This weekly feature highlights all games arriving soon on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass. Discover more about these upcoming titles below; release dates may change.
Wildlight Studio’s debut free-to-play competitive shooter, Highguard, launches on January 26. A store link will be provided upon release.
Drop Duchy – Complete Edition
The Arcade Crew
Drop Duchy – Complete Edition – January 28Game Pass / Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere
Drop Duchy reimagines classic geometric puzzle mechanics. Instead of just clearing lines, players construct a realm using various shapes and piece types to overcome enemy challenges. This title blends deckbuilding, puzzle elements, and rogue-lite features, offering a fresh tactical experience for block-stacking enthusiasts. Resource optimization is crucial for gathering supplies, defending a castle, and expanding an army. Even in defeat, experience gained from previous attempts helps unlock additional content.
CODE VEIN II Ultimate Edition Pre-Order
Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc.
CODE VEIN II Deluxe Edition Pre-Order
Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc.
CODE VEIN II Pre-Order
Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc.
Code Vein II – January 29Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
In a future where humans and Revenants coexist, the sudden emergence of the Luna Rapacis has transformed Revenants into monstrous Horrors. As a Revenant hunter, players must prevent the world’s collapse by journeying to the past with Lou, a girl capable of time manipulation. This adventure involves exploring a post-apocalyptic world, engaging in intense battles against formidable foes, and uncovering a story that spans across time.
Our Adventurer Guild
Ultimate Games S.A.
Our Adventurer Guild – January 27Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Players inherit a declining Adventurer Guild after the former Guild Master’s passing. The objective is to restore the Guild to prominence or face its dissolution. Our Adventurer Guild focuses on managing the organization, accepting quests to enhance its reputation, and guiding adventurers through turn-based tactical combat. Monitoring the adventurers’ morale and relationships is key to fostering their growth and helping them achieve renown.
Rightfully, Beary Arms
Daylight Basement Studio LLC
Rightfully, Beary Arms – January 27Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Despite its charming appearance, Rightfully, Beary Arms offers a challenging bullet hell roguelite experience. Players can augment weapons to craft unique builds, select rewards during level exploration, and modify game mechanics to their advantage or detriment. The gameplay loop involves fighting, falling, improving, and repeating the process.
Speedball
Rebellion
Speedball – January 27Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere / Handheld Optimized
Speedball presents an intense arena sport where two teams clash in a fast-paced match demanding speed, agility, and aggression. This title combines smooth top-down arena action with classic sports strategy, enhanced by violent elements. As a new installment in The Bitmap Brothers’ series, it transports players to the dystopian year 2138, where mega-corporations utilize Speedball to divert the populace from their difficult lives.
Heroes Battle Awakening
Eastasiasoft Limited
Heroes Battle Awakening – January 28Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere
Engage in strategic tower defense combat to repel waves of invaders. Players can progress through a story campaign or challenge themselves in Endless mode. The barracks allow for troop training, while the shop offers new unit types, broadening tactical choices as battles intensify. The goal is to restore peace to King Arthur’s realm.
Neon Vault Rush
Old School Vibes
Neon Vault Rush – January 28Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere
Neon Vault Rush is a fast-paced 3D parkour experience within a vibrant cyberpunk setting. Players navigate intricate circuits featuring dangerous traps, suspended platforms, and an energetic synthwave soundtrack. Mastering wall runs, double jumps, and acrobatic maneuvers is essential for racing against the clock and achieving high scores. Precision is key, as a single misstep can lead to failure. This game caters to those seeking speed, accuracy, and the excitement of a digital landscape.
Stable Stories – Forest and Meadow Ride
Polygon Art
Stable Stories – Forest and Meadow Ride – January 28Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere
Stable Stories – Forest and Meadow Ride offers a child-friendly riding and adventure game designed to inspire imagination. Players explore a colorful, open world, rebuilding a dream farm, racing against others, and discovering hidden secrets across forests and meadows. The game involves collecting and caring for various horses, with the possibility of unlocking a magical unicorn.
