Britt (157)Rounding off the weekend in the Summer Game Fest, Xbox and Bethesda Studios held a showcase for all games that you’ll be able to play over the next 12 months; with 30 games coming to Xbox Game Pass on day one of their release. As always, game trailers were incredible, and it wasn’t just new games that were announced.
Take a read through all the games to come from Xbox and Bethesda in the coming year!
Redfall is an open-world, co-op FPS from Arkane Austin, the award-winning team behind Prey and Dishonored. Continuing Arkane’s legacy of carefully crafted worlds and immersive sims, Redfall brings the studio’s signature gameplay to this story-driven action shooter.
The island town of Redfall, Massachusetts, is under siege by a legion of vampires who have blocked out the sun and cut the citizens off from the outside world. Explore the open world and immerse yourself in a deep story campaign as you unravel the mystery behind the vampires’ appearance. Ally with a handful of survivors against the creatures threatening to bleed the town dry.
Play day one with Xbox Game Pass. Available in 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming.
A new gameplay trailer was shown, but no release date yet.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is an upcoming Metroidvania action-adventure video game developed. It was originally announced on 14 February 2019, as a sequel to the 2017 game Hollow Knight.
Available soon for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Fresh out of high school with no job and no ambition, you've really got nothing going for you until an alien cartel that wants to get high off humanity invades Earth. Now, you and a team of charismatic talking guns must answer the hero's call and become the deadliest intergalactic bounty hunter the cosmos has ever seen.
Travel to various planets and locations across the cosmos, go up against the nefarious Garmantuous and his gang of goons, collect loot, meet unique characters, and more, in the latest comedy adventure from Justin Roiland!
Available in October 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Riot Games is pairing up with Xbox Game Pass to provide players with:
Available winter 2022 for PC and mobile.
After escaping their devastated homeland, Amicia and Hugo travel far south, to new regions and vibrant cities. There, they attempt to start a new life and control Hugo’s curse.
But, when Hugo’s powers reawaken, death and destruction return in a flood of devouring rats. Forced to flee once more, the siblings place their hopes in a prophesized island that may hold the key to saving Hugo.
Discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell, overcoming foes and challenges with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.
Available in 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Forza Motorsport has been built from the ground up to showcase the Xbox Series X|S consoles. The accuracy of our overhauled physics, the beauty of our cars and tracks, our new dynamic time of day, advanced car damage, and real time ray tracing on track lead to a generational leap in immersion. Forza Motorsport is the most technically advanced racing game ever made.
Available in Spring 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
The 40th Anniversary Edition, a completely free offering for those who already own Microsoft Flight Simulator or play it via Xbox Game Pass, is a comprehensive celebration of the franchise with both a tribute to our past as well as an introduction to new and highly anticipated aircraft types.
The nod to the past will re-introduce some classic airports and several of the most famous planes from earlier versions including Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight!
Available in November 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming.
Reunite and stand together in a new age of heroes. Overwatch 2 builds on an award-winning foundation of epic competitive play, and challenges the world’s heroes to team up, power up, and take on an overwhelming outbreak of threats around the globe.
Your accomplishments and loot collections will be carried forward to Overwatch 2. That means you’ll keep your skins, player icons, sprays, emotes, and more!
Available on October 4, 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming.
Build a nation and lead your people throughout history to the pinnacles of human achievement as you explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with your rivals to prove you are the greatest ruler ever known.
“History is filled with moments of greatness, but these will be yours.”
Featuring both familiar and innovative gameplay mechanics, Ara: History Untold delivers an evolution in historical grand strategy with no pre-set paths to victory, leading to endless possibilities. Your choices will define the world you create, your experience, and your legacy.
Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Set out on a brand-new Elder Scrolls adventure and discover an epic story told across three DLCs and High Isle Chapter.
Explore High Isle and Amenos, a land never-before-seen in The Elder Scrolls. Traverse stunning white cliffs, majestic castles, and perilous jungles as you encounter a chivalrous Breton society.
Uncover a secret order of knights led by the mysterious Ascendant Lord, who threatens to disrupt peace talks for the ongoing Three Banners War and condemn Tamriel to endless conflict.
A new way to unwind in ESO! Grab a tankard of mead and play a hand of an original fast-paced collectible card game, Tales of Tribute. Compete with friends or test your mettle against NPCs in this exciting deck-building game.
