New video game highlights for this week – quick links
Dressmaker – 21 September
Games Platform(s): PC
‘Choose fabric, arrange and cut out patterns, sew garments and add decorations. Dressmaker is a cosy simulation game where every part of making a dress is under your control. Whether your pattern is aligned to the grain or cut on bias, how you choose to arrange and cut out your fabric is what appears on the final dress. Take full control over what fabric to use for each panel of your garment.’
Delverium early access – 21 September
Games Platform(s): PC
‘Explore a vast procedurally generated world in this survival sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Gather resources, build shelters, tend your farm, recruit NPC’s, craft items or take on high risk dungeon crawling as you delve into the unknown. Be warned: Only the most courageous hero can uncover the secrets to Delverium. Could this be you?’
Dune: Awakening – 22 September
Games Platform(s): PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Dune: Awakening is getting its console release this week, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. It opens up the game to a new group of players who may be keen to learn more about its alternative universe Dune shenanigans. Here’s the game description:
‘Dune: Awakening is an epic open world survival game where you get to fully immerse yourself in one of science fiction’s most iconic worlds. You have been chosen by the Bene Gesserit to go to Arrakis as their agent and uncover the mystery of the missing Fremen. Visit locations such as Arrakeen and Hagga Basin and meet familiar characters such as Duke Leto Atreides and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, as you unravel an epic Dune story never told before: yours.’
Nighthawks – 22 September
Games Platform(s): PC
‘Six months ago, you died and were reborn. A vampire. A predator. Not a mere creature of the night, but one of its masters. At least, that’s how things were supposed to be…’
‘Unfortunately, it’s a new world out there. Vampires have finally been exposed, and although your existence is more or less tolerated, your ongoing thirst for blood is not. You arrived in the one city willing to promise vampires a fresh start, only to find suspicion and paranoia still lingering on its dark streets. But death could not hold you, and humanity’s fear will not hold you back. When the sun sets, outcasts rise. It’s time to seize the night by the throat…’
Graveyard Keeper 2 – 22 September
Games Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
‘You are the Grand Inquisitor now! Restore the Town and lead your undead army into battle to save the realm from a zombie apocalypse. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper 2, the sequel to the original, unhinged classic! Manage your own medieval graveyard. Automate your production like never before. Lead your zombie army into battle and fortify the Town against the undead. Rebuild The Town and milk its residents for maximum profits. A world full of unhinged humour, grotesque characters and a twisted story.’
Control Resonant – 24 September
Games Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
‘After years in confinement at the hands of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), Dylan Faden emerges into a warped Manhattan at the peak of a paranatural crisis. Charged with combating a mysterious cosmic entity as it alters fundamental aspects of our reality, Dylan must harness his new-found powers to take the fight to the myriad threats overwhelming Manhattan.’
Silent Hill: Townfall – 24 September
Games Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 5
- Reveal trailer available on YouTube.
‘Simon Ordell is called back to the island of St. Amelia to put things right, encountering a town lying quiet beneath a heavy fog, seemingly abandoned but not at rest. Venturing deeper, and driven to understand his connection to the place and its inhabitants, Simon begins to discover fragments of a past rising to the surface.’
‘Experienced entirely in first person, Simon must explore, evade, and survive using a limited set of weapons and tools, including the CRTV, a pocket television used to tune into unstable signals. Evasion is tense; combat is frenetic, while narrative driven puzzles reveal a truth that refuses to stay submerged.’
EA Sports FC 27 – 25 September
Games Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
‘Welcome to The World’s Game in EA SPORTS FC 27. Step into The Grounds to experience a football playground where the streets meet the stadium, and feel greater control in every mode as community-driven innovations deliver more true-to-football gameplay.’
