After a comparatively quiet begin to the yr in video video games, February 2023 arrives with numerous promise. There are many contemporary new online game releases this month, together with plenty of blockbusters like Hogwarts Legacy, Octopath Traveler 2, Like A Dragon: Ishin!, Scars Above, and extra. PlayStation VR2 titles are additionally set to enter the ring shortly, with the brand new gadget hitting retailer cabinets on 22 February 2023.
Loads of launch titles accompany this launch, making February one of many largest ever months for brand spanking new video games.
Listed below are all the foremost recreation releases for February 2023:
Ship Us Mars
Launch Date: 2 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC
Ship Us Mars is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi journey recreation the place you play as astronaut Kathy Johanson, a girl on a mission to recuperate a colony ship stolen by a mysterious group. It’s a direct sequel to Ship Us The Moon, and gives an analogous space-faring expertise.
As Johanson, you’ll chart a course by wild house, journey the floor of Mars, and tiptoe your approach throughout a hostile galaxy seeking solutions to unravel humanity’s survival disaster. The destiny of the world is in your arms – however don’t let that flip you away out of your noble aim.
Hogwarts Legacy
Launch Date: 10 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC
Hogwarts Legacy, the interval story set in J.Okay. Rowling’s Wizarding World / Harry Potter universe is ready to launch in early February 2023, after struggling a collection of delays. Whereas the sport arrives with main baggage, it appears to be a hovering journey recreation that captures the liberty and spirit of the unique Harry Potter journey.
Learn: Hogwarts Legacy preview – The precise recreation, on the improper time
This recreation boasts flashy fight, loads of customisation, and a dense story weaving new lore into the material of the Wizarding World.
Theatrhythm Closing Bar Line
Launch Date: 16 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, Nintendo Change
In the event you’re craving a model new rhythm recreation, then Sq. Enix definitely has you lined with Theatrhythm Closing Bar Line, the subsequent main instalment within the beloved franchise. Closing Bar Line arrives in February 2023 completely packed with content material: 385 Closing Fantasy music tracks to play by and grasp as you make your approach by an lovely journey.
Whereas rhythm gameplay is the main target right here, you’ll additionally have the ability to kind your individual musical get together, with recruitable characters hailing from quite a lot of Closing Fantasy tales. Two gamers can full phases collectively, and as much as 4 gamers can battle on-line – spicing up these toe-tapping beats alongside the best way. In the event you’re a Closing Fantasy fan, there’s a lot you’ll recognise and luxuriate in right here.
Wild Hearts
Launch Date: 17 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC
Wild Hearts, from EA and Koei Tecmo / Omega Pressure, is one other massive contenders to Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise, and appears to undertake comparable mechanics for various sorts of monster searching. On this story, you’ll discover a fantasy model of Medieval Japan, armed with quite a lot of particular instruments and weapons to take down roaming ‘Kemono’ beasts. These are big creatures that trigger havoc of their wake – and it’s as much as you to cease them.
Whether or not solo or in multiplayer periods, you’ll work on taking down monsters in artistic methods, utilizing historic know-how (‘Karakuri’) to kind traps, inflict harm, and save cities from destruction. Whereas the gameplay has shined in every trailer for this recreation, the actual star seems to be the surroundings. Wild Hearts appears to be a stunning recreation, and hopefully it’ll play nicely, too.
The Settlers: New Allies
Launch Date: 17 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC, Nintendo Change
The Settlers: New Allies, a model new technique recreation within the long-running, beloved Settlers collection, launches for PC and consoles in February 2023. Whereas initially set to launch in 2022, the sport was finally delayed after suggestions from playtesters pressured a rethink of sure mechanics. Ubisoft is now assured within the reworked gameplay, and has excessive hopes this title will deliver The Settlers into the fashionable period with aplomb.
In The Settlers: New Allies, you’ll take management of three totally different factions (Elari, Maru, Jorn) and lead your tiny residents to victory in struggle as you construct up their energy, sources, navy constructions, and prowess. Those that grew up with Age of Empires, Civilization, and different strategy-based gems ought to regulate this new recreation launch.
