The Biggest Game Releases of July 2026

[00:00] Hello everybody. July is here or almost

[00:02] here or possibly well underway already.

[00:04] Whenever you're watching this, hopefully

[00:06] you've got the time to play some video

[00:07] games because there are some brand new

[00:09] ones on the way. Here are July 2026's

[00:12] biggest game releases.

[00:22] Before we get started, just a friendly

[00:24] reminder that we do our very best to

[00:25] make these videos as accurate as

[00:27] possible, but release dates are subject

[00:29] to change. whether it's because of a

[00:30] sudden delay or perhaps a lastminute

[00:32] launch date announcement. Also,

[00:34] sometimes we forget a game or get some

[00:35] details wrong. So, for best results,

[00:37] always check your local listings. And

[00:39] please be kind. We're only human. Now,

[00:41] on to the games. On July 2nd, Groove is

[00:44] in the heart. And also on Nintendo

[00:46] Switch, Rhythm Heaven Groove. That is

[00:48] the long overdue new installment in the

[00:50] quirky musical button matcher features

[00:51] more than 80 mini games and you can play

[00:53] with up to three friends at once. On

[00:56] July 7th, if you're not quite done

[00:57] ripping and tearing until it is done,

[00:59] well, neither was ID. Doom the Dark Ages

[01:02] gets a major expansion in the form of

[01:04] Revelations, which adds new story

[01:05] content, new enemies, and a new weapon

[01:07] in the form of a hella sick chain spear.

[01:10] Gnarly, that is on everything that Doom:

[01:11] The Dark Ages is already out for. Still,

[01:14] that day is Moonlight Peaks on both

[01:15] Switches and PC. This is a nocturnal

[01:18] sanguinarian spin on Stardew Valley in

[01:20] which you play as Dracula's kid, and I'm

[01:22] guessing the old man isn't too thrilled

[01:23] on your career choice. Is there a bigger

[01:26] insult to a bloodrinking nobleman than

[01:27] to spend your time toiling like a

[01:29] peasant growing vegetables? Well,

[01:31] possibly falling in love with a

[01:32] backpacking doofus, voiced by Andy

[01:34] Samberg, but that's a whole other story.

[01:36] Speaking of awesome, that cape thing is

[01:38] killing it. If being a vampire farmer

[01:41] sounds stupid and you think you're too

[01:43] edgy and cool for that, on July 9th, you

[01:45] can be a pirate ninja instead in

[01:47] Assassin's Creed Black Flag Reynct. As

[01:50] I'm sure you're well aware, this is a

[01:51] groundup remake of the fan favorite

[01:53] entry in Ubisoft's historically accurate

[01:55] parkour murder simulator. Aside from the

[01:57] obvious visual overhaul, this adds a

[01:59] slew of quality of life improvements and

[02:01] some new story content as well. That

[02:03] one's on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC. And I

[02:06] don't care what anyone says, assassins

[02:07] are just international ninjas. Italian

[02:10] ninjas, Egyptian ninjas. They're just

[02:12] ninjas from different places that aren't

[02:14] Japan, except for that one where they're

[02:15] from Japan, in which case that's just a

[02:17] regular ass ninja. Still that day is

[02:19] backyard baseball the first new entry in

[02:21] the superdeformed sports series since

[02:23] 2015 which lets you engage in that great

[02:25] all-American pastime by controlling a

[02:27] gaggle of barely humanoid avatars voiced

[02:30] by a star-studded cast that includes

[02:32] Mark Maguire and Sammy Sosa. If I

[02:34] encountered one of these horrid things

[02:35] in real life and it opened its mouth and

[02:37] spoke to me with an adult man's voice, I

[02:39] don't think I could continue to function

[02:40] in society after that. Anyway, that's on

[02:43] Mac and PC with console versions on the

[02:45] way at some point. Okay, let's do this.

