The Most Anticipated Games of 2026

This 12 months is already shaping as much as be a killer one relating to video games, and never simply because that one sport 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 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 palms by the tip of the 12 months, then we have now loads to look ahead to.

Editor’s be aware: All the video games on this record 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 sport. 

You will 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 sport is about 30 years after the unique video games. Grace’s story might be extra of a survival horror story as she tries to evade the villain Gideon and different monsters, whereas Leon’s might 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 extensively disliked entry within the sequence for critics and followers alike.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight

Launch Date: Could 29, 2026

Wait, do not go! Legacy of the Darkish Knight is a LEGO sport about Batman, nevertheless it’s not a LEGO Batman sport 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 sport with a correct fight system and an homage to all of the completely different variations of Batman over time.

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

Should you’ve ever been a Batman fan, that is the LEGO Batman sport to look at.



Phantom Blade 0

Launch Date: September 9, 2026

This gorgeous sport 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 characteristic interconnected areas, with gameplay extra like Ninja Gaiden than a Soulslike (regardless of the principle character’s title). 

With Black Fantasy Wukong nonetheless in our reminiscences 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 should come out this 12 months, absolutely. 

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

And that is not even counting what successful GTAVI On-line will most likely turn into. This sport goes to promote like loopy and is more likely to be the largest 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 very good Marvel sport, and introduced us the very best web-slinging motion so far 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 sport guarantees to be way more violent and darker–Logan spills extra blood and stabs extra faces within the two-minute gameplay trailer than Spidey did in two complete video games. We get glimpses of traditional Wolverine foes like Omega Pink and Mystique, and photographs of Logan preventing each out and in of his go well with. 

This sport guarantees to be a really completely 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 loads 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 sport, you may tackle the function 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’ll roam round, discover the town, and combat enemies. 

Dylan might 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 similar to with Murderer’s Creed Shadows, followers of Forza Horizon have been begging for a sport 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 sport about racing your fantasy vehicles by 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 a whole lot of the good racing occurs point-to-point, whether or not it is from the highest of a mountain down or by a stretch of freeway. 

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

Max Payne 1+2 Remakes

Launch Date: 2026

Treatment is greatest recognized as of late 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 observe 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 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 12 months’s solely new Tomb Raider sport, Tomb Raider: Catalyst. 

Within the meantime, although, we are able to look ahead to the primary sport from Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Studios, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. 

This sport builds on the story of the unique 1996 sport to create a wholly new motion sport, 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 wanting ahead to a bunch of video games this 12 months, 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 group behind the Hitman sequence. In the event that they draw on their expertise, this might make for a genuinely distinctive spy sport. 

Onimusha: Approach of the Sword is a great-looking samurai motion sport that continues the sequence, 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 have not had a very good pod racing sport in many years, and the trailer for this one appears completely killer. 

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

Fable from Microsoft ought to lastly come out this 12 months, although we’ll imagine it once we see it. 

In the meantime, Ontos is a religious successor to the wonderful horror sport SOMA, from Frictional Video games, the group behind SOMA and the Amnesia sequence.