10 Upcoming Games 2026/2027 You CANNOT Miss

The next two years of gaming are shaping up to be nothing short of historic. The upcoming games of 2026 and 2027 include some of the most anticipated titles in the history of the medium — a 25-year franchise making its PlayStation debut for the first time ever, a sequel more than a decade in the making, and a release that analysts predict could become the highest-grossing entertainment product in history. Whether you’re a PC gamer, a console loyalist on PS5 or Xbox, or a player who switches between platforms, these ten upcoming games represent the titles you absolutely cannot let slip off your radar. Here is the Gamers Guides breakdown of every game you need to know about — with confirmed platforms, studios, release windows, and everything else that matters.

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1. The Witcher 4

The Witcher 4 is the most anticipated RPG in years — and one of the most expensive games ever made, with an estimated $390 million development budget matched by an equally staggering $390 million marketing allocation. CD Projekt Red officially announced the title at The Game Awards in December 2024 with a jaw-dropping cinematic trailer pre-rendered in-engine using NVIDIA’s then-unannounced RTX 5090. The biggest revelation: series veteran Geralt of Rivia is stepping aside, and Ciri takes the protagonist role — older, scarred, and carrying the full weight of The Witcher 3’s emotional legacy on her shoulders. Built on Unreal Engine 5 as part of a multi-year partnership with Epic Games, The Witcher 4 begins a new trilogy planned to span the next six years of CD Projekt Red’s output. With 499 developers actively working on the project as of March 2026, this is the studio’s largest-scale undertaking to date. A release before the end of 2026 has been officially ruled out — 2027 remains the earliest realistic window, with further delays always possible given CDPR’s history.

2. Tomb Raider: Catalyst

The Tomb Raider franchise celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026, and Crystal Dynamics is marking the occasion in the most fitting way possible: a brand new adventure that promises to push Lara Croft into entirely new narrative territory. Tomb Raider: Catalyst is currently in development for a 2027 release, with the franchise also receiving a live-action TV series adaptation headlined by Sophie Turner in the same period. Details about Catalyst’s story and setting remain tightly under wraps — Crystal Dynamics has been deliberately quiet, letting the franchise’s anniversary year build organic anticipation ahead of a larger reveal. What is known is that the studio has been working on the project for some time, and Catalyst appears positioned to serve as a bold new chapter rather than a continuation of the Survivor trilogy. Among the upcoming games of 2026 and 2027, Tomb Raider: Catalyst is the one with the most tantalising silence surrounding it — and given Crystal Dynamics’ pedigree, that silence is worth paying close attention to.

3. Tides of Annihilation

Tides of Annihilation is the dark-horse entry on this list — a game that has quietly built one of the most passionate communities of any upcoming game in 2026 without the benefit of a major publisher’s marketing machine behind it. Developed by Eclipse Glow Games, Tides of Annihilation is a third-person action RPG set in a visually spectacular world where the boundary between the living and the dead has collapsed. The premise follows a lone warrior navigating a world drowning in supernatural chaos — tidal forces of spectral energy that reshape the landscape in real time, creating a game world that is never quite the same twice. The combat system, glimpsed in extended trailer footage, draws comparisons to the precision and weight of FromSoftware’s work while incorporating elemental manipulation mechanics unique to the game’s fiction. It is exactly the kind of under-the-radar title that this list exists to spotlight — one of the upcoming games of 2026 that deserves far more attention than it is currently receiving.

4. Beast of Reincarnation

Game Freak — the studio the entire world knows as the creator of Pokémon — is doing something it has never done before in its 35-year history: stepping entirely outside the Pokémon universe to deliver a standalone, original action RPG for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Beast of Reincarnation follows Emma and her companion Koo on a quest to confront a mythical creature tied to the cycle of rebirth and destruction. Emma’s defining ability — plant manipulation — allows her to reshape the battlefield in real time, growing vines to scale structures, ensnaring enemies, or creating organic platforms in the heat of combat. Revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in 2025, Beast of Reincarnation received deeper gameplay coverage at the January 2026 Xbox Developer Direct, which confirmed its August 4, 2026 release date and showcased combat mechanics that look significantly more ambitious than anything Game Freak has attempted outside of Pokémon. For fans curious about what this storied studio looks like when fully unchained, this is the most fascinating upcoming game of summer 2026.

5. Fable

It has been 14 years since Fable: The Journey. Peter Molyneux’s beloved, irreverent, and deeply British franchise has been silent — until now. Playground Games, the studio behind the Forza Horizon series, took the wheel of Albion’s resurrection, and everything shown since the first teaser in 2020 suggests they have treated the IP with both respect and creative ambition. Fable is a fresh start for the series rather than a direct sequel — a bold reimagining of the fairytale land of Albion, rebuilt for current hardware with all the hallmarks the series has always promised: moral choice with real consequence, spectacular British humour, drama, action, and an extraordinary amount of the franchise’s most iconic element — chickens. The January 2026 Xbox Developer Direct delivered the first substantial in-game look, and it was exactly what fans had hoped: a world that feels alive, irreverent, and unmistakably Fable. With a confirmed Fall 2026 window across Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC, this is one of the most anticipated upcoming games of the year’s back half.

