Saturday, December 21, 2024

New Xbox games — December 2 to 8

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Xbox fans have a busy time ahead of them, as 31 new Xbox games launch next week across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. For all the Game Pass subscribers out there, we’ll also be knocking off one of the titles from our list of upcoming Game Pass games next week.

In terms of more notable Xbox releases next week, we have Square Enix’s new RPG Fantasian Neo Dimension, new Game Pass title Overthrown, and Nightdive’s The Thing: Remastered, all launching for Xbox consoles on December 5. A day later, December 6 brings Marvel Rivals, Path of Exile 2, and Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice.

While it’s not listed here, those who have purchased the Premium or Collector’s Edition of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle can play early on December 6 with three days of early access. If you’re a big Indy fan, here’s how you can prepare for the adventure ahead.

December 2

Get To Work — Xbox Series X|S

This story is a metaphor for climbing the corporate ladder. 

Get To Work is a punishing yet satisfying experience about a young man on a mission to conquer the corporate world… on rollerblades. Maneuver a slippery character with rollerblades on both his arms and feet that only knows how to move fast.

With your narrator, Connor ‘CDawgVA’ Colquhoun, to encourage you on your climb to the top, navigate through massive gaps, ramps, jumps, and other devious obstacles trying to bring you down. 

And you may be thinking that the rollerblades are a little goofy, but at least we have….

– Comedy at its… saddest? A fully narrated, satirical story about trying to survive in today’s economy.
– Shmooovement: A challenging, but deeply satisfying movement system that rewards you for going fast.
– Podcast Pickups: Grab Collectable audio clips from “The Grindset”, a self help podcast voiced by all of your favorite streamers – Atrioc, Ludwig, DougDoug, PointCrow, Squeex and more!
– Speedrun Support: A built in speedrun timer so you don’t have to manually track your splits.
– A “Give Up” Button: Unlike your real 9-5 job, you get a “give up” button that you can press at any time!

Just remember that everyone struggles to climb the corporate ladder, so try not to get too discouraged.

Good luck!

December 3

Cricket: Jae’s Really Peculiar Game — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Cricket: Jae’s Really Peculiar Game is a hand-animated JRPG adventure that draws from genre classics. Join Jae as he goes on a journey with his best friends to try and fix the past in a story full of laughs, tears, and Elemelons. Engage in silly battles that involve timed hits, meter, and teamwork.

December 4

The Thaumaturge — Xbox Series X|S, Windows

The Thaumaturge is an isometric, story-rich RPG with a unique take on turn-based combat, character development features, and investigation mechanics, facing you with morally ambiguous choices – set in a world teeming with mysterious powers and strange ethereal beings called salutors.

Godsvivors — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

Prepare to descend into the depths of the Underworld in Godsvivors! As a powerful god of Olympus, your mission is to challenge the ruler of the Underworld, Hades, and restore the balance of power. Battle through waves of demonic foes in this roguelite bullet-hell adventure, where every second counts. Survive 15 intense minutes to reach the final confrontation with Hades himself!

Arm yourself with weapons and unleash your special attacks to improve your odds. Level up and choose from powerful upgrades to personalize your strategy. Each upgrade choice can make the difference between survival and defeat in this ever-evolving challenge.

Godsvivors offers an action-packed journey through hell, blending fast-paced combat with a satisfying bullet-storm experience. Will you conquer the Underworld and emerge victorious?

Super Astro Cat — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Super Astro Cat is a 2D-pixel art shoot ‘n run with a jetpack mechanic. Activate the jetpack to control your movement in the air and use that to avoid obstacles and shoot asteroids and aliens with your mighty laser gun. Clear a path, explore all regions of each planet, and then decide which planet you want the cats to live on. Complete all tasks, discover all the advantages and disadvantages of each planet, and conquer all the areas. Choose wisely, as all their nine lives are in your hands!

Boundland — Xbox Series X|S

Boundland

Boundland is a fun physics-based platform game where you navigate your multi-shaped character through lots of dark levels and scary boss fights.

