Just when it appeared like all the most important releases would roll out in October, November arrives with much more sequels, blockbusters and promising indie titles. Although it’s not as jam-packed, there are nonetheless some noteworthy role-playing video games, motion titles, and even a possible Recreation of the 12 months contender to stay up for. Take a look at 13 of the most important video games out in November 2024.
Planet Coaster 2
It’s nearly weird that it took this lengthy for Frontier’s Planet Coaster to obtain a sequel, particularly given its success and acclaim. Planet Coaster 2 launches on November sixth for Xbox Sequence X/S, PS5, and PC, and as soon as once more has gamers constructing and managing a theme park. The twist is the addition of water points of interest and rides, together with water coasters, slides, and rivers. The whole lot is customizable, and your creations might be shared on-line with different gamers. You may also crew up with others to create a park collectively or discover in first particular person as a customer.
Empire of the Ants
Microids’ Empire of the Ants provides a real-time technique expertise at a decidedly smaller scale. Regardless of this, the overarching aim of your colony stays the identical – survival and strategic domination. All through the 20-hour marketing campaign, you’ll go for totally different unit varieties (together with different species like Snails and Rhino Beetles), unleash talents, handle a battle economic system, and extra. There’s additionally multiplayer three-player free-for-all and 1v1 ranked play.
Mario and Luigi: Brothership
The brothers discover themselves exploring the world of Concordia, composed of a number of islands with totally different residents, climates, and challenges.
Using Shipshape Island, a ship/island hybrid, to get round, Mario and Luigi additionally depend on totally different traversal methods for platforming after they’re not counting on timing-based Bros. Assaults and Battle Plugs to beat enemies. Launching on November seventh for Nintendo Change, Brothership appears to be like to be yet one more unimaginable addition to the Change’s hallowed line-up.
Slitterhead
From the thoughts of Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama and Bokeh Recreation Studio comes an unorthodox action-adventure set in Kowlong. Gamers management Hyoki, an amnesiac entity dedicated to defeating the Slitterheads, monstrous beings who can mimic people. Hyoki’s essential technique of preventing is possession, taking on different beings and utilizing their blood to create weapons.
It’s additionally nice for getting round and accessing totally different components of town (relying on the host’s identification). Total, it’s a big departure from Toyama’s earlier works, and we’re eager to see extra when it launches on November eighth for PS4, PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC.
Farming Simulator 25
After final 12 months’s Farming Simulator 23 carried out decently on telephones (and horrendously on Nintendo Change), GIANTS Software program is lastly releasing a full-fledged sequel for Xbox Sequence X/S, PS5, and PC on November twelfth. Farming Simulator 25 options over 20 new crops, greater than 400 automobiles, instruments from 150+ manufacturers, and a brand new East Asian atmosphere. Much more notable are the visible enhancements over earlier titles, from terrain deformation and dynamic climate to improved shadows.
Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake
The legend of Erdrick is lastly coming to modern consoles when Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake launches on November 14th for PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, PC and Nintendo Change. That includes the HD-2D visible type, the story sees the protagonist, little one of the good Ortega, embarking on a journey to defeat Baramos, the Archfiend.
Recruiting allies with customizable appearances and vocations, gamers can discover the world, have interaction in aspect quests, enterprise into dungeons, and even rescue monsters for battling within the new Monster Area. There’s additionally a brand new Vocation, the Monster Wrangler, and quality-of-life options, like fight orders, which make for a extra approachable expertise.
LEGO Horizon Adventures
Have you ever ever needed to re-experience Guerrilla Video games’ Horizon Zero Daybreak in a brand new means? Sure, apart from the upcoming remaster. In that case, Studio Gobo’s LEGO Horizon Adventures has you lined. It carries the allure and light-hearted ambiance that the Lego collection is understood for, downplaying a few of Zero Daybreak’s darker parts within the course of.
You’ll nonetheless play as Aloy in quest of her mom, solo or teaming with different characters like Varl in an action-adventure (and never a beat ’em up the place you’ll accumulate Studs like different Lego titles). It’s an odd ask, to make sure, however LEGO Horizon Adventures may shock us when it launches on November 14th for PS5, Nintendo Change, and PC.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
With the breakout success of its 2020 flight sim, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Microsoft went again to the effectively with Flight Simulator. Developed once more by Asobo Studio, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches on November nineteenth for Xbox Sequence X/S and PC. So far, it appears to be like like a staggering effort that builds upon its predecessor whereas fully blowing it out of the water.
A brand new Profession System the place you are taking assessments, study every little thing there’s to know after which embark on totally different mission varieties, from business flights and rescue missions to escorting VIPs. There are new plane and avionics methods to grasp, a brand new flight planner with IFR charts and route planning, over 150 hand-crafted airports (alongside 40,000 procedurally generated airports); and 27 biomes you could discover on foot. The unique is likely one of the greatest video games in scale, however Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 may very effectively dethrone it.
S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl
If one massive console unique wasn’t sufficient for Microsoft, then maybe S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl will seal the deal. After a number of years of delays, to say nothing of the real-world challenges that GSC Recreation World endured, it’s lastly launching on November twentieth for Xbox Sequence X/S and PC. As Skif, gamers enter the Zone and just about have full reign if they’ll survive.
They’ll encounter different factions, each pleasant and hostile, battle mutants, uncover Artifacts, and have one too many run-ins with environment-altering Anomalies. The world is seamless, totally hand-crafted and teeming with secrets and techniques, which the developer says will necessitate over 100 hours to find. There’s quite a lot of hype and expectations on S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, and in only a few weeks, we’ll see if it lastly delivers.
Tetris Ceaselessly
Why discover one golden 12 months of the Tetris franchise when you would expertise all of them? Digital Eclipse’s Tetris Ceaselessly collects over 15 titles from the puzzle collection into one assortment, from recreating the very first Tetris launched in 1984 to Japan-only video games which might be playable for the primary time worldwide.
It even consists of Tetris Time Warp, a brand-new title the place gamers warp between totally different eras of Tetris in a single recreation, playable solo and with three different individuals. When you’re eager on historical past, there’s a museum with authentic advertisements and pictures on prime of recent documentary featurettes detailing the unique recreation’s growth. Tetris Ceaselessly launches on November twelfth for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Sequence X/S, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Change.
9 Sols
If the look forward to Hole Knight: Silksong has gone from melancholy to acceptance, Crimson Candle Video games’ 9 Sols might present a worthy diversion. Accessible earlier this 12 months for PC, it’s coming to PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Change on November twenty sixth.
Combining parts of platforming with hack-and-slash fight, together with a sturdy parry system impressed by Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, 9 Sols focuses on Yi, who embarks on a quest to slay the titular 9 Sols. Presenting glossy animated visuals, gamers study extra about Yi, the character of New Kunlun and unlock talents to entry new areas. When you’re a fan of difficult fight or motion platforms normally, it’s value a glance.
Towers of Aghasba (Early Entry)
“Fantasy constructing with a mixture of open-world exploration and restoration” describes Towers of Aghasba, which enters early entry on November nineteenth for PS5 and PC. Impressed by movies like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke, it sees gamers constructing a brand new metropolis for his or her individuals whereas venturing into the world to cleanse a mysterious corruption.
Early entry options three ecosystems and city varieties, greater than 40 creatures, over 120 vegetation, and 150 recipes for decorations. You may go it alone or play with as much as three different gamers, participating in fight, farming, fishing or discovering historic ruins. If its gameplay can stay as much as the attractive aesthetic, then Towers of Aghasba may find yourself as yet one more hallmark open-world sandbox crafting title.
