A typical January sees a dozen indie releases and a new major release or two at the month’s end, with Capcom being quite fond of capitalising on the January lull.

This year, the first week of January is a tad slow – with just a dozen or so Switch eShop releases on the agenda, including Journey To The Blue Mountain, Neon Souls, and AlphaLink. It’s then business as usual, including an appearance from Capcom.

The first big-name release of 2023 is Bandai Namco’s anime tie-in RPG One Piece Odyssey launching on January 12th. Released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the series, the story sees the Straw Hats become washed up and separated on a tropical island.

On the same day we can also expect the eerie point ‘n click style horror adventure Children of Silentown, NeoGeo brawler revival Breakers Collection – the demo of which showed much promise – and the 16-bit style side-scrolling action platformer Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider.

The second week of January also gives us Aurora’s Journey and the Pitiful Lackey, 2.5D run and gun platformer set in 1927. Tally ho! The Xbox and Switch additionally receive wave defense roguelike Space Raiders in Space, which we assume has nothing to do with the 10p snack range.

Then there’s RE:CALL, an intriguing pixel art adventure based around manipulating the memories of the main character, which somehow impact the present day.

Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable are also due mid-January,…