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March 2026 New Games Thread

Violentvixen

Violentvixen

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The basic idea is to list new games that you are interested in, as well as games you are potentially curious about or want to give wider attention to. You can briefly describe them or ask other people to help fill you in. The hope is that regular threads like these can act as a collective filter/discovery mechanism to help people decide what is worth checking out.

"New games" means any new title that is being released or ported this month in any capacity (not "backlogs/what you are playing this month"). The angle here is sharing your anticipation and promoting game discovery (as opposed to sharing comments about a first playthrough in progress - that belongs elsewhere).
  • If you want a handy list that covers most of the major upcoming games of the month, here are lists of upcoming games:
    • Wikipedia (something seems wrong at the moment, all the lists of games are gone, hopefully back soon)
    • GameInformer
Here are the subscription service lists for this month:

Gamepass
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Mar 3
  • Final Fantasy 3: Mar 3
  • To a T: Mar 4
  • EA Sports F1 25 Mar 4
  • Planet of Lana 2 Mar 5
  • Construction Simulator Mar 10
  • Cyberpunk 2077 Mar 10
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong Mar 12
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse: Ready to Party Mar 17
  • Disco Elysium Mar 19
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Mar 24
  • Absolum Mar 25
  • Nova Roma Mar 26
  • The Long Dark Mar 30
  • Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Mar 31
  • Super Meat Boy 3D Mar 31
  • More TBD
PS+
  • PGA Tour 2K25 | PS5
  • Monster Hunter Rise | PS5, PS4
  • Slime Rancher 2 | PS5
  • The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Gold Road | PS5, PS4
Feel free to post other lists or list videos that you find useful.
If there is already a thread on TT about a game, please add a link to it.

Final request: If you are the first person to mention a game please provide (at minimum) a short sentence description. (If it is a very big AAA release though, then don't worry about it.) This is a good convention that makes the thread more useful as a discovery mechanism, and especially helps out anyone who doesn't follow the news as closely as you.
 
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We're traveling a lot in March so I'm unlikely to buy anything this month and am focusing on my Switch/Steam backlog since I'll be on planes/trains a lot.

If we weren't traveling the day after it drops I'd be picking up the Slay the Spire 2 early access. But early access games get tons of patches so unless there's a big discount for getting it early I'll probably hold off. Anyway, Slay the Spire thread is here!

Elder Scrolls Online is quite fun so if you have PS+ and haven't checked it out I highly recommend doing so! I haven't played the Gold Road expansion personally but have played a LOT of that game. We have a thread here for Elder Scrolls in general.

I'm curious about the Mario Wonder DLC but not enough to pay $20. I'll see what people think once it's out.

Timberborn has been in Early Access for a while and leaves it on the 12th. I played the demo a while ago and it looked very good, but I haven't been in a building-game mood for a while.
 
Thankfully light month, given how *cram packed* February was.

Legacy of Kain Defiance is a gussied up port of the fifth, final* and arguably "most playable" Legacy of Kain game, crossing together both subseries into a single history spanning quest where Kain and Raziel decide to team up to deal with the actual villain of the series instead of being jerked around by everyone who thinks they have a shot at being the main villain.

Legacy of Kain Ascendance on the other hand, is the first brand new LoK game in, like, 25 years and it looks like Castlevania, and I am *absolutely here for this nonsense*. Not sure if it's a prequel or a sequel or a "history changed so this is canon now" kind of deal but whatever NEW LEGACY OF KAIN! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO!

And also Scott Pilgrim EX is a sequel to Scott Pilgrim vs the World (the game, not any of the other adaptations) where, instead of beating the crap out of everyone in Toronto in order to win the right to date Ramona Flowers, Scott and Ramona team up to fight the various thematic roving gangs of Toronto after Scotts band is kidnapped by malcontents and ne'erdowells.
 
Homura Hime is a combo action game that's been in the works for a while, and I'm interested to see if it has the sauce or if it merely contents itself to be a vehicle for the cute girl cast of variable specification.

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly is being remade, once again. It's one of the most revised horror games around with this release added to the pile, given that you can play it in original set camera angles flavour, in fully first-person on Xbox, over-the-shoulder and motion-controlled on Wii, and now in this highly visually redone take on the most recent iteration. II is the common fan favourite of the series, even if it is not mine, but any Fatal Frame is good in my book, speaking as someone who got into and played the whole series in the last few years.
 
World of Warcraft: Midnight is on the agenda but aside from that Mouse: P.I. for Hire and Crimson Desert look interesting enough, although Crimson Desert feels like a kind of AAA thing that might just be Too Much Game and I'm not 100% sold on what Mouse: P.I. for Hire seems to be doing. Both of them at least look lovely, in their own way.

I suspect March will mostly just be playing through Resident Evil: Requiem and trying to decide if I want to continue with Xenoblade Chronicles X.
 
I hadn’t even heard of Crimson Desert, but that video sure was like five minutes of pretty standard light-fantasy medieval open world and then oh, huh, there’s also some mecha or something, which the narrator doesn’t so much as acknowledge.
 
I played a bunch of the beta weekend of Marathon, the new Bungie extraction shooter and im excited to maybe pick it up soon at or around launch. Really liking how fun and in depth the game is, genuinely it’s the first extraction shooter I’ve played and just stealthing around and collecting gear is very cool. Bumping into players and world bosses is cool too, and I like how it kinda feels like an roguelite in how going back in is solely losing some gear.

Also had a lot of fun playing it with my boyfriend. Might be a new regular online game for us.
 
I’m kinda curious whether it manages to maintain any loose vibes of the original series…
 
Kirin said:
I’m kinda curious whether it manages to maintain any loose vibes of the original series…
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As soon as you port in, you're met with a pithy quote from a bodiless entity about how worthless you are, so they've got that part right at least.

Also some of the unlockable lore already in the game is pages from a book by Bern(h)ard Strauss.

That said, playing the server slam showed me that I really dislike extraction shooters, so I'll just be relying on Hamish to guide me through the new lore.
 
I forgot they were making a 3D Super Meat Boy, or maybe I didn't know that? I found the 2D one hard enough and struggle to navigate 3D worlds so personally won't be getting it, but Lumber loved the first one so maybe he'll pick it up.
 
I ended up getting Minishoot Adventures this month. It's been out on PC a while, but it made it to Switch and that's when I became aware of it. It was great! A nice breezy zeld-'em-up twin-stick shooter hybrid.
 
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