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, most of the lineup is coming to Steam via Xbox Play Anywhere.
The undisputed headline is Stranger Than Heaven. The project formerly known as Project Century — the next game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the team behind Like a Dragon and Yakuza — finally received a proper look, and it is striking. A new “Five Eras” trailer confirmed the game 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 sounds like a strong contender for score of the year. SEGA confirmed the game is coming to PS5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass. No release date yet. A dedicated “Xbox Presents: A Special Look at Stranger Than Heaven” broadcast is scheduled for May 6 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 PM PT, which is where the full reveal will happen.
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 know the series, you know whether Tuesday is going to hurt.
Owlcat Games showed new 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 game 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: Rebellion’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 want the complete list. The May 6 Stranger Than Heaven broadcast is the one to set a calendar alert for.