The Most Anticipated Games of 2026

2026 may be the year of Grand Theft Auto 6, but we’re partial to the nearly 20 other games on our most anticipated list. You like RPGs? Prefer point-and-click adventures? Crave some tactics, life simulators, or deckbuilders? Whatever your interests, we have you covered!

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• Resident Evil 9: Requiem - February 27

• Pokemon Pokopia - March 5

• The Duskbloods

• Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave

• Mina the Hollower

• The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time – Q1 2026

• Fable is getting cancelled / Fable is coming out

• Lil Gator Game: In the Dark

• Vampire Crawlers

• Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined - February 5

• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream - Fall 2026

• Witchbrook

• Deltarune Ch. 5

• Professor Layton and the New World of Steam

• Perfect Tides: Station to Station - January 22

• Pragmata - April 24

• Fields of Mistria

• Control Resonant

• Unannounced AP Thomson game

• Pathologic 3 - January 9

• Perfect Tides: Station to Station - January 22

• Cairn - January 29

• Nioh 3 - February 6

• Mewgenics - February 10

• Romeo Is a Dead Man - February 11

• Lil Gator Game: In the Dark – February 12

• Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Tides - February 12

• Resident Evil 9: Requiem - February 27

• Pokemon Pokopia - March 5

• Crimson Desert - March 19

• The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time – Q1 2026

• Marathon - Q1 2026

• Pragmata - April 24

• Saros (from Housemarque) - April 30

• Besmirch – May 11

• 007: First Light - May 27

• Midnight Horde - May 2026

• Phantom Blade Zero - September 9

• Marvel Wolverine - Fall 2026

• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream - Fall 2026

• Grand Theft Auto 6 - November 19

• Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

• Beast of Reincarnation

• Bradley the Badger

• Control Resonant

• Dosa Divas

• The Duskbloods

• Fable

• Fields of Mistria

• Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave

• Forza Horizon 6

• Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls

• Mina the Hollower

• Onimusha: Way of the Sword

• Orbitals

• Rhythm Heaven: Groove

• Star Wars Galactic Racer

• Vampire Crawlers

• Witchbrook

Satisfactory, Dark Souls, Pikmin 4, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2, Death Stranding 2

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