There are some upcoming open-world video games that followers are completely going to devour the identical approach they destroyed classics like The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. For instance, Crimson Desert and The Blood of Dawnwalker look expansive and loaded with the potential for participant expression and creaativity.
The Witcher 4 remains to be within the early phases of growth, however that too seems to be wonderful. Then there are upcoming video games that could be open-world, or simply sandboxes, and they’re primarily based in sprawling cities. A few of these video games could solely happen in these cities, and that’s even higher. Let’s go over what units these video games aside and the way their cities are distinctive.
Grand Theft Auto 6
2026’s Largest Recreation
- Deliberate Launch Date: 5/26/26
- Deliberate Programs: PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S
Grand Theft Auto 6 is ready to have the most important metropolis panorama to navigate in 2026. Gamers shall be returning to Vice City for the primary time for the reason that spin-off PSP recreation, Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis Tales, was launched in 2006. Town seems to be filled with issues to do, from shops to hop into, pool halls to go to with mates, nightclubs to bounce in, and extra.
Outdoors of Vice Metropolis, gamers can benefit from the swamplands with a little bit motor boating. There’s additionally a nationwide park that has mountain climbing and kayaking obtainable. Regardless of the tone most likely being darkish, like most Rockstar’s video games, the actions look fairly inviting. Vice Metropolis nearly seems to be like a pleasant place to go to, minus all of the crime that’s presumably occurring behind the scenes.
LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Darkish Knight
I Was Born In Darkness
- Deliberate Launch Date: 2026
- Deliberate Programs: PC, PS5, Change 2, and Xbox Sequence X/S
LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight is the primary correct LEGO Batman recreation in over a decade, and Traveler’s Tales is seemingly going all out with it. It’s not only a celebration of the LEGO Batman video games, it’s going to be crammed with references to all the flicks, cartoons, video games, and extra which have featured the caped crusader over time. In different phrases, it seems to be like the last word fan letter to Batman fanatics.
The fight seems to be extra intense than most LEGO games, and Batman is not going to be the one playable character. Gamers can discover the sprawling streets of Gotham on foot, by gliding above, driving the signature Batmobile, and so forth. It’s unclear if there shall be any chill aspect quests in Gotham, however both approach, LEGO and Batman followers ought to be pumped to play this in 2026.
Decapolice
A Detective RPG
- Deliberate Launch Date: 2026
- Deliberate Programs: PC, PS4, PS5, and Change
Decapolice is one other crime-based recreation, however this time with an anime affect, and is being developed by Level-5. Gamers will be capable of examine places utilizing VR to overlay the crime scenes, form of just like the Detective Imaginative and prescient within the Batman: Arkham video games. The detective side of the sport seems to be intense, form of like a cross between Phoenix Wright and L.A. Noire.
Town doesn’t seem like it’s brimming with actions to do, however the futuristic panorama is attractive, like all good cyberpunk setting ought to be. Apart from fixing instances, gamers can have interaction in turn-based fight with their small get together. Hopefully, this RPG will come out in 2026 and can supply extra to do than what has been beforehand proven.
Ananta
Grand Theft Anime
- Deliberate Launch Date: TBA
- Deliberate Programs: Cellular, PC, and PS5
Ananta looks like it’s going to have a various set of mechanics, and it could additionally launch in 2026, though there isn’t any set timeline for the time being. It’s going to be a free-to-play recreation within the fashion of Grand Theft Auto with a heavy anime affect in its design. Gamers can roam round city as a part of an elite job power, so there gained’t be a prison angle to the story.
Gamers can drive varied automobiles and bikes, however the extra attention-grabbing side is the Spider-Man-like tether that the Captain of the group wields to swing round. It’s not identified what number of characters gamers can have energetic at one time, however with the ability to swap between them shall be a characteristic too. Apart from the crime-fighting predominant story, there will even be aspect actions across the metropolis, from races to slapping opponents in arenas to enjoying basketball.
Stranger Than Heaven
A Century In The Making
- Deliberate Launch Date: TBA
- Deliberate Programs: TBA
Stranger Than Heaven is the following huge venture from the Yakuza team, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, at Sega. The large gimmick with the sport is that gamers will play a drifter who goes via totally different time intervals in the identical metropolis, which adjustments over time. This metropolis, Sotenbori, to this point has been proven in 1915, 1929, and 1943. It seems to be like one other crime-infested recreation with loads of brawling motion, which is what RGG is thought for many of all.
Yakuza followers can all the time rely on loads of bizarre aspect tales and mini-games to occupy their time, so hopefully these options return in Stranger Than Heaven as nicely. Even when there aren’t that many, few video games can brag about happening in a number of time intervals, and if anybody could make it work, it’s the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio group. No platforms or launch date have been introduced as of but, which may imply Stranger Than Heaven is a methods off, or Sega may simply be ready to have a giant showcase reveal someday quickly.
DokeV
Kingdom Hearts Meets Pokemon
- Deliberate Launch Date: TBA
- Deliberate Programs: TBA
DokeV might be an extended methods off, nevertheless it’s nonetheless price discussing right here. It’s one of many few monster-catching games that takes place in a single huge metropolis, with the one different huge instance being Pokemon Legends: Z-A. DokeV could have environments to discover exterior its metropolis, however to this point, it seems to be like a lot of the motion shall be city.
The footage proven to this point hints at gamers with the ability to journey bicycles and monsters alike, rollerblade, skateboard, and even carry a magical umbrella that lets them glide. People and their monsters can struggle alongside each other in motion fight, which seems to be form of like Kingdom Hearts when it comes to its design. From bouncing sacks that flip into huge boxing gloves and large hammers, the fight seems to be extra intense than most monster-catching video games.
