Xbox Game Pass is the best reason to own an Xbox . It’s basically Netflix for gaming — you sign up, for for Game Pass at $10 …
Xbox Game Pass is the best reason to own an Xbox. It’s basically Netflix for gaming — you sign up, for Game Pass at $10 a month (or $15 for Game Pass Ultimate) and immediately get access to over a hundred games you can download and play at your leisure. New games are added — and removed — each month. (Just recently the very awesome The Artful Escape was added.) 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. A game about unpacking boxes and moving into a series of new house and apartments doesn’t sound like game of the year material, but it somehow is. Unpacking is brilliantly made and perfectly executed. It’s also… surprisingly emotional. Get on it. The Artful Escape is unlike any game you’ve ever played. «The elevator pitch is like if David Bowie went off on a space journey and came back as Ziggy Stardust,» the game’s creator, Johnny Galvatron, told CNET. It tells the story of teenage guitar prodigy Francis Vendetti in the small town of Calypso, Colorado, as he tries to break through creative block in time for his first ever live performance. It’s absolutely wild and you should play it This Supergiant Games title is relatively new to the service, joining on Aug.13. It’s a big deal, since Hades won many Game of the Year nods in 2020. It’s a beautiful 2D roguelite game, a genre that’s enjoying something of a resurgence at the moment. Essentially it means you begin from scratch once you die, and the object is to clear the game’s levels in one go without dying. That may sound overly tough and harsh, but I assure you — Hades is incredible. Give it a go this weekend. 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.
