The onslaught isn’t slowing down, as more new Xbox games are launching this week, led by Sandfall Interactive and Kepler Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
This gorgeous turn-based role-playing game was first revealed back during the Xbox Games Showcase 2024. Since then, the developers have shown off more of the world, art, and gameplay that players can expect when Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 arrives.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also launching day one into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, so subscribers for either tier of Microsoft’s gaming subscription service can hop in immediately on April 24, 2025.
If you missed it, don’t forget to check out all the Xbox games that launched last week. Now, here’s everything coming to the Xbox store next week:
April 22, 2025
- Post Trauma (Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC): “Post Trauma is a modern interpretation of genre-defining survival horror classics. As you venture deeper into the unknown, you’ll strive to solve the mysteries of your unfamiliar surroundings, hoping to discover hidden truths while trying to stay alive.”
- Steel Seed (Xbox Series X|S): “Steel Seed is a single player stealth-action adventure game set in a dark sci-fi world. In her epic journey inside a hostile underground facility run by AIs, Zoe is alone with Koby, a flying drone, as her only companion.”
April 23, 2025
- 9th Dawn Remake (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “9th Dawn Remake is a massive open world RPG bursting with dungeon-crawling adventure. The game has been lovingly re-created based on the original 9th Dawn game released in 2012 … which spawned the 9th Dawn series you know and love! Play in single-player mode, or with a friend with Online or Local co-op modes! Experience a vast world filled with huge new dungeons, hordes of monsters, and ridiculous amounts of loot! “
- ANNIE:Last Hope (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC): “ANNIE: Last Hope is an HD voxel top-down shooting game set in the 1990s. After a sudden invasion of unknown creatures, Annie is separated from her fiancé and embarks on a perilous journey to find him. However, what seems like a simple search soon unravels into a web of conspiracies, revealing the dark secrets hidden beneath the end of the world…”
- Cooking (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Run your own restaurant and prepare the most iconic Japanese dishes and traditional drinks. Take orders, prepare meals, decorate your restaurant and develop your cooking skills each day.”
- Golden Rails: Valuable Package Collector’s Edition (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “After being chased by bandits and losing some valuable packages, postman Philip turns to his new friends, Jack and Jill, for help in delivering all the remaining packages to their rightful owners. But it’s not just a simple delivery task – the bandits are still on the loose and willing to do whatever it takes to get their hands on the rare and valuable packages.”
- Hegzis(Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC): “Put your brain to the test across dozens of unique challenges in Hegzis, a chill hex-grid puzzle game presented in colorful 2D style! Select a stage from Serene Beach, Whispering Forest and more, then progress through multiple levels in each world, placing pieces of connected hexes to form lines in any direction.”
- NanoApostle (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Deep within the bowels of a shadowy research facility, Anita, a girl birthed from experimental procedures, is implanted with the sentient nanomechanical entity known as ‘Apostle’. Working together with her nanite allies Anita must defeat a series of dangerous prototype bio-weapons as she searches for a way to break free from her nightmarish prison.”
- Once Upon a Puppet (Xbox Series X|S): “The Grand Opening: Welcome to Once Upon a Puppet, a 2.5D puzzle-platformer that unfolds within a vibrant world of theater. Take part in a magical tale that combines classic platforming with puppet-inspired gameplay, in a captivating story of friendship, self-discovery, and redemption.”
- Oppidum (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Oppidum is a survival adventure driven by its story, for 1 to 4 players. The fate of a marvelous world depends on you. Will you live up to the challenge? Explore the land of Insule, discover every resource it has to offer and collect it to craft your equipment in classic survival-crafting fashion.”
- Out of Moves (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC): “In a world of mysterious mazes, every move could mean the difference between glory and defeat. With limited moves, you must carefully plan each step to reach the jewel before time runs out. But beware! The path is filled with deadly dangers—sharp spikes, tricky arrows, and strategic teleporters that can either be your salvation or your downfall.”
- Sunderfolk (Xbox Series X|S): “Sunderfolk requires a free smartphone or tablet app to play. Rediscover Game Night with the magic of Sunderfolk, a shared turn-based tactical RPG adventure where your mobile device becomes the controller. Built with a couch co-op experience in mind, up to four players adventure through the magical and dangerous Sunderlands.”
