Game Watchlist

• OWN

  The Witcher 3 — Remastered

  29 Sep 2026T-12 daysFree remaster of a game already owned on PS5. Visual and performance work, but the relevant part is the combat pass — enhanced combat, reworked signs, a skill tree revamp, improved traversal and new finishers.Fitnothing blockingPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Owned elsewhere

  Buy when

  Nothing to decide, it costs nothing. The reason to care is that combat was the friction the first time round; this is a free second attempt at the game with that specific thing rebuilt, and a direct read on how Dawnwalker will feel.

  Window

  Free upgrade for existing owners; the PS5 copy already qualifies

  Lanes

  Solo ARPG and dark fantasy

  Studio

  CD Projekt Red with Yigsoft

  Evidence

  The Witcher 3

  Source

  Checked against cdprojektred on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past

  2027~12-month windowPaid expansion for The Witcher 3, first new content since Blood and Wine. A new region, Letten, pitched as rural idyll over something much worse.FitRelease dateRemaster combatPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Downstream of the remaster. Play the free combat rework first — if the game finally feels good to fight in, this is an easy buy on the strength of Blood and Wine; if it does not, no expansion fixes that.

  Lanes

  Solo ARPG and dark fantasy

  Studio

  CD Projekt Red with Fool's Theory

  Evidence

  The Witcher 3

  Source

  Checked against cdprojektred on 2026-09-17. Check →

• OWN

  No Rest for the Wicked

  Mar 2027T-6 monthsPrecision ARPG / Souls-like. A slower, more tactile complement to Diablo IV rather than a replacement for it.FitPriceCross-savePS5 performance modePS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Owned elsewhere

  Buy when

  Does a second copy buy anything beyond Steam ownership? Check PS5 price, performance mode, and whether cross-save carries progress. A Steam Machine would answer this by removing the question — the copy already owned becomes playable on a TV — so if one is close, there is a good case for simply waiting rather than buying twice. Jan 2027 is when this gets answerable: pre-orders opening puts a price on it.

  Window

  PS5 version; already owned on Steam. Moon Studios delayed 1.0 out of Oct 2026 on 2026-09-01 — a month, not a day. PS5 pre-orders open Jan 2027 with a Founders Pack; Xbox and Switch 2 follow later

  Lanes

  Solo ARPG and dark fantasy

  Studio

  Moon Studios

  Evidence

  Diablo IV · No Rest for the Wicked (Steam)

  Source

  Checked against moon-studios on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Cinder City

  TBAunscheduledOpen-world third-person MMO tactical shooter in a ruined near-future Seoul. Solo missions plus co-op PvE, dungeons, bosses, raids. Not a dialogue RPG.FitRelease dateReviewsSolo viabilityController feelPS5 unconfirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  The monetization question is answered: buy-to-play at an undisclosed price, with a cosmetic store and a battle pass after launch — a shape to judge, not a blocker any more. What is left is whether solo missions stay viable, whether PvE keeps rewarding without raiding, and how it feels on a controller, none of which a PC alpha will settle.

  Window

  The H2 2026 window is gone, and NC took it off themselves. In a 8 Sep 2026 interview, NC America's Daniel Lafuente and BigFire CEO Jae-hyun Bae say the launch is PC first with "console versions introduced later", that the alpha is targeted for Q4 2026 with a beta after it, and that no launch date for PC or console was disclosed. An alpha cannot sit inside the launch window it precedes, so the bar comes off rather than being redrawn — and PS5, still never named, is now explicitly behind PC by an unstated amount. Checked 2026-08-28 against NCSOFT's own Korean announcement and the Korean PlayStation Store, which had no listing under 신더시티 or Cinder City

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities

  Studio

  BigFire Games

  Evidence

  World of Warcraft · Tom Clancy's The Division 2 · Ghost Recon Wildlands & Breakpoint · Anthem

  Source

  Checked against ncsoft on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Forza Horizon 6

  Late 2026~4-month windowOpen-world racing. Filed for a long time as a palate cleanser between RPGs, which 278 hours in Gran Turismo 7 does not support — driving is a lane of its own here, and this is the arcade end of it. Forza Horizon 5 ran long on Xbox and its PS5 port was passed over on purpose to wait for this one, so the interest is already proven.FitRelease datePS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  No real risk beyond price. Waiting on a PS5 date; buy at launch or on the first sale, whichever comes first.

