April will be rich in ports of old games, especially Xbox exclusives at Sony’s convention. However, new releases will also please fans of strategy, action, and horror. Of particular interest is an Android game that will be released at the end of the month, but has already become one of the most high-profile releases of this year and filled the front pages of digital tabloids. We talk about these and many other projects in our traditional selection of the most interesting releases of the month.
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Genre: Puzzle, Adventure
Date: March 06
Platform: PC
The release of the Ukrainian game Puzzles For Clef in early March was unexpected, so we remind you about it in this issue. The rabbit Clef receives a letter from his sister Kres and goes to the island of his ancestors to find treasures. The whole gameplay is centered on solving puzzles and jigsaw puzzles. And be prepared for challenging tasks.
The game has 91% positive reviews on Steam and, of course, Ukrainian localization.
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Co-op
Date: April 01
Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Content Warning came out of nowhere and has already made a splash on Steam. We are looking at a cooperative horror game for 2-4 players, which, at first glance, looks quite bright for horror. Together with your friends, you need to film various phenomena that will cause a sense of fear in the audience. The goal: to become a popular blogger. For each video uploaded to «SpöökTube», we will receive monetization. With the money we earn, we buy equipment and go down to the Old World in search of something scary.
Genre: RPG
Date: April 10
Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One
Broken Roads is a party-based RPG with turn-based battles in the Australian post-apocalyptic setting. The main feature of the game is — «Moral Compass» character. This mechanic rejects the traditional evil/good scale and gives the character a more flexible worldview. For example, a character can act in favor of the whole society, even if it means sacrificing someone’s life. All of our decisions are influenced by and derive from the Moral Compass, which makes each play through unique.
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Date: April 14
Platform: PC
A new installment of the already cult horror, in which the hero finds himself in an abandoned studio that once created iconic cartoons. In the new installment, you’ll have to solve puzzles in the drawing room and meet the shadows of the past, present, and future.
The first game in the series (Bendy and the Ink Machine) received a fan-made Ukrainian localization, which even redrew the textures.
Genre: Action Adventure
Date: April 16
Platform: PS4, PS5 (already released on PC, Switch)
One of the best games of the past few years is gradually making its way to «older» consoles, so far only from Sony. We play as a diver Dave, who explores the Blue Trench with two hundred species of fish by day and runs his own sushi bar at night. The game has several storylines full of humor and grotesque. Even Godzilla comes to visit
Genre: Action, Adventure, Co-op
Date: April 16
Platform: Switch, PS4, PS5 (already released on PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One)
In Grounded, you wake up in the backyard of a suburb, shrunken to the size of an ant. There is no machine that can restore you to normal, so you have to survive by fighting off everything that can kill us. And this includes every ant, every insect, and all living things found in nature.
Grounded is one of several projects that will lose its Xbox console exclusive status.
Genre: Action
Date: April 17
Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One
A new expansion for Dead Island 2 will open the doors to the SoLA Music Festival. Like the previous expansion, the music festival will bring new types of zombies, new weapons, cards, and a full story Also on April 22, Dead Island 2 will finally be released on Steam. Since its release on PC, the game has been available only in EGS.
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Genre: Action RPG
Date: April 18
Platform: PC (Early Access)
The authors of the Ori series are changing the genre and trying their hand at aRPG. At the same time, No Rest for the Wicked looks more like a classic action game with a touch of Souls mechanics, and the only thing that’s different from «Diabloid» is the isometric camera
We arrive on an island country that has just lost its king and is experiencing the spread of an ancient plague. The world is built on the principle of metroidvania with many passages and secret places. Instead of the usual number of monster clouds per square pixel of the screen, the game focuses on battles with two or three opponents. We will find out whether the developers will manage to shake up the genre on April 18.
The game will be available on the current generation of consoles with the release of version 1.0
Genre: Action RPG
Date: April 18
Platform: PS5
The second story expansion for Final Fantasy 16 will offer a completely new storyline, which will take place in a location never seen before. Among other things, the expansion will bring endgame content. «Kairos Gate» — a separate battle mode that includes 20 super-challenging levels. As a reward, players will receive valuable resources, weapons, and a place on the leaderboard. Access to the mode will be available only after completing the story of the main game and the expansion.
After the release of The Rising Tide, the developers will focus entirely on the PC version of the game.
Genre: Beat ’em Up
Date: April 23
Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
Wrath of the Mutants was released on arcade machines back in 2017, and finally, home console owners will be able to enjoy the beat-em-up about the Ninja Turtles. The game is inspired by the classic game Turtles in Time, and the design of the turtles is taken from the 2012 series.
Genre: Action
Date: April 23
Platform: PC, PS5 (PS+), Xbox Series X|S, Switch
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU will be the debut project of Surgent Studios, founded by actor Abudakar Saleem. You’ve heard him in Assassins Creed Origins as Bayek, and you’ve also seen him as one of the main characters in the «Raised by Wolves» series. Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is a metroidvania in which the young and brave shaman Zau tries to bring back the spirit of his father. The game embodies the myths of the African Bantu people, to which the studio’s founder belongs.
The game will be available as part of the PS Plus subscription upon release.
Genre: Strategy
Date: April 26
Platform: PC (PC Game Pass)
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game with a city-building system, tactical battles, and a complex system of simulating the economy and social life. The combat segment of the game was inspired by the Total War series, while the economic and social parts are based on urban planning and economic strategies with a multi-layered cycle of producing goods and building your own settlement.
Later, the game will be released on consoles, and early access will go directly to PC Game Pass. The game was started by just one person, which is impressive considering the game’s visuals and the number of available mechanics.
The game will have official Ukrainian localization on release.
Genre: Action
Date: April 26
Platform: PS5
Stellar Blade is the most high-profile release of this month and, possibly, of the entire year. First of all, attention is drawn to the main character of the game — the android Eva. The game’s demo proved that in addition to the beauty of the protagonist, the game also has a good combat system close to slashers and an interesting world that has the potential for an interesting story. Despite the absence of high-profile releases from Sony this year and the moderate success of Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade may become the main console exclusive this year.
Genre: Pirate Simulator
Date: April 30
Platform: PS5 (already available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One)
The last of the four Xbox exclusives, a multiplayer piracy simulator, will be released on Playstation 5 in late April. The game will be cross-platform and Premium Edition owners will be able to start playing five days earlier. Sea of Thieves is a sandbox game that offers a search for lost treasures, fierce sea battles, destruction of sea monsters and much more. And the most important thing is that you can do all this in the company of friends.