Five Top Upcoming Adventure Games – January 2026

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    
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