Top 7 Most Anticipated Games of 2023

2022 was the year of the lull in the gaming industry: blockbusters can be counted on the fingers. The only thing left to save ourselves was indie games and the most decent live casino releases. But in the new year, players are waiting for a lot of high-profile gaming releases. Here is a list of what we will play in 2023.

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Dead Space

This year has a gift for all fans of horror. On January 27, a remake of the cult space horror Dead Space will be released. In 2008, this game thrilled the players, got high ratings and got two not so successful sequels.

Fifteen years later Electronic Arts decided to revive the series by reworking the first part. The plot remained the same: unsuccessful engineer Isaac Clarke goes in search of his girlfriend Nicole on the lost ship "Ishimura". The hero encounters hordes of Necromorphs - humans infected with a strange alien virus.

They promise to retain the main advantages of the game: a dark and oppressive atmosphere, an exciting plot. And most importantly, the trademark design of the series. This is especially true for monsters, which were scary then, scary now.

Deliver Us Mars

Space stories are usually action movies in the Sci-fi genre. Usually space story connoisseurs have to look with a magnifying glass for movies and games that take space exploration seriously. The story adventure Deliver Us Mars is just one of those. It's a sequel to Deliver Us to the Moon about an astronaut who explores the moon and tries to figure out what happened to the science complex.

The second part about Mars follows the same pattern, only doing everything with a bigger scope. The player will have to control a young scientist who travels around the planet with her drone. You will have to explore the planet, scan new rocks, solve puzzles and figure out who sent a mysterious distress signal to Earth.

Hogwarts Legacy

Somehow, the best games in the Harry Potter universe happen to be the platformer on the first PlayStation and the Lego version. This is despite the fact that the movies and books have long since evolved into a full-fledged franchise with comic books, toys and spin-offs. But there hasn't been a good new game based on this universe in almost 20 years.

Everything should change with the new Hogwarts Legacy, an action game about the 19th century wizards who study at Hogwarts. Of course, there was no scarred boy at that time. So a user plays as a new schoolboy wizard. You can choose your faculty, take classes and learn magic, explore the open world and even tame magical beasts.

The main feature of the game is a brand new plot and unscripted hero. That means that the story will be unpredictable. In Hogwarts Legacy, we will have our system of morality, we can choose between good and evil deeds. You can make friends among the students and build your own team. So far, everything sounds like a dream game for a fan of the wizarding world.

Company of Heroes 3

The situation with strategy games in recent years is getting worse - in the genre new games are rarely released. Especially in the genre of RTS - real-time strategy games. But we can rejoice - the legendary strategy game Company of Heroes will be back this February.

All three parts of the series focus on the Second World War. Company of Heroes 3 tells about the battles in North Africa and Italy. Gameplay has not changed: the player controls the military units and equipment. The goal is to complete one of the missions: to rescue a hostage, destroy the enemy's base, and so on.

In the new part, players are waiting for updated graphics and destructibility. And a tactical pause, which has never been in the series before. All in all, it's a real gift for strategy fans, and it's not to be missed.

Skull & Bones

In 2013, Ubisoft released the fourth installment of Assassin's Creed Black Flag about pirates. In it, you could sail your schooner, rob merchant ships, and fight at sea. Players liked it so much that they asked the developers to release the game without the white hooded assassins, leaving only pirates.

And now, 10 years later, the game Skull & Bones finally comes out. And in it you have to do usual pirate things: sail the seas, plunder, board, improve your ship and take on the crew. The game will have its own storyline, which will tell about the golden age of piracy. However, it's unclear how different it will be from the game in 2013.

Skull & Bones is a long project. The game was originally planned to be released in 2018, but development has been delayed for another 5 years. Usually this means that there are serious problems in development and they are bound to affect the quality of the product. But there are so few pirate games that fans of the genre don't have much choice.

Resident Evil 4: Remake

Another gift is waiting for horror fans. Remake of the most legendary part of Resident Evil will be released on all current platforms in March. It's hard to overstate how much of an impact this game had on the industry back in 2005. It popularized the view from behind the shoulder of the hero, interactive cut-scenes and dynamic gameplay. It was thanks to this game that players got Gears of War, Dead Space, Mass Effect, and many other games.

The plot is simple: the government agent Leon Scott Kennedy must save the daughter of the U.S. president, for this he goes to the Spanish countryside. Everything goes wrong there, and the hero has to fight zombies, cultists and mutants. Gradually, the plot twists so much that it feels more like absurdity. But that's what Japanese horror movies are loved for, isn't it?

After 17 years, the game doesn't seem like such a breakthrough anymore. But fans will happily dive back into the adventures of Leon Kennedy. And for newcomers, this is the best chance to familiarize themselves with the legendary game. Capcom did a great job with the remakes of the second and third parts, so we can be quiet about the fourth.

Baldur's Gate 3

All of a sudden, five or six years ago, the classic isometric RPG genre experienced a new heyday. Players missed simple visually, but complicated mechanics games. Over the last 10 years Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, Tyranny were released, and they all inherited the RPG principles of the 90's and early 2000's: turn-based combat system, deep and ramified story, varied character progression.

In 2023, all the old-school fans will get a special gift - the third part of the legendary Baldur's Gate will be released in August. The game has long been in development, and even now you can play it in early access.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 17 January 2023