As notE3 draws to a close and pre-Gamescom begins, we’ve had loads of new PC games announced over the last couple of weeks, including release dates for Halo Infinite, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion, and delays for Psychonauts 2 and Sable into 2021. In this update, we’ve decided to ditch the game trailers in favour of putting everything on a single page so it’s easier to read and see all the new PC games coming out this year at a glance.

With all that in mind, here are all the confirmed new PC game release dates for the rest of the year as they currently stand. Ordered by month, I’ve rounded up all of this year’s new PC games into one handy list so you know exactly when all the biggest and best PC games are coming out. Here is your complete guide to PC gaming in 2020.

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Clearly not content with having three game bundles on the go, those mad lunatics at Humble have just gone and announced a fourth> bundle today, this time celebrating the best of Paradox Interactive. It’s a pretty special one, too, as you’ve got the epic Europa Universalis IV and Age Of Wonders III in the entry-level 78p / $1 tier, as well as Stellaris, BattleTech and Tyranny all for under a tenner. So read on to see how this nine-strong game bundle works.

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As the fuzzy denizens of earth pivot to non-existence, we will soon be left with an unclear memory of the animal kingdom’s bizarre court. The elephant, for instance, what even is it? I cannot help with that question, I’m not a marine biologist. But what I can offer is a tour of endangered videogame wildlife. Otherworldly creatures you can’t find beneath the rocks of reality or swimming in the ponds of tangibility. It is the least I can do. So, here you go. A safari of the 9 weirdest animals in PC games.

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Wilmot’s Warehouse

taps into some very deep-rooted components of the human psyche. It’s a constant arm-wrestle between the immense satisfaction of a job well done, and the deeply disturbing realisation that you have absolutely no memory of what you were doing 30 seconds ago. The arm-wrestle is in constant flux, inching back and forth like an agonisingly slow metronome, with neither force ever emerging dominant. Which is what keeps you playing this silly brilliant game for hours at a time.

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Two years after Dragon Quest XI: Echoes Of An Elusive Age hit PC, a new edition is coming round with additions including new quests and the option to play this 3D JRPG as a retro-styled 16-bit 2D game. Pleasingly daft, that. Bearing the triple-barrelled name Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes Of An Elusive Age – Definitive Edition, this new version debuted on Nintendo Switch in September 2019, and will be coming to PC on December 4th.

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Dear reader, do you know of The Gunk? Have you touched the gunk? Tasted the gunk? Sucked up the gunk into your palm-sized vacuum cleaner? Of course you haven’t – The Gunk was only just announced, taking a spot in today’s Xbox Games Showcase. Coming next year from Steamworld Heist / Quest / Dig, The Gunk is a sci-fi survival platform that’s positively covered in slime.

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While I’m still not convinced that getting pally with the forces of Darkness in Destiny 2 won’t cause a second collapse of human civilisation, it does look great fun. A new trailer for the Beyond Light expansion shows some of the ‘Stasis’ abilities we’ll somehow get from those presumed wrong’uns, and I was expecting to freeze enemies but I was not expecting to erect ice walls or throw ice platforms we can climb up. I think Stasis might even let us get a magic wand? Alright, Darkness, make your offer.

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Phantasy Star Online 2

‘s getting on a bit, isn’t it? Sega’s big ol’ sci-fi MMO might’ve only officially come to the West this Spring, but it’s been big in Japan for the better part of a decade – and boy, does it show. Announced during today’s Xbox Games Showcase, New Genesis is preparing to change all that with a massive overhaul to the MMOs visuals.

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The trippy neon block-dropper, Tetris Effect has announced plans to add multiplayer in a new edition named Tetris Effect: Connected. There are loads of new modes on the way for players to challenge their friends in local and online co-op – there are even ranked matches if you feel like competitive Tetris is something you’d like to try your hand at. While the devs do plan to release multiplayer as a free update for all versions, initially it’ll be limited to the Connected edition when it debuts on Xbox and the Windows Microsoft Store later this year. Players on Epic and Oculus will need to wait until summer 2021.

Here’s Connected’s lovely trailer that really pulls on those “everyone is stuck at home, let’s play video games together” heartstrings:

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For the past two years, I have confused the name Outer Wilds with The Outer Worlds. I will say one space game’s name when I mean the other. I will expand one name into ‘The Outer Wilds’ and trim the other to ‘Outer Worlds’. I will trip and combined the two into ‘Outer Woilds’. I hate this. AND NOW, Outer Wilds writer Kelsey Beachum has declared she wrote for the newly-announced The Outer Worlds DLC, Peril On Gorgon. This is too much.

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