RPGs Coming This Week, 11/24/24

Sin Slayers: Reign of the 8th – November 25th (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Developer Goonswarm Games has spruced up its RPG roguelite Sin Slayers with gameplay enhancements, revamped music, and new content. Sin Slayers: Reign of the 8th should appeal to folks with a taste for dark fantasy, dungeon exploration, customizable abilities, and tons of replayability. That combination definitely covers a wide swath.

In a neat gesture, Goonswarm is offering free Steam keys to people who already own the original Sin Slayers. That’s a genuinely honorable deed, which I think says something about our inherent capacity for good. But I don’t blame studios for not doing that. After all, it is only human to commit a sin. Heh heh heh heh…

Neon Blood – November 26th (PS5, XSX, PS4, XB1, Switch, Windows)

Detective adventure games in futuristic dystopias haven’t gotten stale for me yet, but they’re starting to. This is why I’m relieved Neon Blood takes a slightly different approach, combining a cyberpunk noir narrative with good, old-fashioned turn-based combat. It helps that battles are fairly brisk, judging by gameplay footage.

On the topic of video previews, see how many movie references you can find in this trailer. There’s a fair few, and more may have gone over my head. Sure, I’ll take an homage to the classics.

Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 – The Dead King’s Secret – November 28th (Switch)

Coming this week is a game by someone I can objectively say is “qualified.” Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 – The Dead King’s Secret is developed by Christoph Minnameier, a game design professor at a Berlin institution and a computer science PhD holder. It’s a follow-up to an award-winning dungeon crawler/puzzle game from 2022. One guess as to what it’s named.

This sequel’s really more of the same, though combat has been introduced. If you enjoyed Arranger earlier this year, or if you just like Zelda, Mystery Dungeon, or the SNES game Dungeon Master, Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 may well be worth your time.

Crown Wars: The Black Prince – November 28th (Switch)

The historical-ish strategy RPG Crown Wars: The Black Prince heads to Switch this week, months after launching on PC earlier this year. Our own Abe Kobylanski gave it a fair shake in his review, and maybe you should too.

Ravenswatch – November 28th (PS5, XSX, PS4, XB1)

Ravenswatch, an action roguelike with a slight visual and mechanical resemblance to Hades (personally speaking), is coming this week to PS and Xbox consoles after exiting Steam Early Access in September.

Riviera: The Promised Land Remaster – November 28th (Switch)

Riviera: The Promised Land Remaster is coming this week to Switch after a Western release in July. It’ll normally run you $34.99 USD on the eShop, but there’s a 20% discount until around December 4th, depending on your timezone.

Tokyo Psychodemic – November 28th (PS5, PS4, Switch, Windows)

It pains me to admit, but I totally bungled this. I originally wrote that Tokyo Psychodemic would launch on May 30th, but I’ve since learned that was the Japanese release date, not the worldwide one. If you’d like to grab this detective adventure game in English, you need only wait until November 28th.