Upcoming PC games 2024: Best new titles coming to Steam and your Windows PC
Feast your eyes on the most highly-anticipated PC games coming soon for 2024 and beyond.
We have been graced with a line-up of amazing games over the past few years and that winning streak is looking to continue well into 2024. PC gamers in particular have been blessed with some of the best games of the decade released exclusively on PC platforms. These exceptional titles hail from all kinds of genres including action-adventure games, strategy games, RPGs, visual novels, shooters, MMOs, and much more.
If you’re the kind of gamer who prefers playing with the best gaming keyboards or the best controllers for PC, we have prepared a list of all the major upcoming PC games coming soon in 2024 and beyond (order by release date).
Metal Slug Tactics (November 5, 2024)
Metal Slug Tactics is a spin-off of the long-running Metal Slug franchise. Unlike the main games which are sidescrolling 'Run & Gun' action games, Metal Slug Tactics is a turn-based strategy game where you lead the crazy heroes of the Petegrine Falcon in epic battles to save the world from being conquered by the evil Rebel Army.
Gather a squad and blow enemies in gloriously detailed pixel-art explosions in the turn-based strategy spin-off of the classic Metal Slug series.
Buy for PC: $22.49 at GreenManGaming (Steam) | $18.19 at CDKeys (Steam)
Empire of the Ants (November 7, 2024)
Based on a novel of the same name by Bernard Werber, Empire of the Ants is a real-time strategy game/ant colony simulator where you lead an army of ants. You will explore the outside for food and materials to build your base, avoid being trampled by hostile weather, and fight against predators looking to devour your kind.
Embark on a larger-than-life adventure to lead an ant colony to prosperity in Empire of the Ants. Work together with your fellow ants and co-ordinate strategies to defeat apex predators.
Buy for PC: $39.99 at GOG | $33.99 at CDKeys (Steam)
Goat Simulator Remastered (November 7, 2024)
The classic sandbox comedy game, Goat Simulator is getting a HD remaster which will vastly enhance this chaotic title with improved graphics, reworked mechanics, quality-of-life improvements, and bug fixes (though the fun bugs will remain intact).
In addition, Goat Simulator Remastered will bundle together the base game along with all its DLC expansions in one definitive package for the ultimate goat simulating experience.
Return to the insane and chaotic roots of the Goat Simulator franchise with the original Goat Simulator now remastered with enhanced graphics, bug fixes, and reworked Mutators for a new generation of gamers.
Buy for PC: Steam
Slitterhead (November 8, 2024)
Slitterhead is an action-adventure game with horror elements developed and published by Bokeh Game Studio lnc. You play as the Hyoki, a shape-shifting monster without memories of their past or a physical form of their own. The only clue the Hyoki has to finding out their true identity is to hunt down monsters masquerading as humans called Slitterheads and slaughter them.
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Become the horrific Hyoki and rend the grotesqueSlitterheads to pieces to discover your true identity in this reverse-horror game where you are the monster.
Buy for PC: $44.99 at Steam
The Rise of the Golden Idol (November 12, 2024)
The Rise of the Golden Idol is a detective puzzle game and is the latest entry in Color Gray Games' Golden Idol franchise. Track down the mysterious Golden Idol to obtain its legendary powers by investigating 15 odd cases ranging from murder mysteries, criminal investigations or just depraved acts of human indecency.
The Rise of the Golden Idol | Coming soon to Steam
Investigate a series of crimes and murders to come with a crazy conspiracy theories that will lead you to the ultimate treasure in The Rise of the Golden Idol.
DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake (November 14, 2024)
Dragon Quest III, one of the most influential JRPGs in the Dragon Quest series and the JRPG as a whole is getting a remake soon in the form of DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake. This game will have players follow the tale of Erdrick, a hero destined with the burden of taking up his late father's quest to save the from being destroyed by slaying the vile archfiend Baramos,
This remake will reimagine the classic title with enhanced visuals that combine detailed pixel art with lush 3D backgrounds, a polished turn-based combat system, quality-of-life improvements to refine the overall experience, and a gigantic world rich with undiscovered secrets.
Relive the beginnings of the iconic Erdrick trilogy Dragon Quest III, remade with gorgeous HD-2D graphics, a refined turn-based combat system, quality-of-life improvements, and more.
Buy for PC: $51.69 at CDKeys (Steam) | $59.99 at GreenManGaming (Steam)
LEGO Horizon Adventures (November 14, 2024)
Relive the grand saga of the Horizon series through the charming lens of LEGO with LEGO Horizon Adventures. In a dark future where mechanized monsters roam a post-apocalyptic world where civilization has regressed to the stone age and an evil force has awakened to destroy the world.
Play as the hunter Aloy and her friends as they fight to save the world from this ancient evil and its sun-worshipping cultists while searching to uncover secrets from Aloy’s unknown past.
Join Aloy and a band of heroes as they travel through a world reclaimed by nature to stop a cult and ancient evil from destroying the world in LEGO Horizon Adventures. You can take on this daunting solo or bring your friends along for the ride in online or offline co-op.
Buy for PC: $59.99 at GreenManGaming (Steam)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (November 19, 2024)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is the latest installment in Microsoft's world-renowned Flight Simulator franchise. In this game, you play as a aviator tasked with flying a wide-range of aircraft vehicles such as helicopters, jumbo jets, and planes to complete a series of challenges ranging from rescue missions, cargo transport, firefighting, photography, and much more.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will also feature new Digital Twin technology to create the most realistically detailed depiction of Earth in the series to date, and other graphical enhancements to enrich your gameplay immersion while flying.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Take to the skies with a wide range of new playable vehicles and take on new high-flying challenges in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Buy for PC: $56.09 at CDKeys
Towers of Aghasba (November 19, 2024)
Towers of Aghasba is an open-world survival game developed and published by Dreamlit Inc. You play as a member of the Shimu, an ancient culture that was forced out of their homeland of Aghasba many years ago by a ghastly alien force known as the Withered.
Now you and your people have returned to Aghasba to reclaim your home, restore life to its bizarre yet beautiful ecosystem, and craft weapons capable of slaying the Withered once and for all.
Towers of Aghasba | Coming soon to Steam
Help restore the Shimu tribe to their former glory, breathe life into ravaged ecosystems, and battle otherworldly beasts looking to rot everything in sight in Towers of Aghasba.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (November 20, 2024)
In this post-apocalyptic open-world FPS game, players take on the role of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R (Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers), who has entered the huge Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Here there are powerful items to acquire, dangerous mutants to fight off, and warring factions to be warry of.
One of the things that makes STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl so compelling is that the decisions you make throughout the course of the story affect what happens. You can also explore in any way you see fit as this is a nonlinear adventure. STALKER 2 is expected to launch by December 2023.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl | $60 at Steam (GreenManGaming)
In the year 2006, a second explosion has caused more dangers to appear in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. You must fight off dangerous mutants and navigate warring areas in this open-world FPS survival game.
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