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10 NEW Games of July 2020 To Look Forward To [PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC]

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July finally delivers the releases June couldn’t, with two Switch exclusives and a PSVR headliner leading the charge.

After a comparatively quiet June on the release calendar, July 2020 stacks up as one of the busier months of the summer for console and PC players alike. GamingBolt’s rundown zeroes in on ten titles spread across PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC, ranging from a VR superhero showcase to a long-running indie RPG finally making the jump to consoles. Below is a closer look at the dates and details that matter most heading into July.

• Sony and Camouflaj’s Marvel’s Iron Man VR launches exclusively for PSVR on July 3, 2020, putting players inside Tony Stark’s armor with motion-controlled flight and combat.
• CrossCode, Radical Fish Games and Deck13’s retro-styled action-RPG, makes its console debut on PS4, Xbox One and Switch on July 8-9, 2020 after a run as a PC exclusive.
• Switch owners get back-to-back exclusives: Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise on July 10 and Nintendo’s Paper Mario: The Origami King on July 17.

Stark’s Suit Comes to PSVR

Marvel’s Iron Man VR is the month’s biggest platform-exclusive swing, and it’s arriving July 3 with a full flight-and-combat system built around the PSVR Aim controller or Move wands. Players fly by aiming their palms downward like repulsor jets and fight by pointing them outward like they’re actually firing off blasts at oncoming enemies, which is the kind of one-to-one physicality VR shooters have chased for years. It’s Sony Interactive Entertainment’s marquee VR release for the summer and one of the clearest reasons to have a PSVR headset plugged in this July.

A PC Cult Favorite Finally Hits Consoles

CrossCode has spent nearly two years building a reputation on PC as one of the sharpest SNES-throwback action-RPGs around, and July 8-9 is when that reputation finally gets tested on PS4, Xbox One and Switch. Deck13 and Radical Fish Games built the game around fast, momentum-based combat and dungeons stuffed with environmental puzzles rather than simple key-and-lock progression, which is why it’s carried a cult following since its original release. Anyone who skipped it on PC now has three more ways to pick it up.

CrossCode built its following entirely on PC before finally landing on PS4, Xbox One and Switch this July 8-9 — a two-year wait for console players finally over.

Nintendo Switch’s Double Exclusive Week

No platform gets a bigger July than Switch. Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise drops July 10 as a follow-up to the notoriously odd cult classic, sending FBI agent York back into another small-town murder investigation with the same off-kilter tone that made the original a midnight-movie favorite among fans rather than critics. A week later, on July 17, Nintendo’s own Paper Mario: The Origami King arrives as the platform’s headline action-adventure RPG for the summer. Between the two, Switch owners get a stretch of exclusive content that PS4 and Xbox One players simply don’t have access to this month, which is a rare thing to say about a Nintendo console mid-generation.

For anyone tracking what else is filling out shelves alongside these two, the broader July slate and the games still on deck for August are worth cross-referencing, since Top 10 NEW Games of August 2020 picks up right where this month’s calendar leaves off.

Filling Out the Rest of the Calendar

Beyond the four headline releases, July’s lineup covers a lot of genre ground. Console and PC players still have plenty to track outside PS4, Xbox One and Switch exclusives, and the same GamingBolt team behind this roundup has also been keeping tabs on the stranger side of the industry’s news cycle over in 10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of JULY 2020. For subscribers weighing what’s worth a purchase versus what’s coming free with a subscription, PlayStation Plus (PS+) July 2020 is the companion piece for figuring out which of July’s PS4 titles might show up without an extra charge.

Between Iron Man VR’s July 3 launch, CrossCode’s July 8-9 console arrival, and the one-two Switch punch of Deadly Premonition 2 on July 10 and Paper Mario: The Origami King on July 17, the back half of July is where the real traffic jam hits — four confirmed release dates inside a fifteen-day window, with Switch owners the ones who come out of it with the most to actually play.