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Top 25 Upcoming Xbox One Games of 2019, 2020 & Beyond | whatoplay

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Xbox One’s final stretch before next-gen is stacked with heavyweight names.

With whatoplay’s August 2019 countdown, the picture for what’s left on Xbox One is finally coming into focus. The list spans late 2019 releases through games still years out, all built for the Microsoft Xbox Store before Microsoft pivots to its next-generation Xbox Project Scarlett hardware. It’s less a random ranking than a snapshot of where the console generation is headed in its final act.

• Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG set in the dystopian metropolis of Night City, tops the countdown.
• Gears 5 from The Coalition is set for a September 2019 release, expanding the campaign and adding new multiplayer modes including Escape.
• Other titles circulating heavily in the mid-2019 release window include Doom Eternal, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Halo Infinite.

Night City Leads the Countdown

Cyberpunk 2077 sits at the top of whatoplay’s list for good reason. CD Projekt Red, the studio behind The Witcher 3, has built the game around Night City, a sprawling, vertical metropolis crawling with corporate warfare, street gangs, and cybernetic augmentation. The pitch has always centered on player choice — branching dialogue, build customization, and a first-person perspective that’s a departure from the studio’s previous work. Anyone tracking the buzz around it can catch up through the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay preview covering what’s been shown so far.

It’s the kind of ambition that makes a game the anchor of a countdown like this one — a title judged as much on narrative depth as on raw technical polish, which is exactly the criteria whatoplay leaned on to rank the full list of 25.

Gears 5 Arrives First

While Cyberpunk 2077 anchors the hype, Gears 5 is the one actually landing on shelves next. The Coalition’s fifth mainline entry in the Gears of War franchise was scheduled for a September 2019 release, putting it well ahead of nearly everything else on the list. The studio built out a deeper campaign and introduced new gameplay mechanics alongside multiplayer additions like Escape, a mode built around cooperative, timed extraction runs against the Swarm.

Gears 5 wasn’t just another sequel — it was the title closing out Xbox One’s marquee exclusive lineup before the console generation turned over.

That timing matters. With Halo Infinite and The Elder Scrolls VI still further out, Gears 5 became the flagship first-party release Xbox One owners could actually count on before the calendar flipped to 2020.

The Shooter Pack: Doom Eternal and Jedi Fallen Order

Two of the other titles generating the most noise in mid-2019 sit firmly in the action space. Doom Eternal, id Software’s follow-up to 2016’s Doom reboot, promised the same fast, aggressive combat loop the series is known for, layered with new traversal tools and enemy variety. Fans tracking the run-and-gun mechanics can dig into the breakdown of details the game doesn’t spell out for anyone who wants the finer points before diving in.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, meanwhile, gave Respawn Entertainment a shot at a single-player, narrative-driven Star Wars game — lightsaber combat, Force powers, and a story set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Both titles were positioned as cross-platform releases, but their presence on an Xbox One countdown underlines just how loaded the back half of 2019 was shaping up to be.

Halo Infinite and the Road Beyond 2019

Halo Infinite is the title carrying the most weight for Xbox’s long-term plans. As one of the platform’s most iconic franchises, expectations were already high for a sequel built to be “bigger and better” than its predecessors — and to bridge the gap into the next console generation rather than close out the current one. That positioning is part of why whatoplay’s countdown stretches well past 2019, into games like Dying Light 2 and beyond, that are built with an eye on where the hardware is going next. For a look at where that hardware conversation eventually landed, The Truth About Xbox Series X picks up the thread on Microsoft’s next-gen plans.

That’s the real value of a list like this one — it’s not just about what’s shipping next month, it’s about which franchises Xbox is betting will carry the brand across two console generations at once.