[Let’s Talk] Your most anticipated game of 2026
Move over 2025 – we’re officially in the year 2026. A new year brings new hope and excitement, and that pertains to games as well.
Looking strictly at Nintendo, we actually know quite a bit about the company’s slate for 2026. Several titles have been announced to be launching over the next few months. We should be seeing Mario Tennis Fever, Pokemon Pokopia, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Rhythm Heaven Groove, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, Fire Emblem: Fortune Weave, Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, and Splatoon Raiders. Technically that last one hasn’t been confirmed for 2026, but we’d be surprised if it was a 2027 game.
With everything that’s been announced – from Nintendo and other companies – what’s your most anticipated game of 2026? Let us know in the comments.
Highlight from last week’s topic: Your favorite game of 2025
andremiguens
Bananza is #1 for me. So much fun, joy and things to do. And while not easy to do, getting 100% is rewarding and doable (take a note Odyssey).
Ghost of Yotei is a close second. Amazing gameplay and story. Sucker Punch always delivers!
And in third place Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment. The best story of this Zelda tetralogy, the characters are fun to play as and are all different and there’s a ton of content. I loved every second of my 50h in this Hyrule. I hope the next one evolves and is a standalone setting in its own right.
ヨーゼフ•Joseph
Pretty much a tie between Silksong and Bananza. I feel like Silksong was more addicting, and fun, but Bananza just made me happy to play, and it’s the only game this year that made me stop, reflect for a moment, and just think to myself “This is a really good game. I really love this game.” Course, there was a point where Silksong had me cheering out loud to myself as well.
Silksong’s a bit more replayable than Bananza so I’ll probably be sticking with that one a bit longer, if I can get over the pain of the last Steel Soul run I lost.
Honorable mention to Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. Third favorite game of the year, played it a lot in the middle portion of the year, and got really addicted. The gacha for alternate companion colors is way too much of a grind, though. (Note: There are 153 alternate colors, and you have to do an almost hour long dungeon run for one random color.) I gave up on it pretty quickly.
Also shout-out to Clair-Obscur. Amazing music, great game. Props for being so good, that I can’t even hate you for being more popular than MY favorite games. The inability to call it overrated trash and argue with the fans about how bad their taste is hurts my heart, but Clair-Obscur is actually just that good.
Stephen Yap
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is my favorite game of 2025. A prime example of “a gift that keeps on giving” with its numerous updates since and the huge delay it got prior to its original 2024 release was definitely for the better. I’d even label it as my favorite game of this generation, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons holding that honor prior.
Narrator 1
That’s a tough one. There were a bunch of good games across all platforms. I’d say Mario Kart World based on sheer number of hours put into it, which is funny because when I got a Launch Day Switch 2, I wouldn’t have gone for the Mario Kart bundle if it weren’t so much more readily available than the standalone units.
