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May 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:
Here are the subscription service lists for this month:

Gamepass
  • Final Fantasy V -May 5
  • Mixtape - May 7
  • Call of the Elder Gods - May 12
  • Subnautica 2 - May 14
  • Forza Horizon 6 - May 19
  • Beastro - May 21
  • Luna Abyss - May 26
  • Echo Generation 2 - May 27
  • Crashout Crew - May 28
  • RV There Yet - May 28
  • More TBD
PS+
  • EA Sports FC 26 | PS5, PS4
  • Wuchang: Fallen Feathers | PS5
  • Nine Sols| 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.
 
Whoops, late getting this up this month.

My top game this month is Coffee Talk Tokyo. I started a thread about bartending/barista games here and I am excited for this. That is all.


Yoshi and the Mysterious Book comes out the same day, I'm definitely curious about it but wanna see reviews. It feels like it might be too chatty for me but we'll see.

Mixtape is another one I'm interested in, but want more info about what exactly the gameplay is. Since it's on Gamepass I'll probably check it out through that.

Finally I really enjoyed the demo of Map Map (demo is still up right now if you're curious), where you're making the map of an island you're exploring. Comes out on the 28th and no price listed yet but certainly have this wishlisted.


 
Not much for May that jumps out at me, which is good since April wound up being hella-expensive, but Starbites is a mecha-themed SRPG with an appealing art style and a heavy emphasis on customization.

Lumentale is a 2DHD Pokemon and I'm already completely on board just from me saying that.

And not as high of a priority, but still worth commenting, is Bubsy 4D which is from the Demon Tides peeps and looks weirdly good. And it's Bubsy, so... like... what the hell?
 
I'm going to try to dial back buying games in May since I ended up getting Pragmata and Tomodachi Life after all, but these are on my wishlist:

 
Starbites also has my attention. There's a great Metal Max-shaped hole in the RPG space, especially after Xeno turned out comfortably the series's worst, so there's hope for this reaching for better things with a similar riff. The character art is certainly as sexualized to track as authentic. What made me the most interested is that it features a set, defined, and verbal female lead protagonist--this is an unfortunately rare selling point amidst generically vague player insert avatars as far as I'm concerned.

R-Type Dimensions III visually overhauls the original Super Famicom game, presumably featuring the same kind of on-the-fly presentation toggle between original and new assets that the original Dimensions had for the first two games in the series. I'm not a very big fan of R-Type III, which makes me more interested in this release rather than less: whatever they do (or don't) with it will probably be fine by me for lacking a particularly exacting attachment.

Psyvariar 3 is a very tentative, wary curiosity in how it comes off at a glance, and going off precedent. Success has had varying, well, you get it, in dusting off STG properties from their own catalogue and what they possess the rights to: Cotton has done well for itself with legacy and new projects, while Sonic Wings has been treated to the bewilderingly ramshackle revival effort in the form of Reunion. Psyvariar 3 may not have as defined an aesthetic pedigree as either to live up to, but still the game feel like it lacks the punch of its predecessors--on-point Cotton guest redesign notwithstanding.
 
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