# The 15 Best Video Games of 2026

> Racers, roguelikes, horror returns and a cat-breeding oddity: the year's releases that critics and players kept talking about.

*By YPB Team · Published October 14, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-15-best-video-games-of-2026*

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1. **Forza Horizon 6** — score 1000/1000
   Playground Games' May 2026 open-world racer set in Japan.
2. **Mewgenics** — score 745/1000
   Edmund McMillen's February 2026 cat-breeding tactics roguelike.
3. **007 First Light** — score 597/1000
   IO Interactive's 2026 origin story for a young James Bond.
4. **Saros** — score 546/1000
   Housemarque's 2026 third-person roguelike shooter for PlayStation 5.
5. **Nioh 3** — score 546/1000
   Team Ninja's 2026 samurai action RPG set across Japanese eras.
6. **Cairn** — score 488/1000
   The Game Bakers' 2026 survival climbing game about scaling one mountain.
7. **Pokémon Pokopia** — score 423/1000
   The Pokémon Company's March 2026 life-sim spin-off on Nintendo Switch 2.
8. **Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection** — score 423/1000
   Capcom's 2026 turn-based Monster Hunter RPG.
9. **Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter** — score 423/1000
   Falcom's 2026 remake of the second Trails in the Sky.
10. **Silent Hill: Townfall** — score 349/1000
   Screen Burn's September 2026 Silent Hill set in a Scottish island town, co-published by Annapurna and Konami.
11. **Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave** — score 349/1000
   Intelligent Systems' September 2026 tactics RPG for Switch 2.
12. **Resident Evil Requiem** — score 349/1000
   Capcom's February 2026 ninth mainline Resident Evil, starring Grace Ashcroft and a returning Leon Kennedy.
13. **Pragmata** — score 263/1000
   Capcom's 2026 sci-fi action game about an astronaut and an android girl on the Moon.
14. **Mina the Hollower** — score 163/1000
   Yacht Club Games' 2026 Game Boy Color-style action adventure.
15. **Mixtape** — score 163/1000
   Beethoven & Dinosaur's 2026 coming-of-age road trip set to a licensed soundtrack.

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