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ZA/UM is closing out post-launch support for its espionage RPG with 40,000 words of new writing, a new Dramatic Encounter, an in-world developer commentary mode and re-recorded English voice acting - free for existing owners.
Genshin Impact Version 7.1 'A Rekviem for the Underworld' launches 23 September with the Tsaritsa's Gnosis plan finally explained, Ronova added as a Weekly Boss, new 5-stars Vesna and Vodyanitsa, the Moonchase Festival's return to Liyue, and an anniversary payout of two free 5-star characters plus 1,600 Primogems.
Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that Kingdom Hearts IV is being made inside Creative Studio 1, the same Square Enix studio he runs and that is building Final Fantasy VII Revelation. Tetsuya Nomura still directs KH4 - but both of the company's 2027 tentpoles now ship out of one org.
Pawprint Studio's pre-launch dev letter confirms Aniimo has removed the Rune system entirely and replaced its random Legendary catch with a craftable, guaranteed one-time Irisalis encounter, alongside flat Prismana odds, Umbral Aniimo, an expanded Home and rebuilt mobile controls. Aniimo launches September 16 on PC, console and Xbox Cloud Gaming, with iOS and Android following September 23.
At LEVEL5 VISION 2026 II, Akihiro Hino announced Inazuma Eleven: Bold Revolution, a direct sequel to Victory Road, and introduced Shane Starfall (Nagi Furuhoshi) as another protagonist whose "unusual background" will drive the story. Platforms, release window and gameplay are all unconfirmed - Hino says the title's meaning will be explained at the next Vision showcase.
Four days after launching its debut RPG, Rebel Wolves posted a Lead Writer vacancy to help craft 'the next chapter of the Dawnwalker saga.' The listing wants six years' minimum experience and a writer who can review story pitches - a production-stage hire, not a placeholder. The Blood of Dawnwalker cleared a million copies within about 48 hours of its September 3 launch and topped Steam's global sellers for the week.
Imagineer has opened global pre-registration for the 3v3 part-targeting Robattle RPG on Google Play and the App Store, with the App Store listing pointing at January 21, 2027 and six years of Japanese content behind it.
Raw Fury and Bytten's creature-collector sequel arrives March 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC, with Switch 2 to follow. The gamescom trailer named seven cast members - including Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon and Samantha Beart - and detailed online co-op and adaptive rogue beasts.
Bandai Namco's new Bleach mobile RPG is set after Thousand-Year Blood War and casts you as your own rank-and-file Soul Reaper. Combat runs on three-person teams and attack cards that chain into team-wide Link Attacks, and customisation extends all the way down to the blade, guard and sheath of your Zanpakuto. Launching on iOS and Android in 2026.
CD Projekt Red announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered at Gamescom Opening Night Live for September 29, 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2, co-developed with Hungarian studio Yigsoft. Existing owners upgrade free and get Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine at no cost. The Songs of the Past expansion follows in 2027 with a new region, Letten, and a chain weapon for Geralt.
Nexon and IO DIVISION have named Project RX as Fareidolia, a character-driven 'subculture' RPG set in Anima City where you direct the Restoration Center and live alongside girls called Mates. Playable in an in-development build at Tokyo Game Show 2026 from September 17 to 21, with a new trailer debuting September 17. Coming to smartphones, PC and console.
CD Projekt Red joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski says The Witcher 4 is targeting a 2028 release, with more than 500 developers on the project and no Gamescom 2026 showing. The studio's nearest Witcher release is now The Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion in 2027.
Version 1.5 launches September 2 on iOS, Android and PC, headlined by Nature Striker Typhoeus and the supernatural Snowy Forest. The Suiming puzzle-city map and free Operator Purrchena follow on September 24.
Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco released five minutes of PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X capture, and confirmed the September 3 launch ships with only Quality (dynamic 4K/30fps) and Balanced (dynamic 4K/40fps) modes.
Neverness to Everness Version 1.3 went live August 19 with the Duskmoor coastal region, the Fogden Game story chapter, S-Class newcomers Zankou and Linko across two banner phases, a summer event slate, and 600 Annulith in free compensation.
Bluepoch's third-anniversary update, On Another's Sorrow, is live with a free 6-star Coppelia via login, a selectable 6-star Artifice, 25 Unilogs and 67 free summons. Rhiannon headlines phase one through September 3, Ms. Stranger follows to September 17, and Nautika and Regulus both get Euphoria upgrades.
Two years before launch, Shuhei Yoshida played an early Expedition 33 demo as a Kepler Interactive advisor and loved it - then advised Sandfall to avoid the turn-based RPG label entirely, warning it alone might make players overlook the game. The workaround worked so well the stigma it dodged is now largely gone.
Version 4.5 To Roll the Stars in Astropolis launches August 26 with a new three-map planet, Robin - Summeretto and Aventurine - Waveflair on split banners, six events including a grand prix, and a long-requested dialogue speed-up.
