Our Most Anticipated Games Of 2026

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 139 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Kyle Hilliard, and Jacob Geller share picks for their most-anticipated games of 2026 in this big episode of The MinnMax Show! From big games like GTA VI and Resident Evil Requiem to smaller, more promising games on the horizon like Orbitals and Ontos. Then we talk about the new release of the autobiographical adventure game Perfect Tides: Station to Station. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:16 - Support the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

00:03:46 - Most Anticipated Games of 2026

00:05:08 - Saros

00:07:26 - Denshattack!

00:08:51 - Screamer

00:11:12 - Slay The Spire II

00:13:16 - Rhythm Heaven Groove

00:16:18 - GTA VI

00:19:59 - Orbitals

00:24:05 - Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast From The Past!

00:25:28 - 500 CALIBER CONTRACTZ

00:27:27 - Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

00:30:00 - Dinolords

00:33:01 - The StarCraft Third-Person game

00:34:40 - Project Robot

00:35:29 - Ontos

00:38:13 - Resident Evil Requiem

00:43:12 - Stranger Than Heaven

00:45:21 - Control: Resonant

00:47:11 - Big Walk

00:49:27 - Over The Hill

00:50:58 - Duskbloods

00:53:54 - PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

00:57:40 - Reanimal

00:59:05 - Pragmata

01:05:07 - Turtle Beach

01:06:52 - Alanah Pearce's big mysterious game tease

01:07:19 - Virtue and a Sledgehammer

01:08:19 - Pokémon Pokopia

01:10:16 - Anticipated games of 2026 rapid-fire

01:14:18 - Mint Mobile

01:16:12 - Perfect Tides: Station to Station

01:29:12 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:32:40 - Community questions

02:10:36 - Get A Load Of This

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Kyle's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW7M8H99x7Y

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of The Midmac Show, A Place About Games, Friends, Getting Better.
0:25.8	I'm Ben Hansen.
0:26.8	Thank you for being here.
0:27.8	I'm joined by Kyle Hilliard.
0:30.1	Hello.
0:31.0	Joined by Jacob Geller.
0:32.7	I've been anticipating this episode.
0:35.5	Oh!
0:36.3	Joined by Kelsey Lewin.
0:38.4	Hi.
0:39.3	Hi. Welcome back to the show, everybody.
0:41.5	This is the big episode of the podcast where we're running down our most anticipated
0:46.5	games of 2026.
0:49.6	We're studying the calendar.
0:50.9	We're making our picks for what's at the top of our heap.
0:53.9	Of course, what's absolutely at the top of our heap. Of course,
0:54.3	what's absolutely at the bottom of our heap. By the end of this episode, you will have a full rundown of what's going to be happening this year. And then keep in mind that half the games will probably be delayed. And then there's going to be a bunch of other great games trickling in throughout the year as well. So please get ready for that. Which I mean, Joe Doyle writes in, Let's get rid of community questions.
1:11.6	They say, hey, which big game of 2026 do you think is most likely to throughout the year as well. So please get ready for that. Which, I mean, Joe Doyle writes in, let's get rid of community questions.
1:11.6	They say, hey, which big game of 2026 do you think is most likely to get delayed out of 20206? Were you all factoring that in when you're trying to make your list? Oh, that's interesting. I actually wasn't. No, but that's an interesting point. because it's like the only things that we really know about
1:28.0	it feels like are coming out that we really know about, it feels like,
1:29.0	are coming out in the first half of this year. So it's like, well, it's not going to be Resident Evil.
1:34.2	And so GTA again, question mark. I mean, probably. And Wolverine's the big one for me where it's like,
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