Best New Games Coming to Xbox One (October 2 – 8)

Go hunting in a beautiful open world teeming with life, from majestic deer and awe-inspiring bison, down to the countless birds, critters and insects of the wilderness. In addition to its rich single-player experience, theHunter: Call of the Wild offers unique multiplayer options – co-op and competitive – for up to 8 players.

Trouble is brewing at the Hamore School of Witchcraft, and the only freshman witch-in-training Belle MacFae can put things right. As Belle, you must seek out the three crucial ingredients of the Walpurgisnacht Brew, which means investigating the school’s colorful 2D landscapes in a quest that combines elements of nonlinear exploration-based action-platformers and class object-oriented adventures.

You are Rock Gunar, mercenary gun for hire with alien blood on his hands. Twitchy trigger fingers and focused battle tactics are the order of the day as you take on this ultimate survival mode challenge to wipe out every alien on this ship. You will die — a lot — but sheer brute force plus cool ammo and weapon upgrades will help you take these vermin down, one wave at a time.

The critically acclaimed action-RPG Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen combines exhilarating and deep combat with the freedom to explore the huge open world of Gransys. Choose between nine different classes, embark on your own adventure, and use the deep combat system to wield devastating skills and magicks to take on fabled monsters. Includes all DLC, making this the ultimate version of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen.

Drop into the retro-futuristic world of Marble Void! A 3D Platformer inspired by old school platformers, Marble Madness, Marble Blast Ultra and the 80’s. Pilot your Marble through puzzles and skill based obstacles to complete stages. With 3 tiers of difficulty and mini games, Marble Void is easy to pick up and play, yet tough to master! Moving platforms, switches, teleporters, gravity modifiers, kill spheres and more await you in 40+ stages of varying difficulties. Great for all ages!

This is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary N+, rewritten from scratch to be bigger, better, and more beautiful in every way. N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Inversus is a negative-space shooter up to four players. Movement is constrained to opposite colors of a black and white grid. Each shot flips tile colors to block, trap, and close in on the enemy. Both online and local couch play are supported. The competitive mode pits you against other players; single-player and co-op have you face endless waves of enemies together as you fight for the highest score.

Build your own cybernetic JYDGE and eradicate crime in the never-sleeping megacity of Edenbyrg. Create your own play-style by augmenting your JYDGE, modifying your Gavel rifle, and choosing fearless companions to suit the tasks at hand.

 

In a remote arena, 16 contestants have 20 minutes to explore, scavenge items, craft weapons, build traps, hunt, and kill each other. Face to face, mano a mano, this is Battle Royale in its most brutal form. That means only one will be crowned the winner.

An intuitive horror adventure about a boy with a glowing head. Inspired by Machinarium and Gobliiins, you’ll solve puzzles, defeat wicked monsters, and reveal Bulby’s abilities to unfold a twisted tale. Ohhh… And don’t forget to save your Grandpa-raffin and Mothdog from the frightening darkness.

Take down the Nazi aerial menace across a rich campaign of missions, each with numerous objectives and enemies as well as side objectives in this World War II air combat game. Work with your partner to assign objectives together in order to succeed.

Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets! Upgrade your guns with mods and artifacts, find magic spell runes, potions, items, melee weapons, unlock 50 characters to play as, discover 150+ unique guns and weapons, launch teddy bears that explode into fire, blow up your friends with heat-seeking missiles, and get to the final zone to kill the Dance King.