New Xbox Games — October 21 to 27

Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…

Sunnyside High has a dark history. When Vivian enters the deserted corridors for a seance with the rebellious Amy, she suddenly ends up alone, and at the mercy of the monster who wanders the halls. Vivian must avoid its gaze, find her friend, and uncover the disturbing, murderous truth of a decades old tragedy. Fear the Spotlight is a creepy love letter to classic 90s horror experiences with a focus of rich storytelling, puzzle solving, and a tense atmosphere. This is a perfect narrative horror game for those new to the genre.

Experience the magic of capitalism in Potionomics: Masterwork Edition, the fortified version of the enchanting game that alchemizes potion-crafting, business, deck-building, and romance.

After the untimely death of her uncle, a penniless witch named Sylvia finds herself the inheritor of a potion shop—and massive debt. Although Sylvia is barely a novice, it’s up to her to build up the business and save herself. Thankfully, she won’t have to go it alone. With help from some new friends, Sylvia will hone her negotiation skills, outsell her craftiest competitors, and make her shop THE number-one potion destination in Rafta. It’s all about mastering the finer points of Potionomics!

Bard’s Gold is a challenging platformer that lets you explore eerie worlds in a quest for a Goblin that stole your gold. Help the Bard to overcome the dungeon’s many dangerous perils and use your new-found treasures to improve your character and to buy new weapons and gear!

Rogue-lite – Different layouts for each level is randomly chosen every playthrough. While getting the chance to memorize levels and get better at them, the ‘random level’ system will keep your interest. With the gems you collect you will be able to upgrade your character on the Game Over screen.

The spooky Halloween season is upon us, so our ever-travelling cat troupe decided to make an appearance in a particularly Spooky Town….
Come a bit closer… And don’t be scared of monsters! The ones found in Spooky Town are quite friendly, and besides, you’d be here looking for cats, not monsters… mostly.

Find cats, colour in the scenery, and don’t get spooked!

Features:
– Nearly a thousand cats and other things to find
– Two main modes, six bonus levels, and a massive after party to attend!
– Special cat cards to collect
– Tons of meows :3

Say Cheese! is a delightful puzzle adventure where strategic thinking meets fun challenges. Help our mischievous mouse reach the cheese while navigating tricky mazes and collecting trophies!

Welcome to the whimsical world of Say Cheese!
In a land filled with traps, blocks, and obstacles, only the sharpest minds will guide our hungry hero to the ultimate prize – a mouthwatering piece of cheese!
Join the adventure across 40 handcrafted levels, packed with surprises, trophies, and puzzles that will test your wits and patience. Can you help the mouse overcome each challenge?

Featuring:

40 handcrafted levels with increasing difficulty.
A variety of obstacles to solve and overcome.
Collectible trophies scattered throughout the mazes.
Charming Sokoban-style mechanics that are easy to learn but hard to master.
Hop, push, and think fast in this cheese-filled quest!

Defend humanity against the destroyer of worlds in retro shoot’em up style!

Super XYX is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up presented in eye-scorchingly fluid pixel art animation. Choose from 6 unique pilots and their signature ships, each with unique shots and bombs, and blast off to face The Black Serpent’s forces head-on! Master 6 stages with screen-filling bosses, customize the experience with various difficulty settings and unlock alternate game modes as you progress!

Discover how people across the country think! The Jackbox Survey Scramble is a collection of hilarious survey-based games, using real one-word answers from real people. Really!

Welcome to a new era of party games!
Jackbox has made an all-new party experience! Taking real surveys from real people around the globe, The Jackbox Survey Scramble is constantly changing based on answers submitted from players, including you! Invite your friends, family, coworkers, and enemies to see how they think when it comes to questions like, “In one word, what’s the cutest nickname for butts?” or “In one word, what’s the best sandwich topping?”

Play with your phone or tablet – no special controller required. All game modes support 2 to 10 players and 10,000 audience members.

All Jackbox Survey Scramble games can be played in English, French, Italian, German, Castilian or Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. And we’ll be making sure we have localized answers for the UK and Australia, as well. Crikey!

‘While We Wait Here’ is a kitchen management game with dialogue choices and multiple endings.

Run a small diner located near a mountain range, take orders from your customers, cook them good food and serve them refreshments.

