Today, Microsoft presented the Xbox Partner Preview March 2026 showcase, featuring a 30-minute presentation packed with information and reveals for 19 games, with a major focus on third-party titles coming to Xbox Game Pass.
If you didn’t manage to watch the livestream as it happened, we have gathered all the relevant announcements and reveals here for your perusal, so you can enjoy them on your own time without having to watch the whole thing.
The first announcement from the Xbox Partner preview event is the 3D debut of one of the most beloved and difficult platformers of all time. Super Meat Boy 3D is coming to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title, with Xbox Game Pass, on March 31, 2026.
Like its predecessor, Hades 2 did phenomenal when it released into early access on PC and Nintendo Switch. Now, Xbox Series X|S and PS5 players will also be able to join the fun, as it has been announced to arrive on both consoles as of April 14, 2026.
Next up is the quirky co-op extraction title, Frog Sqwad, which releases on Xbox Game Pass in June 2026. You and up to eight friends will storm The Sewers for the glory of the Swamp King! Swing, jump, catapult your friends, and eat eat EAT until you grow into a humongous Megafrog.
Ascend to Zero is a hack-and-slash roguelike set in the year 2225, tasking you, the last survivor of humanity, with traveling back in time, where every run makes you stronger. Starting with just 30 seconds, use your time-bending ability to steal time from your enemies, wield powerful weapons and items, and experience breakneck progression as your build evolves when it comes to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title and with Xbox Game Pass on July 13, 2026.
After its release on PC in 2022 and PS5 in 2025, it was announced during the Xbox Partner Preview that Wuthering Waves is finally coming to Xbox Series X|S in July 2026. It will also be available on PC via Xbox as an Xbox Play Anywhere title and through Xbox Game Pass.
At the event, Grave Seasons got an official release date of August 14, 2026, launching on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Nintendo Switch. In this title, players will farm, romance, and investigate their way through the unsettling town of Ashenridge, a narrative farming sim with a terrifying twist – someone in the town is a supernatural serial killer.
Dispatch was a massive hit when it released on PS5 and PC, and then Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, in 2025, placing players in the role of a dispatcher who must help their superhero companions fight crime. It was announced during the latest Xbox Partner Preview broadcast that the critically acclaimed superhero workplace comedy game is on its way this Summer to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC (including supported gaming handhelds), Xbox Cloud, and as an Xbox Play Anywhere title in Summer 2026.
Stalker 2 fans are eating good in 2026, as it was announced that the Cost of Hope DLC is set to arrive in the summer of this year. The DLC will be released for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, PC (via Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG), and PS5, with both the base game and the DLC supporting Xbox Play Anywhere.
Kids, parents, and achievement hunters everywhere will be happy about this Xbox Partner Preview announcement, as it was revealed that Bluey’s Happy Snaps is launching on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title and with Xbox Game Pass in Fall 2026. Join Bluey and her family in a new photo-powered adventure game and discover familiar locations, play with loads of toys, and use Bluey’s camera to capture and keep all your favorite moments.
Forever Ago follows a tragic stroke of fate, as Alfred embarks on a journey north in search of redemption. In this single-player road trip adventure, you’ll travel to beautiful places, capture memories with your camera, meet interesting characters, and even make some new friends in Fall 2026.
DevolverDigital is back with another Serious title, announcing the return of Serious Sam Stone in an all-new adventure that takes you and up to five players through shifting universes, stack wild boons, bend the rules with run modifiers, and hunt Mental’s deadliest forces. Serious Sam: Shatterverse is arriving at some point in 2026.
The score of a lifetime hangs in the balance – can three cut-throat criminals look past their differences to pull it off? Vaunted is a story of bullets, bravado, and brazen lies that unfolds across a galaxy of treasure hunters and crime syndicates in this sci-fi tactical RPG; it arrives in 2026.
The Eternal Life of Goldman looks like every other platformer at first glance: cool skills, epic boss fights, and hand-drawn landscapes that belong in a gallery, featuring a hero who is a total statistical outlier. Meet Goldman when the title arrives on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title and with Xbox Game Pass in 2026.
Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish is all about building your character, selecting skills, and working with a team of allies to investigate the monsters hidden in plain sight, to find their lairs, and to eradicate them, all the while investigating a story that drags up memories from your past, ones that could change how you see the future. It is coming to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title in Summer 2027.
In The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, you’re no hero — just a mercenary caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, trying to keep your crew together and your ship running while the system closes in around you. Your choices will shape your story, Summer 2027.
Artificial Detective is a third-person action-adventure where you step into the shoes of a robot detective in a dystopian city overrun by rogue robots, tasked with leading your underdog team of a military robodog and a human girl as you fight, hack, and outsmart deadly machines to uncover why humans are gone. It is coming to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title in 2027.
Moosa: Dirty Fate is an action game set in 17th-century Korea, where players face terrifying monsters, uncover the truth behind a cursed fate, and fight to save their people. It is coming in 2027 to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title and with Xbox Game Pass.
Explore a devastated off-world colony that is ravaged by a cataclysmic mega-storm and overrun by bloodthirsty aliens in Alien Deathstorm, the new sci-fi action horror FPS from Rebellion. It is coming to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC as an Xbox Play Anywhere title and with Xbox Game Pass in 2027.
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