Xbox Offers 33 Free Indie Demos To Play In Winterfest

Champion Shift

Xbox players can get their hands on over 30 demos for a varied selection of indie games in the Winterfest promotion.

Included in the list are ten new games coming to Xbox, all of which are free to play until December 31.

New games include arcade anthology 502’s Arcade, pirate adventure Captain Bones, action rogue-like Champion Shift, the fairly self-explanatory Dinosaur Fossil Hunter and retro-silly platformer Donut Dodo.

Champion Shift is an, action roguelike where you play as a mythical champion fighting against the evil Dominio.<p>SRG Studios</p>
Champion Shift is an, action roguelike where you play as a mythical champion fighting against the evil Dominio.

SRG Studios

The rest of the new game demos are racer New Star GP, rogue-like puzzle combo Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion, snowboarding animal racer Slopecrashers, turn-based dungeon crawler The Land Beneath Us and post-apocalyptic RPG Vagrus: The River Realms Prologue.

All of these titles are available as part of the Xbox Winterfest on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. The full list of games and their developers is below:

  • 502’s Arcade (502 Studios)

  • Backbeat (Ichigoichie) – Available Now

  • Captain Bones (World of Poly)

  • Champion Shift (SRG Studios)

  • Chessarama (Minimol Games) – Available Now

  • Deceive Inc. (Sweet Bandits Studios), available now

  • Dinosaur Fossil Hunter (Pyramid Games S.A.)

  • Donut Dodo (pixel.games)

  • Go Mecha Ball (Whale Peak Games)

  • Hidden Through Time 2 (Rogueside)

  • Howl (Mi’pu’mi Games), pre-order now

  • Kiborg (Sobaka Studio)

  • King Arthur: Knight’s Tale (NeocoreGames), pre-order now

  • Kingdoms and Castles (BlitWorks Games), available now

  • Long Gone Days (Serenity Forge), available now

  • New Star GP (New Star Games)

  • Oppidum (EP Games)

  • Parcel Corps (Secret Mode)

  • Pinball FX (Zen Studios); available now

  • Pinball M (Zen Studios), available now

  • PlateUp! (It’s Happening)

  • Puzzledorf (Stuart’s Pixel Games)

  • Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion (Starstruck Games)

  • Shoulders of Giants (Moving Pieces Interactive), available now

  • Sker Ritual (Wales Interactive)

  • Slave Zero X (Poppy Works), pre-order now

  • Slopecrashers (byteparrot)

  • Space Boat (Recombobulator Games)

  • SquadBlast (Ultrahorse)

  • Strings Theory (BeautifulBee)

  • The Holy Gosh Darn (Perfectly Paranormal)

  • The Land Beneath Us (FairPlay Studios)

  • Vagrus – The Riven Realms (Lost Pilgrims Studio)