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The Most-Searched Upcoming Games
Which unreleased games are people googling most? We read the monthly worldwide searches for “<game> release date” for 24 upcoming games, and a year of weekly Google Trends interest for each.
- Release-date searches a month
- 1,367,200
- across 24 unreleased games; GTA VI alone is 80%
- Most searched
- GTA VI
- 1,100,000 searches a month
- Rising fastest
- GTA VI
- +365% search interest over 12 months
- Searches for games with no release date, leaving out GTA VI
- 50%
- 13 of 23 games have only a window or nothing
Every game, by monthly searches
- 1GTA VI1,100,000+365%
- 2God of War Laufey54,000
- 3Fable38,000−8%
- 4The Witcher 430,000−44%
- 5GTA VI (PC)platform version29,000+559%
- 6Forza Horizon 6 (PS5)platform version22,000
- 7Pokémon Winds and Waves20,000
- 8The Elder Scrolls VI18,000+4%
- 9Lords of the Fallen II17,000−9%
- 10Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV12,000+10%
- 11State of Decay 311,000+68%
- 12Total War: Warhammer 40,00011,000+17%
- 13Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis10,000−40%
- 14Kingdom Hearts IV8,300+91%
- 15Metro 20397,400
- 16ILL6,700−29%
- 17Persona 4 Revival6,500+50%
- 18Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance4,600
- 19Stranger Than Heaven3,100
- 20Dragon Ball Xenoverse 32,900
- 21Squadron 422,500+3%
- 22Final Fantasy VII Revelation1,800
- 23Exodus1,400+10%
- 24Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember400
- 25The Expanse: Osiris Reborn300−28%
- 26Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet300−40%
Platform versions (GTA VI (PC), Forza Horizon 6 (PS5)) are listed for their searches but left out of the totals above, which count each game once.
Rising and falling: 12-month change in search interest
| Game | Release | Then | Now | Change | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTA VI (PC)platform version | Not announced (reported Q1 2027) | 5.7 | 37.5 | +559% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| GTA VI | 19 Nov 2026 | 6.2 | 29.0 | +365% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Kingdom Hearts IV | Late 2027 | 5.1 | 9.7 | +91% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| State of Decay 3 | 2027 | 15.3 | 25.7 | +68% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Persona 4 Revival | 18 Feb 2027 | 8.5 | 12.8 | +50% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Total War: Warhammer 40,000 | Not announced | 23.9 | 27.9 | +17% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Exodus | 7 Apr 2027 | 30.4 | 33.4 | +10% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV | 3 Dec 2026 | 52.1 | 57.1 | +10% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| The Elder Scrolls VI | Not announced | 19.5 | 20.2 | +4% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Squadron 42 | Q2 2027 | 31.5 | 32.5 | +3% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Fable | 23 Feb 2027 | 21.8 | 20.0 | −8% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Lords of the Fallen II | Q1 2027 | 29.8 | 27.2 | −9% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Q2 2027 | 35.6 | 25.5 | −28% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| ILL | 2027 | 26.2 | 18.7 | −29% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis | 12 Feb 2027 | 29.8 | 17.9 | −40% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet | Not announced | 61.9 | 37.0 | −40% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
| The Witcher 4 | 2028 (target) | 53.7 | 29.8 | −44% | Nov 25Nov 26 |
“Then” is the game’s average weekly Google Trends interest over the first 13 weeks of the past year and “Now” over the last 13 (each out of 100, against that game’s own peak). Games announced during the year have no “then”, so they aren’t listed here.
When interest peaked
Weekly Google Trends interest over the last 12 months, worldwide web search. Each line is scaled to its own peak, so a trailer or a delay shows as a spike whatever the game’s size.
Most recent peaks: GTA VI (week of 8 Nov 2026), GTA VI (PC) (week of 8 Nov 2026), The Elder Scrolls VI (week of 1 Nov 2026).
- GTA VI#1
Peak w/c 8 Nov 2026Now 100/100
Peak w/c 31 May 2026Now 5/100
- Fable#3
Peak w/c 7 Jun 2026Now 23/100
Peak w/c 9 Nov 2025Now 21/100
Peak w/c 8 Nov 2026Now 100/100
- Pokémon Winds and Waves#7
Peak w/c 22 Feb 2026Now 58/100
- The Elder Scrolls VI#8
Peak w/c 1 Nov 2026Now 28/100
Peak w/c 7 Jun 2026Now 30/100
Peak w/c 25 Oct 2026Now 72/100
- State of Decay 3#11
Peak w/c 7 Jun 2026Now 22/100
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000#12
Peak w/c 7 Dec 2025Now 21/100
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis#13
Peak w/c 14 Dec 2025Now 19/100
- Kingdom Hearts IV#14
Peak w/c 7 Jun 2026Now 7/100
- Metro 2039#15
Peak w/c 12 Apr 2026Now 9/100
- ILL#16
Peak w/c 31 May 2026Now 11/100
- Persona 4 Revival#17
Peak w/c 7 Jun 2026Now 10/100
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance#18
Peak w/c 13 Sept 2026Now 41/100
- Stranger Than Heaven#19
Peak w/c 3 May 2026Now 9/100
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3#20
Peak w/c 19 Apr 2026Now 10/100
- Squadron 42#21
Peak w/c 11 Oct 2026Now 25/100
- Final Fantasy VII Revelation#22
Peak w/c 30 Aug 2026Now 28/100
- Exodus#23
Peak w/c 23 Aug 2026Now 30/100
- The Expanse: Osiris Reborn#25
Peak w/c 22 Mar 2026Now 41/100
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet#26
Peak w/c 17 May 2026Now 28/100
Ordered by monthly searches; the number is the game’s place in the search ranking above. No Google Trends line yet for Forza Horizon 6 (PS5), Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember.
How we measured it
- Monthly searches: Ahrefs’ global monthly volume for “<game> release date”, the same figure the Most Anticipated Games chart uses. Read 10 November 2026.
- 12-month change: the game’s average weekly Google Trends interest over the last 13 weeks against the first 13 weeks of the past year. Games announced during the year have no starting point and are left out of that table.
- Google Trends: weekly interest, worldwide, web search, past 12 months, read 10 November 2026. Each line is relative to its own peak; it shows shape, not size. Each game’s line links to the Trends page it came from.
- Only unreleased games are listed. A game leaves the list the week it comes out.
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