Microosoft’s newest ID@Xbox Game Demo Winterfest event is now underway, this time that includes a complete of 33 playable demos for indie titles outdated and new.
This yr’s event kicks off today, fifth December, on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, and runs proper via to the tip of the yr on 31st December.
Microsoft has highlighted a quantity of indie games newly introduced for Xbox and getting the demo remedy throughout Winterfest – together with pirate journey Captain Bones, turn-based rogue-lite dungeon crawler The Land Beneath Us, post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG Vagrus: The Riven Realms, and the self-explanatory Dinosaur Fossil Hunter – over on its Xbox Wire blog.
The full checklist of demos, nonetheless, is as follows:
- 502’s Arcade (502 Studios)
- Backbeat (Ichigoichie) – Available Now
- Captain Bones (World of Poly)
- Champion Shift (SRG Studios)
- Chessarama (Minimol Games) – Pre-order Now
- Deceive Inc. (Sweet Bandits Studios), out there now
- Dinosaur Fossil Hunter (Pyramid Games S.A.)
- Donut Dodo (pixel.games)
- Go Mecha Ball (Whale Peak Games)
- Hidden Through Time 2 (Rogueside)
- Howl (Mi’pu’mi Games), pre-order now
- Kiborg (Sobaka Studio)
- King Arthur: Knight’s Tale (NeocoreGames), pre-order now
- Kingdoms and Castles (BlitWorks Games), out there now
- Long Gone Days (Serenity Forge), out there now
- New Star GP (New Star Games)
- Oppidum (EP Games)
- Parcel Corps (Secret Mode)
- Pinball FX (Zen Studios); out there now
- Pinball M (Zen Studios), out there now
- PlateUp! (It’s Happening)
- Puzzledorf (Stuart’s Pixel Games)
- Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion (Starstruck Games)
- Shoulders of Giants (Moving Pieces Interactive), out there now
- Sker Ritual (Wales Interactive)
- Slave Zero X (Poppy Works), pre-order now
- Slopecrashers (byteparrot)
- Space Boat (Recombobulator Games)
- SquadBlast (Ultrahorse)
- Strings Theory (BeautifulBee)
- The Holy Gosh Darn (Perfectly Paranormal)
- The Land Beneath Us (FairPlay Studios)
- Vagrus – The Riven Realms (Lost Pilgrims Studio)
Microsoft warns the above Winterfest demos present an “early look at gameplay and may not represent the full game at their release… as developers continue to update and refine their title ahead of launch”. Still, if something within the checklist above takes your fancy, you may in all probability need to get a transfer on – the Winterfest clock is ticking.
