8 New Indie Games on Xbox Series X|S, November 2026

GRAVHOUNDS drops you and up to three friends onto hostile planets as a pack of engineered space dogs. You build a base with turrets, generators and pipelines, dig up materials and hold off an alien swarm that keeps getting stronger the longer you stay.

Each hound has its own strengths, and a gravity beam lets you fling objects to teammates or throw enemies away. Staying longer means better loot and worse danger, and you only keep what you carry out. It arrived on November 2 as a Game Preview, Xbox's version of early access, and it's in Game Pass.

In Pit of Goblin you play a scruffy goblin sent down into crypts, caves and haunted ruins to find food for a giant, always hungry ruler called the King Queen. You can go alone, but it's made for a group, with proximity voice chat so you hear your friends when a trap gets them.

Every trip down is different. You grab what you can carry, then decide whether to hand the food over, eat it for stamina or sell it for better gear, and you still have to find your way back out. Version 1.0 came out on November 3 with crossplay between Xbox, PS5 and PC, and it's in Game Pass.

VOID/BREAKER is a fast first-person shooter roguelite. A hostile AI keeps you trapped in a loop, so you fight, die and start over, choosing which fights and which paths to take on each run. Movement is quick, and walls and buildings break apart under fire.

The core is gun modding: you stack mods into weapon builds that can get very silly, and the 1.0 update adds an LMG, a revolver and a flamethrower among others. It's a solo project by the developer of The Entropy Centre. Version 1.0 came out on November 4, and Xbox Wire lists it in Game Pass.

Lightyear Frontier is an open-world farming game where a mech does the heavy lifting. You plant whole fields with a seed shooter, carry stacks of logs on one shoulder and build a homestead on an alien planet that supplies the struggling colonies nearby.

There are no raids, no hunger and no way to lose progress, so you can take it slowly. Up to three friends can join your farm, and shared saves let them keep playing while the host is away. Version 1.0 came out on Xbox and Steam on November 4, opening the rest of the map and the path to the ending.

The End of the Sun is a first-person mystery. You play a fire mage who tracks mythical creatures, and you arrive in a village where time has broken and only smouldering hearths are left of the people who lived there.

By bonding with bonfires you see traces of past events, and once a fire is fully lit it lets you travel between four seasons set years apart and change what happens to the villagers. Hundreds of museum objects and whole buildings were scanned into the game from the real world. It has been on PC since January 2025, with Very Positive Steam reviews, and came to Xbox Series X|S on November 4.

Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School builds its escape rooms into a whole school campus. Each class is a deadly puzzle room, with things like spiked ceilings and long drops, and the campus between classes is a puzzle too, full of hidden tunnels and secret passages.

You can play alone or with one friend, online or in split screen, and a new optional mode turns the timer off for anyone who hates the clock. The story digs into a secret about how the school was founded. It came out on November 5 and was in Game Pass from day one.

Thronefall is a small strategy game about a king who builds by day and fights by night. In daylight you place houses, mines and fields for gold, plus walls and towers. When night falls, waves of enemies attack and you ride out with your troops to hold the castle.

Runs are short, and perks, weapons and optional difficulty changes keep later runs fresh. It has been on PC since 2024, with Overwhelmingly Positive Steam reviews. On November 11 it comes to Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass, the same day its Craaghelm expansion arrives on Steam with eight new maps.

Hope in the City is a mystery about Hope Song, a 17-year-old who comes home from school to a wrecked apartment and two missing parents. She is not a detective and nobody wants to help her, so she relies on the one thing she has: an artist's eye for detail.

You walk the streets of Shenyang, talk to neighbours and draw anything that seems off in her sketchbook. Combining sketches turns them into insights and then into breakthroughs. It's from the team behind Eternal Spring, moved one day from November 10 to November 11, and comes to Xbox and PC at once, in Game Pass from day one.