14 Hottest Games of October 2024 You Need to Play

Even with the delay of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows (now coming in February 2025), October is a massive month for gaming, with some long-awaited returns of some big-name franchises, a few interesting sequels, and some exciting new IPs to sink your teeth into. Here are the games to look out for in October 2024:

Parcel Corps

Release date: 3 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

Any Playstation 1 fans will likely remember Courier Crisis, a bizarre and admittedly bonkers game about delivering packages as a bike courier. Well, Parcel Corps is a throwback spiritual successor, of sorts, allowing you to negotiate levels with a stylish, expansive skillset. Catch air from rooftop ramps, slide under articulated vehicles, defy gravity by riding along walls, and create your own lines through a bustling, vibrant city.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game

Release date: 4 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

Spongebob fans will know that the licensed games are actually pretty good, and now Spongebob’s starfish friend Patrick gets his own time in the limelight. In The Patrick Star Game, Bikini Bottom is your open-world playground, allowing you to goof around, take on challenges, and enjoy the physics-based chaos that unfolds all around you.

Until Dawn Remaster

Release date: 4 October 2024 (PS5 | PC)

Released almost ten years ago, Until Dawn is still one of the best decision-driven narrative horror games around, and the experience is getting a remaster for PS5 and PC this October.

Silent Hill 2 Remake

Release date: 8 October 2024 (PS5 | PC)

After the incredible success of Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 remakes, Konami is trying its hand at its own horror classic and updating 2001’s Silent Hill 2 for modern systems. Developed by Bloober Team, who did 2021’s The Medium, the Silent Hill 2 remake takes a more dedicated third-person perspective, runs on a new engine, and has overhauled combat, much like the Resident Evil entries. For those who may have never played the original, the story of Silent Hill 2 centres around James, who after having received a letter from his deceased wife (strange), heads to where they shared so many memories, in the hope of seeing her one more time.

Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Zero

Release date: 11 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

Dragon Ball Z‘s fighting series has gone through some serious evolution in recent years, but Sparking! Zero is a callback to the Budokai series of yesteryear, allowing you to play as an incredible number of characters, each with signature abilities, transformations and techniques. The areas and levels are also completely destroyable, allowing you to watch the world crumble around you as your superpowered battle rages on.

Starship Troopers: Extermination

Release date: 11 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

Thanks to the likes of Helldivers 2, Starship Troopers is having a resurgence of interest, and Extermination is a first-person squad shooter that pits you right in the iconic battles against the bug hordes of the film series.

Undisputed

Release date: 11 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

Fans of EA’s Fight Night will be ecstatic to know that there’s finally another boxing game on the market. Undisputed really leans into the boxing strategy, allowing you to change your footwork, throw more than 60 punch types, and create your own character to play through the epic journey from amateur boxing tournaments to becoming Undisputed Champion.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

Release date: 17 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

After three movies, the audible-horror film series A Quiet Place finally makes its jump to the video game world. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a single-player horror-adventure where you take on the role of a new character in the universe as she has to make her way through the monster-infested world in the hope of finsing sanctuary.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed

Release date: 18 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | Xbox One | PS4 | Switch | PC)

Picking up after the recent Mutant Mayhem film from 2023, Mutants Unleashed sees the TMNT brothers continue their battle against the creatures plaguing New York City. It’s third-person action game where you can play as Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, or Michelangelo, and while it can be played single-player, you can also team up in local co-op for 2-player action.

Unknown 9: Awakening

Release date: 18 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

Unknown 9: Awakening is one of the lesser-buzzed-about games this October, but looks to be an interesting experience. This third-person action-stealth game allows you to play as a heroine who can harness the power of The Fold, a dimension where she can switch bodies with enemies and other characters.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Release date: 25 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | Xbox One | PS4 | PC)

The next Call of Duty entry goes back to the Black Ops spin-off timeline of Activision’s FPS franchise, with the characters from 2020’s Black Ops: Cold War returning for a new espionage-inspired campaign set during the Gulf War. Of course, multiplayer is back with sixteen brand-new maps at launch as well as new weapons and move-sets, including the ability to dive and fire.

Sonic X Shadow Generations

Release date: 25 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | Xbox One | PS4 | Switch | PC)

2011’s Sonic Generations was one of the best Sonic games in quite some time, and a spin-off/sequel of that game is here this October and stars Shadow the Hedgehog. You get to take on some gorgeously detailed 3D and 2D Sonic stages with all new abilities courtesy of Shadow’s powers. Oh yes, the game also includes a complete remaster of the original Sonic Generations.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Release date: 31 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | PC)

The latest Dragon Age game is taking a more colourful, action-packed approach, but keeping the familiar RPG mechanics that made fans fall in love with the franchise in the first place. There’s a deep single-player campaign to follow, a deep vivid fantasy world to explore, and massive enemies to take on. We’re excited for this one.

Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered

Release date: 31 October 2024 (Xbox Series X/S | PS5 | Xbox One | PS4 | Switch | PC)

A seriously overlooked game from the Xbox 360 and PS3 era is Shadows of the Damned. This third-person action adventure is finally getting a remaster, giving players the chance to blast through the awesome campaign about rock, love, and just a little bit of demon slaying.

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