November 2026 is going to be an interesting month for video games, although we all know which one is getting most of the attention. Grand Theft Auto VI is finally arriving, and it’s probably going to consume a good chunk of everyone’s free time and gaming budget. But believe it or not, Rockstar isn’t the only developer releasing a game this month, even if the rest of the industry might wish it had picked a different date.
So, before the entire month becomes a conversation about Vice City, let’s get into the other releases on our radar, too. Here are our top 10 games to keep on your wishlist this November.
10. Crymelight
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Switch 2, PC
Release Date: November 5, 2026
Wonderland’s a prison for the dead in Crymelight, FURYU’s action roguelike about girls confronting the sins they carried into the afterlife. You play as Alice, who’s lost her memories and learns that defeating the Queen is the only way out. She teams up with a mysterious girl named Mary, fights through the Queen’s territory, and gradually uncovers her companions’ pasts. There are still tea parties, although the conversations tend toward regrets and unfinished business.
Once the fighting starts, defeating enemies spreads the Wonder Dimension across the battlefield, strengthening Alice and speeding up the action. Meanwhile, you’ll collect five skill cards at a time to form poker hands, with different combinations changing your attacks and abilities. Runs don’t leave you entirely empty-handed, either. Through the repentance system, Alice takes on defeated souls’ sins and earns materials for weapon and accessory upgrades that can carry over after she loses her cards.
9. Neo Junk City
Platforms: PC
Release Date: November 9, 2026
Most murder mysteries start with figuring out who committed the crime. Neo Junk City skips that part. Buster 09 already knows he’s responsible; he just can’t remember why. Starblade Games’ point-and-click action RPG follows his investigation through a partially submerged cyberpunk metropolis, mixing conversations and clue hunting with arcade racing and quick-draw shootouts. The city’s rendered in grimy pixel art, with robots, cybernetic monsters, and plenty of people who probably shouldn’t be carrying weapons.
As you investigate objects and get to know the locals, new interaction options open up, along with paths you couldn’t access before. Then the game shifts gears. Shootouts have you reacting to sudden targets while distinguishing threats from bystanders, and driving sequences send you through the city’s streets under the watch of its Highway Authority System. Driving too slowly can get you killed, so this isn’t an adventure where you can always take your time clicking on things.
8. Springs, Eternal
Platforms: PC
Release Date: November 11, 2026
For a quieter change of pace, Fullbright’s Springs, Eternal takes us to a secluded hot springs retreat in the middle of the night. This first-person narrative adventure has you wandering Stillwater’s forest paths, pools, and underground caverns with a flashlight, meeting the other visitors who’ve found their way there. Between those encounters, you’ll revisit memories of a relationship, gradually working through what brought you to Stillwater yourself. The low-resolution visuals lean into late ’90s dithering and fog rather than a picture-postcard version of the retreat.
Much of your time goes toward branching conversations, with something learned from one guest opening another line of discussion elsewhere. You’ll cross paths with debating philosophers, a tattooist, young lovers, and other visitors whose stories overlap with your own. As the map opens up, there are more tucked-away pools and paths to investigate. In the past, Fullbright has immersed us in emotional stories like Gone Home, so we’re definitely looking forward to this seemingly grim vacation.
7. Grand Theft Auto VI
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
Release Date: November 19, 2026
All right, let’s get to the one we mentioned up top. Grand Theft Auto VI returns to Vice City for an open-world crime adventure following Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos. An attempted easy score goes wrong, pulling the pair into a criminal conspiracy that stretches across the state of Leonida. They’re relying on each other to get through it, which isn’t the most reassuring arrangement when both of their lives are already complicated.
Jason’s been working for drug runners in the Keys after a stint in the Army, while Lucia’s fresh out of prison and determined to improve her circumstances. Around them, Rockstar’s assembled a cast of smugglers, bank robbers, aspiring music moguls, and conspiracy-minded acquaintances. Vice City isn’t the whole setting, either. Leonida extends into areas including the Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, and Mount Kalaga, taking the story beyond the city’s familiar neon streets.
6. TANUKI: Pon’s Summer
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch, Switch 2, PC
Release Date: November 10, 2026
Pon’s got a month to repair the local shrine and a part-time postal job to help pay for it. TANUKI: Pon’s Summer is an open-world adventure from Denkiworks that puts you on a BMX, delivering letters and packages around a Japanese island before the Great Tanuki Festival. Packages come in different shapes and sizes, so you’ll need to work out how to load your bike and get everything to its destination. Pon’s also quite happy to interrupt the delivery route to show off on a nearby rail.
