New Games to Pick Up This Month

As yet more clusters are found, you might be finding yourself on the couch a little more than usual. Here’s our recommended time killers of new games to get your hands on:

Jurassic World Aftermath

Out on the Oculus Quest, Jurassic World Aftermath successfully recreates the fear of getting chased by a velociraptor around a kitchen in VR. Set two years after that eruption in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, dinos have well and truly overrun the island. Presented in a clean stylistic artstyle perfect for VR legibility you spend your time solving puzzles and playing hide and go seek (Alien: Isolation styles) with dinosaurs that want to bite your head off. Crouching in VR can be a bit rough but if you can hack it, I can recommend it. There’s no gunplay, this is entirely a cat and mouse experience. Also a word of warning. The game is about three hours long, which is fine for VR I guess, but it appears to be a regular six hour game cut in half. The game abruptly ends and expects you to buy the rest as DLC later this year.

Bravely Default 2

The originals justified the 3DS’s entire existence and now it’s made its way onto the Switch. Classic JRPG turn based combat, but brought into 2021 in a way that will grip your attention in a vice. Pre-use your turns early and risk sitting idle and open or go into defence and bank your turns for later. A robust job system lets you mix and match abilities and classes you learn along the way to build your ultimate strategy. Also it lets you speed up combat encounters to a comically fast speed, taking all the plodding boringness out of turn based combat. Pokemon, take note. Please.