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

Grand Theft Auto 6 (2025)

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After a decade since the original release of GTA 5 in 2013, the sixth major entry of Rockstar's legendary Grand Theft Auto has finally been unveiled. GTA 6 will feature the return of the iconic Vice City setting, the first playable female protagonist since the Game Boy Color version of GTA 2, the biggest open-world sandbox to date, and graphics that will push the Xbox Series X|S to their limits.

Grit and Valor - 1949 (2025)

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Grit and Valor - 1949 is an upcoming roguelite, real-time tactics game developed by Milky Tea Studios and published by Megabit Publishing. In this alternate Dieselpunk universe of World War 2, take control of a squadron of powerful mechs and charge into the heart of New Germany to bring down the evil Axis forces once and for all.

Lunar Remastered Collection (2025)

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Lunar Remastered Collection is a compilation featuring two cult-classic JRPGs from the 1990s, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete, both remastered for modern consoles with upscaled graphics, new English voicework, quality-of-life improvements, and more.

Lunar: Silver Star Story follows the adventures of a young boy named Alex who embarks on a journey to experience the life of an adventurer just like the legendary Dragonmaster Dyne. Along the way, he will meet reliable companions and be pulled into a conflict with the evil Magic Emperor who aims to conquer the world.

Lunar 2: Eternal Blue meanwhile is set a thousand years after the first game and focuses on another young man named Hiro. While exploring the ruins of an ancient tower, Hiro encounters a mysterious woman hailing from another world called the Blue Star. She wishes to return home and be taken her world’s ruler, the Goddess Althena in order to fulfil a grand purpose. Not wanting to leave a person in need, Hiro agrees to help Lucia and together they embark on a grand adventure to the Blue Star.

Hell is Us (2025)

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Hell is Us is an action-adventure game developed by Rogue Factor and published by Nacon. This game is set in a country in the midst of a civil war and a supernatural calamity that has spawn horrifying monsters impervious to conventional weaponry.

Your goal in this game is to explore land for answers as to what created these abominations and find weapons to help you survive in this cruel, unforgiving world.

Hell is Us

Hell is Us

In a land ravaged by civil war and unnatural horrors, step up to master weapons made of light and explore the land to save from a dark calamity in Hell is Us.

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Little Nightmares 3 (2025)

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The cult horror series, Little Nightmares, returns with a third instalment. In this game, you follow the adventures of a pair of kids, Low & Alone, searching for a way to escape a horrible realm called the Nowhere. You can fae the horrors of this dangerous world solo or for the first time ever, use an online co-op feature to play with a friend and face your nightmares together.

Lost Hellden (2025)

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Lost Hellden is an upcoming JRPG developed and published by Artisan Studios. You play as Cyphel, a young Arkhon warrior who is on a mission alongside his teachers to find his twin brother Leht who ran away from home.

Journey across the land of Era to find Leht, meet a host of memorable party members, and do battle with gigantic demons with an advanced real-time combat system.

Mixtape (2025)

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Mixtape is an upcoming narrative adventure game developed by Beethoven & Dinosaur and published by Annapurna Interactive. Follow the emotional tale of three friends embarking a grand adventure to celebrate their last night of high school together.

Along the journey, you will play cassette tapes that will play pivotal moments of their lives and get sucked into an emotionally dramatic story filled with nostalgia, growth, music, and bittersweet memories.

Mouse: P.I. For Hire (2025)

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Mouse: P.I. For Hire is an upcoming FPS developed and published by Fumi Games. Play as the grizzled detective John Mouston and shoot your way through a 1930s rubber hose-style cartoon world to take down gangs of crooks and crime lords.

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap (2025)

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Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap is the latest entry in Orcs Must Die!, a series of action tower defense games where you must defend your castle from being swarmed by hordes of Orcs. This upcoming title will include all kinds of new features for the series including 4-player co-op, Roguelike character building, larger levels, improved melee and gunplay combat, and more.

Okami 2 (TBA)

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After nearly two decades, Capcom’s iconic action-adventure game, Okami, will finally be getting a sequel in the far distant future. In the original Okami, you play Amaterasu, a Sun Goddess in the form of a wolf that journeyed across Nippon to save from the wrath of the evil demon, Orochi.

Aside from Amaterau returning, little is known about this game other than most of the original developers who made the first game are coming back for the sequel. This includes Okami’s director Hideki Kamiya who is most famous for directing titles like Devil May Cry 1, Resident Evil 2 (the original PlayStation One version), Bayonetta, Viewtiful Joe and much more.

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Alexander Cope
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