Xbox game releases — August 28 to September 3

Next week sees 20 new games heading to the Xbox platform with a range of genres from a detective adventure to a winemaking simulator.

Xbox game releases — August 28 to September 3
Heidi Nicholas

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Another 20 new Xbox games arrive next week, including the last Xbox Game Pass addition of August: Sea of Stars. It's a varied mix of genres and gameplay styles for the rest of next week's new releases, with you battling giant insects in Hexapoda to exploring a haunted college campus in The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation. 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!

August 28th

Under the Waves — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Stan, a professional diver in the North Sea, is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss during an extended mission underwater. Stuck in his self-imposed solitude, he starts to experience strange events and will have to make the most significant choice of his life...
August 29th

Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

From the brillant mind of the BAFTA Scotland Award-Wining studio, Blazing Griffin, get ready in 2023 for a new adventure as the famous detective Hercule Poirot travels to London for a seemingly simple task of delivering a painting for an exhibition, that will be unfortunately stolen during the grand opening.

For the first time ever, players will have the opportunity to team up with Poirot’s beloved sidekick in the books, Hastings, as they uncover a new mystery. Expérience a new location, adventure, and partner in this exciting next chapter of Hercule Poirot in his youth.

Harvest Days — Xbox Series X|S

Sea of Stars — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

The Making of Karateka — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Play the history. Go behind the scenes of Jordan Mechner's landmark game Karateka in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse, with archival materials, video features, and more. Experience pixel-perfect versions of this legendary game, with all-new features.
August 30th

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle — Xbox Series X|S

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is a third-person story-driven survival horror game prequel to the critically acclaimed Daymare: 1998. Step into the shoes of special agent Dalila Reyes, a former government spy now in the service of a unit called H.A.D.E.S. (Hexacore Advanced Division for Extraction and Search), and get ready to enter the most advanced experimental research center in the United States of America. Be careful, though, because in the darkness of the desolate, labyrinthine depths of the military research center there is something creepy and lethal awaiting you!
Grab one of the most innovative and technologically advanced weapons of all time and prepare to face never-before-seen creatures while you make your way through a series of frightfully evocative settings all ready to be discovered.
A perfect mix of fierce and deadly enemies, hardcore action game mechanics, environmental puzzles, a chilling soundtrack, plenty of exploration and massive doses of concentrated horror wait for you in Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle. No place is safe, especially when you’re being hunted by your nightmares.

Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator — Xbox Series X|S, Windows

Winemaking could be your best adventure.
Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top.
Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.

Revhead — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Revhead is a car racing simulation game, where you have to build your own race car. You have to think like a real Revhead! You can buy or sell cars and components, fix and tweak your car to make it the fastest around.

The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Escape a haunted college campus in a cinematic Asian horror experience unlike any other!

Prepare yourself for an Asian survival horror tale told through a cinematic first-person perspective! In this atmospheric action-adventure, explore the events surrounding one of Taiwan’s best-known supernatural incidents, a terrifying campus horror set in Tunghu University. When 6 college students challenge the urban legend of a lingering female ghost, they awaken a curse that no one knows how to break.

Use stealth to avoid the murderous ghost as you piece together the mystery and find a way off campus. The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation offers intense action, puzzle elements, immersive exploration, film-quality storytelling and cutting-edge graphic design, all set in a modern world that grounds the psychological horror in unnerving realism, now complete with English voiceovers.
August 31st

How 2 Escape — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices.
"Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.

Pocket Bravery — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

QUByte Classics - Gourmet Warriors — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Gourmet Warriors is a surrealistic side-scrolling beat'em-up originally released in 1995.

The year is 20XX, World War III has occurred and decimated the planet. Recovering from nuclear war has not been easy, as the citizens of Zeus Heaven Magic City, one of the few surviving metropolitan centers, will tell you. Zeus is a world unto itself, a world of power and technology. A world with precious little food supplies. It is imperative to ingest proteins in whatever food you can find on your journey.

Bath, a secret organization bent on causing strife and violence, is growing their power every day, slowly taking over more and more of the city - including food supplies.

Save the city of Zeus Heaving Magic from the attempt of demonic mutant robots to take over! And eat some tasty gourmet recipes while you're at it!

Tenebris Pictura — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Presenting Tenebris Pictura, an ultra-corporeal action adventure brought to you by the creators of Megaton Rainfall.

