They’re essentially dating sims where, alongside collecting cards through RPG mechanics and earning money, you follow the anime’s original story and battle opponents across different worlds. It was a brilliant way to leverage everything players love while introducing them to the main characters and game rules.

Seven Great Games, But Where’s the Eighth?

After delivering seven mostly excellent games, Konami, for unknown reasons, shifted to producing lackluster titles. This decade, we got Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, Yu-Gi-Oh! Cross Duel (which shut down quickly), Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (bringing back some old games), and Yu-Gi-Oh! RUSH DUEL: Saikyo Battle Royale Let’s Go Go Rush for Nintendo Switch.

Despite the anime still running and introducing new ideas and worlds, we haven’t had a truly great Yu-Gi-Oh! game in nearly five years. It’s unclear why Konami stopped making quality games and focused solely on mobile titles. Beyond poor marketing and underdeveloped English versions, games weren’t always released for PC or consoles beyond Nintendo and PlayStation. Even then, priorities kept shifting, often catering exclusively to the Japanese market. It’s baffling how someone can hold a goldmine like this and fail to capitalize on it.

Maybe Yu-Gi-Oh! wasn’t as popular a decade ago, but today’s landscape is different. A quality release with a touch of nostalgia would sell well, given the franchise’s massive following. When will we see another Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Tag Force 3 or Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s: Tag Force 5? Why not bundle individual collections for sale? Why not port to all consoles and PC, or release remasters or remakes, which are common today? So many questions, yet no answers.

It’s Time for a Modern Yu-Gi-Oh! Game

The main draw of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force games lies in their “Tag Force” mechanic, where you duel as a team rather than solo. While solo battles were possible, the heart of the game was partnering with characters like Jaden Yuki or Yusei Fudo for joint battles. Even if not everyone follows the latest anime, this is a perfect chance for Konami to reintroduce these characters. The games emphasized deck synergy, smart strategy, and featured impressive graphics for their time.

What made Tag Force stand out was its ability to bring the Yu-Gi-Oh! world to life. Beyond mastering complex dueling strategies, you could live as a duelist—attending classes, following the story, competing in tournaments, and feeling the thrill of opening booster packs to perfect your deck. These games deepened your understanding of Yu-Gi-Oh! card rules.

Imagine exploring an open-world Duel Academy or New Domino City on Nintendo Switch 2 or PlayStation 5, with stunning visuals and fully voiced cutscenes. Picture online co-op tag battles and cross-generational tournaments — endless possibilities. With modern gaming embracing cozy RPGs, simulation elements, and card-based tactics, now is the ideal time to revive the Tag Force series in a fresh, modern form.

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You’re summoned to a mysterious world with a huge task: slay colossal giants to get their magical cores. To do this, you can build enormous mobile fortresses with cannons and defensive towers, turning them into walking or even flying war machines. These fortresses need energy cubes to run, which you craft from resources found across the land. Gathering these materials isn’t easy, as enemies fiercely guard them, forcing you into strategic fights to power your creations.

The open world of Loya is filled with diverse biomes each hiding caves, dungeons, and villages. You can take your time discovering secrets, fishing, cooking, or tackling quests with randomized rewards. Puzzles are woven into the environment, adding variety and challenging you to think creatively to unlock treasures or progress. For those who love companions, you can capture and mount pets to join your journey.

Loya offers four distinct classes, unlocked at an in-game altar, providing varied playstyles like melee, ranged, or magic. A crafting system with a forge and procedural items lets you create weapons, tools, and structures, while a gem system and talent tree add further customization depth. Additionally, multiplayer supports up to 25 players per server in co-op or private modes.

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In Renown, up to 100 players per server compete in a medieval world where every resource and stronghold is up for grabs. You’ll start with basic tools and scavenge materials to build everything from simple shelters to fortresses. You’ll also craft siege weapons like catapults and battering rams to break through enemy defenses. The game’s skill-based combat, inspired by titles like Chivalry 2, demands precision in both one-on-one duels and large battles.

Customization is a core part of Renown’s appeal, letting you personalize your experience down to the smallest details. You can modify everything from your weapons and armor to your strongholds with unique patterns, emblems, skins, and colors, crafting a distinct identity for yourself and your clan. This freedom also extends to combat, where an array of period-accurate weapons like swords, axes, and bows offer diverse playstyles.

