This Month's ID@Xbox Showcase Is Exactly What Xbox Needs
Xbox has a great lineup of AAA games ready to launch in the coming months, but today's ID@Xbox showcase announcement is the exact supplement Game needs.
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IGN Fan Fest kicks off this year with an ID@Xbox presentation on February 24th, which will showcase indie games from over a dozen studios. The presentation was Balatro, is also rumored to unveil its “next big collaboration.”
Indie games are the exact supplement Xbox needs for its AAA lineup right now
Over the last few years, Xbox Games Studios have grown into a much larger group. EA Sports FC 2025).
So while it may not be long before the physical Xbox begins to fade into the background, it isn’t all bad news. In the final few months of 2024, Doom: The Dark Ages in May.
This is an impressive lineup, but these huge titles might not be a perfect fit for every player. This is where smaller games step in to fill in the gaps. Since they can’t reasonably add huge budget games every few weeks, a great way to prop up the value of the service is through indie games. This month’s scheduled ID@Xbox is their chance to show people that Game is worth sticking around for, even when you’re done playing the big AAA release of that month.
Looking at the list of publishers and developers planned to take part in this showcase, Xbox is set up to have an impressive showcase. I am personally a huge fan of indie games, so I’ve been keeping tabs on many of the games that might be revealed in this showcase.
What to expect from the ID@Xbox presentation this month
Publisher Raw Fury has made a name for itself with a variety of games like Knights in Tight Spaces is a tense, challenging tactical game that has already taken hours of my life through the demo available now on Steam.
11 Bit might be a name you recognize if you’re a fan of Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault.
Panic, the publisher behind huge indie hits like Untitled Goose Game and Firewatch, has a few more games coming up as well. The devs behind Untitled Goose Game have announced their next game, Big Walk, which looks to be an odd multiplayer open-world puzzle game. Panic is also publishing Herdling, a unique game about returning strange fantastical creatures to their natural habitats. I was able to play a demo of Herdling at PAX West last year and it seemed like it had a lot of potential.
Two years ago, Thunder Lotus, the publisher behind 33 Immortals is a co-op action rogue-lite with 33 players. Survive hordes of monsters and escape eternal damnation alongside a host of companions. There is currently a beta happening until February 7th where players can get a chance to try out the game for themselves. It would be surprising to see not see this game at this month’s presentation.
Don’t Nod is also planning to be a part of this presentation. You might recognize them if you are a fan of the Life Is Strange series, and if you are a fan, their game, Tales of Kenzera ZAU devs, Surgent Studios, so maybe this is the opportunity to share some of what they have been working on.
Finally, you can expect to see more from Curve Games, the publisher of Galacticare (currently on Game ), and plenty more. Plus, who knows, maybe Balatro’s big update is that it will be coming to Game , then every screen won’t just be an Xbox, it will also be a black hole that absorbs people’s free time.
All of these indie games could potentially launch on Game this year. Most of them don’t have release dates, so this would be the perfect opportunity to share those updates with prospective players. 2025 was already shaping up to be an exciting year for Game subscribers, and this ID@Xbox presentation makes it even better.
