A new game launches on PC Game Pass today as a day-one release. Microsoft adds new games to the PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass libraries every month. Instead of putting all available games at once, titles are added to the PC Game Pass collection throughout the month, so users have something new to play after every few days.
Microsoft added some exciting titles to PC Game Pass in November 2022. This list includes Pentiment, Return to Monkey Island, Football Manager 2023, The Walking Dead: Michonne - The Complete Season, and more. Some of these games only came to PC Game Pass, while others were also added to Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Now, PC Game Pass members get to access another game that launches today as a day-one release.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide launches today on PC Game Pass. It’s a first-person action title developed by Fatshark, the studio behind Warhammer: Vermintide 2, and has a heavy focus on cooperative gameplay with support for up to four players. Darktide seems to be an upgrade over Vermintide 2 in some areas, as parts of the game are improved with this latest release. As an example, Darktide features enhanced weapon sounds and particle effects when compared to Vermintide 2.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is set to launch on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S as well at a later date. It was originally supposed to release on consoles alongside the PC version, but the Xbox version was delayed in July 2022. There isn’t a set release date for Darktide’s release on Xbox Series X/S, but the developer had confirmed that it will launch shortly after the PC version comes out.
The PC Game Pass catalog sometimes differs from the Xbox Game Pass selection, as a few games may only be available on either platform. Most notably, PC Game Pass gets strategy games that don’t release on Xbox consoles. Total War: Warhammer 3 and Age of Empires 4 are probably the best examples of this, although the latter is scheduled to launch on Xbox consoles in 2023.
While many games got added to PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass in November 2022, some key titles left the service this month. Games like Final Fantasy 13-2, Mortal Shell, and Warhammer 40K Battlesector among others left Xbox Game Pass today as the library continues to change every month.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is now available on PC with an Xbox Series X/S version also in development.
