Highlights
- Keplerth is now available to PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members.
- Released in 2022 following four years of early access, Keplerth is a sandbox survival RPG that kind of plays like a top-down Terraria. The game has nearly 3,500 "Very Positive" player reviews on Steam.
- Four more titles are coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate before the end of the month.
The Xbox Game Pass Ultimate library has expanded to include Keplerth. The sandbox survival RPG is the tenth title to reach Xbox Game Pass Ultimate in June 2024.
The debut game from Chinese studio TARO, Keplerth was treated to a full-fledged release in May 2022, having been published by Shanghai-based Gamera Games. Prior to that, the sandbox RPG spent just over four years in Steam Early Access. Keplerth found some success on Valve's storefront, with third-party estimates from VG Insights, PlayTracker, and Gamalytic suggesting that the game sold between 115,000 and 276,000 copies as of mid-2024. It currently boasts nearly 3,500 "Very Positive" user reviews on Steam.
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Not long after its second anniversary, Keplerth found its way to Microsoft's subscription service, which added it on June 20. This is the third PC-only Xbox Game Pass Ultimate release since the turn of the month, after Firework and Depersonalization. Much like those two, Keplerth is presently not available to play via Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft has yet to clarify whether it plans to make it streamable in the future.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate June 2024 Release Calendar
Game | Date Added | Cloud | Xbox One | Xbox Series X/S | PC | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Firework | June 4 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |
Rolling Hills | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Day-one release | |
Octopath Traveler | June 6 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Returning title that was last available in February 2023 |
Octopath Traveler 2 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Day-one release (Xbox) | |
Depersonalization | June 12 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |
Isonzo | June 13 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
The Callisto Protocol | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ||
Still Wakes the Deep | June 18 | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | Day-one release |
My Time at Sandrock | June 19 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
🆕Keplerth | June 20 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |
EA Sports FC 24 | June 25 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | PC Game Pass and UItimate tiers only |
SteamWorld Dig | June 26 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | |
SteamWorld Dig 2 | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ||
Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders | June 27 | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
The game itself is a 2D sandbox RPG with building and survival mechanics. It tasks players with running and expanding a colony across procedurally generated worlds that incorporate a wide variety of biomes and dungeons. While that premise might appear to be reminiscent of colony management sim RimWorld, the similarities between Keplerth and Ludeon Studios' 2013 hit don't extend much further beyond their art styles. Mechanically, Keplerth plays more like Terraria from a top-down perspective. Base management is definitely very much part of the package, but its core gameplay loop is that of survival, revolving around building, crafting, exploration, and upgrades, in that approximate order.
Keplerth is the second recent Xbox Game Pass Ultimate addition that combines exploration and RPG elements with elaborate building and farming mechanics. The same can be said of My Time at Sandrock, which reached the subscription service on June 19.
Four more titles are confirmed to be coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate in June 2024. The first of those is EA Sports FC 24, which will arrive next Tuesday, June 25. Steampunk metroidvanias SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Dig 2 are then set to become available to Microsoft's subscribers a day later, whereas ARPG Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders will reach the service on June 27. Xbox Game Pass is also losing five games on June 30, with its next wave of departures including FIFA 22, Strander Deep, and Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft's flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
