The March 2026 Xbox Partner Preview aired today, featuring brand-new announcements and updates. If you’re unfamiliar, the Xbox Partner Preview is a showcase that highlights Xbox’s third-party partners around the world with world premieres and updates on new content.
Leaning into the Hollywood aesthetic, as many gaming companies are now, Aaron Paul narrated the showcase. Although at least Paul has been in a video game as the voice of Dispatch‘s Robert Robertson. The event highlighted 19 upcoming games, including 7 world premieres. The kicker is that 14 of the 17 will be playable day one with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Microsoft’s gaming subscription service.
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You can find a full list of what was shown during the Xbox Partner Preview, featuring summaries pulled from the games’ individual Steam pages.
Alien Deathstorm
Developer: Rebellion
Publisher: Rebellion
Explore a devastated off-world colony which has been ravaged by a cataclysmic mega-storm and overrun by bloodthirsty aliens. Using a combination of cunning and firepower, you must defeat the countless lurking horrors in a desperate fight for survival.
Alien Deathstorm is heading to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and available with Xbox Game Pass.
Artificial Detective
Developer: Vivix
Publisher: Vivix
Awaken as AD 2846, a robot detective with fractured memories, in a decopunk metropolis maintained by mad robots. Together with DAWG, your loyal military robodog, and Mowgli, a human girl raised by machines, fight and hack your way through a city where crazy robots took over to uncover why humanity vanished.
Explore the multilayered districts of Conglomerate North, a crime-ridden metropolis seized by the malevolent Rise Corp. Use electromagnetic weapons, hack systems, weaponize the environment, or stay hidden and outsmart rogue robots. Search for clues, gather resources, and approach each encounter your own way.
Artificial Detective arrives in 2027 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
Ascend to ZERO
Developer: Flyaway Games
Publisher: Flyaway Games, KRAFTON
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stop time? Ascend to ZERO is a time-bending action-roguelike where you can use your unique ability to freeze time and fight your way to the top.
Ascend to Zero launches July 13, 2026, on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud.
Bluey’s Happy Snaps
Developer: Gameloft
Publisher: Gameloft
Join Bluey and Bingo for a big, exciting adventure and capture all your favorite moments using Dad’s special camera. Discover brand-new locations from the show, snap picture-perfect poses of Australian wildlife, and get hands-on with ‘Play for Real Life’ activities. It’s all recorded in your one-of-a-kind scrapbook, featuring hundreds of collectibles to unlock!
Bluey’s Happy Snaps arrives for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud in Fall 2026. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and available with Xbox Game Pass.
Dispatch
Developer: AdHoc Studio
Publisher: AdHoc Studio
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero.
You play as Robert Robertson, AKA Mecha Man, whose mech-suit is destroyed in a battle against his nemesis, forcing him to take a job at a superhero dispatch center: not as a hero, but a dispatcher. In charge of rehabilitating a group of ex-supervillains, you must manage your roster while navigating office relationships and rebuilding your suit for a shot at revenge.
The full collection of episodes arrives in Summer 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
The Eternal Life of Goldman
Developer: Weappy Studio
Publisher: THQ Nordic
The Eternal Life of Goldman is a vibrant yet dark adventure that weaves together legends, fairy tales and myths. It takes the genre at an unusual angle and offers something unexpected at every turn.
You arrive at the Archipelago on a strange mission: to kill the Deity, a mystical creature that everyone talks about, but no one has seen. To find the Deity, you will have to delve deep into the many secrets these islands keep. You will discover a place marked by tragedy, and filled with eccentric characters and remarkable contrasts.
The Eternal Life of Goldman launches in 2026 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and will be available with Xbox Game Pass.
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
By the 24th century, humanity has conquered the cosmos. However, life has remained anything but easy. In The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a story-driven sci-fi Action RPG, you play as a Pinkwater Security mercenary whose brief shore leave on the asteroid Eros spirals out of control. Trapped in a deadly lockdown and drawn into a solar system-wide conspiracy far beyond your control, you’ll have to adapt, survive, taking command of the most advanced ship in the whole of the solar system.
Create and customize your own captain — Earther, Martian, or Belter — and lead a crew of highly-skilled specialists as you face off against escalating threats, political pressure, and a relentless enemy that will stop at nothing to see you dead. In a solar system held together by fragile alliances, every decision leaves its mark.
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn launches in 2027 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and available with Xbox Game Pass. Beta will be available April 22, 2026.
Forever Ago
Developer: Third Shift
Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
In Forever Ago, the player takes on the role of Alfred as he navigates the aftermath of a tragedy in his life. Propelled by his minivan and armed with an instant camera, he embarks on a journey north in search of redemption.
Along the way, Alfred will explore beautiful environments and meet fascinating new people while visiting beautiful and unique places, from serene forest trails to deserts to mountains, examining objects to help him understand his surroundings and the people who came before. He makes new memories and captures them with his instant camera, used to document his journey and solve small environmental puzzles.
Featuring an original soundtrack by Clark Aboud (Slay the Spire), Forever Ago is an emotional exploration of love, loss, and redemption.
Forever Ago launches Fall 2026 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and available with Xbox Game Pass.
Frog Sqwad
Developer: Panic Stations
Publisher: Panic Stations
Storm The Sewers for the glory of the Swamp King! Swing, jump, catapult your friends, and eat eat EAT until you grow into a humongous Megafrog. A co-op extraction puzzle-platformer for up to 8 players. Squad up with your frog friends for a friendslop party in this slapstick physics adventure!
