Summer Game Fest 2024, hosted again by Geoff Keighley, was streamed live this morning from Los Angeles, delivering video game announcements, trailers, and updates.
Keighley surprisingly touched on the layoffs that have been sweeping the industry. He took an interesting route with a positive outlet, showing that eight of the ten biggest games on the Steam charts are indie games and that big companies should treat their people right because there’s more than one way to make it in this industry.
Horizon Adventures
The rumoured LEGO Horizon game has been announced, and it’s something different. Featuring an isomorphic view, a focus on co-op, and combining the silly ideas and nature of LEGO games, this isn’t a crossover that, on paper, makes sense, but it looks like a great time. The co-op will be both a couch co-op and an online one. No word on cross-platform, but hopefully!
Horizon Adventures is coming to PlayStation, PC, and Nintendo Switch.
No More Room In Hell
Things switched gears from fun and light to dark and gritty pretty hard with a trailer for the title, which features Permadeath and an eight-player co-op.
No More Room In Hell is coming to PC in early access later this year.
Quitich Champions
This is a straight-up Quidtich game for Harry Potter/Wizarding World fans. I don’t know if it has a single-player campaign, online multiplayer or both.
September 3 on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Cuffbust
It is a prison escape game with up to 13 players in which you play as a bear-like creature. This is from the solo developer of Choo Choo Charlie and looks very silly.
Star Wars Outlaws
A sneak peak ahead of the Ubisoft Forward on Tuesday showed glimpses of combat, story moments with Jabba, Lando and more. Look forward to seeing more of the game in a couple days.
Star Wars Outlaws will be released on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on August 30.
Neva
This is the next game from the team behind Gris, and art-wise, you can tell because it looks beautiful. Some moments in the trailer look like paintings come to life.
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
The game will be released simultaneously next year for PC and consoles. This was just a teaser trailer, but a full reveal will be made this August during the THQ Nordic Showcase.
Black Myth Wukong
An August 20 release date was given for Black Myth Wukong, alongside some special editions of the game that will be available for pre-order.
Metaphor: ReFantazio
Atlas took to the stage to discuss Metaphor and the ‘archetypes’ within the game. These are this game’s version of ‘personas.’ This gives the protagonist their powers, and throughout the game, you’ll be helping to unlock these same powers within others you’ll meet in the game.
Batman Arkham Shadow
A story trailer for the upcoming Meta Quest game within the Arkham Verse showcases the Ratcatcher as the lead villain.
Batman Arkham Shadow will be released for Meta Quest 3 later this year. A full gameplay trailer will be shown during Gamescom later this year.
Street Fighter 6
Year 2 fighters coming to the game are M. Bison, Terry, Elena and Mai.
Tears of Metal
A “rogue-like co-op hack and slash” with a unique art style, this trailer looked great, and I’m going to find out more soon.
Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero
October 11 is the release date for the upcoming Dragon Ball game that fans have been waiting to learn more about.
Delta Force Hawk Ops
It’s a slightly confusing one, but this is a free-to-play multiplayer game. A gameplay trailer showed the extraction mode. This was followed by…
Delta Force Black Hawk Down
It is an apparent faithful recreation of the Ridley Scott film, but I don’t remember this much massive shooting.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
A new trailer for the upcoming fighting game showed off a bunch of the characters.
Blumhouse Games
Jason Blum took to the stage and said that Blumhouse Games home will be looking for indie creators with exciting ideas and encouraging them to follow their “f-ed up ideas.”
The five games shown during Sumemr Game Fest were:
- Crisol: Theater of Idols (Vermila Studios)
- Grave Seasons (Perfect Garbage)
- Sleep Awake (Eyes Out)
- Fear The Spotlight (Cozy Game Pals)
This will be Blumhouse Games’ first release, and it will be released later this year. It will receive its first full trailer during the Day of The Devs, which streraming after SGF.
- The Simulation (PLAYMESTUDIO)
- Project C (from Sam Barlow and Brandon Cronenberg)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind
An arcade beat-em-up from Hasbro and Digital Eclipse
Deer & Boy
A boy and a deer go on an adventure in this beautiful-looking indie game.
Kingdom Come Deliverance II
Full of violence and laughs, here’s a new trailer for the upcoming Kingdom Come Deliverance II.
