The Most Anticipated Games of 2027 — Fable, Alien: Isolation 2 & More

If the announcements so far are anything to go by, 2027 is shaping up to be one of those years. A beloved British RPG series returns after more than a decade away. The horror sequel fans have been begging for since 2014 is finally real. The Metro series is back, a purple dragon is staging a comeback, and a cult-favorite action RPG is getting a full-blown revival. It's a lineup heavy on nostalgia, but the kind of nostalgia backed by serious studios and serious budgets.

One honest caveat before we get into it: everything below is announced for 2027 per current reporting, and release years slip all the time. A "2027" window announced in 2026 is a statement of intent, not a promise. Some of these will hit their dates, some will drift into 2028, and that's fine — we'd rather wait than get a broken launch. With that said, here's what's on the board.

Fable

Playground Games' reboot of the beloved RPG series is currently targeting 2027, per current reporting, after previous windows came and went. This is the studio behind Forza Horizon taking a swing at Albion — a fairy-tale open world with the series' trademark British humor intact, judging by everything shown so far. It's anticipated for a simple reason: there hasn't been a proper Fable since 2010, and Playground's track record for gorgeous, polished open worlds is about as good as it gets. On the PC side, Playground's Forza Horizon 5 port was widely praised for its scalability and polish — no guarantees that carries over, but it's an encouraging track record.

Alien: Isolation 2

The long-requested sequel to one of the greatest horror games ever made is officially announced and targeting 2027, per current reporting. Creative Assembly's original dropped in 2014 and has spent the decade since growing from cult favorite into consensus classic, so a follow-up — with more of the Alien's unscripted, learning-AI menace — is arguably the most emotionally loaded announcement on this list. Fans asked for this for eleven years; the pressure to get it right is enormous. Worth noting for PC players: the original Alien: Isolation was famously well-optimized, running beautifully even on modest hardware of its era — historical context rather than a promise, but a good omen.

Metro 2039

4A Games' next entry in the Metro series is targeting 2027 per current reporting, picking up the post-apocalyptic Russian saga after 2019's Metro Exodus. The series has always paired oppressive atmosphere with surprisingly ambitious technology, and Exodus's Enhanced Edition was one of the first games built around ray tracing as a requirement rather than an option. That history matters here: Metro games are traditionally ray-tracing and lighting showcases, so if the pattern holds — and it's only a pattern — Metro 2039 could be the game that makes your GPU sweat in 2027. Platforms haven't been fully detailed, but Metro has always treated PC as a first-class citizen.

Spyro: Realm Beyond

The purple dragon's big comeback is officially happening. Spyro: Realm Beyond is the first all-new Spyro adventure in years, and the appetite for it is not hypothetical — the announcement cinematic drew nearly 10 million views in two days. After the Reignited Trilogy proved the audience was still there, a from-scratch entry is the logical next step, and it's targeting 2027 per current reporting. The Reignited Trilogy's eventual PC release ran comfortably on modest hardware, and platformers of this type historically aren't demanding — hedged as history, not a spec sheet.

Muramasa: Revenant Blades

The cult-favorite side-scrolling action RPG returns with Muramasa: Revenant Blades, announced for early 2027 on Switch 2, PS5 and Steam — the most specific window and platform list on this page. Vanillaware-style painterly 2D action has aged better than almost any visual style in games, and the original Muramasa has been trapped on aging Nintendo and Vita hardware for years, so a Steam release alone is an event. Historically, gorgeous 2D action games like this run well on nearly any modern PC — no confirmation yet, but the genre's track record is friendly to modest rigs.

The pattern

Here's what a decade of covering announcements has taught us: some of these dates will move, and that's normal. Windows announced this far out are directional. The thing that doesn't move is the sequence — system requirements typically land one to three months before launch, and when they do, we break them down spec by spec, exactly like we did in our Halo requirements breakdown.

So the sane play is patience. If you want something closer, most anticipated late 2026 covers what's actually imminent. If you're wondering whether your rig will be ready when Fable or Metro 2039 arrives, read when to upgrade your GPU before spending anything — buying hardware for a game that's a year-plus away is almost always a mistake. And once real requirements drop, run your setup through Can I Run It and know for sure. 2027 looks wild. We'll be here when the specs are.