The ID@Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo event runs from June 15–21, 2021

Xbox, Geoff Keighley, and a whole bunch of indie game developers are teaming up next week for another big play-at-home bash. The ID@Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo event willrun from June 15 to June 21with 40-plus demos for upcoming games.

I feel obligated to highlight these promos every chance I get — I love these at-home previews, doubly so when they’re available to the general public and not just media and influencers. This is thesecond year in a rowfor the ID@Xbox demo showcase.

Tunic screenshot

You’ll be able to play these “show floor demos” across Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, and they’ll be accessible through the Xbox dashboard for one week, so there’s a bit of urgency. If you miss the window, well, that’s the nature of the beast. Cue Steve Miller Band.

We’re in a big time crunch with E3 and its aftermath, but you might want to make room for at least one title, as a handful of them are high-profile as far as these things go.

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The team at Xbox hasn’t shared the full list of featured games yet, but here’s a preview:

Echo Generation

These games all look good in different ways. As nice as it is to seeTunicagain, and as much asSable‘s art direction pops, Eric’s got me invested in delivering mail inLake.

Football Manager 26 promo art

Cover for Max Payne

Black Ops 7 key art work

PEAK mesa biome text

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CoD BO7 The Guild robot

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A ruined police station in Raccoon City in Resident Evil Requiem.