Most anticipated games of 2026 for Xbox Series X/S

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world

November 19, 2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.1/10

The continuation of the iconic game series from Rockstar, GTA 6, brings players back to the beloved Vice City — a sunny metropolis by the ocean, where a real action...

2. Gothic 1 Remake

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

June 5, 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.1/10

A remake of the cult role-playing game Gothic. Development of the game began after the success of Gothic Playable Teaser. The game takes place in a gloomy world...

3. Pioner

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Online, MMO, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game

November 4, 2025

Players: 6.1/10

The MMOFPS Pioner will throw players onto an island that has survived a technological disaster. They will have to survive by avoiding dangerous anomalies, fighting...

4. The Wolf Among Us 2

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Comics, Interactive movie

2026

Anticipation Rating: 7.6/10

The second season of Telltale Games' episodic adventure based on the Fables comic book series. The action takes place six months after the events of the first...

5. ILL

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.6/10

A dark and realistic action horror where survival turns into a real test. The game takes place in an abandoned research fort, where every corridor is fraught with...

6. State of Decay 3

Online, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies

2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.5/10

A game about survival in an open world where many years ago a zombie apocalypse almost wiped people off the face of the Earth. Zombies still threaten humanity, and...

7. Battlefield: Bad Company 3

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Combat robots, Tactics

2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.4/10

Battlefield: Bad Company 3 is a continuation of the dynamic first-person shooter. The game will touch upon several important world events, including the Vietnam War...

8. Titan Quest 2

Role-playing game, Action, Online, Isometric, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Open world

August 1, 2025

Players: 8.2/10

The events of the second part, like the original game, will unfold in Ancient Greece. The goddess of retribution Nemesis lost her mind and began to infect the...

9. World of Tanks: HEAT

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Historical, Tanks, Free game

2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.5/10

Online simulator from the creators of World of Tanks, where players control tanks in battles on various maps. The events unfold during the Cold War. The game...

10. Spine - This is Gun Fu

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Beat them all, Indie

2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.7/10

Cyberpunk gun-fu action with parkour. The main action takes place in the near future, in which the Tensor corporation, with the help of artificial intelligence, has...

11. Max Payne Remake

Adventure, Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.9/10

Max Payne Remake is a remake of legendary kinematographic actiones with a third -person view max Payne and max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne from the creators of...

12. ArcheAge Chronicles

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Free game, Fantasy

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

ArcheAge 2 is a continuation of the multiplayer action role-playing game with an open world and a third-person view in a fantasy universe. The game will take place...

13. Subnautica 2

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting

May 14, 2026

Players: 8.7/10

The continuation of the popular survival simulator, the events of which unfold on a new planet. After the failure of a colonization mission, the survivors must...

14. IGI: Origins

Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Tactics

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.6/10

IGI: Origins is a sequel to the popular first-person tactical shooter in the I.G.I. series, which takes you to an alternate reality 1980s during the Cold War. The...

15. Chrono Odyssey

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Open world, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.5/10

The plot centers around a powerful artifact called the Chronotector, which has the ability to warp space and time at the will of its owner. With its help, the hero...

16. Nobody's Left

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

The main action takes place in a post-war, post-apocalyptic city, in which people are forced to survive in the most difficult conditions. There is lawlessness and...

17. BitCraft Online

Role-playing game, Adventure, Online, MMO, Third-person view

June 21, 2025

Multiplayer role-playing sandbox, similar to a mix of Minecraft and Genshin Impact. The game takes place in a vast, fully editable procedurally generated...

18. skate.

Arcade, Third-person view, Sports game, Skateboards, Free game

September 16, 2025

Players: 4.2/10

The long-awaited return of the skateboarding series, now in the form of a dynamic multiplayer game. The action takes place in the fictional city of San Vansterdam...

19. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Comics

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.9/10

Role-playing action based on the comic book "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin." The game takes place in a dystopian future where only one turtle is left...

