20 Upcoming Games YOU NEED To Know About
Sifting all the upcoming games for the solid gold titles, hidden gems and diamonds in the rough.
Gamers delight: there is a veritable treasure trove of new games on the way from a wide range of developers. Everyone from major publishers to best-kept-secret indies have some pretty neat projects in the pipeline, but of course we are here to cut through the noise and get you acquainted with the most promising ones coming your way.
Already this year we have had the delights of Mafia: The Old Country, Borderlands 4, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+ 4 and Clair Obscure: Expedition 33, but there's still plenty more to come across both this year and next. And while Grand Theft Auto 6 has once again been pushed back, and who really knows if it will actually land in 2026, there are a whole bunch of other games that ought to be on your radar in the foreseeable future.
Amongst the upcoming releases, we've got a hellish survival game set in a lifelike supermarket, a dinosaur park builder, a dinosaur FPS, a deep-space horror with real Hollywood actors and the first James Bond video game in 13 years.
These are 20 games with great potential to knock us off our feet and keep us on the couch for months - and you really ought to know about them!
20. The Blood of Dawnwalker
An open-world action RPG from new studio Rebel Wolves, The Blood of Dawnwalker places itself in 14th-century Europe, offering players the chance to dive into the past in a gothic, vampire-infested story.
Touching down in the fictional 14th-century kingdom of Vale Sangora, somewhere in the Carpathian Mountains (where, funnily enough, Dracula’s castle is located), we take on the role of Coen, a Blade-like half-breed who is human by day and vampire by night. In an all-out fight to save Coen’s family from a ruling cabal of vampires and their overlord Brencis, the direction of the story, and whether things move towards the dark or the light, will be shaped by our actions and decisions at the helm.
The game draws heavily on Eastern European folklore, as well as the gothic tradition of Western Europe, and - if early trailers are anything to go by - makes best use of the talents of Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, director of The Witcher 3 and head of production for Cyberpunk 2077. This is Tomaszkiewicz’s first game since leaving CD Projekt in 2021, and with a 90-person team at his back, things are looking promising.
The game is scheduled to be released on the PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S in 2026.