Edge的March 2026目录

Being rich has always had its perks, but perhaps those perks used to be more interesting. German merchant Jakob Fugger, who lived in the 1500s, is the richest man in history – adjusted for modern currencies, he would be worth about £300 billion today. He didn’t have his own space rockets or a social media platform. He had something a lot cooler: an official portrait painted by Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. Fugger looms large over Better Than Us, a forthcoming social stealth game from Little Bat Games, a studio based in Berlin and founded by developer and voice actor Cyrus Nemati. Little Bat’s first work, Vampire Therapist, explored the use of cognitive behavioural therapy with an undead twist. Better Than Us examines our current era of income equality, and while…

Developer Arc System Works Publisher SIE Format PC, PS5 Origin Japan Release 2026 The cinematic MCU may have been on a downward trajectory following the highs of Endgame, but the appetite for the Marvel brand in games remains huge, if the take-up of Snap and Rivals is any indicator. It was only a matter of time, then, until we saw a new Marvel-themed arcade fighter. Less expected was that Sony would pick up the baton and hand it to a Japanese developer. It may be the first time Yokohama’s Arc System Works has dipped into a western IP, but the developer’s signature style, as seen in Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball Fighterz, translates seamlessly. Whereas the early Capcom Marvel games used sprites to replicate the Saturday morning cartoons, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ roster of superheroes…

NEAR MISSES Pathologic 3 PC, PS5, Xbox Series While Ice-Pick Lodge sent a build of Pathologic 3 in mid-December, it wasn’t complete – the final part of the game was still being polished and held back until nearer the release date. That’s given us time to get to grips with most of this third entry in the foreboding and thought-provoking series, at least, and we’ve been enthralled so far. It seems to be in better technical shape than its predecessor, and more accessible, without sacrificing thematic density. The introduction of an ambitious time-travel system also offers striking originality. We just hope the repeated narrative arc can still deliver yet another time around. MIO: Memories In Orbit PC, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series Review code for this one came in…

Developer The Outer Zone Publisher 11 Bit Games Format PC (tested), PS5, Xbox Series Release Out now Deck-builders have been all the rage for half a decade now, Slay The Spire kickstarting the boom and Balatro tying a ribbon around it. Yet if the lineage of all such games can be traced to the asymmetric battles of Magic: The Gathering, most recent examples tend to eschew an element that was central to that game’s earliest digital adaptations. MicroProse’s 1997 release of the same name articulated a narrative dimension inherent in a game about clashing wizards, by constructing a world to embellish the core duels with navigable environments, encounters, sidequests and collectable resources. Contemporary deck-builders, in contrast, stay laser-focused on battle mechanics and relegate storytelling to cutscenes or interchangeable ‘events’. It’s…

Developer D-Cell Games Publisher Playstack Format PC (tested), PS5, Xbox Series Release Out now Given that you play as the lead vocalist of an outlaw rock band in Unbeatable – the game taking place in a world where music is illegal – it’s a strength that it often feels so undefinable and rough. A rhythm game at its core, this is also a point-and-click adventure mixed with a collage of inventive minigames, and although at times it becomes a little incoherent and jumps between sequences too rapidly, it’s hard to grumble when part of the point is the pure joy of raw and reckless creativity. It’s a sense that is reflected in the game’s visual style, too, a colourful combination of 3D backgrounds and flat-plane, anime-inspired character models that speaks…

Developer/publisher 1047 Games Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Xbox One, Xbox Series Release Out now The most remarkable thing about Splitgate 2 is that it’s been given a second chance to succeed, to go with its new name. Following an underwhelming reception in June (and a sadly inevitable round of layoffs), it was banished back into beta to be overhauled. Now, it has reemerged largely reshaped into the form it should always have taken, even – for now, at least – free of its embarrassingly undercooked battle royale mode. Portals, the magical element that’s always given Splitgate a unique flavour of chaos, are at the heart of Arena Reloaded. Old maps have been reworked to ensure there are surfaces to accommodate portals at all heights and angles, while new maps…

Developer/publisher Konami Format PS1, Saturn Release 1997 The term ‘Metroidvania’ has always been a difficult one to embrace. An unwieldy portmanteau of the names of two game series, it expects you to possess a working history of both in order to grasp what it means. Yet if we tend to use it in lieu of anything better (we’re not convinced that ‘search action’ gets any closer to the nub of these games’ experiences), we would defend it against arguments that the ‘vania’ part of Metroidvania is in any way redundant. Yes, it is self-evident that Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night – the first Castlevania game to adopt the now genre-standard sprawling, interconnected map – took its cues from the Metroid games. But rather than group it and everything else that…

