This 12 months is already shaping as much as be a killer one in terms of video games, and never simply because that one sport we've 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 record, for apparent causes, doesn't even cowl the stuff we don't find out about but.
If we get even two-thirds of this record in our arms by the top of the 12 months, then we’ve quite a bit to look ahead to.
Editor's observe: The entire 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'll play as Grace Ashcroft and collection stalwart Leon S. Kennedy as they examine a collection of mysterious deaths in a resort in Raccoon Metropolis.
This sport is about 30 years after the unique video games. Grace's story will likely be extra of a survival horror story as she tries to evade the villain Gideon and different monsters, whereas Leon's will likely be an motion story full with leap kicks.
Video games like Resident Evil 2 have made a superb 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 collection for critics and followers alike.
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight
Launch Date: Might 29, 2026
Wait, don't go! Legacy of the Darkish Knight is a LEGO sport about Batman, nevertheless it's not a LEGO Batman sport within the sense we've 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 totally different variations of Batman through the years.
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 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 beautiful sport is from the Chinese language studio S-GAME.
You play as an elite murderer named Soul, utilizing a fight type influenced by Wuxia motion films. Nonetheless, the gameplay loop isn't 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 title).
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 awesome supply of single-player motion video games.
Grand Theft Auto VI
Launch Date: November 19, 2026
It's going to return 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 Crimson Useless Redemption 2, then this will likely be a stunningly realized model of Vice Metropolis (aka Faux Miami), right down to particular particulars that solely locals will know, with tons to do earlier than you even get to the primary storyline.
And that's not even counting what a success GTAVI On-line will most likely grow to be. This sport goes to promote like loopy and is prone to be the largest leisure launch of any sort, 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 sport, and introduced us the most effective 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 whole video games. We get glimpses of basic Wolverine foes like Omega Crimson and Mystique, and pictures of Logan preventing each out and in of his go well with.
This sport 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 approach.
Management Resonant
Launch Date: 2026
Treatment has quite a bit to work on proper now, with each the Max Payne remake and Management Resonant, a sequel to Management, on the best way.
A follow-up to the 2019 sport, you'll 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 also you'll be capable to roam round, discover town, and battle enemies.
Dylan will likely be a melee fighter, along 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 sport set in Japan for years.
Japan has a legacy of road 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's a time and place for lap-based racing, however numerous the best racing occurs point-to-point, whether or not it's from the highest of a mountain down or by a stretch of freeway.
And mountains must be a giant a part of it, too. This one can't be principally flat, as a few of the earlier titles are.
Max Payne 1+2 Remakes
Launch Date: 2026
Treatment is greatest recognized nowadays 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 couple 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 unique video games stays iconic, and nobody has fairly replicated the collection' 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 will 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 completely new motion sport, rendered in Unreal Engine 5. It's each acquainted and contemporary.
It seems to be an awesome mixture of fight and puzzles. And sure, there's 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 couldn't 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 collection. In the event that they draw on their expertise, this might make for a genuinely distinctive spy sport.
Onimusha: Means of the Sword is a great-looking samurai motion sport that continues the collection, 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's pod racing! We haven't had a great pod racing sport in a long time, and the trailer for this one seems to be 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 crew behind SOMA and the Amnesia collection.
