Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for March 18-22! We've got some major titles on the way next week including Dragon's Dogma 2 and Alone in the Dark, along with two Game Pass additions highlighted by MLB The Show 24.
Here's what's coming to Xbox next week:
New Xbox Releases (March 18-22)
- Lightyear Frontier (March 19): "Start your interstellar homestead in this peaceful open-world farming adventure! Build your sustainable exofarm, grow alien crops, customize your mech, and explore a new world full of mystery with up to three friends!"
- MLB The Show 24 (March 19): "Set out on the road to baseball greatness – whatever it is you want to achieve, MLB® The Show™ 24 has got you covered."
- Alone in the Dark (March 20): "This love letter to the ground-breaking original lets you experience a haunting story through the eyes of one of two protagonists. Play as either Edward Carnby or Emily Hartwood and explore your environments, fight monsters, solve puzzles and uncover the uneasy truth of Derceto Manor…"
- Master Maker 3D Ultimate (March 20): "Play as Master Maker, a young builder who possesses a special boomerang hammer capable of collecting items, destroying boxes, and defeating enemies from a distance!"
- Power of Ten (March 20): "It’s your starfighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you hold back the relentless tide and protect the galaxies civilians."
- Final Fantasy XIV Online (March 21): "Experience all the hallmarks of the best-selling franchise — an unforgettable story, exhilarating battles, and a myriad of diverse and captivating environments to explore."
- Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure (March 21): "Explore and gather resources, farm the land, craft tools, build your base or a cozy home – Ikonei Island is yours to discover!"
- Krimson (March 21): "Krimson is a challenging gritty rhythm platformer featuring heavy electronic metal music where you're an unknown spawn moving through a hellish world as it shifts rhythmically to the music."
- Scott Whiskers in: the Search for Mr. Fumbleclaw (March 21): "A modern, funny and family-friendly point & click adventure game about cats, Star Trek and life itself."
- Stunt Paradise (March 21): "Welcome to Stunt Paradise, the ultimate destination for extreme driving and heart-pumping stunts! Buckle up and prepare to experience the thrill of a lifetime as you take on the most epic challenges on four wheels."
- Tram Simulator: Urban Transit (March 21): "In this game, you take on the role of a tram driver and manager in Angel Shores, the North American-themed city from the popular bus simulator game Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop."
- DarkGems (March 22): "A cartoony mining rogue-lite game set in the deep gemstone caverns. Journey through three randomly generated maps filled with zombies, ghosts, and demons."
- Dragon's Dogma 2 (March 22): "Dragon’s Dogma is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG series that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more."
- Gambit Shifter (March 22): "Take control of a single piece, solve your way through 80+ hand-crafted levels, and lose yourself in the zen-like atmosphere as you advance!"
- Space Moves (March 22): "A sci-fi puzzle adventure game that features a unique game mechanic where enemies move in sync with the main protagonist (grid based movement mechanics)."
Xbox Game Pass Titles
- Lightyear Frontier (March 19)
- MLB The Show 24 (March 19)
Will you be playing any of these Xbox games next week? Let us know down in the comments below.
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So, will anyone actually be buying Alone in the Dark, or is it going to be another disappointing money sink for the publisher that's mostly known for being a disappointing money sink?
@Vordus If it reviews well, I’m interested at least. Not sure I’d play it right away, given that I’ve already got two other preorders right now for next week and I’m still playing Rebirth, but I’d buy it as something to play later. I bought Banishers and still haven’t played it, but I will.
I sort of suspect this one might flop, but I’m hoping it’s great!
@somnambulance It does look good. It's just a lot of money to be putting behind a franchise that hasn't had a well reviewed game this century.
But then, decent horror games can be decent sleeper hits. Not sure what Embracer needs right now is a sleeper hit, what with it being almost the end of their fiscal year, but I'm sure it'll be a lovely investment for whoever buys it off them in the bankruptcy sale.
I played the previous Alone in the Dark from 2007ish and was seriously disappointed, but am hopeful this one is decent. Definitely getting Dragons Dogma 2 day one!
Rare week with nothing for me.
@Vordus Fair enough, but I want the industry to be riskier, so I’m all for this type of investment. I’d probably have more faith in the game if it wasn’t attached to Embracer though. I can’t honestly think of a single Embracer game that I really liked.
@somnambulance Yeah, no, I get it. I'm all for a bit of risk. If the big players don't at least try out some new franchises soon then the conventional third party AAA industry is going to collapse.
But I'm not sure that earmarking/spending a billion dollars of money that the Saudis haven't actually given you yet was a smart play. Or being a second-tier publisher whose entire bread and butter was based on making niche carefully-budgeted games that the AAA publishers didn't want to touch any more, and then suddenly greenlighting, like, a dozen AAA games over two years.
@Vordus If any of the big players in the industry deserves to collapse though, it’s Embracer. Their financial plans have made little to no sense to me. Buy up tons of studios and IP and sit on them after one huge budget game (from a franchise in Saints Row that wasn’t exactly known as a critical darling) gets a largely negative reception. Then release nothing for a year or so, cancel dozens of in-production games, sell studios for less than their purchase cost, and then Alone in the Dark comes around. As innovative as the original was, it was a cult classic rather than a breakout title for a reason, and it’s a surprise they poured so much into it, including Hollywood actors to publicize the game. But heck, let them throw a Hail Mary and see where it lands. If Embracer fails, they’ll just continue to crumble and sell properties that deserve revisiting to publishers and developers that will hopefully do something with them.
Here comes a GOTY contender in Dragon's Dogma 2, I am seriously hyped. I did not play the first until years after release, which was a mistake.
Just waiting on Dragon’s dogma 2 to unlock. I have a bunch of pawns and two Arisen already made and set to go.
Will probably get both Dragon's Dogma II and Rise of the Ronin.
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