The hottest esports titles will compete at ASIAD 2026.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has announced the list of games that will be included in the eSports competition of the 2026 Asian Games (ASIAD 2026) to be held in Nagoya, Japan.

Diverse eSports genres

The event's eSports disciplines will encompass a variety of games across different genres, including racing simulation, MOBA, and battle royale. In total, gamers from across Asia will compete in 11 eSports titles with the goal of winning official medals.

In 2023, the OCA decided to keep eSports as part of the main event, which will be held for the 20th time in 2026.

List of eSports titles at ASIAD 2026

The games selected to be featured in ASIAD 2026 are as follows:

• Street Fighter 6
• Pokemon Unite
• Honor of Kings
• League of Legends
• PUBG
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Dreams of 3 Kingdoms
• NARAKA: Bladepoint
• Gran Turismo 7
• eFootball
• Puyo Puyo Champions

The decision to select these games was made by a dedicated task force, with three experts tasked with choosing titles from a wide variety of genres.

At the 2023 Asian Games (ASIAD 19), eSports events included EA Sports FC, Dota 2, and Arena of Valor. For ASIAD 2026, these three titles have been replaced by eFootball, NARAKA: Bladepoint, Honor of Kings, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, and Puyo Puyo Champions.

eSports is becoming increasingly popular at the Asian Games.

To highlight the popularity of eSports content at the ASIAD, Esports Charts noted that the League of Legends and Dota 2 events of the previous ASIAD recorded peak viewership of 146,000 and 78,000 respectively, not including viewers in China.

Taking place in Nagoya and Aichi Prefecture in Japan in September and October 2026, the 2026 Asian Games will be supported by the Asian eSports Federation (AESF), the region's eSports governing body.

The involvement of eSports in Olympic projects has continued to grow in recent years. In 2027, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will host the first Olympic eSports Games in collaboration with the Esports World Cup Foundation, the organizer of the Esports World Cup. On February 11, 2025, the IOC announced that the Olympic eSports Games would be postponed from the original 2025 date.