Next Week on XBOX: New Games for September 21 to 25 - news.xbox.com
I Hear Them – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S You hear scurrying in the ceiling. Kalanoro – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere A world inspired by Madagascar’s folklore. Laundering Simulator – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere Run your own forgery workshop with a laundromat as its front!
Welcome to Next Week on XBOX! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in!
CONTROL Resonant – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
After years in confinement at the hands of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), Dylan Faden emerges into a warped Manhattan at the peak of a paranatural crisis. Charged with combating a mysterious cosmic entity as it alters fundamental aspects of our reality, Dylan must harness his new-found powers to take the fight to the myriad threats overwhelming Manhattan. Join Dylan in this sequel to the multi-award-winning CONTROL to explore the expansive zones of a city overrun by the corrupting influences of the chaotic Hiss, invasive micro-organism, the Mold, and other twisted paranatural threats.
Dune: Awakening – September 22 Game Pass / Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Discover a dynamic and immersive Arrakis, from the rolling sand dunes of the Deep Desert to hidden Fremen caves and the bustling city streets of Arrakeen. Play alone in full single-player, multiplayer with friends on a shared server, or with hundreds of other players on a public server. The full game, with all its features, content and story, is available regardless of which mode you choose.
EA SPORTS FC 27 – September 25 Smart Delivery
Step into The Grounds, a social football playground where the streets meet the stadium. From Kickabouts and 1v1s to teaming up with friends in Clubs, connect with renowned football mentors, improve your abilities, and express yourself on and off the pitch. Feel greater control in every game mode with more fluid, true-to-life gameplay, featuring dynamic corners, enhanced attacking awareness, player-focused defending tailored for competitive play, and more community-driven innovations.
Graveyard Keeper 2 – September 22 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
You are the Grand Inquisitor now! Restore the town and lead your undead army into battle to save the realm from a zombie apocalypse. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper 2 – the sequel to the original, unhinged classic! Build and manage your own medieval graveyard. Harvest as much flora, fauna, and human remains as you can to build extraordinary machinery, automate production, and expand your graveyard for pure profit.
Alien Breed 35th Anniversary – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery / XBOX Play Anywhere
35 years ago, this station initiated blackout protocols, burying the first era of Intex’s xeno operations. Your objective – Infiltrate the station, get power and system systems back online, uncover the last, complete archive of original redacted documents, first-person combat firefights and classified secrets. Archive footage and the all-new Horde Mode training will equip you with the skills you will need to survive. When you’re ready, deploy across six core original campaigns as a lone-wolf, with locally assigned personnel, or alongside remote operators connected through a direct peer-to-peer uplink.
BLACKSHARD – September 22 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
BLACKSHARD is a visual and narrative experience, a dreamlike journey into uncharted liminal spaces. You will roam strange places, endless corridors and unreal architectures, encountering mysterious figures that have been forgotten for ages. Explore a unique semi-open world and find your own way through the Labyrinth. Find shards of memory from those who came before. Accept the order of things or choose a different path. Interact with your environment to transform the Labyrinth with unspeakable powers, or preserve its cold complexity.
Garfield – Escape From Monday – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Wake up Garfield from this nightmarish veggie filled 3D Platformer! The laziest cat is about to work hard in Garfield – Escape from Monday! When you’re a lazy cat spending most of his time sleeping, having a nightmare can happen. But a nightmare full of vegetables and sugar-free candies, no way! After Jon fed him spinach lasagnas inspired by Chef Monday’s recipe, Garfield falls into a deep sleep… To wake up and reactivate his taste buds, the laziest cat in the world will have to explore worlds filled with enemies and eat a gigantic deal of lasagnas!
Bubble Stomp – September 22 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Get ready for an adventure packed with jumps, explosions, and creativity in Bubble Stomp! Here, every obstacle is an opportunity to test your skills and discover new ways to move through stages filled with exciting platforming challenges. Use temporary bubbles, Ground Pound, and cannons to reach impossible places, cross dangerous areas, and overcome increasingly challenging obstacles. Combine these mechanics in unexpected ways to create new paths, gain momentum, defeat enemies, and reach the final objective.
Demeo X Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked – September 22 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Experience the magic of Dungeons & Dragons like never before in this tactical, cooperative digital board game set in Forgotten Realms. Command your heroes, unravel sinister plots and forge mighty alliances in turn-based combat and choice-based storytelling. From recognizable settings and classic D&D classes – like paladin, sorcerer, ranger, fighter, bard, and rogue – to fiery explosions and divine healing, Battlemarked delivers quick, pick-up-and-play action for players of every level.
