February is not the loudest month for releases, but it is still able to offer gamers some nice new products. Fans of Japanese games are especially lucky: Land of the Rising Sun will release titles in the last month of winter, ranging from hardcore platformers to more classic RPGs. However, the rest will have something to see. There is everything – from crazy indie squirrel-tracking games to the return of an episode with nearly forty years of history.
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Destruction AllStars – February 2 (PS5)
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Definitely the strangest project in February and a contender for one of the craziest games of the year. Nuts offers to go squirrel-hunting in a distant forest. Behind the simple shell of the naturalist game lies the story of a conspiracy of furry animals. The user will have to deal with the correct installation of cameras and analysis of the information received from them. The already crazy approach to the game (the name can be translated not only as “nuts”, but also as “madness”) emphasizes the acidic visual style – which, however, did not prevent Nuts from grabbing the attention of the press in absentia and getting into several prestigious indie contests at once – developers.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood – February 4 (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S)
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The sequel to the 2017 horror platformer. This time you have to play for a new character, the boy Mono, who will nevertheless meet with the Sixth, the heroine of the first game. Together (but without a cooperative – the Sixth is controlled by a computer) they have to deal with the secrets of the world, deformed by the transmission from the tower, and face many aggressive local residents and their insidious traps. The visuals will remain the same hybrid of cute and creepy, made in the style of puppet animation, but the gameplay will change somewhat. Due to the fact that there are now two heroes, they can perform actions that were inaccessible to one heroine in the first game – move heavy objects or climb to great heights.
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – February 12 (Switch)
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The sequel to the original Persona 5 dramatically changes the genre: instead of JRPG, the developers offer to fight with hundreds of musou-style shadows. At the same time, most of the things everyone loves like a unique visual style, social life, the need to study your opponent for weaknesses and, of course, crossbreeding of persons is still in place. Those who managed to play the version for Japan (where the game was released back in 2023) note that Strikers is felt not so much as a spin-off, but as a full-fledged sequel, which is completely unimpeded by changed mechanics.
Curse of the Dead Gods – February 23 (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
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Return of the classic platformer about Sir Arthur, who is forced to once again go to rescue Princess Prien-Prien from the clutches of the demon king Astaroth. The developers promise not to make concessions and release a worthy successor to the series: the original was notable for its overwhelming complexity, even by the standards of arcade games of the 1980s. On the way, Arthur is waiting for zombies, demons, dragons and other enemies, capable of literally depriving a knight of armor with one blow, and life with the second. That said, the developers threaten to surprise loyal fans of the series by adding a few new twists to the familiar formula, but without breaking the foundations of the series.
Bravely Default II – February 26 (Switch)
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The Nioh Collection (includes remasters of both parts of the game) – February 5 (PS5);
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Hellpoint – February 25 (Switch).
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