December 23 - 29

  Felix “Merry X-Men” Threepaper

Welcome, and happy holidays! I wish you all the best, however and whatever you’re celebrating this week.

As for games, this week feels like the post-credits scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: the year’s over, go home! Does anyone still get references to Ferris Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?

The release schedule has finally run out of puff for 2019. You know it’s a quiet week when the biggest cross-platform release is an indie Doom clone called Demon Pit. There aren’t even any PS4 games coming out this week.

The Japanese-developed XBox exclusive, Natsuki Chronicles, finally drops in Asian markets on Christmas day, after being delayed 5 times since its announcement in 2014. It’s a side-scrolling shmup that looks like most of the other shmups.

It’s really all about the sales right now. But if you must get a new release this week, I recommend Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order - Expansion 2: Rise of the Phoenix. It adds new missions, a Danger Room mode, and puts Phoenix, Iceman, Gambit, and Cable on the roster. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is an enjoyable, button-mashin’, co-op brawler, and this DLC gives you more of that, so GOTW.

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

PC

• 12-23

• Pulstario
• The Land of Crows
• Eternal Battlefield
• Princess Maker: Go! Go! Princess
• Hell Warriors
• Raccoon: The Orc Invasion
• Fallen
• Swing Dunk
• IOX
• Card Princess
• History Racers 2
• BOMBERX
• SnowBall FPS
• Ascent Free-Roaming VR Experience
• Dancing Arrow : Beat Smash
• Gala Collider
• Cthulhu Saves Christmas
• Princess Maker ~Faery Tales Come True - HD Remake
• Bunker 56

• 12-24

• Infinity Wars
• The Amazing T.K's Suburban Nightmares
• Afterbern Democralypse
• Pictassembler
• DOTOKOI
• Christmas Crisis
• Let's Learn Japanese! Vocabulary
• BRG's Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya
• Cowboy (2019)
• Viper
• Mirage Online Classic

• 12-25

• Door2:Key
• Creature Card Idle
• Drinks With Abbey
• Good doktor
• Monster Capture King
• Try again!
• Aigor Escape from Bishop
• Air Attack 3.0, Aerial Firefighting Game
• Kanojo x Switch
• James Town Courier Frog MD
• Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade

• 12-26

• Solitaire Call of Honor
• PM-1 Inverse Universe
• Enternal Liiivie
• League of Pixels
• My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life
• Colossals
• The Winter's Deal - Frosty Edition
• An Odyssey: Echoes of War
• Math Path
• Super Crystal Hunter
• Journey to New Atlantis
• ESCAPE ROOM VR
• Find Me: Horror Game

• 12-27

• Creatio Ex Nihilo II: Deus Otiosus
• Creatio Ex Nihilo III: Amor Dei
• Ocean Drive Challenge Remastered
• FUNGI
• Axiel
• Aloe and Cal
• Tiles Shooter Puzzle Cube
• Path

• 12-28

• Trapped
• labyrinth
• Model Railway Easily Christmas
• To The Sea : The Courier

PS4

Xbox One

• 12-24

• Oniken: Unstoppable Edition
• Demon Pit
• Straimium Immortaly
• XenoRaptor
• Tamashii
• Demons with Shotguns
• Odallus: The Dark Call

• 12-25

• Natsuki Chronicles

• 12-27

• Clocker

Switch

• 12-23

• Down to Hell
• Rush Rally 3
• Regions of Ruin
• Sacred Stones
• DreamBall
• Mushroom Quest
• Princess Maker: Go! Go! Princess
• Princess Maker: Fairy Tales Come True
• Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times
• Clumsy Rush
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order - Expansion 2: Rise of the Phoenix
• Crazy Zen Mini Golf
• Demon's Tilt

• 12-24

• Drawngeon: Dungeons of Ink and Paper
• Funny Bunny Adventures
• The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition

• 12-25

• Demon Pit
• Tamashii
• Straimium Immortaly
• 8-Ball Pocket
• XenoRaptor
• Barbarous: Tavern of Emyr

• 12-26

• Akuto: Showdown
• Roll'd
• Gunma's Ambition -You and me are Gunma-

• 12-27

• Arcade Archives: Vs. Balloon Fight