[02:49] >> If you're repulsed by the idea of a

[02:50] baseball game about cartoon children,

[02:52] perhaps a football game about n

[02:54] photorealistic college students is a

[02:55] slight improvement, maybe. Well, in any

[02:57] case, you can toss around the old pig

[02:59] skin with members of your alma moater in

[03:01] EA Sports College Football 27, which is

[03:03] on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC. If you

[03:06] rolled credits on Grand Blue Fantasy

[03:08] Relink and found yourself disappointed

[03:10] by its depressingly finite amounts of

[03:12] Ragnarok, well, great news because Grand

[03:14] Blue Fantasy Relink endless Ragnarok is

[03:17] a major expansion that includes plenty

[03:19] of new content. And based on the title,

[03:21] it's also an all you can eat smores

[03:23] board of a Norse styled apocalypse. Or

[03:25] maybe it's just a cool sounding subtitle

[03:27] for a JRPG. I don't know. That one's on

[03:29] both PlayStation Switch 2 and PC. On

[03:32] July 10th, Digimon Story Time Stranger

[03:34] comes to Switch 2. Now, mind you, it's

[03:36] imperative you put the colon in the

[03:38] right place in this title because

[03:39] otherwise it sounds like Digimon

[03:41] Storytime Stranger, which sounds like

[03:42] some sort of suspicious interloper in

[03:44] the children's section of a public

[03:45] library. And apologies have already made

[03:47] that joke when this game was released

[03:49] last year for Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.

[03:52] Also on the 10th is Echoes of Einr, an

[03:54] allnew action RPG based on the anime

[03:57] Sword Art Online, which ironically is a

[03:59] single player game and presumably

[04:00] doesn't require you to be online to play

[04:02] it. So, I guess it's more like Sword Art

[04:04] Offline. Either way, that is on PS5,

[04:06] Xbox Series, and PC. Usually, rogue

[04:08] lights cause time to speed up because

[04:10] you get sucked into a feedback loop and

[04:11] keep saying one more run. But on the

[04:13] 13th, you can do some time meddling of

[04:15] your own in Ascend to Zero, an isometric

[04:18] action rogike with some neat time

[04:20] manipulation mechanics. That one's on

[04:22] Xbox Series and PC. If you'd prefer

[04:24] something a little more grounded,

[04:26] there's forensics, Crime Scene

[04:27] Detective, which will let you carefully

[04:29] examine the ground and the walls and

[04:31] other surfaces in a place where

[04:32] something very bad happened. Are there

[04:34] bodily fluids on everything? Probably,

[04:36] but it's up to you to find out what kind

[04:38] of bodily fluids exactly and also

[04:40] probably solve a crime or something like

[04:42] that. That one's on Xbox Series, PS5,

[04:44] and PC. On the 15th is The Mound: Omen

[04:47] of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian, and

[04:49] firstperson co-op survival horror that

[04:51] will mess with you and your friends

[04:52] heads by distorting your perceptions of

[04:54] reality the further into it you venture.

[04:56] That one's on Xbox Series, PS5, and PC.

[05:00] If you want to distort your perception

[05:02] of video games about trains from

[05:03] relaxing simulations enjoyed by

[05:05] mildmannered railway enthusiasts into

[05:07] something completely extreme that should

[05:09] appeal to loud people with backwards

[05:11] hats. Dense Attack is a literal training

[05:13] sim that is even more literally off the

[05:15] rails. I probably told you about this

[05:17] game last month, but it got delayed to

[05:19] July 15th. That's on the newer consoles

[05:21] and PC. If you want to play a baseball

[05:23] game that features realistic human

[05:25] beings playing in an actual regulation

[05:27] stadium, not just weird big-headed

[05:29] warlocks waddling around in a vacant

[05:31] lot, well, you're in luck because

[05:32] eBaseball Pro Spirit looks like a

[05:34] nononsense sports sim that captures all

[05:36] of the thrills of the old ball game.

[05:38] That one's on PS5 and PC. A day later,

[05:41] there's Heaveho 2, the follow-up to the

[05:43] hit 2019 physics-based party game, which

[05:46] now features online co-op in addition to

[05:48] offline and a bunch of new gadgets that

[05:50] should make the experience even more

[05:52] hilariously frustrating or perhaps

[05:54] frustratingly hilarious. That's on both

[05:56] Switches and PC. Still on July 16th,

[05:59] also on both Switches and PC, is Cold

[06:01] Sept Begins, the first new entry in the

[06:03] Card Battler RPG dating back to the Sega

[06:05] Saturn that hasn't had a new installment

[06:07] in a decade. What is Cold Sept, you ask?

