Published Apr 30, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Well, Forza and four others 5 most anticipated new Xbox games to play in May Sign in to your Polygon.com account The nonstop year of gaming keeps not stopping. May kicks off the unofficial start of summer with a string of blockbuster games and a few indies poised to rival the smaller games that have defined 2026 so far. Xbox also has its first exclusive of the year: the rip-roaring Forza Horizon 6 , a lavish open-world racer that's also the first of many AAA Xbox games out this year. Start your engines. Here are our five most anticipated Xbox games of May 2026. 1 Mixtape Release date: May 7 Mixtape seems designed in a lab to stoke nostalgia for folks of a certain age. The narrative adventure game, published by the reliable tastemakers at Annapurna Interactive, is about teenagers making the most of their last night of high school.…