New Xbox One Games for July 28 to 31.

Maid of Sker – July 28

Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!

Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from British folklore. Armed with only a defensive sound device, you’ll utilise stealth tactics to avoid death amongst a cult of sound-based AI enemies.

Set in 1898 and inspired by the haunting Welsh tale of Elisabeth Williams, this is a story of a family empire driven by torture, slavery, piracy and a supernatural mystery that suffocates the grounds of the hotel.

Features:

• 3D sound-based AI system as the core survival mechanic
• Fusing psychological, gothic and British horror
• Realistic visuals, immersive environments and eerie atmospherics
• Famous Welsh hymns from the spine-chilling voice of Tia Kalmaru
• Re-imagining of the Welsh folk song “Y Ferch o’r Sger” (The Maid of Sker)

Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection – July 28

The ultimate collection is here! It all began in ’93, and now, the weapon-based fighting game series that swept the world is ready to be taken home in a new stellar collection! Six NeoGeo titles as well as one mysterious, unreleased game are featured.

Destroy All Humans! – July 28

Terrorize the people of 1950s Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities.

Skater XL – July 28

Experience unparalleled board control and responsiveness while you skate legendary real-world skate spots. Style your tricks the way you want, from the way you flip the board to the way you move your feet. Feel connected to your board like never before.

Grounded (Game Preview)– July 28

The world is a vast, beautiful, and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunken to the size of an ant. Explore, build, and survive together in this cooperative survival-adventure. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard? Join our community and help shape the future of Grounded in Xbox Game Preview.

• Reactive World and Insect Life –

Explore this immersive and persistent world, where the insect life reacts to your actions.

• Base Building and Crafting –

Shelter and tools are critical to your survival. Build epic bases to protect you and your stuff from the insects and the elements. Craft weapons, tools, and armor, allowing you to better fight, explore and survive.

• Online Co-op –

You can face the backyard alone or together, online, with up to three friends – it is your choice.

• Campaign –

Uncover the secrets lurking in the shadows of Grounded as you freely explore the backyard and progress through its mysterious story.

Othercide – July 28

Descend into Humanity’s last hope. The Daughters, echoes of the greatest warrior to ever live, are all who stand before Suffering and death.

Lead your army of Daughters to battle. Your prowess in combat will shape their abilities and personality. Make the toughest decision and sacrifice one to heal another – survivors will get stronger, ready to fight the next battle.

Combat is an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters: plan ahead of time and set up impressive chains of abilities to outsmart the enemy. Fight in epic boss battles against the sources of Suffering – dread creatures pulled from the worst of Humanity’s crimes against itself.

You will fight. You will fail. You will rise again.

• Lead, evolve and sacrifice your army
• Outsmart nightmarish creatures in a spectacular Tactical RPG
• Endless combat possibilities with the Dynamic Timeline System
• A deep and complex narrative
• Failure is not the end. Return with lost powers to face a new nightmare

Cubers: Arena – July 28

An electrifying arena brawler/ twin-stick slasher game. Play as Baller, a slave fighting his way through an array of gladiators to reclaim his freedom. Play solo or in a local co-op and fight waves of enemies using a variety of weapons, armory, and skills.

112^th Seed – July 29

In a future where Earth has become uninhabitable and food is so scarce that most of humanity has perished, take the role of a seed that could restore hope! Solve puzzles, avoid traps, grow plants and find an exit in this casual yet challenging pixel art platformer.

Nicole – July 29

Classes, homework, and mysterious abductions! You can take up part-time jobs to earn money, explore various locations, do recreational and extra-curricular activities, and meet intriguing characters like Darren, Kurt, Jeff and Ted in this dating simulator.

The Sims 4: Nifty Knitting – July 29

In this artsy Community Voted Stuff Pack, Sims can needle their own clothes, toys, and knittable home décor. Take a seat in one of the new rocking chairs and start creating. When you’re done, pile your handcrafted styles onto your loved ones or turn a profit with the new online shopping platform, Plopsy. What delightful projects will your Sims take on?