Back in 2020, author and podcast producer Jordan Mallory shared on Twitter a personal vision for the future of videogaming: “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less, and I’m not kidding.” Six years and more than 18,000 retweets later, this potted manifesto has become an established meme. You might well have seen the version in which Mallory’s words are being spoken by a recumbent and characteristically cocky-looking Sonic The Hedgehog. But beyond game jams, Itch and the other established homes for shortform works, is there actually a broader – and financially sustainable – market out there for one-and-done games? The cancellations of Concord and Hyenas, and layoffs at major companies including Microsoft, Ubisoft and Riot, might suggest that the live-service…

If you feel a tinge of nostalgia looking at this page, you won’t be alone. “We wanted players to feel like they’re living inside one of those iconic ’90s animated shows,” says Bartek Pieczonka, co-founder of Rockbeasts developer Lichthund. “Beavis And Butt-Head, Daria or King Of The Hill – they all had a one-of-a-kind vibe. Rugged and grungy, but also strangely cosy.” And since this is a game about a rock band, we can also expect plenty of music that elicits memories of that period. “We created a full album’s worth of original songs that are basically our take on the Seattle Sound,” Pieczonka says. Your role in the game, however, isn’t to play in the band but manage it amid the chaos of ’90s rockstar life. “It’s a fun…

Game The Blood Of Dawnwalker  Developer Rebel Wolves  Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series  Origin Poland Release 2026 The first thing you notice inside Rebel Wolves’ Warsaw office – after the sign at the entrance that reads, “A studio born out of love for RPGs” – is how quiet it is. This is not the sterile hush of a corporate headquarters, but a warm, companionable murmur of the sort produced when a small group of people are focused on making something difficult together. The rooms are low-lit, dotted with potted plants; the coffee machine churns louder than some of the debates about quest design. Monitors hum. Along one wall, a bank of high-end PCs whirs and glows, relaying the keystrokes of the team members who are working…

Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series Developer Warhorse Studios Publisher Deep Silver Origin Czechia Release 2025 Both Czech history and RPGs run in the veins of Warhorse Studios. Co-founder and executive producer Martin Klíma was a student leader in the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which precipitated the collapse of the Czechoslovakian communist regime. Klíma also designed the tabletop RPG Dragon’s Lair, which found considerable success in his home country. And yet it would take a Kickstarter campaign, an arduous development cycle and 14 years for these two aspects of his life to finally come together in the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance — and to be refined in its sequel. Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II were pitched in the 2014 Kickstarter as a series of three smaller games, linked by…

Developer Bitmap Bureau Publisher Reef Entertainment Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release Out now How powerful a drug is nostalgia? If we were to consider which games we look back on fondly from the 8- and 16bit eras, the pile of action-platformer film licences they produced wouldn’t be high on the list. With the works of Ocean Software in particular, from Lethal Weapon to Total Recall, even rose-tinted specs struggle to show them in a good light. As an ode to precisely that kind of game, then, Terminator 2D: No Fate has its work cut out. It doesn’t help that at times it almost seems a parody of the past, when film stories were chopped and contorted into cookie-cutter formats – out of the…

Developer/Publisher Inkle Format iOS, PC (tested) Release Out now After whisking us away to the Scottish Highlands, the high seas and a steampunk version of the entire world, Inkle’s latest game is confined to a much humbler space: a cellar in Manchester. In it, you find an early computer, in the Bletchley vacuum-tube sense, comprising a circular viewscreen (capable of displaying text and the occasional static image) and a split-flap display with a kind of gearstick mechanism inset beneath. This remains your view for the game’s duration. You never leave this cellar. And yet, somehow, TR-49 feels no less expansive than its forebears. That circular display turns out to be a peephole into a much greater universe, a couple of hundred words at a time. Using the gearstick thing and…

Developer/publisher Luckshot Games Format PC (tested), PS5, Switch Release Out now Judged on its nondescript title and protagonist, Luckshot Games has built an especially unassuming 3D platformer. Its opening minutes also suggest little more than an homage to Mario, with a pinch of Zelda for additional charm – the way amphibian hero Hop holds aloft a captured bug is straight from Link’s playbook. It comes as some surprise, then, when advancing through Big Hops reveals it to be one of the more forward-thinking entries in the genre. In the first instance that’s due to a more substantial grab from Zelda: the power to climb anything vertical, limited by a pie-charted stamina gauge that depletes in a couple of seconds. It’s an instant invitation to experiment. For starters, surfaces that are…

During Tim Oxton’s Silkbulb Test you are shown a series of disturbing images and asked to make gut-instinct deductions about their nature. Is this picture of a man with giant bulging eyes, smiling at you with all his teeth bared, a picture of a ‘friend’? The photographs are real; the twisted details are added by Oxton. It’s a mixture of the authentic and the awful that characterises his overall style – he turns seemingly banal situations, such as living in a small city apartment, watching a slideshow or playing a pull-lever game of Higher Or Lower into brutal nightmares. To achieve this, he uses a freeform and improvisational approach to making videogames, in which the conventional practices of designing systems, scenarios and feedback loops are secondary to unleashing raw imagery.…

