This yr is already shaping as much as be a killer one in the case of video games, and never simply because that one recreation we have all been ready for might be going to return out, lastly.
There is a ton of different stuff already on the docket for 2026, and this checklist, for apparent causes, would not even cowl the stuff we do not learn about but.
If we get even two-thirds of this checklist in our arms by the top of the yr, then we’ve got loads to stay up for.
Editor’s word: All the video games on this checklist are conventional “Web2” video games with out crypto or blockchain integrations. However you may 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 recreation.
You will 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 recreation is about 30 years after the unique video games. Grace’s story shall be extra of a survival horror story as she tries to evade the villain Gideon and different monsters, whereas Leon’s shall be an motion story full with bounce 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, do not go! Legacy of the Darkish Knight is a LEGO recreation about Batman, however it’s not a LEGO Batman recreation within the sense we have seen.
This one is for Batman followers—individuals who love the Animated Sequence and the Nolan movies and each a part of Batman. That is an open-world recreation with a correct fight system and an homage to all of the completely different variations of Batman over time.
The sport 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.
In the event you’ve ever been a Batman fan, that is the LEGO Batman recreation to observe.
Phantom Blade 0
Launch Date: September 9, 2026
This beautiful recreation is from the Chinese language studio S-GAME.
You play as an elite murderer named Soul, utilizing a fight fashion influenced by Wuxia motion motion pictures. Nonetheless, 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 principle character’s identify).
With Black Fable Wukong nonetheless in our reminiscences and Phantom Blade 0 having tons of potential, Chinese language studios are making a reputation for themselves as an incredible supply of single-player motion video games.
Grand Theft Auto VI
Launch Date: November 19, 2026
It may come out this yr, absolutely.
Three delays sound about proper for a Rockstar recreation. If Grand Theft Auto 6 lives as much as the legacy of GTA5 and Purple Useless Redemption 2, then this shall be a stunningly realized model of Vice Metropolis (aka Pretend Miami), all the way down to particular particulars that solely locals will know, with tons to do earlier than you even get to the principle storyline.
And that is not even counting what a success GTAVI On-line will most likely turn into. This recreation goes to promote like loopy and is more likely to be the largest leisure launch of any form, ever.
Marvel’s Wolverine
Launch Date: Fall 2026
Insomniac Video games proved with Marvel’s Spiderman that somebody on the market might make a superb Marvel recreation, and introduced us one of the best web-slinging motion thus far with a brand new story that felt like it might 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 complete video games. We get glimpses of basic Wolverine foes like Omega Purple and Mystique, and pictures of Logan combating each out and in of his swimsuit.
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 method.
Management Resonant
Launch Date: 2026
Treatment has loads 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 recreation, you may tackle the position 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 you can roam round, discover the town, and struggle enemies.
Dylan shall be a melee fighter, along with his personal shapeshifting weapon known 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 recreation 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 recreation about racing your fantasy automobiles 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 a number 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 must be an enormous a part of it, too. This one cannot be largely flat, as a few of the earlier titles are.
Max Payne 1+2 Remakes
Launch Date: 2026
Treatment is finest recognized nowadays for Alan Wake and Management, however the bullet-time motion shooter Max Payne is how the studio bought its identify 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 authentic 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 yr’s totally new Tomb Raider recreation, Tomb Raider: Catalyst.
Within the meantime, although, we are able to stay 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 is each acquainted and contemporary.
It seems to be an incredible mixture of fight and puzzles. And sure, there is a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Honorable Mentions
Launch Dates: 2026, we hope!
We’re trying ahead to a bunch of video games this yr, and we could not match all of them right here.
Different video games we’re trying ahead to incorporate 007: First Mild, a James Bond origin story from the group behind the Hitman collection. In the event that they draw on their expertise, this might make for a genuinely distinctive spy recreation.
Onimusha: Manner of the Sword is a great-looking samurai motion recreation that continues the collection, 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 seems 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 yr, although we’ll imagine it after we see it.
In the meantime, Ontos is a religious successor to the superb horror recreation SOMA, from Frictional Video games, the group behind SOMA and the Amnesia collection.
GG E-newsletter
Get the newest web3 gaming information, hear instantly from gaming studios and influencers protecting the house, and obtain power-ups from our companions.