2025 is already behind us, and gamers will definitely remember it as one of the strongest years in a long time. We got a bunch of fantastic titles like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
But the industry isn’t slowing down – this year could be a turning point for gaming as a whole. In 2026, we’re expected to see releases like GTA VI (Rockstar, please), Crimson Desert, Control: Resonant, Fable, Resident Evil Requiem, and plenty more.
Most Anticipated Games of 2026
So which games are worth waiting for in 2026? What’s driving the biggest hype right now? Here’s our list of the most anticipated games of 2026!
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon
- Developer: Nihon Falcom
- Genre: JRPG
- Release date: January 15, 2026
- Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is the third game in the Calvard arc of the acclaimed Trails subseries of The Legend of Heroes franchise. If you’re new to it and these words don’t mean anything to you, just know that you’re looking at an engrossing role-playing game with satisfying combat blending turn-based and real-time options, an interesting technomagical setting entering its space age, and a dramatic storyline to carry you through unexpected twists.
Technically it released in 2024 for PS4 and PS5, but only in Japan, while the series’ fans had to wait until January 15’th, 2026 for the worldwide PS 4 & 5), PC, and Switch (1 & 2) launch.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
- Developer: Nintendo
- Genre: Life sim
- Release date: January 15, 2026
- Platforms: Switch 2
The friendlier half the iconic duo (the other half is Doom Eternal), and many people’s method of enduring the lockdowns, is getting a proper Switch 2 edition, with more powerful graphics and various gameplay improvements making managing and decorating your island more accessible, and having a good time with your New Horizons friends much easier.
If you already have ACNH, there’s also the option of getting an upgrade pack rather than a full new game when it becomes playable on January 15th.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin
- Developer: Netmarble
- Genre: Open-world action RPG
- Release date:
January 28, 2026-> March 16, 2026 - Platforms: PS5, PC (other platforms TBA)
A new video game adaptation of The Seven Deadly Sins manga and anime was somewhat surprising, particularly an open-world one. Anime adaptations tend towards fighting games. The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin features both familiar characters and a good number of brand new ones, led by Prince Tristan of the Kingdom of Liones.
Origin captures the aesthetic of the franchise and the energy of the anime adaptation very well, so its Janauary 28th release is likely to be quite a treat for the fans, while dynamic, superpowered gameplay might well make it attractive even to people who haven’t been previously involved with the series.
Code Vein II
- Developer: Bandai Namco
- Genre: Action RPG (soulslike)
- Release date: January 30, 2026
- Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Do you remember Code Vein, the anime-vampiric soulslike from 2019? It’s becoming a series, and soon. Code Vein II is scheduled for launch on January 30th, offering a brand new adventure in a world shared by humans and the powerful Revenants. This time, the story also involves time travel!
CVII keeps the predecessor’s tense combat system focused on mastering and customizing weapon movesets, using devastating powers, and learning your enemies’ tricks.
Nioh 3
- Developer: Team Ninja
- Genre: Action RPG (soulslike)
- Release date: February 6, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC
After Nioh 2 was a prequel to the original Nioh, the third installment of the series takes the action forward in time, to 1622, at least at the beginning. The events that unfold will take you back and forth across time, even including the 19th century Bakumatsu era. The combat system got expanded, the familiar stances are now specific to the Samurai playstyle, but you can also switch to Ninja mode. It’s oriented towards speed, range, and aerial combat, uses different powers, and replaces stances with ninja tools.
It’s going to be fun looking at mad combos players pull off by switching between the playstyles when Nioh 3 launches on February 6th.
Mario Tennis Fever
- Developer: Camelot
- Genre: Sports
- Release date: February 12, 2026
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2
A new Switch 2 original is coming in February! Mario Tennis Fever brings the chipper plumber back onto the court. The Mario Tennis series hasn’t had a new installment since 2018, so it’s about time for a new one.
There will be almost forty playable characters, both familiar and ones one, such as Baby Waluigi, a concept the world probably isn’t fully ready for. There will also be 30 rackets with various traits and abilities to let you figure out your playstyle across several modes.
