10 Most Anticipated Action Games Of 2024
06.01.2024 - 17:11
/ screenrant.com
From to , 2024 is shaping up to be a great year for action games. Whether it's a brand-new concept with innovative potential, an established franchise's first foray into a different genre, or a long-awaited sequel, many an action game has set a release date for 2024, and all of these have had impatient fans clamoring for more since their very announcement.
This list includes action games in several of their many forms: from story-focused RPGs with sword-and-sorcery combat, to devilish new twists on the Soulslike formula, to old-school survival horror first-person shooters, to addicting roguelikes with plenty of colorful charm. 2024 has something for every devoted player of action games, and the following ten are some of the most anticipated.
The original had a lot of potential. Released in 2012, it's a highly customizable open-world action RPG: players design a main character and a Pawn sidekick navigating a deceptively simple system of classes, subclasses, and multiclasses to perfect their desired build. It's also a highly reactive game: fully-voiced Pawns respond realistically to whatever they encounter, pieces of the environment are destructible, and the whole thing is colored by a day/night cycle that affects what happens when.
was ambitious for its time, but had its flaws in the form of bugs and poor performance. However, it's since become a cult classic, and its sequel,, promises to deliver on the same charm with some serious next-gen improvements. With gorgeous graphics, new classes for protagonists and Pawns alike, and a bigger world than ever, is an action RPG worth watching in 2024.
Based on the 2014 turn-based mobile game, is the franchise's first attempt at an open-world action RPG. It was first announced in 2016 with some gorgeous gameplay footage, showing off a gorgeous fantasy world and fast-paced, multi-character, -style combat. Once scheduled for a release in 2022, was pushed back during development, finally revealing its official release date of February 1, 2024, last August. That's given fans plenty to look forward to when it finally releases. Thankfully, trailers make the game look better than ever before, with epic fights against colossal, AoE-inflicting bosses, and a large cast of playable characters to choose from.
Set in the irradiated wasteland of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, the series has always presented players with a challenge to survive. Navigating environmental hazards, physical anomalies, and mutated enemies, players are forced to scrounge up as much food, medicine, ammo, and gear as they need to survive. There's been talk of a large-scale sequel since 2012, and although there have been three more games in the series since the first one, its true successor is finally