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Indie Selects for October: Game Developers Bringing the Treats
This month, indie game developers are swinging for the fences. Incredible visuals, inventive game mechanics, audio delights, and chaotic fun are all being showcased with this month’s six Indie Selects.
Each of these games couldn’t be any more different. Need something really special for you and your kiddos? Check! Something to curb your monster-like rage? Check! Does your eclectic music taste need a treat? Check! Are you so confident about your wordsmithing ability you would bet your afterlife on it? Check! Here’s what we’ve got for you this month (in no particular order):
The Plucky Squire
The Plucky Squire is a magical adventure game featuring Jot and his friends, who discover their world exists within a storybook. Jot must leap between the 2D storybook and the 3D artist’s table, solving puzzles, boxing badgers, and engaging in mini-games to save his kingdom. Firstly, the game’s art is stunning, just check out the gameplay trailer. In an all-ages story, Jot and his friends battle the wizard Humgrump with the help of DJing Gandalf figure, Moonbeard. The combat is simple, akin to a 2D Zelda game, but frequently interspersed with new puzzles and challenges requiring exploration in 3D on the artist’s desk.
Though single-player, it’s ideal for playing with a child, offering many accessibility options, including the option to skip mini-games and enable puzzle hints from a mini-Wizard. Another standout feature is the ability to collect art scrolls scattered throughout the world, providing insights into the game’s development process, including draft art and design elements that were cut. It’s a visual showcase of the non-linear nature of video game creation, where ideas are created, iterated and sometimes discarded. What better message could you have in a game, all about art, creativity and how media can inspire a lifetime of creativity?
The Plucky Squire
Devolver Digital
$29.99
The Plucky Squire follows the magical adventures of Jot and his friends – storybook characters who discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book.
When the malevolent Humgrump realizes he’s the villain of the book – destined to lose his battle against the forces of good for all eternity – he kicks the heroic Jot out of its pages and changes the story forever.
Jot must face challenges, unlike anything he’s ever seen if he is to save his friends from Humgrump’s dark forces and restore the book’s happy ending.
Jump between 2D and 3D worlds in this charming action-adventure – solving puzzles, boxing badgers, flying with a jetpack, and enjoying many more delightful and surprising mini-challenges as you become the hero of a living storybook.
Kill Knight
This game is not for the faint of heart. Survive the onslaught of enemies in a constantly evolving arena and get rewarded for your aggression and precision with powerful equipment, special abilities and new arenas for slaughter. It’s safe to say, this will not be going in our cozy collection, ladies and gentleman. Kill Knight is an addictive, violent, adrenaline-charged rampage that is incredibly satisfying. Each run is fast, chaotic, and fun as hell.
Your character build is made up of your primary weapons, a secondary weapon, a sword, armor, and a relic which will provide some sort of boost to your stats, all of which can be upgraded by unlocking new weapons and equipment. Collecting red orbs, dropped by the enemies you kill, increases your damage, but can also be used to charge your secondary weapon’s special attack, which causes enemies to drop healing orbs to restore your health. This combat mechanic creates a really fun gameplay loop where you end up utilizing enemies as resources that you must maintain a balance between healing and damage.
The game has high replayability with a ton of thoughtful mechanics, a wide variety of enemies, and painful environmental challenges. Individually, none of these elements necessarily reinvent the genre, but when these ingredients are carefully plated together, it creates one hell of a murder salad.
KILL KNIGHT
PlaySide
$14.99
Once a loyal knight, betrayed, and banished to the Abyss. A desecrated corpse inside reanimated armor. You rise to an eternal death. Branded KILL KNIGHT, you have one purpose – KILL THE LAST ANGEL.
FIVE ELDRITCH LAYERS
KILL, OR BE KILLED
MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN
Dance with death in the Abyss, and unveil intricate layers of gameplay lurking beneath the surface. Exploit enemy weaknesses, enact brutal executions, weave through your arsenal to tactically manage resources, and unleash destructive wrath blasts to turn the tide. Every encounter is testament to your mastery.
BEAUTY IN DECAY
KILL KNIGHT’s polished, minimalist aesthetic, and retro visuals pay homage to the neon-soaked arcades and shooters of the 90’s. Set across five relentless, hand-crafted eldritch arenas, KILL KNIGHT embraces lo-fi brutalism and revels in the dread and dream-like ruins that surround your descent into the Abyss.
ETERNAL DAMNATION
Survive the otherworldly onslaught and complete challenges to unlock powerful new equipment for your Knight’s Arsenal, and evolve your unique playstyle. Learn to harness the special abilities and fire-modes of KILL KNIGHT’s array of pistols, heavy weapons, swords, and armor. Take your fight to the global leaderboards against friends and foes alike. Enter if you dare, Knight, and revel in the carnage.
FEATURES
– Fast and visceral top-down, push forward combat that rewards aggression and precision
– An immersive otherworld dripping in corrosive atmosphere with a retro-inspired aesthetic
– Descend through five fatal layers, each more deadly than the last
– Choose your challenge, with four distinct difficulty settings to overcome
– Survive long enough to raise your Kill Power, increasing speed and damage
– Complete challenges to unlock your Knight’s Arsenal, and evolve your playstyle
– Dive into Sever Mode, combining all five layers into one extended arena challenge
– Ascend the global leaderboards, and compete with friends for high-score supremacy
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Keylocker
On this planet, music is illegal. So, naturally, it’s time to do crimes. Keylocker is a Cyberpunk music-themed turn-based RPG where the power of your attack is based on the real-time execution of moves in rhythm. You are Bobo, a lady ready to rage against the machine and bring freedom to her world. The game allows you to choose between 4 different classes revolved around how offensive or defensive you want to play it: Juggernaut, Hacker, Samurai, and Sequencer.
