The most anticipated new games for the PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PC, and other platforms in 2022
As we near the end of the year, there are still plenty of new games to look forward to in 2022. With a slew of summer showcases guaranteeing an enticing future line-up in the near and far future, Gamescom also saw several announcements that have been added to this list. While certain video game delays have delayed some releases until 2023, there’s more on the way in the next months.
If you’re searching for anything particular, check out our listings of the most interesting incoming PS5 games, upcoming Xbox Series X games, and impending Switch games.
Continue reading to learn about all of the new games to mark your calendars for 2022 and beyond.
- Moonbreaker
- Overwatch 2
- Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
- New Tales from the Borderlands
- Scorn
- Gotham Knights
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Harvestella
- Skull and Bones
- Sonic Frontiers
- God of War: Ragnarok
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
- The Callisto Protocol
- High on Life
- Highwater
- Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core Reunion
Moonbreaker
Platform(s): PC
Release date: September 29, 2022 (early access)
Moonbreaker is a new digital miniature strategy RPG developed by the same team that created Subnautica. Moonbreaker, which was shown at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022, is claimed to be inspired by Warhammer and Hearthstone, with an early access launch scheduled for September that promises to offer fresh seasons of content over with numerous units and other additions over four months.
Overwatch 2
Platform(s): PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC, Nintendo Switch
Release date: October 4, 2022 (Early Access)
Overwatch 2, initially presented at BlizzCon 2019, is a multiplayer team-based first-person shooter that will concentrate more on narrative than its predecessor thanks to new Story Missions. Overwatch will become free-to-play as an early access game on October 4, 2022, as announced during its portion at the Xbox and Bethesda conference at E3 2022. And, predictably, will do so with some new heroes. Junker Queen is one such debutant, a long-teased, much awaited opponent who wields a shotgun as their main weapon and a massive two-handed axe as a backup.
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
Platform(s): PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, PC, Xbox One
Release date: October 18, 2022
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed comes from the same company that gave us Friday the 13th: The Game. It’s another asymmetric multiplayer game in which four players join up to play as the eponymous Ghostbusters, while one other player transforms into a variety of ghosts. With stages built up in various locations such as libraries and hotels, the Ghostbusters must work together to track down and imprison the ghosts, while the ghost player must use all of their spirity skills to slow them down and eventually escape – including slime.
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Platform(s): PS5, Xbox Series X, PC, Nintendo Switch
Release date: October 18, 2022
A Plague Tale: Requiem is the unexpected sequel to A Plague Tale: Innocence, which was published in 2019. You’ll be following the same two characters, Amicia and her younger brother Hugo, as they try to live in the game’s harsh setting. Rats will continue to be a major issue, but there is more to be concerned about than a literal sea of rats.
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Release date: October 20, 2022
The great tactical crossover from Ubisoft and Nintendo returns for a second iteration. In Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, our heroes will go on a cosmic quest to stop a new evil named Cursa from absorbing the world’s energy. They’ve got more aid this time, thanks to newcomers like Rabbid Rosalina and the titular Sparks (hybrids of Luma and the Rabbids from Super Mario Galaxy). The game also gives players greater flexibility, both in terms of exploration (by opening up the overworld to allow for additional mysteries, free navigation, and so on) and fighting (by ditching the grid system in favour of free control inside attack zones).
New Tales from the Borderlands
Platform(s): PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch
Release date: October 21, 2022
Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands will be followed by a new story-driven experience called New Tales from the Borderlands. We’ll be following three new protagonists, who were presented during a teaser at Gamescom Opening Night Live, with Gearbox designing the journey this time around. The three playable characters, Anu, Octovio, and Fran, are about to embark on a fascinating journey influenced by your decisions, along with lots of weaponry and mayhem.
Scorn
Platform(s): Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: October 21, 2022
Scorn is a horror shooter with a preoccupation with things boney, meaty, and internal organ… y. Its visual style is mainly inspired by Alien’s H.R. Geiger. Guns seem to be constructed of gristle and meaty offcuts, so it’s not for the faint of heart. Understanding what’s going on here is part of the allure, or repulsive charm, of Scorn, as you’ll be exploring, battling, and solving riddles to figure out what’s going on. Make yourself ready.
