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Xbox has many games it has been working on for a while, including State of Decay 3.
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We don't have a release window for State of Decay 3 yet, but one insider has suggested that it's coming in 2026.
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This was reportedly not the original plan, as Xbox plans to launch it in 2025.
A reliable Xbox source has claimed that the long-awaited State of Decay 3 could be released in 2026, after originally being planned for next year.
Over the past few years, the Xbox has struggled to gain a foothold for integrated console releases, with most of the games it introduced earlier in its generation still in development. That has changed a lot lately, as Microsoft seems to have a full plan for 2025 and 2026.
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With big releases like Fable, Doom: The Dark Ages, Avowed, South of Midnight and more all coming next year, Xbox already has a pretty impressive schedule ahead of it if all goes according to plan. The stacked list also apparently included another long-in-development first-person title, though it looks like it might be bumped to 2026 instead.
According to reports, State Of Decay 3 will be released in “early” 2026
Of course, I'm talking about Undead Labs State of Decay 3, which was revealed in 2020 and has only been seen a handful of times since then. Although we did get a gameplay trailer for State of Decay 3 earlier this year, it unfortunately lacked a release window, leaving many wondering when it would finally be released.
As noted by ResetEra user RandomlyRandom67 , Windows Central Executive Editor Jez Corden recently discussed Xbox's plans for State of Decay 3 on the latest episode of the XB2+1-2+2 podcast. While talking about Xbox's plan for 2025, Corden noted that he had heard that Xbox was originally planning to release State of Decay 3 in 2025, as it appeared to be close to completion. is more
I also heard that they have State of Decay 3 in mind for 2025 as well. It's closer to the end than you think, but I think they'll let it finish until 2026. I bet it's a 2026 game, as in early 2026. – Jez Corden
While this was reportedly the initial plan for State of Decay 3, it appears that Xbox is letting it slide to 2026. Corden says he's betting it's early 2026, which makes sense given how stacked it is. The lineup for 2025 is already there, and it's the fact that we weren't given a release window for State of Decay 3 to begin with.

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