These 13 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (January 22 - February 4)

Very respectable drop for the latter half of the month.

Very happy to see the new installment of orcs must die being added

Far Cry New Dawn is super fun but the story sucks. If you go with the right mindset it's a great experience.

@Lup Loved 5 but never played this because I heard it sucked.

Five new Day One games including some bangers like Sniper Elite: Resistance, Citizen Sleeper 2 and Eternal Strands. Great back half of the month!!!

Overall just slightly disappointed with January offerings… but there are some good games in there… looking forward to Starbound and CS2!

@Kaloudz

It's one of those games you play only for the gameplay tbh. And there's maybe one or two interesting characters but that's it. The story was 😴. Gameplay was as good or better than 5 imo.

Been abit 💩 last couple months for number of games as been making look bigger with standard and lacking indie/smaller games but this is looking better 😎 few decent bigger games and a few indie smaller games again what we've been missing lately hope it carries on like this 🙂

I actually really enjoyed Gigantic when it first came out several years ago. Played it a lot. Not sure if I'll dive back in but it definitely was fun for it's time. Otherwise the one that I'll probably check it is Sniper Elite.

Maybe I should go to standard. Everything seems to come to standard eventually, and playing stuff day one when it’s buggy asf doesn’t really matter to me anyway

@Lup I can live with that actually. I tend to skip cut scenes for games like this so that might actually work out pretty well. I was always a bit miffed with the ending of 5, despite loving everything else about it. Then again the same can be said about Wildlands. Fancy having players track down a bad guy through 40+ hours of play, for that ending.

@Kaloudz

Thanks for not spoiling it, I still have to play that one. Have it on the backlog. 😂👍🏻

Finally some games for Ultimate members, the first 20+ days of this month was a like a kick in the teeth for us with a single game new to the service.

@Lup You can actually ignore my comment 😅 I just read that Ubisoft patched in a different ending. Phew!!!

After some time where nithing was really hitting my personal preferences, my only issue with these releases is pacing. I can only play so much, I'm just one person! Eternal Strands, Citizen Sleeper 2 and Avowed all in rapid succession is a lot of game. Some others sound like maybes, but doubt I will have time to try them

Excited for a 4 player Orcs Must Die game.

Kind of in-between games at the moment (that doesn't happen often) so probably time to give Sniper Elite a go. Been meaning to play one of those for years so will try the newest one.

@FraserG Sorry to be dim, but what does it actually mean when a game becomes available on ‘Console’ ? (eg does it mean available on all Xbox consoles regardless of which Gamepass subscription they have?)

finally some games I'm actually interested!

@FraserG - thanks for clarifying Fraser. My comment wasn’t a dig at you (or Pure Xbox) - I just think that it isn’t necessarily clear messaging (and presumably you are repeating the way Microsoft themselves make the announcements).

If you think about it logically you can see why Joe Public would be baffled -

Microsoft: “Game A is coming to Gamepass for Series X/S”
Microsoft: “Game B is coming to Gamepass for Console”

Gamer: “I have Gamepass and an Xbox console, does that mean I get the game to play Game A and Game B?”

Microsoft: “That depends, which console do you have?”
Gamer: “I have a Series X. Does that mean I get both games because it’s a bit weird you mention Series X/S specifically with Game A, but mention ‘Console’ with Game B - does that mean Game B is only available for last-gen consoles or is it on all consoles?”

Microsoft: “Er, no. Perhaps we should spell it out a bit more clearly.”
Gamer: “Oh, believe me, you should.”

Microsoft: “Well first of all, when we say Console we actually mean ‘all Xbox consoles, well more specifically all Xbox One consoles and all Xbox Series consoles, but not original Xbox consoles or Xbox 360 consoles’ - hope that’s clear?”
Gamer: “Much better. As I have a Series X I’m assuming I get both game A and game B?”

Microsoft: “Well that depends…”
Gamer: “On what?”
Microsoft: “Which level of Gamepass do you have?”
Gamer: “Gamepass Standard”
Microsoft: “Well no then, you get neither but on another occasion it could mean you get one, or both”
Gamer: “Clear As Mud, & Thanks - For Nothing!”

@FraserG - thanks mate, and good luck! 👍