These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox This Week (October 17-21)

Welcome to your new Xbox games roundup for October 17th to 21st! We've got a stacked week ahead in terms of major new releases, with the likes of Gotham Knights, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and New Tales From The Borderlands coming to Xbox, plus Game Pass titles including A Plague Tale: Requiem and Persona 5 Royal! It's an exciting time to be an Xbox owner...

Here's what's coming to Xbox this week:

New Xbox Releases (October 17-21)

Optimised For Xbox Series X|S

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (October 18): "Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival."

• Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed (October 18): "A multiplayer game perfect for all skill levels. Four proton pack wielding Ghostbusters attempt to catch a ghost haunting unique locations in asymmetrical multiplayer battles (online or offline)."

• Them's Fightin' Herds (October 18): "A 2D fighting game featuring a cast of adorable animals designed by acclaimed cartoon producer, Lauren Faust."

• The Sims 4 Free-To-Play (October 18): "Starting October 18, 2022, The Sims 4 base game will be a free download on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One."

• Pnevmo-Capsula (October 19): "A casual adventure game that takes place in an alternate utopian atompunk world. The city is connected by a single system of rails, tracks, and pipes."

• The Last Hero of Nostalgaia (October 19): "As the most hideous pixelated hero to ever spawn in Nostalgaia, you must fight through an army of its mindless inhabitants, while being jeered by a cynical narrator who despises your very existence."

• Jackbox Party Pack 9 (October 20): "Save your next party with friends or family! Play five uproarious new games in one Party Pack."

• Park Story (October 20): "Unravel handcrafted puzzle dungeons and confront your demons in Park Story, a reimagination of the classic top-down action RPG."

• Phantom Abyss (October 20): "A massive asynchronous multiplayer game that casts players into procedurally generated temples and tasks them with retrieving the sacred relics hidden within deadly chambers."

• Second Extinction (October 20): "Lock and Load, EX-U! Second Extinction is launching out of Early Access on 20.10.2022."

• Tempus - Level Escape (October 20): "You are the only citizen of Tempus, a small island far from civilization, where you live a quiet and carefree life."

• Gotham Knights (October 21): "Batman is dead. A new expansive, criminal underworld has swept the streets of Gotham City."

• JoJo Siwa: Worldwide Party (October 21): "Play through the rhythmic world of JoJo Siwa as she travels around her fantasy lands in this single-player popstar adventure runner."

• New Tales From The Borderlands (October 21): "Within the perpetually war-torn metropolis of Promethea, you’ll control Anu, Octavio, and Fran on the worst day of their lives."

• Persona 5 Royal (October 21): "Prepare for the award-winning RPG experience in this definitive edition of Persona 5 Royal, featuring a treasure trove of downloadable content!"

Xbox One

• Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed (October 18): "A multiplayer game perfect for all skill levels. Four proton pack wielding Ghostbusters attempt to catch a ghost haunting unique locations in asymmetrical multiplayer battles (online or offline)."

• Kovox Pitch (October 18): "A rhythm baseball game with a wholesome story and post-punk music. The aim of the game is to swap between two lines to successfully hit balls..."

• Them's Fightin' Herds (October 18): "A 2D fighting game featuring a cast of adorable animals designed by acclaimed cartoon producer, Lauren Faust."

• The Sims 4 Free-To-Play (October 18): "Starting October 18, 2022, The Sims 4 base game will be a free download on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One."

• 41 Hours (October 19): "41 Hours is a cinematic first-person adventure driven by intense shootouts and advanced, often alien technology."

• Pnevmo-Capsula (October 19): "A casual adventure game that takes place in an alternate utopian atompunk world. The city is connected by a single system of rails, tracks, and pipes."

• The Last Hero of Nostalgaia (October 19): "As the most hideous pixelated hero to ever spawn in Nostalgaia, you must fight through an army of its mindless inhabitants, while being jeered by a cynical narrator who despises your very existence."

• WW2: Bunker Simulator (October 19): "Complete missions, cook & shoot, search the bodies for medicines, ammo, and food to survive in this mix of FPS and simulator."

• Batora: Lost Haven (October 20): "Embark on an epic adventure to save Earth in this interplanetary action RPG. Master the duality of combat, take on epic bosses and uncover the truth of what really happened!"

• Doomed To Hell (October 20): "An action-packed roguelike-like top-down shooter that is a hell of a lot of fun! You play as Rose, and though you’ve just died, your adventure is just getting started."

• Gas Station Simulator (October 20): "Gas Station Simulator is all about renovating, expanding, and running a gas station along a highway in the middle of a desert."

• Jackbox Party Pack 9 (October 20): "Save your next party with friends or family! Play five uproarious new games in one Party Pack."

• One True Hero (October 20): "An epic, 3D platforming adventure featuring a young hero who never thought that he could save the kingdom!"

• Park Story (October 20): "Unravel handcrafted puzzle dungeons and confront your demons in Park Story, a reimagination of the classic top-down action RPG."

• Second Extinction (October 20): "Lock and Load, EX-U! Second Extinction is launching out of Early Access on 20.10.2022."

• Shapeshooter (October 20): "Is literally an on-rail shooter where you’ll have to clear colonies across four planets from little creature infestations called polygoneers."

• Tempus - Level Escape (October 20): "You are the only citizen of Tempus, a small island far from civilization, where you live a quiet and carefree life."

• Aery - Last Day Of Death (October 21): "A story-driven 3D flight exploration game in which you control a little bird that is on its non-violent journey through time, space, and different dimensions..."

• JoJo Siwa: Worldwide Party (October 21): "Play through the rhythmic world of JoJo Siwa as she travels around her fantasy lands in this single-player popstar adventure runner."

• New Tales From The Borderlands (October 21): "Within the perpetually war-torn metropolis of Promethea, you’ll control Anu, Octavio, and Fran on the worst day of their lives."

• Persona 5 Royal (October 21): "Prepare for the award-winning RPG experience in this definitive edition of Persona 5 Royal, featuring a treasure trove of downloadable content!"

Xbox Game Pass Titles

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (October 18)
• Phantom Abyss (October 20)
• Persona 5: Royal (October 21)

Is there anything you're particularly looking forward to in this list? Let us know in the comments below.

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