Farlight Games is bringing Digimon Adventure to AFK Journey on August 18. Tai and Agumon, Matt and Gabumon join as heroes with Digivolution-powered abilities, backed by an original story, a bonding system and a crossover store - timed to the 27th Digimon Day.
Square Enix used D23 2026 to give Kingdom Hearts IV its first release window - late 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC - alongside a gameplay trailer for a new world based on Pixar's Coco. Mickey, Donald and Goofy get playable segments, and Disney greenlit an animated series too.
Version 7.0 "Everwinter Without Mercy" launched August 12, opening Teyvat's seventh nation across Morepesok, Snezhnograd and Glupov. Odette arrives as a 5-star Cryo sword user, Alyosha is a free 4-star Electro polearm from the Archon Quest, and two new Cryo reactions plus a third-person Shadow Realm shooter mode shake up team building on phones and PC alike.
PERSONA ON FRONTLINE brings Persona 3 Reload, 4 Golden and 5 Royal into Goddess of Victory: NIKKE from August 13 to September 10, with SSR Queen and Yukiko on banners and SR Aigis handed out through the event.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered lands on Nintendo Switch 2 tomorrow - $49.99 digital, $59.99 physical with the complete game on cartridge and no day-one download. All DLC included, 900p handheld and 1080p docked at 30fps with DLSS.
KLab's officially licensed collection RPG JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Spirit launches worldwide (excluding Japan) on August 13 for iOS and Android, with characters from Parts 1-6.
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition hits Switch 2 on August 28 for $79.99, bundling the base game, Shadow of the Erdtree, two new starting classes, and Torrent customization.
Genshin Impact's Version 6.7 'Luna VIII' is live, bringing back Fatui Harbinger Sandrone as a 5-star Cryo Claymore, with Columbina and a Raiden Shogun rerun across a summer of events.
Deltarune Chapter 5: The Field of Pink and Gold unlocks worldwide on June 24, 2026 as a free update on Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, PC and Mac - and Toby Fox says Chapter 6 is already ahead of schedule.
Honkai: Star Rail 4.3 Phase 2 goes live June 24, 2026 with reruns for Ice Remembrance unit Cyrene and Physical Remembrance unit Phainon, running through July 14 on iOS, Android, PC and PS5.
Arknights: Endfield's Version 1.3 update, Sketches of Lost Heirlooms, hits its second phase on June 26 with the debut of Camille - a 6-star Heat Vanguard and the game's first limited male Operator. The version also opens the Sword Vault Dale ruins and adds the risk-reward Contingency Contract endgame mode.
XD's anime tactical gacha Etheria: Restart launched Season SS5 'Summer Surprise' on June 11, running to August 10. It adds five new Animus (Nathenn and Sylvia first), a new Main Quest Hard Mode, a fresh Grim Pursuit boss in Vespera, and an in-game community build recommendation system.
Neverness to Everness' first major update, Version 1.1 'Dreamwalk Corridor,' adds a fully drivable Porsche 918 Spyder via the Everdriving Mystery Box (June 3–July 8), plus new areas Sunward Island and the Corridor of Echoes and limited S-Class hunters Lacrimosa and Chaos — live now on iOS and Android.
Square Enix's HD-2D style goes fully real-time on June 18 in The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales - a new action RPG from the Octopath Traveler team that follows a boy and his fairy across a thousand-year, four-age journey. Here is everything launching this week.
Atlus' award-winning fantasy RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on November 12, 2026, with a new trailer and a limited Steelbook Edition.
Square Enix gave Kingdom Hearts IV a major new gameplay trailer at the June 9 Nintendo Direct, showing Sora battling a giant Heartless in the rain-soaked, Shibuya-like city of Quadratum. The game will launch simultaneously on Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, with native Switch 2 collections of the older titles arriving October 8, 2026.
Deltarune Chapter 5 launches June 24, 2026 at 11:00am EDT as a free update for owners of the paid game, across Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, PC and Mac. Revealed at the June 9 Nintendo Direct, the trailer also teased that Chapter 6 is already in development.
Game PassinXile Entertainment showed a new 'The Heist' trailer for its steampunk time-travel RPG Clockwork Revolution at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026. The Xbox console exclusive is set for 2027 on Xbox Series X|S and PC, day one on Game Pass.
Capcom revealed Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance at Summer Game Fest 2026 - a massive paid expansion, comparable in scale to Iceborne and Sunbreak, that takes hunters to a new region of floating sky islands. It adds Master Rank content, a new Boost Bracer mechanic and the return of Elder Dragons like Kushala Daora and the colossal Lao-Shan Lung, launching in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Square Enix closed Summer Game Fest 2026 by revealing Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the third and final chapter of the Remake trilogy, launching Spring 2027 across PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Cid and Vincent become full party members, the Highwind enables open-world flight, and a new Job Class feature joins combat.
Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco's Summer Game Fest trailer for dark-fantasy vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker surprised with modern-day framing and a fresh look at Coen's quest for revenge, ahead of its September 3 release on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
THQ Nordic and Alkimia Interactive's ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake of the 2001 RPG Gothic is out now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, marked by a new release trailer during Summer Game Fest weekend.