The speed limit is infinity. The faster you move, the harder you hit. Grapple, slide, wall-run, and rail-grind to build momentum. Dodge bullet-hell barrages with wild movement tech and perfectly timed parries. Rip through robots in style to rack up views as your rampage goes viral worldwide in a fully-voiced story campaign.
VORON: Raven’s Story – September 22 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
In this story-driven adventure, you are the raven from the pages of Norse legends. Fly, explore an open world, uncover its secrets, solve puzzles, save souls, and help your family. Caw! After death, every soul must reach the World of Gods – that’s the law. But what if a soul can’t leave the Human World? In such cases, ravens guide the lost – and now it’s your duty. On your path to the World of Gods, you and your family are attacked by an ancient evil force and separated. Help each soul, learn their stories, discover why they’re trapped, find your loved one, and reach the World of Gods before the world ends.
Well Dweller – September 22 Game Pass / Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery / XBOX Play Anywhere
Deep within the forest, at the bottom of a well, lives the only creature brave enough to kill the queen… WELL DWELLER is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania made by the creators of Crypt Custodian and Islets! Play as Glimmer – a tiny bird armed with a matchstick- who must burn the wicked queen to save his family. Explore a dark fairy-tale landscape and befriend the charming characters who reside in the kingdom’s underbelly. Battle terrifying beasts and gain new abilities to expand your map. Solve puzzles, discover secrets, and unravel the mysteries that lie in this rotted kingdom.
Bibi & Tina – Ready, Set, Ride! – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery / XBOX Play Anywhere
A summer full of friendship, tournament excitement and horse-filled happiness! No sooner has Bibi returned to Martin’s Farm than the next big adventure awaits: the Summer Cup is starting at Falkenstein Castle. Together with Tina and Alex, you compete in exciting riding disciplines – and show what friendship, fairness and a little bit of witchcraft can make possible.
BIRDCAGE – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery / XBOX Play Anywhere
Break free of your cage and protect humanity from certain destruction in old-school shoot’em up style! BIRDCAGE is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shoot’em up inspired by genre classics, blending gritty pixel art sprites with 2.5D backdrops and a pumping retro soundtrack! Blast through 6 unique stages of bullet hell mayhem, facing off against enemy swarms using multiple shot types and rechargeable specials.
I Hear Them – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
You hear scurrying in the ceiling. You hear scratching in the walls. Your house is infested with rats, and it’s your job to get rid of them. Catch rats with the help of your best friend, Lola, and uncover the supernatural mysteries behind their gatherings inside your new home. I Hear Them is a first-person horror game where you team up with the family cat and try to clear the infestation of rats in your new home. Set in early 2008, explore an atmospheric house while unveiling supernatural secrets about the creatures running around in the walls.
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 (LMS2) is the sequel to Lawn Mowing Simulator, which builds on the rewarding working-sim feel of the original. Listening to community feedback, and internal reflections, LMS2 will offer an expanded take on professional lawn care and use real-world equipment from manufacturer partners Kubota, SCAGⓇ and STIGA! The brand-new USA setting and completely new grass tech will allow players to get the best cut ever! Not only that, but new mowers and string trimmers will be included, as well as much requested leaf blowers!
Nomori – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery / XBOX Play Anywhere
Challenge your understanding of the world’s physical limits. Place, shift, and rotate portals to change the gravity direction of objects and even yourself. Make clever use of portals to reach new places, and make every surface a floor! Use your Spirit Powers to further influence the world around you. Control the flow of time and rotate the forces of gravity to solve mind-bending environmental puzzles!
2048 Battles – Sylvan Sirens – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
2048 Battles – Sylvan Sirens puts an enchanting spin on the classic 2048 puzzle formula! Slide tiles to combine matching numbers and launch devastating attacks against a coven of woodland foes. Fight your way through alluring sirens, spell-weaving forest witches, and majestic fae queens—each wielding wild nature magic and a flair for the dramatic.
Ancient Farm – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Plow, plant, water, and harvest as you build your ancient Egyptian farm from the ground up. Start with nothing and unlock workshops, production buildings, and temples through your own hard work. Ancient Farm is a hands-on farming experience set in ancient Egypt. Begin with empty land and basic tools—no automation, no shortcuts. Every field, building, and harvest is created by you as you transform barren land into a thriving farm.