Mario Tennis Fever drops on February 12th.
Resident Evil: Requiem
- Developer: Capcom
- Genre: Survival horror
- Release date: February 27, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
The time of a new Resident Evil is quickly approaching, with more weird experiments, creepy mutants, people finding themselves in horrific scenarios, and Umbrella making everybody’s lives worse. Requiem features two playable characters: series’ mainstay Leon S. Kennedy back to figure out another mess, and Grace Ashcroft, an FBI technical analyst, who, uncharacteristically for the series, doesn’t have much combat ability at all.
Resident Evil: Requiem comes to haunt you on February 27th.
Pokémon Pokopia
- Developer: Nintendo / The Pokémon Company
- Genre: Cozy life-sim / island-building
- Release date: March 5, 2026
- Platforms: TBA
Ditto is Pokémon capable of assuming the form and abilities of other creatures. Usually it imitates other ‘mons, but in Pokopia it’s taken the form of a human (terrifying implications) and is tasked (by a friendly Tangrowth) with restoring a land that lays fallow after all the humans abandoned it for some reason.
As your efforts go on, Pokémon will start coming back, necessitating work on new environments for them. Since you’re a Ditto, you’ll be able to learn their moves, which will help you with the restoration and cultivation work.
Pokopia seems lime it’s going to be like a lovely life sim to play when it arrives on March 5th.
REPLACED
- Developer: Sad Cat Studios
- Genre: Cinematic action-platformer
- Release date:
March 12, 2026-> April 14, 2026 - Platforms: TBA
On March 12th REPLACED will drop you into a grim cyberpunk setting, straight into the shoes of R.E.A.C.H., an AI finding itself confined to a human body. This game’s setting presents a vision of 1980s USA ravaged by a nuclear disaster some time prior, its society in shambles, as the Phoenix Corporation conducts its nefarious business.
REPLACED is a 2.5D, pixel-art platformer with a cinematic flair, and a tight combat system fitting for a cyberpunk thriller. Seems worth waiting for the March 12th launch.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
- Developer: Capcom
- Genre: RPG (turn-based, monster-collecting)
- Release date: March 13, 2026
- Platforms: Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Monster Hunter Stories is possibly the most successful MH spin-off. These games focus more on raising the creatures, rather than hunting them, and turn the series’ playstyle into engaging RPG mechanics and turn-based combat. There’s even a healthy dose of plot, to complete the role-playing game package.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is a new installment of the subseries, arriving on March 13th with a brand new story, a new customizable protagonist, and lots of new systems to play around with.
Crimson Desert
- Developer: Pearl Abyss
- Genre: Open-world action-adventure / RPG
- Release date: March 19, 2026
- Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
Crimson Desert is, to some extent, a single-player cousing to Black Desert Online, Pearl Abyss’ previous game. Set in a Middle Ages-inspired (loosely) fantastical world, it will follow a fellow named Kliff and his band of allies on a dramatic quest across the continent of Pywel.
CD promises dynamic combat, stunning vistas, and a large world to explore and live in. Whether it fulfills these promises will become cleat on March 19th, but the chances are high that it’ll be a Q1 hit.
Marathon
- Developer: Bungie
- Genre: Sci-fi extraction shooter (PvPvE)
- Release date: March 5, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC
Back in the days before Halo, Bungie’s biggest title was a shooter called Marathon. Marathon was, by all accounts of people who played it at the time, rad. Then a lot of history happened, Halo arrived, then Bungie made Destiny, and now, thirty years after the launch of the last Marathon, the studio comes back to the title, at least, with a science-fiction extraction shooter.
How much it will have in common with the classics remains to be seen after it launches in March.
Slay the Spire 2
- Developer: MegaCrit
- Genre: Roguelike deckbuilder
- Release date: March 5, 2026 (Early Access)
- Platforms: TBA
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Have you slain the spire yet? If you haven’t, even though the original StP’s been out for nearly a decade, come March you’ll have a chance to hop on the early access version of Slay the Spire 2, a proper follow-up bringing in the familiar gameplay, a few familiar characters, and some new ones for good measure.