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Survival in SCUM depends on whether you play solo, with friends, or with up to 64 players per server. You’ll need strategy, resource management, and adaptability to navigate a 225-square-kilometer island filled with forests, abandoned towns, and rugged terrain. Threats like rival prisoners, mechs, and undead “puppets” are everywhere, while unpredictable weather, wildlife, and hazardous environments ensure every playthrough is unique.

Version 1.0, unveiled at Summer Game Fest 2025, includes major improvements. A complete map overhaul brings enhanced visuals, updated points of interest, and better performance, making areas like the island’s beaches, forests, and snowy mountains even more immersive. A stronger anti-cheat system ensures fairer gameplay on official servers, and new vehicles like a seaplane, tractor, and sports bike offer fresh ways to explore or escape.

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Set in the iconic universe of Nakaba Suzuki’s manga, which has sold over 55 million copies, The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin introduces Prince Tristan of Liones, a new protagonist and son of Meliodas and Elizabeth. The story unfolds in a Britannia thrown into chaos by a mysterious collision of time and space, with your task being to restore order. Alongside Tristan, beloved characters like Meliodas, Diane, and Ban return, joined by new heroes exclusive to this game.

The open world of Britannia is a visual treat, featuring vast landscapes, hidden dungeons, and explorable lakes. You’ll encounter fast-paced combat using three types of weapons and unique “Tag Skills” that trigger special moves when switching characters. Beyond combat, the game offers peaceful activities like fishing, cooking, and crafting gear. Exploration is key, with mechanics like climbing, swimming, and sailing, which somewhat echo Genshin Impact.

Designed as a follow-up to the successful The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, Origin shifts from turn-based combat to real-time action, offering greater freedom. Netmarble’s CEO Kwon Young-sik emphasized that the goal is to fully capture the Seven Deadly Sins universe.

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A demo was recently released, letting everyone dive into its world. This action-adventure with RPG and soulslike elements has you exploring the war-torn, semi-open world of Hadea. You play as Rémi, a UN peacekeeper, seeking answers about his past amid a civil war and a mysterious calamity that spawned supernatural creatures called Hollow Walkers.

You have great freedom in exploring the world

Right from the start, Hell is Us captivates with its stunning visuals, dark atmosphere, well-crafted characters, cinematic cutscenes, and a dynamic, minimalist UI that appears during combat. However, like many games built in Unreal Engine 5, it faces optimization issues. Slowdowns with multiple characters on screen and odd lighting moments are present. If you don’t have a powerful PC, expect some performance hiccups.

The developers promise that Hell is Us has no maps, indicators, or linear guidelines, giving you the freedom to choose your path and interactions. The demo effectively showcases this. Exploration is crucial, as you must gather resources for healing, stamina, drone use, or materials dropped by defeated enemies. The game is filled with secrets, hidden consumables, and puzzles that unlock secret rooms and more. While you follow the main story, the game only provides hints about what to do, not how to do it.

Conversations with characters are vital, revealing world details and mission clues. For example, early on, you’ll talk to a grandfather who shares how to find a military vehicle for map travel. Listening carefully is key, as characters’ words guide tasks like following a bell’s sound to avoid getting lost. This is just a taste of the demo, and we believe the full game will offer even more to explore.

Combat is deliberate and demands precision

When it comes to combat, it’s thoughtful but doesn’t bring anything spectacularly new. It requires precise strikes and revolves around stamina, which limits your actions through an exhaustion mechanic. In this state, you lose health and deal weaker attacks. Light and heavy attacks, blocking, dodging, perfect blocks, and a soulslike constant healing mechanic are available. It feels fairly fluid for the player, but not for enemies. There are many types of foes: smaller enemies you can quickly defeat, larger monsters, and unique enemies that are interconnected and attack from multiple directions. You must defeat one to make another vulnerable, as they’re otherwise invincible.

The issue is that enemy AI is quite weak. They’ll stare at you until you approach, get stuck on obstacles, or simply not move, only reacting when you’re close. Fortunately, the demo lets you adjust enemy difficulty, choosing between more aggressive or resilient foes, giving you options.

Additionally, the hitbox can feel odd, enemies may attack without hitting you despite being right in front of you. Rémi’s primary weapon is a glowing sword, with secondary weapons like axes available. The drone serves as a tactical tool, activated to distract enemies or interact with the environment, such as lighting your path or reading unfamiliar languages.

