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What are the most important moments in your life? Lost At Sea is a game about life and death, about coming to terms with your past and about family. Set on a beautiful island, this game will force you to look past your fears and take stock of your life through imaginative puzzles and a relatable story. Lost At Sea tells the story of Anna, who, in the autumn of her life, has come to be alone. To live her new future, she will first have to take stock of her past. Construct her memories through objects and puzzles on a strange island, and face the question we all face eventually, “Did I do it right?” In Lost At Sea , we experience moments in the life of Anna, moments that we all recognize, moments that make us all wonder how life suddenly took a hold of us, instead of the other way around. This is a perspective we don’t see often in games; a woman, a mother, who is in the second half of her life, but still very much a part of the community and actively involved in planning her future...

Are you ready to face your fears? The Zone will open for stalkers in Chernobylite on September 7. Take your best gear—humans aren’t the only threat lurking in the dark here… Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG from developers The Farm 51. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past. Igor Khymynyuk, a former physicist of the Chernobyl power plant, has returned to what is now the Exclusion Zone to find his fiancée who disappeared 30 years ago on the fateful day of the nuclear disaster. She haunts him in his dreams and as long as there’s even the slimmest hope that she’s alive, Igor must face the horrors of the Zone himself. The very ones that might have already consumed Tatyana. Will you discover the dark secrets of Chernobyl? Will you be able to face the truth you’ll find there? Tatyana Amelieva, Igor’s missing fiancée, called Igor to Cherno...

It’s a big weekend in Super Animal World! Earn Double XP to make extra speedy progress through your Season 0.5 Animal Pass and play the limited-time S.A.W. vs Rebellion 32v32 mode for the first time on Xbox. Both are live now and will be live until this Sunday (August 1st) at 11:59pm PDT. In case double XP wasn’t already enough help for completing your Animal Pass, the new Animal Pass Archive system, arriving in our next update, will allow you to continue making progress on past seasons that you own. No more FOMO necessary! Just visit “The Archive” once the new update arrives and you’ll be able to activate any previous season passes you own to complete them at your own pace. You can always purchase the current Animal Pass season for 550 S.A.W. Tickets, and previous seasons will be available for 750 S.A.W. Tickets once they move into the archive. S.A.W. vs Rebellion (32v32) limited-time mode This weekend, stage a rebellion as a member of the Super Animal Super Resistance (S.A.S....

Hear ye, hear ye! The tactical turn-based fantasy game Fort Triumph will conquer Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Ring out the news to every valley and village: the game will arrive on August 13 but you can pre-order it now! While uplifting and vibrant, with ever-changing procedural maps, the game offers a great challenge too. If you have the permadeath setting on, you’ll have to avoid death or lose your heroes forever. The combat is turn-based and relies on physics. Each character has a limited amount of Action Points, so you’ll need to use the environment cleverly to win—sometimes it’s better to kick a nearby tree on an enemy’s head than use up all your AP to approach them and not have enough left over to attack. Will you take up the quest? Besides all of the juicy action, there’s an intriguing plot as well. Very sinister stuff, too. The world is in peril. Goblins are attacking humans, evil stirs in the dark and the land’s heroes are broke. Luckily, a local noble, Lady Aureline, is ...

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! Here we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC as well as upcoming Xbox Game Pass and soon-to-be released ID@Xbox games! Get more details on the games below and click their profiles for pre-order details when available (release dates are subject to change). Let’s jump in! Deadly Days – August 3 A unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use many wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons. Castle of Pixel Skulls DX – August 4 – Optimized for Xbox Series X|S  ●  Smart Delivery Castle Of Pixel Skulls is a fun retro-styled platformer filled with fun and crazy hurdles. Play challenging levels in a race against time to escape. Will you have what it takes to survive? Enter Digiton: Heart of Corruption – August 4 Free a subterranean king...

You belong to The Ascent Group, but do you think you can survive without it? A solo and co-op action-shooter RPG set in a sci-fi cyberpunk world, The Ascent is the first title from Swedish indie studio Neon Giant. Players can now explore the brave new world of Veles in this dystopian RPG shooter, which is available now on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and with Xbox Game Pass for Console and PC. As for the story, The Ascent sees players trying to learn more about The Ascent Group, a self-contained corporate-run metropolis that stretches high into the sky and is filled with creatures from all over the galaxy. Taking on the role of an indentured worker, the world starts to go haywire when The Ascent Group shuts down for unknown reasons. The city quickly becomes a dystopian and Darwinian hellscape, with rival corporations and crime syndicates looking to fill the empty space and players having to take up arms to hold them off. As with many RPGs, The Ascent finds you starting off at the bot...

Hello again, adventurers! After 5 years of sitting in my office all alone, hammering away at my keyboard, it feels very surreal to finally be able to say that my very first game, Omno , is out now on Xbox One and Xbox Series XIS and with Xbox Game Pass for Console and PC. For those of you who have never seen it before, Omno is a single player adventure game where you play as a pilgrim making your way through an ancient world of wonders on a quest to find a mythical gate of light. It’s a game of exploration and traversal, where you’ll have to use platforming and puzzle solving skills to make your way through each world. You’ll acquire new abilities as you progress, each one a celebration of the joy of movement – whether that means dashing over sheer drops, surfing over sand dunes or gliding through the clouds. Omno is also designed to be a calm, gentle experience: there’s no combat, and instead you’ll find yourself interacting with all of the strange and fantastical creatures you ...