Gotham Knights
Platform(s): PS5, Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: October 21, 2022
WB Games Montreal is developing a fresh new Batman game, but there’s a catch: Batman has been murdered. The Gotham Knights are taking over the security of what the studio calls the “most dynamic and interactive Gotham City yet,” with each of the four Knights – Red Hood, Nightwing, Robin, and Batgirl – having distinct powers and skill trees. It features drop-in, drop-out co-op and an open-world action-adventure gameplay style. Expect lots of DC villains to want to take over Gotham in Batman’s absence, which means the Gotham Knights will have their hands busy. But, with combat that looks extremely Batman: Arkham-esque, you’ll have plenty of bat sleeve tricks up your sleeve.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Platform(s): PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
Release date: October 28, 2022
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is officially in development by Infinity Ward and will feature the return of Task Force 141 from the series’ 2019 relaunch. It’ll be a continuation of that plot, which concluded with Captain Price meeting with CIA handler Kate Laswell and General Shepherd to discuss Victor Zakhaev. Otherwise, specifics are few for the time being, although we do have a release date.
Harvestella
Platform(s): PC, Nintendo Switch
Release date: November 4, 2022
Square Enix unveiled a new life sim RPG involving farming, fishing, dungeons, and more during the June Nintendo Direct Mini. You may go about your everyday life in Harvestella way you like, getting to know the residents, exploring the surroundings of Lethe, and caring to your crops. However, as time passes and the seasons change, you must prepare for a perilous season known as Quietus. Plants are supposed to wither at this season, and people are not allowed to walk outdoors because to the development of dangerous dust.
Skull and Bones
Platform(s): PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release date: November 8, 2022
Sea of Thieves isn’t the only open-world pirate game on the market; Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones(opens in new tab) is also launching, featuring a far more realistic take on pirate conflicts at sea. Skull & Bones is essentially Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag without the Assassins, since it’s being created by much of the same team behind Black Flag, and promises a sprawling solo campaign as you compete for dominance of the Indian Ocean in the 18th century. But the actual emphasis seems to be online player-versus-player ship fights, in which each player commands their own vessel in team-based fleet warfare. Among the cannon-fire will be mystical features, such as the gigantic tentacles of a fearsome kraken hiding in the depths.
Sonic Frontiers
Platform(s): PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC
Release date: November 8, 2022
The renowned blue hedgehog is returning for a new journey in which you will enjoy “open-zone independence.” You’ll be racing through wooded regions, desertland, and more as you take on formidable adversaries as you make your way across Starfall islands. The first cinematic teaser for Sonic Frontiers, which debuted at the Game Awards 2021, showed off some of these settings, complete with towering towers and massive waterfalls.
God of War: Ragnarok
Platform(s): PS5, PS4
Release date: November 9, 2022
The new trailer for God of War Ragnarok hit the internet, showing Kratos and a much larger Atreus battling Freya, Thor, and the coming Ragnarok. Eric Willaims has taken up directorial responsibilities from Cory Barlog, and the plot will follow a father and son as they journey to new worlds such as Vanaheim, Svartalfheim, and Asgard, meeting new characters such as Angrboda and Odin. This is the last instalment of God of War’s Norse story.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Release date: November 18, 2022
Another Pokemon game, this time a pair, will be released in 2022. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will be released at the end of the year and will include a genuinely open-world experience. Building on the success of Pokemon Legends: Arceus, this will be a world with no boundaries, enabling you to freely explore and collect Pokemon. It will also include the Gen 9 Pokedex and will be set in Spanish and Mediterranean towns.
The Callisto Protocol
Platform(s): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
Release date: December 2, 2022
Fans of survival horror should have The Callisto Protocol programmed into their internal motion sensor. The next-gen survival horror game from new company Striking Distance takes set inside a maximum security prison on Jupiter’s moon and promises lots of grisly alien nightmare fodder. The Callisto Protocol, created by Glen Schofield, the guy behind for Dead Space, takes place in the PUBG world – yep, the PUBG universe. You’re clearly intrigued now.
High on Life
Platform(s): PC, Xbox Series X/S
Release date: December 13, 2022
Justin Roiland, the creator of Rick and Morty, has created a new comedic adventure called High on Life. Taking on the character of a recent high school graduate with nothing going on, you find yourself as an interplanetary bounty hunter against an extraterrestrial cartel that invades Earth to utilise mankind as a new narcotic. You’ll also be working with colourful, talking firearms.
Highwater
Release date: December 2022
Platform(s): PC, Android, iOS
The next independent from Demagog Studio is an isometric strategic adventure that we first saw at Summer Game Fest 2022. Highwater is set in a planet devastated by a climatic disaster and has a gorgeous visual style. In its flooded landscape, you’ll follow Niko, a character who embarks on a voyage by boat. It incorporates turn-based combat that requires you to employ objects from the environment, as well as pals Niko meets along the route.
Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core Reunion
Platform(s): PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch
Release date: Winter 20
Square Enix is finally pulling Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 out of the PSP library vault and onto other platforms. Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core Reunion is a stunning remake of the Final Fantasy 7 prequel, which debuted in 2007. It has HD visuals, new 3D models, improved combat to match the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and much more. It looks fantastic, and we can’t wait to try it out later this year.