An ambitious project with the potential to become something great

Weapons in the game have levels and can be upgraded with various modifiers. Your inventory can fill up with items you might need later, and they’re easy to find. The only issue is that when inspecting an item in detail, you can’t equip it directly, you have to navigate through multiple menus. For the best impression of the game, we recommend trying the demo yourself. It lasts about an hour and a half if you explore every corner.

Personally, the combat in Hell is Us wasn’t overly demanding; it might even be too forgiving, as you can block almost everything and have multiple ways to defeat several enemies at once. On the other hand, Hell is Us is a truly ambitious action-adventure game that stands out for its exploration without much hand-holding. Puzzles and secret rooms aren’t hard to find—you just need to look around a bit more carefully. The graphics are undeniably top-notch, but if optimization isn’t improved, there will be issues. It’s hard to predict how well everything will work in the full game, and we’re yet to see how long a playthrough will take.

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In FEROCIOUS, you awaken after a shipwreck on an uncharted Pacific island, tasked with finding your missing brother. You’ll gather resources to craft weapons and gear, customizing your arsenal for stealth attacks or open combat. You can even use the wilderness to your advantage, luring dinosaurs to attack enemy camps or using them to clear paths.

Combat is fast and unforgiving, blending Far Cry’s open-world style with dinosaur hunting from Turok. The first level, “Crevasse,” introduces the island’s most dangerous areas and serves as a tutorial.

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Your mission is to survive by crafting gear, gathering resources, and building a mobile steam-powered base. The unique packing system lets you shrink items like workbenches, walls, or vehicles into a portable bag to drag across the map, emphasizing a nomadic playstyle inspired by RTS classics like Red Alert 2. The procedurally generated world, made of handcrafted tiles, spans deserts, forests, and zombie-filled zones, each packed with challenges and rare loot.

With VR-like precision, you physically grab items, chop trees, or holster tools. Up to four players can team up for co-op chaos, gathering resources by day and fending off zombie swarms at night. While the premise resembles Minecraft, the focus is on a VR-style experience without VR.

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As a desert pirate, you explore the ravaged planet Sophie, where ruins of a lost civilization hide valuable loot. But you’re not alone, rival players and creatures lurk in the sands, ready to steal your plunder. Your lifeline is the Trampler, a giant mobile base you build from scratch. These massive machines serve as transport, storage, and a fortress, shielding you from storms and enemies. You can also upgrade your Trampler with turrets, armor, and gadgets.

In this open world, you’ll discover dilapidated cities, wrecked ships, and ancient monuments while scavenging for resources and weapons. tinyBuild promises intense shooting, chaotic moments as you hop between Tramplers, and large-scale battles against both players and creatures. As with extraction games, gathering loot is only half the challenge, escaping with it is also important.

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POPUCOM

Release Date: June 2, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Multiplayer / Platformer

POPUCOM is a multiplayer co-op platform adventure game. As an adventurer, you are summoned to an unknown planet to embark on an exoplanet expedition with your friends. Face various enemies and use engaging items and techniques to eliminate threats and restore the world to its former glory. The game features two main modes: a narrative-driven story mode designed for two players, and “Party Mode” for three to four players, perfect for chaotic fun and shared laughter.

DELTARUNE

Release Date: June 4, 2025

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2

Genre: RPG

DELTARUNE is an episodic RPG by Toby Fox, a spin-off from Undertale, set in a parallel universe. You control Kris, a human teenager in a monster-filled town, who enters the “Dark World” with classmates Susie and Ralsei to seal Dark Fountains and save the world. The game blends turn-based combat with bullet hell mechanics, allowing you to fight or spare enemies. Unlike Undertale, it has one ending, emphasizing limited player choice. Chapters 1-2 are free on PC, Mac, Switch, and PS4, with Chapters 3-4 set for a paid release.

The Alters

Release Date: June 13, 2025

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

Genre: Survival

The Alters is a sci-fi survival game. You play as Jan Dolski, a miner stranded on a hostile planet, piloting a mobile base to escape deadly solar radiation. Using Rapidium, you create “Alters”—alternate versions of Jan with unique skills based on different life choices. The game blends base-building, resource management, and exploration with a branching narrative, where choices shape Jan’s relationships with his Alters and lead to multiple endings.