The turn-based combat system takes place on a hexagonal grid where you’ll need to time your hits to the exact moment needed, whether you are attacking or defending. Placement is also critical to this game, so planning out your movements will make a huge difference whether you avoid attacks or receive special buffs and debuffs. You can also plan counters, charge your electricity points or even steal electricity from your opponent. There’s definitely a learning curve with some of these opponents, but some trial and error can lead to some incredibly satisfying moments of clearing the board.
Keylocker is a visually stunning and fun turn-based RPG that excels in combining a fresh combat system with a variety of mini-games and boss fights to keep the playthrough exciting. Also, the music is *chef’s kiss* perfect.
Keylocker
Serenity Forge
$19.99
Keylocker is a Cyberpunk turn-based rhythm JRPG. Play as the singer and songwriter, B0B0. Fuel your moves with the electric power of music on this unforgiving planet by using real-time execution of moves in rhythm game style! Choose a unique class, battle the authorities, unlock the secrets of Saturn, play in your own bands’ concerts, and hack into the network to bring an end to this corrupt system, for better or worse.
Story:
| Saturn, Anno 801. |
| Music is banned for 141 years now. |
B0B0 is one of the Doppelgangers, twins born as perfect human beings fit to obey the purpose of the caste they were assigned to. Her purpose is to serve in the lowest caste for the prosperity of Saturn, but B0B0 doesn’t quite agree to that. Amidst a revolution against the Saturnian Satellites, the ultimate form of law, B0B0 hears news of a newfound music robot that’ll fit right in her illegal band as a drummer. Rebelling against the corrupt system using music is the only thing she knows how to do well and she only needed a drummer to join her pack of misfits. With every piece in place, she’s out to break some laws, and discover the truth behind the essence of music: the Keylocker.
Cryptmaster
Sticks and stones… well those won’t hurt you nearly as much as the words in this game. In Cryptmaster, words control everything. You can either type words or even use voice recognition to command your character, uncover lost abilities, fight enemies, and solve baffling riddles. This may require some adjustment at first as it’s not a typical way you would usually traverse a dungeon, but there’s a ton of accessibility options available if you find yourself limited.
You’ll have 4 heroes to command, each with unique playstyles, and as you progress, you’ll need to help them find their forgotten powers. This is one of the strangest and most original titles I’ve played in a while with a very creepy aesthetic, memorable side characters, a great story with a surprisingly funny undertone, and one-of-a-kind mechanics. If you are a collector of the strange and rare, boy do I have a gem for you!
Cryptmaster
Akupara Games
$24.99
SAY ANYTHING in this bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, embark on strange quests, and solve mindbending riddles. Can you conquer the crypt and uncover the mystery at the heart of CRYPTMASTER?
In the ancient past, four brave heroes banded together to destroy a terrible evil, giving their lives to save countless others. But now their eternal rest has been disturbed by the Cryptmaster, a capricious necromancer in whose thrall they must ascend through the buried strata of the city above them – the gloomy Bonehouses, mysterious Sunken Sea and freakish Downwood.
With the enigmatic Soulstone in hand, the four adventurers must recover their memories, solve whimsical puzzles and defeat outlandish enemies. From fishing and card games to bardic rap battles, finding the right word is the key to success. Who knows, maybe you’ll even remember a little more than you bargained for…
Beyond Galaxyland
Beyond Galaxyland is a gorgeous side-scrolling RPG that seeks to dig into the classic space adventure genre and give it a spark of humor and depth. The story focuses on Doug, whose life abruptly changes one day when a cataclysmic event “destroys” the Earth and Doug is transported to the other side of the galaxy together with his adorable guinea pig friend Boom Boom. From there, their adventure begins, and the duo journey through various planets, each with their own unique aesthetic and characters, with the goal of finding out what happened to their home.
The combat system respects the classic turn-based formula and builds on it by adding new members to the party as your progress and even a “catch” mechanic where you can catch various enemies and summon them in future fights. Overall, the game offers a great balance of things to explore, characters to meet, enemies to fight and mysteries to solve and it is astonishing that it was basically done by one person.
Beyond Galaxyland
United Label
$17.99
Inspired by classic sci-fi movies, Beyond Galaxyland is an intergalactic, 2.5D adventure-RPG set among the stars. Step into the sneakers of high-schooler Doug, as he’s whisked away to ‘Galaxyland’ – a zoo-like solar system of planets – on an epic quest to save Earth itself.
An all-new take on the beloved RPG adventures of old, prepare for a journey like no other, skyrocketing through teeming jungles, neon-lit cities, and cybernetic casinos, with each new planet brimming with intriguing characters, fiendish adversaries, and many other surprises.
Accompanied by Doug’s pet guinea pig – the pistol-wielding Boom Boom – and a sentient robot called MartyBot, together you must defend the world against an all-powerful entity known only as ‘The End’, before it conquers the Universe itself…
No pressure.
A Bold New Take on the Classic Sci-Fi Caper!
Experience firsthand all the thrills and spills of a retro sci-fi adventure, in an all-new take on the fish-out-of-water tale that sticks you right in the centre of the action! Laughter, loss, peril and friendship, Beyond Galaxyland has it all and then some, dipped in a dazzling layer of neon-tastic pixels.
Explore a Solar System of Extraordinary Worlds
From the blizzard-swept planes of Arcos to the tropical jungle ravines of Erros, the neon-buzzing cities of Neo to the arid sand dunes of Xalm, explore a cosmic cluster of unique worlds, each with its own quests, environmental puzzles, and out-of-this-world characters.
Overcome Cosmic Foes in Tactical Turn-Based Combat
Engage in strategic turn-based battles against a vast range of galactic nemeses, with time-responsive defensive gameplay to minimise damage. Each party member has a range of unique abilities at their disposal, but for an additional tactical advantage, sneakily scan your enemy pre-battle to discover their strengths and weaknesses.
Experience Epic Boss Battles
Each planet boasts its own distinct perils, but none more so than the epic bosses you’ll encounter throughout your extraterrestrial travels, including colossal space dragons, flesh eating flowers, and the all-knowing bionic behemoth that is Mother Brain.
