As with the dawning of each new week, Microsoft has a whole heaping helping of brand new games for Xbox players. Whether you’re looking for a narrative adventure, a great multiplayer beat ’em up, or something in between, there’s sure to be something that will tickle your fancy. Let’s take a look!
Tuesday, August 31
Guts ‘N Goals
This isn’t your standard game of soccer. This is Guts ‘N Goals, where soccer balls can be hockey pucks, and you use a bat instead of your feet to score goals. Choose from over 30 unique heroes and get ready to play the world’s game like never before! Different ways to play – Each stadium has a unique way to play a game of soccer. Score a goal with a beach ball on the beach, and hit a hockey puck at the skating rink.
KeyWe
Get yourselves prepared for your important postal duties with this selection of employee-themed accessories! Look the part, unlock new objectives and gain extra stamps with the Experimental Postal Pack contraption! Experimental Postal Pack Backwear – Unlock additional mini-games exclusively with the Experimental Postal Pack accessory! Gain extra stamps to buy in-game accessories from completing these additional, fun tasks!
Lamentum
Lamentum is a pixel art survival-horror game set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century. To solve the dark secret at the heart of Grau Hill Mansion, you will have to immerse yourself in a nightmare world full of terrible creatures.
Monster Harvest
A farming adventure with a twist! Get ready to set out on an adventure of a lifetime as you start a new life in Planimal Point. Develop your own farm, build, and customize your own house, craft your own furniture, make some delicious jams and mutate your crops to create loyal and fierce companions you can take into battle!
Song of Iron
Prepare to be met by a world set against you. In Song of Iron, man, monster, and nature itself will try to stop you. Fight through it all in this gritty adventure where combat is intense, visceral, and dangerous. Use bow, ax, and shield to fight back but take care, weapons can be lost, arrows will run out and shields will be broken. With the blood of your ancestors and valor regained along the way, you can fight on!
The Big Con
Hustle and grift your way across America in the ‘90s as a teenage con artist on a crime-filled road trip adventure. Play as Ali, a curious and sarcastic high schooler who ditches band camp to go on a cross-country road trip. But this isn’t a joyride! Ali is on an all-important mission to save her family’s video store from the nasty loan sharks trying to shut their shop down.
Wednesday, September 1
Alveole
Alveole is a short experimental project that explores the possibilities of the player in a restricted environment, where there is only one game mechanic, elevated to the absolute.
Galaxy Squad
The game combines node-based exploration with random events, with hardcore tactical battles. All your characters are randomly generated, and you can evolve them however you want, creating your ultimate crew.
Lake
It’s September 1, 1986. You take on the role of forty-something Meredith Weiss, who returns from the big city to her quiet hometown. She exchanges her busy career at a software company to fill in for her dad, the local mail carrier.
Ravva and the Cyclops Curse
Take the role of young summoner apprentice Ravva as she calls upon her 4 unique companions in a desperate struggle against the Cyclops Lord! After Ravva’s mother is suddenly stripped of her summoning powers and inflicted with a terrible curse, Ravva is faced with the perilous task of saving her and restoring peace to their homeland. Traverse dark forests, desolate wastelands, and spooky castle halls, using the talents of your unusual minions to cast elemental spells and clear away obstacles. Merciless enemies under the Cyclops Lord’s command will try to stop little Ravva at every turn, but with enough wit and determination, she will prevail!
Thursday, September 2
Kitaria Fables
Kitaria Fables is a delightfully cute action-adventure RPG with farming and crafting! Armed with a sword, bow, and spellbook, fight back against rising darkness threatening the world. Discover diverse regions in search of relics and resources, tend to your farm to grow your own provisions, and take on quests solo or with a friend in local co-op mode!
Surgeon Simulator 2
Bob’s life is in your hand! It’s time to slip into your scrubs and grab the nearest scalpel (saw or sink plunger) and enter the Bossa Labs Medical Facility in this 1-4 player physics-based operating theatre of chaos. Take on the cream of the medical establishment in riotous competitive challenges. Play frantically blood-splattered coop games or go solo in Surgeon Simulator 2’s rib-tickling Campaign Mode. Wanting to inject some creativity? Jump into the Creation Mode and build brand new game levels on your own or team up to build something amazing with multiplayer creation tools.
Weapon of Choice DX
Weapon of Choice is a high-energy, run ‘n’ gun where each playable character is unique with their own special weapon and abilities! Blast insane aliens, find new player characters, and choose between branching paths!
Yuoni
Ai is a grade-schooler in 1990s Japan who is about to realize just how isolated she is. Forced to play children’s games in a world of never-ending dusk, Ai is hunted by otherworldly entities as her life hangs in the balance. When these horrors begin to bleed into the real world, Ai must accept that she has only three choices: hide, run, or die.
Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions
Step into the ring and show off your boxing skills in a knockout arcade experience! Fight as 20 iconic characters from the “Creed” and “Rocky” movies. Take on world-class opponents across a variety of locations or challenge your friends in local head-to-head matches.