Date Everything!

Release Date: June 17, 2025

Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch

Genre: Dating Sim

Date Everything! is a sandbox dating sim by Sassy Chap Games. After losing your job to AI, you receive magical “Dateviator” glasses that transform household objects like your bed, fridge, or even existential dread into 100 fully voice-acted dateable characters. With branching narratives and at least three endings per character, you can romance, befriend, or feud, crafting unique stories in a vibrant, pun-filled world.

Crown Gambit

Release Date: June 18, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Tactical RPG

Crown Gambit is a narrative-driven tactical RPG. Set in the dark fantasy kingdom of Meodred, you guide three paladins – Aliza, Hael, and Rollo – through a chaotic capital torn by a war of succession. Choose a side among throne contenders, wielding ancestral relics in card-based combat against knights, nobles, and rebels. Your choices shape the story, paladin personalities, and multiple endings, blending strategy, visual novel elements, and Celtic-inspired art by Gobert.

Broken Arrow

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Strategy / Tactical

Broken Arrow is a large-scale, real-time modern warfare tactics game by Slitherine. Set in a fictional Eastern European conflict, it features U.S. and Russian factions with over 300 customizable units across six categories, offering 1,500+ combinations. You build armies, deploy via land, sea, and air, and engage in strategic battles on realistic, large maps like cities and refineries. With deep unit customization, a scenario editor, and 5v5 multiplayer, it blends Company of Heroes-style action with Arma-like realism.

REMATCH

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Football / Multiplayer

REMATCH is a fast-paced, arcade-style 5v5 multiplayer football game by Sloclap. You control a single character in a third-person perspective, with no fouls or offsides, ensuring non-stop action in futuristic VR arenas. Emphasizing skill-based gameplay and teamwork, it features manual passing, shooting, and dribbling, with modes like 3v3 and 4v4 alongside competitive 5v5. Customization options include cosmetics, and the game, priced at 30 €, avoids pay-to-win mechanics.

Star Overdrive

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S

Genre: Action-Adventure

Star Overdrive is an open-world sci-fi action-adventure, in which you play as Bios, a spacefarer stranded on the alien planet Cebete, searching for your lost lover, Nous. Using a hoverboard and keytar, you speed through diverse biomes, solve puzzles, and battle enemies. The game blends Zelda: Breath of the Wild-style exploration with Tony Hawk-inspired traversal, featuring a retro-futuristic aesthetic and synth-rock soundtrack.

BitCraft Online

Release Date: June 20, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: MMORPG

BitCraft Online is a sandbox MMORPG. Set in a single, procedurally generated world, you are awaken as mystical beings, building shelters to survive. The game emphasizes crafting, farming, hunting, and city-building over combat, with a freeform skill system where you master abilities through practice. You can create towns, trade, or unite cities into empires, shaping a dynamic, player-driven world.

Shuffle Tactics

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Deckbuilding

Shuffle Tactics is a roguelite deckbuilding tactical RPG. Set in the cursed kingdom of Asteria, you battle the Glimmer Curse as heroes like Doberknight or Catalina, using strategic card combos and grid-based positioning. With 500+ cards, 20 sidekicks, and diverse biomes, it blends Final Fantasy Tactics and Slay the Spire for deep, replayable combat.

DREADZONE

Release Date: June 26, 2025

Platforms: PC

Genre: Survival

DREADZONE is a survival game by Eshed, set in a post-apocalyptic quarantine zone ravaged by the Zeno-29 virus. Players scavenge resources, craft tools, build shelters, and fight zombies, mutants, animals, and rival survivors in a gritty open-world. With first-person combat, base-building, and co-op multiplayer, it offers a tense, atmospheric experience.

Ruffy and the Riverside

Release Date: June 26, 2025

Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch

Genre: Platformer

Ruffy and the Riverside is a open-world 3D platformer. You play as Ruffy, a bear with the magical SWAP ability to copy and paste textures, for example, turning ice into lava to solve puzzles and explore Riverside. Joined by friends like Pip the bee, you battle villain Groll to save the World Core. With hand-drawn art, playful side quests, and collectibles, it blends Banjo-Kazooie-style charm with innovative mechanics.

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