Dungeons 4 will be a day one Xbox Game Pass title for PC, console, and cloud when it launches on November 9. This strategy simulation game will also simultaneously release on PS5, and Kalypso Media has released a new gameplay trailer in celebration of this announcement.
Typically, Microsoft announces about two weeks' worth of Xbox Game Pass titles twice a month, dubbing them Wave 1 and Wave 2. Some things skip this method, such as first-party Microsoft games like Starfield on Xbox Game Pass, and a handful of others get announced well in advance too. A few have already been announced for September and October, and Dungeons 4 is joining the November line-up.
Promising to be "bigger, better, and with even more dynamic Evilness," the Dungeons 4 trailer below gives Xbox Game Pass subscribers and fans a pretty good look at its core gameplay loop. In short, players will build dungeons to amass their armies, lead raids on the overworld and against the various heroes who would stop the players' particular brand of evil, and fight them off in raids too. All of this players do as the Dark Elf Thalya in service of the Absolute Evil, with Dungeons 4 building on its predecessors in various ways.
The core concept is interesting, especially when players are usually the "good guys" in video games. In fact, even in choice-based RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3 or Mass Effect, it's known that most players take on good-hearted characters. But sometimes those players need to vent their evil in a safe way, and that's where Dungeons 4 comes in. It remains to be seen how it exactly improves over the last few games, but they have some solid reviews. Dungeons 3, for example, sits at a "Strong" 75 Top Critic Rating on review aggregate website OpenCritic, while Dungeons 2 comes in at a "Fair" 62.
Of course, there's plenty of time for fans to learn more about this game while enjoying others on the Xbox Game Pass catalog. Many fans already know Starfield is going to be a big release for the month, but games like Lies of P, Party Animals, and Gris are all joining Xbox Game Pass too. If anything is clear, it's that the industry has an incredibly busy fall 2023 on its hands, and Xbox Game Pass has a major role in that (of course, with this influx of games being a good problem to have).
Xbox Game Pass subscribers get a handful of games every month.