1.
Dark Souls III ; My favourite franchise of all-time from my favourite developer, this is a no-brainer. I can't get enough of Souls and I can't wait to sink hundreds of hours into this one and make tons of new characters over and over. Give me moar!
2.
Cosmic Star Heroine ; Proud backer and I've been
patiently waiting for this since day one. I expect this to be the next best thing to Phantasy Star V. No pressure, Zeboyd Games.
To build my hype even more I finally got around to playing Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World, and they're pretty fun, so I have complete faith. (Again, no pressure! xD)
3.
Horizon: Dawn Zero ; Not 100% sure it's gonna be a 2016 release to be honest... but it looks incredibly promising and hitting all the right notes.
4.
Dishonored 2 ; I recently played the first one so I was a bit late to the party, but I greatly enjoyed it, as well as the DLCs.
5.
Salt & Sanctuary ; a 2D Dark Souls/Metroidvania? Yes please.
6.
Death's Gambit ; see above xD
7.
CrossCode ; 2D indie Zelda/Ys-like game that I gladly backed. They have an amazing gameplay demo with fun combat and cool puzzles, can't wait for the final game.
8.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (PC) ; Played it tons on PS3, even made an alt PSN for a second character, but I'll play it again on PC since even my aging card is stronger than a PS3 and I can finally experience this without technical issues. Should be great!
9.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ; really enjoyed Human Revolution, so this should be solid. Though my graphic card won't be able to handle this... hopefully my boyfriend will upgrade his PC so I can play on his xD (he refuses to play it on console, he wants mouse/kb). It's one of his more anticipated titles so I might play it in 2016 after all, but I'm not sure.
10.
NiOh ; I am really not confident in a 2016 release, but it qualifies... sounds like it'd be right up my alley, so I'm definitely paying attention to this and hope the 2016 date is real.
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Honourable mentions (either games I am interested in, but a) don't expect in 2016 whatsoever, b) no release date are even confirmed (so disqualified), c) I am interested in checking out but don't know enough or haven't played the prequels or whatever, or d) I am simply not that hyped about them for them to make the top 10 cut;
x. Uncharted 4
x. La-Mulana 2
x. Rime
x. Ys 8
x. Xanadu Next
x. Eitr
x. Gravity Rush 2
x. Firewatch
lol @ people listing The Last Guardian, FFXV and No Man's Sky. I don't even care about them whatsoever, but honestly, I'll believe it when I see it. (Hey, if it releases in 2016 I'll happily eat crow...)
7. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter -- Last one was actually good, hope Frogwares can finally keep it up.
9. Styx: Shards of Darkness
Thanks to this thread, I now learned that these two things exist! Cool, I enjoyed the previous iterations, flawed as they were. If they can fix the performance issues in the sequels and make some minor improvements, that'd be awesome. I'm a bit skeptical about 2016 for Styx though, seems early.