For folks who liked their PC gaming announcements thick and fast, this year’s PC Gaming Show was absolutely jam-packed with an absolute bounty of reveals, trailers and updates on previously announced games. If you’ve missed this year’s showcase or simply just want a refresher on everything that was shown, our PC Gaming Show roundup for 2023 has you covered.
Frostpunk 2
Frostpunk 2 got another chance to show off its impressively grim societal survival beats at this year’s PC Gaming Show. With all new edicts, environmental threats, social issues and more for wannabe city leaders to deal with, Frostpunk 2 is shaping up to be a grimly compelling sequel ahead of its 2024 PC release.
Teardown Creative Mode Update
Teardown, the widely acclaimed voxel-based, sandbox heist simulator, is getting a creative mode update which allows players to craft just about anything they want to in-game through its fancy ‘voxel-painting’ technology. Very swish.
Nivalis
Gorgeous cyberpunk city-explorer Nivalis got a shiny new story trailer at this year’s PC Gaming Show, showing off the almost wistful and relaxing exploration beats as players seek fame, fortune, love and friendship across Nivalis’ neon-hued urban sprawl. Nivalis is set to release on PC sometime in 2024.
Jumplight Odyssey
An intriguing interstellar management roguelite, Jumplight Odyssey has you managing a huge space colony, providing everything from food, life support and even entertainment to your space bound citizens, all the while you face off against all manner of space pirates, hostile aliens and more besides. You can also pet a pig which, you know, is rather nice. Jumplight Odyssey is warping onto PC soon. Before then however, you’ll be able to get in early on the action courtesy of a free demo that will appear on the Jumplight Odyssey Steam page on June 19, 2023.
Road to Vostok
Promising survival horror shooter Road to Vostok got another outing at this year’s PC Gaming Show, with a rapid-fire trailer that showcased everything from exploration, ranged combat and equipment management, through to a massive range of different environments that took in snowy tundra, abandoned bases and more. Still in PC Early Access, the devs have kindly updated a free demo for Road to Vostok that can be nabbed right now from the Steam page for the game.
Ebenezer and the Invisible World
An anime take on Charles Dickens beloved yuletide tale ‘A Christmas Carol’ (because why not), Ebenezer and the Invisible World is a stylishly depicted, two-dimensional Metroidvania platformer that has the titular character joining forces with an array of friendly ghosts to save the good folk of London from a dark fate. Due out on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch platforms at the end of 2023, a free demo of Ebenezer and the Invisible World can be snagged from the official Steam page.
Warhaven
Warhaven is NEXON’s free-to-play 16vs16 battle offering where players can choose and specialise in a number of different classes as they wage war against their foes across all manner of fantasy battlefields. Warhaven is set to release on PC later in 2023, but free playtests will be available from June 19 to June 26, 2023.
D.O.R.F Real-Time Strategic Conflict
A love letter to the RTS efforts of the 1990s, D.O.R.F Real-Time Strategic Conflict thrusts players into the armchair of a far-future general that must build bases, research technologies, scavenge for resources and raise an army to defeat their enemies. A PC release date for D.O.R.F Real-Time Strategic Conflict has yet to be announced.
Sulfur
Taking a decidedly cartoony approach to the extraction shooter formula, Sulfur has players blasting their way through a variety of alien worlds, scooping up new weapons, upgrades and more which they get to keep – so long as they can safely extract without dying first. Sulfur has yet to receive a release date.
Saleblazers
Boasting quite the unique premise, Saleblazers has up to eight players trying to survive on a hostile island with a view to build a range of shops that can provide new gear and exciting technology to fight the other factions that want to take what you have. Saleblazers is in PC Early Access right now and will enjoy a full release on September 29, 2023.
Eternights
If you can imagine a dating sim crossed with the combat of Devil May Cry and just a dash of Persona, then you’ve basically got Eternights. Tasking players with balancing raiding dungeons, collecting loot and saving the world with a busy dating life, Eternights looks like it’ll be quite the curio when it releases on September 21, 2023.
