These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox This Week (January 24-28)

After the madness of this month for Xbox Game Pass (and beyond), it looks like things are finally quietening down this week. We've only got a couple of handfuls' worth of new releases heading to Xbox, and only one could be described as a major release — Taiko No Tatsujin: The Drum Master, which is also launching with Game Pass!

Here's what's on the way:

New Xbox Releases (January 24-28)

Optimised For Xbox Series X|S

• Cannibal Cuisine (January 25): "Serving is better than being served in this co-op cook 'em up! Chop up vegetables, fruits and tourists and serve your divine delicacies in arcade style with up to 4 chefs!"

• Summertime Madness (January 26): "Summertime Madness is a single-player first-person puzzle game. The player, in the role of a painter who has made a deal with the devil, has to find his way back to the real world after being cheated and trapped into one of his canvases."

• S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored (January 26): "S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored is a science fiction FPS puzzle horror game, which takes place a few months after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster."

• Taiko No Tatsujin: The Drum Master (January 27): "Drum out high scores by playing along with Don and Ka. Choose from over 70 songs and play with friends in local multiplayer mode and online ranked matches. Light your drumming spirit on fire!"

• Active Neurons - Puzzle Game (January 28): "Active Neurons is a game that trains the player in spatial logical thinking. By controlling the power of thought, you must charge the neurons."

Xbox One

• Cannibal Cuisine (January 25): "Serving is better than being served in this co-op cook 'em up! Chop up vegetables, fruits and tourists and serve your divine delicacies in arcade style with up to 4 chefs!"

• Reverie Knights Tactics (January 25): "A turn-based tactical RPG with strategic battles in isometric grids where every decision you make can alter the story and the way you configure the characters."

• Cake Invaders (January 26): "Shoot to protect humanity’s valuable sweets from hungry alien swarms! Are you up to the challenge of protecting precious desserts from waves of alien attacks?"

• COGEN: Sword of Rewind (January 26): "Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death. Any hit you take is a death sentence in this side-scrolling 2D action game."
  

• Gav-Gav Odyssey (January 26): "Gav-Gav Odyssey is another way to get the blast from the gaming past! This game merges the best elements from golden age gaming: platforming, scroll shooting and puzzles."

• Summertime Madness (January 26): "Summertime Madness is a single-player first-person puzzle game. The player, in the role of a painter who has made a deal with the devil, has to find his way back to the real world after being cheated and trapped into one of his canvases."

• S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored (January 26): "S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored is a science fiction FPS puzzle horror game, which takes place a few months after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster."

• Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 2 (January 27): "Break into the new apeX of 2D action! With his new spinning blade weapon, the Razor Wheel, Copen rips through any enemy standing in his way as he traverses an enormous tower."

• Taiko No Tatsujin: The Drum Master (January 27): "Drum out high scores by playing along with Don and Ka. Choose from over 70 songs and play with friends in local multiplayer mode and online ranked matches. Light your drumming spirit on fire!"

• Vagante (January 27): "Discover an invaluable treasure in a fantasy world full of dangers in this truly challenging pixel-art rogue-like adventure with RPG elements. Play solo or join up to 3 friends local or online!"

• Calturin (January 28): "Calturin is a Bullet Hell Boss Rush game where you are resurrected by a necromancer who now holds you in his power. You must traverse the Gauntlet of Portals to unknown lands and face deadly beings."

• Super Onion Boy (January 28): "A classic 2D action and adventure game in retro style in pixel art. Your mission is to save your friends who were captured by a terrible monster with psychic powers."

Xbox Game Pass Titles

• Taiko No Tatsujin: The Drum Master (January 27)

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