One Dog Story – July 13 (Xbox One X Enhanced)
An engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries. As you play your way through the game, other creatures living in this strange underground world will help you piece together your memories.
An explosive 3v3 shooter where you’re never out of the action. Master your hero’s unique rockets and abilities to rule the arena and become a champion! Adapt your strategy with an ever-growing roster of diverse heroes with distinctive powers. Unearth new strategies and tactics based on your squad, explore a wide variety of dynamic maps, and discover the true depth of rocket gameplay.
Neon Abyss – July 14
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
Ultra Hat Dimension – July 15
Ultra Hat Dimension is a puzzle game about adorable hats and people getting punched for wearing them. The catch is that the player can’t punch anyone; instead, they must use the power of hats to convince others to do the punching for them. Find and defeat the Spluff responsible for all this chaos!
Ooblets – July 15 (Xbox Game Preview)
Ooblets is a farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow, and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs! Start life in a little rundown farm that you’ll cultivate, improve, and customise.
Take control of two wizard brothers who possess the power of resurrection in a gorgeous pixel-art world. Solve puzzles, platforming challenges, and encounter dangerous monsters and traps that require you to KILL one of the brothers to advance! Single player and local co-op.
#Funtime – July 16 (Xbox One X Enhanced)
An explosive twin-stick shooter where shooting isn’t your only weapon. Swap your ship’s colour to destroy enemies, avoid damage, and ultimately control the battlefield. Play through over 50 challenge levels and eight different battle modes, all with their own leaderboards to show your dominance.
Forager – July 16
Forager is a 2D open world game inspired by your favourite exploration, farming, and crafting games. Start small and improve your base, skills, equipment, network of friends (and enemies!) and build your future as you see fit.
Neversong – July 16 (Xbox One X Enhanced)
Upon waking from a coma, Peet’s girlfriend is nowhere to be found. Investigate the screams coming from the heart of Neverwood, the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the zombie grownups, and the strange truth about Peet’s past in this hauntingly dreamlike fable.
A hare-raising action-arcade game perfect for new players and 16-bit retro fans alike. Featuring bite-sized pick-up-and-play action, fast-paced whack-a-rabbit gameplay, scintillating puzzles, super-sized boss fights, juicy pixel graphics and a sizzling soundtrack.
Bounty Battle – July 16
Bounty Battle is the ultimate indie fighting game: a new multiplayer 2D fighter, where you can pit your favourite indie heroes against one another! Indie heroes from games like Guacamelee! and Darkest Dungeon, to Dead Cells, Owlboy, and more battle it out in this fighter frenzy.
Through this careful choice of words, players express themselves as they discuss ongoing problems about life and romance with their in-game partner over text messages, while also chatting with friends and strangers at their favourite local bar about what’s on their mind. The combination of words they choose impacts the conversations they have, and whether their relationship can survive the night.
Superhot: Mind Control Delete – July 16
The third game in the Superhot franchise, Mind Control Delete gives you more insight into the world of Superhot, more story, more signature gameplay. Keep dancing the slow-motion ballet of destruction for so much longer than ever before.
Dunk Lords – July 16
Dunk Lords is a two-on-two basketball beat ’em up featuring over-the-top special moves, devastating dunks, and game-changing equipment. Choose from 20 of the baddest ballers around, each with unique special attacks and abilities, and do battle on a variety of hazard-filled courts.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus – July 17
Take control of the most technologically advanced army in the Imperium – The Adeptus Mechanicus. Your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the mission, in this turn-based tactical game. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Happy gaming CX readers, enjoy your weekend!