2025 was a banger 12 months for video games, stuffed with all the things from breakout indie megahits to AAA juggernauts. It was additionally a 12 months for delays, with quite a lot of titles getting pushed out of the calendar 12 months completely. But final 12 months’s loss is that this 12 months’s acquire, so let’s take a look at all of the upcoming house and sci-fi video games for 2026 to be excited for.
Some large sci-fi names are making their return to the gaming panorama this 12 months, with Halo: Campaign Evolved and Dawn of War 4 crashing in for a touchdown in some unspecified time in the future in 2026, however we have additionally obtained a load of recent franchises and indie titles on the way in which too, throughout an enormous swathe of genres.
Shooters, roguelites, strategy games, flight simulators — we’ve peered into the future and curated this list of extra-terrestrial delights for your gaming pleasure. Here’s our list of 11 upcoming space and sci-fi games to be excited for in 2026.
1. Halo: Campaign Evolved
Release date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Halo Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X|S
The Halo remake practice arrives in 2026 with a recent take a look at the unique recreation, rebuilt from the bottom up in Unreal 5.
The Halo grandaddy appears recent within the new engine — wanting even higher than Halo Infinite — and it comes with some thrilling new wrinkles. There are three never-before-seen prequel missions, a bunch of weapons, and gameplay additions from later Halos, and totally re-recorded dialogue from a few of the recreation’s principal voice actors.
Most excitingly for non-Xbox players, Halo: Campaign Evolved can be accessible from day one on PlayStation 5. The solely draw back: because the title implies, this can be a campaign-only launch, so new Sony adopters will not get entry to that well-known Halo multiplayer.
2. Saros
Release date: April 30, 2026 | Developer: Housemarque | Platforms: PS5
Announced again in February 2025, Saros is the subsequent sci-fi motion recreation from developer Housemarque. Set on the “shapeshifting” alien planet of Carcosa, it follows a lone enforcer (performed by Midnight Mass’ Rahul Kohli) exploring a doomed colony.
Saros appears like a promising follow-up to Returnal, incorporating all of the frenetic motion and satisfying alien-blasting of the earlier recreation, whereas additionally bringing in its personal time-loop mechanic to justify the live-die-repeat gameplay model that Housemarque is quick turning into identified for.
In the gameplay trailer, we see our principal character teleporting throughout the panorama, gunning down aliens with quite a lot of weapons, and absorbing enemy projectiles earlier than sending them flying again to destroy his foes. Like Returnal, it is also a roguelite, with Housemarque promising that everlasting enhancements can be accessible between runs to make gamers extra highly effective and sturdy in future makes an attempt.
3. Pragmata
Release date: April 24, 2026 | Developer: Capcom | Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Pragmata has been on our radar since approach again in 2020, however our curiosity was revived when it confirmed up on the State of Play June 2025 showcase. It’s a third-person motion recreation with two protagonists that gamers management concurrently: an astronaut named Hugh and his petite android companion Diana.
Hugh drives many of the fight, with quite a lot of weapons and a jetpack, whereas Diana makes life simpler for him by hacking into enemy techniques and robots. Together, the pair need to navigate their approach by means of a lunar station that is misplaced contact and decide why the station’s AI has determined to exterminate its human creators.
The result’s a mix of high-octane fight interspersed with frenetic hacking puzzles that is wanting like a tasty, atmospheric sci-fi cocktail. Sign us up.
4. Directive 8020
Release date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Supermassive Games | Platforms: PC (Steam)
Speaking of atmospheric, Directive 8020 appears like a delightfully ugly addition to the house horror video games line-up. It’s a part of the Dark Pictures Anthology from Supermassive Games, the makers of Until Dawn and The Quarry, which means it’s going to be a cinematic rollercoaster with gamers making life-or-death selections for the crew of a colony ship stranded on an alien planet.
In a distant future the place Earth is dying, humanity pins its hopes on discovering a liveable residence amongst the celebrities. The colony ship Cassiopeia crash-lands on what it hopes is a planet that may maintain human life, however to the crew’s disagreeable shock, they uncover a violent alien organism as an alternative. This beast can take the form of its prey, resulting in paranoia and dissension on par with John Carpenter’s seminal traditional The Thing.
The builders have additionally stated that the crew of the Cassiopeia might finally have to decide on between their very own survival and the survival of everybody again on Earth, aka the Ellen Ripley dilemma.
5. Space Tales
Release date: Q1 2026 | Developer: Saigon Dragon Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam)
On the other finish of the vibes spectrum lives Space Tales, a manic, cartoonish real-time technique recreation that pits killing machines in opposition to eldritch horrors from past the celebrities. In a story as previous as time, humanity has expanded too far, too quick in its bid to colonize all of identified house, and woke up historical (and really hostile) cosmic entities bent on our destruction.
As the consultant for the armed wing of a human empire, you are tasked with subduing these Lovecraftian abominations and securing a foothold for humanity on alien worlds. With large armies clashing throughout 16 distinct factions, Space Tales guarantees to mix RTS motion with a choice-driven narrative.
The branching story will discover a galactic conspiracy, revealing that humanity’s improvement has been influenced by darkish powers past our comprehension.
6. Lunar Strike
Release date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Cognition | Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X|S
While many of the video games on this checklist lean closely into the fiction facet of science fiction, Lunar Strike is aiming to ship a near-future story grounded in actual mechanics. This narrative-driven recreation will activity you with surviving on the Moon after sabotage disables lots of the core techniques of a lunar colony. We chatted with the builders final 12 months when it was revealed, and we won’t wait to see extra in 2026.
