New Xbox Releases: Week Beginning May 14th, 2018

By Rebecca Smith,
This week, there are nine titles appearing on Xbox One and Windows 10. At retail, players who pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition of State of Decay 2 get their hands on the game four days earlier than everybody else. This includes both Xbox One and Windows 10 players. Meanwhile, ID@Xbox offers up the chance to create your own boss, search for hidden treasures, build the best card deck to slay plenty of monsters, and chain spells together to prove you're master of the dungeon. Other digital offerings include regaining control of a land filled with animated everyday objects, and the latest ACA NEOGEO title. Finally, Descenders and Divinity: Original Sin 2 come to Xbox Game Preview. For more information on each title, check out the list below, and scroll to the bottom for prices and download links:

Retail Titles

State of Decay 2 Ultimate Edition

Release date: May 18th
How Will You Survive?

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Not even the military could stop the zombies, and now it's up to you to gather survivors and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where every decision matters, and where you define what it means to survive.

State of Decay 2 is the ultimate zombie survival game in an open world where you and up to three friends build a community of survivors. It’s up to you to establish a base, develop your characters’ abilities, and manage resources to survive as a group in a world where choices matter and every decision has lasting consequences.

Every player’s experience is unique - as you play, the open world responds to your decisions, developing in real time and dynamically offering new opportunities for you to demonstrate your own personal survival priorities. These decisions also result in real consequences that affect your community. Send your best scavenger across the map to gather medicine for a sick friend... but know that they might not make it home. Help your neighbors, and you might make new allies... or you could decide that you need their food supply more than they do. In the end, how you survive might surprise you.
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ID@Xbox Titles

Boss 101

Release date: May 18th
Boss 101 is the story about a boy, his jetpack and MILLIONS of randomly generated bosses. It’s also about friendship, family and fun. Join Max and S.T.E.V.E. as they adventure across the galaxy battling the baddies and bringing home the ice cream. Boss 101 is an arcade shooter and much more! We have procedurally generated levels, bosses and gameplay. On top of that we’re bringing you as much humor and entertainment as possible while you play.
Boss 101

Lily's Epic Quest for Lost Gems

Release date: May 16th
Embark on an epic puzzle quest full of adventure and exploration. You play as Lily, a young archeologist who enters in her grandfather’s footsteps in a quest for the ultimate treasure, fame and glory.

This puzzle adventure uses the match 3 puzzle mechanics, known from games like Candy Crush Saga or Bejeweled Blitz. By making combination of 3 or more blocks, Lily will be able to clear a path through different ground layers, in a search for rare Gems & Artifacts. Our hero needs to explore 10 magic worlds and dig towards the center of the earth, to find all 250 collectables.

“Lily’s Epic Quest for Lost Gems” is an innovative enhancement to the match 3 genre. Most match 3 games stick to a fixed field of elements and, each time a combination of 3 or more is created, they are removed and new elements are added to the field. Lily’s Epic Quest has a process based on the classic 3-match principles with a free roaming playfield, where the player can decide where to dig or how to solve the puzzles.

The player is limited to the view of the camera and needs to move the Hero around to view more of the playfield. Any combination of 3 or more will remove the blocks clearing the field and giving to the Hero more space to run around.

The game contains more than 250 Gems & Artifacts, some common and others very rare. It is up to the player to collect them all. Cracking all 150 puzzles will not be enough. New tools will open more possibilities and provide access to the new parts of the world.
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Monster Slayers

Release date: May 18th
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure with an innovative card-based battle system that lets you customize a deck to suit your play style.

