Different games we will play in 2026.

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We have reached the end of our announcements for the year 2026. That is, almost to the end. We still have to go through certain games that belong to rare genres or have unique performances that are simply different from others. Here you will find some experimental titles, types of games that are not hyped up, or pearls that belong to niches for a select audience. It would be a shame not to mention some of them, so let’s see what might surprise us in 2026.

Tides of Tomorrow

What is a narrative multiplayer adventure? We’ll find out with the Tides of Tomorrow game, which definitely sounds innovative. This should be a game where players shape each other’s story with their decisions. At the start, you choose the player you will “follow”, the one who has already played the game, and he can be a total stranger or someone from your friends list. Then you follow the path he took and see his character in the form of a “ghost”, as well as the decisions he previously made in his playing. Characters within the game also remember what the previous player did, so they behave differently towards you depending on that. Tides of Tomorrow will be divided into levels, and each new playthrough will be slightly different depending on whose path you followed. Of course, your performance will serve as a recording for another player, and so on in the round.

Big Walk

If you liked the co-op climbing in last year’s Peak, from the creators of Untitled Goose Game comes a co-op multiplayer adventure about walking and communicating together. It sounds boring when we describe it like this, but the point of the Big Walk is to put us in situations where walking and communicating will be put in front of a whole series of challenges. Communication in the game will be based on the proximity of the players themselves, i.e. you will hear each other while you are close. And sometimes, in the absence of voice communication, the game will ask for mimicry or the development of some codes so that the players can communicate. The goal will be to solve different challenges, and all of them will have in common that they will look for teamwork and good coordination of the players.

Mixtape

Mixtape is a narrative adventure that takes place during the summer holidays in America in the 80s. We will follow a group of friends who fill their days with skateboarding, running away from home and the police, throwing toilet paper at houses, kissing and driving aimlessly at night. All this will be accompanied by licensed music from famous authors such as Iggy Pop, The Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division and others. Occasionally the game will have some elements of fantasy, but all for the purpose of evoking a unique period of life in which everything is important, intense and – too short to last.

Vampire Crawlers

Vampire Survivors started a whole new genre, and its first spin-off will mix it up with a different perspective and execution. The concept of the game is “turbo wildcard” and combines first-person dungeon exploration with card gameplay. Attacks will be presented here as cards that we throw at opponents, we will collect them through progress and unlocking various treasures. All this will be accompanied by the retro aesthetics and iconography of Vampire Survivors, and we will again ask: where are the vampires?

Mewgenics

A new game from the creator of The Binding of Isaac has been in the works for an eternity. Mewgenics should take advantage of the ever-popular motif of cats that players will breed and genetically manipulate. The goal will be to cross cats to get new samples with desirable traits that can be put to good use in turn-based combat. This will be a roguelike title full of dark humor – definitely not for everyone. At the same time, don’t expect a small game – the developer promises a campaign that will last more than 200 hours, and it will certainly have that lure called “you have to collect everything”. Or rather – you have to match everything…

Zero Parades

The genius of the iconic Disco Elysium will probably never be repeated in a similar form. However, the remnants of the former ZA/UM team strive to deliver a game reminiscent of Disco. Zero Parades thus has an equally troubled protagonist, a dilapidated world, and a high-stakes task. However, this will not be a detective RPG, but a spy adventure. We will take on the role of an agent called Cascade, a brilliant operative who is constantly followed by misfortune. She comes back from spy retirement when she is called on a mysterious assignment and must find the remaining members of her team and convince them to join her on a mission that sounds suicidal. Just like in Disco Elysium, there will be no combat here, so hopefully the game will at least have a well-written read to carry its twists and turns.

Order of the Sinking Star

From the creators of Braid and The Witness comes a new puzzle game, this time on multiple levels. It is a game in which we will explore four different worlds that are interconnected by puzzles. Solving these puzzles will slowly connect these worlds and reveal the story and the link between the four characters: the queen, the thief, the warrior and the sorceress. The game promises more than a thousand puzzles and could take hundreds of hours for those who want to play it in its entirety.

Copa City

We already have football games, we have games in which we are football managers… However, I think we have never had a game in which we deal with organizing matches. This is exactly what we will do in Copa City – we will have to complete a certain set of tasks that include the preparation of the stadium and the infrastructure of the city where the match is played. For this purpose, we will recruit volunteers, build zones for fans, organize traffic lines for the transport of fans, take care of ticket sales, match promotion, press conferences, open trainings… There will be a lot of work.

Cairn

Several games have already shown us that climbing can be an interesting and tense mechanic. But while Jusant and Peak were relaxed climbing games, Cairn stands out as something completely opposite. Hardcore simulation of conquering a mountain in which you have to take care of endurance, positioning on the rock, correct sticking of pegs and the like. The story will follow Aava, a professional climber who embarks on a journey to the top of Mount Kami, where no one has yet been able to reach.

snowballs

Nivalis is the name of the futuristic city where we will lead the life of an entrepreneur. This life simulation will give us the opportunity to run a nightclub, rent apartments, go fishing, etc. It will be played from the first person and will be realized with the help of voxel graphics, which sounds like a good recipe for a relaxing game. But don’t think that there aren’t any problems in Nivalis – after all, this is a cyberpunk world where we’ll have to watch out for gangs and shady corporations.

Paralives

Paralives is an alternative to The Sims that brings a different approach and potentially more charm. Here we live in a small town, create characters and build a house, and then find hobbies, develop relationships with others, etc. All this is a familiar process, not only because that’s how real life is, but unlike the Sims it should be more complete. Here, at the start, we will get different seasons, going to restaurants and beaches, hiking and other activities that are usually locked behind expansions in Sims. There will be expansions here as well, at least that is the plan, but they will be free for all buyers of the game.

Witchbrook

This is essentially a “Retro Potter” game. We will be playing her as a wizard or witch in education at Witchbrook College. There we learn spells, form friendships and love relationships, and fix up our cabin outside the town of Mossport. The game takes a shot at the audience that enjoyed Stardew Valley, with a magical plot and a more advanced presentation with a more dynamic world.