September Game Releases: Part 1

10 new games launching soon.

Aug 30, 2024

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September is shaping up to be a great month for double-A and indie game releases. The first half of the month kicks off with several epic games. Fight demonic Nazis, run a tavern with your friends, save Heaven, drive a car with legs, and build a cottage with giant chicken legs!

Note: Release dates are subject to change.

Sumerian Six (2 September)

Lead a team of supernatural commandos called Enigma Squad, who are out to stop the Nazis from harnessing ancient artefacts and demonic powers. Sumerian Six is a throwback to isometric real-time tactics games where you blend stealth, timing, and special attacks to take out the enemy. It looks great and has a lot of style.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

Star Trucker (3 September)

Buckle in, fire up your rig, and deliver hauls across the galaxy. Blast some road tunes and chat with your fellow truckers over the CV radio while riding down the space highways. Get Space Trucker jobs, make money, upgrade your wheels, and keep on trucking! Never mind that this is all in space, which doesn't quite make sense. Since when did games have to make sense? Not when you've got the open galaxy in front of you!

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

GT Manager (3 September)

Manage a racing team across official GT races and 25 officially licensed cars in the GT4, GT3, GT2, GTE and Hypercar categories. It's a competitive sport, so sign the best talent, develop new drivers, tweak car setups for different tracks, and take your team to the top of the podium.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

Ale & Tale Tavern (5 September)

Up to four players can join in to help restore an abandoned tavern set in a lush fantasy world. They help run the place, serving customers, making food and drink, and gathering ingredients. Then, they can hang up the 'closed' sign and go out for a bit of adventuring, completing quests and other activities in the open world. Ale & Tale Tavern goes well beyond the usual simulation game experience.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

The Holy Gosh Darn (5 September)

Heaven will be destroyed unless you save it in this time-travelling adventure game. Jump freely between the past and present across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim, altering one timeline to make changes in another. The Holy Gosh Darn takes inspiration from classic adventure games, especially one involving tentacles, complete with a wacky art style and plenty of jokes.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

What The Car? (9 September)

Many games focus on a genre and then add some humour. But WHAT THE CAR? is foremost a comedy game that happens to involve driving cars. Only, these are not cars in any conventional sense, ranging from cars with legs to cars strapped on office chairs (and sneezing) to cars riding bicycles, jetpack cars, and more. Finish the tracks, befriends the bears, and maybe even be a car-p!

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

Critter Cove (10 September)

The town of Critter Cove has fallen in disrepair, but that's where you come in! Bring this island world back to life in a game that mixes town-building and life sim genres. Explore the world, which hides the ruins of an ancient civilisation, and upgrade the town to attract more tourists, putting more cash in your pockets. You can also befriend the town's animal citizens and build custom decorations to make the place truly yours.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

Mirthwood (11 September)

Dive head-first into this medieval immersive sim with plenty of depth as you participate in a lively world full of interesting places and characters. Choose to farm, build a homestead, become an adventurer, or both! Hire villagers to take care of things while you go on quests. Shape your farm the way you want with the organic building system, befriend and romance locals in relationships, and make choices that change the world. Mirthwood is ambitious, but it looks set to deliver.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

Wild Bastards (12 September)

Recruit gunfighters from across the galaxy and manage your gang's fate in this quirky turn-based-strategy-meets-first-person shooter adventure. You navigate the different worlds using top-down maps, moving in turns along different paths to unlock buffs, equipment, and other advantages. You'll need them because when you hit a showdown spot, you jump in guns-blazing for some FPS action.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

REKA (12 September)

The survival genre is crowded, and new games need fresh ideas to stand out. Well, nothing's as fresh as playing a young apprentice witch exploring her surroundings and building her mobile cottage that walks on giant chicken legs. Taking heavy inspiration from Slavic legends such as Baba Yaga, REKA looks very interesting and different.

[Steam Store][Watch the trailer]

These release dates are sourced from the fantastic SteamDB.