Akatori on Xbox is a momentum‑driven metroidvania that immediately stands out for its fluid traversal, staff‑centric combat, and striking blend of pixel art characters against stylised 3D environments. It’s a game built around movement as identity with every jump, glide, wall‑hook, and combo feeling like part of Mako’s journey, not just a mechanical requirement. The result is a metroidvania that often feels more like a kinetic martial‑arts platformer, where flow matters just

Lou’s Lagoon is a tropical comfort blanket of a game, the kind you settle into with a cup of tea and immediately feel your shoulders drop. As someone who loves cozy sims and gentle life‑building adventures, this island‑hopping experience hits a lovely balance between exploration, crafting, community restoration, and light mystery. It’s not trying to overwhelm you; it’s trying to give you a place to breathe. The core gameplay revolves around rebuilding the Limbo Archipelago af

Deep Sea Delivery & Co. is one of those indie curiosities that's strange, charming, and quietly stressful in all the best ways. Set in a procedurally generated underwater world, the game casts you as a humble courier trying to deliver packages while the world ticks ominously toward its end. It’s a wonderfully absurd premise and it works. At its core, the game is about getting from point A to point B as efficiently (and safely) as possible. Customers scattered across the ocean

FlipCat is an indie platformer that looks deceptively simple until you realise it’s quietly rearranging your spatial awareness like a mischievous house pet knocking objects off a shelf. It’s a retro‑styled 2D puzzle‑platformer built around one idea of flip the world and it commits to that idea with the enthusiasm of a cat discovering gravity for the first time. Across 30 compact levels, FlipCat delivers a quirky, perspective‑twisting adventure that’s equal parts charming, cle

Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster is a blood‑splattered, hand‑drawn love letter to old‑school fantasy wrapped inside a modern Metroidvania. On Xbox Series X|S, it arrives with a clear identity, pulpy sword‑and‑sorcery energy, exaggerated monsters, and a world that feels like it crawled out of a battered VHS tape of ’80s fantasy animation. It’s loud and occasionally messy, but it’s also surprisingly ambitious. You step into the role of the last Beastmaster, wandering the fractur

Apidya’ Special is a rare kind of remake, one that remembers exactly why the original mattered, then rebuilds it with enough care and modernisation to make that memory feel vivid again. It’s still unmistakably Apidya: a strange, organic, insect‑themed shoot ’em up where you play a furious bee on a quest for vengeance, but now presented with widescreen options, rebuilt pixel art, modernised difficulty settings, and a handful of new surprises that make it feel more than a museu

Pyramid Quest Junior on Xbox is a tiny, kid‑friendly remix of EntwicklerX’s previously released Pyramid Quest formula, a simplified 2.5D treasure‑hunting platformer built for very young players rather than challenge‑hungry adults. The result is gentle, colourful, predictable, and… honestly, a bit thin. But if you’re looking for a no‑stress collect‑’em‑up for children, it does exactly what it says on the tin. Pyramid Quest Junior on Xbox is a gentle, straightforward platformer

PowerWash Simulator 2’s Star Wars Pack is exactly the kind of crossover that feels like it was made for people like us, the long‑timers, the ones who’ve sunk 200+ hours into both games, who know the rhythm of a perfect clean, who’ve spent entire evenings chasing that last 0.1% on a stubborn panel. And as a lifelong Star Wars fan, this DLC hits that sweet spot between reverence and playful detail. It’s not just “Star Wars stuff but dirty”; it’s a lovingly crafted tour through

Case Solved: The London Files is a compact, quietly confident puzzle game that leans into the charm of classic deduction rather than the theatrics of modern detective adventures. It presents London through a stylised, hand‑drawn lens, rain‑slick streets, cosy interiors, and a jazzy soundtrack that keeps everything mellow even when murder is on the table. What you get here isn’t a sprawling investigation full of twists, but a tidy collection of logic‑driven cases designed to s

Turnip Mountain on Xbox is a physics‑based climbing gauntlet that looks deceptively cute but quickly reveals itself as a precision‑driven, momentum‑based challenge designed to test your patience, rhythm, and problem‑solving. Across its surreal, Game‑Boy‑esque worlds, you guide a determined turnip with two independently controlled arms, grabbing ledges, swinging across gaps, and improvising your way through increasingly fiendish rooms. It’s equal parts tactile, chaotic, and st

