Xbox Game Pass continues to grow its library of titles, treating its subscribers to a litany of new games being released over the course of the next couple of weeks. Just a few days after releasing Dungeons 3 and Tropico 4 on Xbox Games with Gold, Microsoft is back with 14 brand new additions to its subscription service.
Xbox Game Pass has proven to be an immense crowd-pleaser in the years since its launch, bringing games to subscribers at a relatively low rate. Earlier this month, it added favorites including Psychonauts, Red Dead Online, and Dragon Quest Builders 2, and the upcoming releases look set to excite fans of indie developers.
There are a grand total of 14 new games coming to the service, but fans of extreme trucking are in luck as the open-world driving sim SnowRunner is already available. The next batch will arrive on May 20th, and will see Peggle 2, Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, Secret Neighbor, and the new release The Wild at Heart coming to Game Pass. May 21 will bring with it in-depth fishing game The Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing and Knockout City, another day one release that'll pit players against each other in the most epic battleground of all: the dodgeball pitch.
The bloody shark RPG Maneater comes to Xbox Game Pass on May 25th before the final batch of games drops on May 27th. This final delivery will include open-world survival game Conan Exiles, frantic party game Fuzion Frenzy, and arcade racer Joy Ride Turbo, alongside MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, Solasta: Crown of the Magister, Spellforce 3: Soul Harvest, and beloved indie monster farming game Slime Rancher.
It's an impressive showing, despite missing the big names of this month's earlier additions. Though Rockstar and Double Fine might not have a hand in this upcoming batch of titles, fans are starting to see the fruits of the various partnerships struck up via Microsoft's ID@Xbox program, with several of the games featured in the indie showcase earlier this year beginning to release on the service.
It's not all good news, though: as is the nature of Xbox Game Pass, some games are leaving the service at the end of the month too, notably the two Kingdom Hearts offerings and roguelike FPS Void Bastards. On top of that, Microsoft has seemingly closed the loophole that allowed EA Play subscribers to net an extra couple of months of Game Pass at a discounted rate.
Source: Xbox