Capture Enemies to Use in Battle
Successfully capture the many weird and wonderful creatures you encounter, to later unleash them in battle, with each possessing a number of exclusive abilities. Will you acquire every last one?
Starship Troopers: Extermination
Set in the same universe as the 1997 cult classic film, Starship Troopers: Extermination is a co-op first-person shooter with some twists to set it apart from the rest of the genre. You’ll join the Deep Space Vanguard, an elite Special Forces branch of the Mobile Infantry, as you battle against the Bug menace in an effort to claim victory for humanity.
Each match features 16 players joining forces to build a base, all while fending off wave after wave of skittering enemies. One innovative feature the game sports is that enemy corpses pile up on the battlefield, obstructing your line of sight while giving the next wave of enemies something to help them scale your base’s walls. Starship Troopers: Extermination is a refreshing blast of emergent gameplay, so there’s only one more question: Are you doing your part?
Starship Troopers: Extermination
Knights Peak
$49.99
Insectoid creatures known as Arachnids crawl from the bowels of Federation planets, with their endless, bloodthirsty hordes threatening humanity’s very existence. The United Citizen Federation needs YOU to put an end to this invasion. Join the Deep Space Vanguard as an elite Trooper and do your part — for freedom, for humanity, for the Federation!
Welcome to Starship Troopers: Extermination, a 16-player online co-op first-person shooter set in the cult classic Starship Troopers universe.
A GALAXY AT WAR
Your mission: scour expansive planets and warzones while battling relentless hordes of Bugs. With hundreds of Arachnids and carapaces swarming your screen at a time, you Troopers are the only ones holding back the tide in this immense planetary struggle!
DO YOUR PART
Take orders from the legendary General Johnny Rico (voiced by Casper Van Dien) in an all-new single-player mode. Squad up for the full 16-player co-op experience and fight together to crush Bug incursions across the galaxy. The battlefield expands in the Galactic Front, where you can join a Company, push for collective goals and special rewards, and influence the ongoing story.
WELCOME TO THE NEW VANGUARD
Choose from six classes to suit your playstyle and support your squad. Attack with the Ranger, squash Bugs at range with the Sniper, deal devastation with the Demolisher, cover your team with the Guardian, fortify positions with the Engineer, and save lives with the Medic. Progress with each class to unlock new weapons, equipment, perks, and customization options. Do your part AND look the part!
THE ONLY GOOD BUG…
Increasing threat levels beckon bigger, more dangerous Bugs… so you’re going to need to hunker down to stand a chance. Retake and rebuild bases, and construct refineries, towers, machine-gun turrets, and more to wrest control of planets away from the Bug menace. Get your defenses ready, then aim for the weak spots on Drones, Warriors, Gunners, Plasma Grenadiers, Tanker Bugs, and many more ugly varieties of Arachnid bastards!
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The First Hands-on
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The First Hands-on
One of Mussolini’s blackshirts is running at me with a club. I’m out of bullets, he’s coming at me too fast for me to use my whip, and I don’t back myself to take him down with my fists alone. I take a frenzied glance across the room, and see an indicator saying I can pick up something as an improvised weapon – I’m reacting too quickly to check exactly what. I smash my controller to grab it. It’s… a wooden spoon. Oh well. I dodge the first blow, and hammer at my foe with my less-than-impressive weaponry. He eventually goes down. Troy Baker’s pitch-perfect Harrison Ford performance fills my ears: “You went down like a leaf!”
MachineGames is looking to create the playable equivalent of an Indiana Jones movie. Well, I’ve just, quite accidentally, created a fight scene set piece that wouldn’t feel out of place in the series. Mission accomplished.
My two hours with the game – taking in its introduction at Marshall College, a short section at the Vatican, and a trip to the game’s first truly open area set around the Pyramids of Giza – is full of these moments. Cutscenes are charming and heartfelt, getting across the movies’ lighter moments – particularly when Indy begins to travel with hapless-but-talented journalist, Gina. Puzzles come with the sense of wonder and satisfaction you’d hope for from an Indy film. And, yes, the action is as much slapstick as it is brutal, with that sense of ‘50s B-Movie derring-do that Spielberg always aimed to recreate.
Controller in hand, this is a classic adventure game – MachineGames has brought its considerable experience with first-person action games, but pushed it so much further. In Marshall College, you’re given a truly sumptuous tutorial – Indy unsuccessfully attempts to foil a break-in (teaching you the rudiments of combat), works out which exhibit has been stolen from the museum (giving you the basics of puzzle solving), and asks you to follow clues to work out who broke in, and who they might work for (giving you some light traversal tips).
Following those clues to Vatican City, we’re then shown how the game will approach its more linear sequences – Indy needs to break into Vatican walls, getting past the fascist forces that have mysteriously moved in. It’s introduced as an exercise in stealth – levels are rammed with items you can pick up and throw to distract guards, from bottles to… violins. But you’re also taught that anything thrown can also be a weapon.
For someone who is shaky at stealth at the best of times, this is welcome news. One of the pure pleasures of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is how seamlessly it shifts gears, and this section teaches that beautifully. One moment, I’m confusing guards with clattering objects, the next I’m up on the battlements of the castle, choosing my own path towards my objective (even these more straightforward sections offer multiple routes to success), and then I’m travelling down a zipline, alerting three guards, shooting two, realizing I’ve run out of bullets, and then realizing again that, when I’m out of bullets, I can use my revolver as a melee weapon (I wish I’d understood that during the wooden spoon incident, incidentally).
And after all of this, my demo whisked me to Giza, and I’m shown how much more of that spirit we’ll get. We already knew that the game would include more open areas along the journey, but I hadn’t quite realized how open we were talking. After a brief introduction where I meet Dame Nawal – an antiquities collector working to save the treasures of the Pyramids from the arrival of the Nazis – this section throws me into a huge swathe of playable space, packed with quests, side-quests, NPCs, and mysteries to be found along the way.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle handles its open areas in some novel ways. Maps need to be found and collected, for a start – and once you find them, you’ll need to literally pull out the physical map to work out where you are, and where to go. It’s a means of reducing the onscreen UI, and to ground you in Indy’s analogue world. Fast travel is available around these areas, but only by finding road signs – again, making you engage with the world placed around you, rather than menus.