You'll be plunged back to the Victorian era, playing the role of a paranormal investigator with psychic abilities who has landed in a misty, convoluted island, brimming with mystery. You were invited there by an old friend, to investigate his daughter's disappearance. Before long, you're embroiled in a supernatural mystery linked with a shady sect, and sightings of extra-terrestrial beings that appear to have escaped from a strange collection of paintings with dubious origins.

DEFY THE UNKNOWN BEASTS

Conceal your body from danger and separate your soul to face the demon hordes. Dodge their barrages of ectoplasm and counter-attack with your psychic energy blasts...

But that won't be enough! You need to move the objects around and get your surroundings strategically prepared. You'll discover and learn how to use your strange skills and tricks to divide and conquer, stopping your enemies' progress in spite of being massively outnumbered.

SOLVE TRANS-DIMENSIONAL PUZZLES

On this island, the laws of nature seem to be crumbling: disappearing floors transport you to far-away galaxies, moving walls, illusions and lights that create the environment in their wake, transportable worlds found inside paintings...

A huge variety of puzzles to scramble your mind presented in a non-linear order, designed to accept multiple creative solutions.

EXPLORE A UNIQUE ISLAND

Use the Aeter Pendulum to find murky presences in areas scattered across the island: misty forests, infested buildings and mansions with spooky basements that appear to have been used as laboratories for the paranormal.

Use your psychic abilities to find clues revealing what is about to happen on the island...

Are you ready to lose yourself in a Victorian fantasy loaded with secrets and worlds within worlds?

Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!

War Hospital — Xbox Series X|S

September 1st

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is 1 second per second of advanced funkstyle. Battle rival crews and dispatch militarized police to conquer the five boroughs of New Amsterdam. Become All City.

Cats and the Other Lives — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

Following the passing of Bernard Mason, the patriarch of the family, all the remaining Masons return to their childhood home for one last time.
As Aspen, the cat of the household, players will take a journey across the hopes, disappointments and regrets of the enigmatic Mason family, traversing through a rich narrative that spans over decades.
The game embraces a simple yet intuitive point and click play style, celebrating a design approach based on the behaviours of common house cats living all around the world.
Is the cat just a pet, or does this creature play a more mysterious role in our lives?

DREAMERS — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One

DREAMERS will lead you on an emotional journey in a story about friendship, exploration, and personal growth. Join the three characters in their adventure through a 3D world with secondary storylines and mini-games, vehicles to upgrade, puzzles to solve, and collaborative split-screen experiences.

Escape First Alchemist — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

Escape first: Alchemist is a multiplayer first person escape room / adventure game, where you play as the apprentices of the reclusive sorceror-alchemist "Trismegistus". Your benevolent master managed to trap himself in a prison of his own making, and has bestowed upon you the challenge of releasing him. Of course, to make sure you don't just run away from his cunning riddles, he deigned fit to trap you as well...

Find ingredients and discover new potion recipes. Craft unique potions and gain the powers you need to escape.

Solve numerous interactive puzzles using logic, observation and communication.

Hexapoda — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows

Get ready to fight giant Insects for the future of humanity!
After the last human war, gases were spread through the atmosphere, making it unbreathable.
The richest fled to orbital colonies and the others took refuge underground.

You are a young hothead, hired by a team of scientists left on earth who are looking for a solution to bring humans back to the surface.

Playable from 1 to 4 players (local co-op),
Hexapoda is inspired by Arcade classics.

- 3 Game Modes : Normal , Hard and Manic.
- Unlock 3 Different endings, new features and new items.
- 12 stages.
- 4 futuristic combat aircrafts with their own style of shooting.
- A bestiary composed of giant insects.
- Unlock all the 30 achievements !
- Leaderboards for each game mode.

Powered by an original epic soundtrack composed by the French band of electronic music: Double Dragon.
Written by Heidi Nicholas
Heidi tends to lean towards indie games, RPGs, and open-world games on Xbox, and when not playing Disney Dreamlight Valley, happily installs every new wholesome game that appears on Xbox Game Pass, before diving back into favorites like The Witcher 3. She's looking forward to Age of Mythology Retold, Everwild, Fable, and Avowed on the Xbox horizon. Heidi graduated with an MA in English Literature before joining the TrueAchievements team.
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