Nighthawks
"Nighthawks is the brand new urban fantasy RPG from Wadjet Eye Games (The Blackwell Legacy, Unavowed, Technobabylon) and writer/designer Richard Cobbett (Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies, The Long Journey Home)."…
Nighthawks is an adventure developed by Wadjet Eye Games, released 22 September 2026 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Nighthawks is
Nighthawks is an adventure game developed by Wadjet Eye Games and released in 2026. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Godot.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Three months ago, you died. And in that moment you were reborn as something new. A monster. A predator. Not a creature of the night, but one of its masters. Unfortunately, things aren't simple as they used to be. Vampires have finally been exposed, and though your existence is tolerated, your new nature is not. You came to the City hoping for a new start, but found only suspicion and starvation. Now you stare at the ceiling of your cheap hotel room as a penniless outcast, suckling on rats and destined to wither away. But every new era brings new opportunities, and in the political chaos of a world gone mad, even an outcast may rise. An outcast can change everything. This is the story of…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 100 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Nighthawks holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2Ghz or better, 8 GB RAM and DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 10GB. 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
Nighthawks launched on 22 September 2026, within three weeks of Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Control Resonant, Onimusha: Way of the Sword.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Nighthawks yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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