The 10 most anticipated video video games of 2026 | Games

Cairn

Live your mountaineering fantasies and courageous the weather in a splendidly illustrated climbing sport. You should fastidiously place climber Aava’s fingers and toes to make your means up a forbidding mountain, tenting on ledges and bandaging her fingers as you go. Like actual climbing, it’s difficult and considerably brutal.
PC, PlayStation 5; 29 January

Reanimal

A two-player animated horror sport within the Tim Burton mode, minus all of the whimsy. In a setup harking back to the famously discomfiting video games Limbo and Inside, a brother and sister should escape a twisted mockery of their dwelling city, discovering their mates as they go. They are stalked by horrible spike-limbed monsters and grotesquely reanimated creatures. Genuinely horrifying and artistically spectacular.
Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation5, Xbox; 13 February

Resident Evil Requiem

Capcom’s horror sequence may be very outdated, but it surely nonetheless comes up with new methods to make your pores and skin crawl. In Requiem we play as bookish Grace, whom the sport’s director calls “the biggest scaredy-cat in Resident Evil history”, and the confidently combat-proficient cop Leon S Kennedy, pursued by monsters by means of the enduring Raccoon City.
Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; 27 February

Pokémon Pokopia

Imagine dropping Pokémon into the world of Animal Crossing, with a touch of Minecraft’s blocky aesthetic. This family-friendly Nintendo sport has you constructing and tending habitats for Nintendo’s beloved creatures. You play as a Ditto, the shape-shifting pink blob, which might helpfully remodel into different Pokémon, utilizing these different critters’ talents to carry a barren panorama again to life and construct a vibrant city.
Nintendo Switch 2, 5 March

007 First Light

The most anticipated James Bond sport for the reason that Nintendo 64’s GoldenEye 007. Made by IO Interactive, well-known for Hitman, it stars a youthful, twentysomething Bond who has not but earned his 007 standing, and hopes to mix the anticipated automobile chases, shootouts and devices with some real spycraft, as Bond infiltrates events and digs for data.
Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; 27 May

Saros

From the Finnish developer behind Returnal, the distinctive, clever time-loop sci-fi shooter, this mysterious motion sport stars one other stranded astronaut on a unique hostile planet, one the place a dying solar is sending its creatures and colonists mad. Long-time avid gamers will recognise the lineage of arcade bullet-hell shooters on this very trendy motion sport.
PlayStation 5; 30 April

Grand Theft Auto VI

It has been in growth for greater than a decade and, regardless of a number of delays (GTA VI was on this very record final yr), expectations have by no means been greater for the largest sport on this planet. It’s a criminal offense story and a love story, that includes the sequence’ first feminine protagonist, Lucia, and her boyfriend, Jason, and set in Rockstar’s fictional Floridian state of Leonida. There has been a lot to satirise about up to date America since 2013’s GTA V that Rockstar’s writers will certainly have been spoilt for alternative.
PlayStation 5, Xbox; 19 November

Marvel’s Wolverine

The trendy Spider-Man video games have gone down a storm, so it’s no shock that developer Insomniac is now turning its consideration to a unique Marvel hero. This new sport options an ensemble X-Men forged and a complete lot of gratuitous comic-book violence, as Wolverine sticks these adamantium claws by means of a succession of foes making an attempt to chase him down.
PlayStation 5; date TBC

Witchbrook

Looking for a substitute for established wizarding-school fiction? Witchbrook is a captivating pixel-art slice-of-life sport a couple of witches’ school. In faculty you be taught spells and broom flight; exterior faculty you contain your self within the lifetime of the whimsical city exterior. It helps 4 gamers directly, too.
PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; TBC

Halo: Campaign Evolved