9 Upcoming Video Games You Need To Be Worried About

Gamers wait hungrily for any news on their most anticipated titles but these titles come with dread.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines II
Paradox Interactive

The video game industry is one which has been grinding its gears for decades and, at this point, shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, if anything, gaming as a whole seems to be picking up pace, with its prevalence on YouTube and endemic filtering into pop culture with recent movies like Wreck It Ralph, Ready Player One and Free Guy.

With so much to play for in the modern landscape, the scrutiny and pressure upon titles across the board is greater than ever, and more than a cursory glance across some of these entries gives you an idea of who will sink or swim in the coming months and years.

Gamers wait hungrily for any news on their most anticipated titles, but sometimes leaks are a pandora’s box, and prying them open can reveal uncomfortable truths that turn this excitement into downright dread.

9. Scorn

Scorn video game
Ebb Software

Announced in November 2014, Ebb Software got tongues wagging with pre-alpha footage of this visceral looking survival horror. Set in a bio-organic world straight from the playbook of H.R. Giger, the player controls a skinless humanoid exploring this nightmarish alien planet, armed with similarly fleshy weaponry as they try to uncover the hidden lore and truth of this unsettling world.

Despite an unsuccessful initial Kickstarter, the studio received private funding in 2015 to begin a planned two part game, which would later become a single title as development continued. Set to be released as a PC and X Box Series X exclusive, more footage and gameplay trailers furthered the anticipation for fans of the gross and macabre, and expectation built in the run up to the Autumn 2021 release window.

Sure enough however, said release has been pushed back to 2022, with no reason given by the studio. Despite a huge amount of promise from a visual standpoint, questions can always be asked when a game’s development transcends a console generation, and the frustrating lack of detail both in terms of release date and progress in development is turning this into a game which turns stomachs for more than just the obvious reasons.

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