Summer Game Fest 2024: All The Biggest Announcements

After many rumors, the truth was revealed. Lego Horizon is real and coming to PS5, PC, and Switch later this year. It features the mainline series’ original lead actor, Ashley Burch, and–because it’s Lego–a hot dog man, too.

The sequel to an under-the-radar Left 4 Dead-like game on PC, No More Room In Hell 2 is like Valve’s classic game with eight-player co-op and the difficulty tuned way up. Good luck!

For those who want more Harry Potter games, here’s a sporty take on the franchise. Play quidditch like a pro with others online and seek glory on the (flying) pitch. The Quidditch Champions release date was revealed as part of the show, and it’s coming in September.

Made by a single person, Cuffbust is a cartoonish co-op prison break game coming soon. It’s like Shawshank Redemption meets Nickelodeon.

Ubisoft’s huge Star Wars game is coming this year, and on Keighley’s stage, we got our latest look at the game. See for yourself as the trailer planet-hops to some familiar and maybe not-so-familiar locales.

This 2D adventure game comes from the team behind the tear-jerking Gris and looks like it’ll similarly boost tissue sales among its players.

Civ VII was rumored to be showing up after a leak, and the rumors were true. The series was revealed with a mood trailer that didn’t really focus on gameplay, but you probably know what to expect by now.

Persona fans, take note. This game comes from the team that made the last several Persona games, and has similar art direction and gameplay. It’s likely going to be your next big thing. And it’s coming this October.

Batman: Arkham Shadow, the VR-exclusive continuation of the Batman Arkham series, introduces a brand-new villain, The Rat King, who gets the bulk of the focus in this new trailer accompanied by a Smashing Pumpkins cover.

This historical fiction co-op hack-and-slash roguelite game offers a distinct art style, as seen in a trailer that features you cutting across your homeland to defend it from waves of enemies.

This co-op extraction shooter showed off some gameplay, but then followed that up with a surprise reveal of the forthcoming single-player campaign which actually recreates moments from the Ridley Scott movie, Black Hawk Down.

The Fatal Fury series is back with new fighters, showing off several such as the one pictured here, B. Jenet, who is destined to be a fan-favorite, one way or another.

Blumhouse Games, one of the biggest names in modern horror movies, is getting into video games with several titles already shown off in a fast-moving sizzle reel from the SGF stage.

The Power Rangers are back with a retro-stylized beat-em-up that oddly sometimes goes into first-person.

This likely tearjerker focuses on the relationship between–you guessed it–a deer and a boy.

The previously announced sequel got a big trailer at SGF, showing off a mix of gameplay and story moments. The medieval RPG is coming this year.

Slitterhead got its first gameplay trailer today, and the results may surprise you. It’s not a survival-horror game, but check it out for yourself and see if what it is still intrigues you.

This rock-climbing game resembles 2023’s Jusant quite a bit, but it has its own story intentions to share.

Wanderstop comes from the creators of The Stanley Parable, though you’d not know it–initially anyway–from looking at it. It seems to be hiding a darker secret, as though the farm-sim gameplay mechanics shown off at first aren’t sincerely the scope or loop of the game.

Published by Bandai Namco, Unknown9 looks to be a grand adventure in a middle eastern fantasy setting.

Another fantastical game on Keighley’s stage, Enotria: The Last Song is set in a very golden, but also bloody, world.

This previously announced looter-shooter might fill the Destiny-sized hole in your heart once you finish The Final Shape. It now has a release date of July 2, so you won’t be waiting long.

Innersloth, the creators of Among Us, are starting a publishing label to help lift up other indie studios. The label is, naturally, called Outersloth.

The survival-crafting MMO based on the resurgent Dune franchise is coming soon. A new trailer explained the Paul-less story at the center of it all.

This anime-styled action game is an “RTS game for everyone,” said the developer. Matches purposely take under 10 minutes, so you can get in and out and keep having fun, whether you win or lose.

The Finals is adding katanas in Season 3, which should shift the meta in interesting new ways. Now the game known for destruction of buildings can also be known for destruction of your character’s skin.

Alan Wake 2’s first of two DLC chapters is coming very soon. Tomorrow, in fact! you can read more about why it’s so weird.

EA’s Skate revival is looking good and you can soon judge it for yourself. Console playtesting is coming this fall, the publisher revealed at SGF with the help of Tim Robinson.

A major expansion is coming to Palworld, featuring a new region, new Pals, and lots more.

Riot’s ultra-sweaty FPS, Valorant, is coming to consoles for the first time ever. The news was joined by a stylish new trailer that tries to highlight the game’s “core, tactical gameplay.” A beta is coming on June 14.

New World, Amazon’s fantasy MMO, is coming to consoles as New World Aeternum. And it’s coming this year, too.

The next Monster Hunter is on the way. That much you may have already known. But today’s sizable Monster Hunter Wilds trailer offered a big look at it, and the team announced more news will come at Gamescom this August before the game launches in 2025.

Sega’s mascot is back for another go with Sonic X Shadow Generations, which remasters Sonic Generations and adds new Shadow gameplay, too. Tell a Sonic fan in your life.

The final game of the show, Phantom Blade Zero, got a trailer that showed off lots of gameplay for the fast-paced combat reminiscent of Sekiro.