Ever since Xbox One stumbled out of the gate back in 2013, they have been trying their damndest to get back on track. This has included not only snatching up and rebooting some high-quality franchises, but also readjusting developer strategies (like Rare) instead. Now, let’s see how Xbox One will fare in 2016 game-wise with beloved indies, reboots, and more.

*This list will include any non-localized releases, console only exclusives, and overall Xbox exclusives. (Undated releases are sorted by alphabetical order, seasonal by release) Feel free to shout-out any games I missed, I’ll add them as quickly as possible.

Spring/Summer

Dated Releases: Cities Skylines, Oxenfree, Blues and Bullets:Episode 2, Cobalt, NeverWinter: UnderDark, Quantum Break, We Happy Few, Thimbleweed Park

Pictured from Left to Right: Cities Skylines, Oxenfree, Cobalt, Quantum Break, We Happy Few, Thimbleweed Park

Description: Xbox One owners will be receiving two promising indies in January, Oxenfree and Cities Skylines. One is a dialogue heavy adventure game with a supernatural twist, and the other, Cities Skylines, brings metropolis building to new heights on console. In February, Microsoft’s answer to games like Towerfall will be coming in the form of Cobalt, the first non-Minecraft property from developer Mojang, plus the newest expansion to Neverwinter will be coming. Xbox’s first AAA lies in early April in the form of the long awaited sci-fi action game Quantum Break. After that, two more indies come in the summer, with the psychological horror We Happy Few in June and the point and click adventure Thimbleweed Park in July.

Undated Releases:Fable Legends, Kingdom, Rise of The Tomb Raider-Baba Yaga:The Temple of The Witch, Rise of the Tomb Raider:Cold Darkness Awakened, Superhot, The Great Emoticon, The Solus Project, Worms W.M.D

Pictured from Left to Right: Fable Legends, Kingdom, Rise of The Tomb Raider-Baba Yaga:The Temple of The Witch, , Rise of the Tomb Raider:Cold Darkness Awakened, Superhot, The Great Emoticon, Worms W.M.D, The Solus Project,

Description:Xbox is getting even more indies scattered in between the Spring and Summer months, with a new Worms game, a new survival game in the form of The Solus Project, and the strategy game Kingdom as well as the adventure game The Great Emoticon. The artsy first person shooter where time only moves when you do called Superhot will also be arriving, with Rise of The Tomb Raider’s respective DLC packs releasing in the same quarter. Lastly, the puzzle game involving robots we know almost nothing about, will be released, presumably shortly after the Spring. (if the rumors are correct)

Fall/Winter

Undated Releases: Crackdown, Gears of War 4, Halo Wars 2, Sea of Thieves,

Pictured from Up to Down: Crackdown, Gears of War 4, Halo Wars 2, Sea of Theives

Description: The big bulk of Xbox’s AAA titles are supposed to be arriving in the Fall, with pirate simulator Sea of Thieves and strategy sequel Halo Wars 2 making their mark. Later in the year, we will be getting Gears of War 4 and the Crackdown reboot, both strong attempts to kickstart classic Xbox franchises back to their glory days.

Undated (2016 and Beyond)

Releases: Ashen, Bacon Man, Below, Black and White Bushido, Cuphead, Dark Raid: Bot Wars, Enki, Everspace, Fortified, Forza Horizon 3 (rumored), Gemini, Gigantic, Glitchrunners, Grabbles, Happy Dungeons Daikanshasai, Inside, Ion, Munch Time 2, Neonchrome, Ostrich Island: Escape from Paradise, Phantasmal: City of Darkness, Phantom Dust, Pit People, Pixel Galaxy, Planet of the Eyes, Prismatica, Raging Justice, Recore, Rivals of Aether, Shiny, Space Dust Racers, Space Engineers, Scalebound, Spaera, Swordy, Tacoma, The Flame in The Flood, The Little Acre, The Living Dungeon, The Sun and The Moon, The Toilet Chronicles, Zenith

Pictured from Left to Right: Ashen, Below, Cuphead, Everspace, Forza Horizon 3 (Picture taken from Forza Horizon 2), Gigantic, Inside, Ion, Phantom Dust, Pit People, Space Engineers, Tacoma, The Flame in the Flood, Glitchrunners, Happy Dungeons Daikanshasai, Black and White Bushido

Description: The rest of Xbox’s 2016 lineup is a mixed bag, with titles like Phantom Dust whose fates are still up in the air. However, there is an overwhelming amount of good-looking indies like Below and Everspace and undated AAA’s like Scalebound and Recore which could be a possible a move to sidestep Sony’s succeeding strategy.

Conclusion: While Xbox does not have as abundant a lineup as Playstation, it’s still respectful in their own right. They’ve gotten what were presumed dead franchises and put them back in the spotlight, and if anything their promotion of these and other indie titles will likely equal a rather successful 2016.

Info was sourced from Dualshockers,IGN, and numerous Xbox sites and social media channels. Please feel free to tell me any titles I missed, and I’ll add them ASAP.

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