Magical Backpack — Xbox Series X|S

Magical Backpack

Lara found a magical backpack that gives her the power to fly through the skies and collect Light stars scattered across an enchanted kingdom. Embark on this journey filled with exciting challenges, helping Lara overcome obstacles, capture each star, and advance through the levels. Get ready for a thrilling adventure, where each flight reveals new surprises and every star captured brings Lara one step closer to completing her mission!

December 5

Detective: The Motel — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Detective: The Motel is a deduction game where, to advance, you must take a pencil and a piece of paper and write down everything that seems like evidence in order to answer all the questions that arise. Solving the case will depend only on you.

Fantasian Neo Dimension — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Embark on an adventure to discover your memories and save the world from a mechanical infection. Maneuver your skill trajectories during battle, and dive into a new dimension with a unique twist on a classic RPG experience.

Highway Police Simulator — Xbox Series X|S

Introducing Highway Police Simulator: Dive into the action of American patrolling duty!

Put on your uniform and step into the shoes of an American police officer with Highway Police Simulator! This game brings the heart-pounding action of the American Highway Patrol right to your fingertips. Immerse yourself in the unique challenges and serious police duties that officers face on a daily basis and truly feel what it’s like to patrol the highways while maintaining law and order.

A compelling police story awaits you, with the option to play as either a male or a female officer. With both a casual and a simulation gameplay modes, Highway Police Simulator combines the best of both worlds: the freedom to drive and walk in an immersive virtual environment, and a diverse variety of exciting cases to solve in story-driven gameplay. Explore a diverse open world and tackle any situation that comes your way with an array of vehicles including cars, helicopters, and more.

Welcome to Caminora, where new missions await you! Get ready to experience the thrill of the chase, the satisfaction of solving crimes, and the adrenaline rush of patrolling the highways. What kind of cop will you be? Will you uphold the law with integrity, or will you bend the rules to get the job done? Your decisions will have a real impact on the story and the environment. Highway Police Simulator is where your story begins!

Little Big Adventure: Twinsen’s Quest — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Step into Twinsun’s fantastical world in this action-adventure remake!
Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest brings brand new visuals, new music by the original composer, and smoother gameplay to the iconic classic, released back in 1994.

Love Too Easily — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

A memory of a sweet kiss from last night. A lost cell phone. Three suspects. Become the main character’s helper, make story choices, collect hints, and clear mini-games. A full-scale mystery romantic comedy interactive movie.

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

You’re shipwrecked on a lost mythical island. As backpacker Alex, you must befriend the forgotten gods of Greek mythology and restore their memories. Explore the dynamic island and its story sandbox to build new friendships, solve the mystery and save the gods.

Overthrown — Xbox Series X|S

This game is a work in progress. It may or may not change over time or release as a final product. Purchase only if you are comfortable with the current state of the unfinished game.

Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources.

Railroads Online — Xbox Series X|S

Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox! 

Symphonia — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Awaken an expansive musical realm in this non-violent and poetic platformer. In Symphonia, you’ll use the power of your violin coupled with your platforming skills to gather an orchestra to bring the musical machinery of the world back to life.

The Thing: Remastered — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

The Thing: Remastered is a faithful restoration of the cult-classic 2002 third-person survival horror shooter game inspired by Universal Pictures’ genre-defining 1982 film, The Thing.

UFL — Xbox Series X|S

UFL is a free-to-play football video game that features real footballers with a rich metagame. UFL offers tons of unique content like various club kits, boots, gloves, balls, and stadiums. In UFL, you create your club from the ground up, assembling a team of real-world footballers customized to your liking. Compete with players worldwide, climb the ranks, and win championships!

Key features:
● Skill-based gameplay: Hone your skills in online matches, defeat your opponents.
● Realistic Club Management: Create your dream team choosing from thousands of real-life football stars.
● Complex Strategy: Develop your club season after season, keep your progress, and climb up the league ladder!
● Custom Skin Cards: Buy and sell unique player skin cards to build your collection!

