By Come take your pick!
- by Ben Kerry
With June’s Xbox Games Showcase event we learnt a lot about Microsoft’s release calendar for the rest of 2025 — as you’d expect for a big summer livestream — and the rest of the year is set to bring some big games from the team.
Three of those big games land within two weeks of each other in October, which is shaping up to be an exciting month for Xbox fans. Keeper, Ninja Gaiden 4 and The Outer Worlds 2 are certainly delivering on the variety front – with at least one of these upcoming first-party titles likely to appeal to most core players on Xbox.
Like clockwork, another Call of Duty game is also set to join these three in Xbox’s Fall 2025 lineup – we’re just not sure where yet. Given that Black Ops 7 isn’t getting its full reveal for another month, along with that tight schedule for mid-to-late October, we’re expecting this big old Activision FPS to land in November sometime. That’d round out a pretty solid end-of-year lineup if nothing here gets pushed back to 2026.
Before we present the poll for these four choices down below, we do want to mention that Xbox is also putting out updated versions of Hellblade 2 and Gears of War in August, giving us a pretty darn solid back half of 2025 overall. However, these are both re-releases of some nature, and for this poll, we want to focus on the four brand-new experiences Microsoft is delivering on Game Pass this fall.
So, which of these four upcoming Xbox games are you most excited to play? Pick your answer in the poll and talk more about your choice in the comments!
Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.