New PC games in 2023: this year's upcoming releases

By Lauren Morton
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Our release date schedule for PC's biggest 2023 games.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor key art of Cal Kestis holding a blue lightsaber in front of a setting sun
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With a quarter of the year down, our list of upcoming PC games of 2023 is starting to look packed. Spring is bringing a whole lot of launches big and small in April from a Star Wars: Jedi sequel to Mojang's RTS spinoff Minecraft Legends to mystery sandbox Shadows of Doubt. Dead Island 2 is finally shambling onto our screens this month too.

Best of the best

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2023 games: Upcoming releases
Best PC games: All-time favorites
Free PC games: Freebie fest
Best FPSes: Finest gunplay
Best MMOs: Massive worlds
Best RPGs: Grand adventures

We're still in an era of game delays, with the pandemic years seeing an increase in big games willing to push back their release dates to get a bit more development time. Not even just once, either. Some are still getting multiple delays before they finally hit our game libraries. 

Still, even if some of these dates are tentative, 2023 is going to be a huge year—particularly for RPGs. A lot of major releases and long-in-the-works sequels are targeting this year: Starfield's delay has us waiting for launch until September, Baldur's Gate 3's early access is planned to end with a full release in August, and of course Diablo 4 is scheduled to turn up too.

Hit the ground running and fill up your schedule with all the new games of 2023:

Biggest new PC games this month

All on its own, April is bringing a large stack of big games. Cal Kestis's adventures continue in Jedi: Survivor, Dead Island's sequel finally arrives on the scene, Genshin Impact's developer Hoyoverse launches its new turn-based game, and that's far from all. Catch the full list of all the PC games launching this month down in new games of April.

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Minecraft Legends | April 18
Mojang 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</strong></a><strong> | April 21<br> </strong>The 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.</p>" data-widget-type="deal" data-render-type="editorial">
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Dead Island 2 (opens in new tab) | April 21
The 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 </strong></a><strong>| April 27<br> </strong>Genshin 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.</p>" data-widget-type="deal" data-render-type="editorial">
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Honkai: Star Rail (opens in new tab)| April 27
Genshin 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.

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (opens in new tab) | April 28
It'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.

2023 Games: January

Biggest January 2023 games

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Persona 3 Portable (opens in new tab) | January 19
Another 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.

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Forspoken (opens in new tab) | January 24
A 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.

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Dead Space (opens in new tab) | January 27
The 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

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Company of Heroes 3 (opens in new tab) | February 23
Realtime 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.

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Kerbal Space Program 2 (opens in new tab) | 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.

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Destiny 2: Lightfall (opens in new tab) | February 28
Destiny 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

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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (opens in new tab) | March 3
The 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.

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Resident Evil 4 (opens in new tab) | March 24
Welcome, 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.

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The Last of Us Part 1 (opens in new tab) | March 28
The 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

2023 Games: April

Biggest April 2023 games

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Minecraft Legends | April 18
Mojang 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</strong></a><strong> | April 21<br> </strong>The 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.</p>" data-widget-type="deal" data-render-type="editorial">
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Dead Island 2 (opens in new tab) | April 21
The 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 </strong></a><strong>| April 27<br> </strong>Genshin 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.</p>" data-widget-type="deal" data-render-type="editorial">
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Honkai: Star Rail (opens in new tab)| April 27
Genshin 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.

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (opens in new tab) | April 28
It'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

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System Shock (opens in new tab) | May 30, 2023
Return 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.

2023 Games: June

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Mask of the Rose (opens in new tab) | June 8
Descend 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.

2023 Games: July

  • July 14, 2023 — Exoprimal - Co-op mechsuit dino shooter
  • July ??, 2023 — Tales & Tactics - Roguelike autobattler from Slay the Spire modders

2023 Games: August

  • August 10, 2023 — Atlas Fallen - Monster Hunter by way of righteous deicide
  • August 29, 2023 — Sea of Stars - Classic-style turn-based RPG
  • August 31, 2023 — Baldur's Gate 3 - Larian's take on the classic RPG series
  • August ??, 2023 — Lies of P - Bloodborne, but you play Pinocchio

2023 Games: September

2023 Games: October

2023 Games: November

  • November 10, 2023 —The Day Before - Open world zombie survival MMO
  • November ??, 2023 — Corpus Edax - Immersive sim with punchy melee physics

2023 Games: December

2023 Games: Dates to be announced

2023 games with dates to be announced

2023 Games: Delayed to 2024

Games delayed to 2024

  • 2024 - Ark 2 - More dinosaurs, plus Vin Diesel
Lauren Morton
Lauren Morton
Associate Editor

Lauren started writing for PC Gamer as a freelancer in 2017 while chasing the Dark Souls fashion police and accepted her role as Associate Editor and Chief Minecraft Liker in 2021. She originally started her career in game development and is still fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long books, longer RPGs, multiplayer cryptids, and can't stop playing co-op crafting games.

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