[06:10] Well, I looked it up and apparently it

[06:11] is a port manto of cold and concept. I

[06:14] called it told you that. If you want to

[06:16] get some exercise or work out some

[06:18] aggression or potentially just break a

[06:20] lamp for fun, there's fitness boxing 3,

[06:22] your personal trainer on Switch 2. If

[06:24] you'd rather only simulate getting some

[06:26] exercise because it's too damn hot out

[06:28] to be jumping around breaking lamps,

[06:30] look no further than Instant Sports 2.

[06:32] That is a casual pick upandplay

[06:34] collection of 10 sports mini games which

[06:36] can be played instantly by one to four

[06:38] players on PS5 and Switch. Meanwhile, on

[06:41] PC, there's Hyper Primeate, which looks

[06:43] sort of like Donkey Kong 64. If Donkey

[06:45] Kong 64 was an ultraviolent firstperson

[06:47] shooter about speedrunning levels using

[06:49] nauseatingly fast parkour skills.

[06:52] There's also Happyy's Humble Burgatory,

[06:54] which looks sort of like Overcooked. If

[06:56] Overcooked was an ultraviolent

[06:57] firstperson co-op survival horror game

[06:59] about running a fast food restaurant and

[07:01] also running away from that thing. If

[07:03] you want to go viral in the literal

[07:05] sense, Pathogenic is a roglike shooter

[07:07] where you play as a germ trying to

[07:09] infect a human host. If you'd rather

[07:11] play as a human in a time before anyone

[07:12] knew germs existed, there's the guild

[07:14] Europa 1410, an economic sim where you

[07:17] climb the social ranks in the Middle

[07:18] Ages without ever washing your hands.

[07:20] Both of those are on PC. Leaving early

[07:23] access on PC that day and launching for

[07:25] all the other new consoles is Ratatan,

[07:27] which is kind of like Patapon, but with

[07:28] Rattas and Tans instead of PAS and

[07:31] pawns. I don't really know much about

[07:33] Patapon, but when I started working at

[07:34] IGN way back in 2015, they gave me Greg

[07:37] Miller's old desk, and all that was in

[07:38] it was a handle of rum, a 2 L bottle of

[07:41] orange soda, half a dozen PSPs in

[07:43] various states of disrepair, and a

[07:45] single copy of Patapon. What does it

[07:47] mean? Besides special effects, one thing

[07:49] that made Star Wars stand out when it

[07:51] was first released in 1977 was that

[07:53] unlike the sterile, squeaky clean look

[07:55] of earlier sci-fi films, this galaxy

[07:57] far, Far Away had a distinctively grimy

[07:59] used future aesthetic. But if you're a

[08:01] neat freak and can't stand that

[08:02] disgusting mess, the Powerwash Simulator

[08:05] 2 Star Wars pack lets you blast the

[08:06] scum, villain, carbon scoring, and

[08:08] mediclorans off a variety of grebly

[08:11] covered surfaces. That's on everything

[08:12] that Powerwash Simulator 2 is already

[08:14] out for. On July 20th, there's Raccoons

[08:17] to Riches, a roglike deck builder in

[08:19] which you play as a raccoon wearing

[08:20] old-timey attire and managing a

[08:22] business. I was about to talk some crap

[08:24] about putting clothes on a raccoon, and

[08:26] then I remember that I've had a stuffed

[08:28] raccoon wearing a Hawaiian shirt and

[08:29] sunglasses on my living room wall for

[08:31] almost 15 years. So, maybe I should make

[08:33] like the varmint in this game and mind

[08:35] my own business. Which, fun fact is what

[08:37] you call a group of ferrets. A group of

[08:40] raccoons is called a gays. And anyone

[08:42] who tells you otherwise on a podcast is

[08:44] a fool and a liar. I'm not going to name

[08:45] names here. On July 23rd, there's

[08:48] Disgaya Mayhem, which puts a real-time

[08:50] action focused spin on the combat in the

[08:53] traditionally orderly turn-based JRPG

[08:55] series. That's on PS5, both Switches,

[08:57] and PC. Exclusively on Switch 2, there

[09:00] is Splatoon Raiders, a single player

[09:02] take on Nintendo's hit series about

[09:04] teenage seephalopod vandals, which you

[09:06] can also play co-op with your poorly

[09:08] behaved, disgusting human friends. On

[09:10] Switch One and PC, there's Helix Descent

[09:12] and Ascent, which is a neat

[09:14] monochromatic puzzle adventure game.