If the first game and the tabletop adaptation are any indication, StP2 is going to be an excellent deck-building roguelite. But until then, why don’t you give the original a chance?
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake
- Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: By end of March 2026
- Platforms: TBA
Can you believe it’s finally arriving, after all this time? A lot of sand’s been turned into glass since the first rumors and news about it, but it’s allegedly coming in March. Will it have the charm of the original? Will running on walls feels as fresh and exciting as it had in the early 2000s?
We shall see, hopefully, before Q2 rolls in.
Well played, Ubi.
PRAGMATA
- Developer: Capcom
- Genre: Sci-fi action-adventure
- Release date: April 24, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Switch 2
Despite people’s hopes and theories, PRAGMATA isn’t going to be a gritty reboot of Mega Man, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth paying attention to. A space station got taken over by hostile AI and robots (no, it’s not Mega Man), and you, a man called Hugh* have to work with Diana, a childlike robot (with a blue color scheme, but it’s not Mega Man) to survive and figure out what’s going on.
Pragmata is going to be a TPP action game, but since Hugh is giving Diana a piggyback ride, she’ll be able to hack robots on the fly and otherwise assist him in staying alive. Looks intriguing, we’ll see if the concept holds up to scrutiny when it drops on April 24th.
*a Hugh-man, if you will.
Saros
- Developer: Housemarque
- Genre: Action roguelike / shooter
- Release date: April 30, 2026
- Platforms: TBA
Saros comes from the developers of Returnal, bringing back third-person action with a lot of flair and style od danger borrowed from bullet hells, with swarms of projectiles coming your way from enemies and environment alike, but thankfully you’ve got quite a few ways to respond in kind. The trailer shown in September drew my attention with the absolutely gorgeus energy shield the protagonist can deploy, because it’s rare for video game energy shields to fluctuate and wobble in response to incoming projectiles. Lovely stuff.
Saros for now appears to be a PlayStation 5 exclusive, and is planned for an April 30th release.
007 First Light
- Developer: IO Interactive
- Genre: Action / stealth (spy action-adventure)
- Release date: May 27, 2026
- Platforms: TBA
Video games about James Bond are hardly an unheard of thing, there’s been a few, including the legendary GoldenEye. What is fresh, is a Bond game made by the masters of sneaking around in a sharp suit: IO Interactive, the creators of the Hitman franchise.
First Light will be the assignment that sets young and inexperienced Bond on a course to getting the coveted 00 license and becoming one of MI6’s most important agents. Unlike First Light’s James, IOI has plenty of experience that’s going to be quite relevant for the kind of stealth and action required from a good Bond game.
First Light will shine on May 27th, 2026.
Grand Theft Auto VI
- Developer: Rockstar Games
- Genre: Open-world action-adventure
- Release date: November 19, 2026
- Platforms: TBA
Statistically, GTA6 does have to launch eventually, but it’s anybody’s guess when it happens. The next installment of the legendary crime-themed series is eagerly awaited by the fans, and its release date is momentous enough to influence release dates of other games.
What is Grand Theft Auto VI going to be like? There are still things we don’t know, but it’s going to be a return to Vice City, this time expanding beyond the Miami-inspired city into regions based on other places in Florida. The story will follow Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, a criminal couple who, in a typical GTA fashion, end up in a messy situation.
For the time being, GTA6 launches on November 19th, 2026.
Fable
- Developer: Playground Games
- Genre: Action RPG
- Release date: TBA (2026)
- Platforms: TBA
The new Fable, while rooted in the traditions set by Lionhead Studios’ classic fantasy series, is not a remake, isn’t even a sequel. It’s effectively a reboot, pursuing similar tone and ideas, but also not afraid to stuff its own way.
Where the originals were stylized, the new one seems to go for exaggerated realistic visual style, drawing a whimsical setting with technology possible nowadays. There’s also going to be greater control over character appearance, and a more dynamic combat.
