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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Enotria: The Last Song

Enotria: The Last Song is a Soulslike action-RPG created and published by Jyamma Games. The game is set in a world plagued by the Canovaccio – an ethereal, magical play that is keeping life and culture in statis for eternity. You play as the Maskless One, an individual who is unaffected by Canovaccio and can move about freely thanks to being born with no given role or predetermined destiny to adhere to.

With the power of stealing masks from enemies and gaining their powers, the Maskless One charges forward to free the world from Canovaccio and bring down the evil Authors who created it.

Enshrouded

Enshrouded is an upcoming action-RPG, open-world survival game developed and published by Keen Games GmbH. You play as a Flameborn, one of the last survivors of an ancient race brought to near extinction. Your goal is to embark on a journey through the ruined realm Embervale, recover your people’s power of the Flame, uncover this world’s lost history, and decide your ultimate desinty.

Everwild

The next title from Rare was revealed in late 2019, showing us another gorgeous and colorful world from the British studio. Very little is known aboutEverwild, but the trailer seems to indicate that it’s some form of multiplayer experience, complete with stealth mechanics and uniquely gorgeous creatures.

Exoborne

Exoborne is an upcoming extraction shooter developed and published by Sharkmob AB. In this game, the U.S. has been transformed into an apocalyptic hellscape by natural disasters. In this violent, players must fight against the elements and rival factions to scavenge for dwindling supplies in order to survive.

Exodus

Exodus is an upcoming third-person shooter with RPG elements by Archetype Entertainment. In the far distant future, humanity has fled a dying Earth and found a new home among the stars. However, mankind’s fate still hangs in the balance as an intergalactic conquering race of aliens called Celestials are hunting them down.

You take on the role of the Traveller, a visionary leader of humanity who travel the stars to search for allies and weapons that will help them defeat the Celestials once and for all. However, Travellers will need to make hard choices when embark on missions travelling across space via lightspeed causes time dilation. What passes for days from a Traveller’s point of view, counts as decades for their friends and family back home.

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Fera: The Sundered Tribes

Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an indie open-world survival game with an emphasis on monster-hunting, developed and published by Massive Damage, Inc. Set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with giant monsters, you have been recently elected as the new leader of a tribe of humans after saving them from a rampaging behemoth.

As the tribe’s new leader, your goal is to explore this world to rescue the last few remaining humans and save mankind from extinction. On top of that, you will also need to hunt down the giant monsters looking to devour your people by utilizing your mastery of martial arts and flight abilities to slay monsters in fast-paced aerial combat.

First Dwarf

First Dwarf is a base-building action-RPG developed and published by Star Drifters. The game is set in Driftland, a planet that was ruined by a cataclysmic war between powerful mages. Among the surviving civilizations is the kingdom of dwarves, and you play as one of their best engineers.

With supplies dwindling, you have been tasked to venture into the war-torn lands of Driftland to gather resources to save the kingdom. In your quest, you explore a crumbled world, build bases to farm materials, and defend your assets against barbarians, monsters, and even nature.

Gears of War: E-Day

Return to the day when the war with Locust began in Gears of War: E-Day, a prequel to the legendary third-person shooter franchise,Gears of War. Play as younger versions of iconic Gears of War protagonists Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago as they face off against the Locust Horde for the first time and try their best to defend humanity from the savage beasts.

Hangry

Hangry is an indie Hack and Slash RPG created and published by Game Pill. In the darkest corners of the universe, you play as Hangry, mercenary working for a diner chef named Goutra. Goutra’s establishment isn’t your standard diner as it readily supplies food for the meanest, baddest crooks of the criminal underworld.

You must travel the galaxy to hunt down alien monsters and bring back their meat so Goutra can whip the best meals to keep clients well-fed. Just make sure you don’t eat too much of the goods yourself, otherwise, it may be your last meal.

Harmonium: The Musical

Harmonium: The Musical is an upcoming narrative adventure game created by The Odd Gentleman. You play as a young 10-year-old Deaf girl named Melody Macato who is busy preparing a musical show hoping to create a new form of music that be seen, felt, and accessible to her friends and family.

However, Melody is suddenly pulled into a vibrant, musical-themed fantasy world called Harmonium. To find her way back home, Melody has to confront and defeat Cocophony, a terrifying force that threatens to destroy all of Harmonium if left unchallenged.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong is a sequel to the 2D Metroidvania title with Soulslike elements, Hollow Knight, created and published by Team Cherry. You play as Horney, a warrior princess who must fight her way through a corrupted world filled with insectoid monsters so she can return to her kingdom, Hallownest.

Hotel Barcelona

Hotel Barcelona is an off-the-wall 2.5D action game created in collaboration between Suda51, the creator of No More Heroes and Swery65, the creator of Deadly Premonition. You are trapped in a temporal time-loop and your only way out is to fight through hordes of serial killers, monsters, giant sharks, and aliens.

IKARO: Will Not Die

IKARO: Will Not Die is a third-person roguelike action game developed by Futurlab and published by Thunderful. You are thrust into a neon-lit, oppressive sci-fi world with simple goals: run, fight, don’t stop, and don’t die.

To survive, you must master gravity-defying powers that can enable you to surf and parkour through deadly environments. At the same time, you must learn how to string together a series of deadly combo attacks and abilities to defeat hordes of enemies looking to eliminate you.

Judas

Judas is an upcoming first-person shooter being developed and published by Ghost Story Games, a studio led by Ken Levine, the game director of classic titles like System Shock 2, BioShock, and BioShock Infinite.

You are Judas, a mysterious and troubled individual stuck on a starship that is slowly falling apart. To survive, you will need to gain the trust of the ship’s eccentric crew to repair the ship, or you can betray them and leave the ship to rot to save yourself.

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando is an upcoming first-person shooter developed by Saber Interactive, published by Focus Entertainment, and directed by legendary movie director, John Carpenter. This game is set in a dark future where mankind’s attempts at harvesting energy from the planet’s core have unintentionally released an eldritch abomination called the Sludge God upon the Earth.

You play as the titular Toxic Commandos and your mission is to nuke the Sludge God and its undead mutant armies into oblivion before they wipe out the human.

Jurassic Park Survival

Jurassic Park Survival is a first-person action adventure based on the legendary Jurassic Park franchise. This game takes place shortly after the events of the first Jurassic Park movie and follows the adventures of an InGen scientist named Dr. Maya Joshi.

She was unable to evacuate Isla Nublar along with the rest of the main cast from the original movie, so now she has to find a way to escape on her own. You will need to use cunning and ingenuity to outsmart the dinosaurs lurking on the island as combat is not an option, especially when going up against the terrifying T-Rex.

King of Meat

King of Meat is party hack and slash game developed by Glowmade and published by Amazon Games. Take part in a bloody gladiatorial game show and fight your way through player-created dungeons to slay giant beasts and other contestants to become the ultimate warrior and earn money from your sponsors so you can buy cool-looking gear and cosmetic items for your own dungeons.

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