  Window

  Still just "later in 2026", and now restated: Playground's own Series 5 update on 7 Sep 2026 tells PlayStation players to stay tuned for the trip to Discover Japan, and the PlayStation Store page is live for wishlisting with the release date listed as to be determined. That is Microsoft re-committing to the year and settling the 2027-slip rumours, but it is still not a day. Tom Warren's expectation that it would not make 2026 now runs against the developer's own word; the autumn date and mid-September showcase going around remain SEO blogs with no Microsoft behind them. No window is drawn from any of it. Absent from the 17 Sep 2026 Xbox Tokyo Game Show broadcast — Xbox Wire's recap lists seventeen titles and none is Forza — and no other platform showcase sits on the TGS schedule before it closes on 21 Sep. Watched twice a week through September 2026.

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Playground Games

  Evidence

  Forza Horizon 5 · Gran Turismo 7 & Sport · The Crew Motorfest

  Source

  Checked against forza.net on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Falling Frontier

  2026~4-month windowHard sci-fi RTS where recon and logistics decide the fight rather than unit counts: designed warships, a procedurally generated star system, supply lines to cut and sensor shadows to sit in. PC Gamer's shorthand is The Expanse, which is the right register — a contact is a LiDAR smudge until it closes.FitPS5 versionRelease dateController feelPC only so far

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  PC-only, so the same route question as Light No Fire: GeForce Now works today and a Steam Machine would settle it outright. Then whether an RTS this detailed is playable on a pad at all, which is the harder half. Nothing to decide until a date or the demo shows up.

  Window

  The only date anyone has given is the developer's own 5 Nov 2025 post — "Falling Frontier's release has shifted to 2026" — and no month has been named since; the March 2026 dev update is combat design and the promised demo has not appeared. Steam still says "Coming soon". Hooded Horse frames the 2026 launch as early access on Steam, Epic and GOG. Window is the rest of the year the developer named, nothing narrower.

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Stutter Fox Studios

  Evidence

  Satisfactory · Elite Dangerous

  Source

  Checked against stutter-fox on 2026-09-17. Check →

• BUY

  Star Birds

  Q1 2027~3-month windowRelaxing factory builder from the Dorfromantik studio with kurzgesagt on the art: mine asteroids, wire up production chains, move the crew on to the next star system. Level-based and deliberately gentle rather than open-ended — the Satisfactory loop with the pressure taken out.FitEarly accessPS5 expected

  Decision

  Likely purchase

  Buy when

  Bought for the look, not the genre: the kurzgesagt universe is the reason, and it gets bought whether or not it holds a hundred hours, which is exactly why the fit stays at 2 and the commitment does not follow it. The only open question is when — it is playable today, so buy into early access on PC and Mac or wait for the 1.0 content. Toukana now plan PS5 for that 1.0, if everything goes to plan, so waiting may also settle the platform.

  Window

  Already out — early access since 10 Sep 2025 — so the window is 1.0, not the release. Toukana have settled their own disagreement: the presskit's "late 2026" now reads "The Full Release is planned for Q1/2027!", matching the 19 Aug 2026 Steam roadmap ("Star Birds Full Release: Q1 2027") and the early access FAQ's 16-18 months. Both also name consoles for the first time — "If everything goes according to plan, the 1.0 release will bring Star Birds to Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S" — hedged, and with no PlayStation Store listing yet, so PS5 is expected rather than confirmed.