Atomic Coronary heart
Launch Date: 21 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC
Atomic Coronary heart is without doubt one of the most intriguing new recreation releases for February 2023. Whereas it’s largely flown below the radar, as a title from a comparatively unknown studio, early trailers have proven off a singular and artistic world that takes cues from BioShock and different surreal, post-apocalyptic worlds. Within the recreation, you play as a soldier contending with the rise of unstable machines, which have rebelled in opposition to their masters to forge a brand new world for themselves.
As you journey by Atomic Coronary heart, you’ll uncover extra about this betrayal, and the way know-how has come to outline the world, reworking society into unrecognisable new shapes. Whereas the Soviet iconography and inspiration behind this story is uncomfortable in 2023, this journey appears prefer it has one thing essential to say, with its Soviet influences enjoying a vital function on this message.
Like A Dragon: Ishin!
Launch Date: 21 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC
Like A Dragon: Ishin!, a remake of Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! (first launched in 2014, completely in Japan) is without doubt one of the largest recreation releases for February 2023. For almost a decade, Western Yakuza / Like A Dragon followers have begged writer Sega and developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio to deliver the Ishin! video games to the West – and it’s lastly occurring, because of the rising reputation of the complete Yakuza collection.
On this journey, gamers embody the historic hero Sakamoto Ryōma, who resembles Yakuza protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, and participate in an epic story of samurai drama, set in Japan’s Edo interval. The twist right here is that each character is ‘performed’ by a well-known face from the broader Yakuza video games, connecting the world of 1860s Japan to the modern-day occasions depicted within the Yakuza timeline.
Horizon Name of the Mountain
Launch Date: 22 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation VR2
Horizon Name of the Mountain, a Horizon spin-off from Guerrilla Video games and Firesprite, is the flagship launch title for the PlayStation VR2 gadget. It’s one in all many main recreation releases for the VR2, and might be obtainable on launch as a standalone title, or as a part of the PlayStation VR2 retail bundle.
This recreation spotlights a brand new protagonist on the earth of Horizon: Ryas, a Carja prisoner tasked with investigating a rising new menace in a post-apocalyptic land. Early impressions of the title have been wildly constructive, with critics praising the motion, fight, and great thing about the journey. There are excessive hopes this can be a worthy entry within the Horizon collection, and that it heralds a brand new period for VR on PlayStation 5.
Each PlayStation VR2 Launch Sport
Launch Dates: 22 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation VR2
Horizon Name of the Mountain isn’t the one PlayStation VR2 recreation launching alongside the brand new gadget – there are dozens of different recreation releases accompanying it – together with refreshes of PlayStation VR classics, new experiences, and extra.
Right here’s each launch title for the PlayStation VR2, arriving on 22 February 2023:
- After the Fall
- Altair Breaker
- Cities VR
- Cosmonious Excessive
- Demeo
- Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate
- Fantavision 202X
- Gran Turismo 7
- Job Simulator
- Jurassic World Aftermath
- Kayak VR: Mirage
- Kizuna AI – Contact the Beat!
- The Final Clockwinder
- The Mild Brigade
- Moss 1 & 2 Remaster
- NFL Professional Period
- Pavlov VR
- Pistol Whip
- Puzzling Locations
- Resident Evil Village
- Rez Infinite
- Music within the Smoke
- Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge – Enhanced Version
- Synth Riders
- The Story of Onogoro
- Tentacular
- Tetris Impact: Related
- Thumper
- Trip Simulator
- What the Bat
- Zenith: The Final Metropolis
Learn: Each recreation coming to PSVR2 at launch
Be aware: This checklist stays topic to alter. Some beforehand introduced VR2 recreation releases have already been pushed again.
