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 come back out, lastly.

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

If we get even two-thirds of this listing in our arms by the tip of the yr, then we’ve got rather a lot to look ahead to.

Editor’s word: All the video games on this listing are conventional “Web2” video games with out crypto or blockchain integrations. However you would possibly 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 may play as Grace Ashcroft and sequence stalwart Leon S. Kennedy as they examine a sequence of mysterious deaths in a resort in Raccoon Metropolis. 

This recreation is about 30 years after the unique video games. Grace’s story will probably be extra of a survival horror story as she tries to evade the villain Gideon and different monsters, whereas Leon’s will probably be an motion story full with bounce 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 sequence 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 Sequence 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 over time.

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 unique 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. 

For those who’ve ever been a Batman fan, that is the LEGO Batman recreation to look at.

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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 model influenced by Wuxia motion films. Nonetheless, the gameplay loop is not but clear. 

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

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

Grand Theft Auto VI

Launch Date: November 19, 2026

It is going to 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 Pink Lifeless Redemption 2, then this will probably be a stunningly realized model of Vice Metropolis (aka Faux Miami), all the way 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 in all probability turn into. This recreation goes to promote like loopy and is more likely to be the largest leisure launch of any form, ever.

Marvel’s Wolverine

Launch Date: Fall 2026

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

Now they’ve turned their sights onto Wolverine, the loner X-Man. This recreation guarantees to be rather 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 Pink 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 means.

Management Resonant

Launch Date: 2026

Treatment has rather a lot 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 may 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 the town, and combat enemies. 

Dylan will probably be a melee fighter, together 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 like 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 automobiles by way 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 lots of the good racing occurs point-to-point, whether or not it is from the highest of a mountain down or by way of a stretch of freeway. 

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

Max Payne 1+2 Remakes

Launch Date: 2026

Treatment is finest identified nowadays for Alan Wake and Management, however the bullet-time motion shooter Max Payne is how the studio obtained its identify 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 unique video games stays iconic, and nobody has fairly replicated the sequence’ 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 are able to look ahead to 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 completely new motion recreation, rendered in Unreal Engine 5. It is each acquainted and contemporary. 

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

Honorable Mentions

Launch Dates: 2026, we hope!

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

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

Onimusha: Means of the Sword is a great-looking samurai motion recreation that continues the sequence, however places you within the footwear 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 have not had a great pod racing recreation in many years, and the trailer for this one seems completely killer. 

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

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

In the meantime, Ontos is a non secular successor to the superb horror recreation SOMA, from Frictional Video games, the crew behind SOMA and the Amnesia sequence.