Highlights
- Xbox Game Pass confirmed The Alters as another one of its day-one releases for 2024.
- The next title from award-winning Polish developer 11 Bit Studios is still waiting for a concrete release date.
- At least three day-one titles are coming to Xbox Game Pass in March, with many more being set to follow over the coming months.
Xbox Game Pass has confirmed another day-one game for 2024 in the form of The Alters. The next title from award-winning developer 11 Bit Studios is still without an official release date, although the Polish company committed to bringing it to PC, consoles, and Xbox Game Pass sometime this year.
11 Bit Studios is best-known for its highly acclaimed survival strategy game This War of Mine. Originally released in 2014, This War of Mine won over 100 awards, including some high-profile accolades such as Best of PAX. Although no other title from the developer has yet swept award showings in such a manner, its 2018 city-building survival game Frostpunk did get nominated for multiple accolades, in addition to winning in the Best Visual Design category at the Australian Game Awards 2018.
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The studio is now taking another crack at survival games with The Alters, which was just confirmed as a day-one Xbox Game Pass release during the latest Xbox Partner Preview event. The March 6 broadcast also debuted its gameplay reveal trailer, showing nearly four minutes of footage from the upcoming title. The video illustrated The Alters' core gameplay loop of creating clones of protagonist Jan Dolski to help him run a station on a hostile planet he gets stranded on. These eponymous Alters are described as alternate versions of Jan who made different decisions in life, thus developing into distinct people with their own unique skills, hopes, and fears.
When Will The Alters Release on Xbox Game Pass?
- It is slated for a PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and day-one Xbox Game Pass release in 2024. 11 Bit Studios has yet to attach a concrete release date to its upcoming title.
The Alters will be the fifth title developed or published by 11 Bit Studios to reach Xbox Game Pass since the service was launched in 2017. It will also be the company's first game to be treated to a day-one addition to Microsoft's subscription catalog. 11 Bit Studios titles have so far enjoyed extremely long Xbox Game Pass stints, with only one of them ever leaving the service to date after two and a half years. That track record indicates XGP members will have a lengthy window of opportunity to play The Alters once it graces Microsoft's content library.
11 Bit Studios Xbox Game Pass Games History
Game | Developer | Publisher | Added | Removed | Day-One Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Moonlighter | Digital Sun | 11 Bit Studios | June 2019 | ❌ | |
Children of Morta | Dead Mage | 11 Bit Studios | January 2020 | July 2022 | ❌ |
Frostpunk | 11 Bit Studios | 11 Bit Studios | January 2020 | ❌ | |
This War of Mine: Final Cut | 11 Bit Studios | 11 Bit Studios | May 2022 | ❌ | |
The Alters | 11 Bit Studios | 11 Bit Studios | Coming in 2024 | ✅ |
The Alters will add to the already substantial list of day-one 2024 releases on Xbox Game Pass. In terms of popularity, Palworld has so far been the biggest such title to reach the service this year. But Microsoft's subscription library has also added some other high-profile day-one games in 2024, with the most celebrated of that lot being Persona 3 Reload, which launched in early February to an immensely positive response from critics and fans alike.
Three more day-one games are coming to Xbox Game Pass in the second half of March: Lightyear Frontier, MLB The Show 24, and Open Roads. Beyond that, Botany Manor, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, and Manor Lords will all have day-one Xbox Game Pass debuts in April.
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