The most anticipated PC games of 2022

The series always felt way ahead of the times with its dynamic, AI-driven world, which was as chaotic as it was glitchy.

Stalker 2 promises to add a true open world with prettier graphics to this.

You'll make choices that affect said city, like turning the water pumps on for one district while draining another, giving you a way to explore that new area... and meeting the zombies who have been dormant there for years.

Dying Light's day/night cycle will return, and the parkour combat's been expanded with more wall-running and roof-leaping options.

The Saints Row reboot promises to be more grounded than the recent games in the series, but after playing superheroes who save the world from aliens and travel to Hell, that's not saying much.

It's a return to building a criminal empire from the ground up in an open city, this time Santo Ileso in the American Southwest, taking districts from colorful rivals and committing insurance fraud by throwing yourself into traffic.

It's got a wingsuit—it's not that grounded.

Another spooky island haunted by spooky radio signals is the setting for Oxenfree 2, which also brings back the original's dialogue system, in which the choice to not say anything is as valid as speaking up.

This time you'll have a walkie-talkie to keep in touch with other people on the island, but you'll also be contacted by strangers who have tapped into your signal.

Who are they? What do they want? The answers will be spooky.

Ditching Gotham for Metropolis, it pits the Suicide Squad against mind-controlled versions of Superman, the Flash, Green Lantern, etc.

The tone seems much more comedic, a banter-heavy beat-'em-up that you can play co-op or in singleplayer, with the other characters by your side.

It's a Batman game where you don't play Batman, with Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, and Red Hood teaming up to protect Gotham in the Bat's absence.

Though it's not connected to the Arkham series, it's from the developers of Arkham Origins, which is a decent pedigree.

It's co-op and based on the Court of Owls storyline from the comics.

It emphasises controlling space, dodging and parrying blows, and using the environment to your advantage.

You can batter people with bottles and mops.

One of its most intriguing systems is that every "death" will age you.

As you get older, you'll be able to deal more damage—but take less.

The final game in Creative Assembly's trilogy, Total War: Warhammer 3 brings the last of the tabletop wargame's armies into digital form—plus some never fully represented before.

Expect reworked sieges, lengthy survival battles, and an even bigger combined campaign called Immortal Empires released after launch.

They're all bound to be adorable, and produce adorable plorts we can harvest for cold hard newbucks. What a strange thing Slime Rancher is.

It was always going to be a significant year. It's when we expect to see FromSoftware's next Soulsborne game, as well as the first singleplayer Bethesda RPG in seven years.

Long-awaited sequels to some of our favorite games are due, along with revivals and reboots of series we worried might be dead.

Plus, some of the games we've been enjoying in Early Access are likely to be fully released in 2022.

It's going to be a hectic one.