After some slower months, Xbox Game Pass looks like it's getting ready to kick things up a gear or two for its September 2024 line-up. At the time of writing, there are already seven games confirmed for Xbox Game Pass' September 2024 line-up, five of which are day-one launches. This is quite a significant step up from Game Pass' August offerings, where just two of its seven additions were day-one releases.
That being said, Xbox Game Pass' September 2024 line-up might be a tad divisive. While Game Pass' monthly drop tends to deliver experiences from a variety of different gaming genres, this month is catering primarily to fans of two quite specific genres: strategy and simulation.
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Xbox Game Pass Is Catering to Strategy and Simulator Fans This September
Xbox Game Pass Has Three Day-One Strategy Games This September
- Age of Mythology: Retold - September 4 (Console, PC)
- Frostpunk 2 - September 20 (PC)
- Ara: History Untold - September 24 (PC)
Probably the most exciting set of day-one releases Xbox Game Pass has seen in quite some time, Age of Mythology: Retold, Frostpunk 2, and Ara: History Untold are all set to hit the subscription service on their respective launch dates. All three of these day-one Game Pass launches belong to the strategy genre, but all follow a slightly different approach to gameplay.
Age of Mythology: Retold is a remake of the 2002 Ensemble Studios real-time strategy classic. An offshoot of the Age of Empires series, Age of Mythology takes a more fantastical approach to medieval real-time strategy, tasking players with creating a town, managing their resources, and conquering the neighboring players' villages with an array of different old-time-y and fantastical warriors.
Frostpunk 2 is the much-anticipated follow-up to 11 Bit Studios' 2018 dystopian city-builder. Here, the player's only goal is to keep their steampunk city and its inhabitants alive through a new ice age, which requires some difficult decisions and plenty of grim sacrifices. Ara: History Untold, on the other hand, is a 4X strategy game in a similar vein to Civilization.
Xbox Game Pass Is Adding Three Simulator Games This September
- Star Trucker - September 3 (Console, PC)
- Expeditions: A MudRunner Game - September 5 (Console, PC)
- Train Sim World 5 - September 17 (Console, PC)
The other bulk of Xbox Game Pass additions this September come from the simulation genre, specifically the vehicle sim sub-genre. Star Trucker is a day-one title for Xbox Game Pass this month that's being developed by just two people. Star Trucker puts a Sci-Fi twist on the truck sim formula that's become something of a cult phenomenon over the last few years, tasking players with shipping cargo across the galaxy, looking after their space rig, and manually mapping out their route through the stars.
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game was originally released back in March of this year, and it received pretty solid reviews at the time for its slower-paced, satisfying sim exploration gameplay. Train Sim World 5 is the latest entry in Dovetail Games' surprisingly extensive transportation-oriented sim series. Train Sim World's first entry was released in 2017, and it's been a non-stop train of releases since, with mainline entries dropping almost every year, and expansion packs dropping even more frequently.
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