The Most Anticipated Games of 2026

This 12 months is already shaping as much as be a killer one in terms of video games, and never simply because that one recreation we have all been ready for might be going to return out, lastly.

There’s a ton of different stuff already on the docket for 2026, and this listing, for apparent causes, does not even cowl the stuff we do not find out about but. 

If we get even two-thirds of this listing in our fingers by the top of the 12 months, then we have now loads to sit up for.

Editor’s observe: All of the video games on this listing are conventional “Web2” video games with out crypto or blockchain integrations. But you would possibly get pleasure from ’em anyway!

Resident Evil: Requiem

Release Date: February 7, 2026

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

You’ll play as Grace Ashcroft and sequence stalwart Leon S. Kennedy as they examine a sequence of mysterious deaths in a resort in Raccoon City. 

This recreation is ready 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 soar kicks. 

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 Dark Knight

Release Date: May 29, 2026

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

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

The recreation 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 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. 

If you have ever been a Batman fan, that is the LEGO Batman recreation to look at.

Phantom Blade 0

Release Date: September 9, 2026

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

You play as an elite murderer named Soul, utilizing a fight type influenced by Wuxia motion films. Still, 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 Myth Wukong nonetheless in our reminiscences and Phantom Blade 0 having tons of potential, Chinese studios are making a reputation for themselves as a terrific supply of single-player motion video games.

Grand Theft Auto VI

Release Date: November 19, 2026

It’s going to return out this 12 months, absolutely. 

Three delays sound about proper for a Rockstar recreation. If Grand Theft Auto 6 lives as much as the legacy of GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, then this will probably be a stunningly realized model of Vice City (aka Fake 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 successful GTAVI Online will most likely change into. This recreation goes to promote like loopy and is prone to be the most important leisure launch of any sort, ever.

Marvel’s Wolverine

Release Date: Fall 2026

Insomniac Games proved with Marvel’s Spiderman that somebody on the market might make a superb Marvel recreation, and introduced us the most effective web-slinging motion thus 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 recreation 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 total video games. We get glimpses of basic Wolverine foes like Omega Red and Mystique, and photographs of Logan combating each out and in of his go well with. 

This recreation 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 approach.

Control Resonant

Release Date: 2026

Remedy has loads to work on proper now, with each the Max Payne remake and Control Resonant, a sequel to Control, on the best way. 

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

The recreation takes place within the metropolis across the Oldest House, and you’ll roam round, discover 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 Remedy can get with this entry.

Forza Horizon 6

Release Date: 2026

Much like with Assassin’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 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 best 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 should be a giant a part of it, too. This one cannot be principally flat, as a few of the earlier titles are.

Max Payne 1+2 Remakes

Release Date: 2026

Remedy is greatest recognized lately for Alan Wake and Control, 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, Remedy seems to be on observe to launch this in 2026. 

While 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

Release Date: 2026

We’re enthusiastic about subsequent 12 months’s completely new Tomb Raider recreation, Tomb Raider: Catalyst. 

In 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’s each acquainted and recent. 

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

Honorable Mentions

Release 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. 

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

Onimusha: Way 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 superb pod racing recreation in many years, and the trailer for this one appears to be like completely killer. 

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

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

Meanwhile, Ontos is a religious successor to the superb horror recreation SOMA, from Frictional Games, the crew behind SOMA and the Amnesia sequence.