New PC games from 2023: last year’s upcoming releases
Our release date schedule for PC’s biggest 2023 games.
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That’s it; 2023 has come and gone. It was an intense year of major new PC games nearly every month along with plenty of highs and lows for the industry itself. While we got to play more amazing games than in several years prior, it came with relentless layoffs for the people who make games.Down below you’ll find a refresher on tons of PC game launch dates from the year. Remind yourself what you missed that needs to stay on your backlog for next year or look back at the games you didn’t even remember you played. We’re heading into the new year with a list ofnew PC games in 2024, so catch up with new releases there.
2024 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures
While we might be closing out the year, we’re in the age of game delays no matter what month it is. Even as we move into 2024, it’ll be no surprise if some of the remaining games on the schedule get their release dates knocked back for some extra polish. If they’re lucky, it’ll just be one delay. Not all of them are lucky.
Still, while release dates are always tentative nowadays, 2023 shaped up to be a huge year—particularly for RPGs: June launched us into a frenzy of demonslaying in Diablo 4, Baldur’s Gate 3 emerged from early access its August full release, and Starfield’s sent us spaceward to kick off September.
Here was are full schedule of all the new games that released in 2023:
2023 Games: January
Biggest January 2023 games
Persona 3 Portable | January 19Another treasured Persona RPG arrives at last on PC. Gather your fellow teens, grab your Evoker (which is not at all a gun), and face the terror of the Dark Hour.
Forspoken| January 24A Square Enix open-world RPG from a new studio of Final Fantasy veterans. As Frey Holland, displaced New Yorker and fledgling sorcerer, adventure across a fantasy world with the greatest magic of all: parkour.
Dead Space| January 27The Motive remake of the much-loved space horror shooter from 2008. A faithful recreation: severing alien limbs with a plasma cutter remains gruesomely enjoyable and the physics puzzles and no-HUD approach of the original both remain.
All January 2023 game release dates
2023 Games: February
Biggest February 2023 games
Company of Heroes 3| February 23Realtime strategy marches back to the battlefield with Relic’s hallmark WWII series. Use army customization to fine-tune your forces with specialist units, while a Dynamic Campaign Map ensures you never fight the same war twice in the Mediterranean theatre.
Kerbal Space Program 2| February 24(Early Access)Your favorite little green astronauts are back, and they’ve got their sights set on distant stars. Master new technologies to establish space colonies, orbital installations, and—eventually—achieve interstellar travel.
Destiny 2: Lightfall| February 28Destiny tries cyberpunk on for size in its latest expansion. Master new Darkness abilities with Strand powers while exploring a futuristic city on Neptune’s moons. But based on the name, keep your fingers crossed for our favorite big orb.
All February 2023 game release dates
2023 Games: March
Biggest March 2023 games
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty| March 3The Nioh devs from Team Ninja bring some Three Kingdoms flavor to their action RPG craft. Wield weapons and wizardry in tense dark fantasy combat across demon-infested imperial China.
Resident Evil 4| March 24Welcome, stranger: Leon Kennedy’s European Vacation gets a modern reimagining. Track the President’s daughter to solve a bioweapon mystery, and relive Resident Evil’s finest hour of spin kicks and amateur harpooning.
The Last of Us Part 1| March 28The remake of a landmark Sad Dad Simulator finally arrives on PC. With the power of prestige storytelling, survive a country’s worth of third-person shooting in your trek across an America ravaged by fungal zombie apocalypse. You’ll have to supply your own Pedro Pascal, though.
All March 2023 game release dates
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2023 Games: April
Biggest April 2023 games
Minecraft Legends| April 18Mojang and Blackbird Interactive have teamed up to create an action RTS game based on Minecraft lore. Go solo, co-op, or even PvP while directing armies of creepers, skeletons, and other new creatures.
Dead Island 2| April 21The long-in-the-works sequel to 2011’s resort apocalypse is finally launching this spring. Deep Silver is bringing back zombie-slaying FPS action and apparently a bit more grim humor up its sleeve than the original.
Honkai: Star Rail| April 27Genshin Impact’s developers are headed to space with another gacha game, this time a turn-based sci-fi adventure. As with Genshin, expect elemental magic and lots of characters to optimize your party with.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor| April 28It’s dark days for lone Jedi Cal Kestis. Hunted by the Empire across known space, Cal’s got a bigger bag of tricks to help him Jedi: Survive—new fighting styles, new friends, and a newfound talent for taming lizards all feature in this Star Wars sequel.
All April 2023 game release dates
2023 Games: May
Biggest May 2023 release dates
Redfall|May 2An open world, vampire-slaying co-op shooter from the devs behind Dishonored. Battle cultists, fight vampire gods on the psychic plane, and rid Redfall of its blood-sucker infestation.
Darkest Dungeon 2|May 8Everyone’s favorite doomed dungeon-crawlers return in a roguelike roadtrip through a worldwide eldritch apocalypse. New 3D graphics, battle mechanics, and hero affinities bring all kinds of new joys and plenty more new horrors.
System Shock|May 30Return to Citadel Station in the modern reimagining of the 1994 classic, and relive the FPS that helped cement the immersive sim as one of the most-loved, worst-named genres.
All May 2023 release dates
2023 Games: June
Biggest June 2023 release dates
Street Fighter 6| June 2It’s a new age for Street Fighter: new approachable control styles, new custom fighter singleplayer experiences, new dive gauge mechanics. And most importantly, for Ryu, a new beard.