Pax Dei
Taking inspirations from real-life folklore, Pax Dei is a sprawling mythical fantasy sandbox MMORPG in which thousands of players can not only go on quests, improve their gear and gain more powerful abilities, but also create communities and factions of their own that dynamically conflict with one another on a persistent basis. Seemingly early in development, a PC release date for Pax Dei has yet to be announced.
Stampede: Racing Royale
Coming from those genius bods over at Sumo Digital, Stampede: Racing Royale is essentially Mario Kart style action crossed with the battle royale sensibilities of Fall Guys and all wrapped up in a delectably twee audio-visual presentation. Allowing up to 60 players to race and smash each other across a range of vibrant race courses, Stampede: Racing Royale is coming soon for PC and eager racers can hop into a playtest by heading over to the Steam page for the game.
Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life
Building upon the space agency simulation elements of the previous game, Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life once again has players prepping and undertaking a space bound odyssey to the red planet in search of life. From managing staff to prepping rocket launches, Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life looks like it’ll be catnip for wannabe NASA directors. Even better still, you can sign up on the official website to take part in a closed alpha that’ll be touching down sometime later in 2023.
Ferocious
Putting something of a neat twist on the usual sandbox survival formula, Ferocious takes inspiration from the likes of Crysis, Jurassic Park and Far Cry as it forces players to survive in a prehistoric environment filled with hungry dinos. Brilliantly, though you have a modern arsenal at your disposal, combat isn’t your only option – instead you can elect to entirely avoid or even befriend the many scaly denizens you’ll come across. Ferocious does not yet have a PC release date.
Islands of Insight
One for those who like their head-scratchers both challenging and expansive, Islands of Insight casts players as Seekers, puzzle-solvers that are on a relaxing journey of insight and self-discovery. Where Islands of Insight really changes things up however, is that it offers players a massive open world filled with puzzles in which they can either go it alone or aid other players in their completion. The first truly open world, multiplayer puzzle game? Sounds good to us. Islands of Insight does not yet have a confirmed PC release date.
Lords of the Fallen
In its latest trailer Lords of the Fallen continues to impress as it seeks to overwhelm players with stunning Unreal Engine 5 visuals, towering monsters and a grim, yet enticing world that just begs to be explored. Lords of the Fallen arrives on PC on October 13, 2023.
Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master
If you long for the halcyon days of Bullfrog’s superb Dungeon Keeper, then Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master might just tick every box on your bingo card. Tasking players with not only constructing a dungeon for foolish heroes to perish within, but also the various hordes of minions that’ll be needed to staff those dungeons as well. Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master will arrive on PC sometime in the near future.
Mariachi Legends
Taking a leaf out of hardcore two-dimensional action titles such as Katana Zero and Blasphemous, Mariachi Legends puts a distinctly Mexican spin on the whole affair as players take on the role of a detective chosen by Death herself to defeat a horde of evil spirits. Mariachi Legends doesn’t yet have a PC release date.
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
Those of you with a hankering for some classic Warhammer fantasy RTS shenanigans will be chuffed to know that the forthcoming Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin is shaping up rather nicely to say the least. Allowing players to take on four separate, story driven campaigns or indulge in some online warfare with friends, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin will be coming soon to PC later this year.
Citizen Sleeper 2 Starward Vector
One of the best narrative driven games of last year gets a sequel in, you guessed it, Citizen Sleeper 2. Putting players in the shoes of an entirely different Sleeper and setting, Citizen Sleeper 2 Starward Vector looks to once again draw on the mechanics and deep storytelling of tabletop RPGs with a compelling and richly realised cast of characters that have been anchored to its space cyberpunk setting. Citizen Sleeper 2 Starward Vector has yet to be given an official PC release date.
Critter Cove
With its deep blue skies, clear serene waters and cheerful characters, Critter Cove is a resolutely wholesome and cosy tropical life sim that will be chilling out folks everywhere when it releases sometime later in 2023.
Hidden Door
Now this is something neat. Hidden Door isn’t actually a game but rather an initiative to develop AI in games to create a dynamic RPG storytelling platform that allows players to embark on unique adventures based on new and existing works of fiction.
