New Xbox games — October 28 to November 3

As an employee of a mysterious organization, your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and report other-worldly anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory.

Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb to paranoia?

Monitor surveillance cameras across six unique levels, each with their own unnerving “anomalies”—supernatural occurrences ranging from moving furniture to otherworldly intruders. Report anomalies to “”fix”” them, and survive the night.

I’m on Observation Duty is the original viral franchise that ignited a trend in spot-the-difference horror games that have been loved by players and streamed for millions by legendary content creators.

Welcome to VENGEANCE HUNTERS!!!

Pick your fighter: The robot, GOLEM. The brawler, CANDY. The mad scientist, LOONY.

And adventure from the Last Woods to the desolate Wastelands and to the mean streets of the Megalopolis and beyond!

Play solo or with a friend as you battle a strange array of enemies, aliens, monsters, and thugs.

Collect secrets, increase your score, and challenge yourself across increased difficulty.

VENGEANCE HUNTERS is an original NeoGeo title created for modern gamers.

Its combat systems and gameplay are designed to celebrate the fun of classic arcade Beat-Em-Ups with an added flare, attention to detail, and complexity that dares players prove their skill and best FIVE unique Boss encounters.

Happy HUNTING!!!

Backrooms: Partygoers is a horror survival game where you play as a researcher tasked to find anomalies inside the horrifying alternate dimension known as The Backrooms.

Scavenge for water and other supplies from dead bodies stuck in The Backrooms as you try to escape sharing their fate. Hide in lockers, scan for targets, use a flashlight, and detect creatures using the Anomaly Scanner.

Will you be able to get out alive, or will you forever be trapped in the Backrooms?

Features:
* Immersive horror survival experience
* Terrifying creatures are hunting you
* Hiding and stealth gameplay
* Use special tools to survive

Turn back the clock for one of the pioneers of the survival-horror genre. Translated and released outside of Japan for the first time, Clock Tower: Rewind is a revival of the terror-inducing 16-bit classic that dares you to explore the haunting confines of the Barrows family manor. As teenage orphan Jennifer, you must search every disturbing corner to find items, reveal secrets, and discover ways to evade Scissorman, a murderous, unstoppable, shears-wielding psychopath.

Play Original mode to experience Clock Tower as it was when initially released in 1995, or play Rewind mode with extra content and improvements. Additional features include a new animated intro, opening and ending vocal theme songs, motion comics, creator interview, art gallery, border artwork, save states, and a music player. The clock is ticking…can you survive?

Key Features:
• The survival-horror classic, Clock Tower, officially translated and brought out of Japan for the first time
• Choose from Original mode or Rewind mode, which features numerous gameplay additions and quality-of-life refinements
• Run, hide, and survive as you attempt to evade the psychotic Scissorman
• Atmospheric 2D art, detailed animations, and haunting sound effects augment the tense point-and-click gameplay
• Multiple endings and randomized gameplay elements maximize replayability (and jump scares)
• New animated opening, motion comics with VO, and vocal theme songs performed by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Emi Evans
• Featuring an art gallery, music player, behind-the-scenes creator interview, save states, and other modern inclusions

Max Caulfield, photographer-in-residence at the prestigious Caledon University, discovers her closest new friend, Safi, dead in the snow.

Murdered.

To save her, Max tries to Rewind time – a power she’s not used in years… instead, Max opens the way to a parallel timeline where Safi is still alive, and still in danger!

Max realizes the killer will soon strike again – in both versions of reality.

With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?

It’s your first day at Monster High™, where all monsters are welcome… but some strange events are happening.

Can you uncover the mystery of the doors and ancient keys and bring the school back to its authentic, spooky self? Play and discover its skulltimate secrets.

Create your unique monster character with a vault full of different monster kinds, skills, and scary-chic looks to choose from. Explore the school with your beasties Clawdeen Wolf TM, Draculaura TM, and Frankie SteinTM, and find creeperific clues and powerful new skills. As the newest member of the Boo Crew, you’re in for one hex-citing adventure!

In a world of powerful rival Game Makers…

Within the Game Maker world, in order to acquire Shares, Game Makers have started to wage a battle for supremacy.

And so, a new Game Maker steps into the fray, attempting to endure the battle for survival in Gamindustri.

Key Features
Game Studio of The Year – Play as the main protag, Older Nep, and grow a previously defunct gaming studio to success. Building a game studio requires strong developers, cutting-edge video games, and the expansion of your market. Choose wisely and become the biggest game studio of the year!

