New Xbox games — January 20 to 26

Dive into the vibrant world of AquaRun, a fast-paced 2D pixel art platformer that tests your reflexes, precision, and determination! Inspired by the best of hardcore platforming games, AquaRun challenges you to guide a fragile yet determined character through 40 meticulously designed levels filled with relentless obstacles, devious traps, and tricky platforms.

Your mission? Reach the mystical cloud at the end of each stage to unlock new adventures, unravel secrets, and prove your mastery of the game’s mechanics.

Main Features
-Precision-Based Gameplay: Navigate tight jumps, razor-sharp hazards, and intricate platforming challenges that demand pinpoint accuracy.
-Dash Mechanic: Strategically time your dashes to clear gaps, avoid traps, and reach otherwise inaccessible areas.
-Progressive Difficulty: Start with easier stages to learn the mechanics, then face a steady ramp-up in challenge as you conquer 40 levels of increasing intensity.
-Pixel Art Aesthetics: Immerse yourself in a vibrant, hand-crafted 2D pixel art world with a dynamic atmosphere and charming animations.
-Instant Respawn: Enjoy seamless retries to maintain the flow of gameplay and keep frustration at bay.
-Hardcore Platforming Excellence: Perfect for players who crave precision, challenge, and a rewarding sense of accomplishment.

Each level is a test of your skill, perseverance, and adaptability. Only the most determined will reach the final cloud and unveil the ultimate reward. Can you rise to the challenge?

Escape the department store and uncover the hidden truth in this full 3D roguelike dungeon crawler.

The girl gradually overcomes her trauma by uncovering the truth of her past.
Join the journey of a heartbroken girl finding her true self.

The fight to regain memories
– Become a girl who has lost her memory and must uncover the truth. The story progresses as you become stronger with each escape attempt.

Game Design for Repeatable Play
– Department stores are constantly changing and offer new experiences every time.
Use the Gift Desk to become stronger and gain the ability to tackle your next escape.

There is no failure in every challenge
– Even if you are not a master, anyone can enjoy spectacular skills and an exciting storyline through permanent enhancement.
Are you a master? It’s time to test your mastery. Take the challenge.

Set in the Land of Fumes, this prosperous magical superpower is home to vast quantities of magical resources lurking underneath the surface. In hopes of advancing their kingdom’s development, artificial life forms known as Homunculi came into being. Regrettably, toxic Fumes from the underground drove the Homunculi to madness, turning them into feral monsters.

You play as Lilac, an “Attuner” who possesses the power to save the Homunculi. Upon waking, you find yourself in a laboratory deep in the underground. There, you will become acquainted with the Homunculi closely involved in the kingdom’s downfall. Together with the Homunculi, set out in search of your lost memories and precious friends in the Land of Fumes. Follow the journey of destruction and rebirth in a post-apocalyptic world, decades after the disastrous Rain of Death.

Guide a mischievous kid back to his parents in a vibrant side-scrolling adventure!

Guide Popotinho safely back to his home as you run, hop and double-jump your way through side-scrolling platformer stages inspired by genre classics. Collect fruit to earn extra lives, grab hearts to replenish health and more as you traverse 50 tricky landscapes, from grasslands and forests to the dark of falling night.

Use springboards to reach new heights and touch flagpoles to set checkpoints along the way. Avoid spike traps and hop on enemies’ heads to keep Popotinho safe. Can you reunite him with his parents and restore happiness to Popotinho’s holiday?

Rynna has arrived on one of Shalnor’s most dangerous Islands. Prepare yourself for an epic RPG/Action Adventure game. With focus on gauntlet-style combat, traps, boss fights and beautiful pixel-art scenery.

Once a haven for tourism, now the island is abandoned due to the presence of the Slime Queen. To prove her worth, our young Elven hero has to overcome the challenges of the island by finding powerful weapons and items to use against the hordes of monsters in challenging gauntlet-style combat encounters.

Shalnor: Silverwind Saga is a combat focused game, each dungeon and cave is filled with large numbers of monsters as well as their Elite variants. The game is designed with 2D sprites placed upon a 3D terrain which gives the game a unique look, as well as a camera angle that complements the combat style.
The game features quick and swift movement that makes fighting hordes of monsters fun. As well as different weapons that add variation to combat and how you approach the different enemies.

FEATURES:
– Large variety of monsters as well as “Elite” Monsters.
– Unique dungeons with engaging boss fights.
– An arsenal of weapons and items that add variation to combat.
– Quick and swift movement that makes fighting hordes of monsters fun.
– Multiple vibrant zones each beautifully hand-crafted.
– Trick monsters by walking them into traps.
– Find Rubies and Emeralds to increase your Health and Stamina.

Take off on a crazy adventure with Stellar Strider, a precision platformer packed with challenges, obstacles, flying saws, lightsabers, aliens, and gravity inversion.

Precision Platformer: A game that’s easy to learn but hard to master.

Double Jump: Overcome bigger obstacles and reach new heights.

Gravity Inverter: To overcome certain obstacles and escape the aliens, you’ll need to flip the game’s gravity and complete the mission upside down.

Immersive Adventure: Board a perilous spacecraft heading toward a black hole.

