5 Game Releases You Can Play This Week

A new week and a host of new games to indulge in. Prepare for some mysteries, nostalgia, family-values, and goats in this week’s game releases.

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture

Release date: 11 August (PS4)

The Chinese Room is returning to their roots of thoughtful, story-driven games with their next project, a spiritual successor to Dear Esther called Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. Unlike the large majority of apocalypse-themed video games we get each year, this is a quiet apocalypse. Fans of atmospheric games should check it out this week.

Gauntlet: Slayer Edition

Release date: 11 August (PS4)

Before there was Diablo, there were four adventurers who just couldn’t stop shooting food. In 2014, Gauntlet made a comeback on PC, iterating on the classic dungeon-diving adventures of the Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard, and Elf. This week, a version of that game arrives on PlayStation 4. The classic four-player co-op action gameplay returns, along with a combination of both uniquely built and randomly generated levels to explore in both local and online co-op multiplayer.

Toy Soldiers: War Chest

Release date: 11 August (PS4, Xbox One)

Toy Soldiers: War Chest is a fast-paced genre-bending mix of strategy defence and action gameplay that brings to life the iconic toys and action figures from your childhood, such as He-Man and GI Joe. Like other tower-defence and strategy games, War Chest allows you to lead from the strategic level, placing and upgrading turrets, or take direct command of your units and heroes to deliver assaults. You can also customise your loadout before battle and upgrade your arsenal while fighting through the main campaign, or grab up to three other friends and take the fight online in multiplayer.

Goat Simulator

Release date: 11 August (PS3, PS4)

After crashing its way through PCs and the Xbox consoles, Goat Simulator is baaaashing its way onto PS3 and PS4 this week. The premise is pretty simple: players have to take on the world as a goat, racking up points as they aim to destroy the world around them, while using the goat’s tongue to drag people and objects to their demise.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Release date: 12 August (Xbox One, PS4)

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, is about a man clinging to life. His two sons, desperate to cure their ailing father, are left with but one option. They must set out upon a journey to find and bring back the “Water of Life” as they come to rely on one another to survive. One must be strong where the other is weak, brave where the other is fearful, they must be brothers.

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