Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave comes out for the Switch 2 in 2026

It’s official. The Switch 2 is getting the next entry in the long-running Fire Emblem series. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave will be available sometime in 2026, though we have nothing more specific than that.

We do have a trailer and it looks gorgeous. It showed off the game’s tactical combat, which is a mainstay for the franchise, and teased the story. It involves some sort of gladiator-like contest called the Heroic Games. There are plenty of new combat units and many of them boast gladiatorial flair of some kind.

It also looks to take place in the same universe as the immensely popular Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which came out for the original Switch console. There are some visual similarities and one character seems to be a grown-up version of someone from Three Houses.

This makes a certain kind of sense, given that Three Houses is the most financially successful game in franchise history and considered by critics to be a stone-cold classic. The more recent Fire Emblem: Engage wasn’t nearly as popular, despite being a solid entry.

For the uninitiated, this series is all about tactical turn-based combat, factional rivalries and robust storylines involving numerous characters. It was a niche franchise here in the USA until the 3DS era and the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fire Emblem: Fates.

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