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.)

Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree (June 21)

Is there a slight weirdness to the fact that the biggest game of the rest of 2024 is just an expansion on the biggest game of 2022? Maybe, but we’re too busy getting hyped for Erdtree, which will massively expand on From Software’s fantastically good , to care. From is pretty much the best in the business when it comes to authoring expansions for its beautiful, brutal worlds, and a chance to return to The Lands Between has us itching to resume our quest and ferret out all the secrets hidden in this new vision of its beautiful, dying world.