THE LINE-UP
It’s set to be a fantastic year for releases – here’s just a few of the heaviest hitters
Stray
RELEASE: Autumn 2022
The debut game from two ex-Ubisoft veterans promises a unique experience where you play as a cat in a sci-fi world.
Baldur’s Gate III
RELEASE: TBC
Larian’s fantastic take on the series is already out in Early Access and we’re hoping this is the year it goes 1.0.
Company of Heroes 3
RELEASE: 2022
2022 is the year the RTS returns from the grave, as genre veterans Relic Entertainment bring back the iconic WWII series. We’ve been hands-on a couple of times now, and it’s blown us away each time. It’s a good year to be a strategy gamer.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
RELEASE: 2022
You know it’s going to be a good year for PC gaming when there’s a big new release on the way from the XCOM team. Midnight Suns may be taking the strategy in a very different direction, but its superheroic skirmishes look no less compelling than the alien assassination we’re used to.
Total War: Warhammer III
RELEASE: Out now
It’s almost time for the biggest entry yet in one of the best strategy series of all time. Find out more on p28.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
RELEASE: 2022
The creators of the Batman: Arkham games are back in the superhero saddle.
STALKER 2
RELEASE: Dec 8, 2022
For a long time it looked like we’d never get a new STALKER – but this year we’re getting a sequel in time for Christmas.
Kerbal Space Program 2
RELEASE: 2022 Starfield
RELEASE: Nov 11, 2022
It’s been a decade since Skyrim and seven years since Fallout 4. In other words, it’s been a long wait for a new Bethesda open world, but 2022 is finally the year – and with its intergalactic setting, it looks like the developer’s most ambitious project yet.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
RELEASE: 2022
After years of lovingly supporting the excellent Vermintide 2, Fatshark is gearing up to launch its grand follow-up. Bigger, bolder, and bloodier, with a shift in setting to the grim sci-fi of Warhammer 40k, it promises to make this a year a great one for co-op action.
Getting to the moon first time round was hard enough – now they want us to build entire colonies in space!
Homeworld 3
RELEASE: Summer 2022
Nearly two decades after Homeworld 2, Blackbird Interactive is bringing us back to a galaxy of spaceship strategy.
Crusader Kings III: Royal Court
RELEASE: Out now
This first big expansion will be the perfect excuse to return to CK III.