Celestial Ascend
EpiXR Games
Celestial Ascend – January 29Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Players guide a solitary traveler above the clouds on a quest combining elegant platforming with serene exploration. Each level serves as a chapter in a narrative exploring themes of loss, determination, and humanity’s pursuit of a second chance. The journey involves gliding across floating islands, climbing tall structures, and managing shifting gravity, while spirit guides reveal story elements and impart new abilities.
Countless Army
Dos Estrellas
Countless Army – January 29Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
This Reverse Tower Defense game allows players to assume the role of a villain, deploying continuous waves of troops to breach enemy defenses. The objective is to summon, conquer, and upgrade forces to achieve global domination.
Gas Ratio
Weakfish Studio Publishing
Gas Ratio – January 29Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Gas Ratio offers a nostalgic take on classic top-down arcade racers, infused with chaotic elements. Players test their driving skills and luck, where survival is as crucial as speed. The game involves drifting across pixel-art tracks, avoiding obstacles, and making rapid decisions.
I Hate This Place
Feardemic
I Hate This Place – January 29Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
I Hate This Place is an isometric, craft-based survival horror game situated in a cursed land teeming with reality-distorting nightmares and terrifying nocturnal creatures. Players must scavenge, build, sneak, and fight to survive.
Majotori
Mameshiba Games
Majotori – January 29Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
In Majotori, Lariat the witch grants wishes upon winning a trivia game, but losing results in dire consequences. This “narratrivia” title blends an interactive narrative with a quiz game, where player knowledge impacts various outcomes.
SUDOKU CHAMPIONS
JGABRIB LTDA
Sudoku Champions – January 29Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere
Sudoku is a straightforward number-puzzle game where the objective is to fill a grid so that each row, column, and 3×3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9 without repetition. It relies on logic rather than mathematics. Engaging with Sudoku can enhance focus, memory, and problem-solving abilities. This version offers various color themes for a comfortable visual experience.
American Theft 80s
PlayWay S.A.
American Theft 80s – January 30Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Set in the 1980s, this title from the creators of Thief Simulator allows players to rob houses, banks, shops, and museums using appropriate tools and knowledge. The goal is to advance through a county rife with corruption and crime, uncovering local secrets along the way.
Fred & Jeff: The Atomic Sulfate
Ratalaika Games S.L.
Fred & Jeff: The Atomic Sulfate – January 30Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
The atomic sulfate, initially a pest repellent, can transform insects into giants and has been stolen, endangering the world. Players join heroes on a mission to retrieve it from a tyrant’s fortress. This point-and-click game involves infiltration, locating the spray, and returning with it.
FRONT MISSION 3: Remake
Forever Entertainment S. A.
Front Mission 3: Remake – January 30Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Players assume the roles of Kazuki and Ryogo amidst escalating tensions in military zones. As the region’s fate hangs precariously, command powerful Wanzers and guide a squad through challenging turn-based battles.
Heavy Duty
Upscale Studio
Heavy Duty – January 30Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Heavy Duty involves operating powerful machines and guiding a crew through demanding missions. Players must carefully select and balance cargo, prepared to attempt tasks repeatedly until completion. Challenges span diverse environments, from rugged mountain roads to turbulent seas and large construction sites, testing driving proficiency and team leadership. The objective is to deliver cargo and overcome all obstacles.
Lara Returns to the castle
YUME GAME STUDIO
Lara Returns to the Castle – January 30
Lara Returns to the Castle is a platformer where Princess Lara embarks on a journey back to her castle. Having lost her way while seeking flowers, she navigates traps and gathers magical flowers to activate portals to subsequent levels. The game features engaging visuals, escalating challenges, and a compelling protagonist, combining action with a lighthearted tone.
Running Fable Petite Party
Seashell Studio
Running Fable Petite Party – January 30Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
From the creators of Running Fable, Petite Party is a chaotic spin-off featuring 16 competitive mini-games and a dynamic tabletop party board. Each round offers opportunities for players to outmaneuver opponents, claim victory, and create maximum disruption.