The result is that, in just a short time, I learned how the Giza area was put together much faster than I would in other games – I knew which roads led to where, and how to get from place to place without a map. It’s another means of making you Indy, rather than simply piloting the character around.
And it’s also a way of helping you find adventure on your own. While the game is clear about your main quest (you can open up your journal at any time, review clues you’ve found, and get pointers on where to head), it’s not insistent about making you do that quest. I initially took a walk to a market bazaar – but on the way found a wanted poster for a couple of graverobbers in the area. I followed their tracks to a hidden tomb I might otherwise never have seen, and discovered their grisly fate – and a skill book (the game’s means of ‘levelling up’ your abilities).
Once I headed back to the market, I bought a lighter from a dubious vendor, and left to take on a quest I’d been given at a dig site under the Great Sphinx. As I snuck into the area, I saw an unguarded door and, walking in, I spotted a space small enough to crawl into. I assumed this was an alternative route to my goal, but I quickly found a miniature puzzle I was never aiming for in the first place. I’d literally stumbled into an adventure.
This happened multiple times as I played – moments of discovery pile up to lead you to quests you didn’t know existed, offering up collectibles, skill books, and story. Wandering into a medical tent offered me the chance to help a local doctor, who needed me to steal medicine from the invading forces. Heading to a Nazi encampment, I was able to use a disguise I found to walk freely, pilfering supplies. And while I was in the camp, I heard two guards discussing an underground fight club that’s been set up in a local village – I never got the chance to find the uniform I needed to be able to sneak into said club, but I’ll absolutely be heading there when I play the full game.
This kind of organic, fortuitous discovery feels so right for an Indiana Jones game, and it’s a joy to see it coming together in such a short time with this small slice of the full adventure. And when I don’t get sidetracked by my wandering eye, the game’s main quests offer me more fully-fledged delights. When I reach my originally intended destination at the Great Sphinx, I meet Gina in a guarded dig site (kicking off a huge fight outside before I do so), then head off to steal a golden medallion from Nazi officers playing a game of cards, before returning to solve multiple puzzles in the bowels of the Earth.`
Another major quest sees me scouring multiple locations across Giza in search of precious, ancient steles – needing to fight off scorpions by waving flaming torches (you really should get that lighter), smash down bricked up walls into undiscovered tombs, and sneak into a Nazi transport depot, taking down a captain, learning a code from a letter nearby, and breaking into a lockbox to find the stolen goods.
I’ve played just two hours of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and I already have this many stories to tell. It bodes beautifully for the full experience – like I say, if this is an exercise in making you feel like Indy – mission accomplished.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle comes to Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC (with Game Pass), or Steam on December 9. Premium and Collector’s Editions will offer 3 days of early access from December 6.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
: Digital Premium Edition
Bethesda Softworks
$99.99
Pre-order now or Play on Game Pass* to receive The Last Crusade Pack with the Traveling Suit Outfit and Lion Tamer Whip, as seen in The Last Crusade.
Pack with the Traveling Suit Outfit and Lion Tamer Whip, as seen in The Last Crusade.***
Live the adventure with the Premium Edition of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle!
INCLUDES:
• Base Game (digital code)
• Up to 3-Day Early Access**
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants Story DLC†
• Digital Artbook
• Temple of Doom Outfit
***
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them – Indiana Jones. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in this cinematic action-adventure game from MachineGames, the award-winning studio behind the recent Wolfenstein series, and executive produced by Hall of Fame game designer Todd Howard.
YOU ARE INDIANA JONES
Live the adventure as Indy in a thrilling story full of exploration, immersive action, and intriguing puzzles. As the brilliant archaeologist – famed for his keen intellect, cunning resourcefulness, and trademark humor – you will travel the world in a race against enemy forces to discover the secrets to one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
A WORLD OF MYSTERY AWAITS
Travel from the halls of Marshall College to the heart of the Vatican, the pyramids of Egypt, the sunken temples of Sukhothai, and beyond. When a break-in in the dead of night ends in a confrontation with a mysterious colossal man, you must set out to discover the world-shattering secret behind the theft of a seemingly unimportant artifact. Forging new alliances and facing familiar enemies, you’ll engage with intriguing characters, use guile and wits to solve ancient riddles, and survive intense set-pieces.
WHIP-CRACKING ACTION
Indiana’s trademark whip remains at the heart of his gear and can be used to distract, disarm, and attack enemies. But the whip isn’t just a weapon, it’s Indy’s most valuable tool for navigating the environment. Swing over unsuspecting patrols and scale walls as you make your way through a striking world. Combine stealth infiltration, melee combat, and gunplay to combat the enemy threat and unravel the mystery.
THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY
Venture through a dynamic mix of linear, narrative-driven gameplay and open-area maps. Indulge your inner explorer and unearth a world of fascinating secrets, deadly traps and fiendish puzzles, where anything could potentially hide the next piece of the mystery – or snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
*Game Pass members get access to all pre-order content as long as Game Pass subscription is active.
**Actual play time depends on purchase date and applicable time zone differences, subject to possible outages.
†DLC availability to be provided at a later date.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Standard Edition
Bethesda Softworks
$69.99
Pre-order now or Play on Game Pass* to receive The Last Crusade Pack with the Traveling Suit Outfit and Lion Tamer Whip, as seen in The Last Crusade.
***
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them – Indiana Jones. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in this cinematic action-adventure game from MachineGames, the award-winning studio behind the recent Wolfenstein series, and executive produced by Hall of Fame game designer Todd Howard.
