The 10 most exciting reveals from Summer Game Fest 2024

E3 could also be useless, however we’ll at all times have … a bunch of online game trailers within the summertime.

Geoff Keighley’s annual Summer season Recreation Fest kicked off on Friday with a prolonged keynote filled with bulletins and updates on hotly anticipated titles. Listed here are the largest reveals that you must find out about.

Summer season Recreation Fest 2024: Greatest bulletins

There have been much more video games featured at Summer season Recreation Fest, however these have been the ten that stood out to us.

Lego Horizon Adventures

SGF bought off to a weird begin with Lego Horizon Adventures. You understand Horizon, the collection of open-world PlayStation-exclusive adventures about killing robotic dinosaurs? Effectively, now it is made out of LEGO, supposed to be performed in two-player co-op, and not unique to PlayStation consoles.

This appears to be a really totally different sport from its predecessors, however possibly that is a superb factor. Lego Horizon Adventures launches later this yr on PS5, Nintendo Swap, and PC.

Neva

Neva is an upcoming side-scrolling action-adventure sport from the parents who made Gris, a lovely puzzle sport that got here out in 2018. Nomada Studio’s subsequent effort seems to be a bit extra advanced as a sport than Gris was with the addition of fight, however the hand-drawn visuals are as putting as ever. Neva is coming to each main gaming platform later this yr.

Civilization VII

The phrases “Sid Meier’s Civilization VII” communicate for themselves. The legendary turn-based technique collection is again, and whereas the cinematic trailer did not have a lot in the way in which of helpful data in regards to the sport itself, that does not actually matter. Whereas the Civ franchise continues, all is true with the gaming world.

Civ VII is popping out subsequent yr.

Blumhouse Video games

Blumhouse Productions, the studio identified for bankrolling well-liked horror motion pictures like M3GAN, is stepping into the video games enterprise. The parents from Blumhouse confirmed off just a little sizzle reel of neat-looking largely horror-based video games, together with one that appears like Stardew Valley added a scary monster that lurks round your farm. Creators similar to Sam Barlow and Brandon Cronenberg have been additionally name-dropped within the announcement.

For those who like horror and video games that do not have bloated budgets, this trailer is for you.

Slitterhead

Keiichiro Toyama is a distinguished online game creator who helped start just a few in style franchises, however most related to this announcement is the truth that he created Silent Hill. His new sport is named Slitterhead and it bought a recent gameplay reveal at SGF this yr. It seems like…rather a lot.

So far as we are able to inform, gamers can leap between the our bodies of assorted human bystanders in darkish metropolis streets and alleyways whereas combating and/or working from horrifying nightmare creatures. The fight seems just a little clunky for our tastes, however many Silent Hill followers would not have it some other means.

Slitterhead launches on Nov. 8 for PC, PS5, PS4, and Xbox Collection consoles.

Cairn

Cairn is the most recent work from one of many best-named growth studios on all of gaming, The Recreation Bakers. The makers of two wildly totally different (however each very cool) indie video games in Furi and Haven are again with one thing that appears, nicely, completely not like what they’ve made earlier than.

Whereas Furi was a sweaty motion sport and Haven was a extra peaceable outer area tackle Romeo & Juliet, Cairn is a sport about climbing up a mountain. A really dangerous-looking mountain, at that.

Wanderstop

Wanderstop is the latest sport from creator Davey Wreden, finest identified for 2 metatextual narrative adventures known as The Stanley Parable and The Newbie’s Information. His new sport seems wildly totally different from these two, in that it seems to be about working a peaceable cartoon tea store in a fantasy world and doing chores.

After all, there’ll virtually assuredly be some form of wild twist that up-ends the entire thing. We will not wait to seek out out what it’s when Wanderstop launches on PS5 and PC later this yr.

Alan Wake II DLC

Alan Wake II was one of the best online game of 2023. There may be DLC for it popping out this weekend, on June 8. It has three new playable characters, one in all whom is Jesse Faden, star of Management, which was one of the best sport of 2019. That is plenty of good issues occurring directly.

Skate

Digital Arts introduced a pair years in the past that it was reviving its long-dormant collection of skating simulations, Skate, in a free-to-play format. Little or no information adopted within the two years since, however now Skate followers have a brand new trailer — starring the always-fun-to-see Tim Robinson.

There was actually solely a tiny little bit of gameplay proven, and the trailer may be very clear about the truth that Skate remains to be a piece in progress. However the excellent news is there might be console play exams this fall.

Phantom Blade Zero

Phantom Blade Zero was first introduced final yr, however a brand new gameplay trailer at SGF made it clear that followers of high-octane motion video games ought to concentrate. Briefly, it seems like a sport for individuals who need extremely skill-based samurai fight with very violent ending strikes.