This week Microsoft isn’t releasing any mega titles, but there are some interesting new games coming to Xbox players, both for console owners and Game Pass owners. If you’re in the mood to look for something completely new and different, this may be the week to hook up with the Microsoft Store to see what’s new for your favorite games platform.
Wednesday, February 17
Kick It, Bunny!
The name of the game (Kick It, Bunny!) perfectly reflects the essence of the game mechanics – you have to kick. Kick blocks – restore figures. Oddly enough, you are not the only one who knows how to kick in this game world, so be careful – not everyone can forgive you for such behavior. You will find an almost open world in which you will meet not only puzzles but also other animals that also live their own lives and are constantly busy with something.
Void Gore
From the creators of Project Starship comes a new and nightmarish arcade shoot’em up experience. Void Gore casts you as an ace pilot descending through the levels of hell and getting rich in the process. Earn coins as you take down supernatural horrors in a pulse-pounding vertical scrolling style, then spend them on upgrades to keep yourself alive and prove your skills against online leaderboards! Survive waves of enemies to reach the next layer of malice and despair, collect power-ups, face increasingly challenging foes and add to your score multiplier as you chain multiple kills. Survive as long as possible and prove your skills as the ultimate pilot. It’s all just a simulation, after all… or is it?
Thursday, February 18
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Run, jump, and drive across vast, dreamy 3D landscapes. Shrink into surreal, 2D dungeons inside of characters’ bodies. Travel the world, meet strange people, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.
Friday, February 19
Boom Blaster
Boom Blaster is an outstanding, brain-blasting, ground-shaking, oldschool mega Run ‘n Gun game! A group of space prisoners took their chance to escape. But their road to freedom would not be so easy. Meet all kinds of classic monsters and deadly enemies — from small acid insects to huge one-eyed bosses with guns and bad temper. Each character has a unique set of skills and abilities. Use them with a vast selection of weapons such as machine guns, grenades, lasers, flamethrowers, rockets, and much more! All these features are spiced up with memorable chases, epic flights, gunfights, and hundreds of ways to amputate tons of monsters’ limbs!
Effie
Effie is a 3D action-adventure game that combines the classic elements of the genre, such as combat, platforming, and puzzles, with the exploration of an expanded world. In the game, we play as Galand, a young man in his quest to recover his youth after a witch cursed him with premature old age. Powerful black magic controls the cities of the region of Oblena and to face evil, we will carry a magic shield called Runestone. This shield has a very important role in our adventure because it will be our only weapon and tool. It will allow you to defend yourself, fight and surf across the red grassland.
Gravity Heroes
Gravity Heroes is a fast-paced, chaotically beautiful 2D platform shooter. Take control of your character’s gravitational pull with the gravity shifter mechanic and fight hordes of robotic enemies on the ground, walls, or ceiling. Fueled by 80s and 90s nostalgia with an electrifying soundtrack and stylistically popping pixel art style, Gravity Heroes offers action-packed fun playing either by yourself or joined by up to three others locally.
Puss!
In this game, you play as a cat that is trapped in another dimension. Find the way out or stay there forever!
Rodent Warriors
Rodent Warriors is an epic 2D rogue-like RPG… about rodents with a progression mechanic based on reincarnation — every time a hero is defeated, subsequent heroes will be given power bonuses. And by overcoming challenges, all future heroes will have an even greater potential to be more powerful.
Speed Limit
Speed Limit is a non-stop genre-warping arcade experience that never slows down. No cuts, no lapses in the chaos, Speed Limit is an old-school action extravaganza boiled down to its core elements: Hard. Fast. Addictive. As soon as you think you’ve learned how the game works, it changes to a completely different genre, taking you through the history of the golden arcade era. Fight through a nail-biting side-scrolling shooter, race to the finish in an explosive top-down car chase, take flight in a thrilling fake-3D dogfight, and expect the unexpected. Speed Limit seamlessly changes styles, transforms the gameplay, and offers new challenges the moment you feel comfortable.