Welcome to your new Xbox games roundup for September 5th to 9th! It's another interesting week of new releases ahead, with the likes of Steelrising, NBA 2K23 and the Biomutant next-gen upgrade on the way, along with the Xbox Game Pass additions of Disney Dreamlight Valley and Train Sim World 3!
Here's what's coming to Xbox this week:
New Xbox Releases (September 5-9)
Optimised For Xbox Series X|S
- Biomutant for XSX (September 6): "Smoother and more beautiful than ever! Enjoy ultra-fast loading times, native 4k resolution, HDR support, and up to 60 FPS."
- Disney Dreamlight Valley (Early Access) (September 6): "Disney Dreamlight Valley is a hybrid between a life-sim and an adventure game rich with quests, exploration, and engaging activities featuring Disney and Pixar friends..."
- TemTem (September 6): "Temtem is a massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure. Seek adventure in the lovely Airborne Archipelago alongside your Temtem squad."
- Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim (September 7): "Kaichu is a dating sim about kaiju! You play the role of Gigachu, a gigantic romantic looking for love."
- White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (September 7): "Evade murderous janitors, encounter terrifying phantoms, and solve mind-bending puzzles. Unravel a twisting narrative with multiple endings..."
- Steelrising (September 8): "Enter an alternative history where a tyrant king is choking Paris with an army of robotic soldiers. As Aegis, the queen’s mechanical bodyguard, you will string together dodges, parries, jumps, and devastating attacks..."
- NBA 2K23 (September 9): "Rise to the occasion and realize your full potential in NBA 2K23. Prove yourself against the best players in the world and showcase your talent in MyCareer or The W."
Xbox One
- Circus Electrique (September 6): "Part story-driven RPG, part tactics, part circus management, and completely enthralling. When everyday Londoners mysteriously turn into vicious killers..."
- Disney Dreamlight Valley (Early Access) (September 6): "Disney Dreamlight Valley is a hybrid between a life-sim and an adventure game rich with quests, exploration, and engaging activities featuring Disney and Pixar friends..."
- Game Type DX (September 7): "First, brave your way through a confusing maze of menus, then take to the air as the indefatigable 'Hoodie Girl' and blast sentient advertisements into cold, hard cash!"
- Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim (September 7): "Kaichu is a dating sim about kaiju! You play the role of Gigachu, a gigantic romantic looking for love."
- White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (September 7): "Evade murderous janitors, encounter terrifying phantoms, and solve mind-bending puzzles. Unravel a twisting narrative with multiple endings..."
- Radical Rex (September 8): "Radical Rex is a fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus on a skateboard who must save the dinosaur race. He’s the raddest, baddest fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus ever to shred prehistoric pavement!"
- Tower Princess (September 8): "A charming 3D roguelite platformer about a normal day in the life of a knight! Sharpen the spear and make the Dragon run in fear!"
- NBA 2K23 (September 9): "Rise to the occasion and realize your full potential in NBA 2K23. Prove yourself against the best players in the world and showcase your talent in MyCareer or The W."
Xbox Game Pass Titles
- Disney Dreamlight Valley (Early Access) (September 6)
- Opus Magnum for PC (September 6)
- Train Sim World 3 (September 6)
Is there anything you're particularly looking forward to in this list? Let us know in the comments below.
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I'm glad White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is finally coming to Xbox.
Definitely gonna give Dreamlight valley a go. Will wait for reviews for Steelrising. I already have Biomutant so will try out the free upgrade, though not sure it will be enough to pull me back into the game.
I read it wrong and for a moment I thought Steelrising was coming to Game Pass day one. Was beginning to think of renewing my suscription just for that.
Looking forward to TemTem..
Hey what about little ol
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/justice-sucks/9PGXWDR3SL96
I’m probably one of a very few that don’t get all this backward old games stuff.
Guess I’m from an era when you had a console played the games you wanted on it and when the next generation arrived you had new games for that new console, end of and everything moved forward very well and also no cross generation as well.
How my old gaming days have changed.
For me being honest for the worse, I preferred new console new games for that console so it took advantage of the new power a lot quicker.
Also all resource and energy spent on new games none of this back wards compatibility taking resources.
