The beginning of April will be quite calm, but already in the middle of the month the AAA project from Ukrainian developers will be released. And in the second half of April, you will have to take a vacation in order to have time to go through all the interesting releases.
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Meet Your Maker
Genre: FPS, Strategy/Building
Date: April 4
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5 (PS+), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
Meet Your Maker is a first-person action game in which you need to break into a protected house, avoid traps, eliminate guards, steal the GenMat genetic material and leave the building intact with it. You can play both solo and cooperatively.
The feature of the game is that other players build fortresses with all the contents, and upon successful or even unsuccessful completion of the mission, you can leave feedback to the author of the building. The game is available on the basic PS Plus Essential subscription from the day of release.
Road 96: Mile 0
Genre: Action Adventure
Date: April 4
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
Road 96: Mile 0 is a prequel to the 2021 game, the events of which take place on the eve of the original Road 96. Unlike the original game, the prequel is more dynamic and focuses on just two characters, Zoe and Kaito, they have different views on life, but their destinies are intertwined.
Everspace 2
Genre: TPS/FPS, RPG
Date: April 6
Platform: PC (PC Game Pass), (PS5, Xbox Series X|S in summer 2023)
After more than two years in early access, Everspace 2 will receive a full release. Everspace 2 is a continuation of the space roguelike shooter with RPG elements, only this time the developers got rid of the rogue elements and focused on a hand-made large open world.
Outer space is full of dangers, secrets, riddles and a lot of loot. In addition, the game has a full-fledged plot, partners, each with their own story, and is completely focused on single-player, without co-op.
Curse of the Sea Rats
Genre: Action Adventure, Metroidvania
Date: April 6
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
Four British Crown prisoners were cursed and turned into mice. Now their task is to escape from prison, destroy the evil witch, and also find a way to dispel the imposed miracle and return to human form.
Curse of the Sea Rats is a mouse side-scroller in which we play as one of four characters. Everyone has their own abilities and skills. You can even play cooperatively in front of one screen. The picture reminds of the adventures of Chip and Dale. The characters are drawn and animated by hand, in the way of classic animation. This makes the game even more attractive for playing with children and blurs the lines between game and cartoon.
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Genre: Adventure
Date: April 11
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is a complete reimagining of the 2007 game of the same name. In this adventure, the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Howard Phillips Lovecraft came together in a love duo. An outstanding detective and a partner investigate a series of mysterious disappearances of people, which leads them to an ancient cult.
The Awakened continues the rebooted Sherlock Holmes story from Chapter One. However, what is most impressive is that the Kyiv studio was able to fully develop the game under constant bombings, alarms and power outages. It is incredibly!
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Ghostwire: Tokyo | Spider’s Thread Update
Genre: Action Adventure
Date: April 12
Platform: Xbox Series X|S (GP), (already released on PC, PS5)
The PS5 temporary console exclusive will be released on Xbox Series X|S consoles. Most critics disliked the game for its monotonous gameplay, but all praised the world design, monsters, and general atmosphere of Tokyo, filled with gnomes, yokai, and other creatures of Japanese folklore.
The game will be available immediately on Game Pass along with the free Spider’s Thread Update, which will add new content to the game: new monsters, new locations to explore (a brand new school location), new abilities and talismans, as well as expanded cutscenes in story missions. In addition, the update will include a roguelite mode in which you will have to fight your way through floors of monsters and reveal another mysterious story. The update is supposed to diversify the gameplay that players and critics were unhappy with. Spider’s Thread Update will also be available on PC and PS5.
The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story
Genre: Action RPG
Date: April 18
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
The League of Legends universe continues to expand with games of various genres. The Mageseeker is a top-down action game from the creators of Moonlighter that tells the story of the mage Sylas, who has just escaped from the mage hunters in order to gather a rebellion and free the country from tyranny.
Minecraft Legends
Genre: Action Strategy
Date: April 18
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Switch
Minecraft Cinematic Universe is gaining momentum. The plot of Minecraft Legends begins during the attack on the Upper World by pigs from the Lower World. The hero will have to unite the inhabitants of all biomes and repel the attack of the invaders. In the world of the game, the events appear as fiction, a legend that may have once been history.
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
Genre: Action
Date: April 19
Platform: PS5
The massive expansion for Horizon Forbidden West will throw Ela into the very cradle of cinema – Hollywood, in search of a sinister threat and, of course, its elimination. The update turned out to be so monumental and technically loaded that it will pass the last generation of PlayStation and will be released only on PS5.
Dead Island 2
Genre: Action, FPS
Date: April 21
Platform: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
After many years of development, changes of several developers and mockery, Dead Island 2 will finally please us with the atmosphere of abandoned Hollywood and fun killing zombies. Our preview of the game can be read at the link.
The Last Case of Benedict Fox
Genre: Action, Adventure, Metroidvania
Date: April 27
Platform: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S (GP)
Self-proclaimed detective Benedict Fox investigates the mysterious death of his father. But the small nuance is that Benedict has a partner, and this partner is a demon, which allows him to travel through the eerie materialized worlds of the memories and fears of recently deceased people.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Genre: Action Adventure
Date: April 28
Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Closes the list of April releases Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – the sequel to the successful Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order should correct all the mistakes of the predecessor, improve the combat system, fill the world with interesting events and continue the story of the “boy who survived” (after Order 66). The game’s producer has already hinted that if Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a financial success, Cal Castis’ story will end in a triquel.
The plot gap of five years between the sequel and the original can be filled by the book Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars, but its reviews are mediocre, so even if you are a Saga fan, think about whether it is worth spending $15 on a frankly filler product.
Separately, I would like to mention two more Ukrainian gameswhich are due out this month. On April 20, the sarcastic Action RPG Greedventory is released on Steam, in which you will have to literally call your enemies to death under the funny comments of your partner, often full of dark humor. Also the side-scroller Smelted Kin: Inhuman Impact is due out within the monthBut there has been no news about the game for over a year, and the developers publish practically nothing on social networks.