Dread Pilots
Crafted by Klei Entertainment, the same talented folks that brought us the superb Griftlands and Don’t Starve games, Dread Pilots continues the studio’s proud tradition of developing excellent survival games by thrusting players out into a dark corner of cosmos and forcing them to scavenge, upgrade and maintain their ship in order to survive. Dread Pilots will touch down on PC sometime in 2024.
Miasma Chronicles
Released last month, Miasma Chronicles got another chance to shine during the PC Gaming Show thanks to a bombastic gameplay trailer that showed off the turn-based, tactical beats of this post-apocalyptic strategy RPG.
Undead Inc.
Tackling the dark side of corporation management, Undead Inc. almost plays like a reverse Theme Hospital as players must build up a sprawling organisation in order to propagate undead viruses, supersoldiers, cyborgs and much more for the sake of profit. Sounds lovely. Undead Inc. will be coming soon to PC on a date to be announced.
Altered Alma
Unfurling in a far future take on Barcelona, Altered Alma is a blisteringly fast and stylish Metroidvania platformer in which players take on the role of the titular protagonist and carve, blast, explode and even kiss their way through legions of goons and corrupt cyberpunk corporations. Altered Alma will be shooting her way to PC sometime soon.
Invector: Rhythm Galaxy
Supporting up to a quartet of players for online play, Invector: Rhythm Galaxy is a musical adventure set in the cosmos where players must fly through space or skim the surface of alien planets against beats from artists such as DuranDuran, Charlie Puth and more. Invector: Rhythm Galaxy dances onto PC on July 14, 2023.
The Invincible
The Invincible is a narrative driven action adventure that has players uncovering the mysteries of an alien planet called Regis III, a seemingly barren planet that conceals a wealth of secrets and atompunk style technology. The Invincible is a hard sci-fi odyssey that will release on PC sometime in 2023.
Park Beyond
Taking the concept of Theme Park and almost quite literally sending it to the moon, Park Beyond encourages players to indulge all manner of out of the box creativity as theme parks stuffed with jet packs, aliens, turbo roller coasters and more can be built and managed to thrill/scare the park going public. Park Beyond opens its doors to PC gamers on June 15, 2023.
Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors
An entirely new offering set within the massive Pathfinder universe, Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors is a roguelite survival effort that has players conquering legions of monsters and enemies alongside a steadfast companion. Overflowing with enemy types, loot and different abilities that can be employed in your quest, Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors will release on PC sometime in 2023.
Parcel Corps
As a freelance bicycle delivery messenger, Parcel Corps is all about delivering everything from sensitive documents to take away meals, parcels and other more unsavoury cargo faster than the other messengers are doing it. Think Crazy Taxi with a hefty heaping of Jet Set Radio style gameplay and you’ll come close to the madness that Parcel Corps bleeds from every digital pore. Parcel Corps is currently awaiting confirmation of a PC release date.
Fabledom
One of the most promising city builders in quite some time, Fabeldom got a neat content roadmap trailer at this year’s PC Gaming Show which went into some detail about what to expect from the forthcoming Gallantry & Bartering update, in addition to an overview of the recent Art of Soldiery update. Fabledom is out now in PC Early Access.
Chimera
Brought to life by Green Hell developers Creepy Jar, Chimera is a first-person, open world futuristic base building effort that has players exploring the expanse of a deadly planet all the while building fortifications, researching new technology and tangling with the local monsters and hostile factions. Chimera will be coming soon to PC.
30XX
A MegaMan inspired side-scrolling action platformer with an abundance of style and old-school challenge, 30XX got a trailer at this year’s PC Gaming Show to celebrate its exit from PC Early Access this coming August.
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
The next strategy title from Desperados 3 and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun developer Mimimi Games, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew transplants the tactical stealth beats of those games into a fantasy pirate setting where players must assemble a crew of ghostly buccaneers to fight the Inquisition and track down a long lost treasure. Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew will be released for PC on August 17, 2023.
