February 18 – February 25

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IMAGE(https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/pictures/pictures/picture-5877.jpg)   Greg “DoubtingThomas396” Decker

Just because the stores are full of leftover candy shaped like various love-themed organs doesn’t mean the releases are taking a week off. Let’s see what’s worth looking at, as defined by us.

Yakuza Kiwami comes to PC this week. I’ve played a bit of Yakuza 0 and liked it quite a lot. Kiwami is a remaster of the game to which Yakuza 0 was a prequel (and if that sentence isn’t awkward enough for you, pretend you’re using it as an ice-breaker to ask someone out-of-your-league to the prom). I’m interested to see the origins of the origin story. Also, there aren’t enough games that revolve around beating up people and frowning a lot. It’s all multiplayer-this and RPG-elements-that, or roguelike-some-other-dang-thing. Keep it simple, that’s what I say.

Red Tractor Tycoon is a hex-based farming simulator that’s a little more video-gamey than Giant’s genre-defining franchise. Honestly, I’d love to see it come to the Switch, but in the meantime, I’ll be happy to enjoy it at my desk.

Super Ninja Meow Cat has a title that I can’t ignore, and it reminds me of Zool, a Chupa-Chups licensed, side-scrolling platformer that appeared on the Atari Jaguar. It has a bright art style, and the trailer promises some tight action-platforming. Sign me up.

Ultra Off-Road Simulator 2019: Alaska is trying to imitate Spintires. That may sound like a criticism, but it’s not. Spintires is awesome sauce on awesome pasta with awesome meatballs. Will Ultra Off-Road Simulator 2019: Alaska live up to that? Probably not. But as far as I’m concerned, the more games in the Spintires genre, the better.

Jack and the Creepy Castle is a bouncy platformer where you play a jack-o-lantern escaping a creepy castle by bouncing over traps and enemies. Sometimes a game will win me over simply by being cute, and this game has cute in spades.

Anthem is what you get when the people who made Mass Effect try to make Destiny. I’m not sure Destiny needed loyalty quests and sexy blue aliens, but here we are. Regardless, I like shooters that feature loot, and this one comes with jetpacks!

Also, everyone already hates it, which makes it an easy pick for my game of the week. I’m rooting for ya, EA! Don’t be another Activision! My hopeful game-of-the-week vote goes to making Anthem a success!

IMAGE(https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/files/pictures/pictures/picture-13445.jpg)   Felix “Jetpack Joyride” Threepaper

This week is as good a time as any to try NieR: Automata with the Game of the YoRHa Edition releasing. It includes all the DLC, plus some skins and whatnot. However, it does not include a patch for the notoriously buggy PC version, so beware.

Also, the Switch buffs out its catalogue with a bunch of tried-and-true indies from other platforms.

Otherwise, yeah, the big-ticket item this week is Anthem. It seems to have pulled together quite well for release. As a looter-shooter with BioWare flavouring, it’s gorgeous and has good voice acting with long conversations. Just don’t expect much in the way of difficult dialogue choices—it’s all about that grind, which by most accounts, is pretty smooth. GOTW.

Here's the list, now in release-date order!

PC

  • 02-18

  • 1001 Jigsaw. Earth Chronicles
  • 30 days to survive
  • Border Control
  • Coloring Game
  • Crypto Crisis: Education Edition
  • Ecchi Girls
  • Evil Maze 2
  • Fantasy Island
  • Northern Lights
  • Planet Nine
  • Scrapyard Robot Rampage
  • Snakebird Primer
  • Space Warfare
  • Tanks on the Eastern Front
  • The Devil's Calculator
  • Viking: Sigurd's Adventure
  • Yakuza Kiwami
  • 02-19

  • Death Waves
  • Battle Tanks: Legends of World War II
  • Castle Break
  • Colorvore
  • Devotion
  • ECCHI NEKO GIRLS PUZZLE
  • Eternal Empires
  • Korvux
  • Lizardquest-Alien waters
  • Memorise'n'run
  • Red Tractor Tycoon
  • Season of War
  • Steins;Gate Elite
  • STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
  • The Station VR
  • Winkeltje
  • 02-20

  • Blades of Worlds
  • Capture the planet: Cute War
  • Cartacombs
  • Dragons Be
  • Dungeon Dreams
  • Frigus Inferos
  • Genius! NAZI-GIRL GoePPels-Chan ep1
  • Happy Album
  • HENTAI MINESWEEPER
  • Love Hentai: Endgame
  • M.C.I. Escapes
  • Marble Combat
  • One Hundred Times Me
  • Planetary Dustoff
  • Refraction
  • Robohazard 2077
  • Space Expand
  • TankDestruction
  • Tokyo Warfare Turbo
  • Trucking
  • Twinship
  • World Peace Simulator 2019
  • Wraithslayer
  • 02-21

