2025 was a banger 12 months for video games, stuffed with all the pieces from breakout indie megahits to AAA juggernauts. It was additionally a 12 months for delays, with various titles getting pushed out of the calendar 12 months solely. However final 12 months’s loss is that this 12 months’s acquire, so let us take a look at all of the upcoming area and sci-fi video games for 2026 to be excited for.
Some large sci-fi names are making their return to the gaming panorama this 12 months, with Halo: Marketing campaign Developed and Daybreak of Conflict 4 crashing in for a touchdown sooner or later in 2026, however we have additionally received a load of recent franchises and indie titles on the way in which too, throughout an enormous swathe of genres.
Shooters, roguelites, technique video games, flight simulators — we have peered into the longer term and curated this record of extra-terrestrial delights on your gaming pleasure. Here is our record of 11 upcoming area and sci-fi video games to be excited for in 2026.
1. Halo: Marketing campaign Developed
Launch date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Halo Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Collection X|S
The Halo remake prepare arrives in 2026 with a recent take a look at the unique sport, rebuilt from the bottom up in Unreal 5.
The Halo grandaddy seems to be recent within the new engine — trying even higher than Halo Infinite — and it comes with some thrilling new wrinkles. There are three never-before-seen prequel missions, a bunch of weapons, and gameplay additions from later Halos, and totally re-recorded dialogue from among the sport’s most important voice actors.
Most excitingly for non-Xbox avid gamers, Halo: Marketing campaign Developed will likely be obtainable from day one on PlayStation 5. The one draw back: because the title implies, it is a campaign-only launch, so new Sony adopters will not get entry to that well-known Halo multiplayer.
2. Saros
Launch date: April 30, 2026 | Developer: Housemarque | Platforms: PS5
Introduced again in February 2025, Saros is the following sci-fi motion sport from developer Housemarque. Set on the “shapeshifting” alien planet of Carcosa, it follows a lone enforcer (performed by Midnight Mass’ Rahul Kohli) exploring a doomed colony.
Saros seems to be like a promising follow-up to Returnal, incorporating all of the frenetic motion and satisfying alien-blasting of the earlier sport, whereas additionally bringing in its personal time-loop mechanic to justify the live-die-repeat gameplay type that Housemarque is quick changing into recognized for.
Within the gameplay trailer, we see our most important character teleporting throughout the panorama, gunning down aliens with a wide range of weapons, and absorbing enemy projectiles earlier than sending them flying again to destroy his foes. Like Returnal, it is also a roguelite, with Housemarque promising that everlasting enhancements will likely be obtainable between runs to make gamers extra highly effective and sturdy in future makes an attempt.
3. Pragmata
Launch date: April 24, 2026 | Developer: Capcom | Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Collection X|S
Pragmata has been on our radar since method again in 2020, however our curiosity was revived when it confirmed up on the State of Play June 2025 showcase. It is a third-person motion sport with two protagonists that gamers management concurrently: an astronaut named Hugh and his petite android companion Diana.
Hugh drives many of the fight, with a wide range of weapons and a jetpack, whereas Diana makes life simpler for him by hacking into enemy techniques and robots. Collectively, the pair must navigate their method by a lunar station that is misplaced contact and decide why the station’s AI has determined to exterminate its human creators.
The result’s a mix of high-octane fight interspersed with frenetic hacking puzzles that is trying like a tasty, atmospheric sci-fi cocktail. Signal us up.
4. Directive 8020
Launch date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Supermassive Video games | Platforms: PC (Steam)
Talking of atmospheric, Directive 8020 seems to be like a delightfully grotesque addition to the area horror video games line-up. It is a part of the Darkish Photos Anthology from Supermassive Video games, the makers of Till Daybreak and The Quarry, which means it’s going to be a cinematic rollercoaster with gamers making life-or-death choices for the crew of a colony ship stranded on an alien planet.
In a distant future the place Earth is dying, humanity pins its hopes on discovering a liveable house amongst the celebs. The colony ship Cassiopeia crash-lands on what it hopes is a planet that may maintain human life, however to the crew’s disagreeable shock, they uncover a violent alien organism as an alternative. This beast can take the form of its prey, resulting in paranoia and dissension on par with John Carpenter’s seminal traditional The Factor.
The builders have additionally mentioned that the crew of the Cassiopeia could finally have to decide on between their very own survival and the survival of everybody again on Earth, aka the Ellen Ripley dilemma.
5. Area Tales
Launch date: Q1 2026 | Developer: Saigon Dragon Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam)
On the alternative finish of the vibes spectrum lives Area Tales, a manic, cartoonish real-time technique sport that pits killing machines towards eldritch horrors from past the celebs. In a story as outdated as time, humanity has expanded too far, too quick in its bid to colonize all of recognized area, and woke up historic (and really hostile) cosmic entities bent on our destruction.
Because the consultant for the armed wing of a human empire, you are tasked with subduing these Lovecraftian abominations and securing a foothold for humanity on alien worlds. With huge armies clashing throughout 16 distinct factions, Area Tales guarantees to mix RTS motion with a choice-driven narrative.
The branching story will discover a galactic conspiracy, revealing that humanity’s improvement has been influenced by darkish powers past our comprehension.
6. Lunar Strike
Launch date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Cognition | Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Collection X|S
Whereas many of the video games on this record lean closely into the fiction facet of science fiction, Lunar Strike is aiming to ship a near-future story grounded in actual mechanics. This narrative-driven sport will activity you with surviving on the Moon after sabotage disables most of the core techniques of a lunar colony. We chatted with the builders final 12 months when it was revealed, and we won’t wait to see extra in 2026.
