There are still a lot of games left to come in 2025—October alone is full of Steam wishlist heavy-hitters—but we’re close enough to the end of the year to start mapping out our 2026 gaming plans.
It’s still rather early, so our 2026 new games calendar doesn’t have a ton of dates set in stone yet, but what immediately jumps out at me is the year’s return trip to not one but two cities from an era of gaming that still has a chokehold on me. Get in loser, we’re going to Raccoon City… and then Vice City. Hold your applause, I’ll be here all of 2026.
If you need help with planning elsewhere, we’ve still got you covered with our 2025 game release calendar and handy Steam Sale dates for reference. Otherwise, it’s onto the new games of 2026 list we go.
The biggest games of 2026
How’s the new games calendar shaping up for 2026?
We haven’t even finished this year’s holiday season, but we’ve already got a decent idea of what early 2026 looks like for big game releases. While January is light for now, February starts piling it on with Deus Ex Remastered, Nioh 3, and Resident Evil Requiem. Then Crimson Desert finally finds a month to call home in March with 007 First Light right on its heels.
It’s probably safe to assume most new games will try and steer clear of the days and weeks around Grand Theft Auto 6’s release date on May 26. That’s just for consoles, but even without a PC launch window it’ll be hard for much else to break through all the noise around Vice City’s big return.
Biggest games launching in 2026
New PC games in January 2026
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January 6 |
StarRupture (Steam) |
Extraterrestrial base-building and survival in early access |
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January 15 |
Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon (Steam) |
The Trails Through Daybreak 2 sequel |
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January 28 |
The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin (Steam) |
Open world RPG gacha based on the manga series |
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January 30 |
Code Vein 2 (Steam) |
Anime soulslike sequel |
New PC games in February 2026
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February 5 |
Deus Ex Remastered (Steam) |
An RPG classic with QoL upgrades |
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February 5 |
Nioh 3 (Steam) |
Samurai action-RPG sequel |
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February 5 |
Menace (Steam) |
XCOM-like RPG from the Battle Brothers studio |
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February 10 |
Mewgenics (Steam) |
Cat-breeding RPG from the Super Meat Boy creator |
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February 13 |
High on Life 2 (Steam) |
Psychedelic FPS sequel |
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February 24 |
Tides of Tomorrow (Steam) |
Ocean survival with asynchronous multiplayer |
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February 27 |
Resident Evil Requiem (Steam) |
Back to Raccoon City |
New PC games in March 2026
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March 12 |
Monster Hunter Stories 3 (Steam) |
Turn-based tale with monsties |
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March 19 |
Crimson Desert (Steam) |
Singleplayer ARPG from Black Desert devs |
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March 26 |
Copa City (Steam) |
Manage and organize major football events |
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March 27 |
007 First Light (Steam) |
Baby bond’s first spy action missions |
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March ?? |
Slay the Spire 2 (Steam) |
Roguelike card sequel |
New PC games in May 2026
New PC games in September
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September 8 |
Halloween: The Game (Steam) |
Asymmetrical horror with Mikey |
New PC games with a 2026 release window
Games with a confirmed 2026 release window
Plenty of 2026 games don’t have a solid release date just yet, but we know they’re planned for sometime this year. Here’s everything we’re watching with a 2026 window:
- A Tiny Wander (Steam) Puzzle adventures in camping
- Aniimo (Site) Free-to-play creature nabbing RPG
- Aphelion (Steam) Astronaut adventure on an ice planet
- Ascendant (Steam) Neonpunk PvPvE arena FPS
- At Fate’s End (Steam) Lush side-scrolling action from Spiritfarer devs
- Atmosfar (Steam) Sci-fi road trip flavored twist on suvival crafting
- The Blood of Dawnwalker (Steam) 14th century vampire action RPG
- Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes (Steam) Sci Fi fleet manager
- Beast of Reincarnation (Steam) Pokemon devs do post-apoc action RPG
- Big Walk (Steam) Multiplayer walk-sim from Untitled Goose Game devs
- Bloodstained: Scarlet Engagement (Steam) Metroidvania sequel
- Bubsy 4D (Steam) Atari revives the platformer
- Bus Bound (Steam) Bus simulator with a growing city
- Call of the Elder Gods (Steam) Lovecraftian narrative puzzler sequel
- Cairn (Steam) Survival mountain climbing
- Cat-Astrophy (Steam) Feline rogue-lite platformer
- Capy Castaway (Steam) Adorable capybara adventures
- Chronicles: Medieval (Steam) Chivalric sandboxing ala Mount & Blade
- Chrono Odyssey (Steam) Fantasy MMO
- Cinder City (Site) Post-apocalypse ‘MMO tactical shooter’ from NCSoft
- Clawsome (Steam) Cute claw-game sim
- Clockwork Revolution (Steam) Steampunk time-traveling FPS
- Collector’s Cove (Steam) Seaborne exploration and farming
- The Cube (Steam) Multiplayer RPG shooter around a… giant cube?
