2023 is shaping up to be one of the best years for gaming in ages. From Tears of the Kingdom to Diablo IV to Street Fighter 6, it’s already been a pretty great year, with quite a few big-budget releases coming later this year
Which upcoming game are you most excited for? Here’s a rough timeline of some big ones.
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Final Fantasy XVI (June 22)
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Pikmin IV (July 21)
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Counter Strike 2 (Summer - Exact date unknown)
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Armored Core VI (August 25)
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Baldur’s Gate 3 (August 31)
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Starfield (September 6)
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Mortal Kombat 1 (September 19)
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Party Animals (September 20)
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage (October 12)
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Lords of the Fallen (October 13)
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Alan Wake 2 (October 17)
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Spider-Man 2 (October 20)
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Cities Skyline 2 (October 24)
Or maybe something else! What are you hyped for?
Hades II.
Same, I got back into Hades recently because I just can’t wait for this.
I totally forgot this was announced and now I can’t wait
I’m going to add Earthblade and Silksong to the list as well
Haunted Chocolatier for me… The same guy who made Stardew Valley is making a new game. I look forward to it more than I am looking forward to Starfield.
Last update December 2021 makes me sad. I hope he has more updates soon!
He does more updates on twitter @ConcernedApe but it’s still sporadic. Last update was in April and he said he’s taking a break from Haunted Chocolatier to work on the new SDV update.
I just recently got into Stardew Valley so this had not passed my radar yet, looks really promising from the early gameplay video!
Seems to be a more “active” game while retaining a lot of the charm, which I’m all for 🤩
Armored core 6! I’ve been waiting ages for a new installment. I’m so hyped for it that I took some vacation days for it.
As someone who played the first one back in the original Playstation, I’m beyond excited to get back into it. The trailers and gameplay details that came out recently are a huge part of that, too.
That’s definitely my biggest one
Oh man that recent gameplay footage that came out looked 10/10. I haven’t been this excited for a new ip in awhile
City Skylines 2! The trailer looked good and they are including more in the base then CS1, plus it seems they have responded to some feedback on cars and including parking for the amount in the game
I knew I was forgetting something important in the post, thanks for reminding me that we have a release date for it!
Silksong is coming out some day, probably.
Surely this year… Surely.
Armored Core 6 is the only thing on my mind.
Just played the demo of FF16 and yep, I’m sold. Can’t wait for next week now!
Excited to get to BG3 at some point too. I love the bioware games and people speak very highly of Larian.
Ooooh I didn’t know there was a demo! I guess TotK and Diablo 4 has kept me busy enough to not be paying attention to gaming news. Thanks for the heads up!
Path of exile 2 if it comes out this year. As well as life by you to finally give a sims competitor.
Life by You looked pretty rough last time they showed it, I hope they’ve polished it up a lot since then.
It releases in early access, so they aren’t claiming that it’s a finished product on launch.
I’m sure the devs are very aware that it doesn’t look good visually. As long as they focus on the systems first that’s fine by me personally.
Ever since I watched the presentation about Starfield, I’ve been absolutely eager to see if it’s really as good as it comes across in the presentation. I am a long-time Assassins Creed player and of course I am looking forward to the new Assassins Creed. I hope that the story has a bit more content again and above all that everything is more historical and less magical. But I’m actually looking forward to the Phantom Liberty DLC for Cyberpunk 2077 the most. Despite all the justified criticism of Cyberpunk 2077, the game captivated me immensely and I had a lot of fun playing it.
Assassins Creed! Love the series
I haven’t played some of the recent games, but I liked the old format and look forward to Mirage’s take on it.
Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 were ones that I always enjoyed trying to play when I was younger, but never seemed to be able to survive for more than a few minutes. So I’d give up in frustration. Maybe I should give them another go before 3 comes out.
You can get both of them for your phone for a few bucks as well. That’s how I played them for the first time and had a blast.
Cities: Skylines II. But I am very cautious. All the recent games I looked forward to were disappointing.
Talos principle 2. The first one was amazing. It’s also kind of funny to me that croteam pretty much only made boomer shooters, and then threw out one of the most philosophical puzzle games I’ve ever played. It’s like if after the transformer movies, Michael Bay decided to make 2001 a space odyssey, and then went back to making mindless transformers movies.
I’m definitely cautiously optimistic for starfield, but I don’t want to get my hopes up too high.
In general I’m excited by how many unknown but potentially interesting games that will come to the game pass. There were a couple of games that looked interesting in the xbox showcase but that I probably wouldn’t want to pay for, but if they are in the game pass I’ll definitely try them.
Metal Gear Solid Delta and Mortal Kombat 1