Upcoming Xbox games: Best new Xbox Series X|S games for 2024, and beyond

The best new Xbox games coming out in 2024 and beyond.

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Mandragora

Mandragora is an upcoming Metroidvania-style, side-scrolling action RPG developed by Primal Game Studio and published by Marvelous Europe. This game takes in a dark fantasy world where mankind has fallen to entropy and monsters lurk behind every corner. It is up to you to explore this decaying realm, slay the monsters preying upon humanity, and find a way to restore peace and happiness to the land.

Marathon

Bungie is reviving one of its oldest IPs, Marathon, with a new entry in the long-forgotten first-person shooter series. This new title, Marathon, will not be a follow-up to any of the previous single-player games and instead will be a PVP-focused extraction game with a new setting and plot.

You play as a Runner, an android mercenary that has been hired to investigate a ghost ship hanging in the orbit of a long-lost space colony. However, you are not the only mercenary sent to this place as dozens of other mercs, thieves, pirates, and more and looking to plunder this vessel for treasure. Will you work alongside them to share the loot or will you kill the competition to take all the riches for yourself?

Marvel’s Blade

From the minds behind Deathloop and DIshonoured comes Arkane Lyon’s next big and most unexpected project, Marvel’s Blade. This game follows the tribulations of Eric Brooks (a.k.a. Blade) a Daywalker (a half-human, half-vampire crossbreed) who fights to protect humanity from the darkest and most vile creatures of the Marvel universe.

Masters of Albion

Peter Molyneux, the director behind the original Fable and the cult classic god game, Black & White, has returned to the video game industry to direct a new title with 22cans called Masters of Albion.

In this god game, you play the role of a god tasked with assisting a small village through divine interventions to become a prosperous civilization that will withstand the test of time.

However, evil forces are plotting to destroy what you have built. You will need to protect your people by gifting them with your godly powers so they can defend themselves and occasionally take matters into your own hands by unleashing magical disasters upon enemies.

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

After an eternity of absence, the legendary Metal Gear Solid franchise is making a comeback to the video game industry with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a remake of the classic PlayStation 2 stealth action game, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

This game will follow the exploits of “Naked Snake”, a secret agent sent by the US government into Soviet Union territory during the Cold War. Snake’s mission is to rescue Dr. Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, a Soviet defector who is forced to create a nuclear superweapon for the USSR. What starts as a routine sneaking mission spirals out of control as Snake is forced to live off the land to survive, battle elite soldiers that defy conventional warfare, and uncovers a conspiracy so dire that if it isn’t stopped, it could turn the Cold War into World War Three.

Mistfall Hunter

Mistfall Hunter is an upcoming PvPvE extraction action game developed and published by BELLRING GAMES. Set in a dark fantasy world on the brink of oblivion, you play as immortal warriors called Gylden Hunters. With mighty powers granted to you by the mysterious Dew, your goal is to traverse this wreck of a world, fight past beasts gripped by insanity called Gyldenmist, and repair the Web of Fate in the hopes that it might save your planet.

OD

OD is brand new video game being developed by Kojima Productions, with the legendary Hideo Kojima directing it. OD is currently shrouded in mystery as to what kind of game it is. What we do know that Hideo Kojima describes it as a “new form of media” that will utilize the power of Microsoft’s cloud technology to create a product that blurs the line between gaming and film.

OD is hinting at being a horror title with the tagline “For all the players and screamers” at the end of its reveal trailer.

Perfect Dark

After many years in hibernation, Rare’s classic sci-fi spy adventurePerfect Darkseries will be returning with an epic reboot for modern audiences. You play as Joanna Dark, a secret agent working for the dataDyne corperation and she is tasked with hunting down a dangerous criminal called Daniel Carrington.

Players will journey across the distant of Cairo and use their arensal of gadgets, guns, martial arts and stealth skills to take down enemies and uncover a sinister conspiracy that could treaten to destroy millions of innocent lives.

Phantom Hellcat

Phantom Hellcat is a hack ‘n’ slash platformer developed by Ironbird Creations and published by All in! Games. Hidden from the public eye lies a mysterious theater containing an army of demons locked away within its halls. One day, one of the seals on the demons’ cage breaks, and the evil beings manage to steal away the theater’s guardian and escape to an alternate dimension. Now it is up to the guardian’s rebellious daughter Jolene to take to the stage, rescue her mother, and put these demons back in their cages.

Pragmata

Pragmatais an upcoming title from Capcom set in an extraordinary futuristic setting. Almost nothing is known about the game, besides the fact it’s coming to next-gen systems and looks incredibly sleek.

Prison Architect 2

The cult-classic indie prison management simulator, Prison Architect, is finally getting a sequel and is adopting a new 3D art style. Prison Architect 2 will expand on the gameplay of the original with new mechanics and tools to keep inmates contained, an upgraded Career Mode, and smarter prisoners to test your managerial skills.

Project Tower

Project Tower is an upcoming third-person bullet-hell shooter developed and published by Yummy Games. You are an unknown prisoner trapped inside a mysterious tower run by tyrannical aliens known as the Hiks.

You are forced into a battle for survival as the Hiks are using you as a practice dummy to help train their soldiers for intergalactic conquest. To survive, you must fight through the Hiks and reach the top of the tower in the hopes you may find a means to escape.

REANIMAL

REANIMAL is a co-op platforming-horror game developed by the original creators of Little Nightmares 1 and 2. In this game you play as a brother and sister travelling to an island infested with disturbing monsters in attempt to find and rescue their friends who went missing there.

You can traverse this nightmarish realm alone piloting both protagonists or bring a friend along to control one of the siblings two-player co-op.

REPLACED

REPLACED is a 2.5D action platformer developed by Sad Cat Studios and published by Coatsink. Set in a gritty, sci-fi alternative version of the 1980s, you play as R.E.A.C.H., an artificial intelligence that has been forcefully trapped inside a human body. Your goal is to survive the dangerous, crime-riddled, dystopian society of Phoenix City and discover how to free yourself from your human prison.

Roman Sands RE: Build

Roman Sands RE: Build is a psychedelic game that combines elements of visual novel, RPG, horror, adventure, and simulation games to create a surreal experience. The premise of this game is that you’re washed up on the beach of a private luxury retreat inhabited by strange and disturbing characters.

You can’t stay here for as long the inhabitants the Sun will soon come to swallow them whole, killing everyone on the retreat. To escape, you must complete tasks handed to you by the inhabitants and explore the retreat for an emergency exit before its too late.

Routine

Routine is a first-person sci-fi horror game developed by Lunar Software and published by Raw Fury. The game takes place in an abandoned lunar base designed around a vision of what scientists from the 1980s thought future technology would look like.

You are trapped alone inside this dilapidated facility and are being hunted by killer androids who have designated you as a threat that must terminated. Now, you must run for your life, explore the lunar base to discover what happened here, and find a way to escape before the robots detect you.

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