Especially if you have Xbox Game Pass ready to go

Maybe you rememberCall of the Sea. Maybe you don’t. Well, I’m still keeping tabs on the first Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 games we saw in Microsoft and Sony’s respective streams this year.

Raw Fury’s mystery adventure game showed upduring that Inside Xbox eventwithScorn,The Medium, andYakuza: Like a Dragon– you know the one. Doesn’t that feel like it happened years ago?

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Call of the Seamight’ve slipped through the cracks then (even though I liked its 1934 island expedition premise), but it stands out a bit more with an imminent release date. It’s launching December 8 on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, and that also goes for Steam, GOG, and Xbox Game Pass.

“Games likeFirewatch,Subnautica,Red Matter,Myst,Soma, andObductionwere definitely sources of inspiration for us,”saiddirector Tatiana Delgado. “You might say thatCall of the Seais our love letter to the genre and a way of deepening our own experience and adding new dimensions to it.” The team at Out of the Blue has a “passion for the supernatural and the occult,” but this is “not a horror game.”

The ghost at the end of the hallway

Few games let us swim with webbed hands as we search for our long-lost husband. Let’s savor this.

Picking up the smiley face post-it off the broken mirror

John and Molly sitting on the park bench

Close up shot of Marissa Marcel starring in Ambrosio

Kukrushka sitting in a meadow

Lightkeeper pointing his firearm overlapped against the lighthouse background

Overseer looking over the balcony in opening cutscene of Funeralopolis

Edited image of Super Imposter looking through window in No I’m not a Human demo cutscene with thin man and FEMA inside the house

Looking at the ghost of Jackie inside the lighthouse