This Week’s Game Releases

New week, new (/old) games: if you’re looking for something to play this week, your best bet will be looking to the past, whether it’s the latest in a line of Zelda spinoffs, or the multiplatform debut of one of 2024’s best games. And it’s also finally time to shred through one of our most anticipated games of the year, about a rock band doing rock band things in a world where rock bands are illegal. Here’s what we’ll be playing this week—and/or what you should consider finally playing, if you haven’t done so yet.

1000xResist

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
Release Date: November 4

An astute website once called 1000xResist the second best game of 2024. Maybe it was wrong, though? Maybe 1000xResist was the best game of the year? That same website (or, at least, the same editors, working at a different website, but owned by the same company) could be persuaded. Sunset Visitor’s adventure does something really rare: it introduces a sci-fi world that feels unique, original, and lived in, and with an emotional depth unusual in pretty much any narrative medium these days. It’s a must-play, and now PlayStation and Xbox owners will be able to play it starting tomorrow.

Football Manager 26

Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Release Date: November 4

Sega’s sporting* sim numbers itself by the year, not the installment, so no, this is not the 26th entry in the series. It is the first one in a couple of years, though, as the would-be Football Manager 25 was cancelled. So the thinking fan’s FIFA (or, as EA’s game is now called, EA FC)  has something to prove after its lost season. 26 promises some major new additions, including a full embrace of women’s football, with over a dozen leagues and tens of thousands of players on offer. It’s also a noticeable leap forward on the tech side, with improved graphics and a new interface; that probably worries longtime players as much as it excites them, of course, as any change to a popular series risks alienating the core audience. Footy fans will find out very soon, as the game lands tomorrow.

*: I originally wrote “sports sim” but “sporting” seemed more appropriately European.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment

Platforms: Switch 2
Release Date: November 6

2025 started with one of the best Musou games in years, as the widely-acclaimed Dynasty Warriors: Origins found the sweet spot between strategy, story, and streams of slashable, hackable foot soldiers. It was overwhelming without ever making players feel overwhelmed, if that makes sense. Koei Tecmo’s genre of too many dudes will also ring out the year with this Switch 2 exclusive, the latest Musou game set in the world of Legend of Zelda. Age of Imprisonment spins out of 2023’s Tears of the Kingdom, set during the Imprisoning War that looms so large over that game’s story, and stars Zelda as she fights off hordes of enemies alongside King Rauru (and, presumably, other recognizable characters from Hyrule). If you’re serious about your Zelda lore, you’ll probably want to make time for this one this month. And if you like what you play, you might want to grab Dynasty Warriors: Origins when it hits the Switch 2 in January 2026.