Octopath Traveler II
Launch Date: 24 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, Nintendo Change
Octopath Traveler II follows the distinctive particular person journeys of eight heroes, all making an attempt to chart a course by a stunning fantasy land, rendered in sensible 2.5D visuals. The principle story takes place within the realm of Solistia, and every traveller arrives to this land with a set goal. You select which paths to take, which heroes to comply with, and simply how a lot time you’ll spend in these lovely, diorama-like scenes.
You may spend your time wandering, or battling townsfolk, or gathering gadgets, as you discover new worlds and mechanics. Whereas that is technically a follow-up to the unique Octopath Traveler, it does seem the sequel will comply with model new characters, permitting even beginner gamers to leap proper into the motion.
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe
Launch Date: 24 February 2023
Platform(s): Nintendo Change
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe, an enhanced model of the beloved Nintendo Wii recreation, arrives on Nintendo Change in February 2023. This model of the sport options Kirby wielding his iconic Copy Talents in a shiny and refreshed world, with new textures and hues serving to to modernise the side-scrolling journey.
After the success of Kirby and the Forgotten Land in 2022, it feels proper that HAL Laboratory ought to deliver again this gem. Hopefully, gamers who loved Forgotten Land will soar into the motion, and get to expertise one in all Kirby’s greatest and most fun romps of the semi-modern period. Even if you happen to’re only a fan of cute issues, Return to Dream Land Deluxe will probably be price enjoying.
Kerbal House Program 2
Launch Date: 25 February 2023 (Early Entry)
Platform(s): Home windows PC
Kerbal House Program 2, the sandbox spaceflight simulator, is launching in Early Entry through Steam in February 2023. This sequel has been ‘absolutely redesigned from the bottom up’ to make the franchise’s house exploration extra sensible, and permit gamers to create extra highly effective spacecraft, and discover extra dazzling cosmic sights – or fail making an attempt.
In Early Entry, gamers will have the ability to use new instruments to discover house, go additional and sooner, and in addition – for the primary time within the franchise – construct their very personal colonies to assist in useful resource gathering. Many of those options might be obtainable through the Early Entry interval, with developer Intercept Video games promising to construct on suggestions within the hopes of launching the sport as soon as it’s at a ‘desired stage of high quality’. Gamers can hop in now for a extra restricted expertise, or sit up for a full recreation launch in future.
Future 2: Lightfall
Launch Date: 28 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC
The newest enlargement to Future 2, Lightfall, is lastly set to launch on the conclusion of February, following a quick delay. This chapter will introduce a spread of latest options and locales to the MMO, with new additions being brightly colored, and neon-infused. The principle motion will happen in a land referred to as Neptune, the place a metropolis below menace wants your assist.
In your journey, you’ll meet a gaggle referred to as the Cloud Striders, battle in opposition to the Shadow Legion, and work to stop the destruction of secret metropolis, Neomuna. Alongside the best way, you’ll conflict with the terrifying Emperor Calus, discover the perimeters of Future 2‘s Photo voltaic System, and wield new Darkness powers in opposition to enemy hordes. In the event you’ve departed Future 2 just lately, this enlargement could also be a serious motive to come back again.
Scars Above
Launch Date: 28 February 2023
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, Home windows PC
In the event you like spooky house horror, then Scars Above is without doubt one of the February 2023 recreation releases for you. On this sci-fi action-adventure, you play as astronaut and scientist Kate, who wakes up on a hostile planet full of slimy, creepy-crawly alien creatures. Every presents a brand new menace, requiring Kate to discover, innovate, and finally conquer each beast that comes her approach.
Scars Above carries comparable vibes to Returnal and different third-person sci-fi horror video games, so if you happen to just like the style, you must definitely maintain a watch out for this launch. Throughout a 2022 PLAION recreation preview, we have been capable of get hands-on with Scars Above, and located it to be tense, full of loads of traps for inexperienced gamers. That stated, it strikes the proper stability between energy and worry, making it a really intriguing prospect. This recreation shouldn’t fly below the radar when it launches in February.
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