New Xbox games — April 17th to 23rd

By Sean Carey,

Another 17 new Xbox games are coming to the platform next week, including Minecraft Legends, Dead Island 2, Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, Disney Speedstorm, and Homestead Arcana.

Next week is a busy one! On April 18th, we have three notable games coming to Xbox: Minecraft Legends (which is also one of several games coming to Game Pass this month), Disney Speedstorm, and The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story. On April 20th, there is the highly-anticipated Coffee Talk sequel, Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, which also joins Game Pass on day one, and then on April 21st, we have Homestead Arcana (another one for Game Pass subscribers) and Dead Island 2.

April 18th

Disney Speedstorm — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Pre-order now to get the following digital content:
• Toontech Early Bird - Donald Duck kart livery
• Early Bird - Donald Duck racing suit

Welcome to Disney Speedstorm's Early Access! Start your engines and hit the track with the Standard Founder's Pack that grants early access to the game and contains exclusive items!
This Founder's Pack contains:
• Early Access to Disney Speedstorm
• Racer unlock: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck
• Additional racer unlock of your choice*
• 4000 Tokens** (in-game currency)​
• 2 Golden Pass Credits***
• Exclusive Founding Member racing suit for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and the chosen racer
• Exclusive Founding Member kart livery for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and the chosen racer
• Exclusive Founder’s Motto and Avatar

*Players will be able to immediately unlock one of the following racers: Baloo, Belle, the Beast, Elizabeth Swann, Shang, or Mowgli.

**Tokens are an in-game currency in Disney Speedstorm that can be earned for free by achieving goals in the game or purchased by using real world money. They are not season based and can be accumulated. They can also be used to obtain items in the shop, buy the Golden Pass, skip Golden Pass tiers, and much more.

***Golden Pass Credits grant access to a premium tier of Seasonal rewards like liveries, suits, currencies, racers, and much more.

For more details on the Founder's Pack and its contents, please visit disneyspeedstorm.com.

Disney Speedstorm is the ultimate hero-based combat racing game, set on high-speed circuits inspired by Disney and Pixar worlds. It’s a thrilling arcade racing experience where players will need to master each character’s unique skills on the racetrack and claim victory.

DISNEY & PIXAR GO FULL BATTLE RACING
An incredible cast of characters including Mulan, Mickey Mouse, Sulley, Baloo, Captain Jack Sparrow, the Beast and more are suited and revving up for racing combat. Upgrade each racer’s stats and make the most of their unique skills that can impact the outcome of a single race and dramatically change the way you play the game!

ARCADE RACING REDEFINED
Anyone can pick up and play Disney Speedstorm, but mastering skills and techniques like timing your nitro boosts, precisely drifting around corners, and adapting to dynamic track environments are crucial to dominating each race.

RACING TOGETHER HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER
Pick your racer and speed through action-packed tracks solo, or challenge friends in local and remote multiplayer modes. You can even face off with players from around the globe to become an online legend.

DISNEY- & PIXAR-INSPIRED RACETRACKS
Start your engine in environments inspired by some of your favorite Disney and Pixar films. From the docks of Pirates of the Caribbean’s Pirates Island track to the wilds of The Jungle Book’s Jungle Ruins map or the Scare Floor from Monsters, Inc., you can experience these worlds from a fresh, exciting perspective geared specifically for racing!

CUSTOMIZE TO YOUR OWN STYLE
Choose your favorite racer’s suit, a flashy kart livery, and show off stylish wheels and wings — all of this and more is possible with the extensive customization features in the game!

NEW CONTENT RACING YOUR WAY
The action never slows down thanks to fresh seasonal content always around the corner. New Disney and Pixar racers will be added regularly, bringing special skills for you to master (or overcome), and unique tracks will be created often, to pump fresh strategy into the mix. Support characters, environments, customization options, and collectibles will also drop in regularly, so there’s always more to experience.

God of Rock — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

The mysterious God of Rock has revived the souls of the universe’s greatest musicians to clash for his entertainment. Revitalized with new bodies and new powers, each musician will become a contestant in his game, battling it out with each other for musical supremacy on a global stage.

God of Rock blends rhythm-based gameplay with fighting game mechanics in tense 1v1 matches. Choose from a dozen unique fighters, each with their own design, mechanics, and harmonic attacks. Soften up your opponent by executing normal moves and building meter by hitting notes to the beat of the song, then spend your meter to unleash EX and special moves do damage and add complexity to their tracks. Finally, finish them off with a devastating Super attack! As the battle progresses, the music track will continue to grow in complexity and difficulty until only one fighter is left standing!

Minecraft Legends — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

The piglins’ Nether corruption is spreading across the Overworld, scorching everything it touches. Are you the hero who will protect this gentle land? Plan your strategy and face the piglins in epic battles – but be warned: they always fight back. Take on piglin bases by day and defend your allies after dusk. Explore lush biomes filled with treasures and perils, meet new friends, and reunite with familiar mobs. With the allays by your side, all that’s left to do is save the world.

