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title: 'The Biggest Game Releases of September 2026'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=8CpXbD0FXBA'
video_id: '8CpXbD0FXBA'
date: 2026-08-22
duration_sec: 740
channel: 'IGN'
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# The Biggest Game Releases of September 2026

> Source: [The Biggest Game Releases of September 2026](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8CpXbD0FXBA)

## Summary

This video provides a comprehensive overview of the biggest video game releases scheduled for September 2026, covering a wide range of genres and platforms. The host highlights key titles, their unique features, and release dates, while also offering personal commentary and humorous asides.

### Key Points

- **Deck Builder Graal and Bio Eden** [00:55] — Graal is a fantasy deck builder where cards do the battling for you, with runs lasting 15-45 minutes. Bio Eden also drops on PC a couple days later.
- **Fantasy Action RPG in 14th Century Europe** [01:20] — A fantasy action RPG set in 14th century Europe, where you play as Cohen, engaging with humans by day and monsters by night. Available on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.
- **Orbitals Co-op on Switch** [01:35] — Orbitals is a gorgeous two-player co-op game on Switch, reminiscent of Split Fiction or It Takes Two, with a classic bubble era OVA anime aesthetic.
- **Marsupilami 2 Platformer** [01:49] — Marsupilami 2: Salsa Columbiana is a colorful 2.5D platformer releasing on September 4th for Switch One, Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.
- **Onimusha: Warlords Returns** [02:03] — Onimusha: Warlords returns, featuring legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi battling yokai and demonic bosses. It's not a Souls-like but the original action series from PS2.
- **Halloween Game from IllFonic** [02:44] — A new Halloween game from IllFonic, featuring Michael Myers, with both single and multiplayer components. Available on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.
- **Psychological Horror Game** [03:27] — A short-form first-person psychological horror game about a hikikomori, featuring returning characters from Broken Lore Don't Watch. Available on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.
- **NHL 27** [03:40] — NHL 27 releases on Xbox Series and PS5.
- **Insomniac's Wolverine** [04:06] — Insomniac's long-awaited Wolverine game arrives on PS5, featuring visceral combat and interactions with characters like Mystique and Sabretooth.
- **RuneScape Dragon Wilds Full Release** [04:31] — RuneScape Dragon Wilds, an open-world survival game, gets a full release on Steam and current-gen consoles after early access.
- **Duo Quest Co-op Card Game** [04:45] — Duo Quest is a co-op card-based battling game with social elements.
- **Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave** [04:58] — Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave hits Switch 2, introducing a multi-protagonist structure spread over parallel timelines.
- **Another Eden Begins** [05:11] — Another Eden Begins is a reworking of the free-to-play mobile game, likely removing gacha elements. Available on both Switches and PC.
- **Trails in the Sky Second Chapter** [05:25] — Trails in the Sky Second Chapter releases on both Switches, PS5, and PC.
- **Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy** [05:41] — Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy is a co-op action RPG puzzle game on both Switches, Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.
- **NASCAR 26** [05:56] — NASCAR 26 hits PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, described as a fairly iterative step up from last year's installment.
- **Grinch 2: Saving Christmas** [06:23] — Grinch 2: Saving Christmas is a 3D platformer where the Grinch collects lost Christmas trees.
- **Dune Awakening Single-Player Campaign** [07:27] — Dune Awakening adds a dedicated single-player campaign on PS5 and PC, benefiting from a year of player feedback.
- **Control Resident** [07:52] — Control Resident is the direct sequel to IGN's 2019 game of the year, part of the weird interconnected universe with Alan Wake 2 and FBC Firebreak.
- **Silent Hill Townfall** [08:19] — Silent Hill Townfall continues the franchise's upward trajectory, using a first-person perspective for the first time (not counting PT). Available on PS5 and PC.
- **EA Sports FC 27** [08:45] — EA Sports FC 27 releases on September 24th, with early access for the ultimate edition starting September 18th.
- **Farming Camp** [08:57] — Farming Camp is a cozy game about an ambitious teenager competing to be the best farmer. Available on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, One, and PC.
- **Hot Wheels Infinite Rush** [09:38] — Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is a rocket-powered car shaped like a duck off a ramp, in a bonkers open world full of stunt tracks. From the team behind Hot Wheels Unleashed.
- **Garfield Game** [10:03] — Garfield has night terrors about TV chefs and what happens if he eats a vegetarian lasagna. There is no Garfield Souls-like.
- **Decklings** [10:31] — Decklings is another deck builder, a lower-lift genre that helps studios find their footing.
- **Minecraft Dungeons 2 and Gothic 2** [11:22] — Minecraft Dungeons 2 is current gen, Switch 1, and PC. Gothic 2 is now on both PlayStations and both Xboxes.
- **Nowhere** [11:34] — Nowhere is a detective game with survival horror rooted in Norse mythology, releasing on PC only.

## Transcript

and in terms of video games, this month is a doozy. Here are September 2026's is a doozy. Here are September 2026's biggest game releases.
make these videos accurate and comprehensive and up-to-date, but game also delayed last minute, so please always check your local listings. Also, would be a lift for us under normal circumstances, but we've got to get this
plane to Germany to produce a week-long when Rockstar is also revealing Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay and everybody else wasn't enough, my kid brought home some fun new germs from her first week of
thing with a nasty sore throat through a haze of cough medicine. So, if we [ __ ] anything up or leave anything out, have a heart, we're human beings. On fantasy deck builders, you can throw another one on the pile when Graal comes
to PC, but the hook here is that your cards do the battling for you and the runs are on the shorter side, clocking in around 15 to 45 minutes. If you also Bio Eden is another one of those dropping a couple days later on PC as
though, the biggest game dropping on the Walker. And if you're chomping at the bit for The Witcher 4 or that Blade game that may come out someday, this might be worth sinking your teeth into in the
fantasy action RPG set in a monster-infested 14th century Europe where you play as Cohen who can engage with the affairs of humans by daylight when the sun goes down. That one's on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC. Meanwhile,
exclusively on Switch, there's Orbitals, the absolutely gorgeous two-player co-op Split Fiction or It Takes Two, but looks like classic bubble era OVA anime like Urusei Yatsura or Project A-ko. If you're more into Belgian comics from the
1950s than anime from the 1980s, also that day is Marsupilami 2: Salsa Columbiana, a colorful 2.5D platformer coming to Switch One, Xbox Series, PS5, and PC on September 4th. Another big one is Onimusha: Warlords,
long-dormant slice and dice 'em up series. You play as legendary real-world swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, who's modeled after legendary real-world movie duke it out with all sorts of not-so-real-world ill-natured yokai and
demonic bosses. At a glance, this might look a bit like a Souls-like, but it's the original Onimusha series helped pioneer back on PS2. I initially balked on September 8th, but considering that Target, Home Depot, and IKEA all start
rolling out their spooky season at the crack of dawn on August 1st, I'll let it slide. Regardless, you can shape up and ship out as Michael Myers, >> the other Michael Myers, and terrorize
is from IllFonic, who brought us multiplayer games based on Friday the Predator, and Ghostbusters, and Halloween will have both single and multiplayer components this time around. That's on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC,
apparently banned because you can smoke a virtual doobie. tolerated in Baracoa. >> The simulated murder? No problem. But glorifying a plant that turns regular Chex Mix into Chex Bold Party Mix right
Swim cartoons feel like a 4DX experience? >> No trial, no no nothing. >> If you want a horror game about never is the latest entry in the short-form first-person psychological horror
hikikomori and features returning characters from Broken Lore Don't Watch. mental health hasn't improved much since their last appearances. That one's on their last appearances. That one's on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC. On the 11th,
you can whack the puck out of some HE double hockey sticks in NHL 27 on Xbox Series and PS5. I don't know about hockey, but if they announce Letterkenny faster than you can say before beach bodies bros better bundle up in boots,
blankets, and balaclavas because a bloody bitter breeze will blow brisk, Canadians, on the 15th, it's claw bearing time, and Insomniac's long-awaited take on the old Canucklehead finally arrives on PS5.
and what he does ain't pretty, and Insomniac is among the best at what they do, which generally is really pretty. And while the visuals in the latest game are not in question whatsoever, I am very curious if this has the same oomph
am happy to hear that in between eviscerating cyborgs and ninjas, I'll also be able to play Never Have I Ever with Mystique and pound some shots with Sabretooth. That same day, RuneScape Dragon Wilds, the open-world survival
current-gen consoles and gets a full release on Steam after a lengthy and well-received early access period. A day later, if you're somehow already builder and have a friend who's also in the same boat, get a load of Duo Quest.
It puts a co-op spin on card-based battling, but injects some social elements as well. On the 17th, Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave hits Switch 2, turn-based tactics RPG series that introduces a multi-protagonist structure
spread over parallel timelines. In case that's not enough JRPG time travel for Begins, which has its roots in the free-to-play mobile game Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space, but is apparently a whole reworking, and based
front, I'm guessing that means they got rid of some of the free-to-play gacha elements. That one's on both Switches and PC. If you're in the mood for a JRPG as I can tell, there's Trails in the Sky Second Chapter, which is on both
Switches, PS5, and PC. And if you want something that isn't a JRPG, but does Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy, the latest in the co-op action RPG puzzle mechanic, and that one's on both Switches, Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.
On the 18th, NASCAR 26 hits PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, and based on the chatter fairly iterative step up from last year's installment, which had some room first games I ever previewed was NASCAR The Game 2011, which involved playing
the game at an actual NASCAR race, but also the PR guy pushing me around in a car. There's more to this story, but it actually makes less sense in context. >> Is that a game? If so, it's >> I got a message for all of them, all
>> What does that do? Does that blow your mind? and IKEA probably have their Christmas stuff out already, so why not drop a new Grinch 2: Saving Christmas. As you'll recall, the original story concludes
