The middle of the week brings us some smaller titles, but things end with a bang as the end of the week sees the arrival of Persona 5 Tactica for Xbox Game Pass, as well as the launch of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin, which Ian called “solid gold strategy” in his Realms of Ruin preview.
From this page, you can view a game’s achievement list if it’s been released, subscribe to a game for news updates, add them to your wishlist, and even click through to the Microsoft Store to preorder or purchase. Here’s a breakdown of everything coming to the world of Xbox next week. Let us know which of these you’re planning on picking up in the comments, and don’t forget to check out all the upcoming Game Pass games to see what’ll feature on next week’s list!
November 13th
Spirittea — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
This is- well… used to be a nice town, but there have been some strange goings-on lately! You’re going to find the spirits causing mayhem and fix their problems so they can become paying customers, and get to know the townspeople and explore the mountain to its fullest!
Here’s the stuff you’ll want to get involved in:
-Solving the spirit’s problems – To remember themselves, they’ll need anything from some spicy noodles to finding and digging up their lost treasures, so get your problem-solving hat on!
-Making friends with the locals – The townspeople all have their own schedules, likes, dislikes and hobbies to take part in – from bug catching to karaoke, there’s something for everyone!
-Managing the bathhouse – You’ll need to clean towels, chop wood to heat the baths and seat the spirits with their friends for the ultimate bathing experience.
-Upgrading and decorating – The local shops can make a whole lot of cool furniture and help you fix up overgrown areas of the bathhouse. We should make it big and fancy enough to take on all the spirits!
THE BATHHOUSE
The bathhouse is an ancient spirit building hidden up in the mountain, and it’s up to you to clean it up and fill it full of customers! Once the spirits are in the bathhouse, you’ll need to clean towels, chop wood to heat the baths and seat the spirits with their friends for the ultimate bathing experience. Each spirit has their own preferences so you’ll need to get to know them all and upgrade the bathhouse to become the best bathhouse keeper around.
To keep your bathhouse running, you’ll need to:
-Keep the bathhouse and towels clean – Grab your trusty broom to sweep away the cobwebs and collect up all your towels, you’ll need to keep everything clean, dry and organised.
-Deliver a five-star service with food and scrubbing – Get ready to pamper your spirits with food straight from your kitchen and a give them a good scrub while they’re relaxing!
-Make the water perfect for each spirit – Chop wood for the boilers to heat up the water to the perfect temperature and mix up various elixirs to make the water perfect for each spirit – they’ll all have their preferences and favourite recipes!
-Sit friends together and enemies apart – Every spirit has others they like best, as well as some they don’t enjoy spending time with at all! You’ll have to plan carefully when you lead spirits to their baths – don’t seat just anyone together! Unless, of course, you don’t care about making money. Which I do. Very much so in-fact.
November 14th
ARK: Survival Ascended — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up in this next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Broken Roads — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Broken Roads is a narrative-driven RPG that brings exploration, strategic turn-based combat and meaningful philosophical choices to an all-new Australian post-apocalyptic setting.
Coral Island — Xbox Series X|S, Windows
KarmaZoo — Xbox Series X|S, Windows
Share the love and die trying! KarmaZoo is a joyful, altruistic, cooperative platformer where up to 10 random players help each other with the unique abilities of 50 different characters – all for the sake of good Karma.
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 lets you duke it out with the biggest and best fighting character roster yet! Choose your favorite brawlers, master their unique move sets, and use all-new powerful Supers to land the finishing blow with friends or across a unique, roguelike player campaign!
Super Crazy Rhythm Castle — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
UFO Robot Grendizer: The Feast of the Wolves — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
• Princely outfit
Get ready to experience an unforgettable adventure with Grendizer, the famous giant robot. This action/adventure game adapted from the cult animated series will immerse you in the heart of the universe of its creator, Go Nagai, and will give you the chance to pilot the most powerful of robots and fight the forces of evil.
After Planet Fleed is destroyed by the Empire of Vega , Prince Daisuke takes refuge on our planet. Taken in and adopted by Genzo Umon, he lives at the Shirakaba Farm. While Vega’s invasion of Earth is imminent, Daisuke will defend the planet Earth with the help of Grendizer, the titanic robot hidden deep inside Genzo Umon’s observatory. With the help of Koji Kabuto, the prince of Planet Fleed will constantly repel Vegans’ attacks and fight his terrible robots, the Monstronefs, which were sent to destroy him.
Play as Daisuke and his colossal robot while fighting in epic battles with multiple gameplays: Piloting the Spazer (flying module where Grendizer is housed), vertical shoot-them-up in the Koji Kabuto’s TFO, and 3rd person action/combat by controlling Grendizer. Use his iconic and devastating attacks to destroy the terrifying Monstronefs and save the earth.
Find yourself in Daisuke’s shoes and meet many essential characters during dialog sequences in the iconic environments of the series, which was so diligently reproduced in accordance with the designs of the original series.