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Toukana Interactive

  Evidence

  Satisfactory

  Source

  Checked against toukana on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

  Vault23 Oct 2026T-36 daysMilitary shooter, and the only one on the list. The campaign is the part that fits — Price and a South Korean lead, scripted set pieces across Korea, New York, Paris and Mumbai, and it is over in a weekend. The other two thirds of the box are 6v6 multiplayer and DMZ, an extraction mode, which is the shape you already bounced off in Arc Raiders.FitDifficulty tuningCampaign reviewsPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  The Battlefield 6 experiment is moot — you played the MW4 campaign beta itself, which is first-hand evidence where that was only a proxy. The finding cuts at the one part of this box that fits: parts of it were fun, but you died a lot, on the easiest setting. A campaign pitched as over in a weekend does not survive being that punishing. Still a watch rather than a drop, on two open questions — whether the launch build retunes the difficulty, and whether reviews say it stays fun past the opening. Vault remains the wrong edition regardless: the $30 over standard is operator skins, weapon blueprints, a BlackCell pass and a DMZ bonus, none of which touch the campaign.

  Lanes

  Focused stylish action

  Studio

  Infinity Ward

  Evidence

  Battlefield 6 · Battlefield: Bad Company 1 & 2 · Arc Raiders

  Source

  Checked against playstation-store on 2026-09-17. Check →

• PRE

  Grand Theft Auto VI

  Ultimate19 Nov 2026T-63 daysLarge-scale open-world modern crime sandbox and story experience.Fitnothing blockingPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Preordered

  Buy when

  Nothing to decide — preordered and dated. The only thing left to watch for is a delay announcement.

  Window

  All platforms. Ultimate Edition preordered on PS5.

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Rockstar Games

  Evidence

  Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey & Valhalla

  Source

  Checked against rockstar on 2026-09-17. Check →

• TRY

  Ananta

  15 Jan 2027T-4 monthsFree-to-play urban open-world anime action RPG. Free entry makes this a try, not a purchase decision.Fitnothing blockingPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Sample, do not preorder

  Buy when

  Install it, play a few hours, decide from there. Do not preorder anything.

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities

  Studio

  Naked Rain

  Source

  Checked against netease on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Fable

  23 Feb 2027T-5 monthsPlayground Games' open-world fantasy action RPG reboot. Big world and a lighter, more whimsical tone than the dark-fantasy lane.FitReviewsPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Platform and date are settled, so the only open question is whether it is good. Wait for reviews and hands-on coverage of the open world and combat.

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Playground Games

  Evidence

  Assassin's Creed Origins, Odyssey & Valhalla

  Source

  Checked against xbox on 2026-09-17. Check →

• BUY

  Exodus

  7 Apr 2027T-7 monthsOriginal space-opera action RPG. Companions, romance, hard choices, and time dilation that changes the lives of the people you left behind.Fitnothing blockingPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Likely purchase

  Buy when

  Decided — buy on sight. Nothing left to evaluate; 7 Apr 2027 is firm, so the only question is preorder or day one. Check PS5 performance at launch either way.

  Lanes

  Mass Effect-shaped sci-fi

  Studio

  Archetype Entertainment

  Evidence

  Mass Effect 2 & 3

  Source

  Checked against archetype on 2026-09-17. Check →

• BUY

  The Expanse: Osiris Reborn

  Spring 2027~4-month windowThird-person squad action RPG. Ship crew, companions, romances, cover shooting, faction choices, grounded political sci-fi. The closest Mass Effect-shaped prospect on the list.FitRelease datePS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Likely purchase

  Buy when

  Watch for a firm date, PS5 performance, and confirmation that squad gameplay and companion writing are real systems rather than cutscene dressing.

  Lanes

  Mass Effect-shaped sci-fi

  Studio

  Owlcat Games

  Evidence

  Mass Effect 2 & 3

  Source

  Checked against owlcat on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  SPINE

  Summer 2027~3-month windowSingle-player cyberpunk gun-fu campaign — John Wick by way of Sifu. Focused and linear, not an open-world RPG.FitCombat depthCampaign varietyPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Does the combat have enough depth to carry a full campaign, or is it one spectacular loop repeated? Wait for extended unedited play.