6. Halo: Campaign Evolved

Twenty-five years after Halo: Combat Evolved launched alongside the original Xbox, Master Chief’s legendary debut campaign is being rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5 — and for the first time in franchise history, it is coming to PlayStation 5. Halo: Campaign Evolved is developed by the newly rebranded Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) and represents both a celebration of the Halo franchise’s 25th anniversary and a deliberate new entry point for a generation of players who never experienced the original. The remake faithfully reconstructs all original missions with modernised visuals, remastered audio, re-recorded voice performances from the returning cast, and an arsenal expanded with nine additional weapons from across the Halo universe — including the iconic Energy Sword, playable in Combat Evolved for the first time. Three entirely new prequel missions featuring Master Chief and Sergeant Johnson add original story content. Up to four-player online co-op with full cross-platform play and cross-progression support is a landmark feature. Available free on day one for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers; a leaked datamine suggests a July 2026 release window.

7. Phantom Blade Zero

Since its explosive reveal at PlayStation’s State of Play, Phantom Blade Zero has become one of the most discussed upcoming games in the action RPG community — and for very good reason. Developed by S-GAME, a Chinese independent studio, Phantom Blade Zero is a wuxia action RPG set in a brutalist, biopunk reimagining of ancient Chinese mythology. You play as Soul, a legendary assassin falsely accused of killing the leader of a secret organisation who must navigate a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of a world where technology and mysticism have fused into something unlike anything the genre has produced. The combat system — described by the development team as targeting the “extreme limits of human reflexes” — prioritises speed, precision, and weapon variety to a degree that has drawn widespread comparisons to the best work in the genre. Extended gameplay footage has confirmed extraordinary visual quality and an enemy design vocabulary that is genuinely unlike anything seen in western game development. September 9, 2026 is a date every action RPG fan should have circled — this is among the most exciting upcoming games of 2026 from any studio, Eastern or Western.

8. The Blood of Dawnwalker

The Blood of Dawnwalker arrives carrying extraordinary pedigree: it is the debut title from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by former CD Projekt Red veterans who worked on The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 — two of the most acclaimed RPGs ever made. The influence is unmistakable in every trailer released so far, and the comparison to The Witcher 3 in particular is both inevitable and fair. You play as Coen, a half-vampire navigating a medieval European valley under the brutal, total control of a vampire overlord. The game’s central mechanic is its clock: Coen has precisely 30 days and 30 nights to save his family — and every action, quest, and decision costs time. This real-time narrative pressure creates a uniquely tense relationship with the game world, one where choices carry genuine consequences because you cannot do everything before the clock runs out. The dark fantasy aesthetic, meticulous world-building, and morally complex writing style all suggest a studio that deeply understands why The Witcher 3 worked — and is determined to build something worthy of that legacy.

9. Forza Horizon 6

Forza Horizon 5 set the series in Mexico and was, by almost universal critical consensus, the finest open-world racing game ever made. Forza Horizon 6 has the unenviable task of following that benchmark — and its answer is Japan. The Horizon Festival comes to the land of the rising sun in 2026, and the setting alone has generated enormous enthusiasm. Japan offers Playground Games a canvas of extraordinary contrast: precision-engineered highway systems and neon-drenched urban environments alongside ancient mountain roads, bamboo forests, volcanic terrain, and cherry-blossom-lined country lanes. The January 2026 Xbox Developer Direct provided the first extended gameplay look, showcasing a world that the studio claims will be one of the most detailed and visually dense environments it has ever produced. Japanese racing culture — from the legendary Wangan Midnight and Initial D traditions to the global GT racing legacy — will be integrated directly into the Horizon Festival’s identity. For racing game fans, Forza Horizon 6 is the most exciting upcoming game of 2026 by a comfortable margin, and its multiplatform release on PS5 means a huge new audience will experience the franchise for the first time.

10. Grand Theft Auto VI

There is no game in the history of this list — or arguably any list — that carries the cultural weight of Grand Theft Auto VI. The sequel to GTA V, a game that has sold over 200 million copies across 13 years of availability, GTA VI is set in a modern-day reimagining of Vice City and its surrounding state of Leonida. The defining feature confirmed in Rockstar’s trailers is the introduction of the franchise’s first female protagonist: Lucia, who shares the narrative with male co-lead Jason in a Bonnie-and-Clyde crime partnership that will form the emotional and narrative core of the campaign. The scale shown in trailer footage is extraordinary — a living, breathing Florida-inspired world with unprecedented population density, AI-driven NPC behaviour, and a level of environmental detail that makes GTA V look like a prototype. GTA VI launches on November 19, 2026 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with a PC release expected at a later date. Among all upcoming games of 2026 and 2027, this is the one that will define the era.

Final Thoughts: The Best Upcoming Games 2026/2027

The lineup of upcoming games 2026/2027 is genuinely historic. From the series-defining risk of Ciri stepping into The Witcher 4’s protagonist role to the once-unthinkable reality of Halo arriving on PlayStation, from Game Freak’s first original IP to the cultural juggernaut of GTA VI — the next two years of gaming will be discussed for decades. Gamers Guides will be covering every single one of these titles as they launch, with full reviews, settings guides, walkthroughs, and everything in between. Bookmark this page for updates, and make sure you never miss a release by Exploring all Gamers Guides game guides.

Check Out the Official Pages for These Upcoming Games 2026–2027

Want to wishlist, follow, or pre-order any of these upcoming games of 2026 and 2027 directly? Here are the official sources for every title on this list — the best places to stay up to date with trailers, release date announcements, and developer updates straight from the source: