Xbox players have 37 releases to choose from between September 28 and October 2, 2026, ranging from major sequels and remasters to management games, horror, racers, puzzle games, and smaller indie projects. The week is led by Minecraft Dungeons II, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered, Gears of War: E-Day, ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE, and a particularly crowded October 1 lineup.
This guide follows the official September 25 Xbox Wire schedule. Release dates can change, and there is one notable discrepancy: Xbox Wire lists Minecraft Dungeons II for September 28, while the current Xbox Store page and Xbox trailer description show September 29. The date below preserves the newer weekly schedule while flagging that conflict for players planning a day-one download.
For more context on the two biggest first-party releases, Game News Plus has a separate look at the September Xbox Game Pass wave featuring Minecraft Dungeons II and Gears of War: E-Day. Our broader September 2026 game release guide also covers the month’s major multiplatform launches.
Xbox release calendar for September 28–October 2
| Date | Games | Confirmed Xbox programs |
|---|---|---|
| September 28 | Minecraft Dungeons II; Gothic II Complete Classic; Way of the Hunter 2; Keep Driving; Blades & Battles; Lost in Loss; Sneak Cheese; Transport Fever 3 | Game Pass: Minecraft Dungeons II. Xbox Play Anywhere: Minecraft Dungeons II, Blades & Battles, Lost in Loss. |
| September 29 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered; NEIGHBORS: Suburban Warfare | Xbox Play Anywhere: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered. |
| September 30 | Cat Lines; King’s Blade; Mia’s Journey; The Vorlec | No Game Pass or Xbox Play Anywhere listing confirmed by Xbox Wire. |
| October 1 | Gears of War: E-Day Premium Edition; Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered; End of Abyss; Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts; Chronicles of Albian: The Magic Convention; Mirrors of Deception: The Poisoned Legacy; PUCKOFF: RELOADED; Storebound; Weekend Solitaire: Summer Village; myPOPGOES; Folletti; MXGP 26 – The Official Game; RetroSpace; Toycrafter; Wax Museum: Hidden Objects | Xbox Play Anywhere: Gears of War: E-Day, Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, PUCKOFF: RELOADED, Storebound, myPOPGOES, Wax Museum: Hidden Objects. |
| October 2 | ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE; Aetherfall; Aery – Calm Horizon 2; Agefield High: Rock the School; KAWAII PUSH; Mister Scary – Where Are You?; Monster Nursery; Stone Run | No Game Pass or Xbox Play Anywhere listing confirmed by Xbox Wire. |
September 28
Minecraft Dungeons II
Release date: September 28 on the Xbox Wire schedule. Platforms: Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC. Xbox programs: Game Pass and Xbox Play Anywhere.
Mojang and Xbox Game Studios return to the approachable action-RPG formula with a new evil threatening two worlds. Players can explore the unfamiliar Sift dimension, collect gear, tune their loadouts, and fight large groups of Minecraft creatures either alone or in four-player online and couch co-op. It is the week’s only release explicitly marked for Game Pass in Xbox Wire’s list.
Gothic II Complete Classic
Release date: September 28. Platforms: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S with Smart Delivery.
This console edition bundles Piranha Bytes’ open-world RPG Gothic II with the substantial Night of the Raven expansion. The Nameless Hero returns to a harsher Khorinis after the magical barrier falls, with faction choices, unforgiving combat, character progression, and a world whose inhabitants follow their own routines. THQ Nordic’s current Xbox listing supports both console generations.
Way of the Hunter 2
Release date: September 28 on Xbox Wire; the Xbox Store currently shows September 29. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Nine Rocks Games expands its hunting simulation across North America and Africa. Alongside licensed rifles and equipment, the sequel introduces a trainable hunting dog, an improved bullet camera, separate lodges, story-driven challenges, and both single-player and two-to-four-player online co-op. Its animal roster spans smaller birds and rabbits through moose, bears, buffalo, lions, hippos, and crocodiles.
Keep Driving
Release date: September 28. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Keep Driving is an atmospheric management RPG built around a long road trip. Players choose routes, take odd jobs, collect hitchhikers, repair and customize their car, and use items or character skills to handle problems along the way. Its quiet coming-of-age structure favors planning and discovery over conventional racing.
Blades & Battles
Release date: September 28. Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
QUByte Interactive’s fantasy beat ’em up casts players as Arthur or Lancelot in a 2.5D pixel-art campaign inspired by Arthurian legend and 1990s arcade brawlers. Combat centers on combos, spells, environmental weapons, and large bosses, with local two-player co-op available for anyone looking to recreate a couch-arcade session.
Lost in Loss
Release date: September 28. Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
This hand-drawn hidden-object adventure gives its detective an unusual case: people are losing the memories that define them. Players search detailed scenes for items connected to each person’s past, solve light puzzles, and gradually restore those identities. Full controller support and a relaxed pace make it a gentler option in a week heavy on action and horror.
Sneak Cheese
Release date: September 28. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Afil Games turns a simple cheese hunt into a compact strategy puzzle. A tiny mouse must push every piece of cheese into a burrow while accounting for cats positioned around each stage. The result is a cozy-looking spatial challenge in which careless movement can leave the mouse trapped or turn it into dinner.
