Xbox Game Pass: All Games Coming Soon In January 2023

January for me is so stacked
Persona 3
Persona 4
Monster Hunter Rise (this will be my first monster hunter)
Age of the Empires 2 (first AOE game)

I’m currently playing through Persona 5 Royal for the first time and I’m loving it, is it best to play 3 before 4? Thanks in advance!

@ThatMoomin

Games have not much in common aside from a few mentions or cameos (secondary characters) so you won't miss anything. You can play them in whatever order you want.

I’ll probably give Monster Hunter and Age of Empires 2 a go and maybe Roboquest. I’m not sure they’ll make it in to my usual rotation but I’m happy for something new to try.

@ThatMoomin similar to Yakuza you want a big gap in between these games. Akin to Final Fantasy they are standalone adventures so you can tackle them any way you want. I played P4G a couple of months before P5 and gameplay wise they are so similar it was difficult running with P5. I could admire the game of course (it looks, plays and runs like a dream) but it's very difficult to jump from one 100+ hour social jrpg to another one knowing the amount of running around and rebuilding relationships and your persona deck.

@Ashadelo Lol, Good luck finishing that list! I can't imagine there's any hope of finishing that list by the time they're off game pass (except AoE obviously as permanent) unless you do nothing but play video games. That's a just of some of the longest games in 15 years. Each persona can easily be well over 100 hours, and MonHun....it's practically unending even if you just play the campaign(s)!

Not a bad problem to have, but you picked the big ones

@NEStalgia yeah I’m well aware, hahaha. I’m playing Persona 5 for the first time and love it a lot. I also don’t have a lot of time to game, hahah so I guess we’ll see what happens.

I see they're bringing out the BIG GUNs again. Wow, wat an impressive bunch of games. NOT!!

If Microsoft has a brain cell they will drop activision and purchase Ubisoft wb games with kalypso media paradox interactive ,blizzard with creative assembly and koie tecmo

With exclusive like StarCraft third person game please !!!! A bad boys video game , spawn , blade and a def jam vendetta game with todays rappers please !!!!

Will try monster Hunter for the first time ever.
As the look of it has never appealed to me.
We shall see very soon.

January 2023 is my favorite gamepass month

@Sifi Omg yes, gimme more backwards compatibility with older xbox and xbox360 games with the likes of the Splinter Cell series, metal gear solid 2, 3, jet set radio future, Sega gt, rainbow six 3 etc etc. A lot better than the tripe they're they just released now for us to have access to.

@Tr1p77 yeah hope they don't kill of BC
Getting ridge Racer 6 etc in last batch was awesome.so many great titles still to come

Will be playing Persona 4 and Inkulinati looks quite interesting too.

Mortal Shell sucked, I already deleted it.

Stranded Deep is okay, but the inventory and tool select is bad, along with aiming
I'll give it a little more time.

Not a fan of Monster Hunter.
tried on Wii, on WiiU, on 3DS and hated it every time

Eesh. This is a rough list.

Pretty much played everything on the list already. Only interested in Rise because of 120fps.

@Spider-Kev
To be fair, Nintendo always got the "bad" MonHuns

Fan of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure just wish this game played a bit faster, have spent some time with the demo and it felt rather clunky. Any others have a different experience?

Damn...talk about a stellar month for GamePass. Jojo is coming in a few days?! Hell yeah! To think I almost bought that on PS5. So glad I didn't.

Im happy you've been eating well boys