August 8, 2025
Next Week on Xbox: New Games for August 11 to 15
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 PC, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in!
EA SPORTS
Madden NFL 26
Electronic Arts
EA Sports Madden NFL 26 – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Madden NFL 26 leverages a new AI-powered machine learning system trained on thousands of plays from nearly a decade of real NFL data to deliver more explosive gameplay—with new player-specific traits, authentic playstyles, and adaptive counters that match on-field tendencies and strategies of NFL quarterbacks and coaches.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown
Strange Scaffold
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is the first-ever turn-based TMNT video game. Inspired by the classic cartoon, you’ll experience a bold new approach to the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Splinter and Shredder are dead, and as the Turtles approach adulthood, they’re not just growing up… they’re growing apart.
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol.1
Clear River Games
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
With The Toaplan Shooting Collection Vol. 1, you get eight of these milestones. Enjoy them as the historical classics they are, or simply as fantastic action games packed with pixel explosions and crisp 2D graphics. It’s quadruple the action, a billion times the fun, and a thrill ride back in time to the neon-lit arcades of the past!
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 2
Clear River Games
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 2 – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
With modern enhancements, leaderboards, screen filters, and quality-of-life extras, no threat stands between you and absolute victory. Got what it takes? Prove it on the battlefield!
Echoes of the End
Deep Silver
Echoes of the End – August 12
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
A cinematic third-person action-adventure game. It blends a deeply personal, character-driven story with thrilling magic and sword-based combat, engaging traversal and thought-provoking puzzles. Inspired by Iceland, this epic adventure offers a mature, rich and immersive experience in a breathtaking and original fantasy world.
Ra Ra BOOM
Gylee Games
Ra Ra Boom – August 12
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Gear up for 4-player co-op action with a modern twist! Ra Ra Boom rockets you to a future Earth overrun by rogue AI. Battle waves of enemies and upgrade your ninja cheerleader’s skills as you beat ‘em up, shoot ‘em up, and smash through the chaos!
Temari Trials Xbox + Windows Bundle
Afil Games
Temari Trials – August 12
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Step into the sharp mind (and quick paws) of a samurai cat in training! In Temari Trials, you’ll solve logic-based Sokoban-style puzzles, pushing temaris to unlock chests and prove you’re ready for the warrior’s path.

Viewfinder
Thunderful Publishing
Viewfinder – August 12
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
DUCK: Dangerous Ultimate Cartridge Kidnapper
Valkyrie Initiative LLP
DUCK: Dangerous Ultimate Cartridge Kidnapper – August 13
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
A group of ducklings finds a mysterious 100-in-1 cartridge and are now forced to play all the games to escape the insidious cartridge spirit! 100 microgames, fun and increasing difficulty, what more do you need for an interesting adventure?
Faye Falling
Eastasiasoft Limited
Faye Falling – August 13
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Take the role of a recently passed soul, unable to recall who you are or how you died. After a chance encounter with a powerful entity, you begin an epic journey to defeat a growing darkness, while recovering your memories along the way. Engage in fast-paced turn-based battles against a wide variety of enemies, evade damage by dodging enemy attacks in snappy minigames and cast powerful spells to fend off your opponents.
Midnight Cat Heist (Xbox One)
Synnergy Circle Games
Midnight Cat Heist – August 13
Play as a sneaky city cat with sticky paws and a heart of gold. Sneak, leap, and loot your way through cozy urban levels to bring the purrfect gifts home to your beloved human. Every shiny trinket is a treasure in this 2D pixel platformer of feline thievery and chaotic charm!
Curse Rounds
QUByte Interactive
Curse Rounds – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
A frantic game where you must try to survive random rounds, accumulating a curse with each room from the 60+ available cards in the game, while killing enemies with your pistol flash and a variety of amazing shots. No two attempts are ever the same!
Diamond Hands: To The Moon
Ultimate Games S.A.
Diamond Hands: To the Moon – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
A deceptively simple yet brutally challenging platformer where your mission is clear: get to the moon. Move left, move right, jump, that’s all you’ve got. But mastering your jump strength is key to landing on those elusive platforms and climbing higher.
Dorfromantik
Headup
Dorfromantik – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
In Dorfromantik you start with a stack of procedurally generated tiles. One after the other, you draw the top tile of the stack, place it on one available slot and rotate for the best fit. Thereby groups and combinations of landscapes are formed, such as forests, villages or water bodies, and you are rewarded with points depending on how well the tile fits.

Lost Twins 2
Playdew
Lost Twins 2 – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere
Rearrange the world. Reunite the twins. Rediscover wonder. Abi and Ben are lost—but not alone. In Lost Twins 2, you’ll shift entire pieces of the world to guide them through a beautifully handcrafted puzzle adventure full of cozy charm and clever surprises.
Steampunch: Lost Tombs Xbox Bundle
Afil Games
Steampunch: Lost Tombs – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Steampunch: Lost Tombs is the second game in the franchise, and it takes the action to a whole new level with simplified combat, mysterious levers, and precision-based platforming. Run, jump, and dash in eight directions as you explore dangerous tombs, collect relics, and unlock portals to the next challenge.

