There's suddenly a terrifying number of games releasing this fall

While there's never any shortage of games releasing on Steam any given day, the release calendar for big-budget game productions has felt somewhat thin this year. The repeat delay announcements from games trying to escape the blast radius of GTA 6's gigaton sales detonation seemed to indicate that the back half of the year could continue to feel a little light.

Until this week.

Thanks to the showcase reveals in the last few days, I've gone from wondering if I'll have meaty releases to occupy my time this fall to worrying that it won't be physically feasible for me to hit everything on my wishlist. In its efforts to avoid the GTA 6 gravity well, the games industry has managed to cram all its competing releases into one eight-week window instead.

Here's just a selection of the back-to-back launches we'll be facing from the end of August onwards:

• August 27: Star Wars Zero Company
• September 3: The Blood of Dawnwalker
• September 17: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4
• September 24: Control Resonant
• September 24: Silent Hill: Townfall
• Sep...