The best games of the coming month – in one article.
April has come. The middle of spring was not very rich in major releases, but in the absence of blockbusters, we are again rescued by curious indie projects and remasters of cult classics.
Beginning of the month
The month begins with the release of the most ambitious game of the coming weeks: Outriders… The looter shooter will be released on both PC and consoles of both generations. From competitors like The division 2 and half-dead Anthem it should be distinguished by corporate dynamism and brutality People can fly – the studio that gave us Bulletstorm… Whether this is enough for the action movie to take off is still unclear.
April 6 we are waiting Oddworld: Soulstorm – continuation of the relaunched adventures of Abe. A revolution in an outlandish world is gaining momentum. The main character still needs to save his fellows and guide them through tangled and dangerous levels, but now you have a choice: either use non-lethal weapons, or become a notorious terrorist and kill everyone in a row.
Outriders
Oddworld: Soulstorm
Will be released on the same day Lost Words: Beyond the Page… The main character is a character invented by a young writer. And her adventures in the fairy-tale world directly depend on what the creator faces in reality, be it problems at school or a quarrel with her parents.
April 8 will go on sale pretty Cozy grove… You will get the role of the so-called “ghost scout” who travels around the procedurally generated island and helps the local spirits to find peace.
The same day should appear Scarlet hood and the wicked wood – a game in which children’s fairy tales are intertwined with the genres of anime visual novel, platforming and puzzle.
Cozy grove
Scarlet hood and the wicked wood
Middle of the month
April 15 release will take place Ashwalkers – adventures in the setting of a hopeless post-apocalypse. Your team of four is crossing the scorched desert that remains on the site of a former civilization. Along the way, you have to extract resources, distribute them among the participants and make difficult decisions. All in all, a game for fans This war of mine…
Then it will come out Secret government – a global strategy for lovers of conspiracy theories. In it, you will lead a powerful secret organization known as the Brotherhood and lead it through the history of Europe from the seventeenth century to the present day and the immediate future. Accumulate influence, eliminate rivals and direct the world political processes in the direction you need.
Also, on the 15th, two remasters will appear at once. One of them – SaGa Frontier Remastered, an updated version of the classic Japanese RPG from 1998. She, as usual, had the graphics tweaked and even added another main character.
Well, the second is Shadow man: remastered, once a cult action game based on the mystical comics of Garth Ennis, the creator of “Preacher” and “Boys”… It is noteworthy that the developers did not change the models and textures, but added new special effects and redid the lighting.
Ashwalkers
SaGa Frontier Remastered
The end of the month
April 20 will get to release Don’t Forget Me – a cyberpunk quest, similar in concept to a consonant Remember me… As in it, everything here revolves around the technology of memory manipulation – you have to plunge into the past of patients and look for clues to their problems in the present. Of course, it was also not without a global conspiracy: is it cyberpunk or what?
April 22 on all current platforms will be released MotoGP 21… More than 120 riders, over 20 tracks, and so on and so forth. If you are a fan of motorsport, then it has already been bought from you, and if not, it is unlikely that this particular part will interest you.
An unusual bagel will appear on the same day Orbital Bullet: its key feature in unusual physics and level design. The fact is that your hero, his projectiles and enemy attacks literally move in a circle, so in order to achieve success, you will have to abandon the usual perception of space.
April 23 will get a remaster NieR Replicant the great and terrible Taro Yoko. In fact, this is the prequel to the hit NieR: Automata, so if you liked the adventures of 2B, then this part is worth reading.
Orbital Bullet
NieR Replicant ver. 1.22474487139 …
VR game will be released on PC and PS4 on the 25th Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife… This is another project in the setting “World of darkness”familiar to you from Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse… This time you have to play as a ghost, locked in an estate with aggressive phantoms.
On April 26, another former PlayStation exclusive will move to PC – zombie action Days gone… If you suddenly do not know, in it you get the role of Deacon St. John, a dashing biker who survives in the vastness of the deceased America, and at the same time tries to find his missing wife.
An unusual project will be released on April 29 Insurmountable… At first glance, it seems that this is a climbing simulator, but in reality we have a tactical roguelike with management elements. You have to very carefully build a route and make decisions on which the fate of your ward climber depends.
On the same day, a remaster of one of the best strategies of the 2000s will be released – Rome: Total War… Fans are waiting for updated graphics, a redesigned interface and 16 additional factions.
Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife
Days gone
On April 30, another gray-haired classic will return from oblivion: a series of shootermaps R-Type… In a new part with a subtitle Final 2 you have to do exactly the same thing as in the previous ones: exterminate the armada of aliens, buy new ships and squint from the abundance of flashes on the screen.
Coming to Nintendo Switch on the same day New pokemon snap… In this game, you do not need to run and fight with something – you just need to slowly travel through picturesque locations and take pictures of Pokémon in their natural habitat.
And finally, the release will also take place on April 30 Returnal – one of the few full-fledged PS5 exclusives. In fact, this is the most expensive and technologically advanced bagel in history. You play as a woman astronaut who, after each death, will find herself in a new, unknown world. It is not just the structure of locations that is changing, but their design, opponents, the type of environment, and so on. It is clear what the nextgen iron is for.
These are all the projects in April that caught our attention. What are you most looking forward to this month? Write in the comments – and play only the best!
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