Transport Fever 3
Release date: September 28. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Urban Games’ transport-management sequel asks players to build profitable networks across roads, rails, sea, and air. More than a century of vehicles, dynamic towns and industries, changing weather, four climate zones, improved data tools, a campaign, and an in-game map editor make this the most systems-heavy release of the day. The simulation also tracks individual citizens as they move between homes, jobs, and destinations.
September 29
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered
Release date: September 29. Platforms: Xbox Series X|S and PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
CD Projekt Red is treating this as more than a visual refresh. The free upgrade for qualifying existing owners adds enhanced combat, traversal and movement, revised monster behavior, a reworked skill tree, new sign effects and finishers, expanded photo tools, transmogrification, and other quality-of-life changes. It also includes the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions, making it the most comprehensive version of Geralt’s open-world RPG.
NEIGHBORS: Suburban Warfare
Release date: September 29.
Invisible Walls turns suburban grudges into a multiplayer party brawler. Teams choose neighbors with distinct abilities, fortify their houses with traps and gadgets, then invade the property across the lawn with improvised weapons such as frying pans and slingshots. Its mix of home defense, destruction, class-based abilities, and chaotic PvP is designed for loud sessions with friends.
September 30
Cat Lines
Release date: September 30.
A kitten leaves a line of yarn behind as it moves, and every block in each stage must eventually be covered. That simple rule supports a collection of compact route-planning puzzles, with obstacles and increasingly restrictive layouts forcing players to think about the full path before committing to a direction.
King’s Blade
Release date: September 30. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Alexey Suslin’s side-scrolling beat ’em up draws on heroic fantasy and arcade classics such as Golden Axe. Six playable heroes fight through 12 levels using combos, spells, special attacks, and weapons found in the environment. Up to four people can play locally, while solo players can fill the remaining squad positions with AI fighters.
Mia’s Journey
Release date: September 30. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
A curse has turned Mia into a cat, and breaking it requires solving 32 Sokoban-style stages. Players push magical orbs onto sacred statues, taking care not to block the paths needed later in each puzzle. Pixel-art cutscenes between stages develop Mia’s story and her relationship with the mysterious Cat God guiding the adventure.
The Vorlec
Release date: September 30.
This third-person action platformer sends players through a neon RetroWave world of linear stages, dangerous dimensions, puzzles, combat encounters, and bosses. Fast movement and precise platforming are central, with every area combining traversal challenges and enemies rather than separating its action into isolated arenas.
October 1
Gears of War: E-Day Premium Edition
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
The Coalition goes back 14 years before the original Gears of War to show Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago facing the Locust Horde’s first emergence. The Unreal Engine 5 prequel combines a darker origin-story campaign with two-player split-screen, online co-op, a reworked Horde Siege mode, and focused 4v4 Versus multiplayer. Modern movement and traversal sit alongside the series’ cover-based combat, returning weapons, and newly designed creatures.
Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered
Release date: October 1. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Koei Tecmo rebuilds Dynasty Warriors 3 and its Xtreme Legends expansion in Unreal Engine 5 while retaining the one-versus-1,000 Musou identity that helped define the series. More than 40 officers, numerous recreated battlefields, two-player local co-op, officer development, extra stories, challenge modes, and bodyguard customization are included in the complete package.
End of Abyss
Release date: October 1. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Section 9 Interactive and Epic Games Publishing deliver a top-down science-fiction survival horror game centered on combat technician Cel. A routine investigation inside an underground complex becomes a descent through abandoned machinery and biological horrors. Limited resources, gear upgrades, exploration, and tense combat shape an adventure built by developers with experience on Little Nightmares.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
Game-Labs combines detailed warship construction with tactical naval combat spanning technology from 1890 to 1950. Players can recreate vessels such as HMS Dreadnought or test speculative designs, then command fleets while balancing armor, weapons, speed, stability, and the wider economic pressure of a naval campaign across ten nations.
Chronicles of Albian: The Magic Convention
Release date: October 1.
Albian Castle is about to host a convention for the world’s wizards and sorcerers, but its grounds need expensive repairs. Players search richly illustrated scenes for hidden objects, sell the treasures they uncover, and spend the proceeds upgrading the castle before its demanding magical guests arrive.
Mirrors of Deception: The Poisoned Legacy
Release date: October 1.
Agatha Hastings arrives at the Thompson estate expecting an escape from chaos and instead walks into a murder investigation. The hidden-object mystery includes 140 clutter scenes and 20 additional puzzle challenges, with each discovery revealing another piece of the family’s dangerous legacy.
PUCKOFF: RELOADED
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
This remastered no-rules hockey RPG blends sports action, fighting, character progression, and a colorful story campaign. Players build a team of unlikely veterans and legends, learn different styles, and work toward a showdown with the Dominator. Local co-op and multiplayer support up to four players.
Storebound
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
Embers’ co-op puzzle horror game traps one to three shoppers in a cursed megastore spread across a six-episode campaign. Players split up, communicate through proximity chat and walkie-talkies, gather clues, and solve connected puzzles while the store’s “assistants” hunt them. A sanity system can turn friends against one another, and the full campaign is expected to run roughly five to seven hours.
