XBOX Players Are Getting a Massive Wave of Games September 21—25

XBOX players already have this week’s Free Play Days lineup to check out, but the next wave of releases is even bigger.

Between September 21 and September 25, XBOX will get dozens of new games, including Dune: Awakening, CONTROL Resonant, EA Sports FC 27, Graveyard Keeper 2, and Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked.

XBOX Is Stacked Next Week With Dozens of New Games

September 21

• Samson – A Tyndalston Story — A gritty action game focused on close-quarters combat as Samson returns home to settle his debts.

September 22

• Dune: Awakening — An open-world survival RPG where players explore, build, craft, and survive on Arrakis.
• Graveyard Keeper 2 — Manage a medieval graveyard while commanding an undead army during a zombie apocalypse.
• Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked — A cooperative tactical board game combining D&D classes, turn-based battles, and branching storytelling.
• Well Dweller — A dark fairy-tale Metroidvania about a small bird trying to overthrow a wicked queen.
• BLACKSHARD — A surreal narrative adventure set across shifting liminal spaces and a mysterious labyrinth.
• Bubble Stomp — A platformer built around bubbles, ground pounds, cannons, and momentum-based movement.
• Gunstoppable — A fast-paced shooter featuring grappling, wall-running, rail-grinding, and parrying.
• VORON: Raven’s Story — Explore a Norse-inspired world as a raven guiding lost souls to the World of Gods.
• Fading Echo — A fast action-adventure where elemental abilities create chain reactions across floating islands.
• Rivage — A sci-fi adventure centered on a space station orbiting a potential new home for humanity.

September 23

• Garfield – Escape From Monday — A 3D platformer where Garfield must escape a nightmare filled with vegetables and recover his appetite.
• Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 — The lawn-care sequel introduces a new US setting, additional equipment, and improved grass technology.
• Bibi & Tina – Ready, Set, Ride! — A horse-riding adventure focused on competing in the Summer Cup at Falkenstein Castle.
• BIRDCAGE — An old-school vertical shoot-’em-up with six stages of pixel-art bullet-hell action.
• I Hear Them — A first-person horror game about hunting rats with your cat while uncovering supernatural secrets.
• Nomori — A puzzle adventure where portals, gravity manipulation, and time powers reshape the environment.
• THE BATHROOMS — A first-person horror adventure set inside a changing school labyrinth after a strange ritual.

September 24

• CONTROL Resonant — Dylan Faden battles a paranatural crisis spreading through a warped Manhattan in the CONTROL sequel.
• Alien Breed 35th Anniversary — A revival featuring first-person combat, Horde Mode, and six classic campaigns.
• 2048 Battles – Sylvan Sirens — Combines the classic 2048 puzzle formula with battles against witches, sirens, and fae enemies.
• Ancient Farm — Build and manage a farm in ancient Egypt using basic tools and hands-on farming.
• Beer Manufacture Simulator — Manage the entire beer-making process while expanding a small workshop into a brewery.
• Farming Camp — A cozy management game about a teenager competing to become the best farmer at camp.
• Fit and Grow — A relaxing puzzle game about planting and watering pieces to grow plants across a board.
• Heroes of Magic & Cards — A deckbuilding poker roguelike featuring classes, relics, card upgrades, and boss battles.
• Kalanoro — A Madagascar-inspired adventure about rallying legendary musicians against a tyrannical witch.
• Laundering Simulator — Run a laundromat that also serves as a front for forgery and money laundering.
• Owlen and the Starbound Mountain — Fly across frozen peaks and restore life to a magical mountain.
• PUPU’s Adventure Park — Manage a fantasy theme park where heroes visit to play adventurer.
• The Relic: First Guardian — A dark action game focused on combat, exploration, hidden dungeons, and Korean-inspired mythology.
• Sandwalkers — Lead caravans through a dangerous world while building trade routes and new settlements.
• Seafarer: The Ship Sim — Build a maritime career through cargo, rescue, firefighting, and patrol missions.
• Tiny Tanks Showdown — Dodge enemy fire and battle increasingly dangerous tanks across tougher stages.
• The Trolley Solution — A humorous collection of minigames based on the famous trolley problem.
• Five Elements Chess — A strategy game that mixes Five Elements theory, match-three mechanics, and spell duels.
• Such a Guy — A live-action narrative game about leaving city life to renovate a lakeside guesthouse.

September 25

• EA Sports FC 27 — Introduces The Grounds social football playground alongside changes to attacking, defending, and set pieces.
• Retro Cube Slider — A collection of single-screen sliding puzzles about guiding a neon cube through different contraptions.
• Used Cars Simulator — Buy, repair, and sell cars while growing a business from a rundown shed.
• Angle of Attack — A 2D fighter-jet action game featuring aerial combat, warhead interceptions, and huge flying fortresses.
• Gods With Guns — Play as Norse gods including Odin, Thor, Loki, and Hela in a 2D bullet-hell shooter.
• Moonlight Chess — A turn-based auto-battler where army composition and positioning determine each battle.
• Roots — Restore your grandfather’s abandoned farm, grow crops, sell produce, and expand to new islands.
• Runes Quest — A Sokoban-style puzzle game featuring keys, traps, boxes, runes, and 30 levels.
• Vampire Blood Dynasty — A narrative vampire game about ancient bloodlines, political intrigue, and supernatural conflict.

XBOX Game Pass is also getting new additions. Microsoft recently announced that Shape of Dreams is available now, while Hope in the City is coming later.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has also reportedly responded to a major XBOX Game Pass shake-up rumor.