Bethesda’s GhostWire: Tokyo was well-received when it launched on PS5 around a year ago. With the exclusivity deal expired, it’s now the turn of Xbox owners to go ghost hunting in a spook-filled Tokyo. Off the back of the recent Hi-Fi RUSH, from the same studio, it should notch up some impressive download figures. As a GamePass release, it isn’t exactly set to make tills ring.
Free of Nacon’s shackles, Frogwares is also back with the Lovecraftian adventure
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. Set in 1882, it sees a terrified Sherlock face Eldritch horrors.
On the PS4 there’s Process of Elimination, a mystery-solving adventure where fourteen individuals face off against a serial killer, and 8Doors: Arum’s Afterlife Adventure – a story-driven Metroidvania action platformer influenced by Korean folklore. Both PS4 and Switch also gain Capcom’s Mega Man Battle Network Collection, featuring all ten mainline games.
On the subject of retro, we can also expect King of the Arcade on Xbox – a mini-game suite with both faux classic arcade games to play and a story to tell – while after a few false starts, the Strider-inspired Cannon Dancer – Osman is due on all formats this Thursday. This marks the first time the 1996 arcade original has graced a home console.
Hyper-5 and Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story both look set to offer 2D shoot’em up thrills, meanwhile.
Then there’s the FMV adventure Murderous Muses, new DLC for Vampire Survivors, the side-scrolling pixel art survival game Ultra Pixel Survive, and a belated retail release of Cult of the Lamb on Switch. Not a ‘baa-d’ week at all, eh?
New release trailers
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Cannon Dancer – Osman
Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection
Process of Elimination
8Doors: Arum’s Afterlife Adventure
King of the Arcade
Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari
Murderous Muses
Split – Manipulate Time
DE-EXIT – Eternal Matters
Hyper-5
Farm Slider
Ultra Pixel Survive
Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story
New multiformat releases
- Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
- Cannon Dancer – Osman
- DE-EXIT – Eternal Matters
- Hyper-5
- Farm Slider
- Ultra Pixel Survive
New on PSN
- Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection
- Process of Elimination
- 8Doors: Arum’s Afterlife Adventure
- Arcade Archives REZON
New on Xbox Store
- GhostWire: Tokyo
- King of the Arcade
- Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari
- Murderous Muses
- Dogfight – A Sausage Bomber Story
- Sokolor
- Split – Manipulate Time
- Basketball Pinball
- Guardian of Lore
New Switch retail releases
eShop round-up coming Thursday
- Cult of the Lamb
Next week: Minecraft Legends, Advance Wars 1&2 Reboot Camp, Disney Speedstorm, Dead Island 2, Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores, Stray Blade, Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster, Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, Puzzle Quest 3, Secret Agent : Cold War Espionage, Homestead Arcana, The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story, and God of Rock.