New Xbox Games — October 14 to 20
· TrueAchievementsNew Xbox Games — October 14 to 20
A whopping 29 new Xbox games launch on consoles and PC next week, including A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, Neva, Squirrel with a Gun, and New World: Aeternum.
Published 13 Oct 2024
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Prepare your wallets for a battering as there are an incredible 29 new Xbox games launching across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC next week, including one title from our list of upcoming Game Pass games.
Kicking things off next week on October 15, we have Mad Fellows' rhythm shooter Aaero2, Nomada Studio's gorgeous side-scrolling platformer Neva, Amazon Games' MMO New World: Aeternum, and Dee Dee Creations' nutty Squirrel with a Gun. A couple of days later, on October 17, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead silently sneaks onto Xbox, while MechWarrior 5: Clans explodes into the Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass libraries. Finally, on October 18, we have Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem, RetroRealms: Ash vs Evil Dead, RetroRealms: Halloween, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, and Unknown 9: Awakening. How's that backlog of yours looking after all that lot?
Here's a breakdown of everything coming to the world of Xbox next week, and remember, these release dates are subject to change — so many smaller games get delayed without warning. Let us know which of these you're planning on picking up in the comments!
October 15
Aaero2 — Xbox Series X|S
Trace ribbons of light to release the energy in the music as you speed through stunning alien worlds. Fly solo or team up with a friend. Encounter strange enemies and giant boss creatures. Unleash devastating missile barrages and rain heavy cannon fire to the beat of the epic soundtrack from Monstercat.
Drova - Forsaken Kin — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
"Drova - Forsaken Kin" is a pixel art Action-RPG inspired by the grim dark classics of the genre and the mystical allure of Celtic mythology. Dive into a handcrafted open world where your choices and actions shape the environment. A society has discovered the power of a dead empire: to capture the spirits that govern nature and rule over them instead. However, the anger of the remaining spirits divided them. Where will you stand?
Join one of two factions, each with their own values and in pursuit of their own goals. Your choice will be relevant for the rest of the game and impact the entire story. Everything comes with a price. Meet teachers and learn numerous abilities, but expect foes and betrayals too.
Forge your own path around dangerous landscapes, fulfill tasks, trade, gather and craft equipment. You start with nothing and as a nobody. Study your environment, and use the surrounding clues to reveal mysteries and grow stronger. Only your flow of battle stands between you and certain death.
Explore nature and seal the power of spirits that rule it. Learn how to use them in your favor, but be prepared to battle their channeled anger in the world surrounding you.
Neva — Xbox Series X|S
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
New World: Aeternum — Xbox Series X|S
Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum in the twilight of the Age of Exploration. As a shipwrecked explorer who washes ashore on the mysterious island, forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
Nikoderiko: The Magical World — Xbox Series X|S
Join Niko and Luna on their quest in Nikoderiko, a vibrant platform adventure. With family-friendly design, couch co-op, and various gameplay themes such as minecarts, chase levels, expansive 3D areas and underwater adventures, Nikoderiko promises a magical journey for all ages!
Squirrel with a Gun — Xbox Series X|S
October 16
8-Bit Adventures 2 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
8-Bit Adventures 2 features everything you love about classic JRPGs. An earnest, engaging storyline; relatable, easy-to-love characters; strategic turn-based combat; deep party customization; an unforgettable soundtrack; and a large, fantastical world - traversed by Airship, and brought to life by vibrant 8-Bit inspired visuals.
When a mistreated child with impossible powers threatens to reshape the world, a hero’s disappearance kicks off a grand adventure - and a battle for survival...
While it may be a sequel, anyone can jump into this all-new JRPG experience!
Beyond Border — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
Help Aki the alligator find his way home in Beyond Border! Navigate through four challenging stages – from the mysterious Forest to the spooky Cemetery. Each stage brings new enemies and obstacles, such as sticky slimes and giant spiders, that will test your survival skills.
In Beyond Border, you won't be unarmed. Choose from a variety of powerful weapons and turret cards to build an impenetrable defense. Buy your favorite weapons and turrets using coins and jewels collected from defeated monsters. Each turret has unique functionalities, perfect for decimating waves of enemies and protecting Aki.
Beyond Border offers an engaging and action-packed gaming experience you won't want to miss. Get ready to face monsters, conquer territories, and help Aki find his way home.
Escape from the Dungeon — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
Anthony, an adventurer with the ability to perform "Dashes", gets lost while exploring an unknown world. During his exploration, he falls into a huge hole and ends up trapped in a dungeon full of traps.
Help Anthony overcome the traps and find the way out of the dungeon before it's too late!
Features:
- Platform and Precision Game
- Pixel Art
- Unique style
- Exciting music
Purpose 1951 — Xbox Series X|S
Explore a life that’s slowly crumbling to discover where it went wrong and if there’s any hope of redemption!
