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10 Games Coming Out In 2014 That Probably Aren’t On Your Radar, But Should Be

Destiny! Watch Dogs! Titanfall! That new Alien game! There's a whole bunch of next-gen wonderment heading our way this year and we're all very excited. And why shouldn't we be? Gaming blockbusters, whether you like it or not, are currently the backbone of the industry and are enjoyed by millions of people worldwide for a good reason. But what of those underdogs? The ones without the million dollar marketing budgets with which to shovel their adverts into your eye sockets. Or those fantastic hidden gems that you discovered completely by accident whilst idly cruising around Steam.
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6) Routine

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That (frankly superb) Alien: Isolation reveal may have the Johnny Jumpscares high-fiving each other till their hands are bloody stumps, but Routine has everything seen there, and more – and it had it over a year ago. In fact, when viewing the (also frankly superb) Routine alpha trailer (seen below), there seems to be more than a little in common between the two.

There’s the perfect sense of retro-future styling, the sprawling, lived-in space station and the terrifying lone stalker. It’s almost uncanny. If you’re a betting man, here are two dead certainties that I’d have no trouble putting a year’s salary on: 1) this game will be brutally terrifying, and 2) PewDiePie will do some tedious, shrieking playthough of it on YouTube.

But, unbelievably, that last point isn’t Routine‘s biggest problem. No, the biggest problem here is fear. Not the unquestionable in-game fear, but rather the all too real development fears. The most recent footage may be heart racing, but the lack of any other information in the seven months since means you might not be playing it quite as soon as you’d like.


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Ciaran Utting
CiarĂ¡n Utting loves video games and books with pictures of speedboats on the cover. There's plenty more of his drivel on Twitter.