Diablo 4| June 6All aboard the Hell train, folks: we’ve got loot to hoard. Return to the legendary ARPG series and mulch mounds of demons across an open world as one of five classic classes. Maybe as a bear, if you’re a druid.
Mask of the Rose| June 8Descend once more into the chthonic metropolis of Fallen London—and maybe find romance? In Failbetter’s dating sim/murder mystery/census-taking simulator, meet a gothic undercity’s worth of colorful characters: some cloaked, some tentacled. Some, assuredly both.
All June 2023 release dates
2023 Games: July
Biggest July 2023 release dates
Exoprimal | July 14Take a breather, Monster Hunter: Capcom’s offering another venue for tussling with t-rexes, now in class-based exosuit flavor. After all, who hasn’t wanted to suit up like Iron Man and plunge guns blazing into a waterfall of frenzied dromaeosaurs? Right? Wait, where are you going? Why are you calling the emergency numb—
Jagged Alliance 3| July 14Make way for mercs! Counter a paramilitary coup with some colorful paramilitaries of your own when the beloved tactics franchise returns. Recruit, loot, and shoot your way to a restored Grand Chien.
Remnant 2| July 25Remnant: From the Ashes was a surprise hit, finally delivering on our long-held dream of a Dark Souls with guns. In the sequel, embark on another jaunt across worlds as one of humanity’s gunslinging protectors in an interdimensional post-apocalypse.
All July 2023 release dates
2023 Games: August
Biggest August 2023 release dates
Baldur’s Gate 3| August 3After twenty years, we’re heading back to the favorite city of the Forgotten Realms. After an acclaimed early access run, The Baldur’s Gate series gets its turn-based rebirth courtesy of the Divinity devs at Larian.
Blasphemous 2 | August 24The sequel to the widely-celebrated Souls-like side scroller, featuring a new world of Gothic grotesquery. There’s always work to be done for the Penitent One.
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon| August 25Pack up your greatswords and break out the robots. It’s finally happening: at long last, FromSoft is back in the mech business, and it’s bringing all the lessons learned while achieving action RPG acclaim. Now we just have to see whether Souls fans have the patience for AC customization.
All August 2023 release dates
2023 Games: September
Biggest September 2023 release dates
Starfield| September 6By god, they put a Skyrim in space. Bethesda’s slipped their terrestrial confines to ply their open world RPG trade across the final frontier. A thousand planets, fully customizable spaceships, fish hallucinogens—Todd Howard and the gang are making big promises. Can Starfield deliver?
Mortal Kombat 1 | September 19Is it already time for another Mortal Kombat timeline reset? Liu Kang says yes, and he’s got the godly powers to prove it. Mortal Kombat enters a new era with new Kameo assist fighters to freshen up your fighting experience.
Payday 3| September 21Perhaps the only good reason to ever wear a clown mask, Payday returns for high-risk, high casualty rate co-op crime. Make sure someone brings extra body bags.
All September 2023 release dates
2023 Games: October
Biggest October 2023 release dates
Assassin’s Creed Mirage| October 5Seems Ubisoft’s grown nostalgic for the age when Assassin’s Creed had a few more assassins (and creeds thereof). In Mirage, become the most lethal man in Baghdad as the series returns to form.
Cities: Skylines 2 | October 24It hasn’t been long since Cities: Skylines set the current standard for city builders, but it never hurts to cement your place on the throne. The sequel touts new levels of city simulation, promising unprecedented creativity in urban planning—at least until you have to figure out traffic, anyway.
Alan Wake 2| October 27After cementing their own combined cinematic universe in Control, Remedy is revisiting their wretched little man as they make their survival horror debut. Yeah, Alan’s been trapped in a pocket dimension of psychological torment for ten years, but I’m sure it’ll be fine.
All October 2023 release dates
2023 Games: November
Biggest November 2023 release dates
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name | November 8After an absence from the series formerly known as Yakuza, our beloved himbo Kazuma Kiryu is back in a secret agent side adventure—although apparently we’re not allowed to call him that.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3| November 10Helmed by Sledgehammer Games, the latest in frustratingly-named Call of Duty games with a return to nonsense mobility and a heaping of map nostalgia.
Persona 5 Tactica | November 10Enlisted to aid in an interdimensional revolution, the Phantom Thieves go grid-based in a Persona 5 tactics spinoff.
All November 2023 release dates
2023 Games: December
Biggest December 2023 release dates
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora| December 7I could write here about how Frontiers of Pandora is a story about fighting against encroachment as an outsider caught between two worlds, but yknow. It’s Far Cry and you’re an alien.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader | December 7In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there is only war. Luckily for us, there are also cool freebooters. In this CRPG from the Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Devs, explore the distant reaches of the Imperium as one of its piratical Rogue Traders.
House Flipper 2| December 14The titan of job simulation returns for demolishing, mopping, spackling, bricklaying, interior designing, and whatever other beautifying you’ll do while restoring and selling virtual homes. Can’t do much worse than the landlords I know. Zing.
All December 2023 release dates
2023 Games: Delayed to 2024
Games delayed to 2024 and beyond
Lauren has been writing for PC Gamer since she went hunting for the cryptid Dark Souls fashion police in 2017. She accepted her role as Associate Editor in 2021, now serving as self-appointed chief cozy games and farmlife sim enjoyer. Her career originally began in game development and she remains fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long fantasy books, longer RPGs, can’t stop playing co-op survival crafting games, and has spent a number of hours she refuses to count building houses in The Sims games for over 20 years.
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