We’ve gone via and honored all our favorites of 2025, so now what? Let’s look ahead! Listed here are the titles the Siliconera crew most wish to play subsequent 12 months: our 2026 Most Anticipated Video games.
These awards characterize the consensus of the Siliconera workers. For extra of the 12 months’s award alternatives, try our Sport of the 12 months 2025 archive.
Pokemon Pokopia
We’ve been clear about how a lot we love Dragon Quest Builders 2, and a shift to the world of Pokemon does nothing to dampen our enthusiasm for the event crew’s newest effort. It seems to be to construct (heh) on these parts and mix them with a extra “cozy” method with sluggish life and farming. Additionally? Utilizing Ditto as a method to justify gaining skills is intelligent. It can’t get here quick sufficient!
Heroes of May and Magic: Olden Period
The Heroes of May and Magic franchise is beloved, nevertheless it’s been topic to many years of neglect and abuse after its heyday. (Actually, solely Sonic followers would possibly have the ability to relate.) Olden Period appears to finally return to the components that labored the perfect, and with a pointy aesthetic and sensible design scope that makes us assured this recreation will truly end improvement in contrast to its current predecessors.
Winner: Hearth Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
Hearth Emblem: Three Homes was a masterclass in worldbuilding and character design, capturing hearts of gamers even with considerably middling techniques and map design. Its follow-up, Interact, actually labored on these mechanical parts whereas maybe dropping the ball on the opposite stuff. So we’re hopeful that Fortune’s Weave can proceed to construct on the Three Homes world we love a lot whereas spending only a bit extra effort on making its strategic decisions only a bit extra significant. Fingers crossed! “Most Anticipated” is an honor of potential, and we hope it reaches it.
