New Xbox games — April 1 to 7
This week is a quiet one for big releases, giving other developers some time in the spotlight. If poking around an alchemy workstation sounds like a relaxing time for you, Alchemist: The Potion Monger tasks you with exploring its world, gathering ingredients, and crafting a host of potions. If high-octane action is more your style, though, chaotic arena shooter roguelike Sky Survivors looks like it could be a blast.
Here’s a round-up of everything coming to Xbox next week. Let us know which of these you’re planning on picking up in the comments!
April 3
Alchemist: The Potion Monger — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
First-person Alchemist Simulator with RPG elements. Explore the world, gather ingredients, and sell or USE POTIONS YOU CRAFT to help or hurt various characters. Adopt pets to help you with your alchemy knowledge (and to pet them). Decorate your home however you like and brew your destiny!
Deceit 2 — Xbox Series X|S
Deceit 2 is an online social deduction horror game. Inspire fear as the Terror, play detective as the Innocent, or create mayhem as the Cursed. Trapped with friends and strangers: who can you trust to help you escape?
Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Welcome to Venaris, a small planetary system where an underground criminal organization known only as the Syndicate continuously terrorizes citizens while the corrupt planetary administration is ineffective at bringing the organization down. Three skilled individuals have now decided to take matters into their own hands!
Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris is a top-down vertical shoot’em up where choices presented in certain stages drastically alter the way the narrative unfolds. With multiple paths, unique content for each pilot you choose, specific tasks to complete, procedurally generated levels and unpredictable enemy attack patterns across 10 stages, Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris offers a wealth of replay value as you explore its narrative possibilities!
Knowledge Keeper — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
In this game, you will become a keeper of knowledge, collecting shards of divine crystals. Look for the right way to crystals. Avoid dangerous obstacles. Teleport from one space to another to get closer to your goal. Solve tasks on memory, logic and orientation in space to get to the blocked areas. Destroy, move and combine objects on the levels to get to divine crystals.
April 4
Cafeteria Nipponica — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
Decide every detail of the floor from tables to TVs and do whatever it takes to make your customers happy! After all, their ratings determine whether you’re chef…or sap. Score enough points and you’ll be able to host a variety of fun events from eating contests to cooking classes, further boosting your popularity!
Freedom Planet 2 — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Ninja Village — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows
The shogun has fallen from power, plunging the land into chaos as feuding feudal lords scramble to take his place. But the shogun has an ace up his sleeve: you! As the head of a leading ninja clan, it’s up to you to rally your followers and help unify Japan!
As their fearless leader, you’ll need to train your fellow ninjas in the ways of modern 16th-century warfare–including the use of those newfangled matchlock guns! Assign them to infantry, cavalry, and other units to form an army fit for a shogun!
Of course, war is costly in more ways than one. Between battles, your followers will raise funds by producing food, handicrafts, and other goods to sell to passing travellers.
Arm your ninjas with the best gear, training, and skills and lead them to victory in the struggle for unification! You may even meet some of the era’s greatest generals along the way…
April 5
Sky Survivors — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Sky Survivors is an arena shooter roguelite. Choose from a variety of skills, unlock unique characters and weapons. Build «stairway to heaven» — a sky tower, each floor of which gives your character a unique bonus. Create your own overpowered build to survive against hordes of monsters!
Super Destronaut Landed X Loaded — Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Battle for as long as possible in 10 different arenas, each with its own unique set of challenges. Shoot down enemy combatants, and gain special power-up drones that add extra firepower to your side. How long can you survive?
If you love 2D arcades then you will love Super Destronaut Landed X Loaded!
Withering Rooms — Xbox Series X|S
Take on the role of young Nightingale in this challenging 2.5D RPG that draws inspiration from roguelikes, Soulslikes and classic survival horror games.
Explore an expansive procedurally generated map that includes all of Mostyn House and the hedge mazes, tombs, caves, churches, and ruins that lie beyond its gates. Create your own perfect build by finding or crafting a wide variety of weapons, tools, spells, outfits, and magical artifacts. Encounter a cast of strange friends, merchants, and liars each with their own agenda.
Can Nightingale find a way to escape Mostyn House, or will she become powerful enough to control it?