This week, discover the latest games arriving on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass. Below is a detailed look at these upcoming titles, with release dates subject to change.
2XKO
From Riot Games, 2XKO arrives on January 20, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This free-to-play fighting game features iconic champions from League of Legends, reimagined with new movesets for fighting game mechanics. Players can experience the world of Runeterra through detailed stages, advanced 2D graphics, and original soundtracks. Battles can be fought solo, controlling two champions, or cooperatively with a friend.
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
From SQUARE ENIX, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade launches on January 21, optimized for Xbox Series X|S and supporting Xbox Play Anywhere. This acclaimed RPG reimagines the initial part of the original story, featuring stunning visuals, dynamic gameplay, and expanded narrative content. It offers memorable characters, a compelling plot, and a battle system that combines real-time action with strategic commands. The package also includes FF7R Episode Intermission, a bonus story featuring Yuffie Kisaragi, providing an alternate viewpoint during Cloud’s adventure.
Pathologic 3
Pathologic 3, from HypeTrain Digital, arrives on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. Players follow Daniil Dankovsky, a young doctor seeking immortality, as he arrives in a remote town facing destruction from a mysterious plague within 12 days. His mission is to investigate the town’s history, present, and future to uncover answers and halt the epidemic.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
Focus Entertainment presents MIO: Memories in Orbit on January 20, available on Game Pass and optimized for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Play Anywhere, and Handheld. This metroidvania invites players to awaken Mio, an agile robot, to explore the decaying Vessel—a vast technological ark overtaken by nature and rogue machines. The Vessel’s AI caretakers, the Pearls, are offline, and the ark faces imminent shutdown. Players must delve into its depths to restore its lost memories, uncover Mio’s past, and save the Vessel from destruction.
Primal Dungeon Adventure
Old School Vibes brings Primal Dungeon Adventure to Xbox on January 20, optimized for Xbox Series X|S with Smart Delivery. This game features 10 challenging platforming stages filled with dangerous corridors and unique enemies. Players will uncover hidden areas, evade traps, and seek legendary wolf stones. Powerful upgrades such as Rock Attack, Fire Rock Attack, and the Wolf Special can be unlocked to aid in mastering precision jumps and throwing skills as the dungeon’s difficulty increases.
Hextreme Void
Eastasiasoft Limited releases Hextreme Void on January 21, optimized for Xbox Series X|S, Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere, and Handheld. This brick breaker offers a unique twist: no lives or game overs. The challenge lies in completing all levels within a time limit across five distinct Voids, each containing 50 stages. The game features high-definition 2D visuals with hexagonal bricks in intricate patterns. While the ball moves automatically, players strategically deploy power-ups to progress.
Prison Escape Simulator
Playway S.A. brings Prison Escape Simulator to Xbox on January 21, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. Players must orchestrate an escape from prison by digging tunnels with a teaspoon, avoiding guards, and trading items like toilet paper with other inmates. The game involves finding junk to sell, acquiring better items, improving stats, and utilizing tools such as glow sticks and dynamite to expand the escape route.
Desvelado
Purple Play LLC launches Desvelado on January 22, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This “Bed-Time-Vania” game tasks players with guiding Vampy, the hero, through a castle to turn off all lights before he can finally sleep in his coffin, battling insomnia one last time.
Dustland Delivery
Happy Player introduces Dustland Delivery on January 22, optimized for Xbox Series X|S, Smart Delivery, and Xbox Play Anywhere. This post-apocalyptic survival business simulator offers over 40 hours of gameplay. Players build a trading empire by exploring the wasteland for profit, completing missions, and recruiting adventurers to establish their city as the capital of the Dustlands. The game emphasizes risk and reward in a dangerous environment.
Horror Tale 1: 4k Remaster
EpiXR Games launches Horror Tale 1: 4k Remaster on January 22, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This horror game plunges players into a thrilling adventure to solve the mystery of missing children in Lakewitch. The objective is to uncover the kidnapper’s identity and motives, locate the children, and devise a rescue plan by solving puzzles, all while facing terrifying challenges.
The Last Train: Baquedano
Pdpartid@games releases The Last Train: Baquedano on January 22, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This first-person psychological horror game begins when a subway passenger falls asleep and wakes up at an abandoned, dark station—the end of the line. Players discover they are not alone, as an unseen presence lurks in the shadows, observing and pursuing them.