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities · Focused stylish action

  Studio

  Nekki

  Source

  Checked against nekki on 2026-09-17. Check →

• BUY

  WARLOCK: Dungeons & Dragons

  2027~12-month windowThird-person dark-fantasy open-world action adventure. Weapons plus pact magic — the clearest gish / Magus fantasy on the list.Fitnothing blockingPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Likely purchase

  Buy when

  Decided on the trailer alone, and the enthusiasm is real — the gish / pact-magic fantasy is exactly the pitch and nothing else on the list is aiming at it. The gameplay now exists — an eight-minute reveal at gamescom Opening Night Live on 26 Aug 2026, showing the magic used for combat, traversal and puzzles in Ravenloft's Darkon — but it is still one showing, with a year of development to run. Buy on sight if it ships as pitched. If the design shifts substantially this goes back to undecided rather than staying a buy, which is the risk a trailer-only decision carries.

  Lanes

  Solo ARPG and dark fantasy

  Studio

  Invoke Studios

  Source

  Checked against invoke-studios on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  No Law

  2027~12-month windowCyber-noir first-person shooter/RPG with immersive-sim ambitions. Likely smaller and denser than Night City, which is not necessarily a downgrade.FitScopePS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Wait for unedited gameplay, real dialogue and choice depth, controller responsiveness, and a confirmed scope before preordering.

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities

  Studio

  Neon Giant

  Evidence

  Cyberpunk 2077 · Deus Ex series

  Source

  Checked against krafton on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Tides of Annihilation

  TBAunscheduledCinematic Arthurian dark-fantasy action adventure with a strong visual pitch.FitRelease datePS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Strong trailers, unproven moment-to-moment combat. Wait for hands-on coverage.

  Window

  Still no announced date. A developer roundtable has called 2026 tentative, but that is not an announcement and no window is drawn from it

  Lanes

  Solo ARPG and dark fantasy · Focused stylish action

  Studio

  Eclipse Glow Games

  Source

  Checked against wikipedia on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Metro 2039

  4 Feb 2027T-5 monthsStory-led post-apocalyptic first-person shooter.FitReviewsPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Dated and shown: 4 Feb 2027, with ray tracing on base PS5 rather than Pro only, which is the part that matters — a 60fps performance mode is there too, but the quality mode is the one that will get played. 4A confirm a solo, story-driven FPS, so nothing here rides on multiplayer. Series pedigree carries most of the case and reviews carry the rest; preorders open later this year and there is no reason to be early.

  Window

  Dated at the 3 Sep 2026 State of Play alongside the first console gameplay. 5 Feb in some territories including Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Wishlisting is live on PlayStation Store; preorders open later in 2026

  Lanes

  Focused stylish action

  Studio

  4A Games

  Source

  Checked against playstation-blog on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  ZOOPUNK

  TBAunscheduledThird-person action RPG from TiGames, a prequel to F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch. Torch City on the brink of revolution, three playable animal leads with fighting styles built off their species, and the studio's usual very strong art direction. The Xbox Store listing calls it team-based co-op PvE and rates it for online co-op of two to four.FitRelease dateRPG systemsSolo viabilityPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  F.I.S.T. was a metroidvania and TiGames say this one deliberately is not — so the open question is whether "action RPG" means real progression and build depth or just a combo tree. The co-op listing cuts both ways and nothing has said which: two to four players is the Division 2 shape if it plays solo and a party requirement if it does not. Wait for a date and for hands-on coverage that answers both.