Available June 6, 2022 for PC, Mac, and Stadia. Available June 21, 2022 for Xbox consoles, PS4 and PS5.
This September, Fallout 76 players take their adventure beyond the borders of Appalachia for the very first time with the arrival of Expeditions: The Pitt!
Expeditions send players to a city built on the remains of post-nuclear Pittsburgh, now known only as The Pitt. Don’t expect the friendliest welcome, however, as the local Union faction are caught between vicious Raiders, monstrous Trogs and other hostile forces.
This update will also include several tweaks and enhancements to the game, including adjusted gear for brand-new Dwellers stepping out of the Vault for the first time, making this update excellent for players old and new itching to dive into the game.
Available September 2022 for console and PC.
The most anticipated Xbox game in the last 20 years, Bethesda gave an extended first look to their upcoming space RPG. Starfield will feature flexible character creation, deep lore and storylines, and expansive worlds and combat. You can build outposts, craft, research, and even build your own spaceship.
“The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.” - Anatole France
Even better? You can completely customize the staff, look, and layout of your ship that you’ll actually be able to fly in game. With over 1000 planets that you can fully explore, Starfield will be a game for the history books.
Coming in 2023 for console, PC, and cloud. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Available in the Forza Horizon 5 Premium Add-ons Bundle, Premium Edition, and Expansions Bundle (and available for standalone purchase at $19.99), Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels introduces players to the visually stunning, exhilarating new Horizon Hot Wheels Park in the clouds high above Mexico.
Design, build, and share your own Hot Wheels adventure with over 80 distinct, snappable track pieces and race 10 amazing new cars, including the lightning fast 2021 Hennessey Venom F5 and the iconic 2000 Hot Wheels Deora II.
Available July 19, 2022 for console, PC, and cloud.
ARK II thrusts players into a brutal new world of primitive survival against both beast and man, facing down the ever-present threats of hyper-realistic intelligent dinosaurs, aggressive alien fauna, and the exotic environments of an unearthly planet. Survivors will continue ARK's dramatic eons-spanning story of humankind's evolution, in this next-generation sandbox survival experience!
Available in 2023 for console, PC, and cloud. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry. It is designed around the idea of “being thrown into the world”. Isolated and lost inside this dream-like world, you will explore different interconnected regions in a non-linear fashion. The unsettling environment is a character itself.
Every location contains its own theme (story), puzzles and characters that are integral in creating a cohesive world. Throughout the game you will open up new areas, acquire different skill sets, weapons, various items and try to comprehend the sights presented to you.
Available on October 21, 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Join humanity’s last stand as Gods and guns collide in an all-new action-RPG open-world adventure.
The Door to the Afterlife has been opened, allowing the old God’s army of the undead to escape from within. The living are on the brink of extinction. It’s time for the coalition army to retake their world. Embrace vengeance, gunpowder and magic and embark on an epic journey to lead mankind’s final siege against the tide of the dead.
Available in early 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Minecraft Legends is a brand new game that tells the story of the Overworld uniting against an invasion by the ravenous piglins. According to the legend, only you can bring together the mobs of the Overworld and help them defend their home. The events you will take part in are neither fact nor fiction; they are simply part of a tale that has been passed down from villager to villager. There are no records or evidence of the great hero that raised their banner to save the Overworld – all that remains is a powerful legend.
Available in 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world farming adventure on a planet at the far edge of the galaxy. Start your new home on a distant planet with up to three friends as you farm alien crops, build your own homestead, and explore the untamed wilderness of the world.
Available in Spring 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Gunfire Reborn is an adventure level-based game featuring FPS, roguelite, and RPG elements. Players can control unique heroes—each with different abilities—as they adventure through procedurally-generated levels and pick up randomly-dropped weapons. You can play Gunfire Reborn alone or cooperatively with up to three other players (4-player co-op).
Every level is random; each new restart is a brand-new experience. You will meet different heroes and experience new weapons, items, checkpoints, and unique combat rhythms throughout the game.
Available in October 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
From The Gamer:
The game's reveal trailer gave us quite the first impression, showing our protagonist (presumably Benedict Fox) exploring a wonderfully gothic mansion full to the brim with creepy monsters to fight. Fox can utilise his demon pal to jump into the minds of the recently deceased, where memories, past traumas, and emotions take on physical forms.
