These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (Aug 18-21)

Talk about a big week! We've got some major releases coming to Xbox over the next few days, including two huge Xbox Game Pass titles (Battletoads and Microsoft Flight Sim for PC), PGA Tour 2K21, the new version of Super Lucky's Tale, a puzzle game based on freakin' Peaky Blinders, and much, much more!

Let's take a look at the list below:


  • Helheim Hassle (Aug 18): "Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will..."
  • Manifold Garden (Aug 18): "Rediscover gravity and explore a beautiful Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction and falling leads you back to where you started."
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC (Aug 18) (Xbox Game Pass): "Take to the skies and experience the joy of flight in the next generation of Microsoft Flight Simulator. The world is at your fingertips."
  • Mortal Shell (Aug 18): "Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Your adversaries spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision, and instincts."
  • Beyond Enemy Lines 2 (Aug 19): "Take the role of a special agent deployed deep beyond enemy lines where terrain and conditions are barbaric. You will seek, locate and destroy the enemy while causing havoc and confusion."
Microsoft Flight Simulator for PC (Aug 18)
  • Spiritfarer (Aug 18): "Spiritfarer is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and guide them across mystical seas..."
  • Even The Ocean (Aug 19): "A lowly power plant technician for Whiteforge City, Aliph, finds her world turned upside-down after a routine maintenance trip goes awry."
  • FuzzBall (Aug 19): "Play as one of 6 FuzzBalls, these small animal plush toys roll into balls of fluff to move around and knock their enemies off a selection of 7 unique stages."
  • Norman's Great Illusion (Aug 19): "In "Norman's Great Illusion" you have to live a year as an engineer at the plant in the face of rising social tensions. Make difficult decisions, but keep in mind: you will have to pay for each choice."
  • She Sees Red (Aug 19): "She Sees Red is a mature, hard-boiled interactive thriller. When someone is killed inside a nightclub, an experienced detective vows to put the murderer behind bars."
  • Stones Of The Revenant (Aug 19): "Retro-Arcade style platformer with six unique playable characters. Team up with local co-op or try to defeat the Revenant and his minions solo in this challenging quest to save the realm of the living!"
Beyond Enemy Lines 2 (Aug 19)
  • Battletoads (Aug 20) (Xbox Game Pass): "The wait is over! Rash, Zitz and Pimple are returning to storm through an all-new action-packed adventure - couch co-op may never be the same again!"
  • Gleamlight (Aug 20): "Welcome to Gleamlight – a 2D action game that will take you through an adventure traversing a beautiful, transient world."
  • Train Sim World 2 (Aug 20): "Master iconic locomotives on high-speed services, long freight hauls or precise commuter traffic, and get creative with customisation tools in this advanced sequel. Climb into the cab in Train Sim World 2."
  • Gryphon Knight Epic: Definitive Edition (Aug 20): "Gryphon Knight Epic is a 2D Medieval Shoot’em up that mixes elements from classical shoot’em ups, exploration and duel-like boss battles."
  • Peaky Blinders: Mastermind (Aug 20): "Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a puzzle-adventure game, based on the multi-award-winning BBC and Netflix TV show."
  • Remnant: From The Ashes - Subject 2923 (Aug 20): "The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies..."
  • Dungeon Scavenger (Aug 21): "Fight dungeon denizens in this old-school, turn-based dungeon crawler. Each class has unique ways and real choices in combat to thrive scavenging a random dungeon."
PGA Tour 2K21 (Aug 21)
  • PGA Tour 2K21 (Aug 21): "Play against the pros. Play with your crew. In PGA TOUR 2K21, you can play by the rules or create your own!"
  • The Blobs Fight! (Aug 21): "A silly, local multiplayer, arena party game about creatures of blob-like nature. Run around as a blob attacking other players..."
  • Harvest Moon: Mad Dash (Aug 21): "Harvest, fish, milk, and more as you fulfill orders to complete each level, but watch out for molten lava, raging boars, and other obstacles!"
  • Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time (Aug 21): "Voiced by the original voice-actors, Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is an action platform game that spans across time and space, where your actions will determine a new legend!"
  • Party Panic (Aug 21): "You'll laugh, you'll cry, it's stupid. Grab your friends, pick your characters and get partying in this exciting and panic filled game!"
  • New Super Lucky's Tale (Aug 21): "A complete re-imagining of the original Super Lucky’s Tale, featuring redesigned and new levels, a fully rotatable camera, tighter movement control, and major overhauls to nearly every other aspect..."

More details and screenshots for most of these titles are available over at Xbox Wire. Also, don't forget to check out our Pure Xbox roundup of all the games announced for August 2020 so far! Is there anything you're particularly looking forward to in this list? Let us know in the comments below.

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