Pack with the Traveling Suit Outfit and Lion Tamer Whip, as seen in The Last Crusade.***
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them – Indiana Jones. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in this cinematic action-adventure game from MachineGames, the award-winning studio behind the recent Wolfenstein series, and executive produced by Hall of Fame game designer Todd Howard.YOU ARE INDIANA JONES
Live the adventure as Indy in a thrilling story full of exploration, immersive action, and intriguing puzzles. As the brilliant archaeologist – famed for his keen intellect, cunning resourcefulness, and trademark humor – you will travel the world in a race against enemy forces to discover the secrets to one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
A WORLD OF MYSTERY AWAITS
Travel from the halls of Marshall College to the heart of the Vatican, the pyramids of Egypt, the sunken temples of Sukhothai, and beyond. When a break-in in the dead of night ends in a confrontation with a mysterious colossal man, you must set out to discover the world-shattering secret behind the theft of a seemingly unimportant artifact. Forging new alliances and facing familiar enemies, you’ll engage with intriguing characters, use guile and wits to solve ancient riddles, and survive intense set-pieces.
WHIP-CRACKING ACTION
Indiana’s trademark whip remains at the heart of his gear and can be used to distract, disarm, and attack enemies. But the whip isn’t just a weapon, it’s Indy’s most valuable tool for navigating the environment. Swing over unsuspecting patrols and scale walls as you make your way through a striking world. Combine stealth infiltration, melee combat, and gunplay to combat the enemy threat and unravel the mystery.
THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY
Venture through a dynamic mix of linear, narrative-driven gameplay and open-area maps. Indulge your inner explorer and unearth a world of fascinating secrets, deadly traps and fiendish puzzles, where anything could potentially hide the next piece of the mystery – or snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
*Game Pass members get access to all pre-order content as long as Game Pass subscription is active.
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New Home Experience in the Xbox App on Windows Is Available for Xbox Insiders
Starting today, we are excited to announce that a new Home experience is available in the Xbox app on Windows for Xbox Insiders! We are improving the Xbox app on Windows by making it faster and easier to find your next favorite game. We’ve listened to your feedback and have been testing different designs internally over the last several months. Our goal is to create a unified Home experience that combines the best and latest content from both the Game Pass and Microsoft Store tabs, so you can easily find what you love without having to jump between tabs.
All Xbox players on Windows will benefit from Home, whether you play with Game Pass or purchase your games individually. Home brings you the latest games, news, curated recommendations, free-to-play content, and deals.
Check out the new Home tab and let us know your thoughts by completing this short 2-minute survey available here. Your feedback will be used to inspire future updates and plans as we continue to evolve.
Now, let’s take a look at some of the updates that you can expect to see in Home starting today.
New Home highlights
Featured content. At-a-glance view for you stay up to date on exciting game releases, new events, content available with Game Pass, sales, and more!
Deals and discounts. No more navigating through the app to find the latest deals and discounts. The new Home will now have collections with the best deals and discounts to make sure you can see available savings at a glance.
Note: Prices shown are for illustrative purpose only and may vary.
Curated collections and recommendations. Find games that are perfect for you with collections curated and personalized for you. Spend less time searching and more time playing games.
Note: Prices shown are for illustrative purpose only and may vary.
Jump back in (available with compact mode). In May, we tested Jump back in as part of the Game Pass tab experience. This feature allows players in Compact Mode to click on any game card shown, allowing them to go directly to its game hub, where you can jump right back into game play. Today, we are excited to add this feature as part of the new Home experience for all Xbox Insiders.
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A Deep Dive into [REDACTED]’s Challenging End Game
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On behalf of the team at Striking Distance Studios, I wanted to offer up a huge thank you to everyone who pre-ordered [REDACTED]. I hope you’re enjoying the 72 hours of Early Access on Xbox.
If you haven’t pre-ordered the game yet, you’ve still got a chance to get in on the fun and check out the new gameplay trailer before our official launch on October 31. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
[REDACTED] is our take on a fast-action dungeon crawler roguelike. It’s set in Black Iron Prison, a deep space penitentiary where the shit really hits the fan after a full-blown outbreak has created a terrifying mob of bloodthirsty monsters. You’re an expendable prison guard with one mission – find the last escape pod and get the hell out of there.
This is a passion project for our team between AAA releases. We’re huge fans of roguelikes and wanted to put our stamp on the genre, with a vibrant comic-book-inspired style, and a high-energy, futuristic punk rock vibe.
We’ve already talked about a few of the innovative new gameplay features we’ve added, like “Rivals” and “Fight Your Last Corpse.” But of course, we’ve saved a few surprises for the end.
Today, we wanted to tell you about a devious ultra-hard mode called “The Watcher Run.”
“The Watcher Run” is a completely optional endgame playthrough for the hardest of the hardcore out there. It’s the only way to unlock the final pieces of the story in [REDACTED], and is the ultimate test of your skill, strategy, and sanity.
You’ll unlock dossier filers for each Rival you encounter in the game as you battle through Black Iron Prison. Each completed dossier scores you a code used to unlock a mysterious Vault in the escape pod bay at the end of the prison.
Once you secure all eight codes and reaches the vault next to the escape pod, you have the option to unlock “The Watcher Run.”
And here’s where things get interesting.
If you choose to take on this challenge, you’ll assume the role of “The Watcher.” Playing as the “The Watcher” has its perks – you’ll wield a cattle prod and the Plasma Gun, a new and powerful ranged weapon. Otherwise, it’s simple – you have to make one last run through Black Iron facing off against every boss and rival from start to finish – without dying.
Don’t worry, The Watcher isn’t just a guy with a big shiny gun and cattle prod. He has a unique ability to exit any room that doesn’t include a boss or Rival encounter before it’s cleared. This speeds the run up and reduces your exposure to combat, but it costs you the ability to unlock upgrades along the way. Which is a real high-risk scenario, because there’s a catch.
