Halo: Campaign Evolved
Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign. Experience the original story rebuilt with high-definition visuals, updated cinematics, and refined controls, plus…
Halo: Campaign Evolved is an adventure developed by Halo Studios, released 28 July 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Halo: Campaign Evolved is
Halo: Campaign Evolved is an adventure game developed by Halo Studios and released in 2026. It was published by Xbox Game Studios. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign. Experience the original story rebuilt with high-definition visuals, updated cinematics, and refined controls, plus three brand-new prequel missions featuring the Master Chief and Sgt. Johnson. A broader arsenal of weapons, vehicles, enemies, and gameplay-modifying “Skulls” – optional modifiers that change combat in fun and challenging ways – add fresh tactics and endless replayability.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 58 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Halo series
Halo: Campaign Evolved is the 55th of 55 entries we hold in the Halo series. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 81 is almost exactly the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Halo 3 at 91.
How it was received
Halo: Campaign Evolved holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or Intel Core i7-10700K, 16 GB RAM and AMD Radeon RX 6600, Intel Arc A580 or Nvidia Ge-Force RTX 2060 Super. A 16GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. It also needs around 100GB of free storage, which is a real consideration on a 512GB drive. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Halo: Campaign Evolved launched on 28 July 2026, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Beast of Reincarnation, Big Walk and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Beast of Reincarnation, Big Walk, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Halo: Campaign Evolved yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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