Despite the aggressive-sounding title, there is no fight in Lunar Strike. Instead, should examine the historical past of the colony and try to reserve it from an impending catastrophe, all whereas struggling to outlive within the harsh lunar atmosphere devoid of oxygen.
As a forensic scientist, you may uncover the true nature of the colony and its historical past and outline its legacy by selecting which parts to protect and what to toss into the rubbish bin of historical past. The recreation attracts on real-world lunar analysis to try to precisely mannequin totally different environments and circumstances on the Moon.
7. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4
Release date: TBA 2026 | Developer: KING Art | Platforms: PC (Steam)
In the grim darkness of 2004, there was solely Dawn of War. This sci-fi hit helped to redefine the real-time technique style, specializing in tactical-level engagements that pitted the mighty house marines in opposition to the worst that the nightmarish gothic way forward for the Warhammer 40K universe needed to supply. In 2026, Dawn of War 4 will take us again into the limitless struggle of the far future for the primary time in virtually 9 years.
After two divisive sequels, the most recent recreation guarantees to take us again to the sequence’ roots, letting gamers management 4 separate factions throughout greater than 70 marketing campaign missions. The Orks and Space Marines return alongside the Necrons and Adeptus Mechanicus, the latter of which is making its debut for the sequence.
Each faction has its personal devoted marketing campaign playable both solo or in co-op, and the brand new fight system guarantees a concentrate on hyper-detailed fight with Warhammer’s signature gory panache.
8. Remnant Protocol
Release date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Progenitor Game Studios Ltd. | Platforms: PC (Steam)
Remnant Protocol is a brand new twist on the space-sim, starship dogfighting method. At its core, it guarantees a frenetic house fight recreation the place you juggle ship techniques and seek out enemy fighters from the cockpit of your customizable ship, however the true draw is the technique layer.
Remnant Protocol takes place in a galaxy fractured by civil struggle after the chief of a sprawling empire, the Blessed Mother, was assassinated. You play as a loyalist making an attempt to steer the surviving devoted to deposing the usurpers and different factions trying to fill the void left within the wake of her homicide. To achieve this, it’s good to develop and manufacture new ships, make alliances, and analysis new tech, at all times making an attempt to remain a step forward of your opponents, who’re continually scouring for the placement of your secret base.
Remnant Protocol has the potential to mix the tactical depth of X-COM with the sort of frantic dogfights you’d anticipate from the finest house flight sims, and that feels like an intoxicating combine.
9. Falling Frontier
Release date: TBA | Developer: Stutter Fox Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam)
There’s one thing uniquely humbling about watching big fleets of large starships interact in fight throughout an unimaginably huge swath of stars, and Falling Frontier appears to ship that in spades.
Falling Frontier takes place in a procedurally-generated star system, tasking you with constructing a faction of fractured humanity up from a single house port to a galactic empire. You’ll analysis cutting-edge ship know-how to remain forward of your militant rivals whereas constructing colonies, spaceports, and glassing total worlds with planet-killing orbital strikes.
One of the good issues for us is the depth of the ship design system, which helps you to modify the weapons and utility techniques of your vessels to finest fit your playstyle and crush your opponents. We’re additionally big followers of the arduous sci-fi stylings of this universe — undoubtedly one for followers of The Expanse to take a look at.
10. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Release date: Q1 2026 | Developer: Alt Shift | Platforms: PC (Steam)
Battlestar Galactica is all concerning the determined battle for survival, and Scattered Hopes appears to distill that have down right into a compelling roguelike expertise. It takes place shortly after the Cylon assault that just about annihilated humanity, and places you on the helm of a splinter fleet of survivors making an attempt to hyperlink up with the primary Battlestar Galactica fleet.
As within the present, you may be operating and preventing delaying actions in an try and evade the overwhelming Cylon forces lengthy sufficient to search out the core of human survivors. You’ll face a number of crises of infiltration and useful resource administration, all whereas making an attempt to fulfill the disparate factions in search of a controlling stake in your little fleet.
Inevitably, the Cylons will catch you, and it is then a matter of creating the most effective use of your fighters and nukes whilst you calculate an FTL escape route. The objective is to make it out of every encounter with as little harm as potential, serving to as lots of your folks as potential to achieve the primary fleet. And for those who fail, it is a roguelike, so that you get to go once more. Remember, all of this has occurred earlier than. All of it will occur once more.
11. Starship Simulator
Release date: TBA | Developer: Fleetyard Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam)
For a sci-fi fan — and particularly a Star Trek fan — there is no such thing as a better sci-fi fantasy than being a crew member on the starship Enterprise.
Starship Simulator goals to allow us to stay out these Trekkie fantasies, enlisting us on board a “realistically” modeled, totally explorable starship with simulated techniques composed of hundreds of elements. As a part of a crew of greater than 200 (that may be performed by a mixture of actual gamers and NPCs), you may want to keep up and gas your seven-deck starship whereas exploring a full-scale Milky Way galaxy.
As you discover, you may probe the surfaces of alien planets for relics, sources, and new know-how, permitting you to improve your ship and its capabilities. Starship Simulator guarantees to deliver the immersive parts that different titles have supplied piecemeal all altogether in a single large gestalt simulation that, if profitable, might steal a whole bunch of hours of your (and your folks’) time. VR help can be deliberate for an much more immersive expertise. We cannot wait to get misplaced on this one.