Every new game we played at Summer Games Fest 2026

Remedy

SGF was a engaged show this year. You tin cheque retired everything from nan show in our gaming portal, but we besides wanted to propulsion together everything other we steered, fought and fled during nan yearly gaming showcase. It includes immoderate indie darlings, immoderate triple-A titles nearing motorboat and perchance your adjacent favourite crippled — unless it's GTA 6.

My workfellow Jessica Conditt has besides collated each nan announcements and reveals from a hectic summertime week of gaming news. You tin cheque that you've not missed thing right here.

Annapurna

With muted colors and achromatic robots à la Portal, D-Topia is simply a relaxing puzzle crippled group successful a utopia that mightiness not beryllium truthful perfect.

My little demo astatine SGF teased mysteries and was a welcome, cozy palate cleanser compared to nan raids connected tombs and dinosaur attacks I played nan aforesaid afternoon. Like Grave Seasons (trend alert!) there's a not-so-cozy-as-it-seems undercurrent. The crippled starts arsenic soon arsenic nan protagonist arrives (or was he born? Where did everyone travel from?), pinch ever-present robots mildly guiding you astir nan facilities. The bots besides explicate your domiciled astatine D-Topia and your tiny apartment, which tin beryllium progressively customized arsenic you advancement done nan game. A ocular strategy move lets your characteristic spot what others can't, helping you to spot issues and pass pinch surgery robots crossed nan facility. According to nan property release, decisions will matter successful D-topia, pinch storyline implications based connected what you do (or don't do) wrong nan confines of this muted utopia.

The puzzles themselves are initially elemental artifact moving pinch immoderate basal arithmetic (and I mean 1+1 levels of basic), though consequent puzzles adhd other wrinkles and obstacles. There aren't immoderate timers aliases urgency, astatine slightest during nan early portion of nan crippled — you tin moreover lick other puzzles arsenic a shape of overtime for other in-game currency. Players tin research nan enigma of D-Topia themselves connected July 14.

Remedy

We've taken a person look astatine nan making of Resonant here, but I wasn't going to miss retired connected nan chance to effort arguably nan biggest crippled disposable to play astatine SGF 2026. Perhaps for illustration galore of you, I'm a lapsed Control subordinate (PS4, 2020; Stadia (RIP), 2021; PS5, 2023). You don't request to afloat understand nan crippled of nan original to get up to velocity pinch nan stakes and main characters. Jesse Faden, who you played successful Control, is missing, and it's up to her powerful brother, Dylan, to find her while battling nan mysterious threat called nan Hiss.

As we mentioned successful our feature, it's little astir shooting this clip and much astir melee. The playstyle instantly reminds maine of Devil May Cry wherever you'll regularly juggle foes into nan air, slam them into nan crushed aliases hammer a blend of differing limb attacks connected bigger enemies until they break. In nan early thumps of nan game, Dylan soon unlocks paranormal powers for illustration immense leaps, levitation, high-speed dashes and more. Soon, I was speeding done nan morphing Manhattan, suggesting a thankfully faster commencement than successful Control. It took maine a hit to fig retired what nan super-powered traversal reminded maine of: Super Punch's Infamous series. The demo besides reminded maine to springiness Control different chance. Maybe connected nan iPhone?

Capcom

We played an early preview of Way of nan Sword a while ago. Still, as the crippled approaches its September 25 release date, Capcom had a bigger demo to showcase monster fights, exploration and different parts of nan latest samurai epic. Onimusha: Way of nan Sword feels for illustration a deliberate improvement of nan series, trading nan fixed dread of nan past for a richer, much reactive combat loop. The meticulous temple recreations are back, but they're now crawling pinch creepier monsters that request much than conscionable mindless beard slashes. While nan issen counters stay nan high-risk golden modular for masters, nan demo leaned heavy into basal parries and dodges that velocity up nan travel of battle, rewarding players who hold for nan cleanable opening to decorativeness disconnected Genma demons. I recovered resisting nan impulse to onslaught and alternatively aiming for a counterattack was nan quickest measurement to clear retired enemies. The caller demo showcased 2 chopped demon arms: secondary weapons powered by a gauge that builds up from normal attacks and parries.

One action is copy daggers that fto you prolong yourself pinch a health-drain skill, while location was besides a wind-powered spear designed for crowd control. The second is peculiarly satisfying, utilizing area-of-effect slashes that tin moreover suck successful adjacent occurrence sources to amplify your harm output. You'll request that powerfulness to woody pinch caller threats for illustration Rashogan, a grotesque, fingery leader tin of sprouting chain-link limbs to hurl trees and demon power your way. Beyond nan combat, nan world feels much consequential and vibrant, pinch much civilians either cowering from nan demon penetration aliases moving shops for nan protagonist's benefit. Failable broadside quests and immoderate other jeopardy to optional fights, too.

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Crystal Dynamics