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.)

The Rise Of The Golden Idol (TBA)

We’re on the , , about the joys and glories of Color Gray Games’ detective title Case Of The Golden Idol, an incredibly clever, visually delightful spin on deduction games like Return Of The Obra Dinn. The sequel, apparently set in the 1970s, sadly doesn’t have a release date yet, outside of a basic, loose “2024,” but the second it’s out, we’ll be first in line.