Eleven notable games were released between 27 August and 24 September 2026, the same four weeks our Rumour Ledger spent on GTA 6’s collector’s box, the Miami sign and the countdown to 19 November. Here they are the way we read the ten best received games of 2026: by the people who bought them on Steam and the PlayStation Store, with the critic average alongside, and each game described the way its own developer describes it. Where we have not played a game, we do not tell you how it feels.
The short answer
The best received of the eleven, by the people who paid for it, is Onimusha: Way of the Sword: 90% positive across 14,139 Steam reviews and 4.69 out of 5 from 19,820 ratings on the PlayStation Store, from a game critics placed at 87. The most reviewed is Marvel’s Wolverine, at 53,720 PlayStation Store ratings in twelve days, and it is a PS5 exclusive, so there is no Steam figure to set against its 4.7. The lowest is Halloween: The Game, 67% positive on Steam and a 63 from critics, though PlayStation players rate it 4.24. Silent Hill: Townfall splits the two stores widest: Mixed at 64% on Steam, 4.4 on the PlayStation Store.
| Date | Game | Steam | PS Store | Critics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug | Star Wars Zero Company | 83% of 20,980 | 4.47 (4,277) | 85 |
| 27 Aug | Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy | 93% of 3,918 | 4.75 (2,061) | 81 |
| 2 Sept | Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault | 81% of 3,279 | 4.19 (653) | 83 |
| 3 Sept | The Blood of Dawnwalker | 87% of 18,413 | 4.55 (5,944) | 84 |
| 4 Sept | Onimusha: Way of the Sword | 90% of 14,139 | 4.69 (19,820) | 87 |
| 8 Sept | Halloween: The Game | 67% of 13,445 | 4.24 (8,394) | 63 |
| 15 Sept | Marvel’s Wolverine | not on Steam | 4.7 (53,720) | 78 |
| 17 Sept | Endless Legend 2 | 83% of 3,190 | 3.95 (133) | 3 reviews, no average |
| 17 Sept | Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave | not on Steam | not on the PS Store | 89 |
| 24 Sept | Control Resonant | 88% of 4,428 | 4.8 (3,158) | 84 |
| 24 Sept | Silent Hill: Townfall | 64% of 1,971 | 4.4 (1,560) | 81 |
The eleven, in order of release
1. Star Wars Zero Company
Electronic Arts. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC. 27 August.
Players 83% positive, 20,980 Steam reviews; 4.47 from 4,277 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 85 across platforms, from 115 reviews, 92% recommending.
A single-player turn-based tactics game set in the Clone Wars, in which you run a squad of operatives on covert missions. Bit Reactor built it with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games.
2. Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
Focus Entertainment. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC. 27 August.
Players 93% positive, 3,918 Steam reviews; 4.75 from 2,061 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 81 across platforms, from 153 reviews, 82% recommending.
Asobo’s prequel follows Sophia, fifteen years before Requiem, on the Minotaur’s Island. Play shifts between her Middle Ages and ancient Minoan times.
3. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault
11 bit studios. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PC. 2 September, after an Early Access run on Steam from 19 November 2025.
Players 81% positive, 3,279 Steam reviews; 4.19 from 653 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 83 across platforms, from 49 reviews, 82% recommending.
Digital Sun’s sequel splits your time between clearing dungeons for loot and running the shop that sells it.
4. The Blood of Dawnwalker
Bandai Namco Entertainment. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC. 3 September.
Players 87% positive, 18,413 Steam reviews; 4.55 from 5,944 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 84 across platforms, from 157 reviews, 94% recommending.
Rebel Wolves’ open-world dark fantasy action RPG, set in 14th-century Europe. You play Coen, “human by day and vampire by night”, trying to save his family, and the player’s choices shape how the story runs.
5. Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Capcom. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PC. 4 September.
Players 90% positive, 14,139 Steam reviews; 4.69 from 19,820 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 87 across platforms, from 171 reviews, 95% recommending.
A sword-fighting action game that puts Musashi in early Edo-period Kyoto, using the power of the Oni against the Genma.
6. Halloween: The Game
Gun Interactive with IllFonic Publishing. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC. 8 September.
Players 67% positive, 13,445 Steam reviews, which Steam labels Mixed; 4.24 from 8,394 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 63 across platforms, from 21 reviews, 24% recommending.
IllFonic’s one-against-four multiplayer game is set in Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween night 1978. Four players defend the town; one plays Michael Myers.
7. Marvel’s Wolverine
PlayStation Publishing. PS5. 15 September.
Players 4.7 from 53,720 PlayStation Store ratings; not on Steam. Critics 78, from 130 reviews, 65% recommending.
Insomniac’s Logan rejoins Team X to stop Bolivar Trask, who is kidnapping mutants, across Canada, Tokyo and Madripoor.
8. Endless Legend 2
Hooded Horse. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC. 17 September, after a year in Early Access on Steam from 22 September 2025.
Players 83% positive, 3,190 Steam reviews; 3.95 from 133 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics: three reviews on OpenCritic, too few for an average. PC Gamer 85, Softpedia 9.5 out of 10, KonsoliFIN 3.5 out of 5.
Amplitude’s turn-based fantasy 4X, on an ocean world that keeps changing as it dies.
9. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
Nintendo. Switch 2. 17 September.
No player figure: Nintendo publishes no rating on its store and the game is not on Steam. Critics 89, from 62 reviews, 98% recommending, the highest critic average of the eleven.
Intelligent Systems’ tactics RPG is set in the Dagdan Empire and moves between 1449 and 1454, with four heroes working against Balor, a resurrected demon god.
10. Control Resonant
Remedy Entertainment. PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC. 24 September.
Players 88% positive, 4,428 Steam reviews; 4.8 from 3,158 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 84 across platforms, from 84 reviews, 86% recommending. All three figures are three days old.
Remedy’s sequel to Control puts Dylan Faden in the lead against a reality-bending threat in a warped Manhattan. Remedy calls it an action-adventure RPG.
11. Silent Hill: Townfall
Konami with Annapurna Games. PS5, PC. 24 September.
Players 64% positive, 1,971 Steam reviews, which Steam labels Mixed; 4.4 from 1,560 PlayStation Store ratings. Critics 81 across platforms, from 77 reviews, 83% recommending. All three figures are three days old.
Screen Burn Interactive’s first-person horror game, set in 1996 on St. Amelia, a fog-covered Scottish island. Simon Ordell returns to “put things right”, with a pocket TV, the CRTV, used to tune into unstable signals.
Method
Steam figures are each game’s all-time review record on its own Steam page, counting reviews from Steam purchases, read on 27 September 2026. PlayStation Store figures are the average star rating and the number of ratings on the US store’s product page, read the same day. Critic figures are OpenCritic’s Top Critic Average across all platforms on 27 September, with the number of reviews it counts and the share of critics who recommend the game.
These are three different measurements and we do not average them. A Steam figure is the share of buyers who clicked thumbs up. A store star is a mean out of five. A critic aggregate is a curated average out of a hundred. Two of the eleven have no player figure on one store or both: Marvel’s Wolverine is a PS5 exclusive, and Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is on Switch 2 only, where Nintendo publishes no rating. Control Resonant and Silent Hill: Townfall had been out three days when these were read; their counts will grow fastest.
Where these sit on our lists
All eleven are on the 2026 games-released list. None is yet in the ten best received games of 2026, which was last read on 13 August; Onimusha’s 90% and Dawnwalker’s 87% on Steam would put both in contention when it is next read. The dated releases still to come, including GTA 6 on 19 November, are on the release calendar, and the GTA VI hub carries everything confirmed about it.