The Best New Games in 2022: Nintendo Switch Sports, Redfall, Saints Row & More…

The sheer array of new games dropping in 2022 and beyond is pretty staggering, and with the E3 2022 schedule looking set to drop some more reveals and announcements, this list is going to get a lot busier in the coming months.

New Games in 2022

Nintendo Switch Sports

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Release date: April 29, 2022

Switch Sports is bringing the power of the Wii Sports model to the Switch at last. Motion-controlled sports in your living room, for the entire family. Six sports will be included from launch – football, badminton, bowling, tennis, chambara, and volleyball – with golf coming in the autumn as a free update.

Evil Dead: The Game

Platform(s): PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch, and PC
Release date: May 13, 2022

Take up the role of Ash Williams and his friends in this co-op and PvP shooter. You play as a team of four, working to survive by exploring, looting, finding key items to seal up the break between worlds, and also managing your fear. It’s a game inspired by all three of the Evil Dead films, as well as the Ash vs Evil Dead TV show.

Mario Strikers: Battle League Football

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Release date: June 10, 2022

Mario Strikers is back with its unique take on football / soccer. It’s a five-on-five sport where you’re trying to score goals by dribbling and passing to teammates, using tackles, items, and special shots to achieve that. You’ll be able to equip your team with gear to boost their stats, and also engage with local and online multiplayer.

Redfall

Platform(s): Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: Summer 2022

Arkane Austin is making a brand new open-world, co-op shooter called Redfall. Set in the island town of Redfall, Massachusetts, the place is under siege by vampires who have blocked out the sun and complete access to the island. You’re trapped with a handful of other survivors, who must team up and use innovative weaponry to try to become the ultimate vampire slayers. Think UV blasters and stake guns and you’re getting there.

Two Point Campus

Platform(s): PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
Release date: August 9, 2022

It’s time to design and run your very own college, complete with appropriately whimsical and utterly bonkers classes, like Knight School. Get it? Create your perfect campus, shape the lives of your students on a more personal level than with Two Point Hospital, and manage its overall success.

Saints Row

Platfom(s): PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
Release date: August 23, 2022

Saints Row is coming back with a complete reboot of the series. You’ll be building the Sains from the ground up, playing as the Boss with a small group of friends just starting out. It’ll be your decisions that will shape the newly formed gang, and you’ll be able to make your mark on the fictional city of Santo Ileso by deciding what kind of crime lord you want to be. Drug smuggling? Arms running? You decide. This is the Saints’ origin story, and you get to tell it your way.

TINY TINA’S WONDERLANDS

With Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, it feels as if Borderlands’ developers are finally comfortable letting go, and the results speak for themselves. Wonderlands is a joyful romp through tabletop-RPG-inspired worlds, with seemingly minor tweaks that create huge ripples in the series’ “Diablo meets guns” formula. You can combine two disparate character classes, traverse a board-game style overworld, and pour dozens of hours into the phenomenal “Chaos Chamber” endgame. Through it all, Gearbox is willing to acknowledge that we’re not here for a script, or even a coherent narrative, and it leans into that sentiment with an appropriately scattershot story — it doesn’t take itself so seriously that it sacrifices unpredictability, joy, or the satisfaction of mesmerizing, well earned loot. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC.

NORCO

Norco stands out for a lot of reasons: It’s a beautiful, honest portrayal of southern Louisiana, an inventive and dystopian science-fiction story, and a sharp criticism of the oil industry’s blight. Created by Geography of Robots, Norco is an interpretation of Norco, Louisiana — the real town whose name stands for the New Orleans Refining Company, home to Shell’s manufacturing complex. As a point-and-click adventure, Norco unravels slowly as the main character, Kay, returns to her childhood home following her mother’s death. It’s all at once a magical realism story with mystery elements, yet still firmly rooted in a sense of reality — not an easy blend of genres to balance. The writing and simple environmental puzzles, together with a unique mind-map mechanic that acts as a character list and mental notebook, lend to a fast-paced story that still leaves room to stop and take in all of the poignant weirdness.

TUNIC

There are echoes of Myst, The Witness, and the original Legend of Zelda in developer Andrew Shouldice’s action-adventure outing. It has also drawn myriad comparison to 2012’s Fez, a game which also deployed its own unique written language to confuse, entice, and ultimately steer players toward its larges overarching secrets. Its combat can become cloying — especially during later boss fights — and its level design doesn’t always allow for the most leisurely backtracking. But its willingness to trust the player’s intelligence, patience, and most of all, thirst for discovery make it a masterful adventure in its own right.

What Lego games are coming out in 2022?

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. Credit: LEGO. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has been unveiled at Gamescom, and it’s launching sometime in spring 2022.

What will Dragon Age 4 be about?

In the Gamescom trailer, lead writer Patrick Weekes described how Dragon Age 4’s story will diverge from Inquisition. “For the game we’re working on now, we want to tell the story of, ‘What happens when you don’t have power?

Will there be a blasphemous 2?

Announced at Gamescom (via IGN), The Game Kitchen has a final free DLC chapter — Blasphemous: Wounds of Eventide — coming to PC and consoles on December 9, as well as a sequel in the works for 2023. Yep, they’re making a Blasphemous 2, and I’m stoked.

Will there be PS4 games in 2023?

Sony has said in an investor’s meeting that they will support PlayStation 4 at least until 2023. Jim Ryan stated in an investor’s meeting, “We anticipate the PS4 will have the longest tail and deepest engagement of any of our platforms.