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2023 games: all the new and upcoming releases confirmed for next year
Let's get real. We're all thinking about 2023 games already, even though we're still several weeks from the end of this year. Some of the biggest releases we'd been anticipating this year got edge guarded into the next and there are guaranteed to be more release date casualties before December rolls around. Even though there are a lot of great games left on this year's docket, it can't hurt to take a peek ahead. I'm not the only one who starts thinking about what I want for tomorrow's breakfast while I'm still cooking today's dinner, right?
For the third year running, we've seen an increase in big games willing to push back their release dates to get a bit more development time. Not even just once, either. Some are still getting multiple delays before they finally hit our game libraries. Knowing that, let's call this a tentative 2023 games list. Inevitably, some of the names here will get kicked into the year 2024a frightful number for me to be forced to type already. When they do, we'll be keeping track right here, just like we are for the current year.
From what we know so far, 2023 is going to be a huge year for RPGs. A lot of major series with long-in-the-works sequels are targeting next year for release dates. Starfield's delay put it in the early part of 2023, Baldur's Gate 3's early access is planned to end with a full release during the year, and both Final Fantasy 16 and Diablo 4 are scheduled to turn up too.
Take a peek at next year's presents right now with all the games currently confirmed for 2023:
2023 GAMES: JANUARY
Persona 3
Release date: January 19, 2023
Yet another Persona series game is making the jump to PC this year. After Persona 4 Golden and then Persona 5 Royale, Persona 3 Portable is the next to get an official port. This is of course another teen sleuths modern fantasy shindig, and one of the weirder ones of the series to boot. In P3, characters fire a fantastical "Evoker," a thing which totally, definitely is not a gun, at their own heads to summon their Personas. Otherwise, Persona 3 is more of the time-management, mystery, and highschool hijinks from the rest of the RPG series.
Forspoken
Release date: January 24, 2023
Modern New York teenager Frey Holland winds up in the magical world of Athia and, of all things, parkour ensues. With a magical bracelet and some explosive magical abilities, Frey skates, jumps, and wall runs her way around Athia's open world. Forspoken made a real impression based on its lovely looks when it was first revealed and a slightly less great impression with excessive banter in a later trailer. We'll see how the two mix when it finally hits the streets.
Dead Space Remake
Release date: January 27, 2023
Motive is remaking the much-loved space horror shooter from 2008 and, based on the limited playtime we got a few months ahead of release in our Dead Space preview, it's a pretty faithful recreation. "The new Dead Space will be a lot like the old one, except with modern graphics, fewer mid-2000s bugs, and a far more detailed Ishimura," our executive editor Tyler Wilde said back in October. Severing alien limbs with a plasma cutter remains gruesomely enjoyable and the physics puzzles and no-HUD approach of the original both remain.
2023 GAMES: FEBRUARY
- February 2, 2023 Deliver Us Mars - Story driven space mystery
- February 3, 2023 Dead Island 2 - Zombie survival RPG infects California
- February 10, 2023 Hogwarts Legacy - Wizarding world RPG
- February 17, 2023 Wild Hearts - A monster hunting game from EA
- February 20, 2023 Atomic Heart - Sci-fi Soviet shooter
- February 23, 2023 Company of Heroes 3 - WW2 Mediterranean RTS
- February 23, 2023 Blood Bowl 3 - Fantasy football with goblins and gore
- February 23, 2023 Sons of the Forest - Woodsy horror survival
- February 24, 2023 Kerbal Space Program 2 - Physics disaster in space
- February 28, 2023 Destiny 2: Lightfall - Destiny does cyberpunk
- February 28, 2023 Scars Above - Body horror space adventure
2023 GAMES: MARCH
- March 1, 2023 The Day Before - Open world zombie survival MMO
- March 3, 2023 Last of Us Part 1 - Remastered Naughty Dog hit
- March 9, 2023 Skull & Bones(opens in new tab) - Ubisoft Pirating RPG
- March 17, 2023 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - Cal Lightsaber's dark middle chapter
- March 24, 2023 Resident Evil 4 remake - A reimagined story for Leon
- March 28, 2023 Crime Boss: Rockay City - First-person GTA-like
2023 GAMES: APRIL
- April 4, 2023 Meet Your Maker - Post-apocalyptic PvP base-builder
- April 25, 2023 Roots of Pacha - Stone-age Stardew Valley
