Our Most Wanted Games of 2026 – #45 to #41

We’re nonetheless within the outer fringes of our Most Wanted Games of 2026, so you’ll be able to nonetheless count on slightly little bit of every part to seem. We’ve obtained indie takes on basic genres, we’ve obtained a little bit of musical resort renovation, sci-fi horror, and impressive multiplayer video games inside this crop of 5…. so what are we ready for?

45 – Mars Ways

PC – Might 2026

Who doesn’t love a little bit of turn-based techniques? The XCOM-alike Mars Tactics has a easy story, with Labor Revolutionaries trying to usurp the domineering Capital military, and there’s the standard forwards and backwards of this style… besides there’s additionally environmental destruction!

No good cowl inside strolling distance? Simply chuck a grenade to “dig” an entire. Enemies raining down first from a rooftop? How about you blow up half the constructing? And with a suppressing fireplace system as effectively, there’s loads of new and recent tactical choices to make the most of.

44 – There Are No Ghosts on the Grand

XSX|S, PC – 2026

Whereas it would begin off as a unusual resort renovation sport, There Are No Ghosts at the Grand quickly reveals its true colors, whipping up a narrative about unusual supernatural terrors that hang-out far more than simply the resort you’ve inherited.

There’s a stunning musical lilt to this as effectively, so story beats and cutscenes don’t simply play out in uncooked emotion, however as a substitute see characters breaking out into music, usually with a little bit of reggae, and with the flexibility to form the story via selecting a verse to your protagonist to answer with. I can’t wait!

Catch our preview of There Are No Ghosts at the Grand here.

43 – Directive 8020

PS5, XSX|S, PC – Q1 2026

The place Supermassive spun out the primary collection of The Darkish Footage anthology video games in speedy succession, the anticipate the brand new era of the studio’s horror video games is extending into 2026. But we’re nonetheless very eager to see how Directive 8020 comes collectively.

Directive 8020 additionally seems to be to be essentially the most formidable sport in Supermassive’s collection thus far, starring Lashana Lynch because the lead in a frantic battle for survival in opposition to an alien organism that is ready to mimic and disguise itself via the crew of a colony ship. The sport is de facto pushing Supermassive’s breed of horror into motion sport territory, the sci-fi setting, the tight third individual management and needing to stealthily sneak and evade the alien monster that’s looking you.

42 – Highguard

PS5, XSX|S, PC – twenty sixth January 2026

There’s some blended emotions on the market about Highguard, and I reckon that an terrible lot of it’s merely from the truth that a free-to-play mythic fantasy hero shooter was the sport that closed out The Game Awards final month with its reveal. Whenever you ideally need to save one of the best till final (particularly for the time zone struggling incurred on anybody exterior the Americas), this wasn’t it. However… if you point out that that is coming from a few of the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall? Nicely, that ought to be fairly intriguing, so why do people seem to want to see it fail? Not us!

So, what’s Highguard? Nicely, they themselves describe it as “a PvP raid shooter the place gamers will experience, battle, and raid as Wardens, arcane gunslingers despatched to battle for management of a legendary continent. There they’ll conflict in opposition to rival Warden crews for possession of the Shieldbreaker, then break into and destroy the enemy base to safe territory on this all-new breed of shooter.”

41 – Dragon Quest VII Reimagined

PS5, XSX|S, NSW2, NSW, PC – fifth February 2026

Sq. Enix know a factor or seventy-two about remastering their classics, and it seems like each remake and remaster takes a special strategy to the visuals and gameplay adjustments. Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is sitting someplace between the HD-2D remakes of the original Dragon Quest trilogy and the wholesale reinvention of Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy.

Probably the most placing issues right here is the artwork model, with Sq. Enix creating the entire characters as real-life dolls after which 3D scanning them into the sport to seize the look that they need. Nevertheless, there’s loads of different modernising touches, from removing the tiresome random battles, to full embracing celebration automation and battle velocity settings, after which there’s some elements of the story which might be being reconsidered too. Completely one to observe for traditional JRPG followers.

Would you wish to know extra? Catch our Dragon Quest VII Reimagined preview here.

One other 5 within the bag. We’re going to maintain issues rolling via the weekend, so count on 5 extra of our Most Wished video games of 2026 to be mentioned tomorrow!