Beer Manufacture Simulator – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Start small with basic tools and a simple recipe, then expand step by step. Turn a passion for craft beer into a thriving business, managing every stage of the brewing process and transforming your tiny workshop into a bustling beer manufactory. Experience brewing like never before. Mash the grains, boil the hops, cool the wort, ferment the beer, and finally bottle or keg your creation. Each stage affects the final product, ensuring that patience, timing, and attention to detail really matter.
Farming Camp – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Farming Camp is a cozy, single-player farm management game that follows the journey of an ambitious teenager competing to become the best farmer in the camp. Manage your farm alongside your companions, complete chores for points, and deal with the dynamics of a colorful cast in their teenage years. Step into the boots of young Alessandra, before she became the renowned Evertree Farmer. Experience her life at the Evertree Farming Camp where it all began. Learn the ropes and face the fun and chaos of camp life.
Fit and Grow – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Get ready to get your hands dirty and let your creativity bloom in Fit and Grow, a relaxing puzzle game where every planted piece can completely transform the board! Here, seeds and watering cans work together to create something bigger. Place the pieces carefully, make the plants grow, and watch as they expand into new spaces across the board. But be careful: the more your plants grow, the less space remains for your next moves. Planning the right moment to plant and water will be essential to finding the perfect solution!
Heroes of Magic & Cards – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Heroes of Magic & Cards is an inventive deckbuilding poker roguelike that rewards both careful buildcrafting and poker skills. Choose your class and chart your path across the world, from encounter to encounter, upgrading your deck, collecting relics, and refining your tactics to take down powerful bosses, earning powerful rewards!
Kalanoro – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
A world inspired by Madagascar’s folklore. Once a paradise, it now suffers under the witch Raneny’s ruthless rule. Having grown tired of exploiting its people, she decided to host a huge concert with the island’s most famous band. You’re sent on a mission to fight back by rallying legendary musicians to your cause!
Laundering Simulator – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Run your own forgery workshop with a laundromat as its front! Believe it or not, but Eddie Wiser is a clever manager and a brilliant inventor. Laundering Simulator revolves around him combining his talents to start a laundering operation… for both clothes and money. And you get to help him with his little project…
Owlen and the Starbound Mountain – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Venture into a realm of towering ice peaks, shimmering frost, and skies so high they brush the stars. As Owlen, you glide above frozen cliffs, drifting clouds, and ancient structures built into the mountain’s heart. Guided by distant spirits, your mission is to restore harmony by flying through magical circles that awaken frozen landscapes, rekindle star-touched flora, and breathe life back into forgotten heights.
PUPU’s Adventure Pack – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Run a fantasy theme park where heroes get to play adventurer!
The Relic: First Guardian – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S – XBOX Play Anywhere
Created by a small and passionate core team of a dozen people, Project Cloud Games has created a fresh new take on combat, with a heavy emphasis on balancing action and vulnerability, their unique, dark, and gritty spin on classic Korean stories has been in the making for six years. Traverse a vast, interconnected realm filled with forgotten ruins, hidden dungeons, and atmospheric landscapes. The world of Arsilthus rewards curious Guardians who venture off the beaten path with ancient artifacts, secret encounters, and pieces of lost lore buried deep within its ruined regions.
Sandwalkers – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Every decade, the Mka tribe sends caravans of adventurers into the Phithi, the meteorological chaos that keeps the Uwando tribes isolated from each other and makes life outside the refuges almost impossible. Their mission: to establish diplomatic and trade relations, to explore and reclaim the lands left to the mercy of monsters and pirates, and, most importantly, to plant a new tree city that can become a refuge for the Mka and their allies. Regardless of the success or failure of their mission, the caravans must send the memories they have gained back to the capital, using the crystospheres carried by traveling beetles.
Seafarer: The Sim Ship – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Set sail and build your career at sea in Seafarer: The Ship Sim. Take the helm of various vessels solo or in multiplayer with a crew of up to 4 players, explore a vast open world inspired by Northern Europe, and take on maritime jobs ranging from cargo transport and rescue missions to firefighting, patrols, and unexpected events. In multiplayer, share duties on board, coordinate during missions, and tackle the challenges of life at sea as a crew.
Tiny Tanks Showdown – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Deafest the enemy tanks while dodging their deadly bullets. Improve your aim and maneuver skill while war itself is trying to end your adventure. Level by level the enemy’s tanks get faster, smarter, and deadlier. Can you make it to the end and defeat their leader?
