We’re at the quiet part of the video gaming calendar, however that still doesn’t mean you can breathe easy this year. Rather, the month ahead has plenty to use in terms of amount and quality, with a variety of heavy-hitter games all set to feast on any spare hours that you have left. Looking ahead, the huge draws for August include From Software’s return to sci-fi action in Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, EA’s fantasy-shooter Immortals of Aveum, and the return of the initial Chainsaw Man when The Texas Chain Saw Massacre accelerates for release.

August has a great number of smaller sized games to take a look at, so prepare to tag-team with fate in WrestleQuest, find your musical side in Stray Gods, and take part in a coming-of-age story in Goodbye Volcano High. On the indie side of the schedule, you can kill heretics in Blasphemous 2, become the bullet-hell in Vampire Survivors when it arrive at Switch, and handle pirate ghosts in Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew.

As for delayed video games, there’s not too much to worry about here. August is in fact the month in which many games chose to release in, just in time to avoid contending Bethesda and Starfield in September. For more information on what else you can anticipate later on this year– and why you’ll need a physician’s note excusing you from work for at least a few weeks in October– you can have a look at our guide to all the video games launching in 2023.

Baldur’s Gate 3 – August 3

After years of early gain access to fine-tuning, Larian Studios is finally all set to release a Baldur’s Gate sequel that some fans have been waiting decades for. It’s a new beginning for everyone, as the full release cleans the slate tidy for everyone. As soon as you start, there’s no shortage of material to discover as you’ll have the ability to develop a hero– or ne’er- do-well!– from one of numerous classes, embark on adventures throughout the realm, and possibly even discover a grizzly romantic life partner in this D&D fantasy game.

WrestleQuest – August 8

Austin 3:16 states that even with the release of new WWE and AEW titles this year, the world still requires more wrestling games to elbow-drop some action into your life. WrestleQuest is that new contender, a hero’s journey in leggings as timeless RPG fight satisfies wrestling relocations, match designs, and gimmicks galore in this love letter to the powerbomb past. Wrestle with fate and make it tap out in this game as you knock your method to the top of the professional fumbling food cycle.

Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical – August 10

While you’ll need to wait a couple of days longer for the release of Stray Gods– you can blame Baldur’s Gate 3 for this one– the role-playing musical is still forming up to be one of this year’s most unforgettable video games. Gods, love, and murder in a world brought to life by an ensemble voice cast and slick illustrations? That seems like music to our ears as you embark on an odyssey to alter fate in this city fantasy tale.

Atlas Fallen – August 10

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the slays of our time. Set in an alien world filled with ancient risks, mysteries, and fragments of the past, Atlas Fallen connects the gauntlet of fate to your arm and permits you to take on a high-handed divine being with effective sand-infused weapons and super-powered fight. Increase from the dust, collect the essence of your enemies to shape your own custom-made play design, and work to free humanity from the iron clutches of a harsh god.

Stray – August 10

S and Xbox One. In case you missed it in 2015, Stray is a smart experience that combines platforming, light puzzle-solving, and dangerous onslaughts, all of which are experienced from the viewpoint of nature’s most dangerous and most cute predator, a stray cat wanting to discover its way home. A fascinating puzzle experience in a gripping post-apocalyptic world, Stray goes all in on its feline beauty and deserves embracing when it lands on Xbox.

Everspace 2 – August 15

Starfield might be prepared to hog all the headings when it pertains to area exploration in September, but in August, Everspace 2 is getting a headstart when it leaps onto PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. A hectic single-player space shooter, Everspace 2 has the DNA of Freelancer in its interstellar chassis, however it develops on that inspiration with an interesting story, intense outer space dogfights, and secrets to reveal in the far reaches of deep space.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew – August 17

After it reanimated Desperados in 2020, developer Mimimi Games is headed out of the Old West and into the Caribbean for its next game, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. A stealth-strategy video game set during an alternate history of the golden era of piracy, Shadow Gambit is everything about outmaneuvering your opponents and combining the magical abilities of your crew to manage bold heists versus ghoulish foes.