If you die, you’ll lose every upgrade you’ve purchased. So, basically, just about everything you’ve earned up to that point. Like I said, The Watcher Run isn’t for the timid and the stakes are high. But so are the rewards.
If you battle your way through the prison, clear the whole run without dying, overcome one last life-or-death battle that unlocks one of two special endings for the game (no spoilers here), you win access to the Plasma Gun and a new suit that grants 100% hazard protection and deflects enemy projectiles back at the attacker.
I can’t wait to hear about all your own unique player stories exploring Black Iron Prison (whether you take on “The Watcher Run” or not) in the days ahead as we launch the game globally on October 31. We hope you have as much fun playing the game as we did making it!
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[REDACTED]
KRAFTON, Inc.
$22.49
Black Iron, a state-of-the-art penitentiary located on Jupiter’s icy moon Callisto, is overrun with hordes of infected inmates. As a modest prison guard your job is simple – get to the last escape pod and get out alive.
But you aren’t the only survivor looking to escape. Your rivals – a deranged custodian, a violent gangster, a maniacal lunch lady, and more – can’t wait to step over your corpse and save themselves.
Only one of you can make it off the moon – make sure it’s you!
FIGHT/DIE/ADAPT
Each death is a learning experience. Starting fresh each run, build up your loadout with powerful experiments, weapon schematics, and buffs to battle through Black Iron. When you die (and you will die), use your hard-earned loot to purchase new permanent weapons, suits, and skills. Get stronger, experiment with your strategy, and get out!
ROUT YOUR RIVALS
You’re not the only person to survive the initial outbreak or willing to use a bit of violence to get to the last escape pod. Some prisoners and even your correctional services colleagues are just as eager to escape and will make escaping harder by attacking you remotely or challenging you to a one-on-one duel. Race them, attack them back remotely, and fight them to the death to make it out in one piece.
FIGHT YOUR LAST CORPSE
When you die, you leave more than a coverall-clad carcass. Defeat the reanimated corpse of the last guard to succumb to the prison’s dangers to earn a powerful experiment. But beware, it’s not going to be an easy fight. The semi-alive guard has the same loadout they had when they met an untimely end and a few extra tricks up its sleeve to keep things spicy.
“GAME OVER, MAN”
You’ve made the perfect build, battled through bosses, ran through rivals, killed your corpse, found all the files, and now you’re standing in front of that last escape pod. Sure, you could leave it all behind for the sweet taste of freedom… or risk it all in one last hardcore do-or-die run back through the prison. Fail and you lose all your purchased gear, skills, suits, and weapons. But IF you succeed, you’ll unlock new powerful permanent gear.
FUTURE PUNK
An irreverent attitude, unique presentation, vivid graphic novel style, and a 180bpm original arcade-punk soundtrack by Mutato Muzika enhance [REDACTED]’s sci-fi setting and fast white-knuckle action.
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Survival Horror Gets Crafty in Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split
Summary
- Outbreak Shades of Horror Chromatic Split launches on Xbox Series X|S today.
- Compelling and twisted narrative, devious puzzles, thoughtful inventory management, and endless dark secrets.
- Special bonus modes include action-packed scenarios for a more arcade-style experience.
Happy Halloween, Survivors! My name is Julia Wolbach, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Dead Drop Studios. Today we are launching our next-generation survival horror bloodbath, Outbreak Shades of Horror Chromatic Split, on Xbox Series X|S. As Detective Lydia Daniels, players will begin in a sprawling sewer system beneath the city of Cypress Ridge on the eve of a massive zombie apocalypse. Players must explore, solve puzzles, and take advantage of their limited resources to survive in an ever-changing world filled with dangerous enemy zombies and a recurring, massive monster.
Dare to Explore an Underground Labyrinth Alone and Afraid.
Initially, players will be unarmed and at the mercy of the environment before discovering a repertoire of melee weapons and firearms such as the lead pipe and the shotgun. These and other key items will give players a fighting chance and also open up new and secret areas to explore in the game’s colossal maps. Resourceful players can find crafting items to create healing items, ammunition, and even precious ink for saving their game. For example, players can use unique types of gunpowder and shell casings to fabricate different types of ammo, or in a pinch, players can combine gunpowder with a virus kit to produce antiviral items. Explore a multitude of different crafting combos to manufacture the valuable supplies needed to ride out the zombie storm!
Play in Third Person or Through Lydia’s Eyes.
Players can switch between first person and third person perspectives at any time as they fight to survive in a ruthless world. If you’re looking to fully immerse yourself in Lydia’s journey, first person view may be your cup of tea, while if you enjoy more of a traditional survival horror experience, third person view will provide you with a full look at your character. Utilize melee combat to try and stagger foes and sneak by, or use your limited bullets to carefully place shots that can dismember and severely cripple zombies’ offensive options. Be warned, as enemy zombies can stun you or even knock you over, leaving you vulnerable to an unholy beating! Explore and carefully take advantage of your tools to open new pathways and discover a bevy of secrets, such as bonus crafting items and more.
Strategize and Think Quickly to Best Utilize Your Limited Items.
Lydia’s supplies will be limited, so she’ll need to find materials to give herself a fighting chance! Combine gunpowder with other items to create ink for saving, items for healing, additional bullets, antiviral solutions, and more. Lydia can’t afford to shoot first and think later, so think carefully about how you use your items! Will you consume raw gunpowder in an act of desperation to bail yourself out in the moment, or will you wait to find an empty ink canister so you can save your progress? Inventory space is also limited, so take time to optimize your pocket space and put excess items in linked item boxes occasionally found throughout the game for later use. Remember that opening your inventory to combine components will pause the game, but to reload your weapon you must find a safe spot to hide in the cruel, chaotic underground of Cypress Ridge!
Satiating Side Content Expands the Breadth of Gameplay.