[09:16] Elsewhere in the realm of mostly black

[09:17] and white games, there's the Boss Rush

[09:19] sidescroller, Guray. And finally, if you

[09:22] want to point at and possibly click on

[09:23] some dinosaurs, Therapods is a wordless

[09:26] prehistoric adventure game that looks to

[09:27] have some old school Lucas Art

[09:29] sensibilities, though hopefully its

[09:30] puzzle logic isn't quite as obtuse.

[09:33] Those last two are just on PC for now.

[09:36] On the 24th, there's an extremely hard

[09:38] game, a co-op physics game that looks

[09:40] like a shell of a good time, assuming

[09:42] nobody cracks under pressure since that

[09:44] might ruffle some feathers. Look, I'm

[09:46] clearly not having my best egg and bird

[09:48] pun, so I'm let this one go. That's on

[09:51] PC. On the 27th, there's Skills and

[09:54] Raids, a party-based extraction RPG

[09:56] where you have to manage your team

[09:58] members abilities and cool downs in real

[09:59] time. And this game has some really cool

[10:01] art, but man, maybe workshop that title.

[10:04] I'm not sure if this is an SEO or

[10:05] algorithm play, but it kind of reminds

[10:07] me of those businesses that name

[10:08] themselves common search terms like

[10:10] Breakfast Restaurant near me. Anyway, if

[10:12] you want to play a game that has skills

[10:14] and also raids, skills and raids has

[10:16] skills and also raids and it's on PC. If

[10:19] you'd like to revisit a classic game

[10:21] from the turn of the century with a

[10:23] fresh coat of current gen paint, look no

[10:25] further than Halo Campaign Evolved. This

[10:27] is a complete overhaul of Bungie's

[10:29] seminal shooter rebuilt in Unreal Engine

[10:31] 5 with a dash of brand new content and

[10:33] some features that weren't in the

[10:34] original, like being able to play the

[10:36] entire campaign in third person. As the

[10:38] title suggests, this is just the

[10:40] campaign, which is unfortunate

[10:41] considering how beloved that multiplayer

[10:43] was. That one's on Xbox Series, PC, and

[10:46] >> No, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait,

[10:48] wait wait wait wait wait.

[10:49] >> PlayStation 5. Halo is on PlayStation 5.

[10:51] I can't. That's weird. It just feels

[10:53] weird to say.

[10:54] >> I lost something once.

[10:57] I lost something I couldn't live

[10:59] without.

[11:01] My identity.

[11:03] >> Congratulations, Halo. You're on PS5.

[11:05] That's I'm not against it. It's just

[11:06] It's just strange. If you want to

[11:08] revisit another beloved game released in

[11:10] late November 2001, and that recent

[11:12] Gothic remake didn't cut it for you, you

[11:14] can also play the original RPG that day

[11:17] in Gothic Classic. That one's hitting

[11:19] all the PlayStations and Xboxes on July

[11:21] 28th, and it's been on Switch since

[11:23] 2023, and it's been on PC since 2001, I

[11:26] guess. Still on the 28th on PC and Xbox

[11:29] series is Go North, a cozy adventure

[11:31] centered around mazes and puzzles. And

[11:33] man, this month's episode really seemed

[11:35] like it was going to be a breeze. And

[11:36] then Steam Nextfest went and happened

[11:38] when I was midscript, and suddenly the

[11:39] script got a lot longer. On the 29th,

[11:42] Mistfall Hunter hits PC, Xbox Series,

[11:44] and PS5, which is a dark fantasy

[11:46] extraction RPG. So, kind of a solid

[11:48] blend between the tense PvP gameplay

[11:50] loop of something like Tarov or Marathon

[11:52] or Arc Raiders, but with a heavy

[11:53] Soulslike influence. And it might sound

[11:55] like a combination of two things we

[11:57] already have a whole lot of, but there's

[11:58] quite a bit of positive buzz for this

[12:00] one after a recent beta. On July 30th,

[12:03] there's Kusan City of Wolves, which

[12:05] clearly has some Hotline Miami DNA, but

[12:07] swaps out the 80s synth wave for Korean

[12:09] hiphop and looks to have a bit more

[12:11] customization to suit different play

[12:12] styles. That one's on both PlayStations,

[12:14] the newer Xboxes, Switch, and PC.

