This Elder Scrolls-inspired RPG has the most unhinged trailer of 2026

You can expect the hallmarks of a meaty RPG here: a multitude of creative races, lore dispersed within scraps and books, quests tied to rumors, and NPCs with problems only you can solve (or make worse). Quests are open-ended and, according to the game’s Steam page, offer options involving “mercy, violence, compromise, and deceit.” This probably sounds like a lot of RPGs you’ve played before, but Laughless Saint wraps these elements around a game with mechanics that are meant to be abused and broken. In the trailer, we see the protagonist learn a spell that catapults them 5,000 feet into the air — and then immediately die from that hubris — an experience that many Morrowind players will surely remember.

The developers also continually emphasize their desire to make Laughless Saint a fundamentally strange game. The trailer mentions things like fungus wizards, vulture gorillas, and lizard men; the RPG’s Steam page makes note of an illiterate giant toad and an ancient skeleton who wants to swim. The game’s low-poly graphics add to the bizarre ambiance as well, because the game can only render ugly little guys.

Another thing that sets Laughless Saint apart is that it is a co-op game, a fact that developer NerveLabs introduces in the trailer by mocking Bethesda. Really, the tone throughout the latest trailer is audacious — yet undeniably effective.

Topping all of this off is that Laughless Saint aims to release in 2026. Given that The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently at a stage where builds of the game are only starting to consistently run well, I’m guessing that we won’t be playing Bethesda’s RPG anytime soon.