Upcoming PC games 2024: Best new titles coming to Steam and your Windows PC

2XKO (2025)

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The League of Legends franchise takes a stab at the fighting game genre with 2XKO. Form tag teams of your favorite characters like Jinx, Ahri, and Ekko, and duke it out against your rivals in epic 2v2 offline and online matches.

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2XKO | Coming soon to PC

Travel to the world of Runeterra and fight iconic characters of the League of Legends franchises in 2v2 tag-based battles in 2XKO.

ArcheAge Chronicles (2025)

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ArcheAge Chronicles is an MMORPG where you play as an explorer hired by a prestigious trading company to explore the world of Auroria to unravel its mysteries, find long-lost treasures that be traded for lucrative rewards, and protect the trading company from bandits looking to plunder it.

Master the advanced combat mechanics of ArcheAge Chronicles' advanced real-time combat system to challenge mighty foes, master the arts of a crafter to help rake in profits out of combat, and bring your friends in multiplayer parties to assist you in exploring the most treacherous corners of Auroria.

ArcheAge Chronicles | Coming soon to Steam

ArcheAge Chronicles | Coming soon to Steam

Become an explorer to solve the ancient mysteries of Auroria and battle foes in action-packed real-time alongside your friends in ArcheAge Chronicles.

Borderlands 4 (TBA)

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2K and Gearbox Software's iconic looter franchise, Borderlands, is back for another bombastic adventure with Borderlands 4. There is very little information regarding Borderlands 4's content at this time but we do know that it will once again put players in the shoes of Vault Hunters running and gunning across the galaxy to loot alien Vaults in search of ancient treasure.

CAPCOM Fighting Collection 2 (2025)

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Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is a greatest-hits compilation of some of the most underrated fighting games Capcom has ever produced. This collection includes the likes of the Capcom Vs SNK series, the 3D arena fighter duology known as Power Stone, and more underrated classics like Project Justice, Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein, and more.

In addition, all titles within this collection will include new training modes, art galleries, quality-of-life improvements for single-player content, customizable controls, and online play with rollback netcode so you can challenge your friends online.

Capcom Fighting Collection 2 | Coming soon to Steam

Capcom Fighting Collection 2 | Coming soon to Steam

Relive some of Capcom's lesser-known but very beloved fighting games like Capcom Vs SNK 2: Mark of the New Millenium 2001, Project Justice, Power Stone, and more with Capcom Fighting Collection 2.

Citizen Sleepers 2: Starward Vector (2025)

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Citizen Sleeper 2 is a cyberpunk RPG developed by Jump Over The Age and published by Fellow Traveller. In this sequel to Citizen Sleeper, players will find themselves adrift in space trying to survive, searching for a reliable crew to man their ship, and avoid being captured by corrupt corporations.

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector | Coming soon to Steam

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector | Coming soon to Steam

Retreat to the depths of space to build a life for yourself in Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector. Steal a spaceship to travel the stars, recruit intriguing characters to your crew, take on contracts to earn money, and buy supplies needed for your journey.

Cronos: The New Dawn (2025)

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Chronos: The New Dawn is a surreal and dark survival horror game set in a post-apocalyptic future where man has devolved into incomprehensible monsters and the world has destroyed by temporal phenomena. To save what's left of your grim future, you must travel into the past via time rifts and harvest the Essences of certain people who are key to restoring your broken world.

Chronos: The New Dawn | Coming soon to Steam

Chronos: The New Dawn | Coming soon to Steam

Travel back in time to uncover the mysteries behind a dark cataclysm and save your world from a doomed future in Chronos: The New Dawn.

Crimson Desert (2025)

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Crimson Desert is an upcoming open-world adventure game created by the makers of Black Desert and is set in the same universe. As the wandering mercenary, Macduff, your goal is to travel the land of Pywell and take up quests and bounties so you can earn enough money to survive this harsh world.

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Crimson Desert | Coming soon to PC

Take up arms as the mercenary Macduff and hunt monsters and men for a living in Crimson Desert. Explore vast lands of Pywell, meet up with other mercenaries, take part in epic-scale battles, and slay gigantic beasts.

Dispatch (2025)

In-game screenshot of the player managing superheroes in Dispatch

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Dispatch is a point-and-click adventure game developed by the writers and directors behind Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us. Set in a world of superheroes, you play as the hero Mecha Man (real name: Robert Robertson) who has been taken out of action after his suit gets destroyed in a fight with supervillains.

