Episode #8
4 Beautiful Upcoming Games You Need To Wishlist | Minisode
4 Upcoming Games that We're Desperate to Play! The Beautiful Games Club is a community for people who love games that move you - emotionally, visually, creatively and brought to you by the team at ustwo games - makers of Monument Valley, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure and Assemble With Care. Each episode, we pick a game that deserves some extra special attention and explore it together, one beautiful game at a time. But this time we're doing something different. Instead of looking back at a game we've all finished, we're looking forwards. Conor takes over hosting duties for a minisode where each of us brings one unreleased game we think is going to be beautiful, and then has to defend it. We make the case for a co-op-only platformer that looks like lost 90s anime, a fairy tale open world with a thousand handcrafted NPCs, a sequel that's now in a third dimension, and an old witch with chicken feet and a monster friend. Along the way we argue about whether a game can be beautiful when the experience belongs to two people instead of one, whether comedy counts as beauty, and why there are so few old people in games. Then we rank all four on our wishlists and immediately disagree. So. Which one are you wishlisting first? Games discussed in this episode: Orbitals - Shape Farm - Releases 3 September 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2. Fable - Playground Games - Releases 23 February 2027 on Xbox and PC. Pikuniku 2 - Sectordub - Releases in 2027 on Switch 2 and Steam. Coven of the Chicken Foot - Wildflower Interactive - no release date yet! Host: Conor Guests: Alannah, Lale and Mike CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:19 - How Do We Find New Games? 09:28 - Orbitals 22:09 - Fable 31:13 - Pikuniku 2 42:24 - Coven of the Chicken Foot 50:30 - Honourable Mentions 52:43 - Ranking Them on Our Wishlists
