2025 is shaping up to be a significant year for the Xbox Series X/S. Despite the PlayStation 5 currently leading in exclusive games, the upcoming year on Xbox Series X/S promises some highly anticipated first-party releases.
2023 marked a period where Xbox faced some challenges as Microsoft channeled their efforts towards acquiring numerous game studios instead of releasing robust first-party games. However, the tide seems to be turning in 2024 with titles such as Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, suggesting that Microsoft might maintain this momentum moving forward into the new year. Additionally, the Xbox Game Pass remains its most valuable asset, and the acquisition of studios like Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard-King has significantly increased the service’s worth.
Xbox Series X/S 2025 Release Calendar
2025 looks set to be an exciting year for the Xbox Series X/S, boasting a wealth of confirmed events. Of course, we can expect some significant third-party launches, including the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6. Moreover, the upcoming first-party games are generating quite a buzz, with the highly anticipated Avowed garnering lots of excitement from Xbox gamers.
January
• Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana – January 7
• Tales of Graces f Remastered – January 17
• Dynasty Warriors: Origins – January 17
• Jedi Power Battles – January 23
• Eternal Strands – January 28 • Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap – January 28
• Atomic Heart—Enchantment Under The Sea DLC – January 28
• Sniper Elite: Resistance – January 30
February
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – February 4
• Civilization 7 – February 11
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows – February 14
• Date Everything! – February 14
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2 – February 14
• Tomb Raider IV-V-VI Remastered – February 14
• Lost Records: Bloom and Rage (Tape 1) – February 18 • Avowed – February 18
• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii – February 21
• Monster Hunter Wilds – February 28
March
• Football Manager 25 – March TBA
• Killing Floor 3 – March TBA
• Split Fiction – March 6
• FragPunk – March 6
• Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars – March 6
• Lost Records: Bloom and Rage (Tape 2) – March 18
• Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories and the Envisioned Land – March 21
• Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game – March 25
• Atomfall – March 27
• The First Berserker: Khazan – March 27
• Rain World—’The Watcher’ DLC – March 28
April
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves – April 24
May
• Revenge of the Savage Planet – May TBA
October
• Double Dragon Revive – October 23
Month TBA
• 2XKO • 33 Immortals
• Alabaster Dawn
• Anno 117: Pax Romana
• ArcheAge Chronicles
• ARC Raiders
• Ark 2
• Borderlands 4
• Carmen Sandiego (Early 2025)
• Chained Echoes—Ashes of Elrant DLC (Q2 2025)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Spring 2025)
• Coffee Talk Tokyo
• Crimson Desert (Late 2025)
• Cronos: The New Dawn
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Hinokami Chronicles 2
• Dispatch
• Directive 8020 – A Dark Pictures Game
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake
• Dying Light: The Beast (Summer 2025)
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• FBC Firebreak
• Golf With Your Friends 2 (Following PC Release)
• Grand Theft Auto 6
• Instinction
• John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando
• Little Nightmares 3
• Lunar Remastered Collection (Spring 2025)
• Mafia: The Old Country (Summer 2025)
• Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra
• Mecha Break (Spring 2025)
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
• Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault
• Mouse P.I. For Hire
• Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (Summer 2025)
• One Move Away
• Prison Architect 2
• Promise Mascot Agency
• Rematch (Summer 2025)
• Sea of Stars—Throes of the Watchmaker DLC (Spring 2025)
• Shadow Labyrinth
• Skate (Early Access) • South of Midnight
• Splitgate 2
• Subnautica 2
• The Alters (Q1 2025)
• The First Berserker: Khazan
• The Legend of Baboo
• The Outer Worlds 2
• The Run: Got Next
• The Talos Principle: Reawakened
• The Wolf Among Us 2
• Tron: Catalyst
• Vampire: the Masquerade—Bloodlines 2
• Wheel World
• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
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2025 Game Pass Titles With Confirmed Dates
• Carrion – January 2
• Road 96 – January 7
• Eternal Strands – January 28
• Sniper Elite: Resistance – January 30
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector – January 31
• Avowed – February 18
• Atomfall – March 27
• Commandos: Origins – March TBA
• Football Manager 25 – March TBA
2025 Game Pass Titles With Unannounced Dates
• 33 Immortals
• Ark 2
• Bounty Star
• Bushiden
• Cities: Skylines 2
• Dead Static Drive
• Descenders Next
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• Expedition 33
• Fable
• FBC: Firebreak
• Frostpunk 2
• Ghost Bike
• Harmonium: The Musical
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo
• Little Rocket Lab
• Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
• Manor Lords
• Mixtape
• Nirvana Noir
• Pigeon Simulator
• Replaced
• Routine
• She Dreams Elsewhere
• Sleight of Hand
• Sopa
• South of Midnight
• Subnautica 2
• The Alters
• TO A T
• Towerborne
• Vapor World: Over the Mind
• Voidtrain
• Volcano Princess
• Way to the Woods
• Winter Burrow
• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
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