Lost Wing – July 29

Lost Wing combines shooting and flying at super high speed . Race through a huge variety of tracks, dodging and shooting everything in your way, if you reach the end goal, destroy the boss for a massive points bonus.
Storm your way through three unique worlds, beat each stage, and destroy the bosses! Featuring an original electronic soundtrack, multiple play modes, stages, ships and weapons. Lost Wing is a perfect challenge for the most demanding players.

Features:

• Three worlds, four types of tracks, several difficulty modes and infinite hours of gameplay.
• Feel the adrenaline rush at intense speeds and slow-down time when it’s getting a little too close for comfort.
• High Definition Neon Sci-Fi atmosphere.
• Unlock multiple ships and upgrade them with power ups.
• Show your might and destroy the megabosses.
• Compete against other players on the online leaderboards.
• Focus on the acceleration infused original electronic soundtrack.

Nowhere Prophet – July 29

Build a loyal band of followers and survive the journey across a broken world. Barely.

Take on the role of a powerful leader and mystic. Empowered with the gifts of technopathy, the ability to sense and affect electrical currents.

You are the last hope to a band of outcastes and refugees. Lead them across the randomly generated wastelands. Pick fights with greedy slavers and crazy machines using the turn-based card combat. Can you survive long enough to reach the mysterious Crypt?

Nowhere Prophet is a single player card game with Procedurally Generated maps, a high difficulty and permadeath. At it’s heart are two distinct parts of gameplay: Travel and combat.

During travel you navigate across a procedurally generated map. Make sure your convoy has enough resources to travel as you pick your route. On your journey you will encounter strange places and even stranger people. You will be thrust into situations that put the fate of your followers in your hands.

If you’re lucky enough to gain some rewards, maybe for helping someone – or robbing them, then you can invest those to improve your decks. Recruit more followers to have more and different units to put into battle. Equip your prophet or level up and learn new skills to have access to stronger action cards in combat.

You will have to overcome some enemies to keep your convoy and resources together. And sometimes you may even want to pick a fight for righteousness or just for loot. Once in battle the game changes to the turn-based card game mode.

Play convoy cards to put your followers onto the field and position them so you can overcome your enemy. Or play action cards to dramatically change the battlefield. But be careful: If you’re wounded you will have to find a safe place to heal. And if one of your followers takes too many wounds, they are lost forever.

Nowhere Prophet is set on a far off planet called Soma. Your story begins many years after the Crash, a complete technological collapse. Civilization has broken down and the lack of resources made everyone turn either bandit or madman.

In this world inspired by Indian culture you lead a convoy of outcastes. These desperate men and woman following your vision of a better future. Under your guidance they travel with you through the wastelands. Your goal is the Crypt, a mystical place that promises untainted technology and safety.

If you can survive long enough to find it.

Features:

• Card-based tactical combat system
• New procedurally generated maps each game
• Find loot and recruit followers to build your deck
• Unlock new content across multiple playthroughs
• More than 300 cards for you to discover
• Indian infused electronica soundtrack

Hellpoint – July 30

Hellpoint is a dark and challenging action RPG set in a heavily atmospheric sci-fi universe where the line between science and occultism is blurred.

Once a pinnacle of human achievement, the Irid Novo space station has fallen. Its ruins are now overrun by cruel interdimensional entities acting as puppets of the malevolent Cosmic Gods. You have been created by the Author, organically printed on Irid Novo and sent on a mission to find out the unholy series of events that led to the catastrophic incident known as the Merge.

• Irid Novo is a massive interconnected world full of mysteries, hidden passages and secrets within secrets – all for you to explore in any order you like. More dread and shivers awaits you as you travel deeper into the darkest corner of this forsaken colony.
• Dozens of melee and ranged weapons and armor pieces to suit your playstyle. Every weapon has unique special abilities that unlock the more you fight with them.
• A fascinating new sci fi universe reminiscent of classic sci-fi movies, set in the aftermath of a massive quantum cataclysm and complete with a deep lore and goosebump inducing soundtrack.
• The space station orbits in real time around an ominous black hole that triggers various dynamic events such as boss appearances, horde assaults as well as modified enemy stats and positions.
• If you are struggling, ask a friend to press Start to join in a couch coop session, or call for assistance online. The entire game can be completed uninterrupted in coop. The loot is shared, and the experience of local player two is saved and not watered down.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 – July 30

Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, must face the ambitious Ryuji Goda, the Dragon of Kansai, in an all-out war between two rival yakuza clans. An extreme recreation of one of Yakuza’s most beloved entries. There can be only one dragon.

