Tasked with colonizing the planet of Enoch, things go sideways from the start, after a freakish energy storm called “The Anomaly” ravages the planet and grants you (and the hostiles you'll face) special powers.

Square Enix and developer People Can Fly are betting big on Outriders, an all-new sci-fi IP that puts you and your gang of accidentally-enhanced sidekicks in a hostile alien world. So without further fanfare, here's a handy cheat sheet - starting with what's coming the soonest - of the biggest cross-platform and 3rd party games we can't wait to play in 2021: But the one thing they all have in common is that there'll be more than one way to play.

Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo: Some of these games will arrive on all three companies' hardware in some form or fashion, while others may just show up on the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S (or even the PS4 and Xbox One). We took a good gander last month at all the biggest console exclusives headed our way in 2021, and with February closing in on the Valentine's Day midway mark, now's the perfect time to peep this year's cross-platform roadmap…before the release schedule heats up and the games start coming in fast and furious. The new releases you can play right now aren't too shabby, either: Critics already are digging the pint-sized horror of Little Nightmares II, as well as the Switch-enhanced debut of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - a relatively underplayed Wii U classic that hits the Switch with some new hard-shelled tricks.īut before the year kicks over into high gear, there's still enough of a lull this week to pause and take a far-flung look ahead at something we teased earlier: a trailer-loaded preview of all the big cross-platform, third-party games that're expected to land on multiple consoles sometime before the calendar flips over to 2022.

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