Dune, Under The Waves, Steelrising, Lies of P: the video games that marked Gamescom 2022

The video game resumed its rights, this week of August 22, during Gamescom 2022, the video game fair held in Cologne (Germany). The opportunity to discover the future must-have titles that will come to animate consoles and PCs in the coming months.

• Awakening of the dunes

Tribute to the literary work immortalized in the cinema by David Lynch, then more recently Denis Villeneuve, the game awakening of the dunes finally appeared. The Funcom title takes up the codes of the futuristic universe of the book to present itself as an open world multiplayer survival game.

The first images notably highlighted a giant sandworm, already seen on the big screen. The missions will be simple and multiple: survive the elements, enemies and animals, maintain your space suit, control Arrakis, build shelters to withstand sandstorms.

No release date has been announced for dune awakening, which will be available on PS5, Xbox Series and PC.

• Under the waves

The new game published by Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human) and developed by Parallel Studio is an ode to the sea. Designed in collaboration with the NGO Surfrider Foundation Europe, under the waves is an underwater exploration game.

The player plays Stan, a diver for an oil company exploring the depths of the North Sea. Fauna and flora, caves, shipwrecks, the game focuses on the preservation of the oceans through a story that takes the hero through a series of events and mysteries. 20,000 existential questions under the sea.

Quantic Dream has partnered with the Surfrider Foundation Europe, a non-profit association dedicated to the protection and enhancement of lakes, rivers, oceans, waves and coastlines. The French studio provides financial support to the association. under the waves it will come to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and PC in 2023.

• Lies of Pi

A strange video, followed by 12 minutes to appreciate the future game: lies of p pampered a bit more during Gamescom. The action role-playing game takes place in a Victorian universe that is as attractive as it is disturbing, and promises to be quite difficult with its ruthless fights. lies of p offers a rereading of Pinocchio and the player must find Geppetto, creator of the little wooden puppet. Pinocchio will try to become human by modifying his body and designing his weapons to survive in a ruthless Krat town. But his lies can influence his adventure and the course of the story.

The game will be available on PS5, Xbox Series and PC in 2023.

• New tales from the borderlands

Gearbox has earned a great reputation for many years as the hidden studio behind the Borderlands saga.. And the recipe could well hit the mark again with a new episode called New Tales from the Borderlands in which three “endearing losers” want to do everything they can to save their threatened planet. These antiheroes will have to make decisions that will determine their future. As its name suggests, it is a sequel to Borderlands Talesa narrative game based on episodes from 2014.

The game will be released on October 21, 2022 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC.

• Hogwarts Legacy

Harry Potter fans are looking forward to this return to Hogwarts. Hogwarts Legacy it does not resume the adventures of the young spectacled wizard and his friends. The game is inspired by the universe designed by JK Rowling to tell the story of a wizard or a witch to customize. In a new video presented at Gamescom, Warner Bros Games showed off a character named Sebastian Sallow, a Slytherin with a troubled family past, but also terrifying creatures and places, evil spells. In the most famous wizarding school of the 19th century, he must make an important decision: will he use dark magic to join the forces of evil, or will he choose to fight against enemies? Not everything will be so simple in the game.

The game will be available on February 10, 2023 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC.

• Steel lifting

This French game developed by the Spiders studio (avarice) is one of the most anticipated of the season. With its mixture of history (it takes place during the French Revolution), automatons that are the new supports of Louis XVI and provide a touch of fantasy, but also alternative history (the king of France does not end up beheaded and assembles an army of automatons to subdue the people) rise steel It looks like a separate game. Quite difficult, but not overwhelming in its struggles, says designer Jehanne Rousseau, this baroque-looking action-RPG will take you through a very realistic Paris of the late 18th century, from the Bastille prison to the Louvre. , from Notre-Dame to Les Invalides. The heroine Aegis is an automaton, a former bodyguard of Marie Antoinette, who has decided to undermine the automata’s rule of the king.

rise steel will be available on September 8, 2022 on PS5, Xbox Series and PC. Access to a beta version is offered for any pre-order of the game.

• Killer Clowns From Outer Space – The Game

Murderous clowns with the craziest possible weapons spread panic in Crescent Cove, a sleepy American town. It was the summary of a horror movie that had little success at the end of the 80s (Les Clowns tueurs from elsewhere in French). This is now the pitch of a game created by Teravision Games (Friday the 13th – The Game) which is based on the original work, supporting the creators as a bonus. In this multiplayer and team game, it is possible to embody one of the three clowns or one of the seven civilians who face them (a teenager, a policeman, a motorcyclist (motorcyclist in French), etc.).

Each group has their choice of character categories and weapons. May the best survive the fire of popcorn guns, batons or very dangerous dogs in inflatable balloons! Fans of slightly quirky games will love this. Killer Clowns From Outer Space – The Game which will soon be available in beta before an availability next year.