The Trolley Solution – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Philosophers already waste their time and lives thinking about thinking. Why not have fun while doing it? The Trolley Solution is a compilation of minigames based on the famous trolley problem, originally proposed in 1967 by British philosopher Philippa Foot. Put your thinking power to the test through humorous variations of the problem. Unlock a variety of minigames where you can also put your gaming skills to the test. Challenge yourself, gain important and useful philosophical knowledge, and expand your mind!
Retro Cube Slider – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Dozens of engaging single-screen sliding puzzles! Retro goodness! Crazy contraptions to master! Anyone can play Retro Cube Slider, just press the direction button and let the stylish neon cube slide away!
Used Cars Simulator – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Welcome to the world of trading used (or stolen) cars! Got little money and nothing to lose? We were waiting for you! In Used Cars Simulator, you’ll fix up cars, put them up for sale, grow your business in an old shed, drive around an abandoned city, drink beer, and wander the desert with a metal detector. And it all starts when you meet a beautiful woman in a red dress at your favorite bar… Are you in?
Samson – A Tyndalston Story – September 21 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Samson comes home to the worst streets of Tyndalston, a place that built him hard and never forgave him. Muscle, speed, and nerve decide who stays upright. Close-quarters fights, tight corners, and no room for hesitation. Samson’s debt hangs over everything, and his sister is the pressure point his enemies squeeze. Time is short, and the bill keeps growing.
Fading Echo – September 22 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Explore the surreal landscapes of the floating islands of Corel as a young Legend on a quest to discover her past and secure her future. Unleash chain reactions as you learn to control the elements in a fast-paced desert punk action-adventure.
Rivage – September 22 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anyway
In the 25th century, humanity has been forced to expand beyond its solar system. Among the stars, the planet VESTA is discovered, a world that may hold the promise of a new home. To study it, the A.R.E.S. space station is launched into orbit to analyze its potential. But when the station, and the crew, was caught up in a space phenomenon, calamity struck…
THE BATHROOMS – September 23 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
A first-person horror adventure that begins with an ordinary trip to work, until you awaken in a deserted high school swallowed by fog with your Shiba nowhere to be found. After a strange Halloween ritual, the school’s bathrooms have become a shifting labyrinth where every escape has a price, and only enough coins can buy your way out. Search the maze, upgrade your vacuum, evade the relentless Custodian, and decide whether to leave while you still can or risk everything to rescue your faithful companion.
Five Elements Chess – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Five Elements Chess is a spell-duel game that combines the Five Elements theory and match-three gameplay featuring simple rules, deep strategy, calm, zen-inspired visual style, and a balance of strategy and luck that anyone can enjoy
Such a Guy – September 24 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
A first-person narrative game that blends live-action interactive storytelling with light management gameplay. You play as Zane Zheng, a young man who leaves his city job in search of meaning and, together with two close friends, renovates a lakeside guesthouse by the sea.
Angle Of Attack – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Climb into your state-of-the-art fighter jet and brace yourself for intense 2D fights over sprawling fields, bustling cities, and treacherous seas. From intercepting warheads on the fly to smashing through huge air fortresses, every operation demands razor-sharp reflexes and shooting precision.
Gods With Guns – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X/S / Smart Delivery
Become a Norse myth hero and play as legendary characters like Odin, Thor, Loki, and Hela to fight against Ragnarok. Enjoy fast-paced 2D gunplay with smooth gun handling as you battle through storms of bullets and waves of enemies. Build card combinations to enhance your power and collect cards to strengthen your character and face endless enemies.
Moonlight Chess – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
A turn-based auto-battler tactics game where you build your own army, defeat waves of enemies, and conquer the evil raging across the kingdom. Deploy units on a gridded battlefield. Every unit fights automatically, but the outcome depends entirely on your tactics and positioning.
Roots – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
Your grandfather left you a farm and one simple wish: take good care of it. In Roots, bring his old farm back to life. Till the soil, plant seeds, gather resources, and sell your produce to fund your next step. Turn small harvests into thriving fields as you unlock upgrades and expand across islands.
Runes Quest – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S
A sokoban-like game where you help the knight to find the way back home. Lots of game elements: buttons, grates, keys, runes, boxes, pits and traps; 30 levels in total; 2 biomes, light and dark, enhanced by cute graphics and relaxing music.
Vampire Blood Dynasty – September 25 Optimized for XBOX Series X|S / XBOX Play Anywhere
Step into the shadows of a modern metropolis where ancient bloodlines wage silent wars for supremacy. As a powerful vampire thrust into a world of political intrigue and supernatural conflict, your choices will shape the destiny of an entire city’s vampire society.