What to Expect for Xbox Series X/S Games in 2025

2025 is poised to be a big year for the Xbox Series X/S. Though the console has long fallen behind the PS5 in terms of exclusives, 2025 will bring some very promising first-party releases to the Xbox Series X/S.

Xbox’s troubles were highlighted a few years back in 2023, with Microsoft focusing more on acquiring new studios than on delivering strong first-party games. However, 2024 has seen the company start to pick up the pace with games like Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, and it’s plausible that Microsoft will continue that momentum into the new year. Moreover, Game Pass continues to be the console’s greatest asset, and the acquisition of studios like Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard-King has undeniably heightened the service’s value.

Xbox Series X/S 2025 Release Calendar

2025 promises to be a big year for the Xbox Series X/S, with a lot confirmed already. Naturally, there will be some big third-party releases, such as the much-anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6. Furthermore, the first-party games en route to the console are also big news, with the upcoming Avowed a major recipient of excitement from the Xbox playerbase.

January

• Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana – January 7

• Tales of Graces f Remastered – January 17

• Dynasty Warriors: Origins – January 17

• Jedi Power Battles – January 23

• Atomic Heart—Enchantment Under The Sea DLC – January 28

• Sniper Elite: Resistance – January 30

February

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – February 4

• Civilization 7 – February 11

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows – February 14

• Date Everything! – February 14

• The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2 – February 14

• Tomb Raider IV-V-VI Remastered – February 14

• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii – February 21

• Monster Hunter Wilds – February 28

March

• Football Manager 25 – March TBA

• Killing Floor 3 – March TBA

• FragPunk – March 6

• Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars – March 6

• Lost Records: Bloom and Rage (Tape 2) – March 18

• Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories and the Envisioned Land – March 21

• Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game – March 25

• Atomfall – March 27

• The First Berserker: Khazan – March 27

• Rain World—’The Watcher’ DLC – March 28

April

• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves – April 24

May

• Revenge of the Savage Planet – May TBA

October

• Double Dragon Revive – October 23

Month TBA

• 2XKO
• 33 Immortals

• Alabaster Dawn

• Anno 117: Pax Romana

• ArcheAge Chronicles

• ARC Raiders

• Ark 2

• Borderlands 4

• Carmen Sandiego (Early 2025)

• Chained Echoes—Ashes of Elrant DLC (Q2 2025)

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Spring 2025)

• Coffee Talk Tokyo

• Crimson Desert (Late 2025)

• Cronos: The New Dawn

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Hinokami Chronicles 2

• Dispatch

• Directive 8020 – A Dark Pictures Game

• Doom: The Dark Ages

• Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake

• Elden Ring Nightreign

• FBC Firebreak

• Golf With Your Friends 2 (Following PC Release)

• Grand Theft Auto 6

• Instinction

• John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando

• Little Nightmares 3

• Lunar Remastered Collection (Spring 2025)

• Mafia: The Old Country (Summer 2025)

• Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra

• Mecha Break (Spring 2025)

• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

• Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault

• Mouse P.I. For Hire

• Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (Summer 2025)

• One Move Away

• Prison Architect 2

• Promise Mascot Agency

• Rematch (Summer 2025)

• Sea of Stars—Throes of the Watchmaker DLC (Spring 2025)

• Shadow Labyrinth

• Skate (Early Access)
• South of Midnight

• Splitgate 2

• Subnautica 2

• The First Berserker: Khazan

• The Legend of Baboo

• The Outer Worlds 2

• The Run: Got Next

• The Talos Principle: Reawakened

• The Wolf Among Us 2

• Tron: Catalyst

• Vampire: the Masquerade—Bloodlines 2

• Wheel World

Confirmed Xbox Game Pass Titles in 2025

A number of games have already been confirmed as coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2025. The ‘Day One’ release strategy will be a key element here, especially in the case of games like Avowed and Eternal Strands.

2025 Game Pass Titles With Confirmed Dates

• Carrion – January 2

• Road 96 – January 7

• Eternal Strands – January 28

• Sniper Elite: Resistance – January 30

• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector – January 31

• Avowed – February 18

• Atomfall – March 27

• Commandos: Origins – March TBA

• Football Manager 25 – March TBA

2025 Game Pass Titles With Unannounced Dates

• 33 Immortals

• Ark 2

• Bounty Star

• Bushiden

• Cities: Skylines 2

• Dead Static Drive

• Descenders Next

• Doom: The Dark Ages

• Expedition 33

• Fable

• FBC: Firebreak

• Frostpunk 2

• Ghost Bike

• Harmonium: The Musical

• Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo

• Little Rocket Lab

• Lost in Random: The Eternal Die

• Manor Lords

• Mixtape

• Nirvana Noir

• Pigeon Simulator

• Replaced

• Routine

• She Dreams Elsewhere

• Sleight of Hand

• Sopa

• South of Midnight

• Subnautica 2

• The Alters

• TO A T

• Towerborne

• Vapor World: Over the Mind

• Voidtrain

• Volcano Princess

• Way to the Woods

• Winter Burrow

• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers