Here are the biggest games coming out in the back half of 2024

Now that we’ve successfully dispensed with naming every single good game of the first half of 2024—except for Animal Well, we know we left off Animal Well, we’re still waiting for Animal Well to click for us, okay?—it’s time to look forward to the big, Elden Ring DLC-shaped future. Which is to say it’s time to engage in another regular tradition ’round these parts: A mid-year gaming preview, highlighting the biggest game releases that are (probably) still coming in the remaining months of 2024.

And, look: Are we having a really hard time not just jumping to the upcoming video game where Universal Pictures took a ridiculous mish-mash of its characters (The Thing! Xena! M3GAN! Fucking JAWS!), turned them into Funko Pops, and then let you run around punching stuff as them? Absolutely! But such is our duty, and our curse. (It’s out in September, by the way, it looks like the most beautifully stupid thing we’ve ever seen, god, can we not wait.)

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengance (June 14)

After spending almost three years as a Nintendo Switch exclusive, the fifth entry in Atlus’ punishing, mechanically deep Shin Megami Tensei series of demon-summoning RPGs is finally coming to a wider audience, complete with a whole new story path for players to follow as they navigate a world increasingly imperiled by supernatural forces. Less story-driven, and more combat-focused, than its cousins over in the Persona sub-series, the SMT games remain fascinating for their efforts to explore the rigors and depths of turn-based RPG combat; we’re excited to see what Vengeance can do in that space once it’s fully unleashed.