Everything Announced At Xbox's Short But Sweet October Event

Today, Xbox hosted a partner showcase featuring over a dozen new trailers for a variety of third-party, non-Xbox-published video games. The event was only about 25 minutes long, so we admittedly didn’t expect much from the shorter third-party showcase, but we were pleasantly surprised with some new game reveals and cool-looking trailers.

Here’s everything Xbox showed during its October 17 partner event.

Alan Wake 2's previously announced second DLC, The Lake House, is launching on all platforms on October 22. The new DLC is closely tied to Control’s FBC, the spooky group in charge of controlling paranormal objects and events in Remedy’s connected universe.

Hot off the success of its Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team has revealed its next horror game: Cronos: The New Dawn. Looks creepy and also cozy. I like chess, though losing this game seems dangerous. Cronos is set to arrive in 2025.

Double Eleven’s new FPS, Blindfire, looks neat and is all about removing light from the standard shooter formula. If you want to play Blindfire, you don’t have to wait long...or at all. The game is out today via early access on Xbox Series X/S and PC.

Here’s a new trailer for the wild-looking new Like a Dragon (aka Yakuza) spin-off, Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. I didn’t expect massive ship battles. And good news for fans, the game will be landing one week earlier than previously planned. It now launches on February 21, 2025.

This new trailer for Mouse: P.I. For Hire shows off more of the black-and-white cartoon combat that turned this game into a viral sensation. It also reveals that you’ll be solving crimes, too. Mouse arrives in 2025 on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC.

We knew a new Subnautica sequel was in the works, but today at the Xbox event we got our first real trailer for the underwater survival game. And yeah, looks scary. It will be launching via early access next year and will be a day one Game Pass release.

The already very popular lo-fi puzzle platformer Animal Well is now available to buy and play on Xbox.

Fans have been wondering when they’d learn more about this previously announced RPG based on the popular Edens Zero manga series, and now they have a trailer confirming it’s still coming and will be on Xbox, too.

Former Dragon Age creative director and lead designer Mike Laidlaw’s next game, Eternal Strands, looks like a hodgepodge of Breath of the Wild, Dragon’s Dogma, and Ubisoft’s Fenyx Rising. But that’s not a bad thing! The physics-focused RPG gameplay seems fun. Eternal Strands lands on Xbox Game Pass early next year.

Mistfall Hunter is a third-person PvPvE extraction RPG set in a “dark, mysterious Nordic-inspired continent.” It arrives in 2025 on Xbox and PC. There will also be an open beta on PC, too.

Race your customizable bicycle around colorful environments while also saving the world from sci-fi destruction. Sounds like an odd, but intriguing mix of cozy and tense. Wheel World will be available on Xbox Game Pass in early 2025.

The hit co-op horror game that went viral in 2020 is finally making its way to consoles on October 29, 2024. It will also support PSVR2 on PS5.

A video game about a hero and his loyal dog seems like it could be a big hit with about 90 percent of the internet. The Legend of Baboo is a “mystical, third-person, action-adventure” game that arrives sometime in 2025.

The devs behind Wuchang describe it as a “soulslike action-RPG” that will be, as you might expect, pretty dang hard. It features big monsters to fight and secrets to “unravel.” It will also be a day one Game Pass launch when it lands in 2025.

Xbox started its event with some Remedy goodness and ended it with the reveal of FBC: Firebreak, a new first-person multiplayer Left 4 Dead-like co-op shooter set in the same universe as Control. It might seem like an odd spin-off for the franchise, but I’ll never complain about more Control and Alan Wake-related video games. Firebreak is set to launch on Game Pass, but has no release date yet.