- Crosswind (Steam) Open world pirate survival
- Danganronpa 2×2 (Steam) Revamped murder mystery double feature
- Danchi Days (Steam) Revive a festival with puzzle minigames
- Deer & Boy (Steam) Cinematic platformer with a deer pal
- Denshattack! (Steam) Do sick rail grinds with a train
- Directive 8020 (Steam) Supermassive’s horror story in space
- Dosas Divas (Steam) Food themed turn-based RPG
- Edge of Memories (Steam) JRPG-inspired adventure
- End of Abyss (Epic) Third-person horror from Little Nightmares creators
- Enginefall (Steam) Social sandbox on apocalyptic trains
- Fable (Steam) Quirky fantasy RPG reboot
- Fatal Frame 2 Remake (Steam) Survival horror remake with a camera
- Fate Trigger (Steam) Anime-style tactical shooter
- Garbage Country (Steam) Post-apocalyptic exploration & tower defense
- Gears of War: E-Day (Steam) The Marcus Fenix origin story
- Grave Seasons (Steam) Stardew Valley with a supernatural killer
- Invincible VS (Steam) 3v3 tag fighter based on the world of the show
- John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (Steam) 4-player co-op FPS horde shooter
- Hark the Ghoul (Steam) First person dungeon crawling
- Hela (Steam) Third person adventure as an adorable mouse
- Last Flag (Steam) Third-person 5v5 CTF with cartoony TF2 vibes
- Lords of the Fallen 2 (Epic) Sequel to the 2023 dark fantasy action RPG
- Marathon (Steam) Bungie’s technicolor extraction shooter
- Moonmintroll: Winter’s Warmth (Steam) Adorable Moomin adventure sequel
- Mortal Shell 2 (Steam) Body-swapping soulslike seque
- Mudang: Two Hearts (Steam) Action thriller set in future Korea
- Neverway (Steam) Horror life-sim RPG with retro lo-fi style
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword (Steam) Latest of Capcom’s samurai action series
- Outbound (Steam) Van life meets survival crafting and exploration
- Out of Words (Epic) Stop motion puzzle platformer for two
- Outward 2 (Steam) Hardcore RPG sequel
- Planet of Lana 2 (Steam) Cinematic puzzle adventure sequel
- Pragmata (Site) Outerspace action adventure
- Railborn (Steam) Sci-fi survival crafter, but on your own train
- Replaced (Steam) Sci-fi action platformer
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy (Steam) Prequel story of Sophia
- Road Kings (Steam) Semi-truck sim with career modes
- Romeo is a Dead Man (Site) Third person action ultraviolence
- SacriFire (Steam) Pixel RPG with combo battle system
- Scott Pilgrim EX (Steam) Pixel brawler based on the graphic novel
- Sea of Remnants (Steam) Pirate RPG with fleet-building and huge cast of allies
- Snap & Grab (Steam) Photography-based heist sim
- Stars of Icarus (Steam) Sci-fi crew-based starship PVP combat
- Subnautica 2 (Steam) Subsurface survival sequel
- Super Meat Boy 3D (Steam) Meaty platformer goes 3D
- There Are No Ghosts at the Grand (Steam) First person musical puzzle sim
- Toem 2 (Steam) Monochrome photography adventure sequel
- Valor Mortis (Steam) Napoleonic-era soulslike FPS from Ghostrunner creators
- Wanderburg (Steam) Howl’s Moving survivorslike
- War for Westeros (Steam) Game of Thrones RTS
- Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 4 (Steam) Long desired sequel to the RTS series
- WTF: Waifu Tactical Force (Steam) Anime PVP FPS with meta base building
- Zero Parades (Steam) Espionage RPG from remains of ZA/UM
More new games for 2026 and beyond
Announced games that could still surprise us
We see plenty of new game announcements with no solid release date or general window, but they’re still worth tracking. Some of these could surprise us in 2026, or maybe they’ll carry on to next year’s calendar.
- Atomic Heart 2 (Steam) Weird-topia RPG shooter gets a sequel
- Black Myth: Zhong Kui (Trailer) Sequel to Black Myth: Wukong
- Farever (Steam) Multiplayer spin on Zelda from Northgard devs
- La Divinia Commedia (Steam) ARPG adaptation of a classic poem
- Saros – Another haunting space adventure from Returnal devs
- The Expanse: Osiris Reborn (Steam) Sci-fi action RPG in the Expanse universe
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