Big new video games out this week – quick links
Wax Heads – 5 May
Games Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch
‘Lose yourself in an emotional, uplifting narrative about community, musical mysteries and underdog spirit. Help endearing and indecisive customers find their perfect records while debating all things music with your loveable colleagues. It’s your job to help Repeater Records find its rhythm again!’
‘Drop the needle on a stacked soundtrack featuring dozens of original tracks spanning across many genres, bands, and eras. Every song is crafted to feel like a nostalgic gem. From grimy basement bangers to dreamy indie deep cuts. It’s a playlist built to loop in your head long after you clock out.’
Mixtape – 7 May
Games Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2
‘En route to their final party together, a perfectly curated playlist draws three friends into dreamlike reenactments of their formative memories. Experience a variety of narrative vignettes exploring the pivotal moments that shaped them. Players will immerse themselves in the teenage wasteland by playing through a mixtape of joyful gameplay, from skateboarding and flying to taking photos after hours at an abandoned theme park, hitting baseballs, and putting on a fireworks show from the backseat of a car. It’s the greatest hits of the teenage experience, from the first kiss to the last dance.’
ScreenHub: Mixtape – Australian-made video game is set to launch in May
Duck Side of the Moon – 7 May
Games Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch
‘Fly around as Doug, an overworked duck astronaut looking for a new home world. Crashed on a strange side of the galaxy, maybe this break is exactly what he needs! Whether you’re exploring or just soaking in the stars, this galaxy is yours to enjoy at your own pace.’
‘Dive into a world filled with secrets! Find rare minerals in glowing caves, win outfits at the funfair, or see what’s bubbling inside the volcano… Whether it’s the highest stars or the deepest mines, every path has something to discover!’
Alabaster Dawn – early access 7 May
Games Platform: PC
‘Alabaster Dawn is an Action RPG building on top of the best aspects of Radical Fish Games’ previous title CrossCode, featuring a deep and engaging combat system, challenging puzzles and an epic story set in a curious world full of secrets to discover and places to explore. The shadow of Nyx has fallen, warping the world into a wasteland and vanishing the gods and their people. Now, Juno, the Outcast Chosen, awakens to an impossible task: bring it all back.‘
Everything is Crab – 8 May
Games Platform: PC
‘Set in a living ecosystem, Everything is Crab is a cute, challenging, highly replayable action roguelite. Make animal inspired evolutionary choices to concoct your own unique creature every run, both mechanically and visually. As everybody knows, eventually, every organism ends up evolving into a crab. Right? Well, except for you. Choose your own evolutionary path and strategy to thrive and defeat convergent evolution. Take that, science!’
‘Over 125 abilities combine to create a plethora of different builds and play styles: Become a wily trickster, a ferocious predator, a gregarious leader, a nimble nomad, or take on any number of other survival strategies. Legs! Claws! Pincers! Wings! More Legs! Fur! Tail! Scales! Tentacles! I SAID MORE LEGS!!! Build your formidable, visually awkward chimera or get Darwin’d in the process.’
