Jenkinss

Since they usually do a bit of a studio tour for each game, it's going to be interesting seeing two games from the same developer this time.

RIP Orcs Must Die Deathtrap. Pushed out before it was finished, the performance was abysmal and I never found the time to go back to see if it was fixed.

Kings Bounty 2 might have had the worst voice acting of any game I've played in decades but it was so bad that it kind of became endearing. I heard many people say they played in Russian with subtitles in the same way people watch anime in Japanese with subtitles, lol

@FraserG seeing the orange box on here just reminded me the Xbox team fortress 2 community is still very active with a discord that arranges events several times a week. Just throwing it out there as an idea for a PXB story.

Enchanted Arms remaster when?

I am paid for ultimate through the summer. Then, I have a 1 year sub code Phil Spencer sent me with a Christmas card I can use. After that who knows, but I suspect I will probably downgrade.

After loving Remnant and then putting Remnant 2 at the very top of my greatest coop games of all time list, I'm finally getting around to playing the first game in the series Chronos: Before the Ashes. Hoping to finish it before Pathalogic 3 comes out next week.

I don't remember the last time I had 2 games pre-ordered the same week. Very excited for both Pathologic 3 and FFVII. Interestingly they are both sort of remakes.

Oh hell yes, especially columns and fantasy zone.

I used to swap games on and off an external SSD but stopped using it, it's almost as fast to just redownload games and I don't have a data cap.

First one by far, second was also great though, kinda hated the 3rd and I don't even remember why. It had something to do with the ending or a time skip or something.

@Llamageddon tough loss for the Eagles last week 😭

@Jenkinss It's a Korean RTS where you are also controlling a hero on the battlefield, a really neat genre blend with some properly epic moments as the armies get bigger and bigger. Mandalore reviewed it a few years ago when it got a really late PC port:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYTsnNPu-0E

I have always had a soft spot for east Asian takes on medieval European setting/aesthetic, fantasy or otherwise. I think it might be from growing up with the Phantasy Star games.

Europeans love soccer

@VisitingComet1 I loved the Oblivion remaster, but I played it a couple months after launch. I think it has some major performance issues when it first came out which thankfully I missed.

My top Xbox games outside the usual KOTOR and Halo games are Morrowind, Kingdom Under Fire The Crusaders, Fable, and Jade Empire.

Pathalogic series is legendary for those who know. Watch hbomberguy or mandaloregaming's video on the first Pathalogic, both videos are incredible and worth anyone's time.

AI banning people for no reason and you can appeal to another AI. Hasn't happened to me because I never use Xbox chat anymore for this very reason.

God help playstation and Nintendo fans if MS shares their moderation bots

HYPE, definitely getting the 2 expansion upgrade again

I bought a 2nd hand Playstation in 1997 just to play one game - FFVII. I'm loving the remake so far.

Walked into Sears on launch day and bought one without a preorder. Got Halo but got stuck with 2 racing games I didn't need as everyone made you buy bundles back then. Got a second controller, and me and my buddy played through the entire Halo campaign that day/night.

Up until now, absolutely no game has launched day one on other consoles (except for acquisition titles that were already multiplatform), and none have released in under a year either (except Indiana Jones, which is a Disney‑licensed game). You’re making assumptions, and so am I — the difference is that nothing supports your assumptions, while mine are backed by actual facts.

0. Indiana Jones (for some reason, this is exempt because it's an IP owned by Disney?)
1. Gears of War Reloaded
2. The Outer Worlds 2
3. Grounded
4. Age of Mythology Retold
5. Minecraft Legends
6. upcoming Halo Combat Evolved

What are we doing here dude, lmao. You are the final "it's just 4 games" boss.

My Little Pony is looking like another game for me to play with my daughter, game pass has done well feeding me games to play with her.

Rogue Trader is on Game Pass? I had no idea, played it at release - the reason I didn't get to Baldur's Gate 3 for a while since it unexpectedly hit Xbox the same day. Incredible game for fans of CRPGs and/or WH40K.