HoYoverse's space-fantasy RPG pushes deeper into Planarcadia with Version 4.3, debuting 5-star Fire Nihility unit Mortenax Blade and bringing back Yao Guang, Cyrene and Phainon as the Trailblazer ventures into the World in Canvas. Live now on iOS, Android, PC and PS5.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth launched on Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC on June 3, 2026, with Square Enix releasing a launch trailer. The acclaimed remake sequel adds a Streamlined Progression option, ships on Switch 2 as a Game Key Card, and offers a 20% Xbox launch discount through June 10.
Alkimia Interactive and THQ Nordic's ground-up remake of the cult-classic 2001 RPG launches June 5, 2026 on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with 50-plus hours in the barrier-sealed Colony, reworked combat and a living, scheduled world.
Xbox has delayed Fable, Playground Games' fantasy RPG reboot, from autumn 2026 to February 2027 so the game can have 'a window of its own' - a move that also steers it clear of Grand Theft Auto VI. Fable remains a day-one Game Pass title and launches on Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC.
CD Projekt Red has surprise-announced a third Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, co-developed with Fool's Theory and launching in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Geralt returns for a brand-new adventure, with full details due in late summer 2026 - and no Switch version planned.
ZA/UM's first game since Disco Elysium is finally out. ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies launched on Steam, Epic, and GOG today at $39.99, Steam Deck Verified, with a PS5 release still on the board for later in 2026. The espionage RPG follows Hershel Wilk (alias CASCADE), a tormented operant pulled back into the field five years after the failed operation that haunts him - and ZA/UM is explicit that this is a new IP, not a Disco Elysium sequel.
Bulwark Studios' Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II launched today on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S for $39.99, anchoring the 10th-anniversary Warhammer Skulls 2026 broadcast hosted by Alanah Pearce. Both the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Necrons are fully playable this time, four distinct leaders shape each faction, and early PC reviews call out a locked 60 FPS at 4K with no patch-day fires - rare for a 2026 Warhammer 40K launch.
HoYoverse confirmed Genshin Impact 6.6 Luna VII drops May 20 with Nicole, Lohen, and Prune — the first playable members of the Hexenzirkel — plus two new Sumeru Archon Quest acts and a Dottore boss fight.
Bandai Namco has officially opened global pre-registration for Digimon UP, a free-to-play, pixel-art monster-raising RPG built mobile-first. Twelve fan-favorite Partner Digimon at launch, branching Digivolution paths tied to care quality, and a worldwide release on July 28, 2026. Hit 100,000 sign-ups and Gekkomon unlocks for everyone at day one.
Teyon used NACON Connect 2026 on May 7 to drop a Pillars of the Hunt dev diary for Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish. The first-person, single-player action-RPG sets you loose in an open New York where you can finish missions with stealth, gunplay, or a non-lethal Persuasion-and-Investigation build that talks vampires down instead of shooting them. Summer 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, with Game Pass day one.
Multiple credible leakers point to a ground-up Ocarina of Time reimagining for Switch 2, with Monolith Soft co-developing and a June Nintendo Direct reveal expected alongside a late 2026 launch window.
Odencat’s Meg’s Monster launches free on phones May 7 with the full game, Lost Memories DLC, and a vertical-first interface redesign. The 96% positive Steam JRPG ditches gacha and stamina for a clean free-with-ads model.
After three years of false leads and community obsession, players have cracked the code to Diablo 4's Secret Cow Level using the Lord of Hatred expansion's Horadric Cube — and the Cow King drops a Mythic helm with hilariously specific day-based affixes.
Hotta Studio's Neverness to Everness launched globally on April 29 as a free-to-play supernatural open-world RPG across PC, PS5, and mobile. With responsive tag-team combat, a dense explorable city, and more generous gacha than Tower of Fantasy, NTE is making a strong case for your screen time.
Radical Fish Games launches Alabaster Dawn in Steam Early Access on May 7 — a top-down action RPG from the CrossCode creators featuring DMC-inspired combat with four elements and eight weapon types, a world that transforms as you play, and ten hours of content in the initial build.
Dragon Quest Smash/Grow brings roguelite dungeon runs and four-player co-op to phones in a free-to-play package that finally gives the franchise a genuine mobile identity.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on the Epic Games Store until May 3. Claim the $60 open-world wizarding RPG for nothing — once it's in your library, it's yours to keep forever.
On May 27 the original Outer Worlds is delisted from Steam, GOG, Epic, and the Microsoft Store. Obsidian is patching the much-hated Spacer's Choice Edition into the definitive version and pushing it to existing owners for free, with grenades, DLSS 3, and a corrected lighting pass arriving the same day.
Heroes of Might and Magic returns with Olden Era, now available in Early Access on Steam and PC Game Pass. The 30th anniversary entry features six factions, three game modes, and a 25% launch discount.
The Division Resurgence drops its 2026 roadmap with three seasons of content, a PC early access launch on Ubisoft Connect, and full cross-platform play across phones, tablets, and desktop.