Xbox players just got 40 free demos of new indie games coming soon

Xbox’s whirlwind week at E3 2021 isn’t just limited to big new IPs and AAA launches on Xbox Game Pass. Starting today, Xbox One and Xbox Series X owners can also get their hands on demo versions of 40 yet-to-be-released indie games as part of the ID@Xbox Summer Game Demo Fest.

If you want to try them out, you shouldn’t wait. The showcase only runs for one week, from June 15-21.

The list of demos is filled with upcoming indie titles like the adorable animal-filled adventure game Button City and the Tribeca Film Festival award-nominated Sable. Oh, and also you can go play Lawn Mowing Simulator, if that scratches your virtual homeowner’s itch.

Here are the 12 newly announced games coming to Xbox you can play:

• Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games)
• BattleCakes (Volcano Bean)
• Button City (Subliminal)
• Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware)
• Dreamers (PlaySys)
• Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box)
• Get Packed: Fully Loaded (Coatsink)
• Paint the Town Red (South East Games)
• Tanknarok (Polyblock Studio)
• The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2 (Intetic)
• The Tale of Bistun (Black Cube Games)
• Wreck Out (Four5Six)

Then here are all the other titles that are coming as well:

• A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube)
• Antipole DX (Saturnine Games)
• Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games)
• BattleCakes (Volcano Bean)
• Black Book (Morteshka)
• Button City (Subliminal)
• Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four (Elder Games)
• Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware)
• Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (Doborog)
• Clouzy! (Tinymoon)
• ConnecTank (YummyYummyTummy)
• Death Trash (Crafting Legends)
• Deathtrap Dungeon: The Golden Room (Good Gate Media)
• DREAMERS (PlaySys)
• Echo Generation (Cococucumber)
• Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box)
• Fractal Space (Haze Games)
• Get Packed: Fully Loaded (Coatsink)
• Godstrike (Overpowered)
• Justice Sucks: Recharged (Samurai Punk)
• Lake (Gamious)
• Lawn Mowing Simulator (Skyhook Games)
• Mad Streets (Craftshop)
• Mayhem Brawler (Hero Concept)
• Paint the Town Red (South East Games)
• Princess Farmer (Samobee Games)
• Sable (Shedworks)
• Sail Forth (David Evans Games)
• Strings Theory (BeautifulBee)
• Tanknarok (Polyblock Studio)