These are the game highlights in November

«Harvestella»

Take care of your farm, plant vegetables, remove weeds and fight giant insects on the side. On the side, you’ll get to cuddle your fluffy rabbit dog. «Harvestella» is a farm simulator with a fair amount of fantasy role-playing.

«Football Manager 2023»

Those of you who find the «FIFA» career mode too superficial will surely be delighted with «Football Manager». You can manage your club down to the smallest detail. And for that extra dose of realism, you can download the right match schedules, jerseys and player portraits online.

«Sonic Frontiers»

Sega just can’t stop trying to release an actually decent game featuring everyone’s favourite blue hedgehog. And «Sonic Frontiers» certainly isn’t lacking in ambition. This release, an open world game reminiscent of «Zelda: Breath of the Wild», will supposedly finally set things right. I’m intrigued.

«God of War Ragnarök»

Kratos, the god of war, is back. He’s trying to prevent Ragnarok, the end of the world, joined once again by his son Atreus. But first, he’ll have to battle both fate and a headstrong teenager seeking his destiny. Brutal action and an epic story are guaranteed.

«Tactics Ogre Reborn»

«Reborn» is a completely revised re-release of the nearly 20-year-old strategy role-playing game. In addition to the graphics, improvements include modernised game design and a German translation for the first time.

«Pentiment»

To find out what’ll happen after you’re bought by Microsoft and given free rein to do something completely different for once, just look at «Pentiment». «Fallout New Vegas» developers Obsidian have come back with a historical puzzle role-playing game set in 16th century Eastern Germany. The art style is just as unusual and intriguing as the medieval works of art it mimics.

«Goat Simulator 3»

That crazed goat is at it again – and this time, it’s brought reinforcements. This newest instalment has you roaming the neighbourhood with your friends, causing chaos and destruction.

«The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me»

«The Dark Pictures Anthology» is a series of short cinematic horror games. In this newest part, you’ll accompany a documentary film crew to a replica of a murder castle. Quick time events and life-or-death decisions are the order of the day.

«Pokémon Scarlet and Violet»

If you say it long enough, eventually it has to come true. «Pokémon Scarlet and Violet» is once again the first open-world Pokémon game. If the game world turns out as empty as it was in the last two titles, it won’t make much of a splash. Pokémon fans are excited nonetheless, as my jittery work colleagues assure me.

«Evil West»

I still don’t understand how so many games featuring the same setting and nearly identical names can appear in just one year. I still feel like playing with all of them, though – which is possibly the answer to my question. «Weird West» and «Hard West 2» are now followed by «Evil West». The camera has moved closer to your character, and the whole thing plays like an action-adventure game, the likes of which are rarely made these days. You can slice your way through hordes of bloodsucking vampires alone or with friends.

«World of Warcraft: Dragonflight»

With the Dracthyr, WoW’s ninth expansion brings a race-class combination to the game for the very first time . The level cap on the Dragon Isles has increased to 70, and there are four new zones – both for questing and learning to ride dragons.

«Warhammer 40,000: Darktide»

To end on another highlight: «Darktide» is a co-op action game. In it, you’ll shoot and slaughter your way through the dark monster-infested Warhammer world with your friends. The game was made by the same studio that created both «Vermintide» one and two, promising nerve-wracking missions that you’ll often only survive on your very last sliver of health.