Are The Top 20 Most Wishlisted Games On Steam As We Charge...
This past year has been a parade of fantastic games, with major hits and small-studio darlings bubbling up what felt like every single day. That doesn't mean players' appetites for more are any less voracious, of course; if you're like me, your Steam wishlist is a landfill of release-date-pending games that promise to propel our medium even further.
As the calendar prepares to turn over, and in the spirit of neverending insatiability, let's take a look at the 20 most wishlisted games on Steam and dissect every last detail we can, like grubby little horseshoe crabs with so much digital detritus.
Vindictus may not have been the biggest MMO around when it originally came to Steam in 2012, but its third-person ARPG-style brawling proved irresistible for a contingent of players who didn't mind the grind. Upcoming spinoff Defying Fate seems to reimagine the game for a post-Elden Ring world, pushing dodges and counterattacks firmly into the spotlight. Assuming it can replicate the appeal of inspirations, I can see this really appealing to a particular kind of Souls fiend—the sort of player who'd rather grind out canned missions and bosses endlessly than trawl through a big open world.
It's hard to say when it'll release, but given that a decently polished demo has already made the rounds, within the next year feels realistic.
The worry with remakes, for me, is always that they'll sand off the edges that made the source material appealing. Gothic is a cult classic for a reason—it's a weird, grimy, ambitious sandbox, and by most accounts, pretty damn janky even accounting for the fact that it's over 20 years old. Rather than aim for broader appeal this time, whatever that would mean, Gothic 1 Remake seems poised to double down on the original game's absurd ambitions, promising "complex life simulation on a scale hardly ever seen before." That's the kind of wild sales pitch I like to see, and it's no surprise that players are already lining up to see what the fuss is about.
Gothic 1 Remake has a demo on Steam already, and it's set to release in Q1 2026.
Coming from the creators of Little Nightmares, Reanimal has a pretty cool pitch: a co-op horror adventure game where brother and sister "go through hell to rescue their missing friends." Given the success of Hazelight hits like Split Fiction and It Takes Two, it's no surprise that something like this has some serious potential; like everything else, screaming in terror is more fun in voice chat with a friend. J
Source: PC Gamer
