10 Hugely Promising Upcoming Video Games You Won't Want To Miss

9. Absolver

What Is It?

Dark Souls meets God Hand with a splash of Jade Empire. A huge focus on hand-to-hand martial arts combat, putting a major impetus on choosing your attacks, knowing when to dodge, how to chain attacks together to release the most momentum, how to manage groups of foes at once, and so on.

Why Should I Care?

Publishers Devolver Digital continue to go from strength to strength, hand-picking a number of games to help showcase to the masses. They're responsible for giving us Hotline Miami, Broforce, Mother Russia Bleeds and Shadow Warrior, to name but four.

So far, gameplay for Absolver looks to be incredibly tactile. It certainly feels like in the wake of Dark Souls' landmark success, a ton of developers have used its over-shoulder, 'every-attack-matters' template to craft a number of different experiences. Cel-shaded, stylish as hell and with the backing of one of the best publishers in the business right now, Absolver should drop in early 2017, if not before.