Fable comes in Autumn 2026 in its full fabulous fantasy, immersive, sandboxy glory. Including the option to marry every single NPC or working as a blacksmith.
Super Meat Boy 3D
- Developer: Team Meat
- Genre: Platformer
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
Do you remember Super Meat Boy, a short, cheerfully bloody (and bloody hard!), 2D platforming game series from 2010? It’s been a hot second since the last one, but this year the series will enter the third dimension. How will the originals’ precision-platforming work in 3D environments? Hopefully very well, hardcore platforming is a woefully underserved genre.
Super Meat Boy 3D is planned for launch in Spring 2026. You can play Demo of SMB3D right now on Steam.
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra
- Developer: Skydance Media
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
To be honest, not a lot is known about Marvel 1943.
We know it will have Captain America and Black Panther (Azzuri, not T’Challa) in leading parts, plus Gabriel Jones of the Howling Commando, and a Wakandan Spy Nanali. We also know it’s going to be an action-adventure game. And finally: that it’s being written by Amy Hennig, a veteran video game writer.
The release is planned for “Beyond early 2026”, whatever that means.
Invincible VS
- Developer: Skybound Games
- Genre: Fighting
- Release date: April 30, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S
Invincible is a critically acclaimed superhero comic book, which got turned into a critically acclaimed animated show, and now it has a good shot at becoming a critically acclaimed fighting game.
InVs will be a 3v3 tag fighter with brutal finishers executed in 3D graphics which do a pretty good job capturing the aesthetic and tone of the source material. There will even be a cinematic story mode, if you want your bloodied fists to have some context.
Invincible Vs arrives on April 30th.
Mudang: Two Hearts
- Developer: EVR Studio
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
Revealed last year during the Xbox Games Showcase, MUDANG: Two Hearts is going to be a third-person, story driven action-adventure game splitting it’s action (and adventure) between two characters: Ji Jeongtae, an agent of Korean special forces, and GAVI, a K-Pop idol who gets tangled in some weird science fiction sh…tuff that form the framework of MUDANG’s plot.
There’s going to be stealth, there’s going to be open combat, there are going to be juicyu animations for both, it’s going to be fun, but for now the only release window we have is “2026”.
The Blood of Dawnwalker
- Developer: Rebel Wolves
- Genre: Action RPG
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
Despite the name, no, it’s not the game about Marvel’s Blade, that one’s still cooking. No, The Blood of Dawnwalker is going to be a third-person, open-world, story-driven, hyphen-rich vampire’em-up with some folks formerly from CD Projekt RED at the helm.
It will put you in the shoes of a fellow called Coen (not to confuse with Coën) who got semi-turned into a vampire, a state which makes him not unlike Blade: with some vampiric powers but without the usual vampiric nerfs. Depending on the time of day, you’ll also get by different skillsets: nuanced swordplay in the daylight, or vampiric powers, including magical traversal options, by moonlight. The quest will also, reportedly, have many ways to solve them.
The Blood of the Dawnwalker will drip into our libraries this year, but who knows when exactly?
The Duskbloods
- Developer: FromSoftware
- Genre: Action RPG
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2
We’re staying vampiric for another moment: The Duskbloods is an unpcoming action-RPG from FromSoftware of the Elden Ring and Armored Core fame. Duskbloods will be a multiplayer adventure with PvP and PvE elements, with up to eight vampirically empowered players duking it out between themselves until only one remains to be the victor of the match.
It sounds like FromSoft got a hankering for proper multiplayer after having made Nightreign. Sadly, for now The Duskbloods is only coming to Switch 2 later this year, with no other platforms even being talked about.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
- Developer: Nintendo
- Genre: Life sim
- Release date: April 16, 2026
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 1/2
Tomodach Life: Living the Dream is the third installment of the series. It’s a little bit like The Sims mixed with Tamagotchi. The island’s residents are all Miis, Nintendo’s tried and tested customizable avatars made famous in games like Wii Sports. It’s largely a social simulation game, with the Miis forming relationships and living their life, and you can help them out in their various dilemmas and complications.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream makes extensive use of voice generation to flesh out character conversations, too. Depending on where you stand of the oldschool voice generators it might sound a bit cursed, but has the edge over Simligh in that you can understand exactly what everybody’s saying.
