Microsoft has announced the next set of games coming to Xbox Game Pass, including three “day-one” releases.
Some of the new titles may be rather familiar to some of you. They are Goat Simulator: Remastered, Metal Slug Tactics and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Here’s the full list of new games coming to the service so far, including a couple we heard about earlier in October:
These titles are available to Game Pass Ultimate and PC subscribers.
Subscribers to Game Pass Standard will also see several games trickle down to their second-class membership. Here’s the list:
Which titles do we recommend checking out this month?
Metal Slug Tactics is an interesting one. This series is known for its action-heavy arcade platformers. But this entry is a strategy game, one closer to the play of the Advance Wars family.
Will it capture the fun of the 1990s arcade originals? We have our doubts — and a demo released for PC earlier in 2024 received a mixed response. But it’s certainly not business as usual like the other remasters and iterative releases we’re getting this month.
For Xbox Game Pass Standard subscribers, we recommend trying Harold Halibut.
It’s a gentle, story-heavy adventure. You are Harold, living among a group of survivors in the remains of a giant spacecraft that crash-landed and ended up deep underwater on an alien planet.
Harold Halibut is not fast-paced or action-packed. But it is charming and creates a distinctive, singular world with its stop-motion animation style visuals and strong voice acting.
Microsoft has also listed the games that will leave Xbox Game Pass. The following will disappear after November 15:
Some of these titles are too much of a time-sink to finish before November 15 realistically. But Somerville is not. It’s a captivating, if at times frustrating to control, narrative adventure about an alien invasion, and can be finished in around four hours.
