December 2024 is a big month for free-to-play games as well as free-with-Game-Pass releases.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the big holiday blockbuster that is accessible to everyone with a paid Game Pass Ultimate or PC subscription.
Marvel Rivals, meanwhile, will take another fresh stab at the hero shooter genre, while Infinity Nikki takes the cozy sim dress-up RPG series into the open world.
A bunch of other stuff, from console ports to ‘90s-style brawlers, is also coming out this month.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a heady and evocative puzzle game that’s making more than a few GOTY short lists.
Before there was Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, there was Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
A character-driven RPG set in a dark, urban, pre-WWI setting, The Thaumaturge arrived on PC back in March.
Fantasian Neo Dimension is the latest RPG from Mistwalker, the studio founded by Final Fantasy co-creator Hironobu Sakaguchi.
Will Marvel Rivals succeed where Concord failed?
Diablo but free-to-play, Path of Exile 2 has big shoes to fill following the success of the first game.
Microsoft’s last exclusive of 2024, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle sees Wolfenstein maker MachineGames take on the globe-trotting archeologist in first-person Nazi-punching detail.
PS2 classics Soul Reaver 1 & 2 hit console and PC with visual overhauls and other modern refinements.
The retro-looking brawler has the polished animations and vibrant style of a ‘90s arcade brawler yanked into the modern era.
The latest Shiren the Wanderer is a game I keep hearing people praise even though so few played it when it hit Switch at the start of 2024.
The medieval physics simulator Besiege has been around for several years now but it’s only just making its way to PlayStation.
Completely Stretchy is surreal walking sim about using long arms to catapult yourself through strange, whimsical, and unnerving encounters in a bizarre world.
Beach-read detective novel vibes meet a chill social game in On Your Tail.
Botany Manor is the game for you.
Alien: Rogue Incursion brings xenomorph survival horror into virtual reality.
The Midnight Crimes is a point-and-click adventure game set in what looks like Victorian England by way of Borderlands.