Like Dontnod’s earlier Remember Me, this adventure game’s puzzle-solving mechanic uses visual metaphors rather than just menu icons, though this time around combat is not a focus. You know if you care now we can only hope it lives up to everything it “oughta” be.Ī French-based company making a non-supernatural psychological thriller set in the United States, you say? Is this the second coming of Heavy Rain? Well, to be fair, there are only so many ways the narrative of an investigative journalist in a classic adventure game can go, but following Dontnod Entertainment’s acclaimed work on Life is Strange, Twin Mirror is sure to be an engaging ride. Yet here it is - a deep, flavorful, single player gangster strategy game that needs no further introduction. With the fit of the creative team, the subject matter, the game genre, and Paradox as publisher, it is almost too on the nose, too perfectly appropriate. Brought to us by the wife-and-husband team Brenda and John Romero - yes, those Romeros - and published by Paradox Interactive, Empire of Sin is practically the “Tim Burton’s Addams Family” of games.
Turn-based action in Chicago, set during the Prohibition era.
Platform: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch So let’s look at five games we are reasonably sure to see this month: Empire of Sin, Twin Mirror, Shiren the Wanderer 5, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and Call of the Sea. However, today we’re talking about single player games with firm release dates - or at least ones with only a 50% chance of being delayed again and again (like, say, Cyberpunk 2077).
Will plenty of them slip and announce new 2021 dates before the clock strikes midnight? Also yes. Will any of them make it by New Year’s Eve? Of course. December is the strangest, most unsure month of the year for game releases, as so many titles still have 2020 releases penciled in without solid dates.