Away from work, you can join baseball games, make sushi, try sumo wrestling, and spend time with the residents. The money and rewards you earn go toward rebuilding, upgrading, and decorating the shrine. There’s a fair amount of biking outside the deliveries, too, with more than 100 BMX challenges spread around the island. You’ll launch off ramps, string tricks together, and explore paths and rooftops between the rest of Pon’s summer commitments.
5. Hope in the City
Platforms: Xbox Series X, PC
Release Date: November 11, 2026
Hope Song’s preparing for her national exams when she comes home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Hope in the City, a narrative mystery from Lofty Sky Entertainment, follows the 17-year-old’s investigation through Shenyang, China. She isn’t a detective, and the people around her seem more interested in avoiding trouble than getting involved. What she does have is an artist’s eye and a sketchbook that starts filling up with details she can’t explain.
You’ll explore the streets, speak with residents, and record suspicious observations as sketches. From there, you combine drawings into insights, then connect those ideas into larger breakthroughs as the investigation develops. The city’s familiar storefronts and neighborhoods sit alongside the increasingly disturbing picture forming in Hope’s notebook. And since the people she approaches aren’t all willing to talk, she’ll have to keep comparing what she’s told with what she can see for herself.
4. Airframe Ultra
Platforms: PC
Release Date: November 5, 2026
Airframe Ultra takes us into Megacity West’s underground racing scene, where a secondhand hoverbike and a baseball bat are enough to get started. Videocult’s combat racer has you competing in the Ultra Circuit, boosting through battered city streets while taking swings at the other riders. Pipes, chains, and plasma torches are all part of the equipment selection. You can try to outrun the competition, but getting alongside someone and knocking them around is very much on the table.
Races support both split-screen and online multiplayer, with rider customization and new Airframes to assemble from the parts you earn. As you work through circuits, you’ll collect clothing and helmets alongside the components for your next machine. The routes run through shipyards, industrial districts, and other corners of Megacity West, all presented with a rough, retro look. Between the boosts and close-range attacks, you’ll be spending plenty of time within swinging distance of the person you’re trying to overtake.
3. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Switch 2, PC
Release Date: November 3, 2026
Sometimes you just want to throw a building at another giant monster. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered brings back the 2002 arena fighter, with original developer Pipeworks handling the remaster alongside publisher Atari. You’ll choose from 12 kaiju and fight across eight locations, including cities, Monster Island, and an alien mothership. Each monster has its own melee attacks, energy blasts, and Rage Mode strikes, while buildings and landmarks can become weapons once the brawl gets underway.
Alongside the remastered visuals, there’s new online multiplayer and returning local play. The unlock system’s been revised, too, so you can choose the order in which you collect monsters, arenas, and gallery items rather than following a fixed sequence. There are also additional single-player campaigns for each kaiju. It’s still an arena brawler about knocking monsters through the scenery, rather than a new game built around the recent films.
2. Eternal Palace Sakura
Platforms: Switch, PC
Release Date: November 4, 2026
Eternal Palace Sakura sends a dual-blade-wielding heroine into a tower that won’t stop rearranging itself. Denneko Yuugi’s 3D action roguelite follows Retla, who travels to the land of Ouran after hearing about the mysterious structure, only to become trapped inside. You’ll fight through yokai, dodge attacks, and chain combos while searching its changing floors for equipment and treasure. The labyrinth’s layouts, enemies, and items shift between attempts, while unlocked abilities and upgrades carry into later runs.
As you push farther in, the Mugen Depth system starts adding debuffs and strengthening enemies. There are greater rewards waiting deeper inside, but you’re also taking on those extra penalties with whatever build you’ve assembled. Skills and power-up items can be combined throughout a run, and Retla has an ultimate technique called Over Arts for fighting through tougher encounters. Eventually, you’ll have to decide whether to retreat or keep going toward the bosses and challenges on the deeper floors.
1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Platforms: Switch 2
Release Date: November 5, 2026
And at number one, we’re heading back to Hyrule. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is returning as a full remake for Switch 2, rebuilding the 1998 action-adventure rather than giving the Nintendo 64 version another remaster. Link’s journey follows him from childhood into adulthood as he explores dungeons, gathers equipment, and tries to stop Ganondorf from taking control of the kingdom. Nintendo’s reworked the visuals and added voice acting, orchestral music, and expanded cutscenes, while keeping the familiar story at the center.
There are changes to how Link gets around, too. You can now jump manually and dash, alongside updated camera controls. The ocarina still handles songs through button inputs, but there’s also an option to hum melodies or play an instrument into the Switch 2’s microphone. We’ll have to see how the revised movement feels inside those familiar spaces, but it’s nice to see the game in this light. Thankfully, demonstrating your musical ability to everyone in the room remains optional.