Tomodachi Life comes to Switch on April 16th.
Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls
- Developer: ARC System Works
- Genre: Fighting
- Release date: August 6, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC
Once upon a time it was Capcom’s domain to make fighting games based on Marvel Comics license, but no more. Arc System Works, best known for their Guilty Gear series are working on a fast-paced, 4v4 tag fighting game fully focused on Marvel characters. The known roster isn’t huge for the time being, but we can trust ASW to deliver excellent mechanics to carry the game even if the release roster won’t be impressive.
Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls launches at some unspecified point in the future.
Beast of Reincarnation
- Developer: Game Freak
- Genre: TBA
- Release date: August 4, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S
Did you know Game Freak makes games other than Pokémon? They do, it’s rare and games get lost between the Pocket Monsters, but they exist. A new one, a spectacular-looking action game Beast of Reincarnation is coming this year, bringin in an adventure starring one human warrior of impressive skill, and her friendly giant dog who’s quite able to unleash the hurt on anybody you’re fighting.
The adventure is set on post-apocalyptic Earth, specifically: Japan, ruined by a horrifying blight.
Beast of Reincarnation is planned for launch sometimes in Q2/Q3 of this year.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
- Developer: Asobo Studio
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
A Plague Tale games were set in medieval France, but while their story was finished, the setting hides some secrets and mysteries yet. Which is why we’re getting Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, a prequel to the originals, taking place fifteen years before. It follows Sophia, an ambitions thief who wounds up on the mythic Minotaur Island in Greece, which will put her to many trials, dangers, and possibly revelations regarding her own past.
Beyond that, like previous A Plague Tales, it’s going to be a third-person perspective action-adventure, although its combat is going to be much more in-your-face than it used to be, Sophia isn’t a desperate teen, she’s a desperate adult.
Resonance will start humming at a yet-unspecified time this year.
Subnautica 2
- Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Genre: Survival / exploration
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: PC, Xbox X/S
Subnautica 2’s been the subject of some backstage headlines this year, but despite all the turmoil the new installment of trypophobia-inducing survival game is still going to arrive at some point this year.
Unlike the predecessors, this time it will have multiplayer support, so this time around you don’t need to explore the oceans alone, you can choose to do so, which is much more empowering. Score one for player agency. Outside of that, it will have all the expected base-building, submarine-piloting, biome-exploring, and alient mystery-solving. So, more Subnautica, but now (potentially) with friends.
Lords of the Fallen 2
- Developer: Hexworks
- Genre: Action RPG (soulslike)
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
In case you were confused, Lord of the Fallen 2 is a sequel to Lords of the Fallen*, not to Lords of the Fallen**. Like LotF it’s going to be a dark fantasy action-RPG with tense combat, gloomy atmosphere, and majestic boss fights. Sounds like a proper Soulslike, at least in tone and style.
*2023
**2014
Mortal Shell II
- Developer: Cold Symmetry
- Genre: Action RPG (soulslike)
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
The 2020 dark fantasy action-RPG is getting a sequel this year, filled to the brim with gruesome monsters and corrupted parodies of humans. Your only hope is mastering your skills, learning your weapons, and utilizing the abilities of the titular “shells”, granting you the abilities of long-dead warriors.
Mortal Shells II’s launch date is TBA.
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
- Developer: TT Games
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: May 29, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch 2
LEGO adaptations of popular media tend to be incredibly charming in the first place, but there’s something particularly endearing when the topic is Batman. The Caped Crusader has the perfect balance of seriousness and silliness that just WORKS with the formula.