Experience an epic legend from the Minecraft universe and the Overworld as you’ve never seen it before

Form alliances with new friends and familiar mobs, then lead the charge in epic battles against the fierce piglins to defend the Overworld

Traverse a lush, dynamic world that’s rich in resources and different in each playthrough

Challenge your friends or team up in intense battles as you defend your village while leading your units to destroy your opponents’ settlements

Puzzle Quest 3 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One


The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Pre-Order the Standard Edition to receive a Lost Silverwing for your Hideout.

Developed by Digital Sun, creators of Moonlighter, The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™ is an action RPG that takes place in the League of Legends universe. In the kingdom of Demacia, the Mageseekers hold the power to oppress magic-using citizens in the name of public order–by inducting and indoctrinating them, locking them away, or driving them into hiding.

Play as Sylas, a spell-stealing mage who has just broken free of his unjust captivity at the Mageseekers’ hands. Wielding the chains that once bound you, you must liberate your homeland from tyranny, one Mageseeker at a time.

It’s time to unshackle the magic.
April 19th

Ayre and the Crystal Comet — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Experience dragon flying freedom and discover the history of an ancient civilization!

The open skies await as you take the role of a wandering dragon rider in search of a lost civilization! Presented in a nostalgic low-poly art style and allowing total freedom of flight from the beginning of your journey, Ayre and the Crystal Comet is a chill experience designed for exploration and discovery, without the pressures of combat or complex stat management. Search a vast open world from atop your dragon, or land and investigate locales on foot!

Take the role of Ayre, a young woman with a rare companion, the last living dragon. Having spent years travelling far and wide to learn where her dragon came from, Ayre believes she has located the homeland of an ancient dragon-riding civilization called the Skyriders. Having reached these lands, Ayre must now unlock its many elusive secrets.

Secret Agent: Cold War Espionage — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Set in the glamorous and dangerous world of 1969, as a secret agent, you'll be thrust into a heart-pounding spy game where you'll need to use all your skills to stop an evil super villain's plans for world domination!
April 20th

Cavity Busters — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Cavity Busters is a roguelite toothpunk bullet hell where you use your one and only tooth to chomp the cavity infested enemies. Run on the walls, dodge through bullet filled rooms and stomp baddies. Collect power ups, contract powerful diseases, and dig your way through the body.

Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

In a time where people are isolated from each other, Coffee Talk is a place where we can reconnect over a cup of warm drink.

It’s time to revisit your favorite late-night coffee shop and reconnect with your fantasy friends over a warm drink or two. You are a barista, and your customers aren't always humans, listen to their stories and influence their hearts with a warm cup of coffee or two.

*Brew Warm Drinks
Mix a combination of ingredients, such as tea, ginger, mint, chocolate, coffee and many more. Experiment and uncover secret recipes, change people’s lives by serving drinks that will warm their hearts.
*Create Latte-Art Masterpieces
Show your creativity, draw your own latte-art masterpiece with our in-game fluid simulation to decorate your drinks.
*Chill Lo-fi Atmosphere
Immerse yourself in the relaxing coffee shop atmosphere. It’s raining outside, brew yourself a warm drink, play that lo-fi chillhop beats, and listen to the coffee talk.
*Urban Fantasy Cappuccinopunk
Set in an alternate present-day Seattle where humans, orcs, elves, and other races have been coexisting since the beginning of time. Explore the world through the stories told by your customers one cup at a time.
*Hangout With a Diverse Cast
Meet quirky and interesting characters, such as; Baileys the elf freelance graphic designer, Lua, the succubus bisdev executive, Myrtle the orc game developer, and more. Listen to their stories and influence them with a warm drink or two!

Panic Porcupine — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps in this mashup of precision platforming and high speed gameplay

Stray Blade — Xbox Series X|S

Wild Dogs — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

The world is under a frantic alien attack. Amidst the chaos and with the army virtually subdued, the deadliest and most inconsequential pair of specialists are called upon to do what must be done. Join the war hunting aliens around the world and in every way possible.
April 21st

Dead Island 2 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

The much-loved zombie saga is back! Dead Island 2 is a thrilling First-Person Action RPG with a unique formula of horror, dark humor and over the top zombie-slaying.

A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, as you uncover the truth behind the outbreak, you'll discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.

Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Filthy Animals is a chaotic multiplayer heist game for 1-4 players. Become a mutant animal working for criminal mastermind Tony as you steal, fight, fall over, and eat tacos while trying to make off with the loot. Solve puzzles, avoid security, and bumble your way to victory, ya Filthy Animals.

Homestead Arcana — Xbox Series X|S, Windows

Become a farming Witch and pioneer the range that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma. Discover the secret behind its appearance, grow plants to power up your spells, and use nature’s magic to heal the land.

I Did Not Buy This Ticket (Windows) — Windows

Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Sean Carey
Written by Sean Carey
Avid Xbox and achievement fan, Sean has committed to playing the best RPGs, racing games, and first-person shooters Xbox Game Pass and his precious free time will allow. Prior to joining TrueAchievements, Sean gained a degree in journalism from Solent University.
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