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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54 Metal Gear Survive

Release date: February 20

Series creator Hideo Kojima may have moved on to other projects, but his 30-year-old stealth series continues nevertheless. Konami's first installment since Kojima's departure after the excellent Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in 2015 is a co-op survival game set (at least in part) between the events of Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes.

But the protagonist of those titles, Snake, is nowhere to be found; instead, you create a custom character and attempt to eke out a survival with few supplies and a constant zombie threat. Oh, and your soldier has been sucked through a wormhole into an alternate timeline, and must find a way back home.

Zombies? Wormholes? That doesn't sound a whole lot like Metal Gear. And an early trailer didn't exactly receive a warm reception from fans. Nor will those fans be happy with Survive's always-online requirement (even in single-player mode), the presence of microtransactions, or the revelation that the campaign may be as short as 15 hours. So Konami may have a lot to prove when the new game releases next month for PS4, XB1, and PC.

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