Exo Rally Championship
An interstellar take on rally racing, Exo Rally Championship is all about tearing around alien planets at high speed in a variety of specialist off-road vehicles. Making full use of its exotic environments, Exo Rally Championship not only has racers worrying about their opponents but also volcanic eruptions, solar storms, meteor showers, massive tidal waves and so much more. Exo Rally Championship has yet to receive a PC release date as of this writing.
Stormgate
Unfolding in an eye-opening sci-fi universe and coming from former Blizzard Entertainment developers, Stormgate is a pioneering take on the RTS genre that combines co-op, PvP and solo PvE play allowing players to take on its narrative campaign in full cooperative play. Allowing players wage war on a demonic horde with mechs, aircraft, tanks and more, Stormgate is a hugely promising genre effort that’ll touchdown on PC sometime soon.
Fortune’s Run
A fast-paced cyberpunk boomer shooter, Fortune’s Run is sort of the screamingly fast hyper violent spectacle that is almost impossible to ignore. With a focus on hyperkinetic, acrobatic combat and super satisfying weaponry, Fortune’s Run is set to blast its way into PC Early Access on September 1, 2023.
Hell Let Loose – Devotion to Duty Update
Robust support for Hell Let Loose continues unabated with the latest trailer heralding the Devotion to Duty update, providing a much more streamlined 25 player adversarial game mode alongside a range of smaller maps for players to battle across.
Atomic Picnic
An adorably stylish 1-4 player co-op shooter with roguelite elements, Atomic Picnic is all about laying waste to a horde of colourful monsters in a painterly, anime style world filled with loot, upgrades and powerful new weapons to collect. Though a PC release date for Atomic Picnic has not been announced as yet, you can download a free demo from its Steam page.
Gaucho and the Grassland
Taking place in the fresh setting of the Pampas region in South America, Gaucho and the Grassland is a wholesome farming sim with a difference. Accompanied by loyal companions including a dog called Cusco, and a horse by the name of Alazão, Gaucho and the Grassland is all about dealing with mystical South American spirits, lassoing rowdy bulls and completing quests for those in need. Gaucho and the Grassland will be released for PC in September 2023.
Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy
An hilariously irreverent take on the point and click adventure genre, Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy is actually based on the super popular Latin American animated show “Jorel’s Brother”. As a young kid who seeks to escape the shadow of Jorel, his brother, Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy combines old fashioned puzzle-solving, hilarious dialogue and a range of bizarre mini-games to create quite the unique experience to say the least. Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy will be released for PC on June 15, 2023.
Mullet Mad Jack
Taking the grimy violent aesthetic of late 1980s/early 1990s anime and essentially layering boomer shooter sensibilities over the top of it, Mullet Mad Jack is precisely the sort of game that should have been made back in the day when the likes of hyper violent anime shows like Cyber City Oedo 808 were released. Stylish and filled with frenetic FPS android murder, Mullet Mad Jack will blast its way onto PC soon.
Nova Lands
Combining management of an idyllic tropical island with combat, massive boss fights and (of course) a dog that you can pet, Nova Lands is an unexpectedly furious top-down management game that is as much about building structures as it is about blasting massive dragons apart. Prior to its PC release on June 22, 2023, a free demo of Nova Lands can be downloaded from its Steam page.
Revival: Recolonization
Unfolding across a post-apocalyptic Earth, Revival: Recolonization is a dynamic 4X strategy game that not only besets the players with aggressive enemies, but also a raft of unexpected catastrophes such as hurricanes, floods and even spontaneous zombie invasions – all courtesy of a powerful deity seemingly afflicted with a terminal case of megalomania. Representing a properly interesting twist on the 4X strategy genre, Revival: Recolonization will release for PC on June 28, 2023. If you can’t wait until then, a free demo can be grabbed from the Revival: Recolonization Steam page.
Vampire Survivors Update 1.5
Going from strength to strength (or should that be coffin to coffin?)Vampire Survivors got a trailer for its 1.5 update showcasing the new ‘GoldFinger’ weapon, Astral Stair map, random events and all new relics to name just a few of the new goodies coming to the game.
