Earlier today, Microsoft held its latest Xbox Partner Preview livestream. Like Nintendo Direct Partner Showcases, this presentation is fully focused on third-party games coming to Xbox and PC over the next year or so. That means we didn’t get a look at games like Halo: Campaign Evolved, but several known and new games showed up and impressed.
One particular standout was Tides of Annihilation, an upcoming action game from Chinese developer Eclipse Glow Games. We got to see an extended clip of gameplay footage of one of the game’s boss fights during the Xbox Partner Preview, and it even outdid the flash and spectacle of games like Devil May Cry V and Final Fantasy XVI.
If you weren’t able to tune into the Xbox Partner Preview live, or just don’t want to sit through a half-hour showcase of games you may not be interested in, I’m here to help. I’m spotlighting the five most impressive-looking games from November 2025’s Xbox Partner Preview so you know which titles to keep on your radar heading into 2025.
Tides of Annihilation
It’s not coming to Xbox Game Pass
Tides of Annihilation is part of the new wave of Chinese action games launching in the wake of Black Myth: Wukong. That said, it’s China’s take on a European, as a Jennifer English-voiced hero named Gwendolyn as she searches for the Holy Grail in England. When enemies get in her way, she spars with them in combat, making use of a
Tides of Annihilation and 4 more standout games from the latest Xbox Partner Preview
