Upcoming PC games 2024: Best new titles coming to Steam and your Windows PC

Broken Sword Parzival's Stone & Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars: Reforged (2024)

The classic point-and-click adventure game series, Broken Sword, is making a grand return in 2024 with a new entry, Broken Sword Parzival's Stone, and a remaster of the first title in the series. 

Broken Sword Parzival's Stone sees the series' iconic dynamic duo of George Stobbart and Nicole Collard getting tangled up in a conspiracy involving the mythical Holy Grail. As they travel the world to find this legendary item, they will be accosted at every turn by business entrepreneurs, government agencies, treasure hunters, corporations, and quantum physics. 

Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars: Reforged is a remaster of Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars that remakes the original with upgraded HD graphics and quality-of-life improvements. This game follows the adventures of George Stobbart, an American tourist who almost gets murdered by an exploding bomb dropped by a mysterious clown. Not wanting to take this injustice lying down, George Stobbart begins a quest to bring his would-be murderer to justice while getting caught up in a conspiracy involving the Knights Templar along the way.

Creatures of Ava (2024)

Creatures of Ava is a twist on the creature collector genre where instead of capturing animals and fighting them, you befriend and save them in a pacifistic manner. The game takes on Ava, an alien world filled with beautiful creatures and breathtaking ecosystems.

Unfortunately, there is a mysterious plague going around that's causing the creatures to act violently and hurt one another. As the nature explorer Tabitha, your goal is to befriend the creatures of Ava, use their abilities to traverse the environment, and find a cure for this violence-inducing plague.

Creatures of Ava | Coming soon to Steam

Creatures of Ava | Coming soon to Steam

Travel to a gorgeous alien world and help its adorable and majestic creatures from a terrible infestation in the peaceful adventure game, Creatures of Ava

Crimson Desert (2024)

Crimson Desert is an upcoming open-world adventure game created by the makers of Black Desert and is set in the same universe. As the wandering mercenary, Macduff, your goal is to travel the land of Pywell and take up quests and bounties so you can earn enough money to survive this harsh world.

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Crimson Desert | Coming soon to PC

Take up arms as the mercenary Macduff and hunt monsters and men for a living in Crimson Desert. Explore vast lands of Pywell, meet up with other mercenaries, take part in epic-scale battles, and slay gigantic beasts.

Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (2024)

Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred is the first expansion of the dark, Action-RPG, Diablo 4. This game will have players traveling to the jungle lands of Nahantu to stop the machinations of Mephisto, one of the most dangerous villains in the Diablo franchise.

This expansion will include new locales, new playstyles, and introduce a brand new class to the Diablo series.

Dustborn (2024)

Dustborn is an upcoming action-adventure where you play as Pax, a woman with the power to literally weaponize her words to reshape the world around her. Together with your ragtag crew, you will embark on an epic road-trip across the Divided States of America in the hopes that you may find a better life.

Dustborn | Coming soon to Steam

Dustborn | Coming soon to Steam

Get ready for the biggest road-trip of a lifetime in Dustborn. Gather a band of super-powered friends, fight off authoritarian robots, and travel across an alternate-history America to seek salvation.

Empire of the Ants (2024)

Based on a novel of the same name by Bernard Werber, Empire of the Ants is a real-time strategy game/ant colony simulator where you lead an army of ants. You will explore the outside for food and materials to build your base, avoid being trampled by hostile weather, and fight against predators looking to devour your kind.

Empire of the Ants | Wishlist on GOG

Empire of the Ants | Wishlist on GOG

Embark on a larger-than-life adventure to lead an ant colony to prosperity in Empire of the Ants. Work together with your fellow ants and co-ordinate strategies to defeat apex predators.

Also available: Steam | Epic Games Store  

EvilVEvil (2024)

EvilVEvil is a horde shooter where you play as a group of vampires bent on stopping the Zagreus and his army of demons and cultists from destroying the world. This game will feature multiple playable vampires with unique customizable abilities, a wide variety of weapons to arm yourself with, and 3-player online co-op.

EvilVEvil | Coming soon to Steam

EvilVEvil | Coming soon to Steam

Become a fearsome vampire and take a bite out of villainy with your friends in EvilVEvil. Carve a bloody path through hordes of enemies solo or with allies in 3-player co-op.

Exoborne (2024)

Exoborne is an upcoming extraction multiplayer shooter developed by Sharkmob AB and published by Level Infinite. In this game, players must wage war to claim valuable resources to help them survive in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by natural disasters.

Exoborne | Coming soon to Steam

Exoborne | Coming soon to Steam

Risk it all to survive in a world gone mad in the tactical extraction shooter, Exoborne. Scavenge materials to upgrade your gear and be prepared to fight highly skilled players and Mother Nature itself in intense multiplayer skirmishes.

Fera: The Sundered Tribes (2024)

Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an upcoming open-world action-RPG that blends elements of survival games and monster-hunting games. As the newly appointed leader of a tribe of humans, your goal is to explore a magical post-apocalyptic world to rescue fellow humans scattered to the winds and hunt down giant monsters looking to devour your people.

You will learn how to master the Tetherhook and Glider Wings to soar across the skies, take command of your people to build a settlement that will shelter the last remnants of humanity, and hunt gigantic beasts in epic aerial-based boss fights.

Fera: The Sundered Tribes | Coming soon to Steam

Fera: The Sundered Tribes | Coming soon to Steam

Take flight and save humanity from the brink of extinction in Fera: The Sundered Tribes. Traverse the world to uncover ancient secrets, recruit settlers to help rebuild civilization and hunt gigantic monsters to reclaim lost lands.

Alexander Cope

Alexander Cope is a gaming veteran of 30-plus years, primarily covering PC and Xbox games here on Windows Central. Gaming since the 8-bit era, Alexander's expertise revolves around gaming guides and news, with a particular focus on Japanese titles from the likes of Elden Ring to Final Fantasy. Alexander is always on deck to help our readers conquer the industry's most difficult games — when he can pry himself away from Monster Hunter that is! 

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