This Week on Xbox: January 17th to 21st, 2022
We will cover all the upcoming games coming on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC as well as the coming Xbox Game Pass and soon-to-be-released ID@Xbox games. More information is available about these games below, and then visit their websites for information on pre-orders when they are they become available.
This week on Xbox news: If you are curious about more information or order details, you can click on the profiles. Without notice, release dates are subject to change.
Coming to Xbox: January 17th to 21st, 2022
Nobody Saves the World
Release date: January 18
It is available on the first day with Game Pass. It is available on Cloud Console, Cloud, and PC.
If the ancient Calamity comes back, who is going to help save humanity? Nobody! Learn transformative skills and transform into Slug, Ghost, Dragon, and much more. Mix your characters to create powerful hybrids, and take on the evil forces. Join with a friend in an online co-op to bring peace to the world!
Synopsis:
The Calamity’s power is growing, and nobody can save the world now. Good thing you are Nobody! Complete Quests to discover and swap between many varied and distinct Forms. Mix and match abilities in unique and interesting ways to find and complete even more difficult Quests, and unlock more powerful Forms. Explore a vast overworld, clearing procedurally generated dungeons in an effort to beat back The Calamity and Save the World!
Dysmantle
Release date: January 19
Enter a new planet that awaits when you ascend from your shelter after a long time. A world that has no human being to be seen. A place populated by vile and evil creatures. A world where nature is the throne now. It’s time to figure out how to escape this slumbering Island… but prior to that, take pleasure in the sweet Apocalypse.
Synopsis:
As you ascend from your shelter after the long long years, a brave new old world awaits you. A world inhabited with nasty and vile creatures. A world with no other human soul to be seen. A world with nature in reigns now. A world that’s about to get even worse.
Blackwind
Release date: January 20
A sci-fi action game where you play as a teenager stuck in a battle armor suit in the midst of the time of an invasion by aliens. Face off against enemies, cut in their lines, and battle to stop a planet-wide invasion.
Synopsis:
Blackwind is a top-down sci-fi action game that puts you in the shoes of a teenager trapped inside a prototype battle armor suit during an alien invasion. Face off against enemies, cut through their ranks, and fight back in a last-ditch attempt to stop a planetary invasion. When the starship Pandora is shot down, James Hawkins finds himself trapped inside a military prototype Battle Frame armor as he hurtles towards Medusa-42. As the Raknos hordes ravage the planet and leave every human mining colony in ruins, James doesn’t have long to discover how to operate the Battle Frame if he wants to survive his dangerous surroundings and find his missing father.
Downslope
Release date: January 20
The Mountain is waiting to be conquered. You’ll have to navigate complex, difficult courses as you move farther and further down the slopes of the mountain. Are you quick enough? Do you have the right skills? There’s only one way to find out.
Synopsis:
Downslope is a chill snowboarding game where you explore a mysterious Mountain. Snowboard your way down the dizzying Descent! Race down complex, tricky courses as you make your way further and further down the Mountain’s slopes, trying to make it in time to proceed.
Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S
Release date: January 20
New 5×5, 15×15, and 20×20 puzzles have been added to Hatsune Miku Logic Paint Mikuogi. Use the numbers at the left and the top to complete the squares, and complete the image.
Pupperazzi
Release date: January 20
The game is available on the first day using Game Pass. This dog photography game is available on Cloud Console, Cloud, and PC.
As you take better photos, you will unlock new breeds cameras, chew toys, as well as accessories to dress your dogs.
Synopsis:
Put your love for pups to the test – we have a bunch of dogs that need their photos taken, doggone it! Photograph and catalog the finest (and derpiest) dogs to build your career, upgrade your camera, and discover new canines. WOOF.
RPGolf Legends
Release date: January 20
Join an exciting action-golfing journey to save golf around the world! Explore a unique world where golf and monsters coexist with this game. Get your highest scores in six unique environments and defeat monsters!
Synopsis:
An evil force has sealed all the golf holes in the world! Join forces with the spirit of a golf club and embark on a fantastic action-golfing adventure to save golf in the world! Travel around in a unique open-world where monsters and golf coexist, get your best scores in 6 unique environments and beat monsters! When you are resting, do not forget to help people with their quests… every encounter counts! Thanks to the class system, you will also get new skills, special items and a brand new look! Whether you spend your time golfing, fishing, crafting or exploring… is entirely up to you. A fantastic journey is about to start!
Rise of the Third Power
Release date: January 20
Rise of the Third Power is a console-style role-playing game. It is based on the political atmosphere of Europe in the 1930s. The story takes place in the land of Rin during the height of the Age of Sail.
Synopsis:
Rise of the Third Power is set in a world filled with politics, treachery, and betrayal. In the unstable aftermath of the Great War, the victors have retreated back to their homes to lick their wounds. From the defeated, they have demanded a debt that no one could ever hope to repay.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction
Release date: January 20
The game is available on the first day using Game Pass. A strategic 1 to 3 players co-op FPS in which you’ll join the top operators from Rainbow Six Siege against an apocalyptic alien threat called the Archaens. Gather your team, plan your attack, and take on everything to ensure nobody is left out! Now is the time to pre-order this bonus bundle, the Orbital Decay Bundle. Available on Cloud console, Cloud, and PC.
Synopsis:
Several years after the 2018 outbreak in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, the Chimera Parasite broke containment and subsequently spread to other areas in the United States, notably New Mexico, New York City, San Francisco, and Alaska. Over the years, the Parasite has adapted to Earth and evolved into the Archæans. Rainbow established a new division, the Rainbow Exogenous Analysis & Containment Team (REACT), and set up containment zones around afflicted areas. As the Archæans grow stronger, REACT must enter these zones to gather any information they can in order to find a way to stop them.
Windjammers 2
Release date: January 20
The game is available on the first day using Game Pass. It’s available on Cloud console, Cloud, and PC.
The best flying disc game is back with amazing new characters and artwork as well as gameplay mechanics, and stages.
Gravity Chase
Release date: January 21
This is a futuristic anti-gravity arcade race game. Races take place on tunnel tracks. It required skill and precise driving are required to stay on the right path for fast 360 degrees of Zero-G racing. Also, use of powerups, pickups, and weapons to advance through the race series.
Jack ‘n’ Hat
Release date: January 21
Dr. Voo Doom has kidnapped the princess of Ririland and sparked an outbreak of civil conflict! Can repairman Jack as well as his bowering cap save her? And will he bring peace back to the land?
Synopsis:
Armed with the latest invention of the brilliant Dr. Expo Zicion, a hat that can be thrown like a boomerang, Jack has to travel the planet searching for Energy Crystals, the only power source that will allow him to travel to the moon and put an end to Dr. Voo Doom’s plans for world domination!
Kinduo
Release date: January 21
2 friends face obstacles to get back to their home island in this colorful game. Use electricity to join objects, break ice blocks of ice, push boxes or blow things up.
Synopsis:
Kinduo is a local cooperative game where two elemental friends overcome obstacles to return to their island, push boxes, use electricity to connect objects, break ice blocks, blow things up, and more in this cute and colorful co-op game!
