Greatest Xbox Sport Cross video games to play this weekend (March 20-22 2026)

Online game historical past is plagued by nice video games that by no means acquired a follow-up, irrespective of how well-received they had been or how a lot followers needed extra. Some had nice concepts however wanted additional entries to work out some kinks and refine these concepts — entries that by no means got here. This weekend, Polygon is all in regards to the one-and-done: concepts that had been solely executed as soon as, failures that had been precursors to others’ successes, an alternate actuality interview with a one-hit-wonder director.

This week’s Xbox Sport Cross suggestions put a highlight on video games and studios that we want we acquired extra of. (Perhaps in alternate actuality, we did.)

Sundown Overdrive

Earlier than Insomniac Video games moved over to Sony and have become its de facto Marvel studio, it left Xbox behind with a bang. Sundown Overdrive is a ballsy open-world recreation that is all about inflicting chaos in a zombie-infested metropolis poisoned by a company’s contaminated vitality drinks. It is fully over-the-top, letting gamers parkour round to their coronary heart’s content material and obliterate enemies in some superb cartoon hyperviolence. Past simply being a enjoyable strategy to let off steam, Sundown Overdrive is an earnest recreation about studying to thrive regardless of the world round you falling aside. It is a seek for self discovery amid the rubble. Although it by no means acquired a sequel, Sundown Overdrive already does greater than sufficient to say its piece. —Giovanni Colantonio

Immortals of Aveum

I am by no means shy about my love for underappreciated shooters, and Immortals of Aveum is as underappreciated as they arrive. Positive, the quippy dialogue’s one-liners and recreation’s story that does not dive deep sufficient into its themes aren’t the sport’s strengths, however the FPS gameplay is top-notch. Swapping weapons for magic spells works tremendously nicely in Immortals of Aveum, providing you three several types of magic shooty shoots for no matter a scrum requires. You additionally get a wide range of different powers, like a magic protect and blast waves of magic, turning protagonist Jak into an unstoppable power. In an ideal world, studios might take what works from a recreation — in Aveum’s case, its magic gunplay and attention-grabbing setting — and construct atop it, even when a debut title wasn’t an instantaneous success. This isn’t an ideal world, however a minimum of it is one the place you may nonetheless try Immortals of Aveum on Sport Cross. —Austin Manchester

Quantum Break

Treatment Leisure is in its franchise period — its two most up-to-date video games have been an Alan Wake sequel and a Management spinoff, and its subsequent recreation is a correct Management sequel — however the studio’s finest recreation was a one-and-done entry: Quantum Break. The sci-fi motion recreation combined conventional third-person gameplay segments with live-action TV episodic breaks. And the alternatives you made in-game modified the narrative of every episode. An all-star forged, together with Aiden Gillen (Sport of Thrones), Shawn Ashmore (X-Males), and the late Lance Reddick (John Wick), gave Quantum Break some critical Hollywood heft, too. A very particular recreation that was nicely earlier than its time. —Ari Notis