Baldur’s Gate 3
With the August full release date of Baldur’s Gate 3 getting closer and closer, Larian Studios used the PC Gaming Show to provide fans with a new dev diary that went into the gargantuan amount of work that went into reimagining the various districts of the titular city in such painstaking detail.
Ember Knights
A promising top-down action roguelite set in a fantasy world teeming with monsters, Ember Knights will be leaving PC Early Access and enjoying a full 1.0 release in July 2023 and thanks to a new trailer at the PC Gaming Show, we can see just how far it has come along.
TerraTech Worlds
Much more than just a regular sci-fi base builder, TerraTech Worlds is an open-world PvE survival offering where players can not only fashion the infrastructure they’ll need to survive and thrive, but also craft custom made vehicles to take on anything alien worlds can throw at them. TerraTech Worlds kicks off a series of alpha playtests in Summer 2023.
Macabre
A stealth extraction first-person horror adventure, Macabre has quite the unique setting – forcing players to confront corrupted timelines, interdimensional and more besides as teams struggle to upgrade their gear and save their skin. A PC release date for Macabre has yet to be confirmed.
Earthless
In Earthless, players are put in control of a fleet of starships seeking to find their way home in the deep darkness of space. Part Homeworld and part strategy deckbuilder, Earthless provides players with near limitless agency to shape their journey however they like. Set to go into PC Early Access shortly, Earthless is pegged for a 2024 release on PC.
Nova Roma
Nova Roma takes the setting of Ancient Rome and essentially wraps city builder mechanics around it, tasking players to take everything into account from the availability of water, food and natural materials to maintaining the delicate political balance that sits at the heart of the Roman Empire. Nova Roma is set for a PC release sometime in 2024.
Last Train Home
Staying with a historical setting, Last Train Home unfolds during the Russian Civil War and gives players the towering task of protecting and maintaining an armoured train filled with Czechoslovakian soldiers that want nothing more than to return home. Last Train Home is set to release on PC soon.
My Friendly Neighbourhood
A first-person survival horror shooter that looks like an unholy marriage of creepy Jim Henson puppetry and F.E.A.R, My Friendly Neighbourhood is a non-linear adventure absolutely laden with dark humour that will release for PC on July 18, 2023. While you wait, a free demo can be downloaded from the Steam page for the game.
F1 Manager 2023
Representing a sizable leap over last year’s game, F1 Manager 2023 not only provides a deeper level of simulation to the proceedings, but it also brings an all new scenario mode to the table which allows armchair managers to relive actual moments from Formula One history. F1 Manager 2023 is to release for PC on July 31, 2023,
Breathedge 2
Spacebound adventure Breathedge gets a sequel in Breathedge 2, another first-person survival offering that provides more planets, more star systems and of course, more inventions to players to create and tinker with as they face off against a monolithic (and very evil) intergalactic corporation. Breathedge 2 does not have a PC release date at this time.
Bloomtown: A Different Story
On the surface, Bloomtown: A Different Story would seem to be a fairly wholesome, top-down, retro JRPG that combines monster capture and social elements. Peel back its ‘aw shucks’ 1960s Americana veneer however and a subversive narrative about removing nihilistic demons from the bodies of Bloomtown’s townsfolk soon emerges. Bloomtown: A Different Story is coming to PC soon.
Sand
Perhaps the most impressive new reveal at the PC Gaming Show, Sand whisks players off to the planet of Sophie, an alternate timeline world which was previously ruled by a spacebound Austro-Hungarian Empire. Offering up an intoxicating mixture of open world survival, exploration and PvPvE elements, Sand boasts the sort of imagination and breathless scale that will ensure it ends up on many, many wish lists for a good while to come. Sand doesn’t have a PC release date yet, but we’re more than happy to wait.
Dune: Awakening
In the wake of the renewed interest in Dune courtesy of Denis Villeneuve’s superb recent adaptation, Dune: Awakening is an epic, open-world survival MMO that places a focus on social interactivity and exploration as much as it does on bombastic third-person combat and the compelling exploration of the planet Arrakis. A PC release date for Dune: Awakening has yet to be announced.