E3 2021 Part 8: PC Gaming and Future Games Show Highlights

Table of Contents

Summer Game Fest 2021
Koch Primetime
IGN Expo Livestream
Guerrilla Collective Day 2
Wholesome Direct 2021
Ubisoft Forward
Devolver Forwarder
Gearbox Entertainment
Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase
Square Enix Presents
PC Gaming Show
Future Games Show
Limited Run Games
Capcom
Nintendo Direct

PC Gaming Show

The PC Gaming Show began with no audio. Off to a good start.

Fortunately, we finally got sound. The jokes about the show going off without a hitch and a bot scanning to confirm there were no hitches made me wonder if perhaps the lack of audio was intentional, as a joke.

Anyway, they showed a lot of games… mostly games that didn’t particularly interest me, so let’s take a look at some highlights instead of going through them one by one!

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong sounds like it could be interesting, although the trailer told me pretty much nothing about the game itself.

Soulstice, however, looks pretty cool! I’ll be keeping my eye on that one.

The next one that caught my attention was SacriFire, an RPG currently on Kickstarter. I don’t know if I’ll back it, but I’ll certainly keep it in mind. Songs of Conquest also looks interesting, although I’m not sure it’s my sort of game.

Future Games Show

As soon as the PC Gaming Show ended, the Future Games Show began. I was mainly interested in checking it out to see what Xseed’s announcements would be. Once again, it was filled with a lot of games, so I’ll go through the highlights.

Grow: Song of the Evertree looks pretty, although I might not like it, since it’s a sandbox. A Tale of Paper is a platformer that also looks pretty interesting, and Beacon Pines looks really cute.

We got to see a new trailer for Eldest Souls, which I remember being announced, and I liked it… although I’m not crazy about it being a boss rush game.

A game called Harold Halibut looks neat, especially because they made all of the models physically and scanned them for the game. The next game shown after that was Happy Game, which was absolutely horrifying.

Tails of Iron, which is described as an “RPG-lite,” had a pretty interesting trailer.

Lust From Beyond is also getting an M-rated edition, which is coming to consoles as well. I reviewed the definitely-not-safe-for-work edition for MonsterVine, and I’d say it’s worth checking out.

Xseed was featured with Akiba’s Trip, Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, Rune Factory 4 Special, and Rune Factory 5. So… their new announcements turned out to just be ports of Story of Seasons and Rune Factory 4, which disappointed me a bit.

Detective thriller Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View looks intriguing, and so does Immortality, the game they ended on.

And that was the end of the Future Games Show, as well as the end of today’s E3 events! We’ve still got a couple of smaller events tomorrow, followed by the final two on Tuesday to finish things off. What are your thoughts on E3 so far?

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