Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, 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!
Sea Horizon – July 10
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Embark on a perilous adventure in classic role-playing style with dice rolls and card-based actions to govern your fate! In the world of Sea Horizon, every step counts in a journey of survival and high adventure! Sea Horizon is a roguelike turn-based RPG presented in a 3D bird’s eye view of a hex grid map that’s different every time you set out to explore the shattered archipelago of Myrihyn.
Common’hood – July 11
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Game Pass
Common’hood is a squatter settlement simulation game with highly customizable base building tools. Gather salvage materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, and build a new home. Explore and discover unique characters that will go from strangers to family, helping the community overcome the shortage of food and shelter. Playable on Cloud, Console, and PC.
Rain World – July 11
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of 16-bit classics, this survival platformer requires clever decision-making, both to catch your own prey and to avoid the jaws of hungry predators. Each ravenous foe in your path will be cunning, vicious and always on the hunt, eager to sink their teeth into you… or each other.
Follow the story of Theoderich von Akenburg, a former crusader knight who, after becoming disillusioned with the cruelty of war, is called back into action. The Valiant is a squad-based RTS set in 13th Century Europe and the Middle East where you’ll command and level-up your medieval knights as you fight through an epic single-player campaign, then take your skills online in both cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes.
Dead Man’s Diary – July 12
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
You’re on your own in a world full of danger! Drink only if you discover water; survive the night only if you have a place to sleep; eat only what you have found or hunted. Dead Man’s Diary is a unique blend of elements from several genres. The gameplay adopts typical survival game mechanics such as crafting items or exploring a hostile world along with the need to find places to sleep or food. And enriches it with a gripping story and realistic puzzles.
Mordhau – July 12
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
A multiplayer medieval slasher where you’ll create your own mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more. The Gold Edition contains the main game and 5 DLC packs: Dragon Armor set, Lion Armor set, Grotesque Armor set, Continental Voice pack 1, and Continental Voice pack 2.
Strike Force Kitty – July 12
Xbox Play Anywhere
A humorous, light platformer about cats and kittens! Command a squad of four cute kittens to save an adorable princess as you train your tabbies into tigers and power them up with 350+ costumes! Each level is about finding the optimal path with new abilities to discover and new ways of completing the level (and find costumes along the way).
Enlist your strike team and drop planet-side into an intense, sci-fi warzone in the turn-based tactical combat game, Strike Team Gladius. Make tactical decisions and employ ruthless strategies to achieve each mission objective. Choose your team from 22 unique classes ranging from lethal snipers to brutal melee specialists with a campaign featuring 40 combat missions, each with their own special objectives and win conditions.
Ed-0: Zombie Uprising – July 13
Japan, 1854. At a time when the country was in isolation, Western countries were undergoing the “Zombie Industrial Revolution” and were in search of new settlements to conquer. Soon, the Black Ships arrived and demanded entry to the country — this allowed the zombies to infest the country. But a group of people with mysterious powers unaffected by zombies appeared. Now, the hunt for zombies has begun to restore Japan to the way it was in this action game where you play as a Samurai, Sumo Wrestler, or Ninja.
X-Force Under Attack – July 13
X-Force Under Attack is the sequel to the X-Force Genesis., a space shooter that channels shmups from the ‘80s and ‘90s. Here, the X-Force squad will fight to prevent General Lava and his troops from invading and dominating the planet, Genesis.
Exoprimal – July 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere / Game Pass
Available day one with Game Pass! Exoprimal is an online, team-based action game that pits humanity’s cutting-edge exosuit technology against history’s most ferocious beasts — dinosaurs. Exosuits are grouped into different roles, and players will pilot these exosuits to hold firm against overwhelming dinosaur swarms in online-only, team-based action game modes. Whether players are engaging the other team directly, or fighting alongside them against a common enemy, the aim is to accomplish objectives as quickly as possible. Playable on Cloud, Console, and PC.