The equilibrium of an ordinary working day is shattered when news of an impending catastrophe is broadcasted.

Now looming over the characters in this game, is the catastrophic threat of the end of the world. At the diner, some of your customers seem to ignore it, blinded by their own problems they play the whole thing down or even refuse to believe it.

Others welcome it as punishment for what they have done in their life.

As you wait inside the diner, listen to their stories and offer them food for thought.

Will you convince your customers to run for shelter, or will they stay at the diner, waiting for the end?

Card-en-Ciel is a roguelite card-battling RPG featuring over 300 different cards and 50 unique vocal songs!

Play as Neon, the “Gaming Chair Detective” famous for solving net-crimes, as he encounters a strange new case when he dives into an in-development game world.

Story
In the world of the “full-dive” VR game Rust Tactics, characters from other video games have started to appear, complete with wills of their own.
When a member of the dev team, Ancie, reaches out for help, “Gaming Chair Detective” Neon springs into action to solve the mystery in the digital world.
Venture through the games turned into dungeons, encounter heroes and heroines, make friends and save the gaming world!

“Time for a prismatic show!”

Delve into roguelite virtual dungeons!
Card-en-Ciel features over 10 different dungeons, with each one featuring a different game world! You’ll meet and collect different characters in each one while seeing the story unfold.

Each dungeon is its own roguelite experience, so you’ll start with a basic deck and collect cards to build combos and synergies unique to that dungeon. The rules will even change if you choose a higher difficulty, keeping every dungeon dive fresh!

Each card is its own character!
Card-en-Ciel includes over 300 different cards featuring characters from in-universe video games, each with their own personality.

Every card is fully voiced, from when you first earn it to when you use their special abilities in battle. They’ll even react when you’re doing well or in trouble, and talk to their friends and enemies while idle! The characters on your cards come alive thanks to the “Link Etude System” in Card-en-Ciel.

In addition to in-universe game characters, INTI CREATES game characters are also featured on cards!

Powerful Muses offer their support with 50 unique songs!
Special cards featuring “Muse” characters will begin singing in battle when you meet their requirements, providing powerful effects on top of your normal card abilities.

Enjoy the full-fledged story!
After clearing a dungeon, you’ll gain access to 10 additional difficulty settings. These hard modes not only power up enemies, but add new rules that you might even be able to use to your advantage to take on the tougher foes.

In addition to the story mode, you can battle other players in real-time PVP, or challenge a daily dungeon to rank on the online leaderboards!

Puppet House is a horror survival game. Take on the role of Rick Evans, a photographer with a passion for abandoned and haunted places. Visit the mansion of the deceased Peter Hill and check if you can unravel the place’s dark history.

Mystery Story
The press continued to receive reports of disturbing screams coming from the property owned by the late ventriloquist Peter Hill. However, attempts to investigate these incidents have been unsuccessful. What is really going on in this long abandoned house?

Dangerous Investigation
Solve puzzles hidden in the house of Peter Hill to get to the truth. Take on challenges that require you not only to be clever, but also to think logically. Your mind will be put to the test, and any wrong decision can have tragic consequences.

Forgotten Mansion
Walk through dark corridors where shadows of the past and the present intertwine. Remember to look around carefully, forgotten mementos hide the keys to the unknown history of Peter Hill’s house. Search the abandoned grounds of a property and find answers.

You’re on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess.

You’re here to slay her. If you don’t, it will be the end of the world.

Gargamel has devised a new evil scheme to catch the Smurfs! He casted a cunning curse on the sarsaparilla bushes, causing a deep slumber across the Smurfs after they eat the delicious leaves.

Embark on a dreamlike quest to awaken all the Smurfs before the evil Gargamel reaches the village! Experience a thrilling yet unpredictable journey: in the dreamworld, anything is possible and excitement can quickly turn into a nightmare…

Alone or with a friend, discover enchanting locations and explore the dreams of your favorite Smurfs. Each dream is a unique adventure, with smurfingly exciting challenges and mind-boggling puzzles. Imagination comes to life in this fully immersive and magical 3D platformer.

