Summary
Asgames that take long breaks in their developmenthave shown, patience will always pay off in the end. Doom 2016, Alan Wake 2, and Red Dead Redemption 2 are proof of that. Developing a game is a challenging task as is, but even more so when there’s internal turmoil within a studio and further pressure from fans amid necessary delays.
The best example would be a game like Cyberpunk 2077, first announced in 2012, but would ultimately launch in 2020 after several delays and only continue to be improved with updates, and becomeone of the best sci-fi RPGs. Below are some eagerly anticipated games that likely won’t get any new news from their devs until at least another year.
10Star Wars Eclipse
Since the Star Wars Eclipse trailer premiered in 2021, we’ve seen the launches of Respawn’s sequel, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, and Ubisoft’s open-world Star Wars Outlaws. This game has been absent, and many would think it’s inevitable that it might even be cancelled. But as a massiveQuantic Dreamand Star Wars fan, I’m still holding onto hope and praying the force be with it to reveal something big next year.
Eclipse will be a fully cinematic, branching narrative Star Wars game designed in the same fashion as Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain. And with the performances and graphics captured in Detroit: Become Human, Eclipse could very well be as good as any Star Wars TV series. The story is also set in the exciting era ofthe High Republic, and Yoda is already revealed to take part in it.
9Jurassic Park: Survival
Finally, there’s a Jurassic Park game that’s not a new installment in the Jurassic World Evolution series. However, don’t expect anything more on Jurassic Park: Survival anytime soon.In an April 2025 post on Xfrom the game’s developers and Universal, it was shared that the game was still in the planning stage and new ideas were being workshopped, so it’s nowhere close to completion.
Jurassic Park: Survival has the opportunity to be a major narrative-driven game for the series, the likes of which we haven’t seen sinceTelltale’s underrated Jurassic Park: The Game. It’s going to take place the day after the events of the original movie, with a new protagonist. The suspenseful horror atmosphere and gameplay can also make Survival the Alien: Isolation of the Jurassic Park series.
8Marvel’s Wolverine
Insomniac and Marvel’s Wolverine was announced in a cinematic teaser in 2021. Things have been awfully quiet about it since… untila shocking Insomniac hack in 2023, which revealed a build containing very early-stage gameplay. Since that unfortunate leak in 2023, Wolverine has been absent from PlayStation’s State of Play events, and Insomniac hasn’t commented much on the game’s development.
But based on the leaks and what Insomniac has previously shared, it will most likely be a cross between the gameplay of the Spider-Man games and the classic M-rated X-Men: Origins Wolverine game. There’s still no release date for it, and, at this point, you should continue to remain patient as it definitely won’t be launching anytime in the near future.
7Marvel’s Blade
Arkane is a French-based developer behind acclaimed titles like the Dishonored series, 2017’s Prey, and Deathloop. Much to everyone’s surprise, the studio’s next title is a collaboration with Marvel, specifically a Blade game. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been a lover of Blade’s character since childhood after seeing the movies with Wesley Snipes, and am just happy he’s finally starring in his own original game.
The teaser revealed that the game will beset in Parisand use a third-person gameplay style different from Dishonored and Deathloop, which means another reinvigorated and master-crafted experience from Arkane. The MCU Blade movie is currently in development hell and likely to be cancelled, but let’s hope this game doesn’t meet the same fate as EA’s Black Panther game and has something more concrete to share in 2026.
6Hideo Kojima’s OD
With Death Stranding 2 and Hideo Kojima already announcing a new espionage game called Physint, let’s not forget that the mysterious horror game known as OD is also in the works at Kojima Productions in coordination with Xbox Game Studios. Kojima and company are quite a busy team balancing all this game design.
We already knowOD stars Hunter Schafer, Sophia Lillis, and Udo Kier, and it will be co-directed by one of my favorite horror filmmakers, Jordan Peele (along with a few other surprise collaborators), and feature music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails. Kojima said OD aims to again push the boundaries of what the medium can be, and we hope he’ll expand more on that when it’s ready.
5Control 2
Like Kojima Productions, Remedy Entertainment is also juggling a lot of games that are in production. After delivering the survival horror masterpiece Alan Wake 2 and its two DLCs, Remedy has the Control multiplayer spin-off, FBC: Firebreak, launching in 2025, as well as having the remakes of its Max Payne games on the way. But Control 2 was also announced in partnership withAnnapurna, along with there being movie and TV adaptations for Control and Alan Wake.
Control 2 is already said to be much different than the first game, with the focus being on an action RPG experience. One of the secrets inAlan Wake 2’s The Lake House DLCwas a mysterious teaser for some of the visuals of Control’s sequel and potential narrative threads. It’s in the very early stages of development, and we’re most likely to hear more about the Max Payne remake than Control 2.
4Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
At the 2024 Game Awards, Naughty Dog unveiled its next project, which, no, wasn’t The Last of Us Part 3, but rather a new IP titled Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. It’s a sci-fi game with a religious element to it, starring none other than Tati Gabrielle as the protagonist, who previously collaborated with Naughty Dog as Nora in HBO’s The Last of Us series and Jo in the Uncharted movie.
Also confirmed to star in Intergalactic are Kumail Nanjiani and Tony Dalton, the latter of whom played Joel’s father, Javier, in The Last of Us Season 2 and Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul. In fact, it was Dalton’s performance in The Last of Us that Druckmann hired him for Heretic Prophet. The game still has a long way to go in development, though, with more talent being recruited, so expect things to be silent until there’s more to show.
3The Witcher Remake
While the 2024 Game Awards revealed the next installment of The Witcher series with a cinematic trailer showing Ciri as the main protagonist, followed by an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo in 2025, which showcasedsome of the magnificent open world and Ciri’s horse, Kelpie, The Witcher Remake has been largely quiet since its announcement in 2022.
The game is also being developed in Unreal Engine 5 with creative input from CD Projekt Red, and comes from Polish developer Fool’s Theory, the support studio of Baldur’s Gate 3 and creators of the underrated RPG The Thaumaturge. While we hope there will be a gameplay trailer in the coming year, this could also be a Cyberpunk 2077 situation where development will take longer than expected. Not to mention that there’sa Cyberpunk sequel announced.
2The Elder Scrolls 6
One of the biggest games everyone is waiting to hear more from is The Elder Scrolls 6, a highly anticipated follow-up to Skyrim, and having even more hype around it now with the Oblivion Remaster having launched in 2025. The game finally went into production after Starfield’s launch in 2023, with a teaser announcement made as early as 2018.
2026 would be eight years since the game’s initial announcement and a good three-ish years into development, so there definitely should be something more substantial to share. It wasn’t part of 2025’s Xbox Games Showcase or any of the Developer Directs, so we truly hope Xbox and Bethesda are waiting to reveal something grand in the coming year to keep the fans at bay.
1The Wolf Among Us 2
Like Star Wars Eclipse, we’re still holding onto hope that some more news for The Wolf Among Us 2 will come soon, if not in 2025, then in 2026. Telltale is one of my favorite video game studios, as its incredible games like The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, and The Wolf Among Us are what inspired me to seek a career in narrative design and writing. So, I’m rooting for the sequel’s completion.
It is getting pretty scary, however, for The Wolf Among Us 2, because Telltale shut down in the past and then got resurrected, only to launch the less-acclaimed Expanse game and now lay off a majority of its staff well into the development of The Wolf Among Us sequel. It was initially supposed to launch in 2023, then 2024, but now 2025 isn’t looking so likely either. Despite speculation,it’s not cancelled, so 2026 might be the ticket for Bigby Wolf.