Slitherhead
The talent behind this one, Keiichiro Toyama, the creator of Silent Hill, has people eagerly awaiting more information. The trailer is full of exciting and odd ideas, with the player jumping into control of others, fighting insane-looking creatures, and even a dog at the end.
Slitherhead is releasing on November 8 for PlayStation, PC and Xbox.
Killer Bean
Early access for the wild game, made by a single developer, is coming to Early Access this Winter.
Cairn
Walking and climbing could be a genre nearly between this, Jusant and Death Stranding. But this one looks different enough, with a focus on the will and strength needed to perform the climbs themselves.
Wanderstop
Wanderstop is a tea shop management game where the protagonist dreams of fighting in an area instead of spending their time picking flowers for drinks. With one of the creators of The Stanley Parable involved, is it too much to expect a twist?
Coming in 2024 to PS5 and PC.
Unknown 9: Awakening
A new trailer for Unknown 9: Awakening continues to show a fascinating single-player narrative game that I’m keen to learn more about.
The First Descendant
This looter-shooter is releasing on July 2.
Outersloth Game Devs
Innersloth, the team behind Among Us, has announced the ‘Outersloth Game Devs fund,’ a way for them to give back to the indie game community and developers following their own success and ability to stay independent. How cool is that?!
The games shown in the video showcase were Mars First Logistics, from Australian developer Shape Shop; Battle Suit Aces, Mossfield Archives, One Btn Bosses, Rogue Eclipse; and Project Dosa from Outerloop Games, who are behind Thirsty Suitors.
Among Us TV Show
In the first sneak peek at the Among Us TV show, we see beans at dinner, beans at work, and beans running the ship, with an evil presence lurking in the background.
Sonic X Shadow Generations
This game is both a remaster of Sonic Generations and a new addition, with a campaign featuring Shadow Sonic.
Sonic X Shadow Generations is releasing on October 22 for console and PC.
Dune Awakening
Following the success of the two Dune films, it’s easy to see how a Dune MMO could be a lot bigger now than, say, five years ago. This is a pretty epic trailer that sets up the narrative ideas behind the game.
Battle Aces
This one is being pitched as the “RTS for everyone” with an approach to more accessible gameplay.
The Finals
A trailer for Season 3 of The Finals, which starts next week.
Alan Wake II
Sam Lake took the stage and performed a special bonus performance of ‘Champion of Light,’ which was nearly enough to keep him on stage. He did announce something, though, which is that Alan Wake II will get a physical deluxe edition and a physical collector’s edition. Pre-orders are going live tomorrow.
The first expansion was also revealed with ‘Night Springs,’ which focuses on three characters in “what if?” scenarios.
Night Springs will be available to play tomorrow.
New World: Aeternum
Amazon’s MMO got a new trailer here.
Honkai Star Rail
The next big update forHonkai Star World is releasing on June 19.
Dark and Darker
Dark and Darker is back on Steam after its odd removal after some legal issues. This is a F2P dungeon crawler called PvPvE, which sounds like a lot, but if you’ve ever played or seen gameplay of Dark and Darker, it’s one of the more unique extraction games you can play.
Hyper Light Breaker
A new and quick trailer was released for Hyper Light Breaker, which will soon be released in Early Access.
Skate
It’s in “pre-pre Alpha,” but you can sign up for console play testing later this year.
Palworld
Sakurajima update is coming for Palworld on June 27, adding new Pals and boss fights.
Valorant
Valorant is coming to PlayStation and Xbox this year. A limited beta starts on June 14 for PS5.
Inside Out II
A clip from Inside Out II was shown with Yong Yea voicing one of the new characters in the movie.
Monster Hunter Wilds
Following the trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds that was shown earlier in the week during the PlayStation’s State of Play, this new gameplay trailer focused on one battle and the more cinematic aspects of the hunt.
A new trailer will also be shown at ONL during Gamescom, and attendees will be able to play the game hands-on for the first time.
Phantom Blade 0
A pure gameplay trailer for Phantom Blade 0 closed off Summer Game Fest 2024. It featured super-fast-paced sword combat, intense music, and bloody combat.
They also announced a ‘world tour demo’ that guests will get to play at events around the world. Unfortunately for us Australians, there was no mention of showing it at PAX Australia later this year.
If you’d like to watch Summer Game Fest 2024 from start to finish yourself, check out the video below.
What did you think of the show this year? And what was your favourite trailer or reveal from SGF 2024? Let me know in the comment section below.
