The Most Anticipated Games of 2026

This yr is already shaping as much as be a killer one in relation to video games, and never simply because that one recreation we have all been ready for might be going to return out, lastly.

There is a ton of different stuff already on the docket for 2026, and this record, for apparent causes, would not even cowl the stuff we do not find out about but. 

If we get even two-thirds of this record in our arms by the tip of the yr, then now we have so much to sit up for.

Editor’s word: The entire video games on this record are conventional “Web2” video games with out crypto or blockchain integrations. However you may get pleasure from ’em anyway!

Resident Evil: Requiem

Launch Date: February 7, 2026

After two solo video games, Resident Evil is as soon as once more a dual-protagonist recreation. 

You will play as Grace Ashcroft and collection stalwart Leon S. Kennedy as they examine a collection of mysterious deaths in a resort in Raccoon Metropolis. 

This recreation is about 30 years after the unique video games. Grace’s story can be extra of a survival horror story as she tries to evade the villain Gideon and different monsters, whereas Leon’s can be an motion story full with leap kicks. 

Video games like Resident Evil 2 have made a wonderful case for multi-protagonist Resident Evil video games, whereas Leon’s most up-to-date look was in Resident Evil 6, a broadly disliked entry within the collection for critics and followers alike.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight

Launch Date: Might 29, 2026

Wait, do not go! Legacy of the Darkish Knight is a LEGO recreation about Batman, nevertheless it’s not a LEGO Batman recreation within the sense we have seen. 

This one is for Batman followers—individuals who love the Animated Collection and the Nolan movies and each a part of Batman. That is an open-world recreation with a correct fight system and an homage to all of the totally different variations of Batman through the years.

The sport will draw on concepts from varied movies and tales. Clips proven in trailers have featured Batman strolling the Joker into Arkham, like within the authentic Arkham Asylum recreation; combating mimes à la the 1989 Batman; assembly Batman Returns’ Catwoman; and coaching with Ra’s Al Ghul within the mountains from Batman Begins. 

In the event you’ve ever been a Batman fan, that is the LEGO Batman recreation to look at.



Phantom Blade 0

Launch Date: September 9, 2026

This gorgeous recreation is from the Chinese language studio S-GAME. 

You play as an elite murderer named Soul, utilizing a fight fashion influenced by Wuxia motion films. Nonetheless, the gameplay loop is not but clear. 

The studio says the sport will characteristic interconnected areas, with gameplay extra like Ninja Gaiden than a Soulslike (regardless of the primary character’s title). 

With Black Delusion Wukong nonetheless in our recollections and Phantom Blade 0 having tons of potential, Chinese language studios are making a reputation for themselves as a fantastic supply of single-player motion video games.

Grand Theft Auto VI

Launch Date: November 19, 2026

It’ll come out this yr, absolutely. 

Three delays sound about proper for a Rockstar recreation. If Grand Theft Auto 6 lives as much as the legacy of GTA5 and Purple Useless Redemption 2, then this can be a stunningly realized model of Vice Metropolis (aka Pretend Miami), right down to particular particulars that solely locals will know, with tons to do earlier than you even get to the primary storyline. 

And that is not even counting what a success GTAVI On-line will most likely grow to be. This recreation goes to promote like loopy and is prone to be the most important leisure launch of any type, ever.

Marvel’s Wolverine

Launch Date: Fall 2026

Insomniac Video games proved with Marvel’s Spiderman that somebody on the market might make a superb Marvel recreation, and introduced us one of the best web-slinging motion to this point with a brand new story that felt like it could match proper into the comics. 

Now they’ve turned their sights onto Wolverine, the loner X-Man. This recreation guarantees to be far more violent and darker–Logan spills extra blood and stabs extra faces within the two-minute gameplay trailer than Spidey did in two total video games. We get glimpses of traditional Wolverine foes like Omega Purple and Mystique, and photographs of Logan combating each out and in of his swimsuit. 

This recreation guarantees to be a really totally different beast from the Spider-Man video games, although we’re nonetheless hoping Insomniac will join the 2 in some significant method.

Management Resonant

Launch Date: 2026

Treatment has so much to work on proper now, with each the Max Payne remake and Management Resonant, a sequel to Management, on the way in which. 

A follow-up to the 2019 recreation, you will tackle the position of Dylan Faden, the previously comatose brother of Jesse Faden, as he searches for his lacking sister. 

The sport takes place within the metropolis across the Oldest Home, and you can roam round, discover town, and battle enemies. 

Dylan can be a melee fighter, along with his personal shapeshifting weapon referred to as the Aberrant. We’re extremely excited to see how bizarre Treatment can get with this entry.

Forza Horizon 6

Launch Date: 2026

Very similar to with Murderer’s Creed Shadows, followers of Forza Horizon have been begging for a recreation set in Japan for years. 

Japan has a legacy of avenue racing, drift racing, and tuner tradition that makes it an ideal setting for a recreation about racing your fantasy vehicles by means of winding mountain passes and alongside busy highways. 

We’re simply hoping they do it proper—there is a time and place for lap-based racing, however loads of the best racing occurs point-to-point, whether or not it is from the highest of a mountain down or by means of a stretch of freeway. 

And mountains need to be an enormous a part of it, too. This one cannot be principally flat, as among the earlier titles are.

Max Payne 1+2 Remakes

Launch Date: 2026

Treatment is finest identified today for Alan Wake and Management, however the bullet-time motion shooter Max Payne is how the studio received its title in entrance of us. 

The studio developed Max Payne 1 and a pair of earlier than licensing the franchise to Rockstar for Max Payne 3. 

The studio is working with Rockstar on these remakes, which might disrupt the schedule, however in any other case, Treatment seems to be on monitor to launch this in 2026. 

Whereas voice actor James McCaffrey has handed away, his voice work within the authentic video games stays iconic, and nobody has fairly replicated the collection’ trademark gunplay impressed by The Matrix and the works of director John Woo.

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis

Launch Date: 2026

We’re enthusiastic about subsequent yr’s completely new Tomb Raider recreation, Tomb Raider: Catalyst. 

Within the meantime, although, we will sit up for the primary recreation from Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Studios, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. 

This recreation builds on the story of the unique 1996 recreation to create a wholly new motion recreation, rendered in Unreal Engine 5. It is each acquainted and contemporary. 

It seems to be a fantastic mixture of fight and puzzles. And sure, there is a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Honorable Mentions

Launch Dates: 2026, we hope!

We’re trying ahead to a bunch of video games this yr, and we could not match all of them right here. 

Different video games we’re trying ahead to incorporate 007: First Gentle, a James Bond origin story from the staff behind the Hitman collection. In the event that they draw on their expertise, this might make for a genuinely distinctive spy recreation. 

Onimusha: Approach of the Sword is a great-looking samurai motion recreation that continues the collection, however places you within the sneakers of legendary kensei (sword saint) Musashi Miyamoto. Capcom labored with the property of the late Toshiro Mifune to safe the beloved actor’s likeness for the sport because the face of Musashi. 

Galactic Racing? Now that is pod racing! We’ve not had a superb pod racing recreation in many years, and the trailer for this one appears completely killer. 

The Blood of Dawnwalker is a vampire-themed RPG from among the individuals behind The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. 

Fable from Microsoft ought to lastly come out this yr, although we’ll imagine it once we see it. 

In the meantime, Ontos is a non secular successor to the wonderful horror recreation SOMA, from Frictional Video games, the staff behind SOMA and the Amnesia collection.