– Solo or with a friend?
Prevent Gargamel’s evil plans from succeeding, alone or with a friend for a smurfabulous 2-player experience

– Dive headfirst into other Smurfs’ dreams
Visit unique and vibrant worlds as you hop from dream to dream, and discover all of the Smurf Village’s secrets

– Embark on the Smurfs’ imagination
Each dream hides a nightmare – help the Smurfs overcoming their fears through puzzles, boss fights and many other surprises

– Jump, hop and dash
Use your movements and tools to overcome the many challenges dreamt by the Smurfs

– A Smurf like you
Collect magic orbs and patterns to customize your Smurf

Get ready for the ultimate showdown in Boom Robots! Dive into the action as you assemble and customize your dream team of robots, each packed with unique abilities and ready to dominate the battlefield.

Strategize and outmaneuver your friends as you navigate tricky terrain, unleash devastating special attacks, and coordinate your team’s moves to crush the competition. Every match is a thrilling spectacle of explosions and laser blasts, demanding sharp reflexes and clever tactics to claim victory.

After each electrifying battle, analyze your performance, tweak your strategy, and gear up for the next intense face-off. Boom Robots is the perfect blend of strategy, action, and excitement, delivering non-stop entertainment for gamers of all ages. Are you ready to lead your robots to glory?

Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterised by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.

The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.

In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.

Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favourite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.

You are a butler, a loyal servant bound by vampire blood.

Unfortunately, after long years asleep in a coffin, your vampire mistress shrank to child-size form! In this condition, she’s too weak to protect you.

Train the Little Mistress in skills so she can bite her way through obstacles
She might hunt criminals for their blood, become a celebrity and feed on her fans, raise a dark army to threaten the world, or many other possible outcomes!

Can you help her to rebuild her strength before your time runs out?
Will you make her a benevolent leader or a monster?

Your choices will shape the vampire’s personality and determine the future that you share.

Features:
* Visual novel
* Stat-raising gameplay. Balance the vampire’s schedule to train skills and earn gold.
* Multiple jobs, activities, and skills to increase
* Hunt targets to feed on in RPG minigame
* Over twenty different endings

Rogue Flight is a breathtaking arcade space combat game inspired by the landmark style of 80’s and 90’s prestige anime. Jump into true stylish arcade action with a huge host of spacecraft upgrades, game modes and multiple narrative paths.

It’s been 3 years since the world burned. It was ARGUS; the interstellar watchman system given control of the Solar Defense Force.

In a secret facility deep beneath the surface of the Earth, the last vestiges of humanity prepare to launch a daring counterattack.

Take control of an advanced light space fighter and face hordes of enemies in a last-ditch effort to destroy ARGUS and restore peace to the Sol system.

>> Featuring a retro 80’s-90’s analogue-video art style inspired by the golden age of prestige anime.
>> Stylish high-speed arcade action set across 9 unique stages spanning the Sol system.
>> Utilize incredible aerial acrobatic manoeuvres coupled with a dizzying array of weapon types.
>> Experience a branching narrative path with multiple endings.
>> Choose from standard arcade and unlockable roguelite game modes which offer greater risks and even greater rewards.
>> Personalize your aircraft from over 100 unlockable liveries, as well as 24 badges with multiple color and style combinations.
>> Customize your loadout from over 40 unlockable aero designs and 40 unlockable weapons from multiple classes with upgradable attributes.
>> Featuring an original soundtrack featuring renowned video game sound design duo Fat Bard, additional music by Rinn, and an original opening theme with stunning vocals by J-Pop artist Itoki Hana.
>> Unlockable extras, accolades and more.
>> Multiple difficulty levels for every player skill.

Pre-order SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS and receive a legacy skin for Sonic, based on his look from Sonic Adventure!

Shadow the Hedgehog is back with Classic and Modern Sonic in SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS, an all-new collection featuring two unique experiences!

Play as Shadow in a brand-new story campaign featuring never-before-seen abilities that prove why he’s known as the Ultimate Life Form! Speed through iconic stages from Shadow’s history, discover hidden secrets in an expansive hub world, and unlock new powers to take on Black Doom and save the world.

SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS also includes a complete remaster of the highly acclaimed SONIC GENERATIONS, a time-traveling adventure featuring a greatest-hits collection of 3D and 2D Sonic stages, now with upgraded visuals and new bonus content.