We dive through the launch lists of PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch to focus on some of the most interesting titles this month.
The times in which August was a desert of launches have been left far behind. Especially since some companies saw the last week of the month as a way of taking positions in September without directly competing with the heavyweights that begin to appear in that month for the last quarter of the year. A good week for important titles but without great media weight such as Control or Astral Chain, apart from weight names with somewhat different offers such as the classic World of Warcraft or Pokemon Masters on mobiles.
Hamsterdarm
- Platforms: PC, Switch
- Release: August 1
Through the sense of rhythm and precision, we will guide our Hamster martial arts expert on a nice journey of revenge against those who shattered his hometown
Omega Labyrinth Life
- Platforms: PS4, Switch
- Release: August 1
The RPG series Omega Labyrinth, with its peculiar mechanics of inflating the breasts of the protagonists to represent increased power, expands into a new game that proposes Roguelike elements and other more relaxing activities such as gardening as optional activities.
Madden NFL 20
- Platforms: PS4, Xbox One
- Release: August 2
The annual saga of American football will come as every year as the great representative of this sport in the world of videogames.
The Church in the Darkness
- Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch
- Release: August 2, 2019
It's 1977, your grandson has gone to South America to join a religious cult in the depths of the jungle. We must infiltrate, know the operation of the place and its people, make decisions and, ultimately, decide what to do with our protégé, in a dynamic adventure full of tension and with different endings in which each game can be different.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
- Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
- Release: August 6
After a remarkable production with Age of Wonders III, Triumph shows that he is comfortable as part of Paradox and doing what he likes most: important strategy games. His new work takes his best known saga into space, with all the characteristic elements of “Age of” as a greater focus on the tactical battle than other 4X, with greater elements of RPG and customization of the units.
Silver chains
- Platforms: PC
- Release: August 6
Title of terror in first person in which the protagonist wakes up in a dark mansion without knowing how it has arrived, but with the memory of having been in the place before. He will not have much time to remember before a foul creature starts hunting him and has to flee for his life.
Metal Wolf Chaos XD
- Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
- Release: August 6
Before From Software became the lady of dark souls, her catalog was a heterogeneous mix of role-playing games and wicks, but always with a permanent air of seriousness. Metal Wolf Chaos, originally raised as an Xbox exclusive, was surely the way in which a part of the team was able to do a “palette wash” and let go of the mane to create a crazy action game of form and substance, far from the seriousness of Armored Core.
Gibbous
- Platforms: PC
- Release: August 7
Named in Meristation as one of the most promising adventures of 2018, many graphic adventurers have patiently waited for this title of brilliant aesthetics and animation by hand. It also promises the story, a satire of Cthulhu's myths that will be a breath of fresh air in the face of the most serious attempts to deal with Lovecraft material
Apsulov: End of Gods
- Platform: PC
- Release: August 8
The creators of Unforgiving: A Northern Hymn stood out among the tsunami of horror indies with a fresh adventure set in the folklore of their native Sweden. With their new work they return to twist their myths to create something fresh: a new horror adventure based on a future world of Viking inspiration, in which a forbidden magic and technology have merged into a real nightmare on earth.
Vicious circle
- Platform: PC
- Release: August 13
In the competitive world of multiplayer shooters it is difficult to look for original formulas. Vicious Circle tries to create an asynchronous experience where players must face a dangerous mutant hen as they fight to accumulate and maintain maximum loot, with the condition that their death will transform them into an agile monster with which they will have to try to possess To another player. Threat to several bands.
Ion Fury
- Platforms: PC
- Release: August 15
The creators of Duke Nukem return to what they do best. The study has dusted its revered Build Engine engine, which created some of the best FPS in the history of the genre and proposes a trip to the past with an explosive game without complexes that has dazzled the new nostalgic current of the gender with your Early Access. In mid-August we will have the full title.
DARQ
- Platforms: PC
- Release: August 15
Lloyd is an ordinary boy who, on a placid night, becomes aware that he is dreaming. The dream quickly becomes a nightmare and, worse, the protagonist fails to wake up whatever he does. Trapped, you must learn to manipulate the dream world to find a way out in this title of gloomy setting.
Remnant: From the Ashes
- Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One
- Release: August 20
Inspired by games like Monster Hunter or Dauntless, Remnant is a reinterpretation of the Hunter genre, with a group of players trying to hunt down a gigantic creature, with the peculiarity that Remnant bets on a more dark and almost terrifying setting to present his name and creatures-
RAD
- Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4, Switch
- Release: August 20
Double Fine launches with a colorful Devil-style Hack`n Slash, set in a post-nuclear world in which what remains of humanity survives thanks to the power of mutation, knowing that at every step they become more powerful, but less humans.