DIVINITY Developer/publisher Larian Studios Format TBA Origin Belgium Release TBA Normally a prerendered cinematic trailer wouldn’t feel like much to go on, but Larian’s no-holds-barred reveal makes one thing gratuitously clear: the new Divinity is not for under-18s. There’s a heretic being burned alive à la The Wicker Man, religious flagellates stripping their backs raw, some kind of ritualistic inter-species orgy, and pigs eating vomit – all the ingredients for a future chart-topper. The Belgian bringer of Baldur’s Gate promises that Divinity will be its biggest game to date. Expect a conflicted and morally perilous world where even the quaintest little village hides secrets befitting a Lars von Trier movie. TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER 40,000 Developer Creative Assembly Publisher Sega Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series Origin UK Release TBA 40K’s cachet only seems to be increasing while,…

Many players who frequented arcades at the beginning of the 1990s will remember the first time they saw Final Fight. Whether or not you knew of its existence before encountering the cabinet, once you were standing in front of it, it was hard to stifle a sense of awe. Here was one of those games that, like OutRun before it or Street Fighter II afterwards, would dominate a room, in the brief period when a scrolling beat-’em-up could have that kind of effect. For those who turn their hands to the genre today, Final Fight was a formative experience, along with other arcade classics such as 1987’s Double Dragon. “I was hugely obsessed with martial-arts action movies,” says Limited Run Games’ Audi Sorlie, producer on the forthcoming He-Man And The…

Developer Pavonis Interactive Publisher Hooded Horse Format PC Release Out now The premise of Terra Invicta feels almost like the foolhardy dreams of ambition-drunk designers. This realtime strategy game explodes the alien invasion tactics of an XCOM or Xenonauts, zooming out from their small-scale missions to focus instead on a mind-boggling long game. You play Terra Invicta over dozens of in-game years (and possibly up to a hundred hours per match), utilising a full geopolitical model of Earth and a network of celestial bodies beyond the planet’s atmosphere. In the early game, you rally nations to your cause and begin to build infrastructure in space. Later, you take to the stars to battle your enemies. Each half of the game, Earth and space, has its own resources, technologies and combat…

Developer/publisher Alientrap Format PC Release Out now The sandlocked isles of DuneCrawl are alive with chittering creatures: huge scorpions, giant beetles and health-giving slugs that slink among the rocks, the grass, the trees. None, though, leave an impression quite like the enormous crabs that stalk between landmasses. Bigger than houses, they are living, moving fortresses outfitted with cannons and energy shields, to be crewed by squeaky voiced, mask-wearing humanoids called the Polloi. The default moniker for your mammoth crustacean is ‘Shelly’, and Shelly’s firepower is not only for show. The vassals of a pottery-obsessed despot called the Ceramicist have invaded the Polloi lands, littering them with kiln-like outpost towers and blasphemous clay-built walkers. Only by completing missions across the open world can the Polloi beat back the heretics, and the…

Developer/publisher Three Bees Format PC (tested), Switch Release Out now Compared to the parochial confines of secondary school, college gives young people opportunities for broader development. But budding writer Mara Whitefish’s journey to adulthood is caught between destinations. Living outside the city where she studies and works part-time, she’s forced to commute, occasionally crashing on a friend’s couch. Opportunities for new connections, meanwhile, are stifled by incessant calls from an older, long-distance boyfriend. Perfect Tides: Station To Station vividly captures the year 2003 across four seasons through an abundance of cultural and technological touchpoints, be that cult films or chancing upon new voices on forums in the limited time afforded by a public-library computer. The story may centre on one city block in a game composed of little more than…

Developer Studio Folly, Toot Games Publisher Wings Format PC Release Out now The indie Roguelike deck-builder is such an oversubscribed genre these days that we have to applaud designers for continuing to find new arrangements. And if the combination of cards and a drop-and-merge puzzle game was bound to happen at some point, we never foresaw a version where the playing pieces are various breeds of dog. The inspiration for Dogpile is surely mobile title Suika Game, which involves dropping pieces of fruit into a well and letting gravity decide where they settle. Its one simple rule, carried over to Dogpile, is that whenever two pieces of the same type touch, they merge into a slightly bigger piece, which takes up more space but brings you a step closer to…

Elden Ring: Nightreign Developer FromSoftware Publisher Bandai Namco Format PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release 2025 Although it performs perfectly well as a singleplayer game, Nightreign wasn’t really made to be played that way. Nor was it originally designed to be enjoyed by two players in tandem, with support for duos only added via a patch within a few months of the game’s debut, and even then with wobbly balancing, allowing for levelling at a considerably faster rate than with three players lined up. The clue to FromSoftware’s expectations for how you should approach Nightreign lies in the first three letters of the name of the very first boss on its roster, Tricephalos, which splits into a triumvirate of smaller iterations during battle, tripling its attack options. Throughout…