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What are the best new Xbox and Game Pass games to release in September 2023? 

Want to know what we think are the 13 best new Xbox and Game Pass games you should be playing on your Xbox in August 2023? 

There’s no denying that the list of best Xbox and Game Pass games for July is on the sparse side.

Here are 13 of the best Xbox and Game Pass releases due to launch in June 2023 - we think you should be playing them on your Xbox. 

May has got more quality games than a yard sale at Shigeru Miyamoto’s house. The Up Next that details the most exciting games for the next month becomes increasingly difficult to make sense of. Which of the fifty-odd new Xbox games due for release should we include? It’s a nice problem to have.

The Xbox games that have actually, one-hundred percent been announced for release in February are rather fabulous

January is normally utter rubbish, a desert of gaming. But we struggled to keep the list of the games you should be playing on your Xbox in January 2023 down to eleven.

By rights, December should have no new Xbox games of note. It’s the end of the year: who has any disposable cash? We’re grateful that a few studios have said pooh-pooh and released games anyway. Absolute mad lads.

While there are notably fewer games to highlight, there are still some crackers releasing on Xbox in November 2022.

It’s an Up Next so bountiful, so stocked with killer games, that the subs bench looks damn decent - a fourteen-strong squad of the most exciting games to be coming to Xbox during October 2022.

For the second month running, we’ve utterly failed to keep the Up Next for September 2022 to ten games. In fact, there’s so many new Xbox games that we’re hyped about, that we’re stretching all the way to thirteen for September 2022. Positively gushing, the games are. 

August must be good if we’re having to cram thirteen new Xbox games into our Up Next. Yep, rather than edit the Up Next down by trimming out some of the fabulous games coming in August, we decided to include every single one of the Xbox games that got us excited. And there is a lot to get excited about. 

We’d be the first to admit that there is a lack of mahoosive, save-up-the-pennies Xbox games in this month’s Up Next, but - regardless - it has something of an alternative appeal.

We’re in an unusual timeline when the headline of the month is a LEGO game. But that’s the one we’re in, as LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga wipes the floor with pretty much every game that’s coming out in April 2022. We can already hear the clattering of plastic studs. 

We were wrong to dismiss the best Xbox games releasing in March 2022. There’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, which is unusual in the sense that it’s a full game inspired by some DLC. And that’s without mentioning a new Final Fantasy game, Elex II and some tasty indie games and sequels. Maybe Elden Ring has some competition after all.