After more than a decade of fans begging for a return to the cold, dark corridors of deep space, a sequel to one of the most revered horror games of the 2010s is finally on the way. Alien: Isolation 2 has been announced by British developer Creative Assembly, promising to swap the claustrophobic Sevastopol station for the surface of a storm-ravaged colony world. This time, the Xenomorph has a whole new environment to stalk you through — and if the original is anything to go by, survival will be just as nerve-shredding. The sequel is set to land on Nintendo, PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
Sequels and Returns
The announcement of Alien: Isolation 2 was part of a wave of sequels unveiled at this year’s Summer Game Fest showcase, alongside the return of several other beloved franchises. Sony Interactive Entertainment confirmed Until Dawn 2, which transplants the original’s slasher-movie formula to a haunted tropical island. This time, a group of young filmmakers documenting past horrors find themselves in fresh peril, with player choices determining who lives and who dies — exclusively on PlayStation.
Xbox Game Studios and developer The Coalition, working with People Can Fly, are delivering Gears of War: E-Day, a prequel set 14 years before the original game. It chronicles the horrifying moment the Locust Horde first emerged from the ground — Emergence Day — and explores the origin of the iconic Lancer Assault Rifle. The game is scheduled for release on 6 October 2026, with a collector’s edition arriving five days earlier, and promises a more linear experience than its immediate predecessor. It will be available on Windows and Xbox Series X/S, though a PEGI classification for PlayStation 5 was noted earlier this year despite its announced exclusivity. Pre-orders include early access to an open beta in August 2026.
Square Enix is bringing its six-year Final Fantasy VII Remake project to a close with Final Fantasy VII Revelation, due in spring 2027. The third and final instalment will see Cloud Strife and his assembled allies finally confront Sephiroth, adapting the climax of the original 1997 RPG. Director Naoki Hamaguchi has described the theme as “resolve,” with characters forced to face their convictions. The popular Queen’s Blood card game from Rebirth will return with an expanded storyline focused on Red XIII, and mini-games will now include difficulty settings and the option to skip them, with rewards less tied to combat items. The game will launch simultaneously on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2.
After years in development hell, The Wolf Among Us is back. A reformed Telltale Games has confirmed that a remastered version of the original episodic adventure, based on Bill Willingham’s Fables comic series, is scheduled for late 2026 on modern platforms. More significantly, the long-awaited sequel The Wolf Among Us 2 — developed in association with AdHoc Studio — is now slated for a 2027 release, continuing the story of Sheriff Bigby Wolf.
Other notable sequels include Guild Wars 3 (2027, PC and PlayStation), which aims to evolve the massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre away from the near-monopoly held by World of Warcraft, set in a glimmering high-fantasy world. RGG Studio, the team behind Yakuza/Like a Dragon, is reviving Sega’s Virtua Fighter series with Virtua Fighter Crossroads, a hybrid of fighting game and story adventure that sees players fleeing the Chinese mafia, with shades of Shenmue. It will be available on PC and Xbox. Studio MDHR, creators of the notoriously difficult Cuphead, announced Mighty Cuphead Adventure, an “extremely 1980s” platform shooter that looks straight off the NES or Mega Drive. Fans will also be delighted to learn that development has finally begun on another new Cuphead game — the announcement was made by a Cuphead puppet in a business suit.
Original Adventures
Among the brand-new intellectual properties unveiled, one stands out for its distinctly British flavour. Apple Crumble, coming exclusively to PC, is a locked-room mystery described as a Knives Out-inspired murder puzzle with a twist: it’s your grandma’s birthday, and your family has arrived — to murder her. The game comes from the studio behind the detective comedy Duck Detective, and its premise promises a darkly humorous, character-driven whodunnit set within a single, tense family gathering.
Fumito Ueda, the visionary designer behind Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, is making his first game in a decade. Gen Atlas, published by Epic Games Publishing and developed by Ueda’s own studio genDESIGN, is a single-player open-world action-adventure set on a deserted planet. Players pilot gigantic robots from within their detachable heads, with a colossal robotic companion unlocking new paths and altering perceptions of the world. It is confirmed for PC (as an Epic Games Store exclusive), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
French designer and director Patrice Désilets is returning with 1666 Amsterdam, an ambitious PC title set in early modern Europe. In this “impossible-to-describe” game, robed women do not consort with demons — they battle them, in a story about witches fighting supernatural evil. Another striking original is Red Kiss, a PC game set in 1989 Berlin where players are vampires running a house of undead misfits, steeped in counterculture and accompanied by a bespoke soundtrack.
