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.

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.

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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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.

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.

Double Dragon Revive (2025)

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Double Dragon Revive is an upcoming beat em' up developed by YUKE'S and published by Arc System Works. In this 3D take on the classic Double Dragon, play as the heroic Billy and Jimmy Lee as they punch and kick their way through hordes of bad guys to save the day.

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.

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.

Eternal Strands (2025)

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Eternal Strands is an upcoming third-person action-adventure game created and published by Yellow Brick Games (a team of veteran developers who originally worked at Bioware and Ubisoft). You play as Brynn, a young Weaver on a quest to retake her people's homeland from titanic monsters that have claimed for their own.

Harness the magical powers of a Weaver to manipulate the elements to help you trek across precarious environments and battle challenging foes ranging from fire-breathing dragons to gargantuan automatons.

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.

FragPunk (2025)

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FragPunk is a competitive hero shooter created by Bad Guitar Studio. Play as one of ten stylish gun-toting heroes and use their awesome abilities to blast enemies away in action-packed 5v5 matches where you can bend the rules using special power-up cards.

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