Xbox Game Pass Premium adds one of the highest-rated Series X games ever

Xbox Game Pass Premium members can play Hollow Knight: Silksong through their subscription starting today. Premium-level catalog expansions could hardly be more well-known Silksong as one of the highest-rated titles ever to grace Xbox Game Pass.

The follow-up to the 2017 indie darling Hollow Knight it went through a remarkably long development cycle of more than seven years. It was finally released on September 4, 2025 and debuted to critical acclaim and fan admiration. Early 2026 Silksong it holds OpenCritic's highest award: the aggregator's “Mighty” rating, which results from an average score of 91 and a near-flawless reviewer recommendation rate of 97%. These numbers place it in OpenCritic's list of the 30 highest rated Xbox Series X/S games ever made. The aggregator also ranks Silksong as the sixth highest rated game of 2025, or fifth if you ignore the Switch 2 edition Tears of the Kingdom and watch only brand new releases.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong joins Xbox Game Pass Premium after 6 months

Team Cherry's widely acclaimed metroidvania officially joined Microsoft's Premium-tier content catalog on March 12, 2026. That's exactly six months and eight days after Hollow Knight: Silksong has been added to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Although Microsoft never discloses the length of its content licensing agreements, there is a precedent that can be suggested Silksong isn't abandoning its library of on-demand games anytime soon. And that Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition is still available on Xbox Game Pass as of today, nearly seven years after it first joined the service in the summer of 2019.

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Easy (7.5s) Medium (5.0s) Hard (2.5s) Permadeath (2.5s)

The next update to Microsoft's content catalog is scheduled for March 15, when the service is set to lose half a dozen games, including Enter the Gungeon, F1 23, Bratz Rhythm & Style, A light-year boundaryand Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island. While these five titles are cross-platform, the next wave of exits will include that as well He is comingan old-school indie roguelike available to PC Game Pass subscribers from July 2025.

Xbox Game Pass release calendar

Date	Game	Game Pass Level(s).	Platforms	Comment
March 12	Hollow Knight: Silksong	Insurance premium	Cloud, console, handheld, PC	Available on PC GP and XGP Ultimate from September 2025.
March 17th	DreamWorks Gabby's Dollhouse: Ready to Party	Ultimate, Premium, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S
March 26	Nova Roma	Ultimate, PC	pc	First day release.
April 14th	Exchanged	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	First day release.
May 19	Forza Horizon 6	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	First day release.
August 4th	Beast from Reincarnation	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	First day release.

A family adventure will follow the move in the middle of the month DreamWorks Gabby's Dollhouse: Ready to Party. Developed by Spanish studio Infinigon and published by long-time Xbox Game Pass partner Outright Games, the game is set to hit three levels of Microsoft's subscription service on March 17th. That's also the most likely date Microsoft will announce the Wave 2 lineup this month, based on the company's typical content library update cadence.

Xbox Game Pass has already received 45 new games since the start of the year, an average of 0.65 releases per day. Seven other titles that previously debuted on the service's top tier have since made their way to their premium counterpart in the same period. Silksong as the eighth person to do so. Looking ahead, nearly 30 upcoming games currently entering the final stages of development have already been announced as the first additions to the Xbox Game Pass library. Be that as it may, all but a handful are still waiting for release dates. He belongs to this group Super Meat Boy 3D, Witchbrook, Tropic 7, There are no ghosts in the Grandand owned by Microsoft Halo: Campaign Evolved remake. Fable, Erosion, Buckshot Rouletteand Furnace they are in the same boat.