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Next Week on Xbox: New Games for October 8 to October 11
Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One! Every week the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. To find out what’s coming soon to Xbox One, read on below and click on each of the game profiles for pre-order details (dates are subject to change).
An action RPG platformer featuring stunning hand drawn art and animation combined with unique real-time combat mechanics. Immerse yourself in a fantastical world with dozens of playable characters, a rich storytelling experience, gameplay that’s easy to learn but difficult to master, and the trademark razor-sharp quality that Lab Zero Games is known for.
Xbox One X Enhanced – Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras. Face new challenges on the international stage and always keep the needs of your people in mind.
The Trine series returns to the magic of 2.5D with Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince! The three heroes of the best-selling adventure series are back, sent on a quest to retrieve the troubled young Prince Selius. Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight, and Zoya the Thief are joined once again on a thrilling quest through fantastical fairytale landscapes teeming with danger.
The ultimate survival MMO of immense scale and endless adventure of piracy and sailing, exploration and combat, roleplaying progression, settlement civilization-building, among the largest game worlds on Xbox. Get ready to explore, build, and conquer!
Yooka & Laylee are back in a brand-new, 2.5D platforming adventure from Playtonic Games! With their arch-nemesis Capital B up to no good, the buddy duo needs to spring into action once again to save the day. To thwart his evil plan of using a Hivemind device to enslave an entire kingdom of bees, our heroes need to take the fight to Capital B’s Impossible Lair. Things look tough, but with the help of Queen Phoebee and her Royal Beettalion , Yooka and Laylee might just have a chance!
Xbox One X Enhanced – A scary, action-adventure horror game about a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong! Run for your life, hide in the shadows, and use your wits to avoid shadowy creatures and uncover the terrible truths of your wretched home town. Solve devious puzzles to reveal the emotionally-charged story of Holly and her friends that will have you hooked until the very end!
Pick from two characters to help solve moving box puzzles to advance to the next stage. Push boxes across a variety of different puzzling levels by yourself or with a friend in coop mode and control two different characters at once even in single player. Choose from three difficulty options that make recovering from your mistakes harder.
Craft, farm, solve puzzles, and build a thriving village. Return to the famed and mystical island of Isola and be drawn into the latest sequel in the beloved Virtual Villagers series! In the wake of a volcanic terror on the neighboring island of Asura, a family has made their way to Isola, seeking a new home.
A top-down wizard brawler about spell drafting and beard envy, MageQuit allows up to 10 mages to battle it out online or locally. Beards grow longer with each kill; the wizard with the longest beard after 9 rounds wins!
Xbox One X Enhanced – In this exciting new scroller-shooter, you’re playing for an extraterrestrial race that has just become ready to conquer outer space. Equip your battleship’s guns, install faster engines, and increase the power of your reactor. Throw a barrage of rockets on hordes of enemy ships, burning everything in your path!
Imagination is the key, as you enter a magical storybook land full of mystery and wonder, unusual creatures and enigmatic puzzles! Create your own original stickman and then watch it come to life. Challenge yourself to unlock every secret, collect every drawing, and share your creativity with the world.
A Knight’s Quest pays homage to the classic 3D adventure games of the past and puts players in the shoes of Rusty, a reluctant hero who sets out to save the world after accidentally endangering it. Rusty must explore the enormous game world – packed full of dungeons, side quests and secrets to discover – to defeat the evil spirit he released into the world.
Following a sudden explosion at the Stonehenge Museum fundraiser, you find yourself trapped in a hidden underground complex. Your only means of escape is by sending photographs of your surroundings to another survivor confined elsewhere. But before long, a disturbing truth begins to dawn.
A time-manipulation action and puzzle side-scrolling platformer featuring world exploration and RPG elements. With agile movement and the power of time itself at your disposal, overwhelm your foes in frenetic combat and solve ingenious puzzles, in this sequel to the fast-paced action/puzzle platformer.
Prepare to embark in a journey like no other in Alluris. Play as a reluctant hero or villain to save the world… or just save a colony of bears from some lumberjacks. However you play, you’re sure to walk away with a few crazy stories about your adventure.
A mysterious villain is using a time machine to destroy everything in his path. He wants to return the Priest, the King of Atlantis and the Ancient Emperor so he can use them to create a new world order! Claire and her friends must find out who the villain is and stop him and all his minions.
Debris Infinity is an action packed game that puts your reflexes to the limit, allowing you to manipulate time itself to make impossible maneuvers, using an advance scoring system to rank your performance!
The realm of the Five Kingdoms faces a formidable challenge in this hidden object adventure game. A mysterious power is trying to destroy the relationship between humans and elves and start a conflict. What will happen to this legendary world when the covenant of magic between humans, elves, dwarves, goblins and hobbits ends?
Frostpunk is a society survival game where heat means life and every decision comes at a price. Adapted for consoles with revised controls and adjusted mechanics, Frostpunk: Console Edition allows you to fully test your tactical prowess on the frozen wastelands. Whether you’re an enlightened ruler or an iron-fisted tyrant, you’ll discover choices in this world aren’t as easy as they seem, and that holding power over people has a cost as heavy as the responsibility you feel in caring for them.
You and your partner were the best cops in the greater Twin Cities metropolitan area until a horrific accident. Now your mangled bodies are combined using the latest technology to save your lives, combining you into one super-cop: TwinCop. Now, you and your partner each control half of the same body, so you need to be in sync with one another if you’re going to survive. Grab a friend and two controllers and get ready for this inventive top-down twin-stick shooter.
Active Soccer 2019 is an exciting top-down arcade football game providing a fast-paced arcade experience, implementing amazing playability and responsive easy-to-learn/hard-to-master controls. Features a complete career mode, implementing many international leagues, cups and championships.