Build Games & Boost Your Party – Boost your party stats with the help of creating games through disc development and choose creators to work on your next hit game!

Vroom, Vroom in Style – Ride through dungeons in Gamindustri and sell your games on your trusty purple motorcycle. Older Nep can also challenge pesky enemies for pinks (aka special rewards) or test your racing skills through time trials!

Party Management 101 – Supervise a party of four to lead your company to the top! But there may be other game studios ready to take you down. With a revamped battle system, chained attacks, and transformative specials, Older Nep and friends are ready for victory!

This game is a work in progress. It may or may not change over time or release as a final product. Purchase only if you are comfortable with the current state of the unfinished game.

INVESTIGATE
Immersive Experience: Realistic graphics and sounds as well as a minimal user interface ensure a totally immersive experience that will keep you on your toes.
Unique Ghosts: Identify over 20 different ghost types, each with unique traits, personalities, and abilities to make each investigation feel different from the last.
Equipment: Use well-known ghost-hunting equipment such as EMF Readers, Spirit Boxes, Thermometers, and Night Vision Cameras to find clues and gather as much paranormal evidence as you can. Find Cursed Possessions that grant information or abilities in exchange for your sanity.

PLAY YOUR WAY
Locations: Choose from over 10 different haunted locations, each with unique twists, hiding spots, and layouts.
Game Modes: With 5 default difficulties and daily and weekly challenges, there are plenty of ways to test your skills.
Teamwork: Dive in head first, get your hands dirty searching for evidence while fighting for your life. If you’re not feeling up to the task, play it safe and support your team from the truck by monitoring the investigation with CCTV and motion sensors.
Custom Difficulty: Create your own games to tailor the difficulty to your or your group’s needs, with proportional rewards and come up with crazy game modes of your own!

MULTIPLAYER
Co-operate: Play alongside your friends with up to 4 players in this co-op horror where teamwork is key to your success.
Play together: Phasmophobia supports all players together, play with your friends with any combination of input types.
Cross-play: Play alongside your friends on other platforms.

Post Trauma is a modern interpretation of genre-defining survival horror classics. As you venture deeper into the unknown, you’ll strive to solve the mysteries of your unfamiliar surroundings, hoping to discover hidden truths while trying to stay alive.

Players will explore a terrifying, twisted reality that constantly unsettles as its story shifts and unravels.

Fight or Flight?

In Post Trauma, players control Roman (Togo Igawa), a tormented train conductor who awakes to find himself in a surreal dimension following a terrible panic attack. Faced with horrifying architecture and nightmarish abominations, Roman can choose to defend himself with an array of weapons or try to find the path of least resistance.

You are an adventurer, the last of the Seekers of Cats, and you are tasked with an important job. Scattered on those islands are little cats, some of them are cold and hungry and yet still hoping someone will find them. Others don’t really care about you or your quest but meow insistently anyway so you should probably stop for a moment and pet them too.

Features:
– 20 handcrafted islands
– with lots of nooks and crannies to poke your head into
– to find 100 little cats
– while listening to charming music
– and enjoying a bizarre and mysterious world

Dead Complex is a 2D Top Down, Survival Horror Game.

Sneak, Loot and Fight your way out of an infested apartment complex and begin your final escape from the city.

Become a master of the ice by skating your way through increasingly challenging sliding puzzles!

Slide across frozen lakes and gather stars in a chill puzzle adventure where you take the role of a young ice skater! Skater’s Solstice is a top-down brainteasing game with a wintry theme and crisp HD visuals where you’ll need to overcome 50 stages of gradually increasing complexity to achieve ice skating mastery. Each stage contains 3 stars and a glimmering exit.

Can you put it all together and gather all the stars?

Data East’s sci-fi shooting game ‘Fang’ series is now available as a 2-in-1 title!

◆ Build your own Armored Cavalry and deploy! ‘Wolf Fang’
As a member of the Rohga Team, the player pilots a robotic weapon known as an ‘Armored Cavalry’ and heads into battle.
Combine three parts—’Body (sub-weapon)’, ‘Arms (melee attack)’, and ‘Legs (mobility)’—to build your own custom machine.
Defeat the numerous enemies using a combination of shots, melee attacks, stomping attacks, and sub-weapons.
Even if your mech is destroyed, the pilot can continue fighting. Gather items through valiant efforts, and you can repair your robot and return to the battlefield.
The Saturn version includes exclusive character voices, new actions, and a boss rush mode. Challenge the battlefield as many times as you want!

