DECEMBER XBOX ONE GAME RELEASES – WEEK ONE (DEC. 1 – DEC. 3)
As we come to the end of November, it’s time to start looking at games we can look forward to in December. Unfortunately, December doesn’t bring a ton of new Xbox One games for players, but there are some noteworthy titles that are well worth checking out. In these starting few days, we’ve got a handful of titles coming to the Xbox One, with Ubisoft’s open world, winter sports title, Steep, headlining the offerings.
You’ll be able to cruise your way down to the bottom of the Alps mountain range by skiing, snowboarding, wingsuiting, or paragliding, and set challenges and routes for your friends to try and beat your high scores.
You can check out all of week one’s game releases below:
- The Dwarves – December 1
- Furi – December 2
- Steep – December 2
DECEMBER XBOX ONE GAME RELEASES – WEEK TWO (DEC. 4 – DEC. 10)
As we move into the first full week of December, we get a couple more releases, including an Xbox One timed console exclusive in the form of Dead Rising 4. With all of the off-the-wall antics and humor you’ve come to know and love from the series, Dead Rising 4 sees you return to Willamette, Colorado, as Frank West as you try to uncover the truth behind the spontaneous zombie outbreak.
Expect to have your screen filled with the undead, as you use just about anything as a weapon in a giant sandbox world. The only other Xbox One game to release this week is the Rogue One: Scarif expansion for Star Wars Battlefront.
Here are all of week two’s Xbox One game releases:
- Dead Rising 4 – December 6
- Star Wars Battlefront – Rogue One: Scarif expansion – December 6
DECEMBER XBOX ONE GAME RELEASES – WEEK THREE (DEC. 11 – DEC. 17)
Things pick up ever so slightly in week three with two full-game releases and another expansion that racing fans are definitely going to be interested in. Headlining this week’s offerings is Stardew Valley, the incredibly popular farming and life simulator that released earlier this year on PC. You’ll have to make a living from planting and harvesting crops and tending to livestock. It may not sound like a lot of fun, but Stardew Valley makes the results of your hard work feel so rewarding that you’ll end up doing it all over again for several hundred more hours.
On Dec. 12, players will also get to pick up Supergiant Games’ Bastion on Xbox One, and even better, players who owned it on Xbox 360 will get it for free. In Bastion, players embark on a journey through a beautifully hand-painted world as a narrator reacts to every action you take on your quest to uncover the secrets of the Calamity.
Finally, Forza Horizon 3 gets its first expansion in the form of Blizzard Mountain. Blizzard Mountain challenges wannabe racers to become the King of the Hill, as they partake in events that will test just how good their driving skills are in ice, snow, and extreme heights. There are 50 new events to complete and a bunch of new cars to help you out, too.
- Bastion – December 12
- Forza Horizon 3 – Blizzard Mountain expansion – December 13
- The Little Acre – December 13
- Stardew Valley – December 14
DECEMBER XBOX ONE GAME RELEASES – WEEK FOUR AND FIVE (DEC. 18 – DEC. 31)
As we approach the end of the year, the number of games releasing slows down to a trickle, and as such, week four of December only brings a couple of games to the Xbox One. Fortunately, one of those titles is the first episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Season 3. Titled A New Frontier, episode one acts as a continuation of the story from the previous two seasons, as well as marking the start of an entirely new beginning for Clementine.
Set almost four years after the events of season one, A New Frontier will explore what it’s like to live under the law and order of a world where the undead roam and pose a constant threat to your survival. A New Frontier releases on December 20, and Don Bradman Cricket 17 also releases on December 22.
As for week five, it may be the week of Christmas, but unfortunately, 2016 is fresh out of new games for the Xbox One. Instead, we’d suggest picking away at some of your backlog, which may have built up over the past couple of hectic months, and prepare yourselves for the titles that are due in 2017. With Halo Wars 2, For Honor, and many more set to release in the first couple of months of 2017, it’s a good idea to make sure everything from 2016 is boxed off first.
That’s all for Xbox One releases for 2016, but be sure to check back with Twinfinite in 2017, as we’ll be bringing you monthly release schedules and everything else you need to know for the Xbox One.
