Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can play these games and more soon.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors’ Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games that you can play on your Xbox Series X, Series S, Xbox One and PC for $17 a month. A subscription gets you access to a large library of games with new ones added every month (like Diablo 4) plus other benefits, like online multiplayer and deals on non-Game Pass titles.
Microsoft recently added Little Kitty, Big City to the service, and the company will add these games soon.Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
Available now.
Senua’s back. This sequel to the award-winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice drops you back into the harsh climate of Iceland during the Viking Age. While Senua’s journey to save others is full of myth and storytelling, the developers worked with mental health consultants to portray Senua’s experiences of psychosis authentically.
“When the idea for telling the story of a character who experiences psychosis was first thought of, we knew instantly that we had a responsibility to understand the subject thoroughly,” Dom Matthews, developer Ninja Theory’s studio head, said in an Xbox blog post.
The developers worked with Paul Fletcher, a professor of health neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, which led to them working with other groups of people who had real, lived experiences of seeing and hearing things others don’t.
“What started off as an exercise in hoping to learn,” Matthews wrote, “transitioned into a creative collaboration where the openness, honesty and enthusiasm of our collaborators gave us the chance to not only portray Senua’s experiences truthfully — but enhance our character, her world and her story.”Chants of Sennaar
Available now.
Language is a vital element of this puzzle adventure game. In Chants of Sennaar, you’re tasked with reuniting groups of people who speak different languages, like in the Tower of Babel myth. You have to decipher the languages to help solve puzzles and to bring the people back together.
