Forget looking for news on the PS6 or what new Nintendo Switch games are heading our way - you should be dusting off your Sega Mega Drive, grabbing your CRT, and getting ready for brand new games on actual cartridges heading our way.
Yes, it's 2026, and we're getting a brand new Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game that's also arriving on the Game Boy Advance and Steam via Kickstarter. Enter 'Escape 2049', an action-puzzle-shooting-platformer (something for everyone, then) from French studio OrionSoft where players take on the role of Elena, the wife of the hacker Shun from the previous game released back in 2016, 'Escape 2042'.
Move through four different environments set in a prison, a desert, a forest, and on an asteroid. It's bullet-mayhem action with the ability to shoot in multiple directions, destroy blockages using grenades, disabling cameras and hancking into computers, and collecting access cards in James Bond-esque action to open doors. There are 12 levels, each with a boss, and lots of full motion videos that take you right back to the glory days of the 90s.
The Kickstarter campaign for the game is live now, with the campaign currently standing at $4,513 of a $30,000 goal. There are 26 days left to bring the project to life and allow OrionSoft to make physical cartridges for playing on official hardware. They're also offering a deluxe re-edition of Escape 2042 for players to have the complete set!
Backers can opt for ROM only versions of physical cartridges, with the game coming to GBA and Steam in the future. Head to Kickstarter for more information!
