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E3 Week 2022

The best games revealed and updated during the E3 week in 2022. Summer Games Fest, Wholesome Direct, PlayStation State of Play.

This list includes 44 games from the last year, with 210 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to .

DetailsList 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, 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: 210
 

Paradise Marsh

Release Date: 03/02/2022, updated in 2023

Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

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

Paradise Marsh is an open-world collecting game where you explore a varied marsh to find insects to put their stars back in the night sky. You wander an endless wetland and collect creatures, skim stones and eat mushrooms as the weather and seasons...

Skye Tales

Release Date: 26/05/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Open World

Skye Tales is a gentle adventure about exploring a rich playground of floating islands as a dragon called Skye. Play involves traversing each chapter, meeting and interacting with different creatures and solving puzzles along the way. It's a game that...

Skate Story

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Skate Story is a skateboarding game that focuses on the skill, weight and locomotion of controlling the board. Running through the game is a story where you explore the underworld beneath New York City.

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Hand-Made and Open World

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a musical adventure game where you restore the harmony of Moomin Valley from grotesque parks. It's the variety of play and the beloved characters that make this game a great experience for small (and not-so-small) kids.

Choo-Choo Charles

Release Date: 09/12/2022

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Choo-Choo Charles is a survival shooting game that imagines Thomas the Tank Engine in a horror setting. You explore an island in an old upgradable train and hunt down Charles the evil spider train.

Wildmender

Release Date: 28/09/2023

Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox 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...

Desta: The Memories Between

Release Date: 27/09/2022

Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid

Desta: The Memories Between is a narrative puzzle game about returning home after leaving under difficult circumstances. You guide Desta through metaphorical puzzles that let you revisit painful moments of life and find the words you didn't have at the...

Frogun

Release Date: 02/08/2022, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cartoon

Frogun is a traversal game where you use a frog-shaped gun to interact with the world and navigate the levels. You play Renata, who comes from a family of explorers, archaeologists and inventors but finds herself alone in the jungle. It's a classic...

Melatonin

Release Date: 15/12/2022

Out Now: PC and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Melatonin is a rhythm game where you press buttons in time with surreal pastel scenes. You play by deciphering the animations and sound cues to know when to press buttons. It stands out as a rhythm game that manages to keep you in time without any...

Sonority

Release Date: 25/05/2022

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks

Sonority is a fantasy adventure where you progress by solving musical puzzles. You help Esther explore a lost world to collect musical notes and playing arrangements next to blocks to unlock the way forward. What's clever is the connection between the...

Cocoon

Release Date: 29/09/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

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. It stands out for how...

LumbearJack

Release Date: 14/06/2022

Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

LumbearJack is a puzzle game where you slice and dice through machinery, and humans, and work with wacky woodland critters to stop the industrial giant Evil Works.

High On Life

Release Date: 13/12/2022

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

High On Life is a shooting adventure game from the creators of Rick and Morty. As you'd expect it's comedic and zany, but cleverly this is delivered by the bombastic boasting sentient weapons as much as other characters.

Time Flies

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made

Time Flies is a traversal game about being a fly. Like the insect's own life, your life in the game is short. You fly through the black and white world with the simple aim of completing your bucket list of whimsical tasks.

Ereban: Shadow Legacy

Release Date: Coming soon

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

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Ereban: Shadow Legacy is a fast-paced stealth running, jumping and fighting game where you play Ayana who can harness mystical shadow powers and gadgets. Play involves traversing the world and enemies either avoiding them or killing them as you race to...

Fall of Porcupine

Release Date: 15/06/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Fall of Porcupine is a narrative adventure about a young doctor bird working in an unhealthy healthcare system. It stands out not only for the hard-hitting theme but the quality of writing and the depth of characters you meet along the way.

Highwater

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Highwater is an adventure game where you battle to survive the effects of global warming. While the elites of society make plans to leave the planet you explore a submerged and dilapidated world with your gathered crew of survivors. It stands out for...

Palworld

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

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

Palworld is a role-play game where you befriend and collect Pal creatures in a vast open world. It takes the Pokemon formula in a new more violent (gun-touting) and bizarre-capitalist direction as you put your pocket monsters to fight, build, farm, and...

The Last Case of Benedict Fox

Release Date: 27/04/2023

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

The Last Case of Benedict Fox is a running, jumping and fighting game where a demon invites you to explore the minds of the recently deceased. You work through an old mansion to uncover the mystery of a double murder and missing child. It's an elegant...

