Cococucumber has dropped a fresh launch-window trailer for Echo Generation 2 five days out from the sci-fi deckbuilder’s May 27 release on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Steam — with day-one availability on Xbox Game Pass and full Xbox Play Anywhere support. The new spot is the studio’s most extensive look at combat yet, foregrounding the party-driven deckbuilding system, the six playable heroes, and the cosmic-creature bestiary that fills out the game’s alternate dimension.
The sequel pivots the original 2021 RPG’s comic-book-styled turn-based combat into a deckbuilder framework. Players follow Jack — reimagined here as an ex-special-ops father trapped in a parallel galaxy — and five additional perspective characters whose decks and party slots open up as the story branches across the campaign. Cococucumber confirmed earlier in the marketing run that the game ships with over 150 cards across all classes.
From voxel adventure to deckbuilder
The original Echo Generation launched in 2021 as a Stranger Things-shaped voxel RPG, leaning into 80s-suburb sleuthing with turn-based combat that borrowed liberally from Paper Mario’s timed inputs. The sequel keeps the voxel-art aesthetic and the timed-input combat layer but bolts on card mechanics: each hero builds a custom deck across roughly 25 unique cards drawn from a 150-card global pool, with synergy chains tied to the perspective the player is following at the time.
Cococucumber framed the deckbuilder pivot during the original reveal as “letting players write the playbook” rather than locking the cast into fixed move trees, which is the through-line the launch trailer leans on. Combat encounters across the trailer surface enemies including the eyestalk-headed Watchers, several flavors of mechanical husk, and what appears to be a recurring antagonist tied to the inter-dimensional shift that opens the game.
Game Pass, demo and the May 27 plan
Echo Generation 2 will be a day-one Xbox Game Pass title across console, PC and Cloud, with Xbox Play Anywhere support carrying saves between Series X|S and PC for Microsoft Store buyers. Steam owners will play a separate save file, with no cross-progression confirmed. A Steam Next Fest demo went live earlier this year and remains available through the launch window for players who want a runway into the deckbuilding loop ahead of May 27.
Cococucumber is Toronto-based and previously self-published Riverbond, Echo Generation, Echo Generation: Midnight Edition and the more recent action-adventure Ravenlok. Echo Generation 2 is the studio’s most ambitious project yet, with roughly 25 hours estimated for a full campaign run, two-plus difficulty modes and an unlockable post-credits chapter the marketing has so far kept under wraps.
The full release lands Wednesday, May 27, 2026, on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Pass and Steam.
