Gaming: New PC Game Releases We're Most Excited About In February 2026

My perfect date: Leon Kennedy, weird cats, and The Sims.

We're still in a relatively 'slow' period for new releases, but February is when our list of upcoming 2026 games starts tossing in a few heavy hitters like Nioh 3 and Resident Evil Requiem. It's not busy compared to years prior, sure, but I'm thankful for the free time when I look ahead at the schedule for March. We really need a monthly limit on MMO and RPG releases or something—emphasis on the limit if you're combining the two.

But until then there's more than enough to hold you over, including the brutally honest survival game Unemployment Simulator 2018, and Edmund McMillen's turn-based adventures about selectively screwed up cats, Mewgenics. He thinks it's his best game yet, and Tyler may agree with him.

As for myself, I'm kind of in a weird, creepy, cozy marathon until next month rolls in. I've been enjoying the adorably spooky lo-fi puzzles in Creature Kitchen's demo, and riding a man-eating elevator to hell in the co-op nightmare that is Kletka. It's out in 1.0 later this month, so I'm trying to break out of this mouthy contraption now before it adds any more Russian creepypastas to the menu.

Unemployment Simulator 2018 (Steam) kicks off the month with a depression banger I've had wishlisted for a while thanks to my colleague Chris Livingston. He wrote about searching for dopamine in the anxiety and fatigue management sim last year, dubbing it "the most honest survival game" he's ever played.

Dragon Quest 7: Reimagined (Steam) is another early in the month release slated for this week, but you can get a head start now with the RPG's lengthy demo. It's a remake of a game that's over 25 years old, and one that Square Enix humbly requests we not spoil. Fortunately for Square, I can hardly remember what I did this morning, let alone a story from decades ago.

Nioh 3 (Steam) was announced last year during Sony's State of Play, and it's the first of the series with a simultaneous console and PC release. Team Ninja's third Soulslike set in feudal Japan is another with a demo you can try right now, and Shaun says it runs surprisingly well.

Mewgenics (Steam) was announced almost 14 years ago, and acknowledging that has turned me into kitty litter dust. The bizarre cat-breeding roguelike is the next game from Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen, and one his co-developer Tyler Glaiel thinks we'll take a breezy 200-something hours to roll credits on. I'm not sure if that estimate includes achi

Source: PC Gamer