September 2026 PC gaming schedule: Blood of Dawnwalker, Silent Hill Townfall, Control Resonant, and Witcher 3 Remastered headline a packed month

September 2026 refuses to be quiet. After a slow stretch, the month opens with The Blood of Dawnwalker on September 2, closes with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered on September 29, and sandwiches Silent Hill: Townfall and Control Resonant on the same day — September 24 — somewhere in between. Two major 1.0 launches, a Final Fantasy 14 expansion step, and a string of gaming events round out what is shaping up to be one of the busiest months of the year on PC.

The Blood of Dawnwalker, the vampire RPG from Rebel Wolves — the studio founded by Witcher veterans — kicked off the month on September 2. PC Gamer's Shaun called it "one of the best action RPGs he's played in years." Silent Hill: Townfall arrives September 24 alongside Control Resonant, the follow-up starring Dylan Faden in a melee-focused brawler role. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered lands September 29 and is free for everyone who already owns the original, DLC included. On the update front, Final Fantasy 14 gets its 7.56 update on September 8 with a new job and story quests building toward the Evercold expansion. Valheim hits 1.0 on September 9, finally adding the long-awaited Deep North frozen biome. RuneScape: Dragonwilds also reaches 1.0 on September 15.

The events calendar is just as loaded. PAX West runs its four-day weekend starting September 4. BlizzCon returns September 12 with a notable gap in its schedule that looks suspiciously StarCraft-shaped. Tokyo Game Show runs its longest show yet — five days — starting September 17, and PC Gamer's own Tokyo Game Show special airs September 20. Game Devs of Color Expo goes both online and in-person starting September 22. Steam keeps the sales rolling too: the Survival Crafting Fest wraps September 7, the Party-Based RPG Fest runs September 14–21, and the Programming Fest runs September 17–20.

For anyone still catching up after Gamescom, the timing is brutal — Tokyo Game Show is already queued up before the dust settles. But with two 1.0 launches, four major releases, and a free remaster of one of the most acclaimed RPGs ever made, September 2026 is making a strong case that this year was never actually slow — it was just saving the good stuff.