Upcoming Xbox games: Best new Xbox Series X|S games for 2024, and beyond

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Spring 2025)

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an upcoming turn-based RPG set in a surreal and fantastical world inspired by artwork made during France’s La Belle Epoque time. You play as the Expeditioners, a group of heroes on a dangerous mission to destroy the Paintress, an otherworldly being that has subjected the world to a never-ending cycle of death.

Mecha Break (Spring 2025)

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Mecha Break is an upcoming multiplayer action game where players get to create giant mechas and pilot them into battle. This game will feature dozens of weapons, cosmetic paint jobs and armor modifications to customize their mechas with.

In addition, this game will several exciting PvP game modes so players can show off their piloting skills to their rivals, which includes a 6v6 Battlefield mode, a 3v3 Arena mode and a large scale PvEvP mode that supports up to 60 players.

Dying Light: The Beast (Summer 2025)

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Dying Light: The Beast is a standalone spin-off of the zombie-killing, action-adventure series with RPG elements, Dying Light. In this game, you play as Kyle Crane, the protagonist from the first Dying Light who has been locked away in a laboratory since the events of Dying Light: The Following.

After 13 years of being experimented on, Kyle finally manages to escape from captivity and embarks on a quest for revenge against the people who captured him. However, the experiments have taken their toll on Kyle as he has now become a violent beast that's more terrifying than the zombies that infest this post-apocalyptic world.

Mafia: The Old Country (Summer 2025)

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Mafia: The Old Country is a prequel to the long-running Mafia series, developed by Hanger 13 and published by 2K. Nothing much is currently known about this title except that it will be an action-adventure game and that it will feature a gritty storyline where players will bear witness to the origins of organized crime in 1900s Sicily.

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (Summer 2025)

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The Ninja Gaiden franchise returns to its side-scrolling roots with Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. While Ryu Hayabusa is busy honoring his father’s will in America, players assume the mantle of one of his fellow ninja clansmen called Kenji Mozu to defend their homeland, Hayabusa Village, from demonic invaders in Ryu’s absence.

This game combines the brutally challenging platformer gameplay of Ninja Gaiden’s NES-era titles with the bloody and violent combat of modern 3D Ninja Gaiden titles to create an epic adventure that pays homage to the series' legacy.

2XKO (2025)

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2XKO (formerly known as Project L) is a fighting game spin-off of the legendary MOBA game, League of Legends. The gameplay will be reminiscent of team-based fighting games like Marvel Vs. Capcom and will include famous characters from the League of Legends franchise like Ahri, Ekko, Jinx, and more as playable fighters.

33 Immortals (2025)

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33 Immortals is a co-op-focused action-roguelike where you can play with not 2, not 4...but up to 33 players at once! You play as a soul that has been sentenced to eternal damnation by God. Take up arms and ally with other players to defy fate and strike back against God and his divine army to win your freedom.

ArcheAge Chronicles (2025)

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ArcheAge Chronicles is an action-MMORPG created by XLGAMES and published by Kakao Games. In this game, you play as an intrepid explorer of a trading company looking to explore the vast world of Auroria and uncover its many secrets.

On your journey you will engage in many activities that will help establish your legend in the world of Auroria ranging hunting wild beasts, defending your trading companies trade routes from vile bandits, exploring ancient ruins filled with terrifying monsters, and much more.

ArcheAge Chronicles

ArcheAge Chronicles

Become an explorer to solve the ancient mysteries of Auroria and battle foes in action-packed real-time alongside your friends in ArcheAge Chronicles.

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Borderlands 4 (2025)

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Borderlands 4 is the fourth major in the legendary and chaotic looter-shooter franchise, Borderlands. Nothing is currently known about this title other than you will again assume the role of Vault Hunter delving deep into the heart of the alien worlds to search for ancient treasure while blasting away anything that gets in your way.

Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (2025)

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Capcom is re-releasing more of its legendary classic fighting games for modern consoles with Capcom Fighting Collection 2. Battle challenging AI opponents or your friends online multiplayer matches (complete with rollback netcode to ensure online stability) in beloved fighters like Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, Project Justice, Power Stone, and much more.

Crimson Desert (2025)

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Crimson Desert is an upcoming open-world adventure game being developed by Pearl Abyss, the creators of the popular MMORPG, Black Desert. You play as Macduff, a mercenary trying to eek out a living in the war-torn lands of Pywell. Your struggle for survival will be arduous as you be contracted to take a myriad of ferocious beasts and take part in epic wars between powerful nations.

Cronos: The New Dawn (2025)

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Cronos: The New Dawn is a third-person survival horror created and published by Blooper Team. This game is set in a post-apocalyptic future where the majority humanity has been mutated in nightmarish abominations and the world has been ravaged by a cataclysmic event called ‘The Change’.

Your goal in this game is to explore this ruined world for temporal rifts that will take you back in time to 1980s-era Poland. Once there, you must locate key individuals that perished during ‘The Change’ and extract their souls so they can be brought back to the future and be used to save what’s left of the world.

Demonschool (2025)

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Demonschool is an upcoming turn-based, strategy-RPG inspired by the Persona games. You play as a group of misfit university students led by Faye, the latest descendant in a long line of demon hunters. Together you will explore a mysterious island and fight off demons threatening to invade the human world while trying to fit in time to do your schoolwork.

DOOM: The Dark Ages (2025)

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The Doom Slayer returns to rip and tear in the newest instalment of the iconic first-person shooter franchise, DOOM. In this prequel to DOOM (2016), you will take in an epic war between kings, monsters and gods and blasting every enemy into oblivion with an arsenal of new weapons.

In addition, the Doom Slayer will take to the skies to engage in aerial dogfights riding his cyborg war dragon and pilot colossal Atlan mechs to crush titan-sized demons into dust.

Dune Awakening (2025)

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Dune Awakening is an open-world survival MMO developed and published by Funcom, based on the influential, critically acclaimed, science-fiction novel, Dune. On the desert world of Arrakis, you will fight for survival as one of its many inhabitants. Explore a dangerous planet filled with secrets, farm for valuable spice to help fund your own faction, and battle rival gangs and raiders in epic battles to determine who will control the spice trade on Arrakis.

Elden Ring: Nightreign (2025)

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Elden Ring: Nightreign is a standalone spin-off of FromSoftware’s critically acclaimed Elden Ring. Unlike Elden Ring which is mostly a traditional single-player Soulslike action-adventure game with minor multiplayer elements, Elden Ring: Nightreign is a full-blown co-op focused roguelike action game that can be played with three-player parties.

In this game, players take up the role of Nightfarers with unique abilities and are tasked with traveling through an alternate world separate from the Lands Between in order dto efeat the Night Lord. Players will be expected to face hordes of deadly new enemies and familiar bosses from previous FromSoftware games like the Nameless King from Dark Souls 3 and the Centipede Demon from Dark Souls 1.

Enemy of the State (2025)

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Enemy of the State is a top-down shooter developed by Brave Lamb Studio S.A. and published by Movie Games S.A. Set during the 1920’s, you play as rookie mobster aspiring to be at the top of the criminal underworld. Gather a crew of the toughest crooks and perform heists across the country to assert your place as the no.1 gangster.

Fable (2025)

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Microsoft finally revealed Fable after years of rumors and speculation. Fable is being built for Xbox Series X and PC and will showcase the talents of Playground Games, which has grown into a huge studio over the past few years.

FBC: Firebreak (2025)

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FBC: Firebreak is a three-player co-op FPS created and published by Remedy Entertainment of Alan Wake fame. Set within the universe of Remedy’s Control title, you play as an elite squad of secret agents called ‘Firebreak’ and your job is to clean Federal Bureau of Control’s headquarters of hostile phenomena, whether they be tears in the fabric of reality or eldritch abominations invading our world.

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