TANUKI: Pon’s Summer is out now on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and it’s in Xbox Game Pass from day one. Denkiworks and CRITICAL REFLEX’s BMX delivery adventure launched on 10 November 2026 with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. If you’d rather own it, it’s £15.74 / $19.99 on the Xbox Store, and it’s an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
You play as Pon, a well-meaning, slightly lazy tanuki with a part-time job at the post office and one month of summer to restore the Great Tanuki Shrine in time for the festival. It’s the debut from Kyoto-based Denkiworks, whose founders previously worked together on Cursed to Golf, and it’s set on a colourful fictional Japanese island.
Mail, ramps and a shrine to fix
Deliveries are made by BMX, and packages come in all shapes, sizes and weights, so working out how to get each one across the island is part of the job. You can launch off ramps, grind rails and string together tricks as you find new routes, and CRITICAL REFLEX says there are more than 100 BMX challenges to tackle.
Befriending the townsfolk unlocks summer activities, from making sushi and helping at the local bar to baseball and stepping into the sumo ring. The money and rewards you earn go towards building, upgrading and decorating the shrine ahead of the Great Tanuki Festival. The world is based on the developers’ time living in Kyoto, Aomori, Sapporo and Beppu, and Pon can dress up in crossover hats inspired by games including Hollow Knight: Silksong, PEAK and Shovel Knight.
Game Pass from day one
Xbox Wire lists TANUKI: Pon’s Summer for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, playable on console, PC and cloud. It isn’t listed for Game Pass Premium. It’s now showing in the Game Pass console and PC catalogues.
The Xbox Store listing has it at £15.74, or $19.99 in the US. One Play Anywhere purchase covers Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Windows PC. It’s single player and rated PEGI 3.
What Xbox players need to know about TANUKI: Pon’s Summer
- Release date: out now (10 November 2026)
- Platforms: Xbox Series X|S (Optimised), Xbox One, PC via Xbox Play Anywhere, Xbox Cloud Gaming
- Game Pass: Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, day one
- Price: £15.74 / $19.99
- Xbox Play Anywhere: yes
- Players: single player
- Developer / publisher: Denkiworks / CRITICAL REFLEX
- Rating: PEGI 3
- Store: TANUKI: Pon’s Summer on the Xbox Store
The full rundown lives in our TANUKI: Pon’s Summer everything we know guide, and everything else is on our TANUKI: Pon’s Summer hub. It’s also part of our Xbox Game Pass November 2026 line-up.
Source: CRITICAL REFLEX press release (10 November 2026); Xbox Wire; CRITICAL REFLEX; Xbox Store.
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