Relic Hunters Legend
Rogue Snail
Relic Hunters Legend – August 14
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere
Relic Hunters Legend is a fast-paced looter-shooter RPG where you collect powerful weapons, upgrade skills, and battle enemies in intense combat. Play solo or team up in a 4-player co-op as you embark on a journey to recover lost memories and take down the tyrant Duke Ducan.
1989 After the War
Ratalaika Games S.L.
1989 After the War – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
An atomic war has reduced the world to a toxic heap of ruins and chaos. As an ex-agent named Sebastian Beck, you’ll face off against 7 dangerous criminals and traverse 7 levels filled with enemies and traps to overcome. The game also challenges you with a unique mechanic where the environment becomes increasingly hostile due to radiation—reach regenerating refrigerators that serve as life-saving checkpoints. Use your blade, grenades and shotgun to fight your way through this dangerous world, in glorious 1980s arcade style.
Bangman
ChiliDog Interactive
Bangman – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Bangman gives you everything you love: hordes of monsters, tons of unique characters, countless ways to slaughter them, and many, many, many attempts to do so. Wondering what’s in short supply here? The game costs very little money! And that’s always nice.
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Joey Drew Studios
Bendy: Lone Wolf – August 15
Optimized for Xbox X|S / Smart Delivery
Step into the inky nightmare of Bendy: Lone Wolf, a thrilling survival adventure set in the twisted, rubberhose world of Joey Drew Studios. As Boris, the lone wolf, you’ll brave endlessly shifting corridors filled with monstrous cartoon creeps, deadly traps, and the relentless pursuit of the Ink Demon. Every day brings new challenges in this heart-pounding quest for survival and truth.
Demons Are Coming!
COMMANDO PANDA
$9.99
$7.99
Demons are coming! – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Your once-sacred homeland now lies in the grip of a demonic invasion. Wielding two fully customizable weapons, you’ll fight back with precision and power—dodging, parrying, and blazing through relentless enemy hordes. With hundreds of upgrade combinations, adapt your playstyle and push back the darkness. Shatter enemy cover, deflect incoming fire, and emerge as a true slayer of demons.
Girls of the Tower
Happy Player
Girls of the Tower – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Girl squad assembled! Conquer the tower in this auto chess adventure! In this adventure, you can recruit over 70 unique companions across 17 races and classes, including orcs, archers, assassins, dwarves, elves, mages, and more. Build your ultimate team by combining their abilities and synergy.
GOST of Time (Xbox Series X|S)
Sometimes You
$9.99
$7.99
GOST of Time – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Welcome to a distant and absurd future where even time is subject to government regulations. In this glorious era of progress, an elderly citizen requires vital medication. He acquires a government-approved Time-Clone device for pill delivery. The process is, as always, efficient and precise – to get the pills, he must clone himself and send the clone into the machine, where it solves puzzles, retrieves the pills, and travels through time.

Maze: Path of Light
QubicGames S.A.
Maze: Path of Light – August 15
Xbox Play Anywhere
Embark on a relaxing yet mind-bending journey through thousands of uniquely designed mazes. From classic square puzzles to complex circular, triangular, and even hexagonal labyrinths—experience a truly diverse and enchanting experience.

Mind Over Magnet
Alchemy Games
Mind Over Magnet – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere / Smart Delivery
An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums. Created by Mark Brown, owner of the popular YouTube channel Game Maker’s Toolkit (GMTK), Mind Over Magnet is a blast for players of all ages and skill levels! Escape a dangerous factory using the power of magnetism. You must team up with three different magnet friends and use their unique abilities to solve more than 50 tricky single-screen puzzles.
Ukko & Guará: Stellarbound
Maqna Interactive Ltda
Ukko & Guará: Stellarbound – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Travel through worlds inspired by the fauna and culture of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Explore lovingly crafted stages, solve logic-based puzzles through collaboration, and uncover a silent story that speaks straight to the heart. Control two characters at once from your couch — perfect for friends, couples, and families.
INAYAH – Life after Gods
Headup
INAYAH – Life after Gods – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
In the post-apocalyptic remnants of an advanced alien civilization, an orphaned outcast named Inayah sets out on a perilous journey to find her tribe. Guided by her mentor, she navigates a divided world, forging bonds and uncovering secrets that redefine the meaning of family. Experience an emotionally charged adventure where every decision shapes Inayah’s destiny.
Hidden Depths
Fa Games
Hidden Depths – August 15
A challenging 2D platformer in pixel art style with fixed-screen levels, where each stage is a deadly puzzle on its own. Step into the boots of a young explorer who, upon receiving an ancient map, decides to enter a mysterious cave from which no one has ever returned.
Zumba – Treasure of the Marble Sea
EpiXR Games
Zumba – Treasure of the Marble Sea – August 15
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Zumba – Treasure of the Marble Sea throws you into a fast-paced marble shooter set in a colorful pirate world! Help your cheeky pirate survive the marble madness by shooting, matching, and destroying endless waves of rolling marbles. Choose a level, aim carefully, and fire your marbles to create chains of three or more matching colors.
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