Summer’s winding down but Sandbox is staying hot! Check out everything team Sandbox shared in August before, during and after gamescom all the way up to Labor Day in early September!
New Game Releases
- Aspyr released The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition on PC & consoles! The classic action RPG is back with a variety of enhancements for modern systems.
- Take on corrupted mascots, twisted puzzles, and unearth horrifying secrets in Twisted Tower, out now on Steam.
- Explore a new story and new trials in the award-winning world of A Plague Tale with Focus Entertainment’s Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, out now on PC, PS5 & XSX!
- Focus Entertainment also released BioEden, a hopeful, cozy, solarpunk management sim for PC and consoles that’s all about restoring nature to a barren planet.
- ReStory, the chill Y2K-era electronics repair sim from tinyBuild & I Am Future dev Mandragora, launched on Steam, selling over 300,000 copies!
- SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed brought tinyBuild’s legendary competitive platform racer back to PC and consoles.
- Put the pedal to the metal in iRacing Arcade, out now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S!
- Raise some “shell” in the Ninja Edition of TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants, available now exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2.
Game Reveals & Publishing Updates
- Bit Bot announced it is publishing Knock Off: The Battle for Imagination, an action-packed 2D brawler inspired by classic ’80s and ’90s toys and arcade games! Players can expect to duke it out on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in 2027.
- Grab your friends for an island expedition of nautical proportions when NAUTUS, the new game from Arc Games and the makers of Have a Nice Death, enters Steam Early Access in 2027!
- Arc Games also announced it is publishing Sil and the Fading World, a solo-raiding action RPG inspired by MMO-style raid boss combat and buildcrafting, with a free demo on Steam now.
- Bring down the gods with adrenaline-fueled platforming and combat alongside your dragon-god companion in Focus Entertainment’s Elta: Defy All Gods, releasing in 2027 on PC, PS5 & XSX.
- Focus Entertainment is also “coming in clutch” with a new publishing deal for the character-driven racing game CLUTCH, racing onto PC, PS5, and XSX in Spring 2027!
- Squad up with a pack of 1-4 players for fur-ocious extraction action in GRAVHOUNDS, a new shooter from veterans of 343/DICE, coming to Early Access on PC & Xbox Nov. 2!
- The newest entry in Dovetail’s long-running train franchise – Train Sim World 7 – is en route to PC, PS5 & XSX on Sept. 15!
- Japanese publisher Asobism officially announced OmOchim, a delightful new sandbox physics game in development for Steam.
Release Date News & Updates
- Build the most profitable graveyard and defend your town—or die trying!—when Graveyard Keeper 2 releases on PC & consoles Sept. 22!
- Order of the Sinking Star, the MASSIVE puzzle adventure from Jonathan Blow and Arc Games, launches on October 8 on PC, PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2.
- Fear all evil! Saber Interactive revealed that Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is launching on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 8, right alongside PC, PS5 and XSX.
- The world of the best-selling feline fantasy book series comes to life like never before when Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest releases on PC and consoles on October 23.
- Uncover the dark secrets and terrors of the past when Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy caps off the cult-hit survival-horror trilogy on October 27 on PC and consoles!
- Get behind the wheel of a big rig and explore the vibrant American South in Road Kings, the next-gen truck sim shipping out on PC, PS5 & XSX on March 11, 2027!
New Trailers, Updates & More
- Perform death-defying stunts—or risk becoming a fossil—in Stuntman: Hollywood‘s newest trailer, which revealed Jurassic World as the next blockbuster IP to be featured in the game when it launches on PC, PS5 & XSX!
- Take on the living and the dead as the infamous Negan, revealed as a playable character in The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival, coming to PC & consoles Sept. 18!
- Watch your step: every move you make is seen by the ever-watchful Colossal Policeman. Run, hide, lie, steal—do whatever it takes to escape in Militsioner, coming 2027 to PC, Xbox and Game Pass.
- Suit up as a mighty Turok warrior and fossilize your enemies in the new story trailer for Turok: Origins, releasing on PC and consoles in Spring 2027!
