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These are the games we've picked from up-and-coming releases this year, because they are of particular interest to families. You can read more about how we hand-pick games for a few reasons:

Importance: They are important for parents to know about, perhaps because of some unexpected content.
Popularity: They are really popular with children, who will be asking to play them.
Significance: They offer an unusual experience we think families will love.

This list includes 232 games from the last year, with 1,193 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to pre-order the latest games.

List Details

PEGI Ratings: PEGI 3 to PEGI 18
ESRB Ratings: ESRB EVERYONE to ESRB MATURE 17+
Australian Ratings: G to R 18+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Battle, Brain Game, Collecting, Communication, Creative, Fighting, Narrative, Platform, Point-and-Click, Puzzle, Race, Rhythm, Role-Play, Sequencing, Shooting, Simulation, Sports, Stealth, Strategy, Traversal and World Building
Total Likes: 1,193

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Wildmender

Release Date: 28/09/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Wildmender is a world-building game where you unearth the past in the desert. Play involves exploring to discover what has gone before, so you can restore the environment for your future. You work to revive withering plant life, cultivate a garden and...

Cocoon

Release Date: 29/09/2023

Coming Soon: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Overhead

Cocoon is a puzzle adventure where you play a winged creature transporting orbs through a mysterious world. The twist is that placing orbs in a portal grants access to the worlds within worlds and creates a complex nested puzzle.

Bilkins' Folly

Release Date: 02/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Grid

Bilkins' Folly is an adventure game about a boy and his dog exploring tropical islands in a search for treasure and his missing family. Like classic point-and-click adventures you make strong bonds with quirky characters, here though it's logic puzzles...

Station To Station

Release Date: 03/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Pixels

Station to Station is a railway-building puzzle game about connecting commerce and community to create a beautiful rail network. Play is about making connections between buildings to move materials and people around the world efficiently. It stands out...

A Tiny Sticker Tale

Release Date: 04/10/2023

Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

A Tiny Sticker Tale is an adventure where you change the cosy cartoon world with stickers. Play involves moving around and talking to the locals, then switching to sticker mode to use objects and complete quests. It stands out for the approachable play...

Worldless

Release Date: 04/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Worldless is a running and jumping game where you explore a strange, shapeless world and fight monsters in turn-based combat. Starting almost formless, you steadily gain a plethora of abilities to dash, glide, jump and run through the levels, and a...

The Bloodline

Release Date: 05/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

The Bloodline is an action adventure game where you play a descendant of the Harbinger Bloodline with foresight of an impending invasion. You must unite the land and regain respect to reform bonds between kingdoms, recruit an army, rebuild a stronghold...

Midnight Girl

Release Date: 06/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Midnight Girl is a point-and-click adventure set in France during the Sixties. In a world that draws on a Tintin art-style, you explore a hand-drawn world as a cat burglar to pull of your biggest heist yet. It's an unusual mix of theme, mystery and a...

The Lords of the Fallen

Release Date: 13/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

The Lords of the Fallen is a fighting role-play game where you traverse two parallel worlds on a mission to defeat a resurrected god. As you explore the world and interact with characters, you use your lantern to switch between the realms of the living...

Wizard With A Gun

Release Date: 17/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Components: 2D Overhead

Wizard with a Gun is a survival game where you play a wizard in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Either alone or with other players online you embark on a journey to collect, craft and outfit your wizard to...

Super Mario Bros Wonder

Release Date: 20/10/2023

Coming Soon: Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Super Mario Bros Wonder is a running and jumping game that evolves the classic 2D Mario genre in weird and dream-like directions. You play with up to four friends, each controlling Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy or Yoshi. It manages...

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

Release Date: 24/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is an adventure game set in Tolkien's Middle-Earth fantasy world. You explore the vast ruins of the mines of Moria, fight off orcs, goblins, and other monsters, and build a base as you restore the kingdom to its...

Jusant

Release Date: 30/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Jusant is a climbing traversal game where you take a (sometimes) meditative journey to the top of a tall tower. Play involves using each trigger to hold on and then a jump you power up with a hold and then direct with one of the sticks. In this way you...

Headbangers Rhythm Royale

Release Date: 31/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Headbangers Rhythm Royale is an online multiplayer rhythm-action game where you play a pigeon and compete in wacky musical minigames. You press buttons in time with the beat to copy dance moves and sing along to classic tunes to score higher than the...

Stampede: Racing Royale

Release Date: 02/11/2023

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Stampede: Racing Royale combines Mario Kart and Fortnite to offer 60-player kart racing. To play you take on other racers in over-the-top circuits with a creeping elimination to avoid. It's like Mario Kart meets Fortnite.

The Talos Principle 2

Release Date: 02/11/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society. You move between zones and solve puzzles by guiding beams of light, manipulating gravity, and switching between robot bodies. It stands out...

Thirsty Suitors

Release Date: 02/11/2023

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 3D Third-Person

Thirsty Suitors is a role play game where you play Jala, back in your home town of Timber Hills to confront mistakes, make up with exes and reconcile cultural differences with your parents. You talk to your family and old friends, take on turn-based...

Checkmate Showdown

Release Date: 15/11/2023

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and 2D Side-On

Checkmate Showdown is a strategic fighting game where you move your pieces on a chess board and then use them in fights to try and take off enemy pieces. You use fists, kicks, and weapons to defeat opponents in combat, and the winning piece gets to stay...