This year’s LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will let us play as Bruceman from his training to becoming the Batwayne, defender of Gotham City and seasoned puncher of PhD-havers. All with a good sense of humor, lots of entertaining combat, and plenty of open world exploration.
Legacy of the Dark Knight swoops down on us on May 29th.
High on Life 2
- Developer: Squanch Games
- Genre: FPS / action-adventure
- Release date: February 13, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S and later for Nintendo Switch 2
High on Life 2 is a direct sequel to the previous game, the protagonist is now a bounty hunter, still employing the bizarre, uncomfortably alive and cartoonish alien guns to engage in what can only be described as wacky hijinks. HoL2 amplifies the last game’s impressive mobility options with a combat-capable skateboard which should come in handy on many occasions.
You can get High on Life 2 when it drops on February 13th.
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined
- Developer: Square Enix
- Genre: JRPG
- Release date: February 5, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch 2
The Dragon Quest series is a long-running, venerable franchise of excellent RPGs, distinguished from its competitors with the unmistakable art of Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball. Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is a recreation of the 2000 classic, buffed with new graphics, retouched mechanics, and a lot of tweaks and fixes in general.
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined launches on February 5th.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book
- Developer: Nintendo
- Genre: Platformer
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
As Nintendo is wont to do, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a charming platform games exploring the a specific concept. In this case: letting the dinosaur-like Yoshi interacts with inhabitants of a magical wildlife encyclopedia to learn about their traits and solve the levels. Carry a flower on your back, and grasses will bloom, run through dandelions and they’ll start floating and do some things to the environment. Stuff like that. Friendly, specific, accessible. Good stuff.
Yoshi visits the Mysterious Book in Spring this year.
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
- Developer: Intelligent Systems
- Genre: Tactical RPG
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
Nintendo’s famous series of tactical, turn-based RPGs is returning with another installment. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave appears to center its story around the Heroic Games, a gladiatorial event where heroes can compete for an irresistible prize.
Details aren’t plentiful, but it’s Fire Emblem, we can certainly expect highly dramatic storyline, challenging combat scenarios, and deep mechanics.
Fortune Weave’s specific 2026 release window is TBA.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword
- Developer: Capcom
- Genre: Action
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S
It’s been twenty years since the last original Onimusha game, it’s about time. The new installment will put us in the shoes of legendary, yet historical, swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, who will use his prowess to slice up a lot of demons, as is the series’ tradition. A refreshed combat system, a new protagonist, and visuals powered by RE Engine all sounds very promising.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword arrives at some point this year, it hasn’t been announced yet.
Rhythm Heaven: Groove
- Developer: Nintendo
- Genre: Rhythm
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Rhythm Heaven is a series of games composed of a number of, well, rhythm-based minigames, less wild and unpredictable than WarioWare, but similarly diverse. The games are even said to be beatable without looking, by sounds alone. We’ll see.
Rhythm Heaven Groove comes at an unspecified date this year.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales
- Developer: Square Enix
- Genre: TBA
- Release date: June 18, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch 2
The HD-2D graphic style is truly something remarkable, and Square Enix is milking it for every drop of delightful aesthetics it can get. Good. Let it. The newest game done in this format I The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, which is, surprisingly, not a turn-based retro-style RPG, but instead an action-RPG with real-time combat. Nice, some variety! Its story will span several eras, taking Elliot to various points of the world’s history.
The Adventures of Elliot begin on June 18th.
Valor Mortis
- Developer: One More Level
- Genre: TBA
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S
Valor Mortis is a first-person Soulslike rooting its dark fantasy horrors in the Napoleonic Era instead of a non-specific quasi-Middle Ages. That means slender swords and stylish pistols, as well as very cool hats. And plenty of horrifically mutated humans, bizarre powers, and a world twisted by a calamity unknown to you, a recently risen corpse. Yep, that’s a Soulslike alright.
Valor Mortis arrives at some point, surely.
