Five Top Upcoming Adventure Games – January 2026
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Happy new year! With 2025 officially behind us, so ends an incredible year (and indeed, an entire quarter century) of great games... and ushers in a brand new one to look forward to! As usual, January eases us in gently with a relatively light load of new releases. But already we can't wait for the highly anticipated sequel to Meredith Gran's acclaimed coming-of-age masterpiece Perfect Tides, and the chance to don our climbing gear for some death-defying mountain challenges.
We'll also do some deductive sleuthing in Hollywood, chew our fingernails through the next sequel in an ongoing horror anthology series, and get locked – both literally and figuratively – into a surreal mystery from the scenario writer of Another Code: Two Memories and Hotel Dusk: Room 215. Plus, of course, the annual new Carol Reed mystery, and a cryptic new game from inkle (first video evidence yet to be unearthed). And even that's not all, so maybe January's not looking so slow after all.
Featured this month:
Confidential Killings
BrokenLore: UNFOLLOW
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
Dark Auction
Cairn
Other notable releases due out in January:
The Final Chapter: A Carol Reed Mystery
Kejora
Pencil Stories
AiliA
Tatari
Ghost Cam
Attrax
Professor Galaktionov Dawn of the Robopocalypse
TR-49
UFOPHILIA
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It's rare that I'm not looking forward to at least one game each month, but all of these look incredibly unappealing.
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The new Perfect Tides should be good, though. Haven't played the first one but it's applauded everywhere. Cairn is okay as a game, I guess. Wouldn't call it "adventure game" myself; I played it demo and it was just climbing, then some narrative to connect it all. Don't think I have the patience for a full game like this. And Confidential Killings could be a fun deduction game, though I'm not a fan of the art style per se. I'm mostly looking forward to dig my teeth into TR-49. I'll probably suck at it, but hey, at least I want to give it a try.
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