  Window

  Revealed Nov 2025, shown again at Gamescom ONL on 25 Aug 2026, still undated. Aggregators list 2027 and none of them sources it: TiGames' own Gamescom press release says only that it "will launch on PC and console, with additional details set to be announced in the near future", the Xbox Store listing shows no release date, and there is no Steam page at all — it cannot be wishlisted there. PS5 is confirmed on the developer's own reveal announcement, which named the platform and no year

  Lanes

  Focused stylish action

  Studio

  TiGames

  Source

  Checked against tigames on 2026-09-17. Check →

• BUY

  Dust: Origins

  Early 2027~4-month windowJoe Madureira / Airship Syndicate original dark sci-fi action-horror and prison escape. The art direction alone puts it in range.Fitnothing blockingPS5 unconfirmed

  Decision

  Likely purchase

  Buy when

  Madureira's line is the whole reason, so gameplay footage stopped being a gate and the decision is not waiting on anything. What is still open is where: Steam-first with no console named, so a PS5 version if one lands and the Steam Machine route if it does not.

  Window

  PC via Steam, early 2027, announced with the Kickstarter in Aug 2026. Rechecked 2026-09-10: the Steam page still lists the release date as "To be announced" and the official site names no date at all, so early 2027 is the campaign's claim rather than the store's. No console version has been named

  Lanes

  Focused stylish action

  Studio

  Airship Syndicate

  Source

  Checked against airship-syndicate on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Light No Fire

  TBAunscheduledHello Games fantasy exploration, survival, building, and multiplayer. The long-horizon survival game.FitPS5 versionRelease datePC only so far

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Long-range watch — no window, and Hello Games have only ever said PC. "PS5 version" may not be the real blocker. A Steam Machine would settle it outright, and even GeForce Now is a route, but both need the controller setup sorted first — this is a survival-builder with hundreds of hours in it, which is the wrong place to discover the input never felt right.

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Hello Games

  Evidence

  No Man's Sky

  Source

  Checked against hello-games on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  C-Beams

  TBAunscheduledTop-down space action RPG set in a black hole system mid-gold-rush: newtonian flight with retro burns, silent drifting and thruster work, sub-system targeting in the firefights, and a choice of mining, hauling, trading or shooting your way up the faction ladder. Singleplayer, and the ship handling is the game rather than a layer over it.FitPS5 versionRelease dateEarly accessPC only so far

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  The closest thing announced to the loop Elite Dangerous already proved here, so the interest is not the question — the route is. PC-only with no date and early access behind that, which is two gates before a decision is even available. Watch for a window; the flight model is the thing to judge when one appears.

  Window

  Hooded Horse picked up publishing on 26 May 2026 and named no year with it — early access on Steam and Epic, PC, Steam Deck and Linux, and Steam still says "Coming soon". First shown in 2024 and in development since, so the silence is not new. No date announced is the finding; no bar is drawn from it.

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Distant Light Games

  Evidence

  Elite Dangerous

  Source

  Checked against hooded-horse on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  NEO BERLIN 2087

  2028~12-month windowFirst-/third-person cyberpunk action RPG and detective thriller. Long-range watch.FitScopeGameplay footagePS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Same bar as No Law — unedited gameplay, real choice depth, confirmed scope. Far enough out that nothing needs deciding yet.

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities

  Studio

  Elysium Game Studio

  Source

  Checked against gematsu on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

  TBAunscheduledThird-person sci-fi action adventure, and Naughty Dog's first new property since The Last of Us. Solo bounty hunter stranded on a lost planet, retro-futurist art direction, campaign-length rather than open world.FitRelease dateGameplay footagePS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  One cinematic reveal in December 2024 and nothing since — no gameplay has ever been shown, and the 3 Sep 2026 State of Play passed without it. What Naughty Dog has confirmed finished is the cinematic shoot, which is the half of a Naughty Dog game nobody doubts; the half this row is blocked on has still never been seen moving. That is what holds it at 3: the pull is real, but there is no Naughty Dog game anywhere in Reference to say this shape of game lands here. Leaks describe a demanding, Souls-adjacent fight system, which would be the deciding question given the Witcher 3 lesson — but that is the same insider sourcing the mid-2027 date is rejected for, so it is something to watch for rather than something known. Wait for real footage.