- April ??, 2023 Mask of the Rose - Failbetter's 'sort-of' dating sim
- April ??, 2023 Star Trek: Resurgence - Star Trek treks into adventure game land
2023 GAMES: MAY
- May 26, 2023 Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - Co-op cape killing
2023 GAMES: JUNE
- June 1, 2023 Street Fighter 6 - Ryu Ryu Ryu Ryu Ryu Ryu
- June 6, 2023 Diablo 4 - The long-awaited action RPG sequel
2023 GAMES: AUGUST
- August ??, 2023 Baldur's Gate 3 - Larian's take on the classic RPG series
2023 GAMES: DECEMBER
- December ??, 2023 - Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Radiation-soaked FPS sequel
2023 GAMES: DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
- After Us - Surreal post-human puzzler
- Alan Wake 2 - The survival horror sequel
- Aliens: Dark Descent - Alien, but an RTS
- Ark 2 - More dinosaurs, plus Vin Diesel
- Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon - FromSoft's return to robot roots
- Assassin's Creed: Mirage - Assassin's Creed goes back to its stealth roots in Baghdad
- Atlas Fallen - Monster Hunter by way of righteous deicide
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora(opens in new tab) - Open-world Avatar
- Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden - 17th century ghost-hunting RPG
- Blue Protocol - Online anime action RPG
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk - Jet Set Successor
- Bramble: the Mountain King - Nordic horror platformer
- Creature Keeper - Real-time combat creature collector
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty - Expansion to the CDPR RPG
- Dredge - Sinister fishing sim with sea horrors
- Earth from Another Sun - scifi MMO/FPS claiming useful blockchain presence
- Edge of Sanity - 2D lovecraftian survival horror
- El Paso, Elsewhere - Third-person shooter
- Everywhere - A vague metaverse dream from GTA producers
- The Expanse: A Telltale Series - Telltale storytelling for best Belter bosmang
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - The next chapter of the FF7 remake
- Final Fantasy 16 - The RPG series returns to medieval magic
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn - Soulslike for musket fans
- The Gap - Psychological walking sim
- The Great War: Western Front - WWI RTS
- Homeworld 3 - Sci-fi RTS classic returns
- House Flipper 2 - More gentrification simulation
- Hyenas - Sega's multiplayer FPS
- Hyper Light Breaker - Action adventure sequel to Hyper Light Drifter
- Immortals of Aveum - EA-published magic FPS
- The Invincible - Retro-future space thriller
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space - Asymmetrical horror throwback
- The Last Case of Benedict Fox - Eldritch investigation metroidvania
- Layers of Fears - More horror from Bloober Team
- Lies of P - Bloodborne, but you play Pinocchio
- Lightyear Frontier - Chill farming sim with mechs
- Lollipop Chainsaw - A remake of the zombie hack-n-slash
- Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria - A middle earth crafting game
- The Lords of the Fallen - Similarly-named soulslike sequel
- Mars First Logistics - Physics-based Mars rover deliveries
- Men of War 2 - WW2 RTS with co-op
- Minecraft Legends - An RTS spinoff
- Moving Out 2 - Packing party game sequel
- Nightingale - Crafting survival RPG in the Fae Realms
- Off the Grid - Blomkamp Battle Royale
- Payday 3 - Long-awaited co-op heist sequel
- Park Beyond - Tycoon simulator of the rollercoaster variety
- Party Animals - Cuddly physics brawler
- Planet of Lana - Sci-fi puzzle adventure
- Pragmata - Outerspace action adventure
- Ravenlok - An action adventure fairytale
- Redfall - Co-op open-world vampire shooter
- Replaced - Sci-fi action platformer
- Sea of Stars - Classic-style turn-based RPG
- Shadows of Doubt - Neon noir detective sim
- Skate Story - Chill skateboarding through the atmospheric underworld
- Solium Infernum - Grand strategy in Hell
- Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley - A story adventure game
- Starfield - Bethesda's new original space RPG
- Stellar Blade - Flashy scifi hack-and-slash
- Stray Blade - Soulslike with El Dorado flavor
- Tempest Rising - Archetypal base-building RTS
- Terra Nil - Reverse city-builder
- Teslagrad 2 - Electrifying puzzle platformer sequel
- Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown - Open world driving in Hong Kong
- Tortuga: A Pirate's Tale - Turn-based piratical strategy
- Tron: Identity - Tron steps into visual novels
- Under the Waves - Subaquatic psychological story
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Sequel to the 2011 action game
- Witchfire - A roguelite shooter from Bulletstorm's developer
- Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - Quake-like retro shooter