Loddlenaut

Release Date: 16/11/2023

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. You explore the sea, cleaning up waste products and repurposing marine debris while taking care of friendly alien creatures. It stands out for its laid-back...

Steamworld Build

Release Date: 01/12/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Steamworld Build is a strategy simulation game where you build and manage a city and underground mine with monsters lurking in the deep. You place buildings, fortify defences, lay roads and then direct civilians to do jobs above ground and in the mines...

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Release Date: 07/12/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an adventure in James Cameron's Avatar universe where you play a child caught between two worlds fighting to protect your planet from human colonists. Play involves exploring the large open world, interacting with...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

Release Date: 31/12/2023

Coming Soon: PC and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is a shooting adventure game where you explore a fictional rendition of the Chornobyl exclusion zone to kill mutated monsters. Alongside the fast-paced and precise shooting, there's a surprisingly likeable cast of...

Diatoms

Release Date: 08/01/2024

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Diatoms is a tile-placement puzzle game where you create a microscopic mosaic from single-cell algae. Your goal is to create a pattern that scores the most at the end of the game based on colours, shapes, and symmetry. It stands out not only for the...

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Release Date: 18/01/2024

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a running, jumping and fighting game where you explore the ancient Middle East and defeat mythical enemies. From a side-on view, you traverse the world to uncover secrets and gain abilities to help defeat giant...

30 Birds

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made

30 Birds takes you to a psychedelic hand-painted city on the hunt for birds. You explore, talk and outwit the strange characters you meet in your mission to save Simurgh, the giant bird goddess. It's a game that is inspired by Persian art, alternative...

33 Immortals

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

33 Immortals is an action-fighting game where 33 online players team up as damned souls to take on God's final judgement. Play is like the classic dungeon crawlers, Gauntlet or Castle Crashers, but the large numbers of players introduce new ways to...

A Highland Song

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

A Highland Song is a narrative adventure where you explore a maze of crisscrossing routes through the hills of the Highlands. You are 15-year-old Moira who lives with her mum on the edge of the hills and receives a letter inviting her to come to the...

A Rat's Quest

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World

A Rat's Quest is a running, jumping, hiding adventure where you play a young male rat called Mat who lives in a burrow in an abandoned wine cellar. It's part platform game part Pixar story as you help Mat escape with his partner Nat. But out in the big...

Acid Knife

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Acid Knife is a running, jumping and fighting game where you carefully time attacks to defeat monsters in a dark, psychedelic world. All of your abilities, such as attacking and dodging, are tied to the items you hold which can be knocked from your hand...

Advent Neon

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Advent Neon is a fast reaction-based running, jumping and bashing game. You dash your away through retro-style levels working towards transforming into your full power state. It's like a fighting game, complete with directional attacks, mixed with a...

Airhead

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Airhead is an exploration adventure in a sprawling interconnected world. The twist is that you play as a small Body who must keep the Head (it finds) inflated. Sometimes together, sometimes apart, you must use a growing array of abilities to find a way...

Akimbot

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Akimbot is an action-adventure where you are a mechanical robot in a chaotic, futuristic universe. Play involves traversing the dense levels using your wall-running and jet-boost skills. You can take on enemies from a distance or get in close for combat...

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I.

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. is a mystery adventure where you play a detective cat in a fictional 1930's New York. It combines point-and click adventuring with e first person perspective. Solve murders, flirt badly, maybe discover a wormhole to another...

Alien Hominid Invasion

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Alien Hominid Invasion is a cooperative running and shooting game where you play an alien, fighting secret agents and looting Planet Earth. Play is a simple task of running-and-gunning through the large arena levels, using your arsenal of unusual...

American Arcadia

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person

American Arcadia is a running and jumping game where you solve puzzles to escape your televised life in an opulent but overly controlled futuristic city.

The game is set in a 70’s retro-future city of high luxury. But the citizens don't...

Anger Foot

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Anger Foot is a fast shooting and kicking game set in a fantasy world. You shoot and blow up enemies, kick down doors and generally cause mayhem in pursuit of a menacing merciless gangsters. It's an over the top violent rush of a cartoon battle that...

Anima Flux

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Anima Flux is a running, jumping adventure game where you fight off hordes of mutant monsters in a desperate attempt to save humanity's final stronghold. You explore the vast stages, to find new weapons to help progress through the hectic combat. While...

Animal Well

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Animal Well is a platform puzzle game where you explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth. Play involves collecting items that let you manipulate the world in unexpected ways. It's a layered experience that works as a platform game but also hides...

Another Crab's Treasure

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Another Crab's Treasure is a fighting game where you play a crab on a quest to reclaim their shell. As you explore verdant kelp forests, sandy shallows and deep trenches, you fight big crustacean enemies, unlock new abilities, and find new bits of...

AntonBlast

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

AntonBlast is a frantic running-and-jumping game where you play a disgruntled construction worker who has a feud with Satan. It's reminiscent of the classic Wario Land games, as you smash through buildings, enemies, and obstacles with your hammer. It...

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Assistance Getting Starting:	Tutorials Practice Area View Control Mapping Assistance With Controls Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Adjust Speed No Jump Scares
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Pieces:	Components are Distinguishable by Touch Components are Replaceable No Non-Standard Dice (Or No Dice) No Tiny Pieces No Paper Money No Sprawl
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Communication:	Audio Cues Mirrored Visually (Or no critical audio signals) No Pressured Reveals No Pressured Communication Playable Without Hearing

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