The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC and the other new games out this week

The new game releases this week waver between horrifying and charming. Sometimes the premise of a game is pretty sad on its face, but the stuff you do isn’t as bleak. That’s the case for a couple games arriving this week. However, that’s not true for The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, a game fully committed to misery. There are cheerful moments in it, though, so it technically counts. Just don’t go into it expecting to spend 40 hours riffing on Ellie’s guitar.

Koira drops just before the rest of the games on the list arrive on Thursday. It’s a game about exploring a forest with a lost puppy, and if I think too hard about where that story might go I’ll cry. Then there’s Naughty Dog’s bleak, post-apocalyptic shooter where you can’t go 45 minutes without watching something awful happen. Sand also comes out on that day and brings a fun twist to the extraction shooter genre: spider tanks. And Caligo and Sephiria are two games that look more pleasant than they actually are. One of them lets you play as a bunny warrior, though.

Here are our most anticipated game releases for the week of March 31.

Big game updates to watch out for

• On March 31, Anna Williams will join the Tekken 8 roster for anyone who owns the season 2 DLC passes (April 3 for everyone else).
• On April 4, the first major update to Monster Hunter Wilds will add new enemies, gear, and cosmetics.
• On April 4, Path of Exile 2’s patch 0.2.0 update will come with some new ascendancy classes and piles of new items.