Oninaki
- Platforms: Switch, PC, PS4
- Release: August 22
It is easy to feel sympathy for the Tokyo RPG Factory study of Square Enix, a small group with the mission of creating RPGs with the traditional values of yesteryear, with relatively few resources. His two creations so far, I Am Setsuna and Lost Sphear have not revolutionized the genre, but show a progression that many expect to continue with Oninaki, a game that at least shows a jump in the visual presentation – which will go very well to the already remarkable musical work of the productions of this group.
Mable and the Wood
- Platforms: PC
- Release: August 22
The premise of this Metroidvania is that the protagonist can not do anything for herself, despite being a resurrected goddess: neither attack, jump, nor run, but it can become creatures that can do it. His minimalist style hides a story about a prophecy, and a choice: try to save a dying world, or be the executor who puts an end to his suffering.
Control
- Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One
- Release: August 27
One of the most powerful releases this month. Remedy begins a new stage with a title that has powerfully drawn attention to each new stage in which it has been shown to the public. Its history is in harmony with the powerful setting that “the oldest house” gives off, a secret government agency in which the paranormal threats that loom over a humanity ignorant of the universe around it are investigated and kept at bay.
Hunt: Showdown
- Platforms: PC, Xbox One
- Release: August 27
After a convincing Early Access period, Hunt prepares for its final launch in late August. Ten hunters (twelve coming soon), a monster, an atmospheric map full of dangers and a tense competition between players who will have to cooperate and compete at the same time to get out alive and get the greatest rewards without dying in the attempt. Its dark western atmosphere and the visual power of the CryEngine finish rounding a unique game.
World of Warcraft: Classic
- Platforms: PC
- Release: August 27
What many WoW fans had been dreaming about for a while is going to come true: a chance to relive the glorious times, just as the game was originally conceived. An opportunity to revisit the immensity of old Azeroth and enjoy -or suffer- the characteristics of a game very different from what we have now, and do so in addition to the hand of a community eager to relive the experience.
Pokémon Masters
- Platforms: Android, Iphone
- Release: August 29
Waiting for Shield and Sword, and with Pokemon Go showing enormous vitality, is there room for a new Pokémon? That is the bet of The Pokemon Company and DeNA, which has prepared an adventure that brings together the most iconic Pokémon characters and masters of this universe in an F2P mobile game that promises to satisfy fans.
Astral chain
- Platforms: Switch
- Release: August 30
A new Platinum game is always good news and a promise to enjoy a studio that understands the action as few in the industry. There is a lot of curiosity with Astral Chain in addition, being a new IP that has emerged relatively from nothing, with an interesting world and a combat system that promises to be quite particular given the relationship between the protagonist and the creature to which it is linked.
The Ninja Warriors – Return of the Warriors
- Platform: PS4, Switch
- Release: August 30
The retro is more alive than ever, and that does not only translate into the arrival of games of yesteryear, or the appearance of consoles honoring the classics, it also manifests itself in the form of past games that arrive in the form of a remake, with a renewed coat of paint and new features that try to improve the originals, as is the case with this The Ninja Warriors, an arcade title originally from Super Nintendo that now arrives in a version tuned for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
Blair witch
- Platforms: Xbox One, PC
- Release: August 30
The trajectory of the games based on The Witch of Blair has had an unequal fortune, although with quite interesting premises and ideas. Now, the creators of Layers of Fear and Observer dare with the franchise, with the guarantee of their good work in other horror titles and the promise of doing justice
Man of Medan
- Platforms: PS4, PC. Xbox One
- Release: August 30
Continuing with the terror and with studies of proven trajectory in the genre, Supermassive Games tries its luck creating a new mythology of terror after triumphing with its reinterpretation of the slasher genre in Until Dawn.
Conversions:
In addition to the new releases, August has some titles that reach new platforms. One of the most emblematic is The Bard's Tale IV, the recent new installment of a dean saga in the Western RPG that arrives on PS4 and Xbox One, coinciding on date with the launch of an ambitious Director's Cut, which will add new content and solve some of the problems of the original release.
Also noteworthy is the appearance of Turok 2 on Switch, a nostalgic journey for a title that revolutionized the console FPS and became one of the great stars of Nintendo 64. It will be on November 9. Also on Switch, on August 29, we will find the version of the new Bubsy: Paws of Fire, a competent and nostalgic return of one of the forgotten 16-bit pets
