Xbox held its March Partner Preview yesterday, a 30-minute showcase focused entirely on third-party games coming to PC and Xbox platforms. Nineteen games were shown, 14 of them landing day one on Xbox Game Pass. For PC players specifically, a lot of the lineup is coming to Steam via Xbox Play Anywhere.
The undisputed headline is Stranger Than Heaven. The project formerly often known as Project Century — the subsequent game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the team behind Like a Dragon and Yakuza — finally received a correct look, and it’s striking. A brand new “Five Eras” trailer confirmed the sport spans five distinct time periods: 1915, 1929, 1943, 1951, and 1965, each set across different Japanese cities. The footage showed era-appropriate combat, tram travel between districts, romantically rendered food (naturally), and a jazz-heavy soundtrack that already appears like a powerful contender for rating of the 12 months. SEGA confirmed the sport is coming to PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and will probably be available day one on Xbox Game Pass. No release date yet. A dedicated “Xbox Presents: A Special Take a look at Stranger Than Heaven” broadcast is scheduled for May 6 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 PM PT, which is where the total reveal will occur.
Essentially the most immediately actionable reveal is Super Meat Boy 3D, which launches this coming Tuesday, March 31, for Xbox Series, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, and Xbox Game Pass. Team Meat’s brutally precise platformer gets the third dimension treatment. No elaboration needed: if you happen to know the series, you understand whether Tuesday goes to harm.
Owlcat Games showed latest gameplay for The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, the studio’s ambitious third-person action-RPG set in James S.A. Corey’s sci-fi universe. A beta opens April 22, with a full release window of Spring 2027. The sport is headed to Xbox Series, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, and PS5, with Game Pass day-one availability confirmed.
Other notable PC-relevant announcements from the showcase: Rise up’s Alien Deathstorm, a first-person survival game set on a storm-battered off-world colony, was world-premiered with Game Pass day-one confirmation. Ascend to Zero, a cyberpunk-pixel-art time-manipulation roguelite, is coming July 13 as an Xbox Play Anywhere and Game Pass title. Grave Seasons, a farming sim with a serial killer murder mystery thread running through it, arrives August 14 on PC and console. Hunter: The Reckoning: Deathwish, a World of Darkness FPS, opened the show as a world premiere for Summer 2027 on PC, Xbox, and PS5.
The full recap is up on Xbox Wire if you happen to want the whole list. The May 6 Stranger Than Heaven broadcast is the one to set a calendar alert for.