Merchant of the Skies – July 30

In Merchant of the Skies you’re the captain of an airship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade empire in the clouds!

Merchant of the Skies is a trading game with light base-building and tycoon elements. You start off as a captain of a small cloudship and work your way towards establishing your own trade company. Merchant of the skies is an experimental game: it does not have a distinct genre, but tries to capture the feeling of traveling the world and establishing your own company. That means we try to incorporate exploration, base building, trading and some minor rpg elements into the game.

Merchant of the Skies offers you a 6-8 hours campaign where you can help different characters and restore the world to its former glory, as well as a sandbox mode where you can forget about the plot and focus on building your own company, establishing caravan routes and developing your mansion.

Features:

• Become a trader! Find the best trade routes and profit from them
• Discover the world! Travel between flying isles and face different encounters
• Sandbox gameplay: do what you want at your own pace
• Gain experience and become more savvy when it comes to trading, then start your own goods production
• Establish trade routes to transport and sell goods without your direct involvement
• Get rich and build your own mansion from more than 200 different building blocks

The Touryst – July 30

You are just arriving at the Monument Islands. Want to go swimming? Or rather take a dive into the deep sea? Or do you want to visit the amusement arcade, do some shopping, dance at the beach party? Fancy some surfing? Or will you talk with the strange old tourist and listen to what he has to say about these ancient mysterious monuments? Explore all of these activities in this action adventure puzzle game!

CastleStorm II – July 31

CastleStorm II levels up gaming’s greatest genre mishmash with ruthless destruction powered by Unreal 4, plus a whole new metagame of strategic, tactical conquest. The heroes of the Kingdom defend their homeland against the vile forces of the Undead, and only you can plot the path to triumph for both sides in two epic story-driven campaigns. But not without some hands-on chaotic carnage and delightful devastation!

Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises – July 31

Entertaining plunge into the world of debauched elites, alluring women, and corrupted cops, where power is the ultimate currency. This is a thrilling introduction to the brand-new Hidden Object Game series in the tradition of best police dramas.

Seasons of the Samurai – July 31

Lead a samurai through a series of puzzles set in the eight provinces of Japan. Control the season and the time of day to change the configuration of each level, allowing the samurai a safe passage to the next level.

Swim Out – July 31

Dive into the relaxing and refreshing atmosphere of Swim Out, a strategic, turn-based puzzle game, that will transport you into a sunny day by the swimming pool, the river or the sea. Plan each of your strokes wisely and be sure to never cross any other swimmer’s path if you want to peacefully enjoy the sea view on a cosy chaise-longue.

Heroes of Hammerwatch – Ultimate Edition – July 31

Action RPG rogue-lite Heroes of Hammerwatch is finally out on Xbox One in its most complete form, as this Ultimate Edition comes with all the DLCs!

Encounter endless hordes of enemies, traps, puzzles, secrets and tons of loot, as you battle your way through Procedurally Generated Levels to reach the top of the Forsaken Spire. Upgrade to grant your persistent heroes with various enhancements that will further help you in your quest, and even bring them to your friends’ game!

FEATURES:

• Procedurally generated levels that will bring you a new challenge with each run.
• Persistent progression: Your heroes will retain the experience gained from a run, becoming more powerful as they level up.
• Online Co-op: Play with up to 3 friends in online co-op!
• Town upgrades: Revamp 10 different buildings to grant your heroes with various enhancements.
• 9 different classes: Each one with unique stats, abilities and play styles.
• Over 100 unique items of various rarities.
• Includes all 3 DLCs: Witch Hunter, Pyramid of Prophecy and Moon Temple. With many additional skills, items, areas to explore, 2 new game modes, 2 new classes and much more!
• New Game+: Get ready for a real challenge, and even if you beat it, the challenge never ends!