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The best games in June 2024 — what to play

Here's a look at the June 2024 release calendar. The best video games on PC, consoles.
The best games in June 2024 — what to play

Major releases

The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road

  • Genre: MMORPG
  • Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation
  • Release date: June 3

The new addition for The Elder Scrolls Online will introduce players to a new location called West Veld, the central city of which is Skingard. The story will continue the events of last year's DLC Necrom, revealing the return of a forgotten Daedra lord, bringing new threats to the world and new adventures for players.

Key features of Gold Road include an enchantment system that allows you to modify character abilities, a new 12-player challenge, fresh events, bosses, dungeons and rewards.

Destiny 2: The Final Shape

  • Genre: MMOFPS
  • Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation
  • Release date: June 4

The Final Shape is the next major addition for Destiny 2, which will change the development scheme: instead of seasons there will be episodes with new story content, weapons and armor. Episodes, consisting of acts, will be released every six weeks, offering new stories, quests and rewards.

In this add-on, players will be able to visit the Wanderer, gain new class abilities, exotic weapons and fight powerful enemies. The DLC will conclude a decade-long saga of confrontation, after which players will likely be treated to a new beginning.

Songs of Silence

  • Genre: Role-playing Strategy
  • Platforms: PC
  • Release date: June 4

Songs of Silence is a large-scale strategy game with role-playing elements, combining fortress management on a global map, world exploration, hero development and tactical battles. The game is reminiscent of “Heroes” with original visual design, KKI mechanics and deep story.

The developers promise an exciting story about traveling through two fantasy worlds threatened by the deadly Silence, and a soundtrack from composer Hitoshi Sakimoto, known for Final Fantasy 12 and Valkyria Chronicles. The game will be released in Early Access, but the final release is scheduled for the next 4-5 months.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game

  • Genre: Asymmetrical Horror
  • Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation
  • Release date: June 4

Based on the 1988 comedy horror film, the game from Teravision Games studio, backed by IllFonic, is an asymmetrical horror action game. Two teams of players compete: one side are killer clowns, the other side are human victims who try to escape using wits and gadgets. The clowns are armed with deadly clown stuff and don't hide, while the humans need to survive hiding from the aliens.

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

  • Genre: RPG
  • Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation
  • Release date: June 14

ATLUS and SEGA are releasing an expanded and expanded re-release of Shin Megami Tensei V titled Vengeance. This edition adds new storylines, characters, enemies, and soundtrack. The main character is an ordinary Japanese schoolboy, who finds himself in an alternative world, where there is an endless confrontation between angels and demons. Players can expect well-developed characters, interesting plot twists, complex moral decisions and deep combat system.

Monster Hunter Stories

  • Genre: RPG
  • Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Nintendo
  • Release Date: June 14

A remaster of the 2017 Monster Hunter spin-off aimed at a casual audience. The player becomes a Monster Rider, exploring a colorful open world, fighting, collecting monsters, completing quests, and saving the universe from the Black Rot. The remaster will get improved graphics, new features including a museum mode and full voice acting in Japanese and English.

Still Wakes the Deep

  • Genre: walking simulator
  • Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation
  • Release date: June 18

The Chinese Room, known for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, is preparing a new narrative adventure. The game is set in 1975 on a drilling platform where a disaster has occurred. Players will have to rescue other workers, find a way home and survive in the face of “indescribable horror”.

Soulmask

  • Genre: Survival Simulator
  • Platforms: PC
  • Release date: June 18

Soulmask is a multiplayer survival simulator that took third place at February's Steam Next Fest and garnered over 300,000 whishlists. Players use masks to control NPCs and gain supernatural abilities, manage a tribe, and cooperate with other players. The combat system is physics-based, offering a variety of tactics.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

  • Genre: RPG
  • Platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation
  • Release Date: June 20

The first addition for the role-playing action game Elden Ring, expanding the story of the original game. Players will travel to a new location — the land of Shadows, meet a new powerful character, fight new enemies and learn new weapons. DLC gameplay promises to be as hardcore as the main game.

Other games

Star Wars: Hunters

  • Genre: Adventure
  • Platforms: mobile platforms, Nintendo Switch
  • Release date: June 4

A free-to-play Star Wars adventure for mobile platforms and Nintendo Switch. Players will be able to take part in exciting battles in the Star Wars universe.

Rolling Hills: Make Sushi, Make Friends

  • Genre: Simulator
  • Platforms: Unspecified
  • Release Date: June 4

A cozy sushi restaurant owner simulator where players will be able to make sushi and make new friends.

Rocksmith+

  • Genre: music simulator
  • Platforms: not specified
  • Release date: June 6

A musical simulator with a lot of licensed tracks, to which you can connect a real guitar and learn to play.

Chernobyl Liquidators

  • Genre: simulator
  • Platforms: not specified
  • Release date: June 6

An atmospheric simulator dedicated to the liquidation of the consequences of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Players will have to perform dangerous tasks in the exclusion zone.

Sneak Out

  • Genre: asymmetric multiplayer game
  • Platforms: not specified
  • Release date: June 6

An asymmetrical multiplayer hide-and-seek game set in a magical castle where players compete by hiding and searching for each other.

Blockbuster Inc.

  • Genre: Simulator
  • Platforms: unspecified
  • Release date: June 6

A business simulator dedicated to running a movie studio. Players will have to make movies and develop the studio.

Dragon Is Dead

  • Genre: Action-platformer
  • Platforms: unspecified
  • Release date: June 7

A grim action-platformer about a journey in which the player must defeat the leader of the Dark Dragons.

Empires of the Undergrowth

  • Genre: RTS
  • Platforms: not specified
  • Release date: June 7

RTS in an insect world where the player leads a colony of ants and challenges numerous enemies.

Histera

  • Genre: multiplayer shooter
  • Platforms: unspecified
  • Release date: June 13

A free-to-play multiplayer shooter with an ever-changing battlefield and jumps between eras.

Vampire Therapist

  • Genre: Visual novel
  • Platforms: Unspecified
  • Release date: June 18

A satirical visual novel about the everyday life of a vampire therapist.

Bureau of Contacts

  • Genre: Cooperative Horror
  • Platforms: Unspecified
  • Release date: June 30

A cooperative horror game where gamers need to team up to face off against evil ghosts.

STRETCHER MEN

  • Genre: Action Comedy
  • Platforms: unspecified
  • Release date: June 30

A comedy action game about transporting a patient on a stretcher over rough terrain.



Author
Anton Latoshkin
Date of publication
24 May 2024