We already took a look at the last year in The Respawn Station Awards, but now it’s time to take a look ahead at all the games slated to release in 2022 and pick our most anticipated. Below you will find our list of games along with their tentative release date. For the sake of condensing the list, we have not included remastered titles such as Life is Strange or games like God of War which will be coming to PC this year.
- Rainbow Six: Extinction | January 20
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus | January 28
- Sifu | February 8
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human | February 4
- Horizon: Forbidden West | February 18
- Elden Ring | February 28
- Evil Dead | February 2022
- Babylon’s Fall | March 3
- Gran Turismo 7 | March 4
- Triangle Strategy | March 4
- Forspoken | March 24
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands | March 25
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land | March 25
- Saints Row | August 23
- Starfield | November 11
- STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl | December 8
The next chunk of games are ones that were given a 2022 release window, but no more specific month or date was given.
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora | 2022
- Bayonetta 3 | 2022
- Gotham Knights | 2022
- Hogwarts Legacy | 2022
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum | 2022
- God of War: Ragnarok | 2022
- Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope | 2022
- The Outlast Trails | 2022
- GhostWire: Tokyo | 2022
- A Plague Tale: Requiem | 2022
- Resident Evil: RE:Verse | 2022
- Sonic Frontiers | 2022
- Splatoon 3 | 2022
- Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League | 2022
Those are our most anticipated games of the coming year. If there is a game you think belongs on this list, let us know down below with a comment below. It’s worth noting that because of COVID, some of the games releasing later in the year or ones that don’t have an exact date might be delayed into 2023. And, of course, this list only includes games that have already been announced. Ones that are announced throughout 2022 will not be here.