Vampire Survivors – August 17

Given that it first launched on PC last year, the basic agreement around Vampire Survivors is that this game would be ideal for the Switch. Well get ready to lose hours of your life to this irresistible bullet hell video game. You just require a single finger to play Vampire Survivor, however it’s all hands on deck when the challenge escalates to ridiculous levels of risk. Deceptively simple to start playing, Vampire Survivors was among GameSpot’s best PC and Xbox games of 2022. And now, it’s a shoe-in for among the very best Switch games of 2023.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk – August 18

Self-styled graffiti teams tagging pristine walls of concrete with unique tags of color? It can only be Bomb Rush Cyberpfunk, a spiritual successor to Dreamcast traditional Jet Set Radio. You will not just be illuminating the walls of New Amsterdam in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, as you’ll have the ability to manage some trendy tricks, explore five districts, and take on rival gangs in Crew Battles as you master the extreme arts of skateboarding, inline skating, and BMX biking.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – August 18

The household that slays together, stays together! Leatherface and his kin are back in a brand-new game that has gone to extreme lengths to recapture the slasher energy of this beloved horror movie franchise. Like several other video games making great usage of a horror film franchise IP, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an unbalanced multiplayer experience, and one where a team of survivors will not only need to deal with the homicidal Leatherface, however numerous of his relative also in their race to stay alive.

Madden NFL 24 – August 18

EA’s annual football game is back, and this year the focus is on developing a sporting experience that hits harder and feels more genuine than ever before. The brand-new Sapien technology in the game delivers more realism and variation to professional athletes’ bodies, smarter AI develops more trusted teammates, and the most recent model of FieldSense provides an enhanced gameplay foundation to give you higher control during each match.

Immortals of Aveum – August 22

After suffering a small delay, Immortals of Aveum has a tome of magic that’s locked and loaded for August. Ascendant Studios has spent years working on its first-person magic shooter, and as Jak, you’ll be to master three kinds of magic, sign up with an order of ancient arcane protectors, and enter the Everwar as you decide the fate of Aveum once and for all.

Blasphemous 2 – August 24

The Penitent One returns for a brand-new campaign against heretical forces, as he sustains a limitless cycle of life, death, and resurrection in order to discover ancient secrets. For this 2nd round of delivering last judgment from the sharp end of a weapon, expect a strange new land littered with unforgiving traps, savage fight, and hordes of ugly monsters to kill your way through.

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon – August 25

From the dark fantasy lands of Elden Ring and Dark Souls to the far reaches of outer space, From Software’s next game sees the studio go back to its mechanized stomping grounds in Armored Core 6. Like previous entries in the series, Armored Core 6 is everything about that mercenary lifestyle as you fine-tune your mech to handle all way of titanic risks, this time with the included touch of From Software’s finely tuned design viewpoint.

Bye-bye Volcano High – August 29

Goodbye Volcano High juggles a lot of concepts, so if you’ve remained in the mood for a hybrid cinematic narrative that integrates rhythm game action with an interactive coming-of-age motion picture experience, then this video game may scratch numerous of your extremely specific itches. Completely voice-acted, Goodbye Volcano High is an enthusiastic job that integrates hand-drawn art and character animations with a branching story. It looks like a Saturday morning cartoon, but one that you’ll be able to connect with as you make challenging choices with significant consequences.

Sea of Stars – August 29

A turn-based RPG motivated by the classics, Sea of Stars strolls a great line in between being a love letter to the past and injecting some new ideas into a precious genre. Whatever that makes a traditional SNES-era RPG is here, from turn-based fight to storytelling, but with a contemporary edge that makes Sea of Stars appear like a sharp combo of nostalgia and old-fashioned fun. Xbox and PlayStation players will also be able to get their hands on the video game from the first day, through Game Pass and PS Plus.

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (PC) – August 3
• Gord (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) – August 8
• Tower of Fantasy (PS5) – August 8
• WrestleQuest (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One) – August 8
• 30XX (Switch, PC) – August 9
• Atlas Fallen (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) – August 10
• Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical (PC) – August 10
• Stray (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One) – August 10
• Everspace 2 (PS5, Xbox Series X|S) – August 15
• Hammerwatch II (PC) – August 15
• Moving Out 2 (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch) – August 15
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) – August 17
• Vampire Survivors (Switch) – August 17
• Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (Switch, PC) – August 18
• Madden NFL 24 (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One) – August 18
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One) – August 18
• Fort Solis (PS5, PC) – August 22
• Immortals of Aveum (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) – August 22
• Smurfs Kart ( PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One) – August 22
• Blasphemous 2 (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) – August 24
• Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One) – August 25
• Goodbye Volcano High (PS5, PS4, PC) – August 29
• Samba de Amigo: Party Central (Switch) – August 29
• Sea of Stars (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch) – August 29
• Under the Waves (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One) – August 29
• Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy (PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch) – August 31