At Fate’s End
- Developer: Thunder Lotus Games
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
The studio which made the delightfully heart-wrenching Spiritfarer is coming back this year. At Fate’s End is about a young clan heiress who has to fight her siblings and decide her family’s fate. This will involve highly dramatic combat, clever maneuvers, and working through family troubles, possibly mid-sword swing.
At Fate’s End looks very interesting, a fantasy tale with epic power, but a scope of just one complicated family. Firm release date hasn’t been revealed yet, unfortunately.
Tides of Annihilation
- Developer: Eclipse Glow Games
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S
There’s no such thing as “too many” spectacle fighter games. Tides of Annihilation is entering the genre with pomp and the strong imagery of London ruined by some kind of mystic disaster. You’ll be playing as Gwendolyn, a strong fighter in her own right, who’s also aided in her battles by a knightly host of ancient specters drawn from the Arthurian myth.
There’s no firm release date given to Tides of Annihilation, even the 2026 window might be just hopes and dreams, as nothing of the kind has been stated yet.
Marvel’s Wolverine
- Developer: Insomniac
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: PS5
After having done a few Spider-Man adventures, Insomniac is switching to a little more grounded, and much more violence-friendly hero: Wolverine. There isn’t a lot of info regarding the plot, but it is known the stocky Canadian will encounter quite a few familiar faces along the way, including Mystique and Omega Red. We can also expect vicious combat. Will it rival Raven Software’s video game adaptation of X-Men Origins? Time will tell.
Marvel’s Wolverine is expected to come in the second half of the year.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
- Developer: Crystal Dynamics
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S
Perhaps as a celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the original Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics and Flying Wild Hog are working on a remake of that original adventure, and we’re going to see it this year as Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It’s going to be the first TR, but again and with better graphics are smoother execution. What’s not to love?
Phantom Blade Zero
- Developer: S-Game
- Genre: Action RPG
- Release date: September 9, 2026
- Platforms: PS5, PC
It’s been a pretty good time for fans of wuxia action recently. And it continues to be a good time, because this September Phantom Blade Zero rolls into PS5 and PC. It will have everything: stylish weapon handling, smooth dodges, dramatic parries, and plenty of dark fantasy to try your martial wits against.
Reportedly, there’s even going to be multiple endings robust difficulty options, and a New Game+, for good measure.
Phantom Blade Zero arrives on September 9th.
Control: Resonant
- Developer: Remedy
- Genre: Action-adventure
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox X/S, macOS
The Federal Bureau of Control messed up, and the things it was supposed to contain escaped and took over Manhattan, turning into a chaotic mess of supernatural phenomena. Worse yet: the Director, Jesse Farden, disappeared. Equipped with a shapeshifting weapon you have to find her and maybe fix the problem in the process.
While Control was more about third-person ranged combat (with firearms and superpowers), Resonant aims for a melee-oriented adventure, which is an interesting change of pace.
For the time being it’s still coming this year.
Solasta II
- Developer: Tactical Adventures
- Genre: CRPG / tactical RPG
- Release date: March 12, 2026
- Platforms: PC
The first Solasta held very well against the more bombastic Baldur’s gate 3 despite both games entering their Early Access around the same time. It had some genuinely intriguing ideas about how an adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons 5e should work, and about how a cRPG should work. Which makes it lovely that it’s getting a sequel following the “bigger, better, bolder” line of thought, improving on everything from the previous game.
If you’re starving for new D&D 5e-based video games, that should be a real treat.
It arrives into EA on March 12th,
Ontos
- Developer: Frictional Games
- Genre: Horror
- Release date: TBA
- Platforms: TBA
Octos is a science fiction horror adventure from the makers of SOMA. Set in former lunar hotel Samsara, now repurposed to serve bizarre goals which will cause the protagonist no end of existential dread as he seeks to understand his father’s legacy. Be ready for reality to warp, secrets to baffle, and calm mind to evaporate.
It looks like an very ambitious production, and the developers have experience with the genre, so it’s going to be worth keeping your eyes on it.
It is supposed to arrive this year, but no specific release windows has been offered at the time of writing.