Look Mum No Computer
Headup launches Look Mum No Computer on January 22, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This twin-stick shooter action-RPG combines music and mayhem in the pixel-art world of Soldersworth. Players join Sam and his Synthesizer companion, Kosmo, to combat rogue household items and repair them from within, all to an electrifying beat.
MAVRIX by Matt Jones (Game Preview)
Cascade Interactive introduces Mavrix (Game Preview) on January 22, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This multiplayer open-world game, designed by riders, allows players to explore mountains and trails with extensive control, building a career through performing tricks or competing in global races. Challenges can be completed to earn sponsorship deals with real-world brands.
Outpath
Silver Lining Interactive presents Outpath on January 22, optimized for Xbox Series X|S with Smart Delivery. Inspired by games like Satisfactory and Forager, this 3D first-person platformer combines exploration, crafting, building, and automation. Players exploit their environment to gather resources, construct a base, and automate processes. The game offers a relaxed experience with no time limits or pressure, allowing players to progress at their own pace.
Ebola Village
Axyos Games releases Ebola Village on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This first-person horror adventure draws inspiration from 90s survival games. Players control Maria, who, after a news report about a biological threat interrupts her TV show, travels to a remote village to check on her mother and ex-husband, Ruslan. Upon arrival, a series of terrifying events unfold.
Escape from Ever After
HypeTrain Digital launches Escape from Ever After on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This adventure RPG, inspired by classic Paper Mario titles, features fairytale characters battling against corporate capitalism. When adventurer Flynt Buckler confronts his dragon nemesis, Tinder, he discovers the fortress is now corporate offices for Ever After Inc., a conglomerate exploiting storybook worlds. Flynt must ally with Tinder to infiltrate and dismantle Ever After Inc. from within.
GrassGames Hearts
GrassGames releases GrassGames Hearts on January 23, supporting Xbox Play Anywhere. This game delivers the classic strategy card game with fluid gameplay and intelligent AI opponents. Players can enjoy casual matches or competitive ranked play, challenge friends locally, or compete online globally. The game is designed for depth, replayability, and enjoyment, catering to various play styles.
Guts ‘n Grunts Jr.
Cascadia Games LLC launches Guts ‘n Grunts Jr. on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S with Smart Delivery. Set in 2045, after 15 years of Technate rule and its robotic army, Slaughterhouse AI, hunting all organic life, pigs are in hiding. Gunnar Harsvin, a fast boar armed with a blaster, rises to destroy the technocracy’s machines and rescue his fellow pigs. This game offers a 16-bit era classic experience, combining fast-paced action and shooting.
Haunted House Renovator
PlayWay S.A. releases Haunted House Renovator on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. Players take on the role of a ghost-hunting renovator, tasked with restoring haunted houses to a livable condition. This involves more than just cosmetic repairs; it requires confronting and dealing with the paranormal entities inhabiting the properties. Players accept renovation requests, scout abandoned mansions for supernatural signs, and prepare specialized tools for the job.
Ho Ho & Move
Everynot Games Studio launches Ho Ho & Move on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S, Smart Delivery, and Xbox Play Anywhere. This festive logic puzzle game features 40 levels where players plan Santa’s route using directional tiles to collect gifts and deliver them to children. Limited tiles make each decision crucial, transforming stages into engaging brain teasers.
I’m in Love With Your Dead Grandmother
Kimulator’s Films inc. releases I’m in Love With Your Dead Grandmother on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S, Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere, and Handheld. The game follows Noah, a 28-year-old seeking a life coach to navigate his daily decisions and dating life. Despite a preference for partners over 70, he accepts a date with Michelle, who is younger.
The Monty Mole Collection
Pixel Games presents The Monty Mole Collection on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S. This collection features six games chronicling the adventures of Monty Mole, a British subterranean mammal who becomes an international criminal. His journey begins with stealing coal to survive a harsh winter, leading to a life on the run across Europe. The adventure platformer series was created by Peter Harrap, inspired by the 1984 UK mining strikes.
Tropicalia
Ratalaika Games S.L. releases Tropicalia on January 23, optimized for Xbox Series X|S with Smart Delivery. Players embody Kaique, a Guarani warrior whose girlfriend, Kerana, is abducted by the evil god Tau. The game involves collecting materials for crafting, engaging in fast-paced battles, and strategizing against challenging bosses. Players explore the jungle through hunting, fishing, swimming, diving, and jumping, encountering creatures like Curupiras and Boitatas instead of traditional fantasy elements.
