Xbox Game Pass (Xbox / PC)

[Lebowski]

Surprised to see GTA but it seems to be doing the rounds on these services, exoprimal looks intresting too the rest look like garbage

Normally theirs something in the indie offering that makes me think ooo that looks good Sword and Fairy: Together might be that game, Theirs some real garbage this month too, Common'hood and McPixel look particularly bad

[MartyG]

Official now I guess ...



Xbox Game Pass Core.

Among Us
Descenders
Dishonored 2
Doom Eternal
Fable Anniversary
Fallout 4
Fallout 76
Forza Horizon 4
Gears 5
Grounded
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Wars
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Human Fall Flat
Inside
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Psychonauts 2
State of Decay 2
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

Are confirmed at the moment.

[nonny]

Not a bad list but surprised that Halo Infinite (Campaign) isn't in there and neither is Forza Horizon 5... I know these are newer but they've still had their time and are now old enough I think they deserve to be in the core offering.

[Lebowski]

Not a bad list but surprised that Halo Infinite (Campaign) isn't in there and neither is Forza Horizon 5... I know these are newer but they've still had their time and are now old enough I think they deserve to be in the core offering.

Its a balancing act put all your big hitters in the cheaper service you risk devaluing your premium service.

[MartyG]

Not a bad list but surprised that Halo Infinite (Campaign) isn't in there and neither is Forza Horizon 5... I know these are newer but they've still had their time and are now old enough I think they deserve to be in the core offering.

If you give people diamonds on the first date, you set up disappointment for future hook-ups.

[nonny]

Yeah I get it but Halo Infinite is already a free service for multiplayer and is now an excellent campaign... It just seems weird not to include it.

Forza Horizon 4 is great but 5 is a decent step up and it's been out a good while now. I dunno... I think they should have chucked it in.

It's not like it's Starfield or anything brand new dropping. The those two games have already dropped in price.

[Lebowski]

The Indie wasteland is hitting game-pass in July looks pretty bleak over the next month, lots of older games The Cave, and Celeste (this has been on gamepass before but was removed) things that look mediocre (Venba), or are mediocre (The Wandering Village) (Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem), and (Maquette)

The only game i would say is worth a look is Toem a fantastic photogrpahy adventure with a really nice art style and a great soundtrack it was on ps+ a bit back and i really enjoyed it.

https://www.eurogamer.net/toem-review-a-photography-puzzler-and-a-journey-filled-with-lovely-moments

I've played most of Marquette too it was a ps+ game around the launch of the ps5, it had a horrible frame rate sub 30fps and a story with two quite big voice actors attached to it, but a terrible story about two people falling out of love with each other.


18th July:

Techtonica (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Toem (Cloud, Console, and PC)
The Cave (Cloud and Console)

19th July:

Maquette (Console and PC)

20th July:

Figment 2: Creed Valley (Cloud, Console, and PC)
The Wandering Village (Cloud, Console, and PC)

25th July:

Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S)

31st July:

Venba (Console and PC)

1st August:

Celeste (Cloud, Console, and PC)

[Deuteros]

The Cave deserves a little more credit than that. Not only is it a great game but it was delisted up until it's Xbox Game Pass launch. Rather strangely, it shows as unavailable for purchase but will be playable by subscribers, though that could be just a wrinkle that'll go away.

[Lebowski]

The Cave deserves a little more credit than that. Not only is it a great game but it was delisted up until it's Xbox Game Pass launch. Rather strangely, it shows as unavailable for purchase but will be playable by subscribers, though that could be just a wrinkle that'll go away.

A mediocre xbox 360 game from 2013 is hardly a big scoop for gamepass, and i stand by my point that its a pretty mediocre list of announcements with no real big hitters.

[hudson]

If it wasn't for work buying me GP and Starfield on horizon GP would be binned. Puts GP prices up, puts quality of titles on GP down.

[Lebowski]

If it wasn't for work buying me GP and Starfield on horizon GP would be binned. Puts GP prices up, puts quality of titles on GP down.

It's been a while since we've seen a big scoop, theirs plenty of recent big release games that they could add but seem to be backing away from that sort of thing, The last time i was surprised by a game-pass addition was when they stuck Guardians of the Galaxy on their not long after it was released.

No doubt where gonna get a massive drop of Activision Blizzard stuff before the years out so expect a glut of Call fo dutys, crash bandicoot, Spyro, and Diablo games to hit the service. i dont really care activision blizzard stuff, I'm just sat here hoping Stalker 2 comes out before my 3 years of game-pass runs out bloody russians.

[Neon Ignition]

I think the trouble with the big title drops is that they either don't get the attention they might have had if they'd had a PR push first or they're dropped because they bombed at retail. Given the hit MS takes on its first party stuff they have to bear the brunt on each drop title too so it's presumably proven not worth it. With Hi-Fi Rush, Atomic Heart, RedFall and Exoprimal the frequency is getting there, it's just the consistent quality now

[MartyG]

Some more stuff leaving at the end of the month.

Leaving Game Pass On August 31

Black Desert -- console and cloud
Commandos 3 - HD Remaster -- console, PC, cloud
Immortality -- console, PC, cloud
Nuclear Throne -- console, PC, cloud
Surgeon Simulator 2 -- console, PC, cloud
Tinykin -- console, PC, cloud

Tinykin is worth a look before it goes if you haven't already - Pikmin like.

[Deuteros]

I'm buying Immortality for when I have a Series X. I could try playing it via cloud but it's not something I want to rush through.

[nonny]

Tinykin is wonderful stuff... Great fun.

Immortality is also pretty special though it's all over a bit too quickly.