If it’s Tuesday, you know it’s time for the latest round of brand new Xbox One games. Whether you’re in the mood for a bit of Viking action, a tried-and-true party-based RPG or you want to take to the skies of the world (via PC only at the moment), the Microsoft Store has you covered. Check out this week’s crop of games and get playing!
- Title: Helheim Hassle
- Release date: August 18
Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game that is as much about friendship as it is about body parts. From the same universe (and set on the same Tuesday in fact) as previous hit Manual Samuel, comes this macabre adventure where you play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking who hates the idea of dying and going to Valhalla… who then ends up dying and getting taken to Valhalla. When Bjørn is resurrected to assist with a task for the mysterious Pesto, he sees a way to negotiate his way out. Using Bjørn’s undying corpse with its ability to detach and combine limbs at will, players must solve challenging puzzles and navigate tricky levels in order to retrieve a certain magical item… In return, Pesto will try to grant Bjørn a permanent residence in Helheim – what a hassle!⠀⠀⠀
- Title: Pathfinder: Kingmaker – Definitive Edition
- Release date: August 18
Explore and conquer with your party the Stolen Lands of Golarion, a world rich with history, mystery and conflict featuring real-time combat or optional turn-based fights. The Definitive Edition includes the base game, new features plus 6 DLCs.
- Title: Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC ONLY – The Xbox version is coming later
- Release date: August 18
Travel the world in amazing detail with over 37 thousand airports, 2 million cities, 1.5 billion buildings, real mountains, roads, trees, rivers, animals, traffic, and more. Hone your pilot skills in a variety of aircraft from light planes to commercial jets with an experience that scales to your level with interactive and highlighted instrument guidance and checklists. Fly day or night with live real-time weather including accurate wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain, and lighting.
- Title: Mortal Shell
- Release date: August 18
Mortal Shell is a ruthless and deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. As the remains of humanity wither and rot, zealous foes fester in the ruins. They spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Track down hidden sanctums of devout followers and discover your true purpose.
- Title: Beyond Enemy Lines 2
- Release date: August 19
Take the role of a special agent deployed deep beyond enemy lines where terrain and conditions are barbaric. You will seek, locate and destroy the enemy while causing havoc and confusion. Emerge a hardcore tactical experience in vast, nonlinear missions where skill and tactical decisions matter!
- Title: Even the Ocean
- Release date: August 19
A lowly power plant technician for Whiteforge City, Aliph, finds her world turned upside-down after a routine maintenance trip goes awry. Now, working directly with Mayor Biggs to face an unknown menace, Aliph must navigate her newfound power and influence to save the city.
- Title: Fuzzball
- Release date: August 19
Roll, dash, bash, and smash in this playful 4 player brawler! Play as one of 6 FuzzBalls, these small animal plush toys roll into balls of fluff to move around and knock their enemies off a selection of 7 unique stages.
- Title: Norman’s Great Illusion
- Release date: August 19
In “Norman’s Great Illusion” you have to live a year as an engineer at the plant in the face of rising social tensions. Make difficult decisions, but keep in mind: you will have to pay for each choice. Have you ever wondered why, individually good and peace-loving citizens, merging into society, allow the coming to power of forces that have diametrically opposed their principles and goals? “Norman’s Great Illusion” is our attempt to talk about this phenomenon.
- Title: She Sees Red
- Release date: August 19
Someone has killed several people at a popular nightclub. A lone detective has been assigned to the case, following every clue … wherever it may lead. In this provocative interactive thriller, NOTHING is as it seems! Make choices. Affect change. Experience multiple endings and inhabit the mind of a killer in She Sees Red.
- Title: Stones of the Revenant
- Release date: August 19
Stones of the Revenant is inspired by retro arcade beat-em-ups mixed with elements from your favorite classic action-platformers. Choose from six playable heroes; Radcliffe the Knight, Halvar the Barbarian, Brielle the Sorceress, Galina the Ranger, Isaak the Thief, and Fritz the Tinkerer. Each with their own unique playstyle! Pair up with a friend via local co-op or fight your way solo through the Revenant’s followers and their undead minions. Destroy powerful artifacts known as the Stones of the Revenant and defeat the Revenant himself. Don’t let looks fool you! This is a challenging quest to save the realm of the living… Are you up for it?