Set off on a personal journey through 1951 America as you take the role of a retired doctor whose life has fallen apart. Purpose 1951 is a thought-provoking first-person adventure guided by voiced narration and an atmospheric soundtrack. In the shoes of the aging doctor, you must venture through the wilderness and beyond, across mountains and into dimly lit caves, through a crumbling city and more as you learn the tale of your waning existence.
Between spoken words and clues found along the way, you will piece together one man’s history as it’s entangled with others and seek an end, whether it be hopeful redemption or saddening loss.
Quartz Caverns — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
Quartz Caverns is an action-adventure puzzle game where you guide the main character through a series of ancient caves in search of mystical crystals. The caverns are filled with tricky puzzles, dangerous slimes, and other hazards that test your wits and reflexes. As you explore, you'll uncover hidden paths, discover powerful relics, and face numerous threats lurking in the shadows. Only the bravest can retrieve the legendary crystals and uncover the secrets of the Quartz Caverns.
Are you up for the challenge?
October 17
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead — Xbox Series X|S
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a single-player horror adventure game inspired by the critically acclaimed blockbuster movie franchise. Survive in silence.
Arsene Lupin - Once A Thief — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Witness the Origins of a Legend - Experience Arsène Lupin's transformation from humble burglar to folklore hero in Arsène Lupin: Once A Thief, a detective adventure game set in the early 1900s.
DreadHaunt — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
DreadHaunt is a survival horror and deception game that can be played solo or in multiplayer. While designed with multiplayer in mind, a single-player story mode reveals the chilling origins of the supernatural events from a decade ago.
Killing Time: Resurrected — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Nightdive Studios and Ziggurat Interactive have teamed up to bring back this sophisticated shooter laced with gallows humor and visual violence to bestow mayhem to all! Puzzle solving and strategic thinking are placed at a premium. The visceral violence is complemented by paranormal graphics and a super(natural) storyline.
Set in the early 1930s, Killing Time: Resurrected casts you as a student, studying the cryptic world of Egyptology, who finds themselves trapped in the estate of wealthy heiress Tess Conway. A ritual to bestow eternal life conducted by Ms. Conway backfires and her high-society friends vanish without a trace. It’s up to you to find and destroy the mystical Egyptian Water-Clock to undo its curse and face a legion of super(natural) horrors.
The remastered edition of Killing Time: Resurrected features toggleable high-resolution character artwork/sprites from the original 3DO and PC versions of the game, upscaled environmental texturing, smoother gameplay, more responsive controls, and expanded control and key-bind settings.
MechWarrior 5: Clans — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
In MECHWARRIOR 5: CLANS, players become new Smoke Jaguar pilots in the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere. Lead a five-mech "Star" squad across diverse planets, engaging in an expansive campaign with immersive gameplay and intricate combat. Customize BattleMechs with cutting-edge technology and explore strategic options.
MetroLand — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
MetroLand is an arcade game where you run and dodge obstacles at full speed trying to get as far as you can.
It's an endless runner that follows the heritage of the classics of the genre to deliver a game with endless action and lots of power-ups.
In this game you'll experience adventures in the not-too-distant future where you play as rebels fleeing oppressive forces. To do this, you need to do what you know best: run and achieve good scores in each match.
Tinkertown — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
October 18
Aery - Midnight Hour — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
In Aery – Midnight Hour, you play a little bird on its journey to the devil's Halloween party after hearing Dracula talk about it. Enjoy your journey as a little bird and enjoy the feeling of flying while exploring a whole world filled with beautiful, and scary little secrets.
Galactic Loader — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
Galactic Loader is an action-platformer about a space loader who is forgotten on a hostile alien planet which is abandoned by people. The game has various power-ups, big bosses and many monsters that the player needs to defeat. On his journey, the hero finds leftover equipment that provides new abilities for the player. Fight through hordes of alien, giant monsters and escape the planet!
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks are ready to catch some wild air and perform insane stunts while smashing and bashing through fantastical arenas in a new game that brings your favorite monster trucks to your fingertips!
It Could Happen To You — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Your peaceful holiday is interrupted when the small village you’re staying in becomes terrorized by strange lights roaming the night and bizarre cattle mutilations. Enigmatic men in black are stalking the villagers, and some have gone missing.
You are their only chance to find them.
Will you be able to save everyone and learn what is really happening when the sun goes down?
Prepare yourself for a mystery that will follow you home.
This could happen to you.
My Bakery Empire — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
Learn how to bake delicious, mouth-watering desserts like cupcakes, smoothies, donuts and cakes! With your assistance as a cake maker, Lizzie will become the most talented pastry chef ever!
Take specific orders from customers and serve them with a smile. Make sure they get what they asked for, whether it’s cookies with pink frosting and sprinkles, donuts with colored glaze, or rainbow cakes! You’ll LOVE this tasty bakery story game, and here’s a little warning - it will make you hungry!
