20 Upcoming Video Games That Could Be Surprise Hits

Mouse: P.I. for Hire isn't the only Cuphead-spiced game due to release next year - there's also the cartoony action roguelike Into the Unwell.

Either solo or with up to two friends, you take control of a misfit who attempts to battle their way through the grim Unwell - a nightmarish land populated with surreal sights and strange enemies.

The cartoonish art style is accentuated by an immediately attention-grabbing level of animated slapstick during combat, and to further sweeten the deal, the game's arsenal of weaponry includes - get this - giant ice creams and lobotomised lollipops.

In the roguelike tradition you'll unlock new characters and upgrades throughout the game, helping make you ever-more prepared to take down tricky bosses.

Roguelikes are another genre that's just wildly overpopulated in this day and age, so any game that's trying to do something different with the genre's well-trod formula is most certainly welcome. Lashings of dark humour probably won't hurt either.

Into the Unwell releases TBA 2026.