- Title: Battletoads
- Release date: August 20
The wait is over! Rash, Zitz, and Pimple are returning to storm through an all-new action-packed adventure – couch co-op may never be the same again! With a unique hand-animated cartoon style and packed with memorable characters and locations, the Battletoads are back for a larger-than-life brawl across the universe that promises to be fun alone, and unforgettable together.
- Title: Gleamlight
- Release date: August 20
Welcome to Gleamlight – a 2D action game that will take you through an adventure traversing a beautiful, transient world. Immerse yourself amid the beautiful stained glass artistry as you navigate without the reliance of any standard game UI, while tracing the world’s mysterious unspoken story. What will you, as Gleam, sense and feel through your travels across this beautiful, yet fearsome world of glass?
- Title: Gryphon Knight Epic: Definitive Edition
- Release date: August 20
Gryphon Knight Epic is a 2D Medieval Shoot’em up that mixes elements from classical shoot’em ups, exploration and duel-like boss battles, it tells the story of Sir Oliver and Aquila, an accomplished knight and his loyal gryphon that are forced back to adventure once again
- Title: Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
- Release date: August 20
Welcome to Birmingham, during the aftermath of the Great War. Set right before the events of Season One, Peaky Blinders: Mastermind lets you join the Shelby family’s criminal gang. Follow the rise of Tommy as he successfully uncovers a sinister plot to put the family out of business, proving himself worthy of being the true mastermind of the Peaky Blinders.
- Title: Remnant: From the Ashes – Subject 2923
- Release date: August 20
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. Humanity is struggling to survive, but they possess the technology to open portals to other realms and alternate realities. You must travel through these portals to uncover the mystery of where the evil came from, scavenge resources to stay alive, and fight back to carve out a foothold for mankind to rebuild…
- Title: Dungeon Scavenger
- Release date: August 21
Dungeon Scavenger is a unique turn-based old school dungeon crawler that sets you on a challenging path of exploration. Select a hero to keep the threat of the dungeon and demon realms away from the town’s people. An innovative random system where you know if the critical hit will occur before you make a decision in combat.
- Title: Harvest Moon: Mad Dash
- Release date: August 21
Go solo or take along a few friends in this fast-paced farming frenzy! Harvest, fish, milk, and more as you fulfill orders to complete each level, but watch out for molten lava, raging boars, and other obstacles! Can you and your friends try to clear all the levels to restore the broken lighthouse?
- Title: Party Panic
- Release date: August 21
Party Panic is a crazy online and local-multiplayer party game. Compete against your friends in 30+ rapid fire minigames, play the new Board Game mode, race through the brutal Gauntlet, or complete the trophy challenges on Trophy Island. There is even a built-in drinking game! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, it’s stupid. Grab your friends, pick your characters, and get partying in this exciting and panic filled game!
- Title: New Super Lucky’s Tale
- Release date: August 21
Jump, burrow, and tail swipe your way to victory in this love letter to classic 3D platformers! A complete re-imagining of the original Super Lucky’s Tale, featuring redesigned and new levels, a fully rotatable camera, tighter movement control, and major overhauls to nearly every other aspect, including the story, cinematics, music, and more.
- Title: PGA Tour 2K21
- Release date: August 21
Play against the pros. Play with your crew. In PGA TOUR 2K21, you can play by the rules or create your own featuring a new PGA TOUR Career Mode, licensed courses and more!
- Title: Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time
- Release date: August 21
Voiced by the original voice-actors, Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is an action platform game that spans across time and space, where your actions will determine a new legend! An Untold Adventure That Ties Into the Epic Series Finale Team up with trusted allies from the show to face off against familiar enemies.
- Title: The Blobs Fight!
- Release date: August 21
A silly, local multiplayer, arena party game about creatures of blob-like nature. Run around as a blob attacking other players to knock pieces of them off, if you collect those pieces, you get bigger. The bigger you are, the more damage you can endure, but the slower you move.
