Somehow we’re already past the midway point of 2022 and while the year started out strong with the likes of Rainbow Six Extraction, Elden Ring, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and Tunic coming to the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles, the past few months haven’t brought a whole lot. But fear not, as the final five months of 2022 are set to bring at least 10 excellent-looking games, and we’ve compiled them all into this list for your convenience and perusal.
Saints Row – August 23
Kickstarting the peak season for video games releases is Deep Silver’s upcoming Saints Row. The reboot will take players out of the densely-populated states of the series’ past and throw them out into the vast expanses of the lonely desert city of Santo Ileso in the American Southwest.
Don’t let that fool you, though. Saints Row will have all of the usual chaotic and off-the-wall antics that the series is renowned for. As you and your team of fellow youngsters rise your way to the rank of ‘Self-Made’ you’ll get embroiled in plenty of criminal activity, heists-gone-wrong, and you can bet your bottom dollar you’ll have your hands on an eccentric arsenal of weaponry to help you on your way, too.
Deliver Us Mars – Sept. 27
Deliver Us Mars is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure that sees you embarking on a mission exploring Mars in order to recover the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward. As fans of anything and everything space and sci-fi, the premise of uncovering the secrets of the big red planet has our interests nicely piqued.
When it comes to gameplay, Deliver Us Mars looks like it’ll combine some puzzles with light combat or just general exploration. There’s no official confirmation on what’s included, as even the official site keeps things a little vague, but from what we’ve seen of the gameplay trailer so far, Deliver Us Mars is shaping up nicely.
Overwatch 2 – Oct. 4
Overwatch 2 is the successor to the incredibly popular, PvP, team-based multiplayer shooter from 2016. This time around, the game packs in a PvE single-player campaign alongside the usual PvP multiplayer madness, which itself has seen a handful of new maps and characters to bolster the existing roster.
Its beta has already given players a taste of what’s to come, with new characters Junker Queen and Sojourn both available to play. Blizzard has also been using the beta to finetune the balance of Heroes’ various abilities so the final experience on launch day is just right.
Combine the fact that Overwatch 2’s multiplayer mode is free-to-play, cross-play and cross-progression confirmed, too, which means you can play with your friends regardless of which platforms you’re playing on, and all of your progress will carry over from platform-to-platform.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns – Oct. 7
Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a turn-based strategy game featuring iconic Marvel characters from Midnight Sons, Avengers, X-Men, and Runaways which will see you band together an unlikely group of superheroes to take on the demonic Lilith and her fearsome horde of possessed minions, including the Hulk.
You play as the Hunter, the forsaken child of Lilith and the only one known to have defeated her in the past. In this role, you’ll control your band of superheroes in tactical turn-based battles to defeat Lilith’s hordes of enemies and prevent her from fulfilling her prophecy before it’s too late.
What’s got us particularly hyped about Midnight Suns is it comes from developer Firaxis Games, best known for its work on the ’Civilization’ and ’XCOM’ series. Given how these are two of the biggest and best turn-based strategy series out there, the combination of this gameplay with the iconic characters of the Marvel universe sounds like a match made in heaven.