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Summer games previews

We profile the most interesting upcoming video games, and the people making them

  • Feels like a teen ghost movie … Fear the Spotlight.

    Grab your Ouija board: behind Fear the Spotlight’s 90s-inspired horror

    When two horror movie fans took the leap into game development, the last thing they expected was for an actual movie production company to want to get involved
  • ‘Three concepts: Star Wars, open world and a scoundrel story’ … Star Wars Outlaws.

    Star Wars Outlaws: what to expect from Ubisoft’s galactic adventure

  • Dreamsettler video game artwork

    Dreamsettler, a time capsule of the pre-Facebook internet

  • Building Relationships.

    ‘The windmill is pretty flirty’: Building Relationships, the game where you take a house out on a date

    In this uniquely absurd mishmash of adventure and dating game, you are a house looking for love on an island of eligible bachelor pads
  • Black Myth Wukong - still from a cutscene

    Black Myth: Wukong – the summer’s most exciting, and most controversial, video game

    This beautiful-looking action game is based on Journey to the West, the great Chinese novel – but its own journey to release has hit a bump in the road
  • The artwork for Horses.

    ‘I’m not sure if it will sell, but it should exist’: Horses, a surreal Lynchian horror game

    Creative director Andrea Lucco Borlera explains how this fever dream of a game came to be and why it’s not afraid to get weird
  • Tears of Metal video game artwork

    ‘I was a big fan of Braveheart’: the story behind Scotland-set hack and slash game Tears of Metal

    This cooperative game made in Montreal sees players leading a band of Scottish soldiers against an English army in thrall to the corrupting influence of a crashed meteor
  • Designed and built by hand … The Game Bakers placed every single rock, crack and handhold of Cairn.

    The Dark Souls of climbing games: Cairn leans into the challenge of mountaineering

    A deceptively simple control system underpins this alpinist adventure set on a single deadly massif
  • Été.

    Été, the Amélie-inspired game where you paint Montreal into life

    The forthcoming game is a nostalgic exploration of a city in summer. Its creative director explains how it helps players to feel they are making the world more beautiful
  • ‘You’re really just trying to get that potato for your grandma’s soup’ … a screenshot from Sopa.

    A recipe for magical realism: Gabriel García Márquez and a video game about potatoes

    The designer of Sopa: The Tale of the Stolen Potato explains how his Colombian background informs the forthcoming game
  • Curiosmos video game screenshot

    A child’s-eye view of the universe: Curiosmos makes space simulation fun

    In this primordial take on the life simulator, you bring about the creation of an entire solar system
  • Where Winds Meet video game screenshot

    Where Winds Meet is China’s answer to Assassin’s Creed

    Everstone’s debut video game hopes to do for 10th-century China what Ubisoft’s open-world series did for ancient Greece and renaissance Italy
  • Party Animals.

    Corgis and cats with crossbows: Party Animals wants to be your new Saturday night video game

    The head of Recreate Games talks about the inspiration behind the studio’s forthcoming cartoon brawler – which features many of the team’s own pets
  • A screenshot from Simpler Times video game

    ‘Chill vibes simulator’ Simpler Times takes you back to your childhood bedroom

    This meditative game from Transylvanian studio Stoneskip has you reliving the memories of a young woman about to leave her family home
  • Still Wakes The Deep video game artwork

    ‘Trapped on an oil rig with an unknowable horror’: Still Wakes the Deep is a dark 70s throwback

    The makers of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture return with a story about drilling down into something terrible lurking beneath the North Sea
  • Eternights video game screenshot

    Dating at the end of the world: in Eternights, even the apocalypse can’t stand in the way of love

    A dating-app meet goes wrong at the beginning of this action game when the world as we know it abruptly ends – but that won’t stop love from flourishing
  • Wood and Weather game

    A playful angle on global heating: Wood and Weather

  • Sword of the Sea screenshot

    Sword of the Sea channels surfing, spirituality and Shadow of the Colossus

  • Screenshot from Dungeons of Hinterberg.

    Dungeons of Hinterberg: a game of hack ’n’ slash ’n’ schnitzels in the Austrian Alps

    For Microbird Games co-founders Philipp Seifried and Regina Reisinger, the social side of their RPG adventure game is just as important as exploring dungeons and slaying huge bosses
  • It’s a lofty pitch … Saltsea Chronicles.

    ‘Star Trek without the manifest destiny’: Saltsea Chronicles, a gently radical vision of the future

    Creative director Hannah Nicklin explains how the narrative adventure game offers a far-reaching new take on storytelling
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