Upcoming Xbox Series X|S simulator games in 2026

Inherit a crumbling English hotel and restore it by day—while battling ghosts by night. With a sardonic cat, a talking power tool, and a twisting supernatural plot, this is a musical mystery unlike any other. Will you be able to hold it together while everything around you falls apart?

Infinitesimals is a story-driven, 3rd person action adventure where you play as tiny aliens who stand only 1mm tall. Though a diminutive species, they are technologically advanced and space faring.

Sent on a reckless mission, you find yourself in outer space filled with numerous dangers and things to explore. Build, craft, manage your crew, look after the chicken, and defeat the evil space corporation in this new breathtaking survival game.

The Tanuki Festival is just a month away, and the shrine is in disrepair. Follow Pon, a well meaning, if a bit lazy Tanuki with a part-time job at the Post Office, as he works to restore the shrine before summer ends. Deliver packages, make friends, and get the shrine ready for the big festival!

You've come to help your Granny after a terrible storm destroyed her cottage and wreaked havoc in her idyllic coastal town. Can you find a way of restoring her home and uniting the townsfolk? Connect with nature by foraging, gardening, and cooking, then try out your new skills in the real world!

Begin your park ranger journey in Ranger’s Path: National Park Simulator. Maintain trails, assist visitors, check permits and respond to emergencies. Explore diverse biomes and observe varied animal behaviors across a wide range of species.

Play as a gang of mischievous raccoons in this chaotic co-op sandbox for 1-4 players. Complete ridiculous missions, steal everything you can carry, and outsmart a relentless Exterminator determined to throw your gang behind bars.

‘Sombras: Negative Frames’ is a first person narrative game with a focus on photography and light horror elements. Follow Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student, as she is spirited away in a dark mirror of her 2000s Japanese town and must confront fragments of her own psyche.

Cutout Village is a narrative, cozy, city-builder game in which you will have to build villages using simple and unique mechanics: cutting, folding and gluing. Restore the family home, revive your village and create spaces filled with fruit trees and histories to live!

In Foxy Dumplings, you’ll run your own food truck and make friends along the way. Cook dumplings from all over the world, take good care of your clients, and discover how a meal can mend more than just hunger in this cozy cooking sim. Rise to the top of Foxtagram, one heartfelt dish at a time.

Dragon's Brew is a board game cafe simulator! Serve customers while fulfilling takeaway orders and delivery requests and build up your reputation in the vibrant seaside town of Pebblebrook. Source and grow your own ingredients, craft a variety of seasonal recipes, and expand your board game collection. Discover and unlock 100+ board games, each with its own effects and bonuses. Pair them with specific menu items to trigger unique effects and create powerful synergies that enhance your cafe’s operations and profits.

A minimalist game about digging a hole at the beach, now with friends. Dig together, collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and search for a promised treasure buried deep beneath the sand.

Explore and survive in the Arctic, where your car is the only thing keeping you alive. Arctic Drive is a 1–4 player co-op survival sim set in a procedurally generated winter wilderness. Find supplies, repair your rig, and haul it all onwards with only one hope left: there must be safety out there.

Seaworks: Trap Season is a hands-on crab fishing life sim set in the remote pacific northwest in the 1990s. Take fishing bounties by fax, maintain and customize your boat, brave changing weather, sort your catch and build a small life on the edge of the sea.

Dominus Gladiatus is a brutal gladiator management simulator where you recruit, train and equip gladiators and make life or death decisions throughout a deadly tournament against rival Domini.

Dominate the lanes in PBA Pro Bowling 2027! Customize your bowler’s unique style and arsenal with in-depth ball mechanics and Perks. Forge your legacy in PBA Tour Mode and Online Leagues, and defend your title in Online Tournaments and Ranked Play. This is where champions are made.

A British detective has vanished in Kyoto. Step into Detective Bennett's shoes and uncover a mystery that reaches far beyond the Yakuza.

You are invited to join Unicorn Academy! Create a magical connection with your own unicorn and forge friendship bonds with Sophia, Ava, Layla and the other heroes from the series. Wield unicorn magic and discover every corner of Unicorn Island.

Turn-based management roguelike. Command the Inquisition and rule an industrial city on the empire’s edge. Use your train to meet prisoner shipment quotas by hunting heretics and slaying magical beasts. Produce supplies, contain revolt, and sacrifice prisoners to stop the madness.

In Pinballoid Crush, classic pinball evolves into an arcade experience with adventure and strategy elements.