The UFL Foundation pack includes numerous advantages:
● 7-day early access
● Exclusive customisation items: Lovorika shirt, Zlato boots, and Lavalampe Gloves
● Stadium “Estádio do Redentor”
● СP 20.000.000 in-game currency

Get ready to the max!

Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop — Xbox Series X|S

Where most of his customers find meaning in pastimes like worshipping deranged space gods, feeding random crap to a sentient black hole, endlessly digging for The Treasure™ or mentally enslaving donut shop workers, Wilbur lives a more humble life, fixing the galaxy’s ills one broken ship module at a time.

FIX STUFF: Using a range of tools, diagnostic devices, parts and workshop appliances, you’ll be correcting faults in the modules of procedurally generated spaceships. From simple refuel jobs to total overhauls, get ready to frantically fumble, slice, loosen, tighten, grab and drop as you try to complete as many jobs as you can within each daily time limit. With a huge variety of ships and modules, your hands are gonna get real dirty real fast, in some real unusual places.

READ STUFF: Flaunt your basic literacy by consulting manual pages for guidance on diagnosing and correcting faults in spaceship modules, as well as operating workshop appliances. And if basic literacy isn’t your bag, then at least you’ve got pretty diagrams to gawp at! All your IKEA furniture-assembly training has led to this moment.

UPGRADE STUFF: Using whatever hard-earned pennies Uncle Chop doesn’t take from you, expand your workshop and kit it out with a range of workstations. From industrial devices to esoteric altars, these workstations will allow you to fix bigger and more lucrative ships.

TALK ABOUT STUFF: Interact with a diverse range of oddballs as you engage with both anthology-style storytelling and a multiple-ending, overarching narrative. The lore is (*consults notes*) ‘deep and rich and good’, with different factions you can choose to ingratiate yourself with – each with their own inane agendas.

DISCOVER STUFF: Narrative and random events, hidden puzzles and upgrades, secret lore – we got all that goodness that ensures each day and gameplay run will feel substantially different from the last.

DO ALL THAT STUFF AGAIN, BUT BETTER: Meeting those escalating R.E.N.T payments ain’t gonna be easy, but chin up, champ – certain station upgrades will persist across gameplay runs, making life a little more tolerable every time around. You’ll also get faster and smarter the more you do the thing, so keep doing the thing!

December 6

Beat the Machine Rebooted — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

In this top down twin-stick shooter, help Sector VIII defend themselves from T.O.M. Play as Damon, the cocky cadet, willing to aid Pete, Logan and Syncopia in saving their home from total destruction. Choose from a variety of 70+ Radical Skills to defeat the incoming viral attacks across 20+ levels.

Endless Deaths — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Endless Deaths

Endless Deaths is a thrilling top-down twin-stick shooter rogue-like where players battle through procedurally generated zombie-infested levels, continuously leveling up and upgrading their gear to survive. With unique characters, special abilities, and a diverse arsenal of weapons, each playthrough offers fresh and exhilarating challenges.

JanKenUP! — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Welcome to JanKenUP!, an exciting combat game that breaks with traditional schemes. Instead of the typical punches and combos, strategy boils down to three buttons: rock, paper, and scissors. Get ready for a cerebral challenge where your quick thinking and mental agility are key!

Hop on the elevator of fun and prepare to act swiftly! Face all kinds of rivals and prove that you can outshine everyone in the arena. Become the undisputed champion!

Don’t wait any longer; the battle is about to begin in JanKenUP!

Kitten Island — Xbox Series X|S

Kitten Island

Kitten Island is an exciting and adorable platformer game where players control a cute kitten as they journey through various levels in three distinct worlds.

Lord of the Click 4 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

In “Lord of the Click 4” you will find incredible new challenges, amazing graphics and improved mechanics. As a great monarch, you will fight many new and dangerous enemies using your clicker skills. Every click on your screen summons powerful warriors, deals crushing blows to enemies and directs the magic of nature into battle. But be careful — each level will bring even more powerful and treacherous bosses, who will have to be defeated to advance further.

Marvel Rivals — Xbox Series X|S

Marvel Rivals is a Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter!
Assemble an all-star Marvel squad, devise countless strategies by combining powers to form unique Team-Up skills and fight in destructible, ever-changing battlefields across the continually evolving Marvel universe!

