What’s up for 2022?

As I wrote in 2020, I’m not big on any of these things:

• being hyped up for future games
• buying a lot of games
• actually playing the games I own

But for some reason right now I’m a little obsessed (compared to my usual mood) with looking for other games to play and also what’s coming up this year. And what I missed in 2021. It’s weird!

So I’ve been scouring YouTube for some of these “lists” videos. Upcoming, best of 2021, overall or per genre and so on. And I actually went through my whole Epic Games library of 99% “got this game for free” list and wrote down some notes and watched the trailer, and I even identified a few I want to play, and most surprusingly, actually have played one for a while.

I am not sure where this comes from, maybe it’s coincidence or maybe I’m not 100% enthusiastic about leveling all the jobs in FFXIV atm. Which in no way means I am drifting away, surprisingly – it means I’m doing my roulettes every day (or some of them), I am raiding Savage – but I don’t feel like spending my whole evening on FFXIV. Maybe it is actually true that this game values your time a lot more than WoW does. There’s always something to do in WoW, but here I can more easily feel “done for the day”.

Anyway, here’s a list (in no particular order) of upcoming games I am at least moderately interested in:

• Weird West, Adventure/RPG, March 2022, on Steam
• Two Point Campus, May 2022, Simulation, on Steam
• Forspoken, May 2022, ARPG, on Steam – 80 EUR, WTF?
• Anvil Saga, RPG?, 2022, Demo on Steam
• Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, FPS, 2022?, on Steam
• Nightingale, Survival?, 2022? Trailer on YouTube

Do these twothree even launch on PC?

• Redfall, Summer 2022, FPS, Trailer on YouTube, some gameplay (Xbox Series S?)
• Triangle Strategy, 2022? Trailer on YouTube (Switch?)
• Horizon: Forbidden West, 2022?, Gameplay Demo on YouTube (PlayStation?)

Now the ones that look interesting but have already launched:

• Before We Leave, Builder, May 2021, on Steam
• Wildermyth, June 2021, RPG, on Steam
• Timberborn, Strategy/Builder September 2021, on Steam
• Gamedec, RPG, September 2021, on Steam
• Dorfromantik, Builder, EA 2021, on Steam

And then there are some “big” upcoming releases and to my non-surprise none of these sound in any way interesting to me, no matter how highly anticipated or awesome they are supposed to be:

• Elden Ring
• God of War
• Rainbox Six
• Pokémon Legends
• Sifu
• Total War
• that Warhammer 40k FPS
• Gran Turismo
• STALKER 2
• Kirby
• Mario and Rabbids
• Sonic

Some notable mentions:

• Ratchet and Clank – that upcoming title looks a bit meh, but I’ve always wanted to play the older titles
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 – not really interested, but maybe I should look at the first one?

Finally, because this post isn’t long enough already, some games I own and have yet to play:

• Transistor
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Bad North
• Cities: Skylines
• For the King
• Frostpunk
• Moving Out
• Neon Abyss
• Pathway
• Salt and Sanctuary
• Surviving Mars
• The Messenger
• Totally Reliable Delivery Service
• Prison Architect