As it has been for movies and television shows, 2026 has been a big year for video games as well. Depending on what it is that specifically catches your interest, gamers have enjoyed their fair share of exhilarating and thrilling content this year. If the romance of spy craft piques your interest, 007 First Light has you covered. Resident Evil Requiem and surprise hit, Blood of the Dawnwalker, has your horror and vampiric needs effectively satiated. Forza Horizon 6 and Marvel's Wolverine also get an honorary mention for racing and superhero enthusiasts, who will ultimately have a say when a decision regarding Game of the Year comes around,
Rockstar Games will potentially have the most likely candidate at the Game Awards, and that is because on November 19, 2026, the eagerly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI, will become official. However, prior to GTA 6 going live after a decade-long wait, Rockstar is losing some of its visibility across some platforms, as two of its biggest games, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto 5, currently now come with a deadline on PlayStation. These two, however, are not the only titles from Rockstar that is set to be available to fewer eyes.
As far as Westerns go in any medium, Rockstar's development of Red Dead Redemption is right up there. So when Netflix and its mobile game library landed the title in November 2025, it was one of the biggest games Netflix had ever licensed. Though it has no multiplayer, Red Dead Redemption on Netflix came complete with the Undead Nightmare expansion and a new mobile-friendly control scheme. Unfortunately, exactly a year after it was added, Red Dead Redemption will depart Netflix on December 2, 2026, as the streaming service loses the biggest gaming Western of all time. Engagement and traction aren't behind Red Dead Redemption's departure from Netflix's service, at least not with the mobile game going past 10 million downloads by February 2026. Licensing seems the most likely explanation.
Four icons and four completely different ways of walking into trouble. This is the one you would have been out there, why it fits, and what it would have cost you.
You have never explained yourself and you have never needed to, because people work out fairly quickly that you are the most capable person in the room without you ever having to mention it.
You are the funniest person in most rooms and the most loyal person in all of them, and you would be genuinely insulted if somebody suggested those two things were in any tension.
You never wanted this job, and you took it anyway because the alternative was standing there watching somebody less careful do it badly, which is the most Western reason there has ever been.
Nobody has ever successfully talked you out of something you had already decided was right, and a long line of grown adults has found that out the hard way.
As Red Dead Redemption prepares to bow out on Netflix, John Marston might find some solace in the fact that he isn't the only one headed towards the exit. After canceling the fantasy series, Shadow and Bone, after two seasons in 2023, Netflix is going one step further in shutting down the game adaptation of one of the best fantasy shows of the 2020s. Titled Shadow and Bone: Enter the Fold, the game will shut down on Netflix on November 9, 2026, ending the streamer's long affiliation with the title.
Tomb Raider Reloaded and Hello Kitty and Friends: Happiness Parade are among several games that have left the service. Thankfully, while axing some gaming titles, Netflix is also looking to bolster its library as well. Netflix has expanded its TV gaming library with an exclusive release on October 13, 2026, of The Conjuring: Unspoken. The game is an interactive paranormal investigation designed to be played from one's couch and is set within the blockbuster horror universe.
Red Dead Redemption departs in December. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
