Football, failed experiments, and food lead the way in this week’s Xbox Games Store update…
The Madden franchise is back for another season of video football with Madden NFL 19. This year’s football simulation features a revamped animation/control system known as Real Player Motion and an expanded Story Mode that continues on from last year’s game.
Also available to download this week through the Xbox Games Store are Dead Cells, a MetroidVania with roguelike elements from Motion Twin, and Overcooked 2, a multiplayer cooking simulation from Ghost Town Games.
Finally this week, Compulsion Games’s narrative adventure, We Happy Few, will leave the Xbox Game Preview program and graduate to a full release.
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break.
Next Week on Xbox: New Games for August 7-10 [Xbox Wire]
Dead Cells
August 7, 2018
Dead Cells puts you in control of a failed alchemic experiment trying to figure out what’s happening on a sprawling, ever-changing, and seemingly cursed Island. Describing itself as possessing tough but fair combat, responsive controls, challenging foes, permadeath, and of course, the emergency panic roll to get you out of trouble, Dead Cells seems to have all the ingredients for makes for an intense action game.Defenders of Ekron
August 7, 2018
In this adventure/shmup game with features like 360° shooting range, unique scenarios to discover, exploration modes to analyze the environment, a powerful shield, and different upgradable combat modes, you must defeat The Renegades and stop the bursting civil war threatening Ekron.Flipping Death
August 7, 2018
Possess the living, aid the dead, and flip between the worlds of Flipping Death, a puzzling adventure platformer where you find yourself filling in for Death itself. Maybe your new powers will help you solve the mystery of your own demise?Hyper Universe
August 7, 2018
Xbox One X Enhanced – Choose from a diverse cast of colorful characters, each with their own unique abilities. Leap into intense 4v4 MOBA combat on every level of the battlefield as you and your teammates work together to destroy the enemy base.Overcooked! 2
August 7, 2018
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons; it’s time to save the world again!Megaton Rainfall
August 8, 2018
Become an indestructible interdimensional superbeing in this first-person superhero game and save Earth from an alien invasion. With unprecedented freedom of movement as you fly through buildings, break the sound barrier, and accelerate to extraordinary speeds. Then rise above the atmosphere, circumnavigate the Earth in seconds, and get ready for your next battle.Tetra’s Escape
August 8, 2018
A platforming puzzle-game that’s all about blocks named Tetras and it’s up to you to save them and make the most out of their special ability — shape-shifting. Tetras can turn into different Tetrominos and used to fill holes and master puzzles in order to reach the portal on the other side of the level.City of the Shroud
August 9, 2018
Your choices, and the choices of every player, will drive a living story and determine the fate of the city of Iskendrun. Paired with an explosive real-time, combo-based battle system, your decisions will change the story forever in City of the Shroud.Madden NFL 19
August 10, 2018
Xbox One X Enhanced – Madden NFL 19 gives you game-changing control on and off the field, with Real Player Motion (RPM) transforming the way you play Madden, giving you precision player control. Create and share custom draft classes, design your game strategy, progress your players, and execute your game plan with all new positional archetypes in Franchise mode. Then in Madden NFL 19 Ultimate Team, train your favorite players to fit your roster and lead them to glory.We Happy Few
August 10, 2018
Xbox One X Enhanced – We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial in the city of Wellington Wells. In this alternative 1960s England, conformity is key. You’ll have to fight or blend in with the drug-addled inhabitants, most of whom don’t take kindly to people who won’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.TerraTech
August 10, 2018
Explore, build, craft, and battle across alien worlds in this physics-based construction sandbox adventure. Design cars, tanks and planes from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive, and become the ultimate planetary prospector. Or jump into a 16-player PvP battle to grab and build as you fight.
