This week has been a big one for Xbox games with a plethora of titles available for console and Xbox Game Pass owners alike. Microsoft has curated a terrific collection of titles that are all available for purchase or as part of the Game Pass. So whether you’re a fan of Old West action or futuristic exploration, there’s something for everyone.
Crusader Kings III – Xbox Game Pass, optimized for Xbox Series X/S
Finally on console, you can live the life of a medieval ruler in Paradox Development Studio’s award-winning strategy role-playing game, Crusader Kings III! Assume the leadership of a medieval noble family, increasing its power and reputation through the generations. As one ruler dies, they are replaced by an heir who may have very different abilities or interests, forcing you to adjust your long-term plans.
Ikai – Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Smart Delivery
Ikai is a first-person psychological horror game drawing inspiration from Japanese folklore. Live the horror by the hand of its defining yokais and submerge into the superstitions of the past driven by a unique story and exploration.
Vengeful Heart – Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Smart Delivery
Set long after humanity has polluted this planet, groundwater is undrinkable and seeing a living plant is considered a luxury. Most people live in megacities that rely on the labor of poor masses to sustain a modern standard of living for the few at the top. With the Earth scorched, water is liquid gold, and control of it is the truest form of power. Forced to cope with a permanent water shortage, ordinary people persist and toil in the hope that if they work hard enough, they too can someday swim every morning in the refreshing pools of the Gardens.
Agent Intercept – Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Smart Delivery
Dodge enemy fire, mines and lasers as you perform over-the-top stunts and use the Sceptre’s high-tech gadgetry to blow up your enemies. Feel like a superspy as you transform the Sceptre from car to plane and more, immersed in exotic locations and an original high-energy soundtrack! With a new threat around every corner, it’ll take all you’ve got to defeat CLAW.
Weird West – Xbox Game Pass
Discover a dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West where lawmen and gunslingers share the frontier with fantastical creatures. Journey through the story of a group of atypical heroes, written into legend by the decisions you make in an unforgiving land. Each journey is unique and tailored to the actions taken – a series of high stakes adventures where everything counts and the world reacts to the choices you make. Form a posse or venture forth alone into the otherworldly confines of the Weird West and make each legend your own.
Whisper Trip
Whisper Trip is a fast cooperative action side-scroller with a touch of cyberpunk. You’re a newly recruited TPF agent. Who just learned that TPF stands for Tactical Police Force – an anti-terrorist squad with an obvious mission to eliminate criminal groups…
Glam’s Incredible Run: Escape from Dukha
Glam is a hard, action-packed acrobatic platformer game where you have to run, jump, climb and swing to make it to the exit without falling into the emptiness, getting hit by spikes and bullets, caught by goblins, or squeezed by items.
Princess Farmer
Princess Farmer is a match3 puzzle and visual novel game with easy to learn action mechanics and different difficulty levels that let you breeze through the game or challenge you to earn more rewards. The story is played in episodes, much like magical-girl anime, with each lasting between 20 minutes to 1 hour, depending on your chosen difficulty level, your skills, and whether you decide to skip dialogue interactions. Different level goals keep you on your toes and bring a fresh approach to the match3 genre. Dialogue options let you choose how Princess Farmer interacts with her friends, affecting your relationships with them. Make them your BFF and they may reward you with gifts!
Real Heroes: Firefighter HD
In this thrilling first-person fire and rescue action game, players take on the heroic role of a firefighter whose team is sent to a series of difficult fires throughout Los Angeles. As a newly recruited cadet, learn the tools of the trade, battle massive fires, and rescue potential victims at a variety of exciting locations including a high rise building, a malfunctioning tech lab, and an amusement park. Real heroes face danger head-on to save those in peril – do you have what it takes to become one?
Flat Kindom Paper’s Cut Edition – Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Smart Delivery
Flat Kingdom Paper’s Cut Edition is set in a beautiful 2D land, but now it’s threatened by 3D malice and chaos. A wise sorcerer created six magical jewels that kept the effects of the third dimension at bay, granting peace and prosperity. However, one day an evil masked thief named Hex disrupted the balance and made the chaos return. The only who can stop the chaos is Flat, a little hero able to change into a circle, triangle or square in order to solve puzzles, overcome obstacles and defeat giant bosses!
MLB The Show 22 – MVP Edition – Optimized for Xbox Series X/S
Experience faster, deeper and more intense moment-to-moment match action on the field, with a variety of game modes for all you rookie players and returning seasoned vets.
Super Cyborg
Super Cyborg is an old-school non-stop hardcore run’n’gun action game! You are an elite battle cyborg who is sent in to investigate a series of anomalies on a mysterious island. The merciless and powerful alien known only as of the ‘Xirxul life form’ has been awakened by unwitting scientists and now: all humanity is in danger! Shoot, run and jump through 7 levels filled with endless hordes of biological monsters and some of the fiercest boss fights in any title. Destroy everything that moves on this island, because if it moves- it kills! Are you ready to save the Earth?