Dance of Cards is a tactical gambling RPG where you try to survive seven days of a deadly cruise by playing poker.

With no option to escape, they are forced to accept the rules and put their lives at stake for a fleeting hope of salvation.

During the seven days, players will face each other at the poker table to decide whose life will be taken next. Cheat, bluff and build trust with others to survive until the end of the cruise – and don’t forget that everything is up to chance.

Welcome to the new chapter of the “Mystery Box” series.

You’re trapped inside dark rooms and must solve intriguing enigmas to open boxes and escape. Can you make it?
Interact with bizarre mechanisms, think out of the box to gain your freedom, and discover historical unsolved mysteries.
You will experience a real-life adventure while playing this puzzle game!
Lots of intriguing puzzles are waiting for you, ensuring an immersive experience that will keep you engaged for hours.
Examine several mechanisms to unlock each box and gain your freedom.

Your story:
Begin your adventure as the reluctant future heir of a stud farm. Prove that you are more than just a spoiled brat. Start from scratch and learn how to keep and manage a stud farm; it will be a challenge that will prove incredibly rewarding – return the stud farm to its former glory! Along your journey, discover that nothing is as lasting as the bond with your horses!

Manage your stud farm and return it to its former glory!
Your stud farm is not in a good shape – your job is to rebuild it, which will require quite a bit of skill and knowledge about keeping a stud farm. Develop your skills and gain knowledge to bring the farm up to scratch and learn how to maintain it. Manage your employees and other horses. Watch the stud farm transform from a ruin into a home for you and your horses.

Your horse isn’t the only friend you can make!
Saddle up and explore the idyllic open world of Chestnut Glen and its surrounding landscape. Help rebuild the run-down stud farm by trotting around and meeting the village’s residents – hang out with them and complete tasks for them to improve your and the stud farm’s reputation. Remember, not everybody you meet will want to be friends with you. Some people don’t even like horses!

Your dream horse:
In My Horse: Bonded Spirits, you can change not only your appearance but also your horse’s and the stud farm’s. Choose various accessories, hairstyles, and saddles for your horse, so that you can gallop through the world in style. Place decorations and renovate the stud farm to beautify not only the stables but also the whole surrounding area!

Prove yourself in various competitions:
Do you think the bond with your horse is strong enough to win competitions? The more trust there is between the two of you, the more easily your horse will learn new skills and the less afraid they will be of new challenges.

“Cyber Tank 2” is a challenging puzzle game which adds various mechanics on top of the Sokoban genre:
– Shot reflections;
– Destroyable ice;
– Crumbling floors;
– Enemies that can be moved;
– Water that can be traversed by putting blocks into it;
– Teleports;
– Conveyors;
– Collectible bonuses;
– And so on!

Collect all the 135 holographic cubes across 45 mind-twisting levels and reach the exit!

Cycle Chaser H-5 is a horizontal arcade-style shoot-em-up. Defeat foes to harvest their energy for maximum power and defense!

Mysterious aliens, led by a brainwashed soldier, have occupied a scorched Earth. 400 years later, a lone pilot seeks to rescue him from this cycle of destruction. Do you have what it takes to defeat the rampaging alien forces? Burn through waves of impenetrable foes with a sleek arsenal of weapons.

The Dragon Army, commanded by the ruthless Drake Emperor Tiberius, marches ever closer to total conquest of the world. The once-mighty nations stand divided, each struggling in isolation as their lands fall one by one under the growing shadow of the army. Amid the chaos, a young man named Helio, from the humble village of Haven, faces his end in a vicious dragon attack. However, just as hope fades, a mysterious power awakens within him—the legendary “Skill Taker”. Now, Helio must harness this ability to turn the tide of war, acquiring his enemies’ strengths to fight back against an unstoppable force.

Engage in strategic, turn-based combat with a front-view command system that emphasizes exploiting enemy weaknesses in a fantasy RPG with beautiful pixel and anime-styled characters. As Helio, use the unique “Skill Taker” ability to steal and equip powerful skills from defeated foes, giving you the freedom to build and customize your arsenal. Master the art of anticipating enemy moves, unleashing devastating counterattacks, and outmaneuvering even the fiercest opponents. With each battle, you’ll grow stronger and unlock new strategies, guiding Helio from a simple villager to a key player in the fight for the world’s survival.

Fast-paced Rogue-like! Battle endless monsters, enjoy rapid Rogue-like thrills! Double the choices, unlock more classes, build unique talents! You are the hero!
Quickly get to the most thrilling part of Rogue-like! It delivers a great experience even when facing a screen full of monsters! Unlock your favorite classes, upgrade your preferred talents, face hundreds to thousands of monsters, make your choices, and play in your own style! But first, you need to make sure you can survive!

Game Features:
+ Multiple classes to unlock: Knight, Samurai, Toxicologist, Maid, Werewolf, Mage—choose your favorite class.
+ More monsters. Face hundreds to thousands of monsters on the same screen, alone against a surging tide of beasts.
+ Over twenty weapons to choose from, each with over a dozen branches for selection!
+ Rich gameplay styles. Make each choice count and play in your own unique style!
+ Rich talents to upgrade, making your character even more unique!