Welcome to Next Week on XBOX! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S,
XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass.
Get more details on upcoming games like Mouthwashing, The Wolf Among Us Remastered, Ayasa: Shadows
of Silence, Remothered: Red Nun’s Legacy, The Last Case, and more.
Medieval puzzle game Mystical II: Forgotten Knowledge launches on Steam on December 3rd from Forgeur Games, where players buy falling objects and gather trios and pairs across five realms.
Each object costs a gold coin and enters a bag limited to fifteen, with matching family trios, identical pairs, or a magnifier revealing them for points before the hourglass runs out.
Fifty stages in Village, Castle, Crypt, Temple, and Dungeon include bombs, keys, chests, gear walls, free medallions, trophies, a grimoire, and a six-chapter tutorial.
10/27/2026
[ Source: Forgeur Games ]
SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands
Sci-fi planet terraforming sandbox adventure SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands is coming soon to Steam Early Access from developer Against All Odds Limited.
Reshape a barren planet’s terrain, decide where water flows and plants grow, build machines and an atmosphere, and grow a living ecosystem shaped by your choices.
Collect resources, construct from blueprints, attract animals, uncover a lost civilization, and optionally defend against asteroids or invasions, while a story mode is still in development.
10/27/2026
[ Source: Against All Odds Limited ]
QUIET
Co-op survival horror comedy experience QUIET has its free demo available now on Steam and the Epic Games Store from developer LINE Games, where players control alien ducks scavenging for ship parts.
Every sound, including real-world voice via microphone, can alert lurking threats, so up to four players must coordinate stealthily or risk dooming the entire flock.
The demo adds a four-player Duck Out Arcade Stage, a redesigned spaceship waiting room, and Halloween content, building on a playtest that drew over 350,000 sign-ups on Steam.
10/27/2026
[ Source: LINE Games ]
Snake: Gridbreaker
Combat action roguelite Snake: Gridbreaker has a free Steam demo now, with Early Access coming on November 3rd.
Classic Snake becomes a fight to escape a living grid loop, turning your tail into weapons that burn, shock, freeze, bite, or devour across classes and 80 upgrades.
Twelve enemy types, cursed mutations, and sectors like Frozen Loop and Broken Grid lead to Gatekeepers and the Gridmaster, with permanent upgrades between runs.
10/27/2026
[ Source: Arkadiusz Włodarczyk ]
a pet shop after dark
Horror point & click adventure a pet shop after dark launches on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on November 12th.
Players take a night shift at a pet shop where they must water plants and feed invisible pets without ever turning off the lights, solving puzzles through an in-game virtual desktop on consoles.
New diary entries and lore await returning players, preserving the unconventional storytelling while adding fresh secrets for those revisiting the shop on consoles.
Sci-fi submarine survival horror game Barotrauma receives the Home & Harbor Expansion on December 2nd from FakeFish, Undertow Games, and Daedalic Entertainment.
Players can now own, build, customize, manage, and defend their own Outposts, interacting with the new technocratic Descendants faction through story, weapons, and submarines.
A free update for all owners ties new story and gameplay into the base game, while factions attack, conquer, or trade with outposts as players research modules and uncover Europa’s origins.
10/26/2026
[ Source: Daedalic Entertainment ]
Iron Maw
Armored train defense game Iron Maw is coming soon to Steam for PC from developer KRUMB Games, where you command a steampunk convoy against a corporate army.
In 1897 the Free Cities Compact holds with Iron Maw trains, and players build rail cars, aim twin machine guns, and protect towns while their own fire can damage buildings.
Ten battlefields, 42 rail cars, colossal bosses, local co-op rear gunner, and multiple camera views reward careful positioning and surviving carriages that fund the next run.
10/26/2026
[ Source: KRUMB Games ]
Beatdown City Survivors
Survivors-style roguelite Beatdown City Survivors is available now on Steam from developer NuChallenger, blending time-survival with destructible sandbox physics in a rotting city.
