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Subscribe to the world's #1 PC gaming mag Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£35.99View PC Gaming Show Summer Game Fest TES4: Oblivion Elden Ring: Nightreign Recommended reading Nintendo look away: Palworld and other creature collecting games are cheap on Steam right now A 'vast medieval sandbox' with a former Cyberpunk 2077 designer working on it may be revealed at Summer Game Fest, but there's a twist: the studio is really into generative AI New games 2025: All the upcoming PC games you won't want to miss, from big hits to hidden gems Everything announced at Summer Game Fest 2025 The long-awaited successor to cult hit 'anti-RPG' Moon hits Steam later this year 'What if Blade was a witcher?' is the scary question asked as Blood of Dawnwalker from former CDPR devs announces 2026 release Survival & Crafting How a hardcore survival game morphed into an open world town-builder where you play as a corgi mech pilot Game Freak reminds us that it's more than Pokémon with Beast of Reincarnation, a 'one-person, one-dog action RPG' about fighting robots and corrupted beasts in post-apocalyptic Japan Lincoln Carpenter 8 June 2025 Beast of Reincarnation was revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Game Freak) At today's SGF 2025 Xbox Games Showcase, Game Freak—the developer of acclaimed solitaire-based horseracing sim Pocket Card Jockey and, you know, Pokémon—made a surprise appearance to confirm that it's not just the Pokémon company. (Technically, The Pokémon Company is the Pokémon company.) The studio unveiled Beast of Reincarnation, a "one-person, one-dog action RPG" coming in 2026. Beast of Reincarnation looks like a little bit of Nioh, a touch of Sekiro, a bit of Monster Hunter, and a lot of hitting post-apocalyptic robots and giant mutated creatures with swords. It's set in Japan in the year 4026, where "humanity awaits its inevitable extinction" centuries after the appearance of a "great creature" that "spewed forth blight, corrupting all living things." You play as Emma the Sealer, a young woman with a cool hat, a cool sword, a dog companion, and the ability to generate plant life that she can use to pull herself to enemies and conjure paths of vines in the air to sprint across. It's a useful talent, and one she seems to make heavy use of while doing Sekiro-style combat against corrupted plant creatures and rampant androids. Related articles Nintendo look away: Palworld and other creature collecting games are cheap on Steam right now A 'vast medieval sandbox' with a former Cyberpunk 2077 designer working on it may be revealed at Summer Game Fest, but there's a twist: the studio is really into generative AI New games 2025: All the upcoming PC games you won't want to miss, from big hits to hidden gems Emma, however, apparently isn't just skilled at cutting down mutant megafauna and clinically depressed robots. The reveal trailer, which you can watch above, closes with a voiceover declaring that she's "the blade that will destroy the Beast of Reincarnation" while we watch vines sprouting pure, uncorrupted flowers spread from her sleeping body. Seems good! Or bad? Hard to say! But we'll find out when Beast of Reincarnation launches on Steam in 2026. The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Lincoln Carpenter Social Links Navigation News Writer Lincoln has been writing about games for 11 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte, Lincoln spent three years freelancing for PC Gamer before joining on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. 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