20. Control Resonant

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Mysticism / Supernatural

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.5/10

The main character, Dylan Faden, who spent many years in isolation within the Federal Bureau of Control, finds himself at the center of a new supernatural crisis...

21. 007 First Light

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view

May 27, 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.2/10

The game takes you into a reimagined story of the formation of James Bond - a young Navy pilot who, after a heroic act, receives an invitation to join the "00...

22. Alkahest

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

Adventure action inspired by Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Dishonored , and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The game tells the story of the son of a minor lord...

23. Project M

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.7/10

Project M is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. Initially, the project was developed for mobile devices, but in the end the...

24. Soulframe

Action, Online, MMO, Slasher, Third-person view, Free game, Fantasy

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.3/10

Free-to-play online action game from the creators of Warframe. The main focus of the game is on melee combat, which is much slower and "heavier" than its...

25. SAND: Raiders of Sophie

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Steampunk, Open world

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.2/10

The game takes place in an alternate world where the Austro-Hungarian Empire discovered interplanetary travel. The characters in the game are the inhabitants of...

26. The Lost Wild

Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Survival, Exploration

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.5/10

The Lost Wild is a survival horror adventure about dinosaurs with a first-person view. The plot follows a researcher who finds himself in an abandoned research...

27. Path of Exile 2

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy

December 6, 2024

Players: 7.3/10

Continuation of the "Diablo-like" role-playing game with a new story campaign, divided into seven acts. The action takes place 20 years after the events of the...

28. The Blood of Dawnwalker

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Open world, Fantasy

September 3, 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.7/10

The action takes place in the 14th century, during a time of plague, famine and chaos. The world of the game is on the verge of collapse, and a new order is already...

29. Instinction

Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9/10

The game takes place on the mysterious Yucatan Peninsula, where dinosaurs live side by side with people. Environmental adventurer Isabelle sets out to explore...

30. Cinder City

Action, Shooter, Online, MMO, Third-person view, Open world

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.7/10

Project LLL is a dynamic online third-person shooter in a sci-fi setting similar to Tom Clancy's The Division. The developers put the main emphasis on a unique...

31. Off The Grid

Action, Shooter, Online, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Free game, Battle Royale

October 8, 2024

Players: 5.2/10

The game takes place in a dystopian future where the world is controlled by powerful corporations and technology rules people's lives. The main feature is the...

32. Little Devil Inside

Action, Adventure, Simulation, Third-person view

2026

Anticipation Rating: 7.2/10

An adventurer-traveler sets out to conquer a dangerous open world, in which the main dangers are weather and bloodthirsty monsters. If the main character dies for...

33. MUDANG: Two Hearts

Action, Third-person view, Stealth, Adventure

2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

The game takes place in the near future. South and North Korea are on the path to unification, but a sudden attack by a terrorist group plunges the entire country...

34. Enshrouded

Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting

January 24, 2024

Players: 8.4/10

The main character is Born of Flame, the last hope of a dying race. In a bloody struggle for power, the ancestors caused a plague that consumed the world and...

35. ExeKiller

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.2/10

An adventure shooter made in the style of a retrofuturistic western. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where 20 years ago a horrific disaster...

36. Gears of War: E-Day

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

The events of the game unfold fourteen years before the events of the first Gears of War. The plot begins on E-Day, when ruthless monsters emerged from...

37. Tormentor

Action, Horror, Stealth, Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.4/10

Tormentor is a streamer-torturer simulator who torments his victims on camera and gets money for it from the creators of Agony. The main character, a...

38. Retrieval

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Science fiction

2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Hana Loshe is the commander of an exploration team on a planet 18.6 billion miles from Earth. The heroine accidentally ends up in an underground base, where she...

39. My Time at Evershine

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Open world, Crafting

2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.8/10

Continuation of My Time at Portia and My Time at Sandrock. The events of the game unfold 330 years after a catastrophe that destroyed civilization. The player...

40. Project: The Perceiver

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world

2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Project: The Perceiver — a high-budget action game in the spirit of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Ghost of Tsushima. The story is dedicated to three characters...