Once you’re done with Lydia’s campaign, there’s still more fun to be had! Unlock an additional wild campaign for a more action-oriented game style. Try out the Onslaught and Besieged modes for arcade zombie-splatting fun against piles of enemies on unique maps. Looming Dread Mode challenges you to survive and clear a unique scenario in as fast a time as possible. You can also replay Lydia’s campaign in New Game Plus to keep all of your upgrades from the end of the story or enjoy built-in Developer Commentary! Can you find all of Chromatic Split’s hidden achievements and cheat codes?
Will you Save Cypress Ridge or Die Trying?
With so much content and multiple replayable modes all horrifyingly crafted in Unreal Engine 5, the standalone Outbreak Shades of Horror Chromatic Split is the perfect way to prepare for the main Outbreak: Shades of Horror game releasing soon episodically. On the eve of a massive zombie outbreak, can Lydia survive long enough to help her city in its time of need?
Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split
Dead Drop Studios LLC
$24.99
Cypress Ridge – September 28,1999
Go back to the beginning of the end in the prologue to Dead Drops’ Studios upcoming Outbreak: Shades of Horror. Play as both the heroes and the villains of the outbreak as you attempt both to avoid an outbreak of epic proportions and to stop word from getting out.
As Lydia, a veteran police officer, race against time through the Cypress Ridge sewers to spread the truth of the Outbreak before it’s too late but beware there is more than sludge and rats waiting for her.
As Hank, keep sight of your target while navigating rooftop of insanity as he tries to stop the truth from coming to the surface. But remember, the higher you are, the harder you fall when the zombies attack!
Leads into the upcoming Outbreak: Shades of Horror, a spiritual successor to online survival horror from the early 2000s.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is Officially Live Worldwide — Play Now!
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Next Week on Xbox: New Games for October 28 to November 1
Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, 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!
I’m on Observation Duty 6
Dreamloop Games
I’m on Observation Duty 6 – October 28
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
As an employee of a mysterious organization, your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and report other-worldly anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift, or will you succumb to paranoia?
Vengeance Hunters
Nalua Studio SLU
Vengeance Hunters – October 28
Pick your fighter: The robot, Golem. The brawler, Candy. The mad scientist, Loony. And adventure from the Last Woods to the desolate Wastelands and to the mean streets of the Megalopolis and beyond! Play solo or with a friend as you battle a strange array of enemies, aliens, monsters, and thugs. Collect secrets, increase your score, and challenge yourself across increased difficulty in this original NeoGeo title.
Backrooms: Partygoers
Ratalaika Games S.L.
Backrooms: Partygoers – October 29
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
A horror survival game where you play as a researcher tasked to find anomalies inside the horrifying alternate dimension known as The Backrooms. Scavenge for water and other supplies from dead bodies stuck in The Backrooms as you try to escape sharing their fate. Hide in lockers, scan for targets, use a flashlight, and detect creatures using the Anomaly Scanner.
Clock Tower: Rewind
WayForward
Clock Tower: Rewind – October 29
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Translated and released outside of Japan for the first time, Clock Tower: Rewind is a revival of the terror-inducing 16-bit classic that dares you to explore the haunting confines of the Barrows family manor. As teenage orphan Jennifer, you must search every disturbing corner to find items, reveal secrets, and discover ways to evade Scissorman, a murderous, unstoppable, shears-wielding psychopath.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Square Enix
$49.99
Life is Strange: Double Exposure – October 29
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere
Max Caulfield, photographer-in-residence at the prestigious Caledon University, discovers her closest new friend, Safi, dead in the snow. To save her, Max tries to Rewind time – a power she’s not used in years… instead, Max opens the way to a parallel timeline where Safi is still alive, and still in danger!
Monster High Skulltimate Secrets
Outright Games Ltd.
$39.99
Monster High Skulltimate Secrets – October 29
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
It’s your first day at Monster High, where all monsters are welcome… but some strange events are happening. Can you uncover the mystery of the doors and ancient keys and bring the school back to its authentic, spooky self? Play and discover its skulltimate secrets.
Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution
Idea Factory International
Neptunia Game Maker R:Evoltuion – October 29
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Play Anywhere
Grow a previously defunct gaming studio to success. Building it requires strong developers, cutting-edge video games, and the expansion of your market. Choose wisely and become the biggest game studio of the year!
Phasmophobia (Game Preview)
Kinetic Games
Phasmophobia (Game Preview) – October 29
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal to gather as much evidence as you can.
Post Trauma
Raw Fury
Post Trauma is a modern interpretation of genre-defining survival horror classics. As you venture deeper into the unknown, you’ll strive to solve the mysteries of your unfamiliar surroundings, hoping to discover hidden truths while trying to stay alive.
Cell Scientists: Beyond
R-Next
Cell Scientists: Beyond – October 30
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere
Save a sci-fi world from the dangerous Chaga virus in Cell Scientists: Beyond, an exciting puzzle game with 50 levels story mode and easy to pick gameplay mechanics. Embark on an adventure to destroy viruses using futuristics nano ships and help the patients. Save the day using your puzzle-solving skills!
Deepest Trench
Favor Games
Deepest Trench – October 30
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
An exhilarating local co-op game that plunges players into the depths of the Mariana Trench for a secretive military operation. With immersive gameplay and breathtaking visuals, players must work together to navigate treacherous underwater terrain, uncovering hidden mysteries and face unexpected dangers along the way.
Hidden Paws Mystery
Silesia Games Sp. z o.o.
Hidden Paws Mystery – October 30
Xbox Play Anywhere
You are an adventurer, the last of the Seekers of Cats, and you are tasked with an important job. Scattered on those islands are little cats, some of them are cold and hungry and yet still hoping someone will find them. Others don’t really care about you or your quest but meow insistently anyway so you should probably stop for a moment and pet them too.
Last Escape: Dead Complex
Mad Jackal Games
$4.99
Last Escape: Dead Complex – October 30
Dead Complex is a 2D top down, survival horror game. Sneak, loot, and fight your way out of an infested apartment complex and begin your final escape from the city.