Ascend to ZERO is one of those games that doesn’t wait for you to settle in. It throws you into its world mid‑catastrophe, mid‑countdown, mid‑panic and then asks you to master time itself before you’ve even caught your breath. On Xbox, the result is a fast, crunchy, surprisingly deep roguelite that blends bullet‑heaven chaos with a clever temporal twist that keeps every run feeling urgent, explosive, and weirdly addictive. The setup is stark: humanity’s last hope, the Chrono

Hollowbody feels like stepping back into that strange, fog‑drenched, melancholy space the early Silent Hill games lived in, before the series became louder, cleaner, and more self‑aware. It’s not just inspired by that era; it feels like it was pulled straight out of it. And for someone who still prefers the clunky, oppressive charm of PS1/PS2 survival horror over modern remakes, Hollowbody is the closest thing to coming home I’ve played in years. The first thing Hollowbody na

Dave has finally left the Blue Hole behind and somehow ended up in a DLC that feels suspiciously like a sequel wearing a $9.99 price tag. In the Jungle isn’t a small add‑on or a themed side dish; it’s a full‑course expansion that reshapes how you explore, how you cook, how you fight, and even how you move around the world. It’s bigger, stranger, warmer, and occasionally weirder than anything Mintrocket has done with the game so far. And yes, it’s still very, very Dave. The se

During today’s XBOX Games Showcase, DPI Merch, the team that powers the XBOX Game Studios Shop, revealed collector’s editions for Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War: E-Day, and Fable. Pre-orders begin today, exclusively on the XBOX Game Studios Shop. Return to where it all began in Halo: Campaign Evolved, a faithful yet expanded remake of the 2001 original that redefined first-person shooters. Available for XBOX Series X, PlayStation 5, and Steam, the Collector’s Edition i

King of Ping Pong: MEGAMIX is exactly the kind of oddball, low‑stakes arcade experiment I love stumbling across on Xbox: a game that takes a familiar sport, throws the rulebook into a blender, and serves it back as a neon‑lit boss rush where every opponent feels like they’ve wandered in from a different genre entirely. It’s cheap, it’s cheerful, and it’s got just enough mechanical bite to keep you locked in for “one more match” longer than you’d expect. The pitch is simple bu

Indie developer Green Flamingo is excited to share that their debut action platformer, Spanky “Bat-a-Swing," will be coming to Steam, Nintendo, and Xbox. The PC demo is now available, and a Kickstarter campaign will launch later this year. Enjoy a 1930s hand-animated 3D action platformer where players can fall into the rhythm of smacking enemies to the beat of an electro swing soundtrack. A City Under Rhythmic Control Metrognome has seized power as the new mayor of Metronopol

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a hardboiled detective flick got drunk on cheddar fumes and woke up as a boomer shooter, MOUSE: P.I. For Hire has your answer. You play as Jack Pepper, a trench‑coat‑wearing, wisecracking mouse detective who solves crimes the old‑fashioned way: with grit, intuition, and a frankly irresponsible amount of gunfire. From the moment the game opens with a frantic chase through Mouseburg’s rain‑slick alleys, it’s clear this isn’t your gra

Albion Online , the free-to-play fantasy sandbox MMORPG developed by Sandbox Interactive will launch for Xbox Series X|S on 21 April 2026. Albion Online is currently available for PC, iOS and Android, and the step into console spaces will open up the door to new players while giving long-time fans a new way to play on their existing account. Albion Online is set in a fantasy medieval world where players can forge their own path by exploring the vast landscapes, crafting ever

Formula Legends continues to grow with even more DLC additions. This time it brings the racing to modern day Formula 1 style cars with a hefty update including new story content, a new track and new racing rules! This DLC includes: 8 new teams 16 new drivers with unique helmets 16 new liveries (2 per team) 1 new Story Mode championship Updated next-generation season rules 1 new track: Azerbaijan The Late 2020’s Season Pack brings present-day racing to Formula Legends. This n

Backrooms Level X on Xbox is a short, lo-fi horror experience that leans heavily on liminal spaces, disorientation, and the uncanny, but it doesn’t always turn those ideas into something satisfying. The game drops you into a series of stark, empty environments: fluorescent-lit corridors, abandoned office spaces, industrial rooms, and surreal transitional zones. There are moments where the atmosphere clicks with things like a sudden shift in lighting, a long hallway that feels