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 now available on Xbox Series X|S. Anku travels with his grandmother to reunite the band of his late grandfather, Eloy, using colors to solve puzzles and reshape the world. Some colors make painted objects float, while heavier ones send them down, turning the scenery into part of each challenge. Anku also collects a panpipe called la zampoña, an instrument associated with Andean folk music that links the journey to his grandfather’s music. The game draws on Panpipe Studio’s Chilean heritage and Aymara culture of the Andes, which developer Isaías Arrué wanted to celebrate. Its watercolor-inspired pastel palette is meant to evoke cozy nostalgia. The concept began at the 2025 Latin American Games Showcase Game Jam as an exploration of light and shadow. Colorbound’s Aymara roots and development give the puzzle-platformer a cultural thread alongside its family story.
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.