  • Apoapsis
  • Away from beauty
  • BANNERMEN
  • BATALJ
  • Battle Box
  • Battle Kaola Rogue
  • Butterfly
  • Cosmic Crush
  • Data Mining 6
  • Devil Engine
  • Fly Flew Flown
  • Fullvoice ReBORN
  • Galactic Civilizations III: Retribution
  • GRITS Racing
  • Hentai Waifu
  • Hidden Saga: Xamadeon Stone
  • Horror Stories
  • Hulala Baby
  • King of Texas
  • LOGistICAL 2: USA - Nevada
  • Magic Combat VR
  • Malevolence
  • My Arctic Farm
  • Saving Simon
  • SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy
  • Super Ninja Meow Cat
  • Tuber's Run
  • 02-22

  • 222
  • 16 Planes:Return
  • Anthem
  • Apartment 327
  • Bala na manga
  • Bloody Mary (Drunken Apes)
  • Cold Bite
  • CubeRace
  • Cursor - by Mr iLyn.
  • Dodge Diego
  • Dungeons of Legend: Cast Within
  • DUST-UP
  • Electric Sleep
  • Evening Star 2
  • Fantasia of the Wind 2
  • FIREGROUND
  • Future Aero Racing S Ultra
  • Grounds of Glory
  • Gunpowder on The Teeth: Arcade
  • HotPuzzle:Video
  • Jack & the creepy Castle
  • Koi
  • Maze Ninja
  • Night Crisis
  • Pacify
  • Rise of Legions
  • Slave's Sword 2
  • Soccering
  • Streets of Red : Devil's Dare Deluxe
  • Tale of Fortune
  • The Antidote
  • The Chills
  • The Magnet Trials
  • Ultra Off-Road Simulator 2019: Alaska
  • VCuber
  • 02-23

  • CivilContract
  • The sea of TianGang XinSu
  • 02-24

  • Homing Shapes
  • 02-25

  • aMAZE Lunar
  • Deadly Kingdom
  • Death Cave
  • Dodge This!
  • Dream rose
  • Ecchi
  • Elephants Can't Jump
  • Erotic girls match 3
  • Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions
  • Hookshot
  • Kill The Censored
  • Land Of The Void
  • Little Mouse's Encyclopedia
  • Manipulator of Figure 3
  • Plaguepunk Justice
  • Saper Hentai
  • Shop Battle
  • Sin; Vengeance
  • Super Orb Collector
  • Swarm Simulator: Evolution
  • The Adventures of Perseus
  • The Elder Scrolls Online: Wrathstone
  • Transhaping
  • War of Power: The Last Fight
  • Zombie Apocalypse

PS4

  • 02-19

  • Almost There: The Platformer
  • Daggerhood
  • Death end re;Quest
  • Dreamworks Dragons Dawn Of New Riders
  • HackyZack
  • Pode
  • Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past
  • Rym 9000
  • Steins;Gate Elite
  • STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
  • The Sims 4: Movie Hangout Stuff
  • Unexplored: Unlocked Edition
  • 02-20

  • Farm Together
  • 02-21

  • Hell Warders
  • Hexa Maze
  • NieR: Automata - Game of the YoRHa Edition
  • 02-22

  • Anthem

PSVR

  • 02-19

  • ChromaGun VR

Xbox One

  • 02-19

  • Almost There: The Platformer
  • 02-20

  • Daggerhood
  • 02-22

  • Anthem
  • Unexplored: Unlocked Edition
  • Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past
  • Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

Switch

  • 02-18

  • Trine 2: Complete Story
  • 02-19

  • 8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate
  • BlazeRush
  • Steins;Gate Elite
  • 02-20

  • I wanna fly
  • 02-21

  • Almost There: The Platformer
  • Aragami: Shadow Edition
  • Devil Engine
  • GIGANTIC ARMY
  • Hell Warders
  • Q.U.B.E. 2
  • Raining Coins
  • Rotating Brave
  • The Journey Down Trilogy
  • Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight
  • X-Morph: Defense
  • Yume Nikki: Dream Diary
  • 02-22

  • Quest for the Golden Duck
  • Tyr: Chains of Valhalla
  • 02-25

  • Darkest Hunter

Vita

  • 02-19

  • Daggerhood

RIFT

  • 02-21

  • BAD BILLY 2D VR
  • Shadow Legend VR
  • VR Racing
  • 02-23

  • Maze Of Time VR
  • 02-25

  • Unearthing Mars 2: The Ancient War

Vive

  • 02-18

  • Flying in Labyrinth
  • 02-21

  • BAD BILLY 2D VR
  • Shadow Legend VR
  • VR Racing
  • 02-23

  • Maze Of Time VR
  • 02-25

  • Tahko Alpine Ski
  • Unearthing Mars 2: The Ancient War

Comments

Japan is getting the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Switch release this week, while we in the West still have a "Spring 2019" window. Believe it or not, I'd be all fired up to play those games again if they released...

I might eventually get Anthem when it's been knocked down to $20 or $30. Aspects of it look fun, but I just don't feel like paying full price for another looter shooter when I already got Destiny loaded on my PS4.

No one is paying full price for Anthem at this point, I think just about everyone is paying for it through a month of Access. Except for the pre-order folks, natch.

Except that isn't available on PS4. Go, Sony!