Exodus, from key creatives behind the Mass Effect series, is a narrative-driven space opera that feels very much in that tradition. Players are travellers venturing across worlds abandoned by an ancient alien race, searching for technology to save their homeworld. Signs of its pedigree include cast members that are a sentient octopus and an elephant. Crossfire, developed by That’s No Moon (a studio founded by former Uncharted and The Last of Us developers), is a single-player tactical action-adventure set in the Crossfire universe. It introduces an “Adaptive Cover” system and follows mercenary Layla Qassem and Tier-One Operator Delroy Cross as they form an uneasy alliance to survive.
Several smaller, more idiosyncratic titles also caught attention. Bad Magpie (2027, PC and Xbox) tells the story of a magpie with a broken wing and a lost flock, captivated by a fallen star. Into the Wind (PC) appears inspired by both Kiki’s Delivery Service and Pixar’s Luca, with players inheriting a family delivery service on an island community. Threads of Time (PC, PlayStation, Xbox) is a stunning-looking indie tribute to Chrono Trigger and 1990s Japanese RPGs, sending a band of heroes through human history from prehistory to the far future. Clutch (PC, PlayStation) revives the story-driven driving game, set in Monaco and the French Riviera, with a young driver in a dangerous racing competition for the super-rich, featuring voice work from Peter Serafinowicz and Little Simz. Vivarium (2027, PC and Xbox) evokes summertime memories in a rural community that resembles a 1970s children’s manga, with humans mingling with fantastical creatures.
Horror continues to diversify. The Lost Wild (2027, PC and PlayStation 5) is a survival game from Great Ape Games and Annapurna Interactive where players must evade intelligent dinosaurs on a mysterious island — the game director, Gary Napper, previously worked on Alien: Isolation. Silent Hill: Townfall, developed by Scottish studio Screen Burn and published by Konami and Annapurna, is set on the Scottish island of St. Amelia in 1996. Players control Simon Ordell, who wakes up with no memory, exploring a town that lies quiet beneath a heavy fog — seemingly abandoned, but not at rest. It is due on 24 September 2026 for PC and PlayStation 5. Penguin Colony (2026, PC and Nintendo Switch 2) reimagines H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time from the perspective of a penguin, observing human factions — Nazis and the Kaitiaki — searching for an ancient entity in Antarctica.
On the supernatural action front, Control Resonant puts players in the role of an operative from the Federal Bureau of Control, tasked with containing threats that have escaped from parallel realms. God of War goes matriarchal with God of War: Laufey, a PlayStation exclusive where players control Kratos’s wife, trapped in the afterlife alongside a talking sword and a gelatinous cube. Magicians: The Devil’s Deal is described as an extended violent vaudeville production in which a magician must escape hell, mocked at every turn by a dapper Satan and his minions, with notes of Bioshock and Dishonored.
Other original projects include The Lift: Supernatural Handyman Simulator (2027, PC, PlayStation, Xbox), in which players renovate a vaguely post-communist facility while uncovering its mysteries; Clockwork Revolution (2027, PC and Xbox), from inXile, described as Peaky Blinders meets steampunk with time-travelling rogues; Wardogs (PC), a 100-player tactical war game for those who miss old-school Battlefield; and There Are No Ghosts at the Grand (Q4 2026, PC and Xbox), a blend of renovation simulation, comedy and horror set in a crumbling English hotel, featuring a talking cat named Mr. Bones the Bastard and a talking power tool. Persona 6 was teased with a brief glimpse, promising another stylish RPG from Atlus about teenagers harnessing manifestations of their psyches to battle evil.
Sega is also rebooting Crazy Taxi: World Tour (2027), bringing back the original Offspring theme tune and extreme driving across five cities. Notably, Sega has confirmed that generative AI was used for unspecified background elements, with all AI-generated assets reviewed.
Classics Reimagined
The remake trend shows no sign of slowing. Capcom is resurrecting Resident Evil – Code: Veronica from 2000, retitled Resident Evil Veronica (2027, PC, PlayStation, Xbox). In a significant departure, the game will be presented in first-person rather than the original’s third-person view. Given that every Resident Evil remake to date has been well-received, expectations are high.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (2027, PC, PlayStation, Xbox) is a remake of the very first Lara Croft adventure, starring Alix Wilton Regan as the next iteration of the iconic action hero. It promises a classic globe-trotting adventure film of a game. Meanwhile, Fable (2027, PC, PlayStation, Xbox) has had a decisive glow-up since its last outing, appearing to have ditched the fairytale vibe and fart humour of earlier entries for a more ambitious — but no less irreverent — tone.
