{"id":739579,"date":"2026-08-16T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739579\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:36:12","slug":"four-new-indie-games-are-proving-highly-popular-on-xbox-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739579\/","title":{"rendered":"Four New Indie Games Are Proving Highly Popular On Xbox Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft Store is unfortunately slow to update lists like these, so it remains to be seen how all the other recent indie releases \u2014 such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/heres-what-the-reviews-are-saying-about-star-fox-64-successor-wild-blue-skies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Blue Skies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/this-kingdom-hearts-inspired-platformer-is-out-now-on-xbox-and-reviews-are-looking-great\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duskfade<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/1986-amiga-classic-gets-rebuilt-with-two-new-game-modes-for-xbox-series-xs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Defender of the Crown<\/a> \u2014 will fare in the days and weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime though, we&#8217;ll leave you with trailers for each of these four high-performing Xbox indies down below, just in case you haven&#8217;t come across any of them yet. Let&#8217;s take a look!<\/p>\n<p>On this page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/four-new-indie-games-are-proving-highly-popular-on-xbox-right-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four New Indie Games Are Proving Highly Popular On Xbox Right Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/four-new-indie-games-are-proving-highly-popular-on-xbox-right-now#dispatch-3-in-the-chart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dispatch (#3 In The Chart)<\/a>2.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/four-new-indie-games-are-proving-highly-popular-on-xbox-right-now#waterpark-simulator-7-in-the-chart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waterpark Simulator (#7 In The Chart)<\/a>3.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/four-new-indie-games-are-proving-highly-popular-on-xbox-right-now#shift-at-midnight-13-in-the-chart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shift At Midnight (#13 in The Chart)<\/a>4.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/08\/four-new-indie-games-are-proving-highly-popular-on-xbox-right-now#no-more-room-in-hell-2-48-in-the-chart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No More Room In Hell 2 (#48 In The Chart)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dispatch (#3 In The Chart)<\/p>\n<p>Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!<\/p>\n<p>Waterpark Simulator (#7 In The Chart)<\/p>\n<p>Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!<\/p>\n<p>Shift At Midnight (#13 in The Chart)<\/p>\n<p>An online co-op detective horror for up to 3 players. Work together across randomly generated shifts to investigate your customers, as some are only pretending to be human. Make one mistake, and you\u2019ll be forced to board up, set traps, and hide.<\/p>\n<p>No More Room In Hell 2 (#48 In The Chart)<\/p>\n<p>No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.<\/p>\n<p>Have you played any of these? Any interest in doing so? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">Please note that some external links on this page are affiliate links, which means if you click them and make a purchase we may receive a small percentage of the sale. Please read our <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/advertising\" target=\"_blank\">FTC Disclosure<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766613369_65_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Microsoft Store is unfortunately slow to update lists like these, so it remains to be seen how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,85062,86,56,54,55,183,695,694],"class_list":["post-739579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-indie-games","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-series-s","tag-xbox-series-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}