◆A chase shooting game where you soar across the battlefield with acceleration, deceleration, and command techniques! ‘Skull Fang’
As a member of the Gaiga Team, the player pilots a fighter jet and heads out to intercept enemy weapons approaching the defense line.
Select from four pilots, each with different special abilities, and four fighter jets with varying performance.
Controlling the speed of your fighter jet is crucial on the battlefield. Will you take the risk and fly at high speed to rush through, or play it safe by flying at low speed to intercept enemies? Your courage and strategy will be put to the test.
During boss battles, use your control techniques to mark enemy aircraft within your attack range.
The Saturn version features exclusive additional bosses, extra aircraft, and a trial mode.

◆ Includes ‘Boosted’ arranged BGM by 10 renowned composers!
In addition to the original arcade version and the Saturn version’s arranged BGM, this release features newly created ‘Boosted’ arrangements. Play the game with your favorite soundtrack.

Pre-order* to receive the Blood Dragon armor cosmetic for all three classes: Warrior, Mage, and Rogue. A throwback to previous Dragon Age games, the crimson stains on this armor will never fade.

Enter the world of Thedas, a vibrant land of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities – steeped in conflict and secret magics. Now, a pair of corrupt ancient gods have broken free from centuries of darkness and are hellbent on destroying the world.

Thedas needs someone they can count on. Rise as Rook, Dragon Age’s newest hero. Be who you want to be and play how you want to play as you fight to stop the gods from blighting the world. But you can’t do this alone – the odds are stacked against you. Lead a team of seven companions, each with their own rich story to discover and shape, and together you will become The Veilguard.

Unite the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single player RPG where you become the leader others believe in.

Survive the never-entered levels of Banban’s Kindergarten!

After the events of Garten of Banban 4, you are forced to run away and delve even deeper into the mysterious establishment that is Banban’s kindergarten.
You are heading down to where no human dares to be.

No more friends to make…
You have run out of friends to make. From now on, you only meet new enemies who will make sure you never feel alone!
In Banban’s Kindergarten, there are enemies to be made in every corner!

Restore broken porcelain and reveal hidden magic in Magic Cats Pots puzzles!

Step into the magical world of Magic Cats Pots and breathe new life into old treasures!

AWAKEN YOUR COZY IMAGINATION
Imagine a cozy autumn morning, where the sun still warmly touches the faces of passersby. On the corner of a quiet street, behind a shop window, a cat named Seba lazily basks in the soft rays of sunlight. Inside the shop, shelves are filled with beautiful porcelain pieces – both new and those waiting for a second chance.

Visitors can come to the shop with their broken treasures, and with a touch of magic, these items can be brought back to life. But this isn’t just any life – these objects are home to divine creatures: cats.

REPAIR AND BRING TO LIFE AGAIN
In Magic Cats Pots, your goal is to repair broken teapots, cups, plates, and other porcelain items. As you piece them back together, you may discover magical cats hidden within. Each restored item reveals its secrets, and with every successful repair, you unlock more challenges and new treasures.

With 126 different porcelain items to repair, each divided into specific categories, the magic never ends. As you progress, you unlock more complex challenges and discover new fluffy companions hidden within the ceramics.

These monsters have no mercy for you…

Self-Delusion is a first-person survival horror in the original setting of Slavic fairy tales. You will faces such unique monsters like: Kolobok, Leshy, Boggart, Lapot and other creepy creatures. Explore, hide or run. Just don’t get devoured by them.

– A hot-blooded, hellishly twisted, feverishly filthy, love and hate filled road trip
Join the crass Garcia Hotspur and his boney buddy, Johnson, as they traverse the depths of the Underworld to steal back Garcia’s kidnapped lover, Paula, from the clutches of Fleming, the Lord of the Underworld. Let the soul of rock ‘n’ roll run loose in the heart of the twisted hellscape that is the Underworld.

– Make it through fiendishly funky dungeons with the powers of light and dark
The powers of light and dark pave your path forward. Like ravers in a nightclub, demons are emboldened by the dark, but grow weak when exposed to the light. Use your buddy Johnson to blast your way through the darkness of the Underworld.

– New content unique to the remaster
• 4 all new costumes: Get dressed to the nines and kick some demon tail in style.
• After your first playthrough, carry over your progress into new game plus and spend an eternity raising hell in the Underworld.

– A cult classic born from the most creative minds in the industry
A third-person shooter crafted by industry legends Goichi Suda (No More Heroes, Killer7, etc.) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil, God Hand, etc.)

The dazzling trio from Beverly Hills—Sam, Clover, and Alex— is back and they are ready to light up the vibrant streets of Singapore with their spy skills! From the bustling streets to Aiya University, embark on an action-packed adventure as you explore all the futuristic spots of the town.