And finally, earn experience points while completing missions to achieve new abilities and upgrade your powers.
Broadcast in France over 40 years ago, the cult animated series Grendizer has marked several generations with its history, which is so rich in twists and turns. Several million people around the world still remember his metamorphoses and lightning fists.
GAME FEATURES
• For the very first time, play as Grendizer and Umon Daisuke in this action/adventure game, which is all about the metal colossus.
• Execute and improve the famous must-have attacks of the giant robot
• Find all the characters, iconic places, and enemies of the TV series.
• A new gaming experience is offered to you in multiple game phases: Action/Brawler, 3rd person Shoot, Shoot Them Up and Exploration
• The iconic music of the series has been remastered, and you will able to enjoy it throughout the game
November 15th
Hades’ Star: DARK NEBULA — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Create and grow your space Empire, in a persistent galaxy that constantly evolves.
EXPLORE AND COLONIZE YOUR VERY OWN YELLOW STAR SYSTEM
As the most stable star type, the Yellow Star offers a perfect setting to establish your permanent presence and plan your Empire’s long term economy. All new players start in their own Yellow Star system and over time expand to discover and colonize more planets, set mining patterns, establish trade routes and neutralize the mysterious alien ships found throughout the Hades galaxy.
As the owner of a Yellow Star system, you have complete control over what other players have access to it. By establishing diplomatic relations, you can allow any other player to send ships to your system, and dictate your own terms for mining, trade or military cooperation.
COOPERATIVE PVE IN RED STARS
Very early in the game, every player will build a Red Star Scanner, a station that allows them to jump ships to detected Red Stars. These stars have a small lifetime and will go supernova after 10 minutes.
The goal in the Red Star is to co-operate with any other players that have ships in that star system, defeat the NPC ships, retrieve Artifacts from the Red Star planets, and jump back before the Supernova. Artifacts can be researched in the home star and will yield necessary resources for trade, mining and combat advancements. Higher level Red Stars offer more challenging enemies and better rewards.
TEAM PVP IN WHITE STARS
Players can organize in Corporations. Besides helping each other, Corporations can also scan for White Stars. A White Star sees 20 players from two Corporations battle in the same star system for Relics, a resource that can be retrieved to upgrade the Corporation and give each member additional benefits.
Time passes by very slowly in White Stars: every match lasts for 5 days, giving Corporation members time to talk and coordinate their strategy. The Time Machine can be used to plan future moves, communicate them to other Corporation members, and see potential outcomes of future combat.
EXCITING PVP IN BLUE STARS
Blue Stars are short lived combat arenas that only last for a few minutes, during which the entire system is collapsing on itself. Each player can only send a single Battleship to the Blue Star. The 5 participating players combat each other, using their ship’s modules and other NPC ships to destroy the other player Battleships and be the last one alive.
Blue Stars offer the fastest PvP action in the game. Regular participants receive daily and monthly rewards to advance their Empire.
Lily in Puzzle World — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Take the roll of Lily, a gleeful oblong sprite drawn into a childlike world of black-and-white sketches with splashes of bright color! Lily takes joy in completing the many puzzling challenges of her minimalistic world, but she will soon find that the more puzzles she solves, the more complex her obstacles will become.
Lily in Puzzle World is a 2D platformer filled with single-screen challenges, where Lily’s objective is to traverse each stage to reach a door and move on to the next puzzle. If Lily fails, she’ll instantly respawn at the beginning of the level so she can try again, so there’s not too much to worry about. In addition to reaching doors, Lily can also collect special coins, one for each stage placed in rather tricky spots. Can she collect them all?
Take the roll of Lily, a gleeful oblong sprite drawn into a childlike world of black-and-white sketches with splashes of bright color! Lily takes joy in completing the many puzzling challenges of her minimalistic world, but she will soon find that the more puzzles she solves, the more complex her obstacles will become.
Lily in Puzzle World is a 2D platformer filled with single-screen challenges, where Lily’s objective is to traverse each stage to reach a door and move on to the next puzzle. If Lily fails, she’ll instantly respawn at the beginning of the level so she can try again, so there’s not too much to worry about. In addition to reaching doors, Lily can also collect special coins, one for each stage placed in rather tricky spots. Can she collect them all?
Teardown — Xbox Series X|S
Prepare the perfect heist in this simulated and fully destructible voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or explosives to create shortcuts. Stack objects to reach new heights. Use the environment to your advantage in the most creative way you can think of.
The Last Faith — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
An unholy alliance of metroidvania and soulslike. The Last Faith thrives on merciless and precise combat, with a huge range of custom executions to perform. The wicked and the blessed will be judged the same; let nothing stand in your way.
Tri6: Infinite + — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
Tri6: Infinite is a fast paced endless racer in the Tri6 cyberspace. Avoid the obstacles as long as possible with your driving skills and different powerups to beat the top scores. With electrons you collect while playing you can unlock new vehicles and powerups for new challenges.
