Summary
- Gigantic: Rampage Edition and the console versions of Starbound became playable via Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on January 22.
- Both titles have also been added to the Xbox Game Pass Standard library, together with five other games.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has added Gigantic: Rampage Edition and the console versions of Starbound. Both titles are now also available on the Standard tier of Xbox Game Pass, having arrived alongside five other games.
Before Microsoft launched Xbox Game Pass Standard in September 2024, all additions to its content catalog were available across every non-Core tier of the service. Since then, day-one releases became exclusive to XGP Ultimate and PC Game Pass, with many of them eventually reaching the Standard-tier library following a six-month delay.
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This trend has now continued on January 22, when Xbox Game Pass Standard received seven new titles. Of those, Gigantic: Rampage Edition and the console versions of Starbound are also new additions to the Ultimate tier of the subscription service. The remaining five are Flock, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Magical Delicacy, Tchia, and The Case of the Golden Idol. This handful of titles was originally added to Xbox Game Pass in July 2024, meaning it technically predates XGP Standard. But once Microsoft introduced the new budget tier of its service, it made them unavailable to new XGP Standard subscribers, while existing XGP for Console members were grandfathered into their original plans.
Upcoming Xbox Game Pass Games
|
Game |
Date Added |
Game Pass Tier(s) |
Platform(s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gigantic: Rampage Edition |
Jan 22 |
Ultimate, Standard, PC |
Cloud, Console, PC |
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Starbound |
Jan 22 |
Ultimate, Standard |
Cloud, Console |
Available to PC GP subscribers since December 2020. |
|
Flock |
Jan 22 |
Standard |
Console |
Available to PC GP and GP Ultimate subscribers since July 2024. |
|
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess |
Jan 22 |
Console |
||
|
Magical Delicacy |
Jan 22 |
Console |
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Tchia |
Jan 22 |
Series X/S |
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The Case of the Golden Idol |
Jan 22 |
Console |
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Eternal Strands |
Jan 28 |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
|
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap |
Jan 28 |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
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|
Shady Part of Me |
Jan 29 |
Ultimate, PC, Standard |
Cloud, Console, PC |
|
|
Sniper Elite: Resistance |
Jan 30 |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, Console, PC |
Day-one release. |
|
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector |
Jan 31 |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
|
|
Far Cry New Dawn |
Feb 4 |
Ultimate, PC, Standard |
Cloud, Console, PC |
|
|
Avowed |
Feb 18 |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
|
Atomfall |
Mar 27 |
Cloud, Console, PC |
Day-one release. |
|
|
Football Manager 25 |
Mar?? |
Cloud, Console, PC |
Day-one release; exact release date TBA. |
|
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Commandos: Origins |
Mar?? |
Cloud, Console, PC |
Day-one release; exact release date TBA. |
Except for the open-world action adventure Tchia, all the January 22 additions to Xbox Game Pass are playable on both Xbox One and the Xbox Series X/S. Tchia itself isn't available on Microsoft's last-gen console. Abstraction Games' MOBA hero shooter Gigantic: Rampage Edition is the only truly new addition from this wave of releases, as the PC version of Starbound has already been available to XGP Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers since late 2020.
Microsoft's subscription service has five more confirmed games for January 2025. The first of those will arrive on the 28th in the form of Eternal Strands and Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, the former of which is a day-one title. Shady Part of Me is then slated to drop on January 29, followed by the day-one release of Sniper Elite: Resistance on the 30th. Another day-one title, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, is then scheduled to arrive on January 31. That's also the date when Xbox Game Pass will lose half a dozen titles, including Acid Nerve's critically acclaimed action adventure Death's Door.
Moving forward, Far Cry New Dawn is coming to all non-Core tiers of Xbox Game Pass on February 4. Ubisoft's open-world shooter will hence kick off the first wave of February 2025 additions to the service. February 4 may also see Microsoft reveal the rest of next month's Wave 1 lineup, not least because the company has historically favored scheduling such announcements for Tuesdays.
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.
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