Retreat To Enen
indie.io
Retreat To Enen – October 30
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
A base building simulator and survival game unlike any other. Rather than fight your way to prosperity, you’ll be living off the land in balance with nature. Three vast biomes await you. Explore, forage, hunt, craft, build, and meditate as you unlock the secrets of Enen and build the retreat of your dreams. Unlock and gather over 160 unique items as you explore.
Skater’s Solstice
Eastasiasoft Limited
Skater’s Solstice – October 30
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Skater’s Solstice is a top-down brainteasing game with a wintry theme and crisp HD visuals where you’ll need to overcome 50 stages of gradually increasing complexity to achieve ice skating mastery. Each stage contains 3 stars and a glimmering exit. Can you put it all together and gather all the stars?
Vampire Hunters
Gamecraft Studios
Vampire Hunters – October 30
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Play Anywhere
Shoot, stack, and slay! Vampire Hunters is a rogue lite survivors FPS where the toughest Transylvanians stack guns to mow down monsters with extreme firepower. Collect new weapons, upgrade, and dominate as you explore new levels in this retro-inspired bullet heaven FPS.
[REDACTED]
KRAFTON, Inc.
$22.49
Black Iron, a state-of-the-art penitentiary located on Jupiter’s icy moon Callisto, is overrun with hordes of infected inmates. As a modest prison guard your job is simple – get to the last escape pod and get out alive.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Electronic Arts
$69.99
$62.99
Dragon Age: The Veilguard – October 31
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Enter the world of Thedas, a vibrant land of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities – steeped in conflict and secret magics. Now, a pair of corrupt ancient gods have broken free from centuries of darkness and are hellbent on destroying the world. Rise as Rook, Dragon Age’s newest hero. Be who you want to be and play how you want to play as you fight to stop the gods from blighting the world.
Garten of Banban 6
Feardemic
Garten of Banban 6 – October 31
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Explore the forgotten levels of Banban’s Kindergarten. Survive the new terrors that reside below. Uncover the truth behind the place and find the whereabouts of your missing child.
Hannah
QUByte
Hannah – October 31
Xbox Play Anywhere
After Hannah’s doll gets stolen by a mysterious force, you must help her face multiple challenges that have taken shape by her childhood memories and wounds. Set in a retro surrealist world inspired by the 80’s, the player can choose between different paths that will take them down multiple endings.
Magic Cats Pots
©RedDeer.Games
Restore the broken porcelain and reveal hidden magic in Magic Cats Pots puzzles! Step into the magical world of Magic Cats Pots and breathe new life into old treasures! Visitors can come to the shop with their broken treasures, and with a touch of magic, these items can be brought back to life. But this isn’t just any life – these objects are home to divine creatures: cats.
Rumours From Elsewhere
Notte Studio Games
Rumours From Elsewhere – October 31
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
You have come to the right place pilgrim… Rumours from Elsewhere is a 2.5D action platformer with RPG and roguelite elements. Battle alone or with a friend through an ancient fantasy world, filled with loot and danger… welcome to the gauntlet of greed.
Self-Delusion
Sometimes You
$14.99
$11.99
Free Trial
A first-person survival horror game in the original setting of Slavic fairy tales. You will face unique monsters like Kolobok, Leshy, Boggart, Lapot and other creepy creatures. Explore, hide or run. Just don’t get devoured by them.
Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered
NetEase Entertainment Interactive Pte. Ltd.
$24.99
Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered – October 31
Kick some demon tail as Garcia Hotspur on one devil of a ride. The flames of hell will feel frigid compared to the hot-blooded Garcia on his quest to get his girl back from the Lord of the Underworld in this hot-blooded, hellishly twisted, feverishly filthy, love and hate-filled road trip.
Totally Spies! – Cyber Mission
Microids
$39.99
Totally Spies! Cyber Mission – October 31
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
The dazzling trio from Beverly Hills—Sam, Clover, and Alex— is back and they are ready to light up the vibrant streets of Singapore with their spy skills! From the bustling streets to Aiya University, embark on an action-packed adventure as you explore all the futuristic spots of the town.
Aero The Acro-Bat: Rascal Rival Revenge
Ratalaika Games S.L.
Aero The Acro-Bat: Rascal Rival Revenge – November 1
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
The 2002 remake of Aero the Acro-Bat is back and better than ever with improved sprites, modified stages and skills, as well as a whole new comic-style introduction scene. It’s up to Aero the Acro-Bat, the circus’s star performer, to rescue his friends and girlfriend Ariel, and put a stop to Edgar Ektor’s mad plans so everyone can enjoy the show again!
Albatroz
SOEDESCO
Albatroz – November 1
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S
Albatroz is a backpacking adventure RPG that will take you through majestic landscapes in search of your lost sibling. A tale about knowing when to let go and start over. Follow Isla’s journey through the Forbidden Lands, a breathtaking, otherworldly realm where two worlds converge.
Journey to Kreisia
KEMCO
Journey to the Kreisia – November 1
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
While attempting to skip out on a homework assignment and meet up with his friends at the arcade, a teenager by the name of Yusis is suddenly enveloped in a blinding light and transported to Kreisia — a world where fantasy meets reality.
Sainthood – The Game
Bisong Taiwo
Sainthood – November 1
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
Sainthood is a cozy strategy game about serving your community. Explore a miniature world and help the townsfolk by constructing buildings, delivering resources, and volunteering. Pray and attend other spiritual activities as you rise to become a Saint!
Unsolved Case: Killer Popularity CE Xbox
Legacy Games
Unsolved Case: Killer Popularity CE – November 1
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery
This new collection of crime episodes is full of terrifying and bone-chilling murders, break-ins, and robberies. We believe you are the only one who can stop the perpetrators, but just in case, we’ve sent Paul to you for backup. Your faithful partner will be there to assist you or even bring you a new case. Make complicated moral choices that will determine the future of both perpetrator and victim. Danger and treachery lay around every corner… so be careful!
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