To continue earning his keep, Robert is forced to take a desk job as a dispatcher at a Superhero Dispatch Center for reformed supervillains. You will be tasked with managing a roster of misfit heroes, strategizing which heroes are best suited to tackle life-threatening emergencies and villains, establishing relationships with your co-workers, and rebuilding your Mecha Man suit so you can get back at the villains that benched you from the front lines.

Dispatch | Coming soon to Steam

Dispatch | Coming soon to Steam

Take on the role of a superhero dispatcher and oversee a team of misfit heroes, all the while balancing workplace relationships, politics, and your own journey to become a frontline superhero again.

Doom: The Dark Ages (2025)

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Doom: The Dark Ages is a prequel to Id Software’s critically acclaimed Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal that tells the origins of the Doom Slayer and his never-ending war against the demons of Hell.

Rip and tear armies of Cyberdemons and Imps apart with an arsenal of crazy new weapons, parry incoming attacks with a chainsaw shield, bring down heaven’s wrath while riding a cyborg-dragon, and go toe-to-toe with titans by riding giant mechs.

Doom: The Dark Ages | Coming soon to Steam

Doom: The Dark Ages | Coming soon to Steam

Return to the First Age, to the First Battle, and witness the beginning of the Doom Slayer’s legendary crusade against the demons of Hell in Doom: The Dark Ages.

Dune Awakening (2025)

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Dune Awakening is an open-world survival MMO game based on the popular Dune franchise. In this game, you play as a lowly traveler struggling to survive on Arrakis, a desert planet inhabited by warring factions called Great Houses and giant sandworms. If you wish to rise to the top of the food chain, you must learn the ways of the Fremen to acquire life-saving survival skills.

Build settlements where you can craft weapons and vehicles, explore the world to uncover its secrets and gain control of the planet's spice trade so you can gain the funds and influence to build a Great House and challenge your rivals for leadership of this world.

Dune Awakening | Coming soon to Steam

Dune Awakening | Coming soon to Steam

Wake the Sleeper and find the Fremen in this epic MMO adaptation of the classic Dune franchise, Dune Awakening.

Dying Light: The Beast (2025)

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Dying Light: The Beast is a standalone entry in Techland's Dying Light franchise and marks the return of the series' original protagonist, Kyle Crane. Escape from the confines of science lab and hack your way through hordes of undead zombies to exact revenge on the villains who experimented and locked you away for 13 years.

Dying Light: The Beast | Coming soon to Steam

Dying Light: The Beast | Coming soon to Steam

Let loose the monster within and seek revenge against those who have wronged you for over a decade in Dying Light: The Beast.

Elden Ring: Nightreign (2025)

Promotional screenshot of the player looking at a corrupted version of the Lands Between in Elden Ring: Nightreign.

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Elden Ring: Nightreign is an upcoming online multiplayer spin-off of Elden Ring that pits teams of three players against hordes of monsters returning from previous FromSoftware games and original horrors never seen before.

Take on the roles of one of eight Nightfarers, master their powerful unique abilities, and battle your way through multiple locales to slay the Night Lord.

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Elden Ring: Nightreign | Coming soon to Steam

Band together with fellow Nightfarers and battle many foes both new and familiar on your quest to defeat the Night Lord in Elden Ring: Nightreign.

FBC: Firebreak (2025)

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FBC: Firebreak is a co-op-focused first-person-shooter where a team of players take on the role of elite agents working for a secret organization called the Federal Bureau of Control and protect its headquarters from being destroyed by supernatural phenomena. Your team must be co-ordinated and outfitted with the best weapons your budget will allow if you hope to survive unknown paranormal horrors invading your world.

FBC: Firebreak |  Coming soon to Steam

FBC: Firebreak |  Coming soon to Steam

Join the Firebreakers and protect the Federal Bureau of Control and the world at large from being destroyed by never-ending hordes of eldritch horrors and supernatural disasters in FBC: Firebreak.

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Alexander Cope
Contributor — Gaming

Alexander Cope is a gaming veteran of 30-plus years, primarily covering PC and Xbox games here on Windows Central. Gaming since the 8-bit era, Alexander's expertise revolves around gaming guides and news, with a particular focus on Japanese titles from the likes of Elden Ring to Final Fantasy. Alexander is always on deck to help our readers conquer the industry's most difficult games — when he can pry himself away from Monster Hunter that is! 

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