Xbox Game Pass adds 2 Ultimate and 7 standard games

Summary

  • Gigantic: Rampage Edition and the console versions of Starbound became playable through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on January 22.

  • Both titles were also added to the Xbox Game Pass Standard library along with five other games.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate he added Gigantic: Rampage Edition and console versions Starbound. Both titles are now also available on the standard Xbox Game Pass tier, having arrived alongside five other games.

Before Microsoft launched Xbox Game Pass Standard in September 2024, all additions to its content catalog were available on all non-basic tiers of the service. Since then, Day One releases have become exclusive to XGP Ultimate and PC Game Pass, with many finally making it to the Standard-tier library after a six-month delay.

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That trend continued now on January 22, when Xbox Game Pass Standard received seven new titles. of those Gigantic: Rampage Edition and console versions Starbound are also new additions to the ultimate tier of subscription service. The remaining five are Herd, Kunitsu Gami: The Path of the Goddess, A magical delicacy, Chiaand The case of the golden idol. These handful of titles were originally added to Xbox Game Pass in July 2024, meaning they technically predate the XGP standard. However, once Microsoft introduced the new budget tier of its service, it made it unavailable to new XGP subscribers, while existing console XGP members remained on the original plans.

Upcoming Xbox Game Pass games

Game

Date added

Game Pass Level(s).

Platforms

Comment

Gigantic: Rampage Edition

January 22

Ultimate, Standard, PC

Cloud, console, PC

Starbound

January 22

Ultimate, standard

Cloud, console

Available to PC GP subscribers from December 2020.

Herd

January 22

Standard

Comfort

Available to PC GP and GP Ultimate subscribers from July 2024.

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

January 22

Comfort

A magical delicacy

January 22

Comfort

Chia

January 22

Series X/S

The case of the golden idol

January 22

Comfort

Eternal springs

January 28th

Ultimate, PC

Cloud, PC, Series X/S

First day release.

Orcs must die! Death trap

January 28th

Cloud, PC, Series X/S

Shady Part of Me

January 29

Ultimate, PC, Standard

Cloud, console, PC

Sniper Elite: Resistance

January 30th

Ultimate, PC

Cloud, console, PC

First day release.

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

January 31st

Cloud, PC, Series X/S

First day release.

Far Cry New Dawn

February 4th

Ultimate, PC, Standard

Cloud, console, PC

Open

February 18

Ultimate, PC

Cloud, PC, Series X/S

First day release.

Atomfall

March 27th

Cloud, console, PC

First day release.

Football Manager 25

March??

Cloud, console, PC

First day release; exact release date TBA.

Commandos: Origins

March??

Cloud, console, PC

First day release; exact release date TBA.

In addition to an open-world action-adventure Chiaall January 22 additions to Xbox Game Pass are playable on both Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Chia itself is not available on Microsoft's latest generation console. MOBA hero shooter from Abstraction Games Gigantic: Rampage Edition is the only truly new addition from this wave of releases, like the PC version Starbound is already available to XGP Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers from late 2020.

Microsoft's subscription service has five more games confirmed for January 2025. The first of these will arrive on the 28th in form Eternal springs and Orcs must die! Death trapthe first of which is the title of the first day. Shady Part of Me it is then scheduled to drop on January 29th, followed by the first release Sniper Elite: Resistance on 30. Another title of the first day, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vectorthen it should arrive on January 31st. That's also the date Xbox Game Pass will lose half a dozen titles, including the critically acclaimed action-adventure Acid Nerve Death's door.

Onward, Far Cry New Dawn coming to all non-core Xbox Game Pass tiers on February 4th. So Ubisoft's open-world shooter will kick off the service's first wave of expansion from February 2025. On February 4, Microsoft may also reveal the rest of the Wave 1 lineup next month, not least because the company historically prefers to schedule such announcements on Tuesdays.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the top tier of Microsoft's flagship game subscription service, offering more than 100 game titles to play with a single purchase, making it one of the most compelling value propositions in the Xbox ecosystem to date.

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