If anyone thought 2022 was a “down” year for video games, they’ll have no such complaints this year.

2023 is already stuffed with major new game releases, including the long-awaited arrival of the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild from Nintendo, Bethesda’s Starfield, Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2, two major Final Fantasy games from Square Enix, and Blizzard’s Diablo 4. It’s enough to make any video game website guides editor wake up in a cold sweat.

Part of why this year is jam-packed with blockbuster AAA game releases is due to a large number of delays. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Forspoken, Hogwarts Legacy, Redfall, STALKER 2, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and others were originally planned for 2022, and they’ll face stiffer competition in 2023. But some games planned for this year will also inevitably slip, meaning some of the more vague release dates on our list of 2023’s most anticipated games will join next year’s class. (We’re looking directly at you, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.)

Readers of last year’s list of Polygon’s most anticipated games will notice that some titles delayed beyond 2022 haven’t carried over. Frankly, we’re not confident that this year will include the release of games like Nintendo’s Advance Wars remakes (delayed indefinitely) or ARC Raiders (the studio behind that game is now focusing on a different game, The Finals).

There are many games coming in 2023 that have yet to be announced, or that have not been given a release window. But as of now, here are the 50 games (listed alphabetically) shooting for 2023 that point to a very big, very busy year.

Alan Wake 2

Image: Remedy Entertainment

Having already released Alan Wake Remastered in 2021, Remedy Entertainment has set the stage for its sequel to the moody novelist simulator, en route in 2023 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC — via the Epic Games Store, since Epic is the game’s publisher. According to studio head Sam Lake, writing for PlayStation Blog, “Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s first survival horror game. Our take on the genre. Our opportunity to truly connect the gameplay and the story. It is a deep, layered mystery.”

Ark 2 (early access)

More dinos! More Vin Diesel! Studio Wildcard’s sequel to Ark: Survival Evolved will rethink and redesign every aspect of its survival gameplay, the developer says. The third-person action-survival game will feature advanced traversal mechanics, Dark Souls-inspired combat, cross-platform modding, animals that track and hunt by sight, sound, and smell, dynamic open-world events, “full utilization” of Unreal Engine 5, and, of course, 100% more Vin Diesel compared to the previous game. Ark 2 will launch in an early access state on Windows PC and in Game Preview (on Game Pass) on Xbox Series X.

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon

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