It’s another glorious week for Xbox players. Whether an owner of a console or the Xbox Game Pass, there are some great offerings from the Microsoft team and various developers. Fans of dinosaurs and dogs will be particularly pleased with this week’s games. Check them out and then head to the links provided to get started.
Wednesday, April 28
Cymatically Muffed
Don’t you hate it when you wake up and some scientist has experimented on you and stolen your headphones? Muffed is a fast-paced top-down shooter where you and your friends can find that guy and make him pay. Or fight everyone you know in the best 2-8 player PvP games around, your call.
Crime Opera: The Butterfly Effect
Explore a tale of loyalty, deceit, and murder through the eyes of a Mafia family’s children. Following the sudden death of a mafia family’s matriarch, her sons Gerald and Xander are put on the defensive as former partners threaten to take over their collective business ventures for themselves. See-through the eyes of the Gallo children as they witness murders, kidnappings, and other crimes wrought upon their households by their own fathers.
Ladders by POWGI
Make new words by changing one letter at a time. The goal is to turn one word into another using only a limited number of steps. Your reward? A free dad joke with each puzzle solved!
Thursday, April 29
Before I Forget
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled. A game about dementia and what happens when you can’t hold onto the things you’ve done or the people you’ve loved.
Second Extinction Game Preview (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox Game Pass)
Second Extinction is an intense 3 player co-op shooter, where your goal is to wipe out the mutated dinosaurs that have taken over the planet. Teamwork is vital as you adopt the role of one of the survivors, using a combination of weapons, abilities, and skills to take on the vast number of enemies.
WarDogs: Red’s Return
After a catastrophic plague almost sweeping the world, The remnants of humanity have turned to genetic engineering to survive. Unrecognizable, humans now strive to recover in the few cities that still exist. Living in the periphery of a technologic paradise, the outcasts of society live under the domain of the many gangs that control the suburbs. Among them is Red, a young fighter going back home after a year away, finding it immersed in conflict. After seeing his old friends, he needs to discover who is responsible for this chaos and end his plans before it’s too late.
Friday, April 30
Angels with Scaly Wings (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S / Smart Delivery)
After the discovery of a mysterious portal, you are selected as one of the few humans to travel to the world of dragons. While you serve as an ambassador, you learn more about this strangely familiar place, and discover that your human colleague knows more than he’s letting on… It will be up to you and the friends you make to uncover the conspiracy that threatens the newly discovered world. In the process, you may even find love.
Mystic Fate
Help young Aris to solve the mystery of the fall of Asfand and Its guild of alchemists, avenge the death of her brother, discover the limits of her powers all of that and more inside a 3D voxel action-adventure game where you control weapons made of metal. Aris has been training for all her life due to her special powers and skills along with her brother to go inside the Alchemists Dungeon and recover the long-lost orbs to restore the peace in Asfand long thrilled by Koltors which after the fall of the alchemists guild has been winning the war. Recovering the orbs means Aris will have to discover what happened to her world many generations ago.
Protocol
The action of Protocol, most likely, takes place in the near future. You are a flippant soldier who signs up for the Protocol program implementation. Packed in a landing box and dropped off somewhere in the Arctic Circle, not far from the Terminus research complex, your main objective is to follow a mysterious AI’s orders, who uses you to make “first contact” within the Protocol program framework. Any deviation from AI’s orders is considered to be a violation of Protocol; leading to the elimination of the complex and staff.
R-Type Final 2 (Optimized for Xbox Series X/S / Smart Delivery)
For the first time in nearly two decades, you can experience R-Type Final 2! Feel the rush of mowing down hordes of Bydo with your fleet of R-Type fighters equipped with an arsenal of new and classic wave cannons, force units, bit devices, and devastating delta weapons. The Bydo threat is always evolving, as new enemies spawn from the wreckage of fallen foes, and stages are corrupted and altered by the sentient Bydo corruption. R-Type Final 2 unites the explosive action of the original games with modernized visuals and gameplay features, making this a must-have title for new and old shoot-’em-up fans alike.