Join up to 7 froggy friends in a physics-based slapstick bonanza. Use your sticky tongue to swing from pipes, solve physics puzzles, drag giant food through winding tunnels and catapult your friends, all for the glory of the ravenous Swamp King!
Froq Sqwad launches June 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and will be available with Xbox Game Pass.
Grave Seasons
Developer: Perfect Garbage
Publisher: Blumhouse Games
After a treacherous escape from jail, you’ve made it to your new home in Ashenridge, an idyllic town with some seriously unsettling vibes. While trying to establish your new farming life and embed yourself in the neighborhood, murders start to occur in the town, putting your new peaceful life at risk.
Grave Seasons is a narrative-led farming sim with a terrifying twist – someone in the town is a supernatural serial killer.
Grave Seasons will launch on August 14, 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud.
Hades II
Developer: Supergiant Games
Publisher: Supergiant Games
The first-ever sequel from Supergiant Games builds on the best aspects of the original god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler in an all-new, action-packed, endlessly replayable experience rooted in the Underworld of Greek myth and its deep connections to the dawn of witchcraft.
As the immortal Princess of the Underworld, you’ll explore a bigger, deeper mythic world, vanquishing the forces of the Titan of Time with the full might of Olympus behind you, in a sweeping story that continually unfolds through your every setback and accomplishment.
Hades II launches April 14 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title, and available day one with Xbox Game Pass.
Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish
Developer: Teyon
Publisher: Nacon
In the bustling streets of New York, passersby are unaware of the evil lurking in the shadows. You, however, know. Hunt the creatures of the World of Darkness in this action RPG, where your choices determine whether you live another day.
Years have passed since that terrible childhood event that still lingers in the dark corners of your memory. New York seemed like the perfect place to start anew, leaving the shadows of your past behind. Everything is shattered when your childhood friend reappears, forcing you to face a brutal reality: the shadows hide very real, truly monstrous creatures.
You become a Hunter, a monster killer, the last line of defence between innocent lives and a looming threat far more powerful than you. Welcome to the World of Darkness.
Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish is heading to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud in Summer 2027 – and will arrive as an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
Moosa: Dirty Fate
Developer: IGGYMOB
Publisher: IGGYMOB
We saw another world premiere in Moosa: Dirty Fate, an upcoming action title set in Feudal Korea. An unknown, powerful force has swept your land, and with fields and crops withering to dust, the people have turned to the most extreme methods of survival. It’s up to you to track down the threat and save your subjects. (synopsis via Xbox Wire)
Moosa: Dirty Fate, coming 2027 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title, and available with Xbox Game Pass.
Serious Sam: Shatterverse
Developer: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Publisher: Digital Devolver
Serious Sam Stone is back, but this time he’s not alone. Uber Mental’s maniacal machinations have fractured the walls between universes, and now Sam’s from multiple dimensions must learn to work together to repair the Shatterverse.
As part of the Serious Program, a multidimensional force opposing Uber Mental, you’ll travel across shifting universes to finish battles other Sams couldn’t. Mental has been hunting the hero across realities, and in many timelines, he’s already won. Now, it’s your turn to push back. To advance, you must bring down his five lieutenants, each a formidable boss in search of total annihilation.
Wield a relentlessly destructive arsenal of devastating weapons, unlock powerful boons, and experiment with run modifiers that reshape gameplay. In true roguelite fashion, death is never the end, and each run opens the door to new strategies and limitless possibilities across the Shatterverse.
Serious Sam: Shatterverse is on the way this year for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope DLC
Head out on a new expedition into the Zone in this massive, nonlinear expansion. Dozens of gameplay hours packed with unforgettable stories and twisted characters – wrapped in the signature atmosphere of decay with a flicker of hope.
The DLC arrives this Summer for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud.
Stranger Than Heaven
Publisher: SEGA
Developer: RGG Studios
Stranger than Heaven is the next brand-new title from RGG Studio and, in a new trailer, we learned for the first time that the game’s story takes place across five different time periods, and five unique cities.
Want to find out more? We also announced “Xbox Presents: A Special Look at Stranger Than Heaven” – a brand-new broadcast that will dive deeper into the setting, story, characters and much more, taking place on May 6. (from Xbox Wire).
Stranger than Heavan does not currently have a releade date.
Super Meat Boy 3D
Developer: Team Meat
Publisher: Team Meat
Super Meat Boy is a tough-as-nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who’s trying to save his girlfriend (who happens to be made of bandages) from an evil fetus in a jar wearing a tux.
Our meaty hero will leap from walls, over seas of buzz saws, through crumbling caves and pools of old needles. Sacrificing his own well being to save his damsel in distress. Super Meat Boy brings the old school difficulty of classic NES titles like Mega Man 2, Ghost and Goblins and Super Mario Bros. 2 (The Japanese one) and stream lines them down to the essential no BS straight forward twitch reflex platforming.
Super Meat Boy 3D will be available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud on March 31, 2026. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title and available with Xbox Game Pass.
Vaunted
Vaunted is another world premiere we showed today – a tactical RPG with explosive action and dynamic combat where turn-based planning is paired with real-time action to open up unique opportunities. Unravel the story of an expedition gone horribly wrong with the help of three extremely unreliable narrators, powerful weapons, unique special abilities, and a band of questionable allies.
Vaunted is coming to Xbox on PC later in 2026.
Wuthering Waves
Developer: Kura Games
Publisher: Kura Games
Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world action RPG with a high degree of freedom. You wake from your slumber as Rover, joined by a vibrant cast of Resonators on a journey to reclaim your lost memories and change the world.
Wuthering Waves arrives on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Xbox Game Pass in July 2026. It will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
You can watch the full March 2026 Xbox Partner Preview here.
