🎮 14 Biggest Video Games Releasing Before End of 2026: Dates, Trailers & Where to Buy
This is the complete, regularly-updated release guide for 2026's biggest confirmed video games — from Active Matter and The Blood of the Dawnwalker in September, all the way through Grand Theft Auto VI in November. For each title you'll find the confirmed release date, genre, platforms, an official trailer, and a verified buy/pre-order link.
📋 Full Release Table
| Game | Release Date | Genre | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Matter | Early Access now Full launch 2026 |
Tactical FPS, Extraction Shooter | PC now; PS5 & Xbox planned |
| The Blood of the Dawnwalker | Sept 3, 2026 | Dark Fantasy Action RPG | PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S |
| Onimusha: Way of the Sword | Sept 4 (Switch 2) Sept 25 (rest) |
Action-Adventure, Swordplay | PS5, Xbox, Switch 2, PC |
| Marvel's Wolverine | Sept 15, 2026 | Action-Adventure | PlayStation 5 |
| Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave | Sept 17, 2026 | Tactical RPG | Nintendo Switch 2 |
| Dragon Quest XI S: Definitive Edition | Sept 24, 2026 | JRPG, Turn-Based | Nintendo Switch 2 |
| Silent Hill: Townfall | Sept 24, 2026 | Psychological Survival Horror | PC, PS5 |
| Control Resonant | Sept 24, 2026 | Paranatural Action RPG | PC, Mac, PS5, Xbox |
| Ghost of Yōtei: Complete Edition | Oct 1, 2026 | Open-World Action, Samurai | PlayStation 5 |
| Octopath Traveler I & II | Oct 1, 2026 | HD-2D JRPG | Nintendo Switch 2 |
| Gears of War: E-Day | Oct 6, 2026 | Third-Person Shooter, Horror | Xbox Series X|S, PC |
| Star Wars: Galactic Racer | Oct 6, 2026 | Arcade Racing | PS5, Xbox, PC |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Oct 23, 2026 | First-Person Shooter | PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch 2 |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | Nov 19, 2026 | Open-World Action-Adventure | PS5, Xbox Series X|S |
📺 Official Early Access Launch Trailer — Active Matter
🔫 Active Matter
Active Matter takes place across a fractured multiverse torn apart by a quantum catastrophe. Players are operatives trapped in a time loop, sent into quantum-unstable zones to harvest active matter and extract before each zone collapses. The game blends STALKER-style dread with Tarkov-style loot-and-extract gameplay, wrapped in an SCP-inspired setting.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Tactical FPS / Extraction Shooter (PvPvE, PvE, PvP)
- Developer: Matter Team (Publisher: Gaijin Entertainment)
- Status: Early Access on the Gaijin Store since September 2025; full Steam and console release planned for 2026
- Platforms: Windows PC now; PS5 and Xbox Series X|S planned
📺 Official Story Trailer — The Blood of the Dawnwalker
🧛 The Blood of the Dawnwalker
From Rebel Wolves — a studio of former Witcher 3 veterans led by ex-director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz — comes an open-world dark fantasy RPG set in an alternate 14th-century Europe. Playing as Coen, a half-human, half-vampire, players race against a countdown clock to save their family from the Vale Sangora's ruling vampire clan before dawn runs out.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Dark Fantasy, Action RPG, Open World
- Developer: Rebel Wolves (Publisher: Bandai Namco)
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
📺 Official Release Date Trailer — Onimusha: Way of the Sword
⚔️ Onimusha: Way of the Sword
The first mainline Onimusha game in 20 years. Set in Edo-era Kyoto — now shrouded in a malevolent supernatural Malice — players take on the role of young samurai Miyamoto Musashi, wielding the mystical Oni Gauntlet to battle demonic Genma.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Action-Adventure, Swordplay, Single-Player
- Developer: Capcom
- Release Date: (Switch 2) / September 25, 2026 (PS5, Xbox, PC)
- Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC
📺 Official Story Trailer — Marvel's Wolverine
🐾 Marvel's Wolverine
From Insomniac Games, the studio behind Marvel's Spider-Man, comes an original single-player take on Logan's adamantium-fueled rage. Wolverine unites with Jean Grey to protect vulnerable mutants, battling the Reavers and Team X across Madripoor, Canada, and Tokyo.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Action-Adventure, Single-Player, Narrative-Driven
- Developer: Insomniac Games
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PlayStation 5 only
📺 Release Date Reveal Gameplay Trailer — Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
🗡️ Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
Set in the same world as Fire Emblem: Three Houses, this eighteenth mainline entry follows one of four lead characters through a multi-route story built around tournament-style Heroic Games in the Dagdan Empire, rather than a classic linear chapter structure.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Tactical RPG
- Developer: Intelligent Systems (Nintendo)
- Release Date:
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive
🐉 Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition
Square Enix brings the acclaimed "S" version of Dragon Quest XI to Nintendo Switch 2, with sharper resolution and framerate. The Luminary sets out to uncover the truth behind a prophecy that brands him a harbinger of destruction, across the vast world of Erdrea.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: JRPG, Turn-Based
- Developer: Square Enix
- Release Date:
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2
📺 Official Trailer 4K — Silent Hill: Townfall
🌫️ Silent Hill: Townfall
Simon Ordell is called back to the island of St. Amelia to confront the town's terrors. Co-developed by No Code and Konami, this new entry pushes the psychological horror series into an original story separate from the classic Silent Hill town.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Psychological Survival Horror
- Developer: No Code (Publisher: Konami)
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5
📺 Official Story Trailer — Control Resonant
🌀 Control Resonant
The long-awaited sequel to Remedy Entertainment's cult-classic Control. Players step into Dylan Faden — brother of original protagonist Jesse — as paranatural forces warp Manhattan's architecture and reality itself.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Paranatural Action RPG, Single-Player
- Developer: Remedy Entertainment
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PC, Mac, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
👻 Ghost of Yōtei: Complete Edition
Arriving on Ghost of Yōtei's first anniversary, the Complete Edition bundles the base game and the Legends multiplayer mode with a brand-new narrative expansion, Echoes of Sekigahara, and a roguelike survival mode called Most Wanted, as Atsu confronts a figure from her past.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Open-World Action, Samurai
- Developer: Sucker Punch Productions (Publisher: PlayStation Studios)
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PlayStation 5
📺 Official Release Date Trailer — Octopath Traveler I & II
🗺️ Octopath Traveler I & II
Square Enix's acclaimed HD-2D RPG series — over 7 million copies sold worldwide — comes to Nintendo Switch 2 with improved resolution and frame rate. Choose from eight travelers across the worlds of Orsterra and Solistia.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: HD-2D JRPG, Turn-Based
- Developer: Square Enix
- Release Date:
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2 (also on Switch, PC, PS4/5, Xbox)
📺 Official Gameplay Trailer — Gears of War: E-Day
🔫 Gears of War: E-Day
Fourteen years before the original Gears of War, a younger Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago face the first eruption of the Locust Horde on Emergence Day. Built from scratch with a darker, grittier tone.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Third-Person Shooter, Horror, Co-op
- Developer: The Coalition
- Release Date:
- Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, Steam
📺 Official Story Trailer — Star Wars: Galactic Racer
🏎️ Star Wars: Galactic Racer
A high-stakes reinvention of Star Wars podracing, set in the unsanctioned Galactic League born in the lawless Outer Rim. Players follow rookie racer Shade, competing across podracers, land speeders, and skim speeders.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Arcade Racing, Single-Player Campaign + Multiplayer
- Developer: Fuse Games
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
📺 Official Reveal Trailer — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
🔫 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
North Korea launches a full-scale invasion of the Korean Peninsula while a vengeful Captain Price wages a personal war from the shadows. Developed by Infinity Ward, the campaign spans trench warfare in Korea, close-quarters combat in New York, and SAS night raids in Mumbai, alongside a new DMZ extraction mode.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: First-Person Shooter, Campaign + Multiplayer + DMZ
- Developer: Infinity Ward
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2
📺 Official Trailer 2 — Grand Theft Auto VI
💥 Grand Theft Auto VI
Vice City, USA. Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the American Dream in Rockstar's most ambitious open world yet.
🎬 Key Details
- Genre: Open-World Action-Adventure
- Developer: Rockstar Games
- Release Date:
- Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S (PC version not yet dated)
🕓 More Confirmed 2026 Titles (No Trailer Yet Embedded)
- Phantom Blade Zero — Oct 29, 2026 (PC, PS5)
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV — Dec 3, 2026 (PC) (delayed from Sept 17)
- Trine 6: Together in Time — Sept 17, 2026 (Multi-platform)
- Dune: Awakening (console version) — Sept 22, 2026 (PS5, Xbox)
- Metaphor: Refantazio (Switch 2 Edition) — Nov 12, 2026
- Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World — Dec 3, 2026 (PS5, Switch, Switch 2)
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Switch 2 Edition — Dec 3, 2026
❓ Titles Targeted for 2026 (No Fixed Date Yet)
007: First Light, Nioh 3, Fable, The Duskbloods, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, Pokémon Pokopia, Squadron 42, The Wolf Among Us Remastered, Mortal Shell 2, Turok Origins, Perfect Dark, Enter the Gungeon 2, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis — all officially targeted for 2026, but without confirmed release dates as of this writing.