Best Games of 2026
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2Guns of the Patriots is finally off the PlayStation 3, and that alone is the event of the year for this series.Read the review
Gears of War: E-DayThe best-feeling combat Gears has had, in a prequel campaign that runs a few hours longer than its ideas.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of TheveThe best aerial combat Ace Combat has ever had, wrapped around a war story about a hero who was invented.
Resident Evil RequiemCapcom drags the series back to Raccoon City with a protagonist who is terrified, and makes that the whole design.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's WeaveFour campaigns, one autosaved file, and the best Fire Emblem since Three Houses by a comfortable distance.
Star Wars: Galactic RacerThe Star Wars racer fans have wanted since Episode I, from a new studio of Burnout veterans, and the best reviewed Star Wars game in two decades.
007 First LightThe Hitman studio builds a Bond who is not good at this yet, and that is the entire pitch working.
PragmataTwo things at once: shoot with one hand, solve a grid puzzle with the other, and somehow it works.
Forza Horizon 6The festival finally lands in Japan, and the country almost upstages the cars.
Mina the HollowerYacht Club builds a Game Boy shaped adventure with a burrow button and a difficulty curve that expects you to learn.