Xbox Game Pass has had some difficult months, seeing that it loses important games and has not been able to add canopy additions to fill the gaps. But after the big marketing bombardment of Xbox, including the promise that 50 games will arrive on Xbox next year, many on Game Pass, the popular on-demand gaming service is gaining momentum.
Here’s everything that will come in Game Pass for the rest of the month, plus two games that were quietly added over the long weekend.
June 16
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (cloud, console, PC)
June 17
- Kill (cloud, console, PC)
June 21st
- Shadowrun Trilogy (cloud, console)
- Total War: Three Kingdoms (PC)
June 23
- FIFA 22, via EA Play (console, PC)
- Naraka: Bladepoint (cloud, console, PC)
July 1
- Far Cry 5 (cloud, console, PC)
The gentlemen (Microsoft Edge) give and they take away, so the following games will not be available from June 30:
- FIFA 20, via EA Play (console, PC)
- Jurassic World Evolution (console cloud)
- Last stop (cloud, console, and PC)
- MotoGP 20 (cloud, console, PC)
All in all, it’s a solid harvest. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is easily the beat-’em-up of the year, a beautiful tribute to the classics of the genre that folds into modernized sensibilities. Omori, an acclaimed turn-based role-playing game with emotion-based state effects, has been on the PC for a few years now, coming to the console via Game Pass. (Also available on Switch.) Both are already live and well worth it.
My bosses have forced me to check Shadowrun by blood oath, so while I can’t personally recommend it, I’ve been told to get the word out: it’s good.
Games on the horizon are nothing to erase either. Far Cry 5 might be the worst modern Far Cry, but the gap between “good” and “bad” Far Cry isn’t very big. Naraka: Bladepoint is a battle royale based on moderately popular parkour; presumably, you’ll see how your audience expands with the jump to the console (just count on bots). It’s still unclear whether or not a line like this is enough to curb the reported loss of subscriptions, or to avoid competition from Sony’s PS Plus service, which is now competing, but it’s a good start.