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Let's take a look at the most exciting games releasing this year, from Hollow Knight: Silksong to Dead Static Drive

Axiom Verge 2 attempts to create a free-form Metroidvania, but is let down by its lack of variety and incentive to interact with content.

References to soft drugs caused the narrative-focussed game 'Lake' to initially be banned from sale on Australian console storefronts.

Winning the Grand Prize and Best Sound Design at Bitsummit, Dap might be the most celebrated upcoming Australian game you've never heard of.

Designed around building your confidence and agency, Deathloop succeeds showing you that the most powerful weapon is your ability to improvise.

A Melbourne-made, sensory journey of transformation, The Artful Escape revels in galaxy-spanning, mind-altering, maximalist sensation.

From Melbourne studio Modern Storyteller, The Forgotten City empowers you with a sense of complete agency, telling a thought-provoking story in a way only games can.

Beautiful and minimal, Hoa proves that you don’t need clever puzzles or wild combat to succeed as a platformer.

Lake is a meditative character study that exhibits great confidence with its ebbs and flows.

The South Australian-made Wrestledunk Sports pits players against each other in games that can leave everyone roaring with laughter.

Kardboard Kings, the debut game from Melbourne-Perth studio Henry's House, was announced as part of the Indie Houses Direct.

Fellow Traveller will publish Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between in 2022. It's an expanded, philosophical reimagining of Silverstring's 2014 cult hit.