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Konami hands the 40th-anniversary Castlevania to Evil Empire — the Dead Cells team — and sets it in 1499 Paris, with Notre Dame as a dungeon and a corrupted Joan of Arc as a boss. A classic metroidvania, explicitly not a roguelike, launching on all major platforms in 2026.
Lazy Bear's cult medieval mortuary sim returns with a zombie apocalypse, a Grand Inquisitor role for the player, and an automation system literally powered by the undead — 120,000+ Steam wishlists in a few hours suggest the pitch is landing.
4A Games' first new Metro in six years returns to the Moscow tunnels — now ruled by a fascist regime led by a figure called Hunter. The Ukrainian studio isn't hiding the subtext, and Winter 2026 is shaping up as the series' most pointed release yet.
TomorrowHead Studio's debut launches April 28 with realistic sailing, Myst-style puzzles, and a voice cast that includes Firewatch's Cissy Jones.
Fumi Games' hand-drawn rubber hose FPS drops April 16 with Troy Baker, a Caravan Palace collab, and more cartoon violence than a Fleischer fever dream.
Housemarque's PS5-exclusive follow-up to Returnal has gone gold for its April 30 launch. Permanent upgrades, shorter runs, and the same bullet hell pedigree — minus the punishment that drove players away.
poncle's Vampire Survivors spin-off is a first-person deckbuilder dungeon crawler launching April 21 for $9.99, day one on Game Pass. It shares the universe but not the genre — and that's the whole point.
Sad Cat Studios' cyberpunk platformer was first shown at E3 2021, then delayed by war, relocation, and scope. It arrives April 14 on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass — with 850,000 wishlists riding on it.
After six years of delays and radio silence, Capcom's first original IP in over a decade finally launches on April 17. Early hands-on impressions suggest the wait was worth it.
Behaviour Interactive and Devolver Digital are reinventing Serious Sam as a five-player co-op roguelite FPS with dimension-hopping Sams, wild boons, and the franchise's signature chaos cranked to multiverse scale.
Team Meat's beloved precision platformer goes fully 3D for the first time, and early reviews suggest the brutal charm survived the dimensional shift — mostly.
Mega Crit’s sequel launched into Early Access with 4-player co-op, five characters, and half a million concurrent players — proving the original was no fluke.
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s latest trailer reveals a 50-year crime saga spanning five Japanese cities — with familiar Yakuza DNA and a bold new ambition.