The biggest announcements from The Game Awards 2023
08.12.2023 - 06:52
/ polygon.com
/ Geoff Keighley
/ Tango Gameworks
An avalanche of new game announcements hit at The Game Awards 2023, ranging from the return of classic franchises to the reveals of all-new worlds. For those of you looking for a rundown of everything announced, we’ve got you covered.
Josef Fares’ critically acclaimed 2013 single-player co-op game returns with a visual overhaul, heading your way on Feb. 28, 2024.
If Inscryption is anything to go by, describing this game based off its debut trailer feels like a fool’s errand.
A follow-up to detective adventure The Case of the Golden Idol, The Rise of the Golden Idol is a bit of a mystery at the moment. But that’s the point, no?
A “narrative action” game from the Finji Development Team, led by creative director Adam Saltsman, Usual June looks to feature a mix of third-person combat and adventure game story choices.
“An accessible musical adventure,” Harmonium: The Musical stars a deaf girl in what looks and sounds like a Disney musical.
The team behind Dead Cells is back with a new game: Windblown. While the animated trailer doesn’t reveal a lot, we have more details in a preview.
In what appears to be a spiritual successor to 2016 rhythm game Thumper, Thrasher looks like a wild ride through a surreal world.
Dave the Diver is back in this DLC collaboration with Dredge, coming next week.
2008 indie classic World of Goo is back in this sequel from 2D Boy and Tomorrow Corporation. And despite the time gap, it looks like it picks up right where the original left off.
The folks behind the Persona series have a new RPG on the way, and a new trailer showed a lot more of what it’s all about.
Archetype Entertainment, a new studio based in Austin, has a game in the works that resembles Mass Effect and features McConaughey’s voice.
Sony’s Santa Monica Studio showed a trailer for God of War: Ragnarok Valhalla, “an adventure that blends God of War Ragnarok’s combat with elements inspired by the roguelike genre,” according to Game Awards host Geoff Keighley. The free DLC content is coming Dec. 12, 2023.
The team behind breakout hit Untitled Goose Game, House House, is back with an odd-looking game that seems to mix nature exploration with unusual character actions and we’re not quite sure what else. Looks fun, though!
Ubisoft showed a new trailer for its action-heavy 2D Prince of Persia game, with that trailer noting a demo is arriving on Jan. 11, 2024, one week before the game’s Jan. 18, 2024 release date.
Highlighting the Hellblade team’s graphical capabilities, the latest Senua’s Saga trailer gives glimpses of an intense and scary adventure, headed for release in 2024.
The studio founded by former Tango Gameworks creative director Ikumi Nakamura showed a CG trailer for its first game, which has not yet been