2018 Videogame Preview: PC Games

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 22, 2018

In the gallery above, find details on 40 of the most-anticipated PC games that are expected to be released during 2018. Our list includes only those games with confirmed release dates and games that seem more likely than not to come out this year—plus, at the end, a few bonus picks that are a bit more tentative for 2018. Visit our 2018 Preview section for previews for additional gaming platforms (as well as film, TV, and music previews).

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90 Into the Breach

Release date: tbd

The second release from the team behind the indie hit Faster Than Light is a turn-based strategy game featuring procedurally generated levels consisting of 8-by-8 grids. Your goal is to prevent what's left of humanity from being wiped out by rather dumb, insect-like aliens who tend to telegraph their moves in advance. To do so, you employ a squad of humongous mechs from the future.

But things aren't quite as simple as they seem—though Breach isn't as brutally difficult as FTL—and you'll need to utilize quite a bit of clever thinking both to wipe out the threat and accomplish secondary tasks. The gaming press got a crack at an early build of the game in the fall, and seemed to love it.

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