  Window

  No window has ever been announced. Naughty Dog says only "currently in development for the PlayStation 5 console" and Sony's own product page lists the release date as "To be confirmed". Naughty Dog's official X account said on 1 Sep 2026 that the cinematic shoot has wrapped — first-party and dated, but a production milestone is not a date, so no bar is drawn from it. The widely repeated mid-2027 is an insider report, and the late-2027 variant is that wrap measured against The Last of Us Part II's mocap-to-release gap — arithmetic on someone else's schedule, not an announcement

  Lanes

  Focused stylish action

  Studio

  Naughty Dog

  Source

  Checked against naughty-dog on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Horizon Hunters Gathering

  TBAunscheduledThree-player co-op action in the Horizon world, built by Guerrilla themselves. A roster of fixed Hunters rather than Aloy, roguelite perks and builds, wave-survival and multi-stage mission modes, cross-play and cross-progression with PC, and a stylised cartoon look rather than the mainline games' realism.FitProject statusSolo viabilityMonetizationPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Nothing to decide before December, when the reported review either produces a game or does not. The loop is not the doubt — co-op PvE with builds has five votes in Reference. Whether it survives the reboot, plays solo, and what "in-game purchases" means afterwards all are. It sits at 3 because both halves have a counter-example on file: Anthem's 266 hours ended when the studio walked away, and Horizon is the entry for a known quantity losing to a new thing — the PS5 re-release and Forbidden West both owned, both at zero.

  Window

  Announced 5 Feb 2026 with no date, and there still is not one. Bloomberg, 19 Aug 2026: Guerrilla has been rebooting it since June into a smaller co-op game with a story mode, with December the deadline to convince executives — a report, not a Guerrilla statement, so no window is drawn from it

  Lanes

  Focused stylish action

  Studio

  Guerrilla Games

  Evidence

  Horizon Zero Dawn · Destiny 2 · Anthem

  Source

  Checked against playstation-store on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Alien Deathstorm

  Spring 2027~4-month windowFirst-person action horror on an off-world colony overrun by aliens and torn apart by a mega-storm. You play the engineer, solo or in two-player co-op. Rebellion's own IP, not the Alien licence, despite looking exactly like one.FitReviewsCampaign lengthPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Already wishlisted, so the store will surface the date. Rebellion have been consistent about the genre — "action horror", "countless lurking horrors in a desperate fight for survival" — so that is the description of record. The Gamescom build showed the action half, a bug hunt in the Aliens mould rather than Alien's, but that is one mission they chose to show. Aliens being an all-time favourite is most of why this is a 4; Aliens: Dark Descent, bought and never started, is why reviews come before a preorder.

  Window

  Rebellion's own newsroom, 26 Aug 2026: it "launches in Spring 2027", PS5 included. Mar–Jun, not Q2 — "spring" is the word they used. Their Steam page still reads "To be announced", a stale listing rather than a competing claim

  Lanes

  Focused stylish action

  Studio

  Rebellion

  Source

  Checked against rebellion-news on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  Fragmentary Order

  TBAunscheduledHardcore sci-fi multiplayer shooter from Rant Gaming, led by Escape from Tarkov's Nikita Buyanov, who says it is unrelated to Tarkov or BSG. You remote-pilot a cloned body on contracts for the megacorp Core across a 2251 solar system, banking credits and faction reputation while trying to get out alive.FitPS5 versionSolo viabilityRelease datePC only so far

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  The setting is squarely in range and the loop is squarely not — this is the Arc Raiders objection with better art direction, which is what holds it at 2. The developers say it is "not strictly" an extraction shooter, and that is the one thing that could move it: a co-op PvE route with the PvP declinable is the Division 2 shape, and would change the score outright. The September deep dive is where that gets answered on paper — Off The Grid is where it gets answered for free, on a PS5, before this one ever needs a decision. PC-only either way, so a Steam Machine or GeForce Now is the route rather than a PS5 version.

