1.62 Million Wishlists: Phantom Blade Zero Tops 2026's Most Anticipated
Published 2026-08-04Updated 2026-09-174 min read
GameDiscoverCo data put Phantom Blade Zero at 1.62 million Steam wishlists — #1 among all 2026 releases, ahead of Blood of the Dawnmaker and Onimusha.
Two months before launch, the industry's scoreboard made it official: with 1.62 million Steam wishlists as of August 4, 2026, Phantom Blade Zero sat at #1 among every game releasing in 2026 — by a comfortable margin.
The top of the 2026 chart
| Rank | Game | Wishlists |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phantom Blade Zero | 1.62M |
| 2 | Blood of the Dawnmaker | 1.47M |
| 3 | Onimusha: The Way of the Sword | 1.18M |
| 4 | Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 | 1.14M |
| 5 | Control: Resonance | 984K |
(GameDiscoverCo tracking, August 4, 2026.)
What the number is made of
The wishlist pile is two audiences stacked. Overseas: the demo tour's goodwill — the game crossed one million wishlists within weeks of its Steam page, with the majority of early additions from outside China (the approval-cycle context). Domestic: the home crowd waiting on the regulatory gate that July cleared, then piling into WeGame reservations (that story).
Why the metric matters here
Wishlists predict launch-week visibility, and launch-week visibility for a Chinese AAA carries the "second after Black Myth" narrative weight — see China's next AAA. The pre-order window two weeks later converted a slice of that pile into revenue records in the making: pricing at ¥268 (the strategy) did not hurt.