Looking for some stuff to Wishlist? Here's a look at the best games coming to Steam throughout January 2024.
Happy New Year, happy new gaming! It's time to look over what releases are hitting Steam over the next few weeks, sharing the highlights — these are the games with the most wishlists, follows, and generally the titles that are eagerly anticipated.
2024 kicks off with the likes of Tekken 8, a new Like A Dragon entry, Turnip Boy returns to a life of crime, a superb looking Portal 2 community mod is on the way, and more — so let's get to it and check out the best games landing on Steam throughout January.
🗓️ January 2024 Steam Games
Portal: Revolution
🗓️ Release date: January 6
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
Ok, so this technically isn't a game release per se, but it's still well worth having on your radar.
This full on mod, made by Stefan Heinz, adds a ton of new content to the Valve puzzle classic Portal 2. It's set before the events of the 2011 puzzle sequel — you can expect over eight hours of gameplay here thanks to 40 new test-chambers to take on. Best of all? It's free — you just need to have Portal 2 in your library in order to play.
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Beer Factory
🗓️ Release date: January 10
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
This sim management game sees you take the helm at a beer factory, challenged with running the business from top to bottom — be that handling production lines, dealing with employees, and even juggling the import and export of your finished goods.
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
🗓️ Release date: January 11
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
I'm not overly familiar with this series, but the platforming franchise from Bombservice has been going since 2010 — starting out with humble beginnings over on itch.io. This new entry, the fifth overall, tells the story of Momo, a High Priestess on a "divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction" due to hordes of demons wreaking havoc.
Lovely 2D pixel art here, with platforming, melee action, and "core-shaking" boss battles aplenty.
↳ Momodora: Moonlit Farewell on Steam
War Hospital
🗓️ Release date: January 11
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
You're tasked with managing a British WW1 field hospital in this 3D isometric real-time strategy management medical sim set in 1918. A unique war game in a way, as it's about saving lives, rather than taking them.
Sovereign Syndicate
🗓️ Release date: January 15
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
A 3D, isometric Victorian-era steampunk-themed CRPG featuring tarot cards instead of dice.
↳ Sovereign Syndicate on Steam
Contain
🗓️ Release date: January 16
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
An early-access tactical sci-fi co-op FPS in which you, as part of a team of four, take on anomalies of 'supernatural origin'. Co-op is the recommended way to play, but there is a 'Lone Wolf' option too, if you'd rather take it on solo.
New Cycle
🗓️ Release date: January 18
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
A city builder set after a world altering event. Start by building your lone shelter, and keep going until you've got an entire industrial metropolis. The goal is to see people go from just surviving, to thriving.
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
🗓️ Release date: January 18
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
The tax-evading, trouble making Turnip returns in this new cute, 2D action adventure game. This time the notorious root veg teams up with the 'Pickled Gang' to plan and execute "the weirdest heist of all time".
↳ Turnip Boy Robs a Bank on Steam
Fractured Veil
🗓️ Release date: January 18
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
An early-access, apocalyptic base-building survival game set in a large, open-world landscape that's based on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
Stargate: Timekeepers
🗓️ Release date: January 23
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
A new real-time tactics sci-fi experience in which you lead a team of specialists through an original narrative, 14-part story-driven campaign that's set in the SG-1 universe. It takes places after Season 7 of the show. There's a demo available now too.
↳ Stargate: Timekeepers on Steam
Enshrouded
🗓️ Release date: January 24
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
This early-access game is a 16-player, fantasy-themed, open-world co-op survival action RPG with base building elements.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
🗓️ Release date: January 24
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: Verified
Three games, 16 cases, all verified for the Deck. This legal drama adventure from Capcom sees you play as Apollo Justice, guided by legendary mentor, Phoenix Wright. No objections here, this collection looks good.
↳ Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy for Steam Deck
Anomaly Agent
🗓️ Release date: January 24
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
A stylish looking, pixel-art 2D action-platformer. Sports a cyberpunk setting, and features fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a synthwave sound.
TEKKEN 8
🗓️ Release date: January 25
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
A new entry in the long-running TEKKEN fighting series. This one has over 30 fighters to choose from, all promising over the top action. There's a demo up now.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
🗓️ Release date: January 25
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
Another entry in the much-loved Yakuza / Like a Dragon series, and this one seems huge — telling the story of both Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu in both Japan and Hawaii. Superb RPG action, the usual great storyline, and plenty of detailed mini-games too.
↳ Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth on Steam
Go Mecha Ball
🗓️ Release date: January 25
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
This is a twin-stick arcade-style shooter with a roguelike progression system. It has Marble Blast vibes, and pinball-style physics. Blast around an area in your mecha ball and take out waves of enemies. Looks like fast-paced fun.
Unforetold: Witchstone
🗓️ Release date: January 25
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
An early-access turn-based RPG sandbox game with a "deep, reactive influence system that allows you to shape the fate of the world".
↳ Unforetold: Witchstone on Steam
The Quinfall
🗓️ Release date: January 30
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: TBC
A big, medieval fantasy MMORPG that claims to have the "world's largest MMORPG map".
Eastward - Octopia DLC
🗓️ Release date: January 31
🎮 Steam Deck compatibility: Verified
Here's a new add-on DLC for the charming RPG hit from 2021. This all-new Octopia expansion for Eastward sees characters Sam and John return for a farming-sim adventure.
That's a wrap on this month's highlights — does anything here grab your eye?