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Xbox showcase gave release dates for three indie games we're looking forward to
Monday's ID@Xbox indie showcase included release dates for a few upcoming games we've been tracking. All three will be on Game Pass on day one. Get ready to run like hell in 33 Immortals, which Engadget's Mat Smith previewed at Summer Game Fest 2023. The multiplayer roguelike top-down action game inspired by Dante's Inferno and has charmingly retro graphics -- not pixel art but more like old-school animation, a la Space Ghost. It supports up to 33 players per 25-minute raid.
There were so many games at GDC's ID@Xbox showcase
Microsoft's ID@Xbox showcase is a staple of GDC, packing a ton of independent video games into a single room and letting players go wild. This year, ID@Xbox featured 20 games across a range of genres, from shoot-em-ups and RPGs to first-person cyberpunk horror. It's impossible to play every game, so we picked four at random: Full Metal Furies, Observer, Moonlighter and Ruiner. Full Metal Furies is probably the highest-profile game on the list, coming from Rogue Legacy studio Cellar Door Games. It's due to hit the Xbox One and Steam later this year. Observer takes things to a darker place.