Sleeping Dogs: Triad Wars (United Front): 2015
Not the fully-fledged sequel to Sleeping Dogs most were hoping for, but instead a … well, Wikipedia calls it an “open world online multiplayer action-adventure strategy game,” which is one hell of a buzzword salad. Far as I know, it’ll re-use the city of Hong Kong from Sleeping Dogs, and cast you as an eager Triad member looking to expand his territory. Part MMO, part free-to-play, part Sleeping Dogs, I guess? Could be a pleasant surprise. Could be a disaster.
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Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord (Taleworlds): 2015
Updates on Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord have been few and far between. The largest concentration of information can be found on Taleworlds’ sporadic blog postings, with the most recent entry offering a look at the sequel’s powerful (and flexible) new engine. More highly-moddable sandbox RPG antics are anticipated; hopefully in 2015.
Routine (LunarSoftware): 2015
Set on an abandoned Moon Base, Routine looks like it could be one of the more interesting first person horror titles of 2015. Check out the trailer on this page.
Wreckfest (Bugbear): 2015
Previously called Next Car Game, Bugbear’s driving smash-em-up racer hit Steam Early Access last year – inevitably meaning there’s still a bunch of work to be done. A multiplayer mode has been added to the game, but there’s plenty more needed if this is to see a full release in 2015.
Corpse Party: Blood Covered (Team GrisGris): 2015
XSEED were due to bring Team GrisGris’s horror adventure series to PC sometime in 2014, and then things went quiet. Hopefully this is still in the works, because getting chased around a decrepit school filled with the vengeful ghosts of murdered children, watching our school-age protagonists get offed one by one, sounds like fun. Okay, maye “fun” is the wrong word, but you know what I mean. (The screen above is from a different Corpse Party game on the PSP, but you get the general idea.)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Warhorse Studios): Q4 2015 (estimated)
We may not end up seeing the full Kingdom Come: Deliverance in 2015, but with an alpha currently underway it’s likely that updates will continue throughout the year for this medieval-themed RPG. A fairly sizable earner on Kickstarter, Kingdom Come is going for period accuracy, first-person melee combat and classless character progression. Sounds (loosely) like Mount & Blade, which is not a bad point of reference by any means.
