The last two months of 2026 hold twenty RTSRTS. Real-Time Strategy — a strategy game where everyone plays at the same time, continuously, instead of taking turns., MMOMMO. Massively Multiplayer Online — a game that hosts very large numbers of players together in one shared, persistent world. and RPGRPG. Role-Playing Game — a game built around character progression, story, and player choices. releases with a day attached, and the useful thing about that number is how unevenly they land. Three arrive inside forty-eight hours at the start of November. Three more arrive inside nine days in the middle of the month. Then a single Thursday in December takes three titles at once.
Every date below was read off a store page or a publisher’s own post, fetched on 29–30 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from an aggregator, a rumour round-up or a leaked list, and nothing here describes a game’s current build — this is a calendar, not a patch report. Where a source gives only a month, the row says so, because “November 2026” and “17 November 2026” are different claims.
What this covers: every RTS, MMO and RPG release with a day-level date between 1 November and 31 December 2026, plus the ten notable titles in these genres that are undated, month-only or have slipped into 2027. Why it matters: Q4 is not a smooth drip — it clusters on 3–4 November, 17–25 November and 3–11 December, and two of those clusters collide with multiplayer resets you may be planning around. Who should care: anyone deciding what to buy before the year ends, and anyone starting a league, raid tier or campaign that they would rather not abandon in three weeks.
How these dates were checked
Two sources count as a date here: a store page printing one, or a publisher stating one in its own post. A date carried by a news round-up does not count, because round-ups inherit each other’s errors. Where both a store page and a publisher statement exist, both are named in the table.
Store dates move. Everything in this piece is as printed at the time of fetching, 29–30 October 2026. Console versions of several of these titles may exist or may be announced later; that is not something the pages I read assert, so it is not claimed here.
November 2026
| Date | Title | Genre | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov | Age of Wonders 4: The Silver Seas | 4X4X. eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate — a grand-strategy subgenre about building a civilization over a long arc. strategy | First expansion of Expansion Pass 4 (pass itself dated 1 Oct 2026), by Triumph Studios / Paradox Interactive | Steam DLC page |
| 3 Nov | ArcheAge Chronicles | MMO / RPG | XLGAMES’ early-access entry, self-published | Steam store page |
| 3 Nov | The Division 2: Echoes of Central Park | Action / RPG DLC | Ubisoft expansion DLC | Steam DLC page |
| 4 Nov | World of Warcraft: Forever | MMO | Blizzard’s third WoW experience, live 3:00 p.m. PST | Blizzard news post |
| 5 Nov | Underkeep | RPG | Rake in Grass, self-published | Steam store page |
| 5 Nov | Dungeon Munchies 2 | RPG | maJAja, early access | Steam store page |
| 6 Nov | Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor | RPG | Stormfront Studios title, published by SNEG | Steam store page |
| 10 Nov | FINAL FANTASY XIV patch 7.58 | MMO patch | Maintenance date only; Square Enix has published no patch notes | The Lodestone |
| 10 Nov | Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes | RPG | Revive The Spark, self-published | Steam store page |
| 10 Nov | Warhammer Survivors | Action RPG | Auroch Digital, self-published | Steam store page |
| 17 Nov | Crusader Kings III: Silk & Silver | Grand strategy | Paradox Development Studio / Paradox Interactive | Steam DLC page |
| 17 Nov | Melvor Idle 2 | Idle RPG | Games by Malcs, published by Jagex, early access | Steam store page |
| 18 Nov | Disney Dreamlight Valley: The Keepsake Sea | RPG / simulation DLC | Gameloft expansion DLC | Steam DLC page |
| 23 Nov | Stellaris: Willpower | 4X strategy | Paradox Development Studio with Abrakam, published by Paradox | Steam DLC page |
| 25 Nov | Company of Heroes 3: Operation Torch | RTS | Relic Entertainment, self-published DLC | Steam DLC page |
Two notes on that table. The Crusader Kings III date is the one worth flagging: the site’s CK3 Chapter V roadmap piece established Silk & Silver as a November expansion, and the store page now prints the day, 17 November. That is a month-level claim resolving into a day-level one, which is the only kind of update this calendar cares about.
The FFXIV row is a maintenance date, not a release. The Lodestone’s Crystalline Conflict notice says Season Twenty-one ends “with the beginning of Patch 7.58 maintenance on Tuesday, November 10, 2026”, and no notes have been published for that patch. Treat it as a deadline for ranked rewards rather than an appointment to play new content — the Evercold state primer covers what the patch ladder looks like in the meantime.
December 2026
| Date | Title | Genre | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV | RTS | KING Art, published by Deep Silver | Steam store page |
| 3 Dec | DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Withered World | RPG | Square Enix with TOSE, published by Square Enix | Steam store page |
| 3 Dec | Edge of Memories | RPG | Midgar Studio, published by Nacon | Steam store page |
| 9 Dec | Caves of Qud: Diaspora | RPG DLC | Freehold Games, published by Kitfox Games | Steam DLC page |
| 11 Dec | Path of Exile 2 1.0 | Action RPG | Grinding Gear Games; leaves early access, free to play | Grinding Gear Games forum post |
The Dawn of War IV date is consistent across both places it appears: the store page prints 3 December 2026, and the game already has a dedicated page on this site covering its factions on Kronus. The three-way collision on 3 December is the single most awkward scheduling fact in Q4: an RTS, a monster-collecting RPG and a Nacon-published RPG all land the same Thursday.
Path of Exile 2 is the other date that matters beyond its own genre. GGG’s forum post from 25 August 2026 says the game “launches as a fully free-to-play action RPG on December 11 (PST)” and that the full release introduces the Duelist. A free-to-play relaunch with a fresh economy is a different kind of event from a paid release: it resets what everyone owns, which is why the 1.0 league start prep guide exists as a separate piece.
The month-only and undated list
Ten titles in these genres have no day-level date in this window: four are undated, one carries a month but no day, and five are scheduled into 2027. This is the part of a calendar that most round-ups skip, and it is the part that saves money — several of these are the ones people assume are coming in Q4 because the last thing they read said “2026”.
| Title | What the source prints | Genre | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| For The King II: Dust to Dust Character Pack | November 2026 (month only) | RPG / strategy DLC | Steam DLC page |
| Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy | Coming soon | RPG / strategy | Steam store page |
| Chrono Odyssey | To be announced | MMO | Steam store page |
| Persona 6 | To be announced | RPG | Steam store page |
| Guild Wars 3 | To be announced | MMO | Steam store page |
| KINGDOM HEARTS IV | 2027 | RPG | Steam store page |
| FINAL FANTASY XIV: Evercold | January 2027 (month only) | MMO expansion | The Lodestone |
| Fable | Feb 23, 2027 | RPG | Steam store page |
| The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Q2 2027 | RPG | Steam store page |
| EXODUS | Apr 7, 2027 | RPG | Steam store page |
That table is deliberately literal: “To be announced” is the string the store prints, and it means nobody has committed to anything. Note that Evercold, the next FFXIV expansion, is a January 2027 item — a month, not a day — which puts it outside this window entirely even though the pre-expansion patch cycle fills November.
Two store pages that contradict the window you may have seen
A calendar is only worth reading if it also tells you what is not coming. Two RTS titles circulate with Q4 2026 windows; both store pages say something different.
Tempest Rising. Steam prints 24 April 2025 and the page is a released product, not a pre-order. Whatever the Q4 2026 framing attached to it was about, it was not the game’s release date.
Titan Quest II. Steam prints 1 August 2025 — its early-access date — and no 1.0 date appears on the page. The Early Access roadmap piece is where the studio’s own 1.0 target is discussed; the store page does not carry one, so it cannot appear in the December table above.
Both of these are the same failure mode: a window repeated until it sounds like a date. If a title is not in the first two tables, the honest reading is that no store page or publisher post currently commits to it in this window.
What to actually plan around
Three practical consequences follow from the dates, and only one of them is “buy things”.
The 3–4 November pile-up is a subscription decision. WoW: Forever goes live at 3:00 p.m. PST on 4 November, which for European players is the early hours of 5 November; Blizzard’s own table lists the UK at 11:00 p.m. on the 4th, Europe at 12:00 a.m. and Korea at 8:00 a.m. on the 5th. ArcheAge Chronicles enters early access the day before. Anyone starting both on the same weekend is doing one of them badly.
The 17–25 November queue is a Paradox queue. CK3 on the 17th, Stellaris on the 23rd, and then Relic’s Company of Heroes 3 DLC on the 25th. They are separate games, but they compete for the same evenings, and the two Paradox items are DLC — they assume you already own and can still be persuaded by the base game.
11 December is a reset, not a purchase. Path of Exile 2’s 1.0 is free, which means the cost of playing it is the time you had allocated to something else. It lands eight days after Dawn of War IV, in the same month as three RPGs.
For the RTS side of that stack, the Age of Wonders 4 tome and affinity guides are the deeper read on what The Silver Seas is adding to, and the Caves of Qud: Diaspora piece covers the December DLC whose store page prints 9 December.
One limit worth stating plainly: this calendar says when things ship, and nothing about whether they are good, how they run, or what state the live build is in. A date on a store page is a commitment to a day, not evidence about the product. Where a title is listed as early access — ArcheAge Chronicles, Melvor Idle 2, Dungeon Munchies 2 — the store page says so, and that is the only claim made here.