November 16th
Flashback 2 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
TOTAL WAR HAS BEGUN… RISE TO THE CHALLENGE!
Immerse yourself in an action-packed cyberpunk universe where the fate of humanity itself hangs in the balance. The Morphs are preparing their final attack, determined to enslave every civilization in the Solar System — and it’s your mission to fight back!
Jagged Alliance 3 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Prison City — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle Techno-Terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.
Smoots Pinball — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Enjoy an exciting and fun multiplayer pinball experience with Smoots Pinball! Play on 5 tables based on our popular Smoots games, complete missions, and unlock extras. Can you score 1,000,000 points? Play solo or with friends and show off your pinball skills!
Yohane the Parhelion: BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Yohane challenges an underwater labyrinth!
“Yohane the Parhelion” is getting a 2D action game!
Yohane the Parhelion is an official spin-off of “Love Live! Sunshine”.
Yohane’s fantasy world sets the stage for a 2D metroidvania in “Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the Deepblue”!
November 17th
Bakery Simulator — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Check the cookbook, use a database of original recipes, and learn to bake several dozen types of bread, buns, and more. Be precise – otherwise, your goods will not be properly baked.
Stores need different kinds of baked goods. Bread and buns are just not enough – some expect croissants, bagels, or muffins. Browse daily lists of orders, choose them and commit to regular deliveries. Raise your reputation and trust with the stores by making the deliveries on time.
Manage and control the ingredient storage space. Order different kinds of flour, yeast, and additives from the warehouse. Check which ingredients are missing or which you’re getting short or – otherwise, you may find yourself in a difficult position and unable to work on the orders!
Invest your hard-earned cash in newer equipment that will let you bake even more products. Buy a larger delivery vehicle or machines for making other types of bread. Expand your bakery.
Choose your own bakery equipment from the list of dozens of available machines and devices. Follow the manuals closely… or find your own use for them. Upgrade and customize your working space to your liking. Install more and more bakery machines as you progress through the game. Buy countertops, shelves, and tools. Create the perfect conditions for baking!
Plan your route to save as much time as possible when unloading. Hurry up and deliver warm bread to stores before opening. Remember that delays will cost you money!
From time to time new bakeries will appear. Respond to the needs of the market and invest in new equipment to avoid going bankrupt.
Barton Lynch Pro Surfing — Xbox Series X|S
Barton Lynch Pro Surfing pits you against the world’s best surfer’s at the most exotic locations on the planet. More speed = more moves! Pump control uses the wave’s power so you can surf faster and unlock more tricks. BL Pro Surfing features 12 world famous locations from point-breaks, to beach-breaks or deep water reefs. An in-depth leader-board sports game played out over an expansive world tour, or if you prefer just cruise the open world locations. Cutting edge graphics meets hardcore physics & at times, beautifully brutal waves. Pump, smash that lip, get sooo barreled and launch airs from waves that barrel, peak, break left, right, or just foam crumble. Customize your own character to within an inch of your life, or, play as some of today’s top pros including: Yago Dora, Clay Marzo, Nathan Florence, Soli Bailey, Mahina Maeda, Vahine Fierro, Felicity Palmateer, and of course the legendary world champion, and Pro Surfing commentator Barton Lynch.
Bluey: The Videogame — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Play a brand-new story set across 4 interactive adventures, explore iconic locations, play your favourite games from the TV show and also play with your friends and family in local multiplayer.
Low Story — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
After his fall and getting back together, he decides to take revenge on those who hurt him at all costs.
With this premise begins a 2.5D adventure with action, platforms, and even some puzzles, very fun and challenging.
Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm CONNECTIONS — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
New playable characters join all past characters of the STORM series for the largest roster of ninjas ever!
Plus, for the first time ever, the history of Naruto and Sasuke’s rivalry has been recut and combined into one game!
Persona 5 Tactica — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
After a strange incident, the Phantom Thieves find themselves in grave danger until a mysterious revolutionary rescues them and offers a deal in exchange for their help.
Assemble a team of beloved heroes in a brand-new story in this thrilling combat adventure set in Persona’s iconic universe!
The Myth Seekers 2: The Sunken City — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Join Amelia and scour the alleys of Paris in search of echoes of that legendary cataclysm. Discover the hidden truth and make sure that the mysterious forces responsible for this tragedy remain dormant. There’s no time to lose! And be warned, the legend also says that when Ys rises up from beneath the waves, Paris will be swallowed up in its place.
The Walking Dead: Destinies — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin — Xbox Series X|S
A real-time strategy game from Frontier, set in the iconic Warhammer universe. Become a warlord and lead four unique factions to conquer the wild and savage Realm of Ghur in tense and tactical battles.
Laura Adams is a tech enthusiast residing in the UK. Her articles cover the latest technological innovations, from AI to consumer gadgets, providing readers with a glimpse into the future of technology.