Why 2020 could be the best year for video games

The Master Chief is back in action next holiday season.

Platforms: Xbox One, PC and the new Xbox Scarlett console

You play as the ferrymaster for the dead. Build a boat, explore the world's mystical seas and care for your spirit friends. Spiritfarer look gorgeous and arrives in 2020. 

Platforms: PS4, PC and Xbox One

Perhaps the highlight of the Xbox conference, we learned that Keanu Reeves makes an appearance in Cyberpunk 2077, an RPG debuting in April 2020. 

Platforms: PS4, Xbox One and PC

The 12 Minutes trailer simultaneously stressed me out and fascinated me. It's a dark minimalist take on being trapped in a time loop, and it's coming in 2020. 

Platforms: Xbox One and PC

Sega is bringing the MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2 to the West in 2020. 

Platforms: PS4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and PC

The next installment in Smilegate's popular shooter series, Crossfire X is coming in 2020.

Platforms: Xbox One

Bandai Namco's latest entry in its long-running Tales of franchise will arrive in 2020. 

Platforms: Xbox One, PS4 and PC

Who doesn't love Dragonball Z? Goku returns for Dragonball Z: Kakarot game in 2020. 

Platforms: PS4 and Xbox One

All nine Star Wars films get the Lego treatment and will be rolled into one epic game in 2020.

Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.

The newest version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator is taking to the skies in 2020. 

Platforms: Xbox One and PC

It's not known yet when Elden Ring, George R. R. Martin's collaboration with Form Software, will launch. Here's hoping for 2020.

Platforms: Xbox One, PS4 and PC

It's not known yet when Battletoads , the rival to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, will launch. 

Platforms: Xbox One

Way to the Woods, possibly the most precious game announced at E3, will light up in 2020.

Platforms: Xbox One and PC

The new spooky survival-horror game, Ghostwire: Tokyo, didn't get a release date yet. 

Possible platforms: PS4, Xbox One and PC

Deathloop, from Bethesda, didn't get a release date. The game, made by the creators of the Dishonored series, teases two assassins going head to head.

Possible platforms: PS4, Xbox One and PC

Baldur's Gate 3, developed by Larian Studios, didn't get a release date.

Platforms: Google Stadia and PC.

Darksiders Genesis, a new game in THQ's series about angels, demons and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will arrive in 2020.

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Evil Genius 2 makes a sinister debut in 2020.

Platforms: PC

Sniper Elite is bringing a VR experience to its game soon. 

Possible platforms: PSVR, PC, PS4

Watchdogs Legion is available March 6, 2020. 

Platforms: PS4, PC, Xbox One, and Google Stadia

We'll rejoin our hero, Aiden, in a zombie-infested city again (where we'll hopefully get inside before nightfall) spring 2020. 

Platforms: PS4, Xbox One and PC

Rainbow Six Quarantine, the three-player tactical co-op launches early 2020. 

Platform: Xbox One, PS4 and PC

Travel to a deserted island, pitch your tent and get to know the local raccoon folk. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is coming March 2020.

Platforms: Nintendo Switch

Chivalry II will brings all the gore of Medieval Warfare and add horses in 2020. 

Platforms: Epic Games Store exclusive for one year

Cryptosporidium 137 a.k.a Crypto is back and ready to take over the world with Rammstein as a soundtrack, from the looks of the trailer. The Destroy All Humans remake will release in 2020.

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One. 

Part one of the Final Fantasy VII remake is scheduled for March 3, 2020 and come with two discs. 

Platforms: PS4 exclusive

The Zelda-style game from the creators of Assassins Creed: Odyssey arrives February 25, 2020. 

Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC, Google Stadia and Nintendo

Gylt's haunting trailer (think Coraline visits Silent Hill) didn't give a release date at the Google Stadia presentation. We do know it's a puzzle game and you play as Sally, a young girl who has to find her missing cousin, Emily.

Platforms: Google Stadia

This is about as "new" as it gets at E3. The new Zelda game, a sequel to Breath of Wind, was billed as "in development." 

Platforms: Nintendo Switch

If you're still heartbroken over Avengers Endgame, the superheroes are assembling once more in the new video game. The team will save the world May 15, 2020.

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Google Stadia

Will of the Wisps is the sequel to Ori and the Blind Forest. Can we talk about how cute Ori is? Play as the tiny guardian spirit February 11, 2020.

Platforms: Xbox One and PC.

The co-op shooter from People Can Fly is locked and loaded for summer 2020.

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One

Cult classic Psychonauts returns for a second installment. You play as Raz, who can use psychic abilities to enter the thoughts of others where you battle their inner demons. The game is slotted for 2020.

Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC, Mac and Linux.

They're not sparkly vampires, that's for sure. Bloodlines 2 delves into the politics of how the vampire world works, the tensions between competing vampire factions and a supernatural war that's about to break out in Seattle. Sink your teeth into this game March 2020.

Platforms: Xbox, PS4 and PC

The third installment of No More Heroes features Tony-Stark-Deadpool hybrid Travis Touchdown once more. The game releases in 2020.

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS4 

This racing game hits the gas in 2020. 

Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

We know both of these retro RPGs are finally coming to the US, but not when.

Platforms: PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS, Android and Xbox One

Square Enix released Collection of Mana -- which includes the original versions of the Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana, and Seiken Densetsu 3 -- were released in the US on Nintendo Switch Tuesday. The company is also remaking Trials of Mana, which comes out next year. 

New Super Lucky's tale, reminiscent of older Nintendo 64 games, is coming soon. Play as Lucky, a brave fox who's on a quest to protect the Book of Ages from Jinx the cat. 

Platforms: Coming to Nintendo Switch

Play as an ambitious crime boss in prohibition-era Chicago. Defend your territory and intimidate your way to the top when Empire of Sin arrives in 2020. 

Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PC and Xbox