  Window

  Announced 12 Apr 2026 with a CGI lore trailer; nobody has named a date since. The official site titles itself a combat simulator "on PC" and names no console anywhere, and neither did the September 2026 gameplay reveal. A full gameplay deep dive was promised for later in September 2026. Cor3 is the publisher, and cor3.gg is both the in-fiction megacorp's terminal and the sign-up: a Prime Batch rank ladder the site's own strings pay in queue priority and profile cosmetics, not the starter gear the fan wikis describe. What it queues you for is a PC alpha, so it is no route past the console question

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities

  Studio

  Rant Gaming

  Evidence

  Arc Raiders · Tom Clancy's The Division 2 · Elite Dangerous

  Source

  Checked against rant-gaming on 2026-09-17. Check →

• TRY

  Off The Grid

  October 2026T-14 daysGunzilla's free-to-play cyberpunk "Extraction Royale", created by Neill Blomkamp — 60 players, squads of three, one large city map, cyberlimbs. In early access on PS5 since 8 Oct 2024 and playable now; October 2026 is 1.0, not the launch.Fitnothing blockingPS5 confirmed

  Decision

  Sample, do not preorder

  Buy when

  Nothing is blocking it. It is free, it is on PS5, and it is installable tonight — which makes it the cheapest experiment on this list, the same move Battlefield 6 was meant to be for Modern Warfare 4 and never got played. The loop is the profile's stated anti-pattern, which is why it sits at 2 rather than on the strength of its art direction; playing it is what settles whether Arc Raiders was the rule or one bad fit. Do not wait for 1.0 to find out.

  Window

  Gunzilla's own FAQ: "Off The Grid Early Access launched in 2024 and is fully playable. Full release is currently planned for October 2026." Month-wide and hedged — "currently planned" — so the bar is October, not the 8th, even though secondary coverage puts 1.0 on the second anniversary of the 8 Oct 2024 early access launch. Steam's listing reads Jul 2025, which is when the Steam build arrived, not a competing claim about 1.0

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities

  Studio

  Gunzilla Games

  Evidence

  Arc Raiders · Tom Clancy's The Division 2

  Source

  Checked against gunzilla on 2026-09-17. Check →

• WATCH

  The Ascent 2

  TBAunscheduledA sequel to The Ascent, Neon Giant's isometric cyberpunk twin-stick shooter-RPG set in an arcology on Veles — gear and augmentation buildcrafting, a campaign playable solo or in four-player co-op, and city sectors detailed by hand by a twelve-person team. Nothing about the sequel itself has been described.FitAnnouncementPS5 unconfirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  There is nothing to decide until a game exists; the row is here so a stated intention is on the record rather than rediscovered. The lane, the optional-co-op shape with a solo route through it, and the buildcrafting are all in range, which is what holds it at 3 rather than lower — but the first game is a twin-stick isometric shooter without the companion writing the 4s and 5s are scored on, and a sequel free to expand "into new genres" could land anywhere. No Law is the row that answers the real question first: whether Neon Giant at Krafton scale still builds cities to that density. Watch that, and revisit this the day a sequel is actually announced with a platform attached.

  Window

  Not announced, and the title is a placeholder — nobody has named one. Neon Giant's own fifth-anniversary post for The Ascent, 29 Jul 2026, says they have "massive plans for The Ascent franchise as a whole" and intend to fix the first game up "before expanding into new platforms, new genres, and future sequels". That is a stated intention with NO LAW ahead of it in the queue, not a reveal: no date, no platform, no description of the thing itself

  Lanes

  Cyberpunk and future cities

  Studio

  Neon Giant

  Evidence

  Tom Clancy's The Division 2

  Source

  Checked against neon-giant on 2026-09-17. Check →

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  The Division 2: Survivors

  TBAunscheduledMassive's survival expansion for The Division 2 — Washington, D.C. rebuilt as winter, with volumetric snow deep enough to slow you and hold your tracks, heat sources to navigate between, and nights that drop the temperature but shorten NPC sightlines. Loot, blocked paths and extraction points shuffle between runs, which are aimed shorter and more varied than Survival's 45-minute commitment, and each session is set to PvE or PvP by the player who starts it.FitRelease dateMonetizationGameplay footagePS5 expected