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...

Long Gone

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Long Gone is a classic point-and-stick style adventure game but with updated pixelated visuals. You are stranded in an old-world suburban neighbourhood and must find and combine items to solve puzzles and survive.

Lovebirb

Release Date: 15/03/2023

Out Now: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Lovebirb is a rhythm-based dating game where you play a bird looking for love one date at a time. You play by answering your date’s questions and by showing them your best dance moves.

Paper Animal RPG

Release Date: Coming soon

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

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Paper Animal RPG is a simple adventure game in a colourful world. You create a band of animal heroes to fight enemies and collect equipment and power-ups.

Pentiment

Release Date: 15/11/2022

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Components: 2D Side-On and Text

Pentiment is a historical role-playing game where you explore 16th century Germany world to solve a murder. Play takes place in the pages of an old book and involves exploring the world, talking to people and discovering new ways the narrative evolves...

Please Fix The Road

Release Date: 10/06/2022

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks, Grid and Pixels

Please Fix The Road is a colourful puzzle game about fixing roads. Your aim is to adjust each minimalistic level to complete the route using a simple set of tools. It draws on classic games like Pipe Mania and Tetris to create a unique challenge,...

Ravenlok

Release Date: 04/05/2023

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Ravenlok is an action adventure game that starts when you fall through a mirror into a troubled kingdom. The Alice in Wonderland similarities continue with fantastical monsters to defeat, cats and rabbits to "help" you on your way. It's a coming of age...

Soulitaire

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Cards

Soulitaire is a solitaire puzzle game where you play cards to get a peek into the future of the people you play against. However, play is as much about interpretation of the cards as which cards they get. It's an unusual game about the impact of others...

Toroa

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

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

Toroa is a traversal game where you soar, swoop and glide across the vast Pacific Ocean as a Northern Royal Albatross. You take on an epic journey to help of Māori God of the winds, Tāwhirimātea and discover the wonders of the sea and sky.

Unwording

Release Date: 27/04/2023

Out Now: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Unwording is a narrative puzzle where you play Tom who is struggling with depression. You move around and look at different objects in the world. In them you see words made of blocks that you rearrange into other (often darker) words.

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...

Master Key

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Master Key is a retro-style action adventure like Zelda. It focuses on exploration, finding items and secrets and keeps the rest of the play simple. As well as matching classic games of the era, it offers an interesting look into the joy of the journey...

Melodyssey

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid

Melodyssey is a music puzzle game in a calm stress free exploration adventure. You play a young child journeying through a musical landscape looking for musical inspiration. It stands out for the pastel presentation, simple block moving thinky puzzles...

Neon White

Release Date: 16/06/2022, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, Cards and Cartoon

Neon White is a fast tactical shooting game where you use Soul cards to gain special attacks and moves. You play an assassin handpicked from Hell to exterminate demons in Heaven to earn your place there. It's unusual because of its combination of...

Oddada

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid

Oddada is a game where you make music with toys in a miniature blocky world. You set-up your little world and then take your train through different landscapes, machines and buildings to collect melodies and rhythms.

Poinpy

Release Date: 10/06/2022

Out Now: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Poinpy is a jumping and bouncing game where you play a green monster and work your way up a well. You play by directing each leap to avoid enemies and collect the fruit. It's exclusive to Netflix subscribers and from the developer of [link game/downwell...

Selaco

Release Date: 31/05/2024

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Selaco is a shooter game with a focus on fast movement and staged battles in a destructible underground facility. In many ways it's an update of classic fast shooting games like Quake and Doom, but the detail elevates Selaco to be something more than...

The Entropy Centre

Release Date: 03/11/2022

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

The Entropy Centre is a time-shifting puzzle adventure where you can move objects back through time. You explore the futuristic levels and solve puzzle by using you gun to move object in space but also in time. It's a game that gets you thinking in...

The Plucky Squire

Release Date: Coming soon

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

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made

The Plucky Squire is an adventure where two dimensional storybook character, Jot, discovers the three dimensional world. Play involves battling enemies and exploring the world, on the book pages, surfaces of objects in the real world, and out in the...

Turbo Golf Racing

Release Date: 04/08/2022

Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Turbo Golf Racing is an online car game where you race to hit an oversized golf ball into a hole at the end of each circuit. Your car is rocket powered and needs to be manoeuvred to hit the ball through hoops and boosts to get to the finishing hole...

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...

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