with the Grinch's heart engorging by about 300% over a 24-hour period. This would likely kill most organisms with a cardiovascular system, but in the personality shift, or perhaps manic episode, which completely changes the
viridian cryptid's outlook on holiday festivities. Anyway, in this 3D foul-tempered yuletide goblin jump around collecting lost Christmas tree everywhere in the first place. It's good that he's making amends, but personally,
have the Grinch channeling his anti-materialistic agenda into helping the Lorax liberate the Truffula Forest from the Once-ler family's seed manufacturing empire. It'd be like Far Cry 4, but with Bar-ba-loots and
Swomee-Swans instead of honey badgers and vicious eagles. Oh, I'm sorry, did sequitur tangent? Because it's actually a segue to the next game, which is also based on a piece of classic literature, and also is centered on waging guerrilla
precious natural resource, and that game is DUNE AWAKENING. >> I'M POINTING THE WAY. >> IS THAT A GAME?
PS5 with the addition of an all-new dedicated single-player campaign, which will hit PC that day as well as part of an update. This launched as an MMO type things, it's been veering in a more solo-friendly direction since launch,
benefit from a year's worth of player feedback from the PC crowd. So, if you're trying to pass a few hundred hours until Dune 3, this is one way to keep busy. On September 24th, there are too many games coming out. Control
Resident is a big one. This is the direct sequel to IGN's 2019 game of the weirdo interconnected universe. So, it may as well be a sequel of sorts to Alan Wake 2 and maybe even their extraction shooter FBC Firebreak. But, whatever it
Souls-like even if it sort of looks like one. That one's on Xbox Series, PS5, and Silent Hill Townfall is another big one and it seems to be continuing the upward trajectory of Konami's beloved psychological horror franchise. Between
all-new Silent Hill F, it seems like the publisher is following Capcom's lead with Resident Evil and much like Capcom did with Resident Evil 7, this is taking Hill experience and putting it in a first-person perspective, which is the
first game in the series to do so, not counting PT. So, hopefully it pays off. That one's on PS5 and PC. Hey, what's the opposite of a silent hill? Well, a noisy valley. But, a loud field is close enough and you can kick a ball back and
forth across some nice flat grass while a whole lot of people yell at you in EA Sports FC 27. That's out on the 24th, as well, with early access for the ultimate edition starting September 18th. If you'd rather toil in the fields of an
agrarian variety, you can do so in Farming Camp, a cozy little game whose protagonist Alessandra is described as an ambitious teenager competing to be the best farmer. But, in my experience, the kinds of teens who wind up at farm
ambitious about convincing strangers to buy them vanilla Smirnoff and more at shoplifting from Claire's. Maybe this isn't that kind of farming camp. Find out for yourself on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, One, and PC. Some might tell you
but that's not just morally wrong, it's factually inaccurate. A true infinite rush is launching a rocket-powered car shaped like a duck off a ramp shaped something you can do in Hot Wheels Infinite Rush. There are a lot of crappy
from the team that did the shockingly fun Hot Wheels Unleashed games, and this looks like those except in a bonkers open world full of stupid toy stunt tracks. So, I'm definitely checking it out. That one is on current gen and PC.
infinite rush? That bloated lethargic feeling you get after eating a big meal, which is apparently the state that Garfield constantly exists in whenever he's conscious. When he's unconscious, he has night terrors about TV chefs and
happens if he eats a vegetarian lasagna, which is literally the plot of Garfield Onimusha Warlords of the Sword and Control Resident, this is also not a think it was, but just so everyone's clear, there is no Garfield Souls-like
That one's on the newer big boxes and the old switch and whatever size or version PC can run it. On the 25th, there's Decklings, which is, you guessed it, another deck builder in case you need another one of those. And hey,
mean to crap on deck builders. Card-based games are a lower lift for don't involve a ton of animation, physics, level design, combat, and stuff studio to find its footing, learn how to work together, and possibly earn some
cash to put towards their next project. And really, I don't have a leg to stand on because I too once helped develop a deck builder. That's right. I admit it. trailer possible for it. >> DO YOU LIKE TRADING CARD GAMES? YEAH.
YOUR COMMANDERS, PICK YOUR SHIPS, ARM YOUR WEAPONS, AND DEPLOY YOUR FORCES. >> AWESOME. >> Stack & Deploy. Now available on the App Store for free.
>> September 29th, you can take your pick of battling angular polygonal fantasy foes are deliberately boxy because it's Classic, where they look that way because it's a port of a game from 2003,
and that's how games looked back then. Anyway, Minecraft Dungeons 2 is current gen, Switch 1, and PC. And Gothic 2 was already on PC and Switch, but now it's on both the PlayStations and both the Xboxes as well. And finally on September
30th, Nowhere sends you somewhere to solve some mysteries infusing detective gameplay with survival horror rooted in Norse mythology, and that one is just on PC for now. Well, folks, that just about does it. Like I said, this month was a
apologies if any games slipped through the cracks. I'm sure some stuff got catch up next month. If there's anything particularly noteworthy that did not the comments below. And as always, a big huge thanks to Amanda Medina and Crystal
Padre and Logan Plant for helping this video come together. And an even bigger to watch it. Thank you. I appreciate you. We'll be back next month with the creepiest, spookiest, and or altogether spookiest games of October. We'll see
you then, if we dare. Will we be there? Who knows? We're cowards. You'll never Who knows? We're cowards. You'll never know.