We are a Dutch indie studio based in Utrecht and were founded in the Netherlands in 2007. Since 2018, we have been working with Devolver Digital to bring players our game Blightbound , a multiplayer cooperative 2.5D dungeon crawler that is available now on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Blightbound can be played a couple different ways: via couch co-op, with AI teammates, with other players online, or any combination of the above. If you like what you’re hearing, stick around for more details on the general gameplay and metagame of Blightbound . The world is covered in Blight and littered with mutated wretches, monsters, and other abominations. You play as the heroes of the Refuge, a mountaintop sanctuary untouched by the Blight. Choose one of 3 classes to play as: a tanky Warrior, a deadly Assassin, or a wise Mage. Venture down into the Blight with your party of 3 heroes, where you need to synergize and combine your skills and abilities with your teammates to defeat atrocious boss mo...

Samurai Warriors 5 smashes its way onto Xbox One consoles today (playable on Xbox Series X|S via Backward Compatibility). But since the series hasn’t been seen on any Xbox system since Samurai Warriors 2 back in 2006, we wanted to provide beginners a quick guide for dominating the world of Musou gaming. Here are 10 tips to get you started… Let’s Get Down to Basics The most basic way of dealing with hundreds of oncoming enemies is to strike them all at once in a giant sweeping motion. When you begin playing the game and encounter a horde running your direction, hit the attack button at least three times before unleashing the bigger charge attack (referred to as a Power Attack in-game). This normal-normal-normal-charge combo serves to strike many enemies at once, helping clear a path to the next group of soldiers. It Takes Two Nobunaga and Mitsuhide are the two main characters featured in Samurai Warriors 5 , and therefore should be everyone’s first priority when it comes to traini...

In 2016, The Forgotten City was a big story-driven expansion for a popular RPG and the first mod to win a national screenwriting award. You discover a mysterious underground city in a state of ruin, travel back in time and meet its inhabitants. Then you learn about a terrible curse: If one person sins here, everyone dies. So you try to figure out who’s responsible for the sin that destroys the city, and prevent it – all while caught in a Groundhog Day -style time loop. The mod was downloaded more than 3,000,000 times, and IGN called it “simply amazing,” but as popular as it was, I’d made it in my spare time on a budget of $0, and I knew I could do much, much better. So, way back in 2017, I decided to develop it into a standalone game, bigger and better in every way possible. I just had 3 small problems: 1) I had no time 2) I had no budget 3) I had absolutely no idea how to make an entire game Despite all that, it is now available on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and this is a st...

Summer Spotlight is back for its seventh year and we are excited to bring you a ton of new digital games every week for six weeks. Every year since its inception, we have brought dozens of new Xbox games to fans over the summer. In 2015, we were proud to announce that we would be bringing over 25 new games and this year we are releasing a whopping 75+ titles between July 27 and September 6. What’s more, the Microsoft Rewards and Gift Card combo was so popular last year that we decided to bring the offer back for buying Summer Spotlight titles, which will also include some popular selections from Microsoft Movies & TV. As an added bonus, spend $50 on eligible titles and you will receive 5,000 Microsoft Rewards points and a $5 gift card. The deal gets even better for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members who will receive a $10 gift card. Here are a couple of Summer Spotlight titles that are either currently available or coming soon to get you pumped for a fantastic season of gaming Dea...

The August Games with Gold lineup is here! On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, return to an apocalyptic Earth in Darksiders III, and embark on an epic adventure in Yooka-Laylee .And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility , discover the hidden truths of Lost Planet 3, and become the ultimate fighter in Garou: Mark of the Wolves . Xbox Live Gold members will have exclusive access to these games for a limited time as part of Games with Gold . So will Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members, who receive all the fantastic benefits of Gold plus access to over 100 high-quality games with Xbox Game Pass. Darksiders III ($59.99 ERP): Available August 1 to 31 Yooka-Laylee ($39.99 ERP): Available August 16 to September 15 Lost Planet 3 ($19.99 ERP): Available August 1 to 15 Garou: Mark of the Wolves ($9.99 ERP): Available August 16 to 31 Darksiders III In this hack-and-slash action adventure, assume the role of Fury, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in her quest to ...

Have you ever played a game and walked right past a character in the background thinking “Wow, they must feel so sad and underappreciated?” Well not anymore! Announced today, Xbox Game Pass and “Free Guy” are proud to present the first-ever Xbox Game Pass Non-Player Character (NPC) Awards to celebrate and honor the greatest unsung heroes in video games. This comes ahead of the highly anticipated U.S. theatrical release of “Free Guy” on August 13, 2021, about a bank teller named Guy (Ryan Reynolds) who realizes he’s in an open world video game that will soon go offline. The nominees of the NPC Awards are all aptly found in games available with Xbox Game Pass (excluding a very special NPC) and include: Samuel Hayden, Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal – A high ranking UAC official who may or may not be entirely machine at this point. He’s always watching. Parvati Holcomb, The Outer Worlds – Everyone’s favorite shy and empathetic mechanic. She’s the heart of the ship and the crew, an...

In a pivotal moment for the flight simmer community, today we are bringing Microsoft Flight Simulator to Xbox Series X|S giving aspiring pilots the chance to take flight for the first time on a console. From light planes to wide-body jets, you’ll test your piloting skills against the challenges of real-time weather including accurate wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain, and lightning – all in a dynamic and living world. With the power of satellite data from Bing Maps and cloud-based AI using Azure, you’ll travel the entire planet in amazing detail with over 37 thousand airports, 2 million cities, 1.5 billion buildings, real mountain ranges, roads, trees, rivers, animals, traffic, and more. Simmers can expect the same level of depth as the PC version, with the most authentic and realistic flight simulator we have ever created and available to the widest audience ever. Optimized to harness the power of Xbox Series X|S, Microsoft Flight Simulator brings realism, accu...