Create a hero to join the Monster Slayers Guild and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you follow your quest to defeat the legendary Harbinger and become a true Monster Slayer.
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Wizard of Legend

Release date: May 15th
Wizard of Legend is a fast-paced dungeon crawler with an emphasis on dynamic magical combat. Quick movement and even quicker use of spells will allow you to chain spells together to unleash devastating combinations against your enemies! Unlock over 100 unique spells and discover powerful spell combinations! A wide variety of elemental spells allows you to create a hand best suited to your play style. Dive head first into the fray or stand back and let your minions do the work for you. Play solo or co-op! The choice is yours!
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Other Digital Titles

ACA NEOGEO BASEBALL STARS PROFESSIONAL

Release date: May 17th
BASEBALL STARS PROFESSIONAL is a sports game released in 1990 by SNK. One of the launch titles as the NEOGEO debuted, it came with both a VS Mode and Tournament Mode. The dynamic animation and powerful productions made for an exciting game.
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Forgotton Anne

Release date: May 15th
Discover a beautifully realized world of wonder filled with “Forgotlings,” charming everyday objects brought to life who are bursting with personality. Harness the power of Anima, the energy that brings life to the Forgotten Lands and use it to solve puzzles and command ultimate control over Forgotlings’ lives.
Forgotton Anne screenshot

[DELAYED] Fox n Forests

Release date: May 17th
FOX n FORESTS is a 2D 16-Bit style action platformer with adventure and puzzle elements! Set within a mystic forest and its surroundings, FOX n FORESTS is a stunning fable offering pixel perfect Retrotainment and rewarding challenges!

Your weapon is a magic melee crossbow that can not only be used for ranged and close up combat, but empowers you to seamlessly switch between 2 seasons per level, completely changing the whole environment and resulting in amazing secrets, tricky skill tests and thriving exploration! FOX n FORESTS will feature pixel perfect platforming, screen filling bosses, rich bonus levels, powerful potions, bags of loot, stuffed shops, clever backtracking, challenging skill tests, a magic melee crossbow to shoot and slash enemies, upgradeable shots, not 4 but 5 seasons to explore, stunning 16-Bit pixel art, a catchy chip tunes soundtrack and tons of humorous retro charm!

Fox n Forests


Xbox Game Preview Titles

Descenders

Release date: May 15th
Descenders is an extreme downhill mountain biking game from Dutch developer RageSquid, and it’s focused on going very fast, and pulling off epic stunts. Every world you ride through will be procedurally generated before you play it, so you never ride the same level twice giving you a fresh experience each time you play.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2

Release date: May 16th
There can only be one God.

The Divine is dead. The Void approaches. And the powers lying dormant within you are soon to awaken. The battle for Divinity has begun. Choose wisely and trust sparingly; darkness lurks within every heart. Master deep, tactical combat. Join up to 3 other players - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God, in multi-award winning RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2.
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Windows 10 Titles

State of Decay 2 Ultimate Edition

Release date: May 18th
How Will You Survive?

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Not even the military could stop the zombies, and now it's up to you to gather survivors and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where every decision matters, and where you define what it means to survive.

State of Decay 2 is the ultimate zombie survival game in an open world where you and up to three friends build a community of survivors. It’s up to you to establish a base, develop your characters’ abilities, and manage resources to survive as a group in a world where choices matter and every decision has lasting consequences.

Every player’s experience is unique - as you play, the open world responds to your decisions, developing in real time and dynamically offering new opportunities for you to demonstrate your own personal survival priorities. These decisions also result in real consequences that affect your community. Send your best scavenger across the map to gather medicine for a sick friend... but know that they might not make it home. Help your neighbors, and you might make new allies... or you could decide that you need their food supply more than they do. In the end, how you survive might surprise you.
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Xbox One Games

Product Price
ACA NEOGEO BASEBALL STARS PROFESSIONAL $7.99 View
Boss 101 Coming soon View
Descenders Coming soon Coming Soon
Divinity: Original Sin 2 Coming soon Coming Soon
Forgotton Anne $19.99 View
Fox n Forests Coming soon Coming Soon
Lily's Epic Quest for Lost Gems $6.99 View
Monster Slayers $14.99 View
State of Decay 2 Ultimate Edition $49.99 View
Wizard of Legend $15.99 View

Windows 10 Games

Product Price
State of Decay 2 Ultimate Edition $49.99 View
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Rebecca Smith
Written by Rebecca Smith
Rebecca is the Newshound Manager at TrueGaming Network. She has been contributing articles since 2010, especially those that involve intimidatingly long lists. When not writing news, she works in an independent game shop so that she can spend all day talking about games too. She'll occasionally go outside.
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