Hello! Welcome to the latest Games Release Roundup!

This week, Lego cars, horrors with friends and a Shiba Inu does queue management.

It is an incredibly quiet week in games releases. This is exacerbated by the fact that numerous games originally scheduled for this week have been delayed. I started this week with about ten games, which has now fallen to four after a quick check mid-week.

This does happen occasionally at this time of year though. We have Summer Games Fest coming up (and Sony’s Showcase next week) and typically that early summer is when all the big announcements happen. Developers and publishers alike seem to love throwing a few releases out during all the hype, so mid-May sees a drop-off as releases are delayed until then.

This week’s highlights are straightforward as I debated between two games for Game of the Week. Obviously, as you can see, Humanity won that fight, but Lego 2K Drive was also a contender. It’s Lego! And Forza Horizon but sillier! It’s a winner. But ultimately the accolade went to a dog guiding us to the heavens. Read on to find out more!

New Releases

Greedventory (PC) is an action RPG set in a world of greed and theft, where magic artifacts are constantly being fought over. All your combat actions are controlled by your cursor, so quick reactions are key.

The Outlast Trials (PC) is an Early Access game set in the Outlast universe, only this time with friends! You and your optional friends have to survive a series of terrible Cold War experiments, using your unique skills to stay alive. One character looks like Moss from The IT Crowd, so that’s interesting.

Lego 2K Drive (PC, PlayStation, Switch, Xbox) is an arcade driving game set in the Lego universe. Much like the Forza Horizon series, you drive around an open world in a wide array of vehicles. The key difference is that all these vehicles are made of Lego, meaning you can customise them in exactly the same way you can customise their real-life plastic counterparts. Also, the driving is much more arcade-focused than Xbox’s series. It looks like a lot of fun!

Game of the Week

Game of the Week this week is Humanity (PC, PlayStation), a game that’s best described as a cross between Lemmings and convention queue management. With a puppy!

Just recently I expressed disappointment that we don’t get as many weird games like we did in the PS1 era, and now here come Sony fully supporting a third-party title that evokes that era’s weirdness. You play as a Shiba Inu instructed by mysterious voices to guide an unceasing line of people to a shining light where they can ascend.

It’s all extremely weird – it opens on the line “I awoke to find I was a dog” – but that’s why it’s so exciting. Inspired by long lines at Japan’s iconic Comiket event, this line of faceless people will just walk constantly in a straight line until you place commands down to guide them in the right direction. Your barks can instruct them to turn, jump and more as you guide them across blocky environments in a void.

Look, I don’t fully understand what this is, but I played a bit of it through PlayStation Plus and it’s oddly compelling. As weird puzzle games go, it’s definitely one of the more intriguing, and I hope it gets a ton of attention from its PS Plus presence. Also, look at that launch trailer! Just…look at it!