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New Games Releasing in October 2026: Full Release Calendar

29 games are confirmed to release in October 2026, including End of Abyss, Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. Dates below are as announced and update automatically if a game slips.

2026

October

29 releases

Confirmed

01Thursday2 releases
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02Friday
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06Tuesday2 releases
XBPCPS
08Thursday4 releases
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09Friday2 releases
XBPCPS
13Tuesday3 releases
XBPCPS
14Wednesday3 releases
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15Thursday
XBPCPS
16Friday
XBNSPC
20Tuesday
XBPCPS
21Wednesday
PCPS
22Thursday2 releases
XBNSPC
23Friday
XBNSPC
27Tuesday
XBNSPC
28Wednesday
PC
29Thursday3 releases
XBPCPS

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Top releases in October 2026

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End of Abyss

End of Abyss is a dark sci-fi action-adventure from Section 9 Interactive, a Swedish studio founded by veterans of Little Nightmares. You play Cel, a combat technician descending into a ruined underground facility, upgrading gear to survive enemies that outmatch you and unlocking scanner tools that open sealed paths.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · October 1, 2026

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Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered

A ground-up remaster of the 2001 PS2 classic that first made the Dynasty Warriors hack-and-slash formula a household name, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 with the Xtreme Legends expansion folded in.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · October 1, 2026

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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is Bandai Namco's first mainline entry in seven years, returning players to the Strangereal skies as an elite pilot fighting to free the occupied Federation of Central Usea. Fast arcade combat, real-world jets, and the series' biggest online mode yet.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · October 2, 2026

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Gears of War: E-Day

A prequel set on Emergence Day itself, fourteen years before the original Gears of War, following a younger Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago as the Locust Horde erupts onto the surface of Sera for the first time.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · October 6, 2026

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer

An arcade racer set after the fall of the Empire, where Shade gets pulled into the Galactic League, an outlaw racing circuit on the Outer Rim. Pilot landspeeders, speeder bikes, skim speeders and podracers across Jakku, Ando Prime and more, with PvP grudge matches for up to 12.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · October 6, 2026

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Order of the Sinking Star

A sprawling puzzle adventure from Jonathan Blow's Thekla, Inc., the team behind The Witness. Four interconnected worlds, each built around a different Sokoban-style puzzle mechanic, gradually merge as a queen, a thief, a warrior, a wizard and a talking boat cross paths. Over a thousand hand-crafted puzzles await.

Switch · PC · PlayStation · October 8, 2026

Dates are as announced by each publisher and may change.