnecessary remake in my book – hard pass. Plus, as a PlayStation exclusive, it might be years before it lands on PC.

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth might be promising when it hits stores on January 26. The Yakuza series has been a historic breadwinner for developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and publisher Sega. In the numbered series, we played as Kazuma Kiryu. Yakuza: Like a Dragon introduced the wild-haired Ichiban Kasuga as the player character.

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