Weekend Solitaire: Summer Village
Release date: October 1.
A bright summer-village theme frames a large collection of solitaire layouts. The focus is straightforward card-clearing play across levels of varying difficulty, supported by colorful animation and a relaxed presentation suited to short sessions.
myPOPGOES
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
This official Five Nights at Freddy’s Fanverse spinoff places Popgoes the Weasel inside a handheld LCD toy. Players manage his food, drinks, and entertainment, then branch into a collection of small bonus games and unlockables. Beneath the intentionally simple resource-management loop are character files and story details connected to the wider POPGOES timeline.
Folletti
Release date: October 1.
A darkly comic action RPG set in the strange land of Krycek, Folletti follows Yezac after the Degenite Church kidnaps his wife. Exploration, quests, real-time battles, weapon and health-kit crafting, eccentric allies, and an unfolding conspiracy drive the journey through its unsettling regions.
MXGP 26 – The Official Game
Release date: October 1. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Nacon and Artefacts Studio move the licensed motocross series to Unreal Engine 5 with all 19 tracks from the season and riders from the MXGP and MX2 categories. Rewritten bike physics, new rider animation, first-person helmet view, and terrain that deforms and develops persistent ruts should make line choice matter as races progress. Championship, quick race, time trial, Compound, and online multiplayer modes are included.
RetroSpace
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
The Wild Gentlemen’s “disco-punk” immersive sim strands a janitor aboard Aurora 5, a space station swallowed by a sentient black hole. Players can sneak, fight, hack security systems, lay traps, or mutate themselves with risky Mutamods. Interconnected Metroidvania-style areas, time distortions, cloning after death, dark humor, and a 1960s-and-1970s retro-futurist look give the horror game a distinctive identity.
Toycrafter
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S with Smart Delivery.
This first-person psychological horror experience begins with a quiet crafting routine: cut, paint, and assemble doll parts inside an isolated workshop. The mechanical work remains tactile and deliberate while subtle changes in sound and the environment undermine the reassurance that nothing dangerous is present.
Wax Museum: Hidden Objects
Release date: October 1. Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox on PC. Xbox program: Xbox Play Anywhere.
A storm and car accident force the protagonist into an abandoned wax museum, where locked doors and unexplained signs of life quickly turn shelter into a supernatural mystery. Players search scenes, assemble clues, solve new puzzles, and replay quests for faster completion bonuses.
October 2
ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE
Release date: October 2. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Project Aces returns with arcade-style aerial combat, a cinematic campaign, dynamic multilayered clouds, and the series’ largest online mode. Between missions, first-person story scenes build relationships with squad members; in the air, players tackle fast dogfights and cooperative or competitive multiplayer. Deluxe Edition buyers receive three days of early access beginning September 28.
Aetherfall
Release date: October 2.
Revulo Games’ colorful 3D platformer is built around precise jumps across floating structures. Coins, buttons, crates, moving hazards, environmental puzzles, and new mechanics appear as the stages progress, while every chapter closes with a boss encounter that tests the movement skills introduced along the way.
Aery – Calm Horizon 2
Release date: October 2. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
The latest Aery entry is a deliberately low-pressure flying experience. Players guide a small bird through scenic landscapes, collect crystals, and explore at their own pace without enemies or failure states. Short selectable levels make it suitable for either a brief calming session or unhurried sightseeing.
Agefield High: Rock the School
Release date: October 2. Platform: Xbox Series X|S.
Set in the early 2000s, this open-world coming-of-age adventure follows new student Sam through his final months before graduation. Players can attend or skip classes, explore the school and surrounding town, take side jobs, buy clothes and bikes, fight bullies, and make choices across a story with more than 30 main missions and multiple endings.
KAWAII PUSH
Release date: October 2.
A relaxed Sokoban-style puzzle game, KAWAII PUSH asks players to move boxes onto their correct spaces without creating dead ends. Cute anime-inspired environments and moderate difficulty aim for an accessible experience while still rewarding careful sequencing.
Mister Scary – Where Are You?
Release date: October 2.
Inspired by a toddler’s imaginary friend, this Halloween-themed adventure follows a purple monster searching for its missing family. Players guide Mister Scary through a strange land of creepy creatures and platforming obstacles, with a presentation designed to be spooky without abandoning its childlike premise.
Monster Nursery
Release date: October 2. Platforms: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S with Smart Delivery.
Mifa Games offers an idle monster-raising loop: hatch eggs of different rarities, wait for juveniles to mature, sell grown creatures, and fill two 100-entry handbooks. Monsters continue growing and earning money while the player is away, with lo-fi music supporting the deliberately relaxed pace.
Stone Run
Release date: October 2.
A giant rolling stone provides the pressure in this hand-drawn arcade chase. The player must keep moving forward, dodge unpredictable obstacles, and react quickly enough to avoid being crushed. Its cartoon presentation supports a simple score-chasing premise built around speed and repeated attempts.
Which of these Xbox releases are you most interested in playing between September 28 and October 2?
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