Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for April 20-24! We've got some really interesting games launching over the next few days, including the single-player adventure Tides of Tomorrow from the Road 96 team, beat-'em-up Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch, popular MMO Albion Online, and new Game Pass titles in Kiln and Vampire Crawlers!

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

New Xbox Releases (April 20-24)

  • Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch (April 20): "Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch combines incredible stylized, hand drawn animation, character design, and over the top combat and badass catchphrases in a side-scrolling, tag-team, beat-’em-up."
  • Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege (April 20): "Can the ex-soldier-turned-farmer Rudiger protect his people from a power-mad priest and his horde of monsters and minions? Can he become Saint Slayer?"
  • Albion Online (April 21): "Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion."
  • Collie Call: The Future is Calling (April 21): "Here, you control a robotic dog in outer space on a very unusual mission: organise floating sheep into air-bubble pastures before chaos takes over the galaxy."
  • Vampire Crawlers (April 21): "Deal world-ending combos and blitz through infested dungeons! Vampire Crawlers: the turbo wildcard from Vampire Survivors is a casual, turn‑based deckbuilder with roguelite elements. Master the Turboturn™ with your own hand of cards!"
  • GluMe (April 22): "Stick together to solve brainteasing stages in retro sliding puzzle style! Get ready for GluMe, a sliding puzzle game where you control a slime, and any friends you pick up along the way."
  • Shy Cats Hidden Orchestra 2 (April 22): "Shy Cats Hidden Orchestra 2 is the sequel to the cozy hidden object game Shy Cats Hidden Orchestra. This time, you must find not only the cats, but also their instruments."
  • Tides of Tomorrow (April 22): "In a flooded world struggling to survive, you embark on a singleplayer-mission – yet you’ll never be alone. You’ll constantly feel the presence of other Tidewalkers through the echoes of those that came before you."
  • Wild Seas (April 22): "In Wild Seas, a 2D tower defense game, you play as a friendly crocodile who possesses a jewel that has been passed down through generations, protecting the nearby islands."
  • Causal Loop (April 23): "As reality unravels and truth remains buried in the ruins, Bale’s only hope is to solve the mystery of the Tor – before he’s lost to the loop forever."
  • Combat Kart (April 23): "In A Difficult Game About Letters, you take control of a character who can transform into any letter of the alphabet. Each letter’s shape provides unique abilities, which you’ll need to solve puzzles, navigate obstacles, and complete challenging platforming levels."
  • Dragon is Dead (April 23): "Dragon is Dead delivers 2D platformer action requiring precise dodging and pattern-breaking. Each area is a vertically and horizontally intertwined, multi-layered structure that regenerates in a rogue-lite fashion with different terrain, monster placement, and loot composition on each run."
  • Kiln (April 23): "Double Fine Productions presents Kiln, a pottery power-fantasy that celebrates both Creativity and Destruction: the pleasure that comes from both making beautiful things, and then smashing those things to smithereens."
  • Kingdom's Return: Time-Eating Fruit and the Ancient Monster (April 23): "Kingdom's Return is an action RPG where you'll adventure to restore your fallen kingdom. Collect materials in 2D side-scrolling adventure stages, then use them in the strategy part to rebuild your kingdom and power up your characters!"
  • Kristala (April 23): "Kristala is a dark fantasy Action RPG that invites you into the role of a magically gifted feline warrior on a quest to master the ancient magics of the Sacred Kristals."
  • Our Metal Bowl (April 23): "Explore a vast network of abandoned industrial structures alongside your loyal robotic companion XIU. Your goal: extract life-giving nutrients to revitalize a decaying world and restore life to ancient, forgotten greenhouses."
  • Piggy’s Farm (April 23): "Get ready for a relaxing and charming puzzle where every move matters and every solution brings that satisfying sense of accomplishment."
  • Rumbral (April 23): "Move through a world filled with abandoned structures and puzzles, perhaps left behind by others. Survivors? Explorers?"
  • Star Fire: Eternal Cycle (April 23): "Star Fire is a quick-to-pick-up, action-packed roguelite built for fast, satisfying gameplay — no steep learning curves, no overcomplicated systems."
  • Sudden Strike 5 (April 23): "Sudden Strike 5 delivers real-time tactics in epic WWII battles. A host of tactical options and more than 300 playable units open-up multiple approaches to reach your objectives in a 25 mission campaign on historical battlefields in Europe and North Africa."
  • Until Then (April 23): "Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it’s too late."
  • Urban Jungle (April 23): "Urban Jungle is a charming and relaxing simulation game that invites you to transform ordinary apartments into a lush, green haven by placing delightful plants with savvy."
  • Dimensions 2 (April 24): "Dimensions 2 is the culmination of years of development by a single creator: the definitive conclusion of a story that has evolved across multiple dimensions."
  • Emoji Battlefield - Summer Vacation (April 24): "In this rogue-like first-person shooter, paradise has fallen into chaos as waves of emojis invade beaches, pools, and sunny resorts across the coast."
  • Farm Manager World (April 24): "Build your agricultural empire in exciting new locations around the world, cultivate exotic plants, breed animals, utilize crop rotation and fertilizers to care for the soil, and trade resources with friends."
  • Guts ‘n Grunts Sr. (April 24): "March 30, 2052, the Technate remains intact. After 17 years of speedily fighting Slaughterhouse AI, Gunnar Harsvin has one last run in him. Can he send one final message to the evil technocrats?"
  • Indoor Baseball (April 24): "Play a fast paced game of 1v1 baseball where your parents wouldn't let you. Break windows for home runs, smash toys and other house hold items, and avoid all the destruction while playing an arcade style baseball game."
  • Oblitacrater (April 24): "Obliticrater is a twin stick shooter where you fight endless alien monsters in increasingly difficult waves on a cute little planet!"
  • Party Club (April 24): "Seat customers, serve drinks, and manage chaos with up to 4 players! Keep the peace by considering customer types while seating them."
  • Traysia (April 24): "Traysia is a full-scale role-playing game made up of five scenarios, offering a definitive fantasy romance of love and adventure."

Xbox Game Pass Titles

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