MasterChef: Learn to Cook! — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

MasterChef: Learn to Cook!

Choose your ingredients, slice, prepare, plate and serve delicious dishes with style in fun mini-games!

The MasterChef judges will evaluate your dish based on your performance and speed. Complete and unlock new recipes, challenges, and mini-games along your cooking journey!

LEARN TO COOK WITH MORE THAN 120 RECIPES!
Make signature recipes from all over the world. Find your favorite dish and make it your speciality. From a Margherita Pizza to Sushi, what do you want to cook today?

CHALLENGE MINI-GAMES
Play dozens of mini-games with a twist! Challenges will take you to cook recipes with extra added difficulty. Will you be able to complete all of them?

COOK WITH STYLE
Create an avatar and customize its features as you want! Become the coolest chef and stand out by changing your outfit from a wide range of clothes, accessories, and aprons!

UPGRADE YOUR COOKING GEAR
By completing mini-games, events and challenges, you will be able to collect different cooking gear such as pots, utensils, plates amongst others, and upgrade them! Cooking utensils are a chef’s best friend!

It is time to prove that you are a top chef!

Path of Exile 2 — Xbox Series X|S

Path of Exile 2 is a next generation free-to-play Action RPG created by Grinding Gear Games. Journey across the deadly continent of Wraeclast, meeting multiple immersive cultures while facing off against evil in many forms. Path of Exile 2 features twelve character classes, 240 Skill Gems, hundreds of equipment base types, a six-act campaign, more than a hundred unique boss fights, a deep endgame system and so much more.

The Path of Exile 2 Early Access Supporter Pack contains Early Access to Path of Exile 2 and 300 Points.

Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice — Xbox Series X|S

Aiko’s Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.

Taboo Trial — Xbox Series X|S

3D Rogue-like action game. You are a Valkyrie, choosing blessings from the Nordic gods to build your unique combat style. Go to complete the Taboo Trial guided by Loki.

Unlock different Valkyries in Valhalla, each playable with distinct styles.

Take up the weapons of the gods to challenge the “giants”, each weapon having a distinct combat style.

Select “Blessings of the Gods”. Blessing of the Gods not only has different combat strategies, but also activates different combat skills. Your choices will create your own unique combat style.

Multi-difficulty levels, each difficulty has a different mechanism, challenging different “giants”.

Westild’s Law — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Westild’s Law offers dynamic shootouts where you must cleverly use every element of your arsenal to achieve victory. Throw dynamite to clear your path or send enemies flying, you can throw your weapon at your enemies to stun them when ammo runs low and then take their weapons. Also when the situation gets critical, activate “ultra-sense”, slow-down time and enhance your abilities to showcase the true power of the hero.

Embark on adventures through 48 levels, each offering unique challenges. Prepare for epic battles where every step and every shot writes history in Westild’s Law. Become a Wild West legend, restore peace and order in your town.

Are you ready to take on the challenge?

Features:
* Exciting Missions: Dynamic shootouts, horse races, rescuing trains and hostages, defending dynamite wagons, and boss fights!
* Character Development: Upgrade your heroes using trophies and money earned in battles to buy new skills and weapons.
* Weapons: From simple revolvers to powerful rifles and machine guns – choose the weapons that suit your playstyle, and when ammo runs out, use your weapon as a projectile to stun enemies.
* Musical Accompaniment: Enjoy music that creates a unique Wild West atmosphere.

Dog Man: Mission Impawsible — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Dog Man: Mission Impawsible brings the beloved book series to life! Dive into this action-packed, humor-filled adventure. The key to the city has fallen into the hands of a supa bad guy, unlocking all the prison doors and releasing many evildoers. Help Dog Man and his friends chase down the supa bad guys in their most impawsible mission yet! Switch between Dog Man and his Supa Buddies, each with their own special abilities and gadgets such as Rockets Boots, Retractable Claws and Dirt Proof Pants. Together you can overcome challenging obstacles and defeat powerful bosses.

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