// PC GAMER — GAMING
There's suddenly a terrifying number of games releasing this fall
I'm going to need to fit a few extra weeks into September somehow.
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While there's never any shortage of games releasing on Steam any given day, the release calendar for big-budget game productions has felt somewhat thin this year. The repeat delay announcements from games trying to escape the blast radius of GTA 6's gigaton sales detonation seemed to indicate that the back half of the year could continue to feel a little light.
Thanks to the showcase reveals in the last few days, I've gone from wondering if I'll have meaty releases to occupy my time this fall to worrying that it won't be physically feasible for me to hit everything on my wishlist. In its efforts to avoid the GTA 6 gravity well, the games industry has managed to cram all its competing releases into one eight-week window instead.
Here's just a selection of the back-to-back launches we'll be facing from the end of August onwards:
Again: That's just a selection. And if we widen that scope just a little bit, we pick up yet more launches like August 4's Beast of Reincarnation and October 28's Phantom Blade Zero. I'm glad to have plenty of options—but I'm just one man with one attention span. I can't possibly juggle the prosecution of an interstellar total war, three kinds of supernaturally-empowered action combat, two forms of impossibly dangerous vehicle operation, and zoo management at the same time.
I am, of course, going to try nonetheless. I'm just not sure how we're going to settle on 2026's Game of the Year before June 2027.
If you want to stay abreast of the increasingly-stuffed release calendar, make sure to check in with our very own list of upcoming 2026 games. I suspect you're going to need the help.
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