The new game releases this week waver between horrifying and charming. Sometimes the premise of a game is pretty sad on its face, but the stuff you do isn’t as bleak. That’s the case for a couple games arriving this week. However, that’s not true for The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, a game fully committed to misery. There are cheerful moments in it, though, so it technically counts. Just don’t go into it expecting to spend 40 hours riffing on Ellie’s guitar.
Koira drops just before the rest of the games on the list arrive on Thursday. It’s a game about exploring a forest with a lost puppy, and if I think too hard about where that story might go I’ll cry. Then there’s Naughty Dog’s bleak, post-apocalyptic shooter where you can’t go 45 minutes without watching something awful happen. Sand also comes out on that day and brings a fun twist to the extraction shooter genre: spider tanks. And Caligo and Sephiria are two games that look more pleasant than they actually are. One of them lets you play as a bunny warrior, though.
Here are our most anticipated game releases for the week of March 31.