But buckle up! As the Spies settle into their new lives, a mysterious menace has emerged to spread chaos and is extending its influence, weaving its presence through the city streets.

With WOOHP on high alert, it’s time for our favorite Spies to dive into action! Step into the shoes of the iconic team and be ready for thrilling missions with timeless fashionable gadgets! Take on new villains, go undercover and neutralize the imminent looming over the town. Only you can save the world!

The 2002 remake of Aero the Acro-Bat is back and better than ever!

This remake includes improved sprites, modified stages and skills, as well as a whole new comic-style introduction scene.

The powerful and eccentric industrialist Edgar Ektor has sworn to destroy the world of amusement as revenge for being banished from the circus when he was a kid after one of his pranks went too far and almost killed a circus animal. He started by invading a local circus with his gang of mad clowns and kidnapping all the circus staff to spoil the show.

Now it’s up to Aero the Acro-Bat, the circus’s star performer, to rescue his friends and girlfriend Ariel, and put a stop to Edgar Ektor’s mad plans so everyone can enjoy the show again!

Albatroz is a backpacking adventure RPG that will take you through majestic landscapes in search of your lost sibling.

A tale about knowing when to let go and start over. Follow Isla’s journey through the Forbidden Lands, a breathtaking, otherworldly realm where two worlds converge.

Once trapped in a numbing, monotonous life, Isla is now driven to embark on a quest to find the one true connection left in her life: her missing brother, who disappeared while searching for the mythical Albatroz Mountain. Step into Isla’s shoes and make your way through a world teeming with mystery alongside a band of eclectic companions, each possessing unique skills crucial to navigating the treacherous paths ahead.

Explore breathtaking vistas and vibrant communities inhabited by intriguing individuals. Collect essential items and manage resources to conquer the challenges of demanding environments. Uncover a profound narrative of self-discovery and purpose as you venture through uncharted territories. Who knows what true adventure awaits?

While attempting to skip out on a homework assignment and meet up with his friends at the arcade, a teenager by the name of Yusis is suddenly enveloped in a blinding light and transported to Kreisia— a world where fantasy meets reality.
Soon after, he learns he has been summoned as a Savior to deliver Kreisia’s people from the threat of the Overlord. Thinking everything happening around him is simply a dream, Yusis readily agrees to the task of saving the world and begins preparing for what is inevitably to be far more than he ever bargained for!

Blazing a new trail in classic RPGs, Journey to Kreisia is bound to please fans of the genre with plenty of engaging features such as hunting for hidden treasures, testing one’s strength in challenging battle arenas, and taking up a variety of subquests! Customize the fighting technique by raising weapon levels, equipping various orbs, and using extremely handy monster guide when in need of more information to perfect your battle skills!

Sainthood is a cozy strategy game about serving your little community and growing your Faith. Help the townsfolk by constructing buildings, delivering resources, and volunteering while dealing with deadlines and severe weather. Pray, attend Mass, and other spiritual activities as you rise to become a Saint!

You have arrived on a mysterious island with no recollection of how you got here. No matter though, the prioress is expecting you! Chat with her, and the custodians of the island and learn about their stories. Who knows, perhaps you will learn more about yourself and why you’re here too!

Immerse yourself in a relaxing, meditative world. Find and free the Angel Spirits known as ‘Ehi’ who will assist you with building upgrades. But be careful, when night descends, mysterious evil spirits known as the ‘Shetani’ emerge, hungry for your Faith!

You play as a postulant, and your job each day is to carefully balance your time between activities that net you either Charitable Points (CP) or Faith Points (FP).
Provisions are provided daily that you can acquire and upgrade to help your strategy over the course of your adventure.

Reckless decision or perfectly planned crime? Your move, Detective!

Your name makes countless criminals tremble at the sound of it. But there are others who commit crimes with cold calculation, trying to outsmart you. Prove them wrong!

This new collection of crime episodes is full of terrifying and bone-chilling murders, break-ins, and robberies. We believe you are the only one who can stop the perpetrators, but just in case, we’ve sent Paul to you for backup. Your faithful partner will be there to assist you or even bring you a new case.

These new chapters of Unsolved Case series will thrill you with story intricacies, twists, and extraordinary connections between all the developments! Don’t miss the return of the heart-winning characters from the previous chapters who will share their wisdom and investigative tricks.

Make complicated moral choices that will determine the future of both perpetrator and victim. Danger and treachery lay around every corner… so be careful!