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Zachary Boddy

It took 13 years for this sci-fi survival-horror game to launch into Xbox Game Pass, and I think it was worth the wait

Screenshot of ROUTINE on Xbox Series X.

Even if you only consider when ROUTINE made its second debut at Summer Game Fest 2022, we've still been waiting for this unique survival-horror game to release for a long time — and ROUTINE was actually first teased over 13 years ago.

The small team at Lunar Software restarted development at some point, making the final product a decade late and very different than the initial teaser trailer you can still go watch at YouTube.com. A lot of people (myself included) understandably assumed ROUTINE would never actually release, but it's actually here and one of my favorite games of the year.

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