I know I’m in the minority and just old 😂😂😂
@iBashar141 Very much agree! I like so much about it, but it simply doesn't feel good to fight and that is the core mechanic in this game.
@Dezzy70 This early on in a generation though the games still wouldn't be taking full advantage of the hardware - we always see the best games that really push it later on when they're more efficiently coding for it.
Also a factor is that new consoles are often planned only a few years in advance while new games can be 5 years+, so won't have been designed to take full advantage of the extra headroom.
So even in past new generations, there were "wow" moments (like I got this gen with Flight Sim and FH5) but you don't truly see what the hardware is capable of for a few years
@iBashar141 @Sveakungen @Lup I loved Greedfall even though it was janky - I love Spiders settings and storytelling.
While I liked the setting (although the automaton bit is a bit odd!) I hoped they were going to stick more to RPG than action as combat wasn't the strongest part of Greedfall either.
Fingers crossed that a) they fix up SteelRising properly and b) it comes to Game Pass so I'm not burned if it does turn out to be more jank than normal and need a good few months of fixing...
Anyone know who had the marketing rights on it? EDIT - crap it seems to be Sony so very much doubt it'll be on Game Pass for the next year (think Greedfall arrived about 12 months after release so probably same again?)
@Widey85 except that another new platform launched around the same time and has done a much better job of proving its worth and bringing genuine new experiences to gamers.
I notice you didnt mention Halo, and thats probably just as well. It trully saddens me to think what Halo should be compared with what it is. Even FH5, which is the closest thing series x has had to a next gen game 1st party) has awful pop up @ 60hz and the slowest loading times ive ever seen, its liking playing on a ps4 and my wife doesnt believe the series x has an ssd. Weve both gone back to FH4, which I rate as a better experience, sadly. When I play FH5 now its via PC so i can have high frame rate without series x pop in.
I think there's definately lots more of an issue here than a slow start as you have suggested. Im hoping aquisitions will at last bring some software that pushes the box and entertains those of us looking for tech pushing aaa experiences, but looks like we are waiting till next year for many of them...
Im invested now, so im not going anywhere, but I rather use my xbox more than I have done so far this year.. Bring on the next gen already!
@Titntin FH5 loads slowly for you?!
FH3 and 4 on my original Xbox One was painful, having to wait minutes to get into races - I've been doing Hot Wheels on my secondary account for some Rewards points and the race loads in seconds (the menus if anything are the slow part).
Or do you mean online races? I've not actually tried them on FH5 yet...
If local, either you've been spoiled by a super fast SSD on PC or something or there may be an issue with your Xbox...
Now if you'd said Flight Sim - that takes FOREVER to load, but I do understand it's loading the entire world lol
@Widey85 No, nothing special , just loading the game or missions takes ages. I also thought tgere was something wrong but every other game runs fine.
Ive probably over stated it, you could wait minutes on ps4 after all!
Im talking 15 to 20 seconds, which didnt seem much, but the titles I consider really next gen have no loading times, so I dont know what the issue is with FH5 is. The dlc seems better, pop in not noticable and loading seems faster.
A search for fh5 loading issues shows a ton of peoole have issues, many on pc, but also series x
Yeah flight sim takes a while even on my high end pc, but well let that off, its got a lot to load and download 😂
One of the things that makes a game feel next gen is never seeing a loading screen, like Ratchet or Returnal on ps5 - you never have to wait to be playing.
Its hardly end of the world stuff, but when you have only a couple of 1st party show pieces, it doesnt look good sitting looking at loading screens.... They should be a thing of the past!
@Titntin FH5 isn't a true next gen game, it's a cross gen title. That might explain the longer load times, time will tell when Forza Motorsport releases next year as that is Series consoles only.
The only truly next gen (that's 1st party) game that I'm aware of is Microsoft Flight Simulator, which takes a while to load on PC or Series consoles.
@Acurisur Thank you. Yes im sure you are correct and no doubt keeping it cross gen means its not using the ssd as it could in the future.
Im just a little triggered ive had the machine so long and yet its potential has hardly been explored! Still, another 4 or 5 months and maybe I'll have more titles than I can play 😂
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