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  A declinable PvP toggle is what makes this a 4 where Off The Grid and Fragmentary Order sit at 2: it is the exact condition their rows name, offered on the one game that already proved the shape here across 830 hours, and Magnus Jansén has now said it twice from the stage. What Gamescom did not show is a second of it running — the footage was environment captured from the editor, no NPCs and no gameplay — so the loop underneath the weather is still unseen. The price of entry is open too: "expansion" rules out the standalone free-to-play the resellers list, but not what it costs on top of a game already owned. Nothing is decidable before the Closed Test, and the finding that would drop this to 2 is a PvE session other squads can override.

  Window

  Ubisoft has never named a date. The reveal, 22 Aug 2025, says only that Survivors "will bring an updated take on the survival extraction experience to The Division 2" and that development "is currently in the early stages" — the "coming in 2026" in that week's headlines was the press, not the publisher. The Gamescom 2026 panel a year on adds mechanics and a first look at the world and still names no date, no platforms and no price; Closed Test sign-ups open "later this year". The next dated Division event, a first look on 24 Sep 2026, is the Year 8 DLC and not this. Reseller pages listing a standalone PC SKU are ahead of the developers, who call it an expansion

  Lanes

  Big worlds and systems

  Studio

  Massive Entertainment

  Evidence

  Tom Clancy's The Division 2 · Arc Raiders

  Source

  Checked against ubisoft on 2026-09-17. Check →

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  Divinity

  TBAunscheduledLarian's next RPG, back in Rivellon: turn-based on a new ruleset built for a video game rather than translated from a tabletop, with single-player and co-op both in. Pitched as their most ambitious yet.FitPS5 versionRelease datePS5 unconfirmed

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  The interest is settled by the studio's last game, and turn-based sidesteps the combat friction that stops dark fantasy here. What is not settled is when and where: Larian shipped Baldur's Gate 3 and Original Sin 2 on PS5, but have said nothing for this one, and a 2028-or-later launch could as easily mean PS6. Early access will be PC first. Watch for a platform announcement; there is nothing to decide before it.

  Window

  Revealed at The Game Awards 2025 with no date, no year and no platforms; divinity.com is a trailer and a press kit and names none of the three. Vincke has since called a 2026 launch "unlikely" and said early access comes first, as it did for Baldur's Gate 3 — the 2028 in guides is their estimate, not Larian's. Windows is the only platform anyone lists, by inference from Larian's history rather than an announcement.

  Lanes

  Solo ARPG and dark fantasy

  Studio

  Larian Studios

  Evidence

  Baldur's Gate 3

  Source

  Checked against larian on 2026-09-17. Check →

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  Starfinder: Afterlight

  2026~4-month windowSingle-player party RPG in Paizo's Starfinder universe: turn-based on the tabletop's three-action system, a crew of six companions across the Pact Worlds, and choices that shape them.FitPS5 versionEarly accessController feelPC only so far

  Decision

  Undecided

  Buy when

  Squarely the shape Baldur's Gate 3 proved, set in space, which is why it is here at all. The 3 is the gap between the shape and the evidence: a small studio against the bar Larian set, romance claimed only by Steam's player tags, and Act 1 for the next year. Then the route, the same as every PC-only row — and a cRPG is often built mouse-first, so pad feel is a real question, not a formality. The demo is the cheap answer once there is a way to play it.

  Window

  Early access, not 1.0. Steam gives the release as "2026" and the early access FAQ expects it to stay there "approximately one year (until Q4 2027)"; the Q4 2026 start in the press is read back from that, not stated, so the window is the rest of the year Steam names. Act 1 only at launch, about 10 hours of a planned 40-60. A free demo went up on 10 Sep 2026. PC and SteamOS; no console version named

  Lanes

  Mass Effect-shaped sci-fi

  Studio

  Epictellers Entertainment

  Evidence

  Baldur's Gate 3

  Source

  Checked against steam on 2026-09-17. Check →

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