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You can read about the other odds and sods on the way in Microsoft's full post. Alice B also called it the funniest game she's ever played.Īll these games are April's back-half batch, with those having arrived earlier in April including Chinatown Detective Agency and Lost In Random. Accomplishing X will reveal Y and Z that must be completed first, and a Z(i) and Z(ii) beyond that, and before you know it several hours have passed.
It's an extremely chill and colourful todo list game, in which a smiling, silent Turnip armed with a Zelda swordswing is piled up with straightforward quests and merrily checks them off one by one. Bugsnax (Cloud/Console/PC) NBA 2K22 (Console) Unsouled (Console) Unless Microsoft has more surprises up its sleeve, this will be it for the new Xbox Game. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, available right now, would be my pick of the bunch. It's previously been Epic exclusive although it come to Steam on the same day. Bugsnax, available April 28th, is at the opposite end of the aesthetic spectrum, brimming with colour and about finding fruit and vegetable critters and feeding them to your friends. 7 Days To Die, available April 26th, is old and rough in its presentation, but it's a satsifying open world zombie smasher about boarding up buildings and holding out against the hordes. There are only a handful of extra games on the way to the service before the end of April, but they're good ones. If it's of interest, you can head here to sign in to your account and activate the trial. Having played Halo Infinite's multiplayer counts.
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New members can get three months of PC Game Pass for free if they bought Age Of Empires IV, Halo Infinite or Forza Horizon 5 before February 28th. Adios!ĭo you agree with our Top 5 Xbox indie games list? Let us know in the comments or on our social media channels.Īnd if you want to know more about these games, have a listen to Episode 108 of TheXboxHub Official Podcast – it’s dedicated to these indie games.Let's start with the free trial. If you have a subscription, that’s your holiday season sorted. Just get them downloaded from the Xbox Store. You will be pleased to know that all of them – yes, all of them – are available on Game Pass. If you haven’t given it a play-through and you love your narrative adventures, then it’s borderline essential.Īll that remains is for us to thank you for reading, and to encourage you to try our top 5 indie games out. Mundaun is plain creepy, using its simplistic Gameboy-like visuals to tell a mysterious tale, and Disco Elysium – The Final Cut was only not included because of queries over its newness and indie-ness. Echo Generation is yet another Game Pass goodie, and it surprised us all with its voxel-based adventuring, which gave us some Stranger Things vibes. It might choose ornithology as its theme, but it’s about a hundred times better than it sounds. If you have a love for board games then give Wingspan a try. There are plenty of honorable mentions to our list of favourite indies.
You know what, we might bugger off and give it another run now. This is a game that absolutely stacks you with unlocks and trinkets as you play, and you can’t help but feel the tug of ‘one more go’ every time you finish a run. But the peak of Hades’ Mount Olympus is its replayability. There’s the combat, which is balletic and a joy to replay. It’s a riot of comic book imagery and mythology, and we love it. There’s a reason so many people are cosplaying it’s characters: their design and that of the world is stupendous.
It’s starting to look a bit like Smaug with all the trophies it’s accumulating.īut, you know what? Sod trying to be different. Hades has already snagged BAFTAs, Game Awards, Nebulas and even a Hugo Award for its brand of dungeon crawling, and now we’re chucking a Best Indie Game on top of that pile. We know, we know, we’re hardly offering you a deep cut as our number one indie game of the year.