Have fun opening up many delicious bakeries, baking with Lizzie, and becoming a true baking professional famous for beautiful, tasty delights! Build your bakery business and immerse yourself in the aromatic wonders of a bustling bake shop with a hint of cookie jam sweetness!
Features:
- learn how to bake tons of desserts from so many yummy recipes!
- take specific orders from your customers and make sure they get what they asked for
- bake the tastiest dessert ever, from apple yogurt smoothies and scrumptiously delicious cupcakes to princess birthday cakes!
- make your cakes extra fancy with colorful cake decorations
- dress up Lizzie like the true baker she is! Give her a pretty chef’s hat and a cute apron
- show off your sweet bakery skills and win first prize in baking contests and cake fairs!
- help Lizzie open up a cake bakery… and then another cake bakery… and another cake bakery!
Cooking delicious dessert recipes in Lizzie’s kitchen has never been easier! Feel the cooking fever and help her bake the tastiest pastries ever!
RetroRealms: Ash vs Evil Dead — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Enter the RetroRealms, a 16-bit Pixel Art world, as iconic horror hero Ash Williams! Battle Deadite hordes across multiple levels of terrifying platformer action filled with enemies from the STARZ “Ash vs Evil Dead” series. Use your special powers to overcome horrifying challenges and save humanity from the Necronomicon and legions of undead in this groovy throwback to classic arcade action.
RetroRealms: Halloween — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Enter into the RetroRealms, a 16-bit Pixel Art world as horror icon Michael Myers! Become The Shape and slice your way across multiple levels of terrifying platformer gameplay filled with familiar sights and sounds from the original Halloween film. Test your skills, upgrade your abilities, and confront twisted and fiendish versions of iconic Halloween characters. Engage in epic encounters to overcome the ultimate evil in this sprawling adventure filled with over-the-top action!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Mutants and humans have been kickin’ it together in New York City. But then, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello discovered several shipments of mutagenic ooze were scattered, contaminating areas of the City. It didn’t seem so bad until they realised new mutants, a.k.a. 'Mewbies', spawned from this mess. Not all these Mewbies are evil, but some have lost their way, and the citizens don't feel safe anymore.
Join the legendary Turtle brothers straight from the sewer and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions. With the help of April’s insightful reports from the streets and Splinter’s sage guidance, gear up to fight crime and unravel an epic saga of justice and chaos!
Embark on the adventure in single or co-op mode to change the minds of the citizens, get those pizzas delivered on time, and try not to eat them on the way.
Together We Live — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
This is a visual novel game without player selections.
Story:
"Awakening"
Kyoya awakens in a dimly lit room.
According to the girl who happened to pass by, the world has perished.
Reluctant to believe, Kyoya sets off with the girl to search for other living beings,
journeying through the ruined world together.
However, the girl had a purpose.
"The Girl's Purpose"
To atone for the sins of humanity,
she must continue to die.
Again and again, dozens of times, hundreds of times, thousands of times, tens of thousands of times.
She dies and then comes back to life.
As he watches her, who knows only suffering,
Kyoya starts to desire to teach her about happiness.
UDO - Unidentified Drilling Object — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Dig through a mysterious planet in a delicious arcade down-scroller roguelike that basically challenges you to dig deeper and deeper into a creepy hole with an oversized drill!
Go further to find mysterious technologies, improve your drill and suit, and make each run unique while being surrounded by creatures that definitely don’t want you in any of the 4 worlds in this weird planet you crashed into.
Unknown 9: Awakening — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Delve into the mysterious world of the Unknown 9, and uncover mysteries hidden in plain sight.
You are Haroona, a Quaestor born with the ability to venture into a mysterious dimension that overlaps our own, known only as the Fold. On her quest for powerful hidden knowledge, Haroona will learn to master her unique connection to the Fold, which allows her to channel its powers into our world... But such power does not go unnoticed and Haroona quickly becomes the target of a splinter faction calling themselves the Ascendants, who want to use the Fold to alter the course of human history
Become Haroona - Play as a young and courageous woman who has the ability to dive into and channel powers from a parallel dimension known as the Fold.
Master the Fold - Leverage your mastery of the Fold and choose your own playstyle. Step into your enemies to control them, dodge bullets, vanish in plain sight, hurl Umbric energy at your opponents, and more.
Journey across the world - From the sands of Mauritania and perilous Indian jungles to the gothic landscapes of 19th century Portugal, discover some of the most mysterious locations the world has to offer.
Discover the Unknown 9 universe - Unknown 9: Awakening lies at the heart of intertwining stories, unfolding through a multitude of Unknown 9 products whose events and characters make up a much larger Storyworld.
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Written by Sean Carey
A big fan of Xbox achievements, Sean has committed to playing as many of the best RPGs, racing games, and first-person shooters on and off Xbox Game Pass as possible. Before joining TrueAchievements, Sean earned a degree in journalism from Solent University.