Available in Spring 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
As Dusk Falls is an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT that explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong in small town Arizona, the choices you make have a powerful impact on the characters’ lives in this uncompromising story of betrayal, sacrifice and resilience.
Reveal insights about yourself and those you play with as you discover the underlying values of your decisions in cooperative gameplay with up to 8 players at a time, locally or online (or a mix). The As Dusk Falls companion app makes making choices in game easy, just use your phone or tablet to vote with or against your friends.
Available on July 19, 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT is an up to 60-player PVP mythical action combat experience with martial arts inspired melee combat, gravity defying mobility, vast arsenals of melee & ranged weapons, legendary customizable heroes with epic abilities - inspired by the legends of the Far East.
Xbox announced NARAKA will be coming to consoles with cross-play along with a new campaign mode!
Available on June 23, 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming.
In Pentiment, you play Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist working in the bygone scriptorium of Kiersau Abbey during a time of great social unrest. While finishing his masterpiece, Andreas inadvertently becomes entangled in a series of murders that take place over 25 years. Peasants, thieves, craftsmen, monks, nuns, nobles, and even saints must be investigated and interrogated to expose the truth.
It will be up to players to decide Andreas’ choices, from his educational background and lifestyle to how he investigates the murders. One day he may be digging up a dead monk in the abbey cemetery, the next might be spent eavesdropping on peasant gossip at the ladies’ spinning bee. Every decision and accusation he makes carries consequences that will impact the tightly-knit Alpine community for generations to come.
Available in November 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Explore, build and survive together in this first person, multiplayer, survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Grounded has been in early access since July 2020 and it’ll finally be released fully with all new content and a full storyline!
Available in September 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming.
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Ereban: Shadow Legacy has you playing as a woman called Ayana, the last descendant of a forgotten race that can use shadow powers to defeat their enemies. As Ayana, you'll need to sneak and slice your way thrugh enemies to uncover the truth about your past and save the universe.
Available in 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Diablo IV tells the story of an unremitting conflict between the Burning Hells and High Heavens, foretold the return of Lilith, Sanctuary’s demonic creator.
Diablo IV will host cross-play and cross-progression for all platforms. On console, players may also slay demons side-by-side with a friend through couch-co-op. They also announced the final class available at launch! In addition to the Barbarian, Druid, Rogue, and Sorceress, the fifth and final class is the scythe-wielding purveyor of death, the Necromancer!
Available in 2023 for console and PC.
Season Seven arrives in July, and with it comes a whole set of Captaincy features that will not only allow you to name your ship and emblazon it on the crest for all to see, but customize the ship’s interior to your heart’s content and earn a whole host of new progression rewards too.
Available on July 21, 2022 for console, PC, and cloud gaming.
Ravenlok is a fairytale reimagining of a kingdom troubled by a corrupted Queen and a young girl’s destiny to fulfill a dangerous prophecy.
After stumbling upon a magical mirror, Ravenlok finds herself pulled away from reality and into a land shrouded in darkness, cursed by the corruption of the Caterpillar Queen. Rising to the occasion, Ravenlok challenges fearsome foes to save the fallen kingdom.
Available in 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
COCOON is a unique take on the puzzle adventure genre, where each world exists within an orb that you can carry on your back. Wrap your head around the core mechanic of leaping between worlds—and combine, manipulate, and rearrange them to solve intricate puzzles.
Interact with alien environments and biomechanical devices left behind by an ancient civilization. Journey through unique and diverse biomes, from industrial structures to massive organic caverns, and discover how they are connected to one another.
Each orb has an ability that can be unlocked, thereby turning the orb into a unique tool for you to utilize within other worlds. Use these abilities to uncover hidden pathways and objects, fire projectiles to trigger switches, and more.
Mighty guardians protect every world, and you must face them in fierce battles. Each fight is unique and requires you to master new and satisfying mechanics.
Available in 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty follows the dramatic, action-packed story of a nameless militia soldier fighting for survival in a dark fantasy version of the Later Han Dynasty where demons plague the Three Kingdoms.
Available in early 2023 for console, PC, and cloud gaming. Play day one with Xbox Game Pass.
That’s right, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal will be releasing on Xbox and PC!
Persona 5 Royal releases first on October 21, 2022!
Interested in more games announced during the Summer Game Fest? Check out a recap of Epic Games Summer Showcase!
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