Xbox’s Oct. 12-16 release schedule covers 40 games, with Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, Planet Zoo 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 among the week’s larger releases. The Xbox Wire schedule notes that dates may change.
Oct. 12
- Alpha Nomos (Xbox Play Anywhere) is a rhythm-action roguelite where Cello fights rogue puppets with instruments as weapons, timing attacks to the music.
- Colorbound (Xbox Play Anywhere) is a palette-platformer about Anku’s journey to reunite his late grandfather’s band. Color powers help players solve puzzles and change the world around them.
Oct. 13
- Deep Dish Dungeon (Game Pass, Xbox Play Anywhere) is a dungeon crawler for solo play or co-op with up to 2 friends. Players explore, gather resources, improve a campsite, craft tools, and cook meals. It joins Game Pass alongside Valor Mortis on Oct. 13.
- Planet Zoo 2 (Xbox Play Anywhere) lets players build and manage zoos around the world, with flying and aquatic animals and Wildlife Reserves where they can release species. It is priced at $49.99 in the announcement.
- Valor Mortis (Game Pass, Xbox Play Anywhere) casts players as William, a soldier from Napoleon’s army revived in a plague-stricken Europe. Combat features parries, dashes, finishers, and supernatural abilities, while each death offers a chance to grow stronger.
- Just Dance: Decades of Hits brings together tracks from different musical eras, each with its own visual style. Its Adventure Mode tells a story through dance.
- Survivor Cells (Xbox Play Anywhere) pits players against hordes of viruses and bacteria. Survival calls for an active defense and offense, with medicines and nanotechnology used to build a biological barrier.
Oct. 14
- Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea blends farming with an adventure across Teradea, where a creeping mist and nighttime beasts threaten villages. Players can explore, grow crops, raise animals, and make a home between journeys.
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 continues directly from the first game with a branching, single-player campaign and fast-paced first-person shooting.
- Cleaning Simulator turns household chores into its central challenge, with mops, vacuums, and sponges for dirty floors, dusty carpets, dishes, and cluttered rooms.
- Creepy Tale: Snow Child (Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) follows Blizzy on a journey into Hell to confront Evil, mixing action with mystery.
- Love Beyond Differences: Riku & Lily (Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) is a spot-the-difference puzzle game about Riku revisiting memories of his life with Lily. Players find changes in illustrated scenes to restore faded pages in an old photo album.
- My Recycling Center 2 (Smart Delivery) is a first-person simulation about building and running a recycling center. A level editor lets players design the yard as they unload, sort, and compact waste.
- Prison Run and Gun (Xbox Play Anywhere) sends players through 30 levels of explosions, gunfire, and deadly obstacles during a prison escape.
- Ratatan combines rhythm play with side-scrolling roguelike action. Online co-op supports up to 4 players, with more than 100 characters fighting in large battles.
- Shockwave Triggers (Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) is a vertical-scrolling shoot-’em-up with 2 pilots, one fast and versatile and the other slower but more powerful.
- The Witch’s Bakery (Xbox Play Anywhere) is an adventure RPG about a witch who opens a bakery in modern Paris and uses her ability to see into people’s hearts to heal their emotions.
- Wolfsschanze – Operation Götterdämmerung is a World War II shooter set at the Wolf’s Lair in East Prussia in 1944, where an elite soldier fights through guarded facilities and bunkers.
- YAR: Forgotten Throne is an open-world RPG with 3 character paths, more than 100 quests, and 2 factions. Players travel through Borea to find the source of a darkness affecting its forests and wildlife.
Oct. 15
- Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse (Xbox Play Anywhere) is set in Paris in 1499, where Trevor Belmont and his daughter Rose hunt monsters amid a city in flames. Rose is drawn into a conspiracy beneath the looming castle.
- Bluey’s Happy Snaps (Game Pass, Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) is a photo adventure through Bluey’s hometown of Brisbane. Players can explore with Bluey and Bingo, spot Australian wildlife, play solo or with a second person, and save pictures in a scrapbook.
- Chained Beasts (Game Pass, Xbox Play Anywhere) is a gladiator roguelike for 1 to 4 players, with co-op fighters chained together for arena battles.
- DESOLUS (Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) is a first-person puzzle game set in a Gothic city split across different times. Players use black holes and time travel to solve puzzles and repair its architecture.
- The Jackbox Party Pack 12 (Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) contains 5 new party games. One person needs to own the game, and everyone else can use a phone as a controller.
- 1×1 Street Football: mini soccer PvP (Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) mixes arcade soccer with street-fighting moves, letting players challenge friends, build up characters, and compete in international leagues.
- Cubic Cosmos is a roguelike card game about building decks, chaining combos, and trying to escape a deadly cycle.
- Disney/Pixar Toy Story 3 Complete Edition (Smart Delivery) includes a story mode based on the film and the western-themed Toy Box Mode. The updated version features improved graphics and new surprises.
- Disney/Pixar Toy Story: Retro Roundup! (Smart Delivery) collects console and handheld versions of 4 early Toy Story games along with A Bug’s Life. The 5-game collection adds quality-of-life changes and behind-the-scenes content.
- Floppy-Ear Chaos (Xbox Play Anywhere) is a comedic brawler with roguelike elements, sending a furious rabbit into waves of enemies with upgrades and abilities that change between runs.
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Holiday Play Edition is a family adventure about helping Rudolph and his friends save Christmas, with cooperative play.
- Swarm Me is a top-down survival game where players draw enemy swarms into traps and environmental hazards, relying on movement and positioning.
- Tingus Goose is an idle game built around a surreal loop of planting seeds in patients and growing towering goose trees.
- Troll Slayer is a 2D pixel-art platformer about a knight fighting trolls across hazardous terrain.
- Weekend Solitaire: Voyage offers animated levels built around solitaire puzzles.
Oct. 16
- Beyond These Stars (Game Pass) is a city builder set on the back of Kewa, a sentient Space Whale traveling through the universe. Players build a home for the Peeps, meet other species, and manage their needs.
- Tales of Eternia Remastered follows Reid, Farah, and Meredy as they try to prevent a collision between the worlds of Inferia and Celestia.
- Tenebris Somnia (Xbox Play Anywhere) is a 2D survival horror adventure with puzzles, monsters, and live-action cutscenes.
- Moto X (Smart Delivery, Xbox Play Anywhere) is a motorcycle racing game originally developed in 1994. Riders compete on 250cc, 550cc, and 750cc bikes, with track pickups providing power-ups.
- Sproutrex is a pixel-art platformer with 28 handcrafted levels. Players guide a small mechanical sphere through hazards using its ability to run, jump, glide, and fly.
- Supercar Collection Simulator puts players in charge of a diecast car shop, where they open surprise boxes, build a collection, and sell cars to customers.
Which game on the schedule has your attention, from the Paris monster hunt in Castlevania to the zoo-building of Planet Zoo 2? Follow the week’s Xbox release news and Game Pass arrivals on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.