- Viking Heroes V Collector’s Edition (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Amidst enchanting festivities, the Viking siblings discover Odin has lost control over the threads of fate, prompting a mysterious journey throughout the famous realms of the nine worlds. It is up to you to help the vikings confront mystical challenges, unveil the truth of their surroundings and rediscover the lost Rune of Balance.”
April 24, 2025
- Amerzone – The Explorer’s Legacy (Xbox Series X|S): “As a young journalist, you’ve been entrusted with a crucial mission: to cross the globe and reach the heart of a mysterious, faraway land… Your goal is to bring back the last egg of the mythical “Great White Birds”. According to legend, they are bound up with the fate of the only country they call home: a land with strange, dangerous plants and wildlife that has been devastated by years of bloody dictatorship.”
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC): “Once a year, the Paintress wakes and paints upon her monolith. Paints her cursed number. And everyone of that age turns to smoke and fades away. Year by year, that number ticks down and more of us are erased. Tomorrow she’ll wake and paint “33.” And tomorrow we depart on our final mission – Destroy the Paintress, so she can never paint death again. We are Expedition 33.”
- Deep Deep Deep Nightmare (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Deep Deep Deep Nightmare is a 2D Top Down Shooter. A little boy didn’t listen to his mother’s warnings that eating too much at night would cause nightmares. Now, he must face hordes of monsters and defeat the nightmare bosses to escape.”
- FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves (Xbox Series X|S): “SNK’s beloved Fatal Fury series first hit the market in 1991, spearheading the fighting game boom of the 1990s that swept the industry thereafter. GAROU: MARK OF THE WOLVES (released in 1999) has, for some time, served as the franchise’s most recent installment. But that is all about to change: 26 years on, a brand-new entry—FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves—is set to arrive on the scene!”
- Paper Dash – Las Vegas (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Jump into Paper Dash – Las Vegas, where your paper plane takes flight through the dazzling lights and vibrant nights of the city that never sleeps. Fly, glide, dash, scare away ghosts, and enjoy a peaceful journey, facing the ghosts of greed in exciting, relaxing, and jaw-dropping environments.”
April 25, 2025
- Akinakes (Xbox Series X|S): “Akinakes is a fast-paced shoot ’em up game where you pilot a powerful ship through vibrant levels, collect upgrades to enhance your firepower, and take on epic boss battles.”
- Amaze! (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC): “Let’s pop & move the ball and paint – you’ve got to color and paint your way across the AMAZE maze puzzles. Watch out! AMAZE gets harder as you play, color and paint the maze, and fill in puzzles! Painting the maze puzzles sounds easy, but you have to be super strategic to color and fill every square.”
- EcoGnomix (Xbox Series X|S): “A quirky combination of roguelite and city builder mixed into one! Sitting atop a vast network of mystical caves is your little gnome village. Send out your team of gnomes on rogue-lite runs to bring back resources so you can expand your tiny kingdom. As you grow your village, you’ll unlock new abilities, uncover new biomes, and take on bizarre creatures and extraordinary vegetation lurking underground.”
- The Fairy’s Secret (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Two years have passed since the events of The Fairy’s Song, and Marnie has been happily living together with her adorable girlfriend, Lisbeth. Marnie is worried about her grandmother, Iris, who lives in the small, scenic village of Fenchapel.”
- Gnomes and Knights (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a gloomy medieval dark fantasy and try to find all the gnomes. Meet various characters on your way and try to figure out what happened to this damned world that you yourself (in fact, we) created.”
- Pacify (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One): “Pacify, weaken and capture supernatural monsters in this fun co-op horror. You just signed on with PAH Inc. Paranormal Activity Helpers Incorporated, yeah sounds corny, but the pay is great. They say you won’t ever be in any real danger, and they have tons of work right now. Start helping today!”
- Sky Revolver (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC): “Take control of the last remaining fighter in the war against the Empire. In this classic vertical-scroll shoot ’em up, you must break through enemy squadrons and destroy the fleet’s command to turn the tide of battle.”
- Survivalist: Invisible Strain (Xbox Series X|S): “It’s been ten years since the pandemic began. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one after another, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you’re here to carve out a new life for yourself by any means necessary.”
