It’s another big week for new games on Xbox and for Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft seems to be celebrating pixel perfection as a number of the titles definitely sport that retro vibe. Whether you’re a fan of platformers or are looking for some puzzle action, there’s something there for everyone. Let’s take a look at what’s coming this week.
Already Released
Into the Pit (Xbox Game Pass)
As members of a family of lore-hunting mystics, you and your cousin Luridia separately wander the land following rumors of occult power. After discovering a demonic pit in a nearby village, Luridia’s once prolific letters grow silent. Something has gone terribly wrong. Now it is up to you to journey to the desolate hamlet under dark eldritch skies. What did Luridia discover? And what great power has this village unearthed?
Wednesday, October 20
BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad
A fast and frantic arcade extravaganza with tons of action and gallons oA fast and frantic arcade extravaganza with tons of action and gallons of blood! It’s up to Count Bloodvayne and his vampire powers to rescue his BATS teammates from Scorpion Supreme and STING’s evil clutches.f blood!
Crazy Gravity (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S)
Blast off for out-of-this-world platforming antics in Crazy Gravity, a side-scrolling action game where gravity can be your worst enemy or your greatest ally! Take the role of a little astronaut lost in space. Your primary objective is to energize your rocket and return home, but to do that, you’ll need to make your way through brain-teasing obstacles and collect the necessary resources.
Energy Cycle Edge (Xbox Series X/S)
‘Energy Cycle’ – a new puzzle game from the developers of ‘Energy Balance’. When you click each cell on the game field – it changes color, and the colors of adjacent cells horizontally and vertically. Your task is to bring all the cells to the same color. Sounds pretty easy, but try to do it!
Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again
Princess.Loot.Pixel.Again is a dynamic platformer with the elements of a rogue-lite, a combo system, and special moves. The main goal is to clear all the floors of the Dark Tower and defeat the main antagonist – the Evil Mage. This won’t be easy because after the permadeath of the main character the castle floor plan is automatically redesigned. Whether you succeed or not primarily depends on your skills, not on random events. The player gradually gets to know game mechanics, learns the effects of artifacts, items, skills, the behavior of enemies and bosses. This lies at the core of the gameplay – the player gets better mainly by learning from their mistakes and improving their skills, not from leveling up their character.
Silver Chains (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S)
After his car hit a tree on a stormy night, Peter wakes up in an old abandoned mansion, somewhere in England. He can´t remember why and how he got here, but soon he realizes that the house is not as abandoned as it seems. While trying to find a way out of the house, Peter has to uncover the dark secrets of what has happened in this place.
Sheepo (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Smart Delivery)
Sheepo is a quirky Metroidvania platformer featuring a shape-shifting sheep-thing, who must traverse an uncharted planet in order to collect samples of each living species for an intergalactic species database.
Tony and Clyde
People sometimes ask me who Tony and Clyde are. And I tell them: They’re not simple thugs from the streets. But they’re not highly trained criminals or professional robbers, either. NO WAY! There’s more to them than just that. You see.
Thursday, October 21
Echo Generation (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox Game Pass)
Echo Generation is a turn-based adventure game with a supernatural twist. Strange things are afoot in Maple Town: A mysterious crash leads you on a spooky adventure through your hometown. Battle monsters, complete quests and unearth secrets to reveal a conspiracy that transcends time.
Disciples: Liberation (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Smart Delivery)
Explore a rich overworld and align with a variety of in-world factions: from a human empire tinged by religious extremism to the dark forces of the undead lead by a mad queen. Assemble a team to gather precious resources, sway political standing, and take on brutal beasts in intricate turn-based battles.
Choice is everything in Disciples: Liberation and it is up to you how you write your story.
Evertried
In Evertried, the player’s actions dictate when enemy units move. In other words, everything moves after you. The game plays out as fast or methodical as you want, featuring a free-flowing turn-based action combat system. Alternating between moving, attacking, using your dash, skills and luring enemies into hazards is the key to success.
Toy Soldiers HD
Toy Soldiers is a 3rd person action-strategy game in which players command antique WWI Toy Soldiers in the trench-filled battlefields of Europe. Deploy an exciting arsenal of guns, artillery, flamethrowers, tanks, and planes to defend your WWI toy dioramas. Take direct control of individual units or command the entire battlefield from above.
Friday, October 22
Cards of the Dead
The infection is advancing by the minute and getting the vaccine is humanity’s only hope. Do everything in your power to fight off the hordes of zombies piling up in the streets to make your way to the biological complex and retrieve the sample.
Ghoulboy
Ghoulboy is a retro-inspired style action platformer featuring powerful weapons, items, and spells to defeat your enemies and explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures, and devious monsters. An exciting new platformer that combines the action-RPG genre with hack ‘n’ slash gameplay.
House of Ashes – The Dark Pictures (Optmized for Xbox Series X/S, Smart Delivery)
In House of Ashes, at the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.
Harvest Life (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S)
Get your organic farm going! Depending on the weather and the local villagers’ demands you tend to your fields and take care of your livestock. Sell your products in your farm store to expand your farm. Exciting challenges will add even more adventure to your gameplay. Will you manage to get the carriage through the woods before the wolves get it? Will you find the lost dog in the creepy catacombs? And will you finally win your sweetheart’s love?
Reminiscence in the Night (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S)
You’re trapped in your apartment. You have no memory of your past. As you try to escape, you rapidly understand that you must confront your traumas, and the only way to do this is to let your choices guide you to freedom.
Mainframe Defenders
MAINFRAME DEFENDERS – tactical retrofuturistic strategy game. A computer virus has infiltrated the “Stargazer” research complex. Most of the robotic units are controlled by the virus. Lead a squad of 4 prototypes on a mission to defend a complex mainframe. You’ll have to repel assaults, destroy unit fabricators, download valuable data, clear infected nodes, and do more on your way to the deepest parts of the complex. Work with item limitations and drawbacks to build powerful combinations. Destroy your enemies with diverse tactics: overheat them, melt with corrosion, absorb damage, and return fire. But don’t rely on a single strategy too much – enemies might have a way to counter it. But above everything else: defend the Mainframe!
Murder Diaries 2
Figure out what happened, explore fascinating landscapes and abstract environments and enjoy the thrilling storytelling. Collect pieces of the story while freely floating through related environments and immerse yourself into an intriguing story filled with blood and murder.
My Friend Peppa Pig
Create and dress your character, ring Peppa’s doorbell, and begin a story that’s all up to you Peppa suggests activities everywhere you go – help Daddy Pig find his glasses, follow the animal tracks in the Forest, splash in muddy puddles, and much more! It’s just like being in an episode of the TV show, where all your favorite characters are excited to meet you. From the Beach to the Museum and even Potato City, every playtime is a new experience with your friend Peppa Pig.
Zombo Buster Rising
Zombo Buster Rising includes challenging achievements, two AI-Assisted NPCs, three super abilities, various upgrades and Survival mode. Basically it’s the best pick for any fan of casual zombie shooters with only one goal — to slay these undead hordes!