Regardless of the aggressive-sounding title, there is not any fight in Lunar Strike. As an alternative, should examine the historical past of the colony and try to reserve it from an impending catastrophe, all whereas struggling to outlive within the harsh lunar surroundings devoid of oxygen.
As a forensic scientist, you may uncover the true nature of the colony and its historical past and outline its legacy by selecting which components to protect and what to toss into the rubbish bin of historical past. The sport attracts on real-world lunar analysis to aim to precisely mannequin completely different environments and situations on the Moon.
7. Warhammer 40,000: Daybreak of Conflict 4
Launch date: TBA 2026 | Developer: KING Artwork | Platforms: PC (Steam)
Within the grim darkness of 2004, there was solely Daybreak of Conflict. This sci-fi hit helped to redefine the real-time technique style, specializing in tactical-level engagements that pitted the mighty area marines towards the worst that the nightmarish gothic way forward for the Warhammer 40K universe needed to supply. In 2026, Daybreak of Conflict 4 will take us again into the limitless warfare of the far future for the primary time in nearly 9 years.
After two divisive sequels, the most recent sport guarantees to take us again to the collection’ roots, letting gamers management 4 separate factions throughout greater than 70 marketing campaign missions. The Orks and Area Marines return alongside the Necrons and Adeptus Mechanicus, the latter of which is making its debut for the collection.
Every faction has its personal devoted marketing campaign playable both solo or in co-op, and the brand new fight system guarantees a give attention to hyper-detailed fight with Warhammer’s signature gory panache.
8. Remnant Protocol
Launch date: TBA 2026 | Developer: Progenitor Recreation Studios Ltd. | Platforms: PC (Steam)
Remnant Protocol is a brand new twist on the space-sim, starship dogfighting components. At its core, it guarantees a frenetic area fight sport the place you juggle ship techniques and search out enemy fighters from the cockpit of your customizable ship, however the true draw is the technique layer.
Remnant Protocol takes place in a galaxy fractured by civil warfare after the chief of a sprawling empire, the Blessed Mom, was assassinated. You play as a loyalist attempting to guide the surviving trustworthy to deposing the usurpers and different factions making an attempt to fill the void left within the wake of her homicide. To take action, it’s essential develop and manufacture new ships, make alliances, and analysis new tech, all the time attempting to remain a step forward of your opponents, who’re always scouring for the placement of your secret base.
Remnant Protocol has the potential to mix the tactical depth of X-COM with the sort of frantic dogfights you’d anticipate from the finest area flight sims, and that seems like an intoxicating combine.
9. Falling Frontier
Launch date: TBA | Developer: Stutter Fox Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam)
There’s one thing uniquely humbling about watching enormous fleets of huge starships have interaction in fight throughout an unimaginably huge swath of stars, and Falling Frontier seems to be to ship that in spades.
Falling Frontier takes place in a procedurally-generated star system, tasking you with constructing a faction of fractured humanity up from a single area port to a galactic empire. You will analysis cutting-edge ship expertise to remain forward of your militant rivals whereas constructing colonies, spaceports, and glassing whole worlds with planet-killing orbital strikes.
One of many coolest issues for us is the depth of the ship design system, which helps you to modify the weapons and utility techniques of your vessels to finest fit your playstyle and crush your opponents. We’re additionally enormous followers of the exhausting sci-fi stylings of this universe — positively one for followers of The Expanse to take a look at.
10. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Launch date: Q1 2026 | Developer: Alt Shift | Platforms: PC (Steam)
Battlestar Galactica is all concerning the determined wrestle for survival, and Scattered Hopes seems to be to distill that have down right into a compelling roguelike expertise. It takes place shortly after the Cylon assault that just about annihilated humanity, and places you on the helm of a splinter fleet of survivors attempting to hyperlink up with the principle Battlestar Galactica fleet.
As within the present, you may be operating and preventing delaying actions in an try and evade the overwhelming Cylon forces lengthy sufficient to seek out the core of human survivors. You will face a number of crises of infiltration and useful resource administration, all whereas attempting to fulfill the disparate factions in search of a controlling stake in your little fleet.
Inevitably, the Cylons will catch you, and it is then a matter of creating the most effective use of your fighters and nukes whilst you calculate an FTL escape route. The objective is to make it out of every encounter with as little injury as potential, serving to as lots of your folks as potential to achieve the principle fleet. And in case you fail, it is a roguelike, so that you get to go once more. Bear in mind, all of this has occurred earlier than. All of this may occur once more.
11. Starship Simulator
Launch date: TBA | Developer: Fleetyard Studios | Platforms: PC (Steam)
For a sci-fi fan — and particularly a Star Trek fan — there isn’t a higher sci-fi fantasy than being a crew member on the starship Enterprise.
Starship Simulator goals to allow us to dwell out these Trekkie fantasies, enlisting us on board a “realistically” modeled, totally explorable starship with simulated techniques composed of hundreds of parts. As a part of a crew of greater than 200 (that may be performed by a mixture of actual gamers and NPCs), you may want to take care of and gas your seven-deck starship whereas exploring a full-scale Milky Manner galaxy.
As you discover, you may probe the surfaces of alien planets for relics, assets, and new expertise, permitting you to improve your ship and its capabilities. Starship Simulator guarantees to convey the immersive components that different titles have supplied piecemeal all altogether in a single huge gestalt simulation that, if profitable, may steal lots of of hours of your (and your mates’) time. VR assist can be deliberate for an much more immersive expertise. We will not wait to get misplaced on this one.