Craft wild combos like knives on slippers, recruit unique survivors including a Shiba Inu, and use automated punches, kicks, and special skills to fight closing hordes.
Fight through Times Square, a mutant zoo, and subways against bosses like a cyborg wrestler, unlocking over 100 weapons and passives between runs.
10/26/2026
[ Source: NuChallenger ]
Deck Beasts
Deck-building auto-battler roguelike Deck Beasts receives its biggest update yet from Constellation Studios, adding starters, events, and major reworks ahead of the Q1 2027 release.
Every run begins with a choice of three powerful starters from a deck of five, each with signature cards, while new events at shops offer 27 choices and exclusive relics.
Fifty-seven beasts gain new or reworked named passives with VFX, Astral Decay ramps faster with Ward stacks, the tutorial is shorter, and performance plus balance polish round out the changes.
10/26/2026
[ Source: Constellation Studios ]
Steam Scream V Fest
Horror collection event Steam Scream V Fest is live now, gathering spine-chilling adventures, creepy creatures, and nightmare thrills.
Featured titles include V Rising’s vampire open world, Night Plane’s demonic flight-attendant sim, HAUNTED: Escape the Dollhouse co-op puzzles, and The Sinking City 2’s Lovecraftian dread.
Droste Detective, No More Room in Hell 2, The Midnight Walk, and Killing Floor 3 join the lineup, inviting players to dive into haunted worlds and survival horrors.
10/26/2026
[ Source: Valve ]
▋ Who developed the cult classic pixel-art RPG Undertale.
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Auris
Emotional 2D puzzle platformer Auris has its demo available now on Steam from developer Hippo Games, where a blind kid navigates the Wortex Research Institute using echolocation.
Players visualize the world through sounds from jumping and walking, solve sound-based puzzles, avoid traps, and fight bats, rats, and mutated creatures while remaining silent when required.
Find your mother and help other trapped kids, with choices that affect the ending, special devices for clearer vision, and a full release planned for late 2027.
10/24/2026
[ Source: Hippo Games ]
BURGGEIST
Action strategy BURGGEIST launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27th from developer GHRIAN STUDIO, tailored for the new platform from its original Steam release.
Players command two characters in real-time tactical combat, issuing movement and attack orders to the partner Burggeist while using verticality and terrain to build and defend the Tower.
Deep customization, a fully voiced story in Japanese and the original language Carglish, and seamless open-world exploration with unique NPCs complete the Nintendo Switch 2 version.
10/24/2026
[ Source: GHRIAN STUDIO ]
Pathologic 3
Psychological survival horror game Pathologic 3 receives The Great October Update from developer Ice-Pick Lodge and publisher HypeTrain Digital, with more than 100 fixes across its 12-day campaign.
The free update adds Photo Mode with weather presets and stickers, new Easy and Hard difficulties, Steam Deck optimizations, in-game subtitles, and extra options for dealing with Shabnak.
Quality-of-life improvements refine interfaces, controls, map navigation, audio, balance, and ultrawide support, while a Dev Letter from the studio details the months of work behind the patch.
10/24/2026
[ Source: HypeTrain Digital ]
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR
VR destruction arcade racer FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR exits Early Access on SteamVR, with a major multiplayer overhaul and new vehicles.
Version 1.0 adds redesigned lobbies, spectator mode, passenger seats, AI-filled grids, optional FlatOut 2 physics and AI, a motorcycle, and first-person windshield ejections.
bHaptics, motion rig support, improved mirrors and UI, plus performance fixes refine the full-contact chaos, while a PlayStation VR2 version remains in development.
10/24/2026
[ Source: Impact Inked ]
Realize in Peace
Interactive sci-fi experience Realize in Peace has released its full version on Steam for PC from developer YOWPY, about a second farewell to a late wife revived as an AI.
Players log into a computer that behaves like a real desktop, reading emails and browsing the web while conversing with the revived wife as the cause of her death and the aftermath emerge.
The remake of a university graduation project uses emotional 2D art and a melancholy original soundtrack to explore how people relate to AI in everyday life through point-and-click storytelling.