[12:17] Still that day, there's Trxton Extreme.

[12:19] That is a modern spin on the classic

[12:21] Schmup series that's been lying dormant

[12:23] for the last 30 years. And now you can

[12:25] keep on Truckton on all the newer

[12:26] consoles and PC. Meanwhile, Xenolade

[12:29] Chronicles 2 gets an enhanced Switch 2

[12:31] version that day as well. On the 31st,

[12:34] there's Corsair Cove, an intricate city

[12:36] builder that's all about designing and

[12:37] running a shanty town of the Sea Shanty

[12:40] variety, namely a safe haven for

[12:42] pirates. As a '90s kid who grew up in

[12:44] the golden age of pirate Lego sets and

[12:46] the heyday of watching Hook repeatedly

[12:48] on VHS, this looks gorgeous and I

[12:50] applaud any game that puts out a

[12:51] screenshot highlighting that you can

[12:53] drink beer on a roof with a pig. I would

[12:56] do that. That looks like a great time.

[12:58] It's probably unsafe in a variety of

[13:00] ways, but I don't give a St. On the 31st

[13:02] is The Relic: The First Guardian, a dark

[13:05] fantasy action RPG with a heavy emphasis

[13:07] on dark. The combat looks cool, at least

[13:10] what you can make out. But hey, if you

[13:12] could figure out what was going on in

[13:13] those epic battles in that final season

[13:15] of Game of Thrones, you should be able

[13:16] to figure this one out, too. That one's

[13:18] on PS5 and PC with Switch and Xbox

[13:20] versions coming later on. Finally, Paw

[13:23] Patrol Dino World sends those adorable

[13:25] first responder dogs to an island full

[13:28] of dinosaurs. I don't know, guys, this

[13:30] seems kind of like a bad idea. A lot of

[13:31] those dinosaurs eat meat, and they would

[13:33] probably eat the dogs. I feel like this

[13:35] would be a lot less acceptable if they

[13:36] did this with a live action property.

[13:38] Like if they did like an Airbuddies

[13:39] where they go to Jurassic World.

[13:41] Actually, I would rather watch that than

[13:42] Paw Patrol. That sounds like it would be

[13:44] weird. Anyway, who cares what I think?

[13:46] You can help these public servants rack

[13:48] up some fraudulent overtime into

[13:49] Jurassic jurisdiction on everything but

[13:51] Xbox One. Last but not least, Treyarch

[13:54] is threatening to re-release the

[13:56] original Calls of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2

[13:59] on PS4 and 5 sometime this month. They

[14:02] didn't give an exact release date, but

[14:03] they posted two images of men

[14:05] brandishing firearms menacingly, so I

[14:07] think we should take them seriously. I

[14:09] think they mean business. Folks, we did

[14:11] it. I managed to tell you about all

[14:13] these upcoming games coming out in the

[14:15] month of July, which I recently learned,

[14:16] but have always known in my heart is

[14:18] National Hot Dog Month. That's the way

[14:20] you like it.

[14:21] >> Extra mustard.

[14:24] If you're hearing me say this, that

[14:25] means you sat through me talking about

[14:27] all of these games and making my

[14:29] annoying aides, and I didn't annoy you

[14:30] so much that you turned it off and went

[14:32] and watched something else instead. So,

[14:33] thank you for that. As always, a huge

[14:35] thanks to everyone who helped this video

[14:36] come together, Amanda Medina, Logan

[14:38] Plant, and Chris Del Padre. And an even

[14:40] bigger thanks to you for watching. It

[14:42] would be weird if we made these videos

[14:43] and no one watched them. That would be

[14:45] sad. This year is only halfway over, and

[14:47] there have been quite a few major game

[14:48] releases already, but they are only just

[14:50] now starting to really ramp up. and we

[14:52] are putting together a huge look ahead

[14:54] at 2026's biggest game releases still to

[14:57] come. So, keep an eye out for that one.

[14:58] It's going to be a doozy. And in the

[15:00] meantime, I will see you next month for

[15:02] whatever's coming out in August. I don't

[15:04] even know what's coming out in August. I

[15:05] didn't look, but there's going to be

[15:06] some games. See you later.