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Night City and a zombie-infested Europe headline the next wave of open-world releases.
YouTuber WildGamerSK’s Top 10 NEW OPEN WORLD Upcoming Games of 2019 & 2020 runs down the biggest sandbox titles heading to PC, PS4 and Xbox One over the next several months, shot and edited in 4K at 60FPS. The countdown leans hard on two marquee releases — CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 and Techland’s Dying Light 2 — before working through a mix of games already out, games with confirmed dates, and a few still without one. It’s less a ranking of hype than a checklist of what’s actually shipping soon versus what’s still vaporware.
- Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG set in the dystopian metropolis of Night City, tops the list with an April 16, 2020 release date locked in.
- Techland’s Dying Light 2 promises expanded RPG mechanics, parkour traversal, and world-altering player choices, targeting a Spring 2020 launch.
- The countdown also mixes in near-term arrivals like Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: Legion (March 6, 2020) and Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds, which had already released on October 25, 2019.
Night City Leads the Countdown
Cyberpunk 2077 sits at the top of the list for obvious reasons — it’s the studio that made The Witcher 3 attempting a first-person, cybernetics-heavy RPG in a sprawling futuristic city. Night City is built as a fully explorable open world packed with side content, faction politics, and player-driven builds, and by December 2019 the April 16, 2020 release date had already been set. Readers wanting a deeper breakdown of what that gameplay loop actually looks like can check out the hour-long open-world walkthrough that CD Projekt Red circulated around the same period.
Dying Light 2’s Choice-Driven Open World
Techland’s follow-up to its 2015 parkour-zombie hit is the other pillar of the countdown. Dying Light 2 leans further into RPG territory than its predecessor, with branching storylines and city-wide consequences tied to how players navigate the conflict between hostile factions. The traversal system — the free-running across rooftops that made the original a cult favorite — gets expanded alongside the new choice mechanics, with Techland targeting a Spring 2020 window at the time of the video’s release. More on the game’s traversal and combat systems is available in the official gameplay trailer breakdown.
Every choice heavily depends on the player — Dying Light 2’s branching storylines are built to make the map itself feel different depending on who wins each district.
The Rest of the Field
Beyond the two headliners, the video rounds out its top ten with a mix of confirmed and still-unannounced projects. Sucker Punch’s samurai epic Ghost of Tsushima, set during the Mongol invasions of 13th-century Japan, appears without a firm release date at the time. Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: Legion, letting players recruit and control any NPC across a near-future London, was pegged for March 6, 2020. Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds, a choice-driven space RPG, had already launched on October 25, 2019, making it more of a “just arrived” pick than a true upcoming release. Rounding things out are longer-shot entries like Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, Beyond Good and Evil 2, and Halo Infinite, the latter aiming for a Holiday 2020 launch alongside the Xbox Series X.
Next-Gen Platforms Already in the Conversation
What ties the list together is the platform question looming over every entry — PS4 and Xbox One are still the primary targets, but PS5 and the console then known as Xbox Project Scarlett hover in the background of nearly every pitch. Games like Halo Infinite and Cyberpunk 2077 were already being framed as cross-generation launches, built to run on current hardware while scaling up for whatever Sony and Microsoft were about to ship. For anyone tracking that hardware transition separately, the breakdown of the PS5’s SSD architecture covers why that background hardware shift mattered as much as any single game on this list.
Of everything on the countdown, Cyberpunk 2077 is the one with a hard date already circled on the calendar — April 16, 2020 — while Dying Light 2 is still working off a seasonal window rather than a specific day. That gap is the whole story heading into early 2020: one Night City build ready to go gold, and a pack of open worlds still catching up to it.
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