Xbox One X with its HDD swapped out for a SSD was a true beast last gen. That said, I wouldn't buy a console now from a 13 year old gen unless your goal is retro gaming.

Just finished the last achievement for Dome Keeper. Great game!

My daughter might like the My Little Pony game

Blasted through the MK1 story when it got released on game pass, great stupid fun.

@bert0503 it's great, their art department rules (as you know)

Forza
Surprise
Fable
Beast

Great game from a great dev. The art and the combat blow away anything else in the genre. Glad it is ditching f2p and I hope it finds an audience.

Outward 2, Dark Heresy, and Osiris Reborn? It's like this show was tailor made just for me.

I'm really, really looking forward to Outward 2. The first game coop with my wife was such a memorable adventure. No one else really makes games like that.

I wound up buying

For my Wife:
Cult of the Lamb Sinful Edition

For my daughter:
Cat Quest III
Crashlands

For myself:
Death Stranding

No price on the guitar yet? I used to love Rock Band but all my guitars are pretty dead at this point.

Can't wait to see some FH6, the best Microsoft games of the last 2 gens I think have been FH4 and FH5.

Preordered and preloaded. Played the demo and I'm running high on nostalgia for one of the greatest games of all time.

Fable without Molyneux is like Gears without Cliffy - it might be a pillar but certainly not a load bearing one.

@Fiendish-Beaver Same here... huge fan of Mass Effect (but who isn't, right?) and I'm pretty excited because I have high hopes for two games to take us on that journey again, Osiris Reborn and Exodus.

Have you heard the Osiris Reborn theme yet? Music is one of the reasons I love Owlcat games so much, and that song is just TAKING ME THERE. If not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PqNeoff3NI

FF1, interesting. I wonder if we will see 2-6 added to Game Pass one at a time through the year?

Two weeks until FF7R which will be my first FF game since 15, I'm looking forward to it.

@Fiendish-Beaver Yes it is turn based, it is a CRPG from Owlcat who also made Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader which it should be very similar to. They also made my favorite CRPG of all time Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous (which was a hybrid of turn based and real time with pause).

I would say Owlcat's CRPGs are the least accessible out of the best current CRPG devs (Larian, Obsidian, inXile) but they are more than worth learning because the games are phenomenal. They are also making the new Expanse game Osiris Reborn which is looking like a real Mass Effect successor. They are on almost an identical trajectory to 90s into 00s Bioware.

I bought Chaos Gate a while back and still haven't started it, can never find the time!

Copy paste of my comment from the other 2026 Xbox games article

For me on this list
Definitely:
FF7
GTA6
Gears E Day
FH6

Probably:
Fable

Maybe:
Toxic Commando
Monster Hunter Stories 3

Hopefully come out in 2026 (on Xbox):
Pathologic 3
Solasta 2
Outward 2
Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy
No Rest for the Wicked
Big Walk
Chrono Odyssey

I don't care for ESO but Blackbird was the only internal MS game that I was interested in that got cancelled. I say internal because some of the 3rd party stuff also sounded interesting, like Contraband.

@Balaam_ THIS is a point a lot of people don't understand. The last time I explained this I think was before the price hikes, and the situation was already beyond abysmal. I think I have a few posts with some numbers like this:

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/05/xbox-achieves-record-breaking-results-in-latest-earnings-report#comment8619158

"despite things looking doom and gloom, it's important to remember that Xbox is Sega now"

Oh ok cool that settles that thanks for the pep talk

Warlander was kinda neat, played it for a couple hours.

I didn't like anything about Anthem, including the flying. Typical post doctors Bioware game

If I really like a game, after I beat it achievements can be a reason to play a little more. Otherwise I don't really care.

If hero seekers wasn't anime and I had the time I had 20 years ago that's something I'd definitely play, I used to love blobbers (at least I think it's a blobber from the trailer)

My wife and I are completely hooked on Dome Keeper.

lol @ Flintlock, made for an audience that doesn't buy games. I actually liked Ashen, too.

I had a lot of fun with The Ascent going through it with friends. They nailed the cyberpunk setting.