During The Game Awards show this past Thursday night, ID@Xbox Senior Director Chris Charla revealed the official Winter of Arcade games lineup via a blog post on their dedicated Xbox news website. The promotion is going on now and ends on December 21st. The trailer embedded above highlights all nine of the titles while the brief descriptions above give fans a better idea of what to expect from every game.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom – Available Now
A legendary series returns with a brand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom borrows the best from the classic series to deliver a fresh, modern adventure with fun gameplay, memorable music, and gorgeous hand-drawn animations.
Mutant Year Zero (Xbox Game Pass) – Available Now
A tactical adventure game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Subnautica – Available Now
Subnautica is an underwater open world adventure game. Craft equipment, pilot submarines, and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes and cave systems.
Ashen (Xbox Game Pass) – Available Now
Ashen is an open world co-op action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home. As you adventure through the realm of Ashen, you’ll occasionally encounter other players in a passive, co-operative multiplayer open world. It’s up to you to decide how to deal with them – fight together against evil, invite them to your party or simply ignore them.
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek – Available Now
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek follows the tragic story of the Neighbor’s family in this dramatic prequel to Hello Neighbor. Experience playing a game of hide-and-seek with your brother as you both deal with a loss of a family member. The game explains events that lead up to the original Stealth Horror hit Hello Neighbor.
Kingdom Two Crowns (Xbox Game Pass) – Available On Dec. 11th
In Kingdom Two Crowns, players must work in the brand-new solo or co-op campaign mode to build their kingdom and secure it from the threat of The Greed. Experience new technology, units, enemies, mounts, and secrets in the next evolution of the award-winning micro strategy franchise!
Desert Child – Available On Dec. 12th
In Desert Child, you are a young and talented hoverbike racer who needs to figure out how you can scrape enough cash together through racing and odd jobs to punch your one-way ticket to the Red Planet to enter the biggest race in the universe, the Grand Prix.
Below (Xbox Game Pass) – Available On Dec. 14th
Below is a procedural terrarium filled with life, mystery and death. Test your adventurer mettle against The Isle’s procedural subterranean labyrinths. Explore a large, interconnected underworld crawling with cunning wildlife, deadly traps and stalked by a shadowy presence. Survive the perils of The Depths and unearth what lies below… or die trying.
Donut County – Available On Dec. 18th
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole!
Are any of you impressed with the ID@Xbox Winter of Arcade lineup? Please feel free to let us know your thoughts on these titles and more in the comments section below.
Source: Xbox Wire
