Although they’re yet to hit full stride and reach the cadence of releases they’re perhaps hoping for, I think 2024 could be considered a moderate success for Xbox and how they’re looking to reshape and futureproof their brand as the industry, which faced unprecedented levels of layoffs and restructurings, grows more volatile and uncertain.
And that’s not to say Xbox hasn’t fueled that fire itself, with its lowest points including the shuttering of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and others.
Fortunately, Xbox was able to deliver on a few of its tentpole franchises in Hellblade and Indiana Jones, it also put on its best Summer showcase of all time which really set in motion what should be an enormous 2025 for the green brand, even if it’s somewhat uncertain what that means anymore.
With just one firm date locked in for Xbox, so far, here’s a look at everything in their pipeline at present, regardless of whether you’re expecting to be playing them on your Samsung, your ROG Ally, or even your PlayStation, here are all of the Xbox games to look forward to this year.
Avowed
Release Date: February 18
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
You are the envoy of Aedyr, a distant land, sent to investigate rumors of a spreading plague throughout the Living Lands – an island full of mysteries and secrets, danger and adventure, choices and consequences, and untamed wilderness.
You discover a personal connection to the Living Lands and an ancient secret that threatens to destroy everything. Can you save this unknown frontier and your soul from the forces threatening to tear them asunder?
Click here to read our hands-on preview for Avowed.
33 Immortals
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
33 Immortals is a co-op action roguelike for 33 players. Play a damned soul, and rebel against God’s final judgment. Pick-up and raid, cooperate to survive hordes of monsters, defeat massive bosses, and face the wrath of God in a fight for your eternal life.
Marvel’s Blade
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Marvel’s Blade is a mature, single-player, third-person game set in the heart of Paris, now in development by Arkane Lyon.
Dead Static Drive
Release Date: Q1 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Dead Static Drive is Grand Theft Cthulhu. An indie survival-horror game following a nightmarish road trip across a 1980s Americana. Playing as prodigal-child Hearst, you need to scavenge, fight, sneak, and explore in order to figure out what’s happened to your parents, and the rest of the world. Evade police. Equip yourself and those close to you, and follow your own moral code.
Learn how—and who—to trust. And learn it fast, the monsters are gaining on you.
Doom: The Dark Ages
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
DOOM: The Dark Ages is the single-player, action FPS prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal. You are the DOOM Slayer, the legendary demon-killing warrior fighting endlessly against Hell.
Fable
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
What does it mean to be a Hero? Well, in the fairytale land of Albion, that is entirely up to you. With a dark threat looming, your choices will change Albion forever.
The Outer Worlds 2
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
The Outer Worlds 2 is the eagerly-awaited sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment (just look at the exciting number of dashes in this sentence!).
Time to clear your calendar – get ready for an action-packed adventure with a new crew, new weapons, and new enemies in a new colony! So much newness!
Replaced
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
REPLACED is a 2.5D sci-fi retro-futuristic action platformer where you play as R.E.A.C.H. – an artificial intelligence trapped in a human body against its own will. REPLACED combines cinematic platforming, pixel art, and free-flow action combat set in an alternative 1980s.
Click here to read our hands-on preview for REPLACED.
South of Midnight
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
South of Midnight is a new action-adventure from Compulsion Games. Explore the mythos and confront mysterious creatures of the Deep South in this modern folktale while learning to weave an ancient power to surmount obstacles and unravel your family’s hidden past.
State of Decay 3
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
State of Decay 3 is an open-world survival game set years after a zombie apocalypse nearly wiped out humankind. An evolving zombie threat is taking over the landscape and you need to carve out a life for your community of survivalist homesteaders.
Untitled Call of Duty Title
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Outside of recent rumours suggesting that the next Call of Duty could be a direct sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, set in the distant future, there isn’t a lot we currently know about what’s to come for the franchise.
Except for, well, the fact it’s going to be coming.
Gears of War: E-Day
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Fourteen years before Gears of War, war heroes Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago return home to face a new nightmare: the Locust Horde. These subterranean monsters, grotesque and relentless, erupt from below, laying siege on humanity itself.
Routine
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Curious exploration turns into a need for survival when a lunar base goes completely quiet. Searching for answers puts you face-to-face with an enemy who is certain the main threat is you. Discoveries lead to deeper unknowns and the only way to go is forward.
Ark 2
Release Date: TBC 2025
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Suddenly awakened on a strange primal world filled with dinosaurs and humans struggling for dominance; you must piece together the history of how you arrived there, team-up with legendary heroes, and confront powerful dark forces seeking to control the fate of all life.
Saddle up, and join the definitive next-generation survival experience with ARK 2!
Project: Mara
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Having been announced long before Hellblade II’s release, Project: Mara is a small project that has been worked on by Ninja Theory for what feels like forever.
Although the signal on it has been dark for some time, that just means it’s due to resurface now that Senua’s Saga is out.
Perfect Dark
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
In the near future, Earth will be struck by a series of global disasters, bringing ecosystems around the world to the verge of collapse. Become Joanna Dark, dataDyne’s elite agent as she hunts down the world’s most wanted criminal, Daniel Carrington to uncover the mysteries behind the technological breakthroughs that could threaten the lives of millions.
Everwild
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Everwild is a brand new IP in the works at Rare, where unique and unforgettable experiences await in a natural and magical world.
Contraband
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Welcome to Contraband, a co-op smuggler’s paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan, brought to you by Avalanche Studios and Xbox Game Studios.
OD
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
A one-of-a-kind experience from the mind of Hideo Kojima.
Clockwork Revolution
Release Date: TBC
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X/S
Clockwork Revolution is a time-bending steampunk first-person RPG. After stumbling across an incredible invention that allows you to travel into the past, you discover the city you call home—the vibrant steam-powered metropolis of Avalon—has been carefully crafted through the alteration of historical events.
By traveling back to key moments, your interactions and choices will have a butterfly effect on the deep, narrative-driven world and characters of Avalon, causing them to change and react in unprecedented ways.
