Microsoft’s November Xbox showcase didn’t have any major reveals but it did have plenty of nice surprises. Most of them were all geared around making the now $30 Game Pass Ultimate subscription seem a little more worth it thanks to a slew of promised upcoming day-one releases. The livestream confirmed that Dave the Diver and recent Steam hit CloverPit are now both available on Xbox, each with new DLC coming early next year. But it also offered updates on a bunch of stuff that’s not out yet, including trailers for some new games we didn’t previously know about. Here’s all of them:
The Godfall studio is making a third-person roguelike shooter
Counterplay games confirmed it’s not closed and has actually been hard at work on its upcoming game Armatus. The very Remnant-looing action game has you wandering around the ruins of Paris and facing off against demons following a mysterious, urban-fantasy-coded cataclysm. The run-based game will have you collecting upgrades and experimenting with different powers. Hopefully, it can marry Godfall‘s excellent combat and neat visuals to a more rewarding progression loop. It’s coming out in 2026 and will be day-one on Game Pass.
The next wave of Silksong-likes is coming with Crowsworn
2D action platformer? Check. Metroidvania world? Check? Plague Doctor-inspired hero? Check. It’s impossible to tell if Crowsworn has the goods from the gameplay trailer alone but there are secrets to find and loadouts to optimize as you kill enemies in front of stylish scene art. There’s no release window but it’s also day-one on Game Pass.
Erosion promises isometric action in a glorious voxel art world
It’s a Western-themed, time-warping sandbox. Every time you die, you respawn 10 years in the future. The world around you changes and evolves in the meantime. A really neat idea helped by a really neat aesthetic. It looks like you’ll be exploring different towns and making choices that affect the future, too. It’s headed to Xbox Game Preview on PC in spring 2026 with a console launch to follow.
Echo Generation 2 looks like a promising sequel
The first Echo Generation was a humble little Stranger Things-style adventure that took inspiration from games like Paper Mario. There was turn-based combat, puzzle solving, and the occasional narrative-driven quick-time event. This time it looks like you’ll be propelled into a cyberpunk future fighting evil robots with a Gremlins-esque sidekick. It’s coming “soon” but doesn’t have a release date yet.
Multiplayer horror gets a period piece
The Mound: Omen of Cthulu is a co-op horror game that has players exploring a Lovecraftian haunted coastline in the colonial era. They’ll have to navigate “shifting perceptions” to survive and find treasure. This one’s out summer 2026 and not coming to Game Pass on day-one.
Indie darling Raji levels up
Raji: Kaliyuga is a sequel to Nodding Heads Games’ 2020 action adventure. It swaps the isometric perspective for a full third-person view and adds Raji’s brother Darsh as second playable character for a story that leans even deeper into mythology. The blue cat monkeys are the big highlight of the cinematic trailer reveal, though we haven’t really seen gameplay yet. It’ll be on Game Pass but there’s no release date yet.
The wait for Reanimal is almost over
The upcoming horror game from the original Little Nightmares developers got a new trailer, a release date, and a demo. The co-op adventure arrives February 2026 and its first demo is out today. Not surprisingly, the price to bag this one was too high and it won’t be a day-one Game Pass release.
Roadside Research looks like Supermarket Simulator with aliens
You’re still stocking shelves, still checking out customers, and still trying to stay in business. Except this time you’ll also be wearing disguises and trying not to raise the suspicions of the local populace that you’re actually from another planet. Roadside Research aims to engineer some co-op comedy in addition to the smooth-brained satisfaction of succeeding at capitalism. It’s coming Q1 2026 to Game Pass.
Tides of Annihilation has some wild boss fights
This one gave me big “Harpy fight from Final Fantasy XVI” vibes, in a good way. Tides of Annihilation is playing loosely off of the King Arthur mythology but mostly just seems interested in figuring out how it can mash up cool combat ideas from other flashy dark fantasy action games. The lack of a coherent visual identity probably won’t matter too much if the combat and boss fights can stay on point. Still no release date, unfortunately.
Total Chaos is out today
The follow-up to Turbo Overkill, about surviving creepypasta horror come to life, was shadow-dropped today on PC and console. It’s also on Game Pass. It looks way darker than its neon-fueled predecessor.
Vampire Survivors turns into a 3D pixel art dungeon crawler
Vampire Crawlers might be too good to play. Like, I’m seriously afraid to actually pick this one up once it’s out lest it consume all my free time against my will. Unlike the top-down first game, this one is a deck-building roguelike that seems to weigh strategy more than RNG. Mostly it just looks cool as heck.
Furry May Cry
Zoopunk also looks cool as heck. It’s set in the same universe as F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch and looks like someone learning to use Unreal Engine mashed together Destiny 2 and Star Fox. Unfortunately, it’s also leveraging some generative AI tools to let players craft and customize user-generated content in the game.
