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Xbox Partner Preview - March 2026

March 26, 2026 · organised by Microsoft · 19 games, 7 premieres and announcements.

A 30-minute third-party show hosted by Aaron Paul: 19 games, seven of them never seen before - among them Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish, Rebellion's Alien Deathstorm and Artificial Detective - plus Hades II and Dispatch heading to Xbox and the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 expansion.

Premieres and announcements

7 games
Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish cover
Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish
Opened the show: a first-person World of Darkness action game about hunters chasing a vampire posing as police. Summer 2027.
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Alien Deathstorm cover
Alien Deathstorm
Rebellion's first-person survival shooter on a storm-wrecked alien colony. 2027, Game Pass.
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Ascend to Zero cover
Ascend to Zero
Pixel-art cyberpunk roguelike built on stopping and bending time; July 13, 2026, Game Pass.
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Moosa: Dirty Fate
Third-person action in a blighted feudal Korea with painterly landscapes; 2027.
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Serious Sam: Shatterverse cover
Serious Sam: Shatterverse
Five alternate-universe Sams team up against Mental in a new co-op shooter; 2026.
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Vaunted
Tactical RPG mixing turn-based planning with real-time action and three unreliable narrators; PC later in 2026.
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Artificial Detective cover
Artificial Detective
Closed the show: a robot detective and the last human child investigate why humanity vanished. 2027.
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Also shown

12 games
Bluey's Happy Snaps cover
Bluey's Happy Snaps
Photo adventure with Bluey, Bingo and Dad's camera across new places from the show; fall 2026, Game Pass.
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Dispatch cover
Dispatch
AdHoc Studio's episodic superhero office comedy comes to Xbox in summer 2026.
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The Eternal Life of Goldman
Hand-drawn fairytale platformer about hunting down The Deity; later in 2026, demo out the same day.
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The Expanse: Osiris Reborn cover
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
New gameplay, a beta on April 22 and a release window moved to spring 2027.
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Forever Ago cover
Forever Ago
A road-trip story about Alfred revisiting his memories through photographs; fall 2026, Game Pass.
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Frog Sqwad cover
Frog Sqwad
Slapstick co-op platformer for up to eight frogs feeding the Swamp King; June 2026.
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Grave Seasons cover
Grave Seasons
The murder-mystery farming sim gets an August 14, 2026 date, day one in Game Pass.
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Hades II cover
Hades II
Supergiant's sequel arrives on Xbox on April 14.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope cover
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope
Announcement of the first big expansion: 20+ hours around Duty and Freedom, the power plant and the Iron Forest.
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Stranger Than Heaven cover
Stranger Than Heaven
RGG Studio's story spans five eras and five cities; a dedicated Xbox broadcast was set for May 6.
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Super Meat Boy 3D cover
Super Meat Boy 3D
The 3D take on the punishing platformer launches March 31.
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Wuthering Waves cover
Wuthering Waves
Kuro Games' open-world action RPG comes to Xbox Series X|S.
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