Xbox will put out free demos of more than 35 unreleased games starting Dec. 7

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The ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest Demo event is coming back

ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest Demo event
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The ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest Demo event will bring playable slices of at least three dozen unreleased games straight to your Xbox starting next week.

A post on the official Xbox Wire blog confirms that Microsoft will once again collaborate with The Game Awards to bring a host of demos to Xbox Series X and S as well as Xbox One. Microsoft says the event will run from December 7 through the 21st and feature "over 35 demos of upcoming unreleased games," which means you'll need to tackle at least two and a half demos a day to play through them all before the Winter Game Fest is over.

ID@Xbox says it will unveil the full list of games closer to the start of the event, though it unveiled a handful along with the announcement. Here's what we're looking at so far:

  • Loot River: A procedurally generated dungeon-crawling roguelike that's part Dark Souls and part Tetris.
  • Death Trash: A post-apocalyptic action RPG of bloodthirsty Lovecraftian beasts and shotgun-wielding punks.
  • Blacktail: A first-person exploration and archery game based on the tale of Baba Yaga.
  • The Tale of Bistun: An action-adventure game that bridges the real world and an ethereal realm of memory.
  • Nobody Saves the World: A comedic, form-swapping action RPG that lets you build bizarre combos on your own or in online co-op.

The Game Awards is set to air on December 9, and it will bring even more new games - with the full list of reveals set to number in the "double digits".

Check out The Game Awards 2021 nominations and get your bracket together now. 

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan
Former GamesRadar+ News Writer

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.