The Xbox Game Pass has transformed from an unusual service to arguably the best reason to own an Xbox Series X|S (if you can …
The Xbox Game Pass has transformed from an unusual service to arguably the best reason to own an Xbox Series X| S (if you can get one, that is). If you don’t know what it is, it’s essentially Netflix for gaming — you sign up, for $10 a montbh (or $15 for Game Pass Ultimate) and immediately get access to over a hundred games that you can download and play at your leisure. News games are added — and removed — each month. If you’re already a subscriber of Xbox Game Pass, you know that it’s awesome. And it’ll only get better, with titles like Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5 launching on Game Pass later this year. There are dozens of excellent titles, both AAA and indie. Game Pass Ultimate nets you access to a bunch of EA Play games, too. Here are our picks for some of the very best games on the service. Yakuza Like a Dragon is a funny, charming RPG, one that pokes fun at genre tropes and doesn’t take itself very seriously. Yakuza is a long-running franchise, but you don’t need to have played any previous games to enjoy Like a Dragon. It has a new protagonist and a self-contained story, and it features turn-based combat that’s new to the series. It’s a lengthy adventure, but one that has loveable characters and an engaging story. There is a lot of dialogue here, with many lengthy cutscenes. If that doesn’t bother you, you’ll find a lot to love in Like a Dragon. Doom Eternal is one of Xbox Game Pass‘ bigger third-party games. It’s a sequel to 2016’s Doom, a reboot of the classic shooter franchise, and involves killing lots and lots (and lots) of demons. The game was well received upon its March 2019 release, getting an 8/10 from our sister site GameSpot. It’s not every day you get to describe a video game as „Lynchian“ — but here I go anyway. Control is a Lynchian adventure that revolves around you the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret US governmental agency that oversees all things that defy the laws of reality. And you, as protagonist Jesse Faden, are the FBC’s new director. Good luck! Control is may be one of the best big budget video games of recent years, winning multiple Game of the Year Awards in 2019, and is certainly one of the boldest. Speaking of imaginative games, The Outer Worlds is an RPG from Obsidian, the gang behind Fallout New Vegas, and it’s a winner. It’s set in an alternative universe where Theodore Roosevelt didn’t regulate big US firms in the early 20th century, which led to them… colonizing the galaxy, obviously. So in essence, it’s Fallout in space. Game Pass Ultimate users